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For the second time that month, the screen of the classroom turned on, showing the same
text as the last time: Booting up: exposition. The one standing up in front of it started his
speech. “We… are murder drones.”.
Suddenly, a voice rose from between the random worker drones of the class. “Are you
copying Uzi’s presentation?”. He couldn’t even finish the sentence before Uzi’s tail hit him,
while she shouted “Shut up!”. The class fell in silence.
“Go on, N.”, she said, leaning back on her chair.
N chuckled. “We are killing machines”, he started, “sent here by a planet-devourer monster
in order to annihilate all other sentient beings.” The next image of the presentation made Uzi
grunt the second she saw it: it was a photo of her, surrounded by heart emojis. N ignored
her, as he continued. “Luckily for everyone, my amazing girlfriend Uzi helped us realize that
what we were doing was bad!”. As different images from their last adventures appeared on
the screen, N started talking more confidently. “The main theme of my presentation is all the
perturbing and strange things that happened to us in the last two weeks, so let’s get start-”.
He freezed in place, as the image showed… some interesting drawings of himself and V…
N screamed, shooting at the screen and destroying it. The whole class was in silence,
except for the laughter of V and Lizzy. “You haven’t seen anything!”, shouted N.
“So…”, started the teacher. “ANYTHING!”, shouted N again. That exact moment, the bell
rang. Everyone started leaving the class in a hurry, as if they had totally forgotten those
drawings.
“Remember to do your homework… Or whatever.”, said the teacher as he left the room,
followed by V and Lizzy, who were still laughing. “Saved by the bell, huh?”, asked the first of
them, before both ran outside. Yeah, definitely she had put that image in the presentation.
N just stood near the door, still shocked about the fact that the whole class had seen his
drawings. Uzi walked towards him, using the absolute solver to carry their bags. She had
been using it for almost everything the last few days.
“Let 's go, N!”, she said, leaving the room. N followed her, trying to get past his thoughts.
“So…”, he started as they walked down the hallway. “Any plans for today?”
“Just chill in my house.”, answered Uzi. “ I need a rest from all the past week's things.
Y’know, the whole saving the world thin- Ouch!”. They both stopped: Uzi’s tail was biting her
leg, making her bleed. “Bite me!”, she shouted, hitting the tail and forcing it to retreat.
“Are you okay?”, asked N.
“Yeah.”. Okay, that was unexpected. N was sure she would answer more aggressively. “ It’s
strange… I feel like my tail was scared of something…”
“Scared? Of what?”.
“How am I going to know? But I have the feeling that something’s gonna happen and I don't
like it.”
“Oh, what is gonna happ-”. And something happened.
Suddenly, an explosion sounded. It was clearly far from there, but it was strong enough to
be heard from the colony.
“Huh? What was that?”, asked N, his eyes turned into simple yellow circles due to the fear
of what it could be.
“I don’t know.”, answered Uzi. Her eyes were the same for a moment, before she made
them as always. “But it sounded like something had fallen.”
“A meteorite?”, said N. “Or maybe it was just an old building.”
“Maybe.”
At that moment, another figure appeared at the hallway’s end: V, who came running, panting
as she tried to recover her breath. “Hey, you two!”, she screamed as soon as she was able
to talk. “You should see this.”

Just a few minutes later, the three of them flew outside of the colony. As they stood still
between the snowstorm, a giant smoke column started to appear, just a few kilometers from
there.
“Definitely, something has fallen.”, pointed N.
“This is a problem.”, said V. “ It passed right by here, and I saw what it is.”
“And?”, asked Uzi.
V didn’t say anything for a few moments, before sighing. “ It’s a landing pod, exactly like
ours.”
N almost got impaled by his tail, which had started wagging as soon as he heard it. “Wait.
Does that mean…?”
“Yes.”, answered V. “There might be… more like us…”
The three of them looked at the smoke column for a few moments, before Uzi started
shouting. “Then we should go check it out. Let 's go!”. She then started flying into the storm,
as V screamed “Hey! Wait!”.

They had been flying for some minutes. The smoke column was coming from the forest,
possibly near the campsite.
The three of them were flying. N was in front of them, clearly euphoric over the possibility of
finding more of them. Maybe, without Cyn, they had recovered their original selves too? J
had implied that there were a lot more of them… He needed to reach that place as soon as
possible.
A strong wind started blowing. Uzi, whose wings were less strong than the murder drones’
ones, started having some problems flying. “Are you okay?”, asked V, blushing. She wished
that Uzi didn’t look at her right now. “Do you need help?”
Luckily for V, Uzi was not looking at her. She fell down a little bit, before coming back up.
“I’m fine! Bite me!”, she shouted.
Just in that moment, N started going down. “ Hey! Watch out, we’re here!”, he said as he
took land.
They were over the lake. The ice in front of them was cracked, forming a path that led to the
cabins… where a landing pod had fallen. Just like the original one, it seemed like this one
had crashed down.
They all raised their weapons: while Uzi held the railgun, N and V transformed their hands
into machine guns.
“Hello? Is anyone there?!”, shouted Uzi, slowly walking towards the pod. The only answer
was the howl of the wind.
“Is it… Empty?”, asked V, lowering her weapons. Just in that moment, the door of the pod
opened.
“Watch your backs.”, said Uzi… as a hand full of claws exited the pod, holding itself onto the
door’s frame. A voice came from inside it. “Who 's there?”, it asked. It was totally distorted, to
the point that it was unrecognizable.
N was shaking in fear. “We… We ask the same!”, he said.
“N? Is that you?”, asked whoever it was. The group freezed in place. “Does it know us?”,
asked V.
“ V!”, shouted the voice. It then lowered itself, like if it was talking with someone in the inside
of the pod. “Don’t worry. They’re friends!”, it said. Then it came out.
It (he) was, undoubtedly, a murder drone. But he was… kinda different. He wore a pale blue
vest, as well as a black corset. The lower part of his arms was green and blue, and his claws
(which were quickly retracted into normal hands) were totally black. His wings were literally
flying, sustained by some kind of… gravitational device? Also, his hair wasn’t completely
silver, it had strange multicoloured reflections.
The trio looked shocked at him, as he came down the pod. When he talked, his voice was
totally normal. “ Long time no see ya!”, he said. All of them looked silently. “Oh right, you
don’t remember me… Bite me… Well, I’m D! Serial designation D.” He then did the same
pose as N did always, taking his hand directly to his forehead, before bursting into laughter.
“Who… Who are you?”, asked Uzi, slowly lowering the railgun.
“Oh, I’m an old friend of these two.”, he answered, stopping his laughs.
“An old friend?”, asked V. “Then why am I sure I have never seen you?”
“You did, but you can't remember it.”, he answered. “The solver erased part of your
memories from the Elliott mansion, so…”. He said it normally, like if he was talking about the
weather.
N took a moment to process what he just heard. “What?!”
Uzi looked at D. “You mean… Cyn? Oh wait, how can we know you aren’t lying?”. She
raised the railgun again.
D looked at her, amused. “First of all, lower your weapon.”. He tried to put it lower, to which
Uzi answered with a grunt. He started walking around them. “Okay, okay. Second, no, I said
the solver, not Cyn. And last…”. Suddenly, he used his tail, which had been hidden under
some kind of cloak, to throw the railgun to the ground. Without giving them time to react, he
moved directly towards N, and held his face. “ You are as beautiful as I remembered…”, he
said.
N tried to mutter “Thanks?”, but D talked before. “Same for ya, V. And now…” He raised his
hand, while a symbol they all knew very well appeared over it: three arrows, forming a
triangle. They all gasped, as D stomped it on N’s head.
Suddenly, both N and V fell to the ground, sobbing. Uzi ran towards her boyfriend. “What did
you do?!”, she shouted. “N? N are you okay?”
D walked around them. “I just reawakened part of their memories," he said, as if that
explained everything. “The process is slightly traumatizing. You know, the whole “part of my
life is a lie” and “what if I’m missing more” things.”
V tried to stand up. Yes, it was just as D had said. All her memories were missing
something. A lot, in fact. “W- what are you doing here?”, she asked, falling to the ground
again.
“I’m glad you asked. We are looking for Cyn.”. No one missed that “we”. There were… more
drones with him?
“She died, y’know?”answered Uzi, still kneeled near N.
D sighed. He talked as if he was explaining something obvious to a group of children who
didn’t know anything. What was, in fact, what was happening. “Yes, I know. Cyn is dead. The
solver is not. And it has more servants apart from Cyn. And those servants are coming.”
Uzi looked at him, suddenly frightened. “What? Who are they?”, she asked.
“Things like Cyn. And far worse.”, answered D.
“Worse?”. She couldn’t believe it. “I still don’t know how we managed to kill Cyn, so I’m sure
if something worse comes, we are dead.”
“Exactly.”, answered D. They didn’t have a chance against any of those things. “And that’s
why I’m here. I’m the salvation. I can make those things go far from there and never come
back. And the first thing I need for it is to find Cyn’s corpse.”
N stopped sobbing and stood up. He was still processing some things. Was he… missing
any more memories? All he remembered told him to trust D. Why would he hide more things
from them? “It… It melted.”, he said.
“I know.”, said D, helping him to stand up. “We need to go to the place where she died.”
“We can get you there.”, said V quickly. “If what you’re saying is true, we don’t have a
second to lose.”
“Perfect!”. D started to fly, ready to go there… but he stopped. “Just… Wait a moment!”. He
entered his pod again, leaving the trio there.
“Do you… trust him?”, asked Uzi the moment he disappeared from sight.
N answered affirmatively, as the same time V started talking. “No. Now that I know this, I’m
sure we have forgotten more things.”
“I’m not sure.”, said N. “But he gives me good vibes”. They were both trying to ignore the
fact that they just remembered how N and D were dating, back in the mansion. They both
had decided on their own to not mention it.
Suddenly, D’s voice was heard inside the pod. “Oh, get out!”, he screamed. Shortly after,
another drone was sent flying outside of the pod, taken by the solver. D went outside flying,
before throwing the other one to the snow and landing near them.
The new one was a worder drone whose face was glowing in light blue. He wore a dark
grey hoodie and a shirt of the same color, as well as a wool hat which had fallen over the ice.
He put it back, covering his long, black hair.
“Guys, this is Crow.”, said D, walking past him. “He was… created after the gala incident, so
it’s normal if you don’t remember him.”
Crow stood up. “Nice to meet ya.”, he said, before walking behind D. He moved without
energy, almost tired of everything.
N ran behind them. “ Same!”, he said. “I’m-”
“Well, we’re running out of time.”, interrupted D “Where did Cyn die?”
Uzi saved the railgun. “We can take you there.”, she said.
D started flying. “Perfect. Come on!”, he shouted, before being called by N. “Wait”, he said,
“what about your pod? Are you gonna leave it here?”
“Yeah, it’s not a problem. We can take it to your spire later.”, answered D, as he continued
flying over them.
“Huh? Ho-?”, started N, before being interrupted abruptly by V. “Okay! Let 's move, guys!”.
She went flying, with Uzi and N doing the same after her.
“Will the others be okay?”, asked Crow when he was sure the other won’t hear him.
“Yeah.”, answered D. “Unless these two decide to kill themselves, there is no problem.
Come on! “. He went flying. Crow saw him go away, before he was taken by D’s solver,
making him go after them. “Ah, I can’t wait to see Cyn…”, he whispered.

The trio was flying, each of them thinking about a different fact about D. Uzi was wondering
why he could use the solver, too. A murder drone with that power? She was lucky he was
not sent to Copper-9, or they’ll be all dead.
“Why did you stop me there?”, asked N, breaking the silence.
“What do you mean?”, asked V in response.
“Right now, when I was going to ask him about the spire.”. V sighed. Really, how could N
not see it?
“Because I don’t get this.”, answered her. “I don’t trust him. And the fact he knows about the
spire is just another thing about him…”
“Why don’t you trust him?”,asked Uzi, still lost in her own thoughts. “He only appeared and
revealed a lot of lore in the most mysterious way.”. She shut up. Okay, she had seen enough
anime to get that. “Oh, bite me. I get it, he’s gonna betray us, right?”
“Maybe.”, answered V. “And… I’m sure I heard these two talking with someone else inside
the pod. And… there’s more. I have always had a memory… but it was all blurry. Now I
remember it all.”

It was so long ago that V started to spy at Cyn. She was all mysterious, talking in that
strange way, and always meeting with D somewhere… So V decided to discover what they
were up to.
She knew they used to meet in the basement. It was not difficult to convince J to give her
the key. V sneaked down the stairs, looking at Cyn. She was sitting down over a box, playing
with her hair. D was behind the corner, V couldn’t see him, but she knew it was him.
Or at least it looked like him. In the last times, he looked less than D and more like if
something else was controlling D.
And that thing was talking. “What you’re planning to do is… stupid," he said.
“Why?”, asked Cyn. As always, she used that voice. It gave V the creeps.
“Why?! You are planning to kill around 100 humans.”, it bursted. “Silence. It’s too less. But
don’t worry, boss. I have an idea.”. Those were things D did always. Narrate his actions, call
her boss…
“What do you. Think?”, asked Cyn. She left her hair, letting her hand fall.
“You will need access to Corebase. And an army.”. Corebase? V had heard the Elliotts
talking about it sometimes. But she was still not sure of what it was.
“Do. you. Mean?”, asked Cyn again.
“Yes. Maybe it’s time to make some adjustments to the others. You have 25 robots. It’s time
to take advantage of it.”. What were they talking about? Adjustments?
“Okay. Thanks.”. Cyn crossed her legs over the box. V was sure that she would see her if
she made a minimum movement.
“It 's nothing. We should start for your most beloved. N, J and V.”, answered D.
V gasped. Cyn looked at her. And V fell into the basement.
Something moved towards her, an amalgamation of claws, tentacles and God-knows-what,
which was talking with D’s voice. “Look what we have here.”, it said. “Yes, the first one of our
murder drones will be V”.
One of those claws slammed V on a chair. Cyn moved her hand, making some kind of
yellow thing appear over V’s wrists, locking them on the chair.
V does not remember anything from now on.

N and Uzi stared silently at V as she finished her story.
“So it was… him?”, whispered Uzi, breaking the silence.
“I think so. I’m not very sure, though.”, answered V. “Knowing what we know now, maybe it
was just the solver controlling him.”
N kept silent too, thinking. “We aren’t totally sure,” he said at last. “So let's just try to
investigate. V is right, maybe it was the solver too. And the other guy… I don’t like him. He
has some… vibe?”. He wasn’t sure of how to express it.
V turned around, facing the other two, who were a few meters behind them. “Hey!”, she
shouted. “We are here!”
They all landed over the snow. They were in the place where that final battle with Cyn took
place, but the weather had left the place unrecognizable, just a normal plain. As soon as
they got there, D started to look around the place, as if he was viewing something they
couldn’t.
“Are you sure this was the place where she died?”, he asked, looking at them over his
shoulder.
“More or less.”, said Uzi. D just nodded and continued looking all around the place,
summoning a solver on his hand and using it to inspect the area.
“What is he doing?” asked N as D started to dig on the snow.
“Who knows.”, answered Crow, looking at him too. “He never tells us what he’s looking for.”
V caught that “us”. Maybe she was right, and there were more people on that pod? “Us?”,
she asked.
Crow looked confused at her for a moment, just like if he was looking for a suitable answer.
“Mh? Oh! I mean-”, he stammered.
D stood up. “He means other companions we had.”, he answered. He said it totally neutral.
Could it be that he was actually telling the truth? “And where are they?”, asked V, trying to
press him.
“Dead.”, said Crow, looking at the ground.
D started inspecting the ground again, as he talked. “Apart from Cyn and me, there were
other 24 drones in that mansion, sent in groups of three to the eight main human colonies to
“clean” them for the planet eater.”
Crow walked towards him, his eyes filled with sadness. Really, how expressive could those
screens be? “Cyn went to each one of those planets and destroyed them.”, he said,
melancholically. “Our mission was to look for survivors.”
They all stared at them, letting those words enter them. “You mean…”, said N, “aren't there
any more drones?”. His voice was trembling.
“No.”, said Crow. “Copper-9 is the last of the human planets. And you are the last murder
drones.”
They all remained silently for a few minutes. They were… the last of their species?
At the end, D stood up and looked at Uzi, smiling as if he hadn’t said anything. “We might
be unique, but you…”, he said, staring at her. “The only worker drone who fought the
disassembly team… a miracle, I must say.” And he laughed. That son of a bitch laughed,
after telling them they were literally the only murder drones of the whole universe.
“What did you find?”, said Uzi, trying to discard the necessity of firing the railgun at him.
“Just as I expected, nothing”, he answered. “There are no remains of her body. It escaped.”
“What?!”, shouted V.
“He means…”, started Crow. He then looked at D, who nodded, as if he were giving him
permission for explaining them. “By some way, Cyn’s remains were… moved from here…”
“How?! She melted!”, said V.
“There you have it.”, said D, as if that explained everything. Seeing they hadn’t understood
it, he continued. “She is a semi-organic being, so at least some small parts should have
survived or gotten frozen. She can… move her body independently if her consciousness is
still alive.”
“We have the theory that the solver is preserving her mind, so-”, started Crow, before being
interrupted by Uzi, who was totally hysterical.
“Where is she now?!”, she shouted, grabbing D by the shoulders. He looked at her, clearly
annoyed by the sudden contact. He moved her away with his tail, as he explained. “She
should be… wherever she can get matter to form a new body. The place with the higher
density of sentient beings. Which probably means your colony.”
Uzi tried to start flying there, worried about everyone on the colony, but, without warning, D
jumped at her, hitting all the drones with his wings and making them fall to the ground.
When she looked again, he was using a sword that came out of his arm to stop something:
an iron bar, which was exactly where Uzi was a few seconds ago. If she hadn’t fallen, the bar
would have performed her core.
The worse part? It was being held by a red solver symbol. D summoned his solver (which
was yellow, just as Cyn’s), and used it to send the bar far away.
“One of them is here.”, said Crow, standing up.
“It is.”, answered D, as he helped N to stand up. “We must go, take us to your colony!”. He
started flying, without waiting for them.
“What is here?!”, asked N, frightened, as he went after D.
“One of the solver’s servants.”, answered D, who looked a bit frightened too. “Go, go, go!”
They all started flying, leaving the place swiftly. D and Crow flew a few meters behind the
trio.
As they thought about all that happened, D received a call. His screen showed the message
and he opened it. He started to hear a voice on his head, one that the trio would have
recognized instantly. “D?”, asked her.
“ I’m here.”, he answered, talking almost in whispers. He didn’t want the group to hear him.
“We established contact with those three. As we expected, Cyn’s remains have disappeared.
Any news about our worker friend?”. That girl was a problem… they needed to find her as
soon as possible, or their plan would be in great danger.
“She’s still lost.”, answered the other one. “Where are you?”
“Going to the colony.”
“‘kay. Orders?”
D though for a second before answering. “I want you and the kid to stay there. Nyx will go to
the spire and try to find our friend in that area.”
“Alright, boss.”, answered another voice. This one was practically equal to N’s. D wasn’t
expecting him to be listening.
“Nyx?”, D asked. “Please be careful. You are the only drone of your class we have.”
“I know, boss.”
“I’m leaving. See you.”, said D, before cutting the connection. It wasn’t safe to spend much
time talking with them where the trio could see them.
“Any new info?”, asked Crow as soon as he saw that D had ended.
“Nothing.”, answered D. Crow sighed.
“This is going well, right?”, asked him. He really wanted the plan to end as D had thought.
“Obviously.”, said D, smiling. “My plan is going perfectly. As all the plans I do. Giggle. I am
so naughty.” He liked to say that sentence, but he didn’t know why.
He then started laughing. He laughed frenzied as they flew towards the colony, where his
plan could be done perfectly.
He stopped as soon as Uzi asked him “Why are you laughing like that?”.
Maybe he should change his laughter. He wasn’t a villain!
He was the salvation.
Whether they liked it or not.

Chapter Text

In the last week, since the battle with Cyn, something had been happening in the lower,
most forgotten parts of Outpost 3. In places where no worker drone ever walked, so far from
the gates that it shouldn’t be called part of the colony, a shadow lurked.
At first glance, you could mistake the shadow for a worker drone. But if you looked carefully,
you would notice how it wasn’t just a normal drone. It was more of a glitching silhouette,
which floated over the ground, a darkness only broken by the neon-red glow of a twisted
smile and two ovals as eyes.
The silhouette stood over the corpse of another worker drone. It was cold, the oil, which
stopped flowing on its insides days ago, formed a puddle under them. The shadow took a
bite from the dead robot. Their arm was totally ripped apart, and disappeared on the crack
that was the mouth of that thing.
Suddenly, it stopped. Its head raised, looking around.
It talked… in Russian. Its voice was a bit distorted, but recognisable. “Damn. They’re here.”,
it said, before finishing to eat the arm. It has been using the force known as Absolute solver
for all of its life. So, when another host got to the planet, it sensed them. And it could only be
one host.
Now that that thing, which was called Doll in another life, was almost totally fused with the
Solver’s consciousness, she knew some things. And one of them was who this guy was.
“I don’t have enough time… I must hurry up.”, she said. And then, she disappeared in thin
air.
A few moments later, she came back to take another bite, hoping it wasn’t the last one she
would ever take.
D was sitting on a chair in an apartment of the colony. His gaze lowered onto a solverbug
which roamed near him. He was starving… Maybe he could eat the small robot?
“What do you think?”, said V, who was standing on the door, taking D out of his thoughts.
“Do you like your new house?”
“Yes.”, answered D. “Thank you. Your help is invaluable.”
“Where are the other two?”, asked Crow, who was looking around the space. He was talking
about Uzi and N.
“They’re explaining to everyone this whole crazy thing. D!”, she shouted. D was, again, lost
in his thoughts. He looked at V. “Do you need something?”
“Just the promise that we can go wherever we want inside the colony.” That would really
help on their mission.
“I’ll see what I can do.”, she asked. She didn’t really want to help them, but, if the others
trusted them…
D forced himself to say “Thank you, V.”, before she muttered a simple “It’s nothing.” and
went out.
Crow continued looking around. He was obviously worried. “Crow!”, said D, who wanted to
annoy him. “You have been too quiet since we came here.”
“Yeah?”, he asked, knowing well what D was doing.
“ Yes.”, said the taller drone, leaning back on his chair. “Lemme guess, you are worried
about Cyn’s destiny.”
“Shut up.”, answered Crow, falling on D’s trap. “She's not totally dead.”
“I didn’t say that. But, yes, maybe she is.” That was not funny. Crow was entering his game
intentionally…
“You’re just being mean to annoy me.”. Oh, there he goes again, pointing at obvious things.
D didn’t want to think so much, so he just pulled out something he was sure that Crow
would never like. “Maybe. Giggle. I am-”
“Oh, can you stop saying that?”, interrupted him. Yeah, that was enough.
“Okay, okay…”, said D, using his tail to force the other one to sit down. “Well, I’m bored, let’s
get to work.”
“Did- did those two say something?”, asked the worker drone, avoiding looking at D.
“Nothing.”, answered D, who was trying to catch the solverbug using his sting. “It seems nyx
is still looking for our friend.”
“ Stop calling her that. She’s a prisoner.”, said Crow, catching the bug and killing it. D looked
annoyed at him. The murder drone’s eyes turned on a large cross for a second, before he
answered “She decided to come with us.”
“It was that or die devoured.”, said Crow, looking away. His head turned suddenly towards D
as soon as he heard a robotic, female voice say “Yeah. Whatever.”, only to find his boss
smiling.
At least he didn’t turn on that thing again. “Stupid," he said.
An awkward silence fell while D used the solver to summon a map of the colony. There
were some symbols on it: a pink triangle near a blue circle, which represented them two; a
purple triangle and two yellow ovals, which were the trio… and their objective, a yellow
triangle. “It’s in a restricted space…”, D said. “Meh, it’s not a problem.”
Crow’s eyes stopped over another symbol, near the yellow triangle. “And what’s this?”. D
looked at it, it was a red triangle… Could it be…? “ Damn. I think… Yes. It’s Yeva’s
daughter.”
“Yeva’s daughter?”, asked Crow, not totally believing it. “You mean… that unstable host?
Didn’t she die?”
“It seems not. This might turn into a problem…”, said D, thinking as he stood up. “But it
doesn’t matter. Come on, Crow. We have someone to save.”
At the same time, in the spire of corpses that once was the murder drone lair, a white light
turned on.
She had fallen from D’s pod, that’s why it crashed instead of landing gracefully. Maybe
opening a door on a spaceship which is preparing to land wasn’t exactly the best idea…
Anyways, she was so lucky. She had fallen over the walls of the spire.
The light, which came, obviously, from a drone’s screen, started moving. And then she fell.
She felt how something broke under her chest, probably her own acid canister. As she stood
up, a sound was heard outside. She ran to the protection of the shadows near the walls, just
when someone entered.
The newcomer was exactly like N, but… not really. All the parts that should have been
yellow were a mix of said color and a pale pink one. His teeth were sharper, and his tail was
so much longer. And then his eyes… they were filled with nothing but a maniacal look, like if
the only thing he wanted was to make anyone else suffer. “Follow the plan, he says…”, was
saying. On his screen there was a small symbol, which revealed he was calling someone.
“The plan is stupid… It would be easier if we just entered there and got what we wanted…”
His voice suddenly changed to reflect the one of whoever was on the other side of that call.
“He knows what he’s doing.” As the one hiding near the walls expected, it was the other
member of their team, that female murder drone.
“You have been with us for two weeks.”, answered that twisted N. “How are you so sure he’s
like you say? You make him look like a king or something…”. They were… talking about D,
right?
“I had known him for years.”, said the other one. “You weren’t in the mansion… You don’t
really know him.”
He walked towards the pod in the center. The other one present tried to go to the exit, but
then… Her movement made a corpse fall.
He looked at the wall. “So there you are…”, he whispered. She knew that, if she moved an
inch, he would see her. “Well, this is a good place! I think I’ll just stay here and wait for the
others. Mh… I’m hungry…”, he said, before starting to laugh.
She was trapped.
The last thing D had expected to do that day was to start looking into the ventilation shafts.
But that’s what he was doing, as the rest of them looked at him. “Are you sure it’s here?”, V
asked.
“Totally!”, said D, standing up.
“How are you so sure?”, asked N, worried. He really wanted to help D, but… he was a little
extravagant, to be honest.
“He has a m-”, started Crow. He then saw D, whose screen had turned into a cross again.
Okay, he shouldn't say it. “Special intuition!”, he ended. The rest of the group didn’t really
believe him. D decided to play along.
“Yeah. I can sense other hosts in the vicinity”, he said. It seemed like Uzi wanted to say
something, but D continued, without giving her time to question him. He looked around the
room: three hallways came out from it. “Alright guys. We must find Cyn’s remains, so… I
know this is the worst thing we can do, but we’re running out of time. Let 's split up! V, you
are the most capable of us, so you can go alone. N and Crow, go the left way. Uzi and I will
take the right.”. He took the shorter drone by the shoulder, forcing her to come with him.
“Didn’t you say that you could sense her?”, she asked, trying to escape his grab.
“I can have an approximate idea,” he explained. “but I can’t locate the exact point. Be
careful. If you find her, just say my name.”. He then took Uzi and the two of them
disappeared through the corridor.
D and Uzi were walking through a huge room, with some doors on its sides and a big one at
the end.
“May I ask you something?”, asked the purple-haired drone. “Of course.”, answered the
other one, without looking at her.
“Back then, in the lake, you said “bite me”, right?”, she said.
“Indeed. Why are you…? Oh. I get it.”. He wasn't really expecting this.
“That’s my nickphrase. And my mother 's.”, said Uzi.
“I know.”, answered D. “In fact, it was me who started to say it. Nori just copied me.” Uzi
froze in place. D stopped and looked at her, smiling.
“What?”, she asked, not really believing it. “You know my mother?”
“Yes, I do. In fact, it was me who taught her how to use this.”. A solver symbol appeared
over his hand.
“You taught her?!”, shouted Uzi. Why didn’t her mother tell her anything?
“I taught her, I taught Yeva and I taught a whole generation of hosts.”, said D, playing with
the solver.
“What do you mean?”, she asked, her eyes turned into hollow circles.
“Nothing. I have talked enough.”. And he started to walk away.
“No.”, she said, pointing her railgun at him. “What. Do you. Mean.”
And that sucker son of a bitch laughed. “You shouldn’t go around playing with that toy. But,
hey, all children are the same.” Uzi raised the railgun even more. “Let’s make a deal, dear.”,
he said, lending his hand. “You help me find Cyn and I tell you everything. Okay?”
Uzi looked at his hand… and she shook it. “Come on.”, she said, as she punched D and
walked towards a door.
“I didn’t remember grapes were so bitter.”, D said, giggling, before following her into the
darkness… knowing well that they wouldn't find anything there.
Crow and N were walking down a set of stairs. A very long one, to be honest.
“Argh, we’ve been going down for hours.”, complained Crow. “Can’t you just fly down
there?”
“It was just five minutes!”, shouted N. “Three of which you were just complaining about
without moving an inch…
“I've been sensible these last few days.”, answered the worker drone. Before the other one
could ask why, Crow continued. “A long story. Changing the matter, you know Cyn, right?”
“Yeah! She was like… my sister…”, said N. He was really sensible about that matter.
“How was she before the gala?”, asked Crow.
“She was almost perfect! Funny, beautiful and…”. N sighed, overwhelmed by his memories.
“I’d love to see her again… like she was before, y’know. You didn’t know her, right?”
“Oh? No… I just know her thanks to D’s stories. Hey, we’re reaching the end.”
Crow was right. They reached the end of the stairs and started walking down a narrow
hallway. But… something on its end made them stop.
“Oh, by robochrist’s sake…”, said N, as his eyes stopped over the mutilated corpse of a
worker drone. covered by solverbugs.
“What the hell happened here?”, asked Crow, trying to contain the nausea. He had lived
with D for years, but he still couldn’t resist the gore.
“Maybe… It was Cyn?”, said N. But Crow knew well that she couldn’t have done this.
“Maybe…”, he said. “Or… You did have another drone with the solver, right?”
“Yeah, Doll, but she-”, started N… just to be interrupted by a voice.
A voice talking in Russian.
“She what?”, it said, as the lights turned off and on… revealing Doll. Or at least the few
parts of Doll that remain with consciousness. “Hello, N.”
He chuckled. “H-hey, Doll.”
“Who’s your friend?”, she asked, stepping forward to them.
“Someone who’s here to help.”, Crow answered, walking backwards. Doll nodded.
Then the lights turned off.
Crow screamed “Run!”.
And so they did.
They ran past the stairs, entering another hallway, this one much wider.
All the lights were shutting down behind them.
“How do we get out of this?!”, screamed N, after trying to shoot Doll with his machine gun.
“I don’t know!”, answered Crow, before having an idea. “D! D, if you can hear this come
now!”
Crow ran out of sight, turning a corner, as N tried to hide behind a door. It led to a bathroom,
where Doll entered a few moments later. N hold his breath.
“N, I’m not stupid. I know you are here.”, she said… just when steps were heard outside.
Doll raised her head like a scared animal.
“You’re Yeva’s daughter, right?”, said a familiar voice. “Doll, I remember.”. D had come to
save them.
Doll disappeared, just to appear right in front of him. “N,”, he said. “If you don’t mind, I’m
gonna deactivate your traductor. I wanna have a private conversation.” The solver symbol
appeared on N’s screen for a moment. “Well, well, Doll, I wasn’t expecting you to work for it.”
“О чем вы говорите?”, she answered. Then N realised it was true, he couldn’t understand
Doll anymore.
“You know,”, D said. “you must be working for the solver if you’re attacking us. We just
wanna save this world.”
“Лжец.”. N could still hear the tone of her voice. She was really angry. “Это ты хочешь
уничтожить его. Поглотить его.”
“Obviously. It’s the only way to save it.”, D answered. What way could it be?
“Ты, сукин сын!”. This last sentence sounded like a curse or something similar. Then, a
strange shriek was heard, and silence fell over the place.
N came out of his hiding spot… just to find Doll lying in the ground, with her limbs and one
arm teared apart. She was quickly losing oil, as she raised her other hand towards N.
“Пожалуйста, N.”, she said, begging. “ Не доверяйте ему. Он не может найти…”
And she died. She died when D pierced her head with his tail, introducing all his acid on her.
N looked horrified at the other murder drone.
D's screen showed him raising an eyebrow. "What?", he asked. "She was one of the solver’s servants. It’s a shame, to fall that way…"
N just stared at his friend. "Where's Uzi?", he asked. "And what did Doll say?"
D started to walk away. "Questions one by one. First, Uzi is safe and sound on the spot we started. And Doll… she only said stupid things. Nothing you must worry about, dear." N wanted to say something more, to press him to explain what happened, but then Crow came on.
"D!", he shouted. "D, I found it!"
"Oh, perfect!", he said. He started running away, but then he stopped and looked at N. "Sweetie, there are things you don’t need to know."
And then he left N alone, with the corpse of the blue-haired worker drone.

When N returned to the place where they splited, he found his girlfriend walking around the room, and his... Best friend, V, sit down, looking at the wall, her face filled with fear.
Uzi ran and hugged N as soon as she saw him. "N!", she shouted. "Oh, D only said “N is in problems” and brought me
here and…". She suddenly stopped hugging him, as her screen displayed a very strong blush. "It’s not like I was worried…"
V stood up, her face returning to normal. "Where are those two?", she asked.
"They disappeared.", N said. "D teleported them to their pod.
"Why?". Although V asked this, she was sure of the answer.
"They found it. They found her.", N said.

D and Nyx stood outside the pod. The first one of them was eating the remains of a certain worker drone, as the second one wished to eat it too.
At the same time, Crow was on the ground, hugging something. "Oh, man, this is so embarrassing.", said Nyx.
"Yeah.", said D as he swallowed the last remains of his old student's daughter. "Crow! Are you gonna stop?"
"No!", shouted Crow.
"Stop now, stupid!", said another voice, from the inside of the pod.
"Oh?", asked Nyx. "You have decided you’re prepared enough to see the corpse of your girl-?"
D interrupted him. "Can you not say that? The last thing we want is a delusional Crow…". Both laughed, knowing well that that was exactly what would happen in a few days.
The other murder drone walked out of the pod. She took Crow and threw him away, and then she stared at the mass of flesh and metal that was on the ground. "Should we get to work?", she asked, as all the group walked towards her.
"So… guys, let’s start phase two.", D said. "Cyn will come back to life."

Chapter Text

It was a calm night. The storm surrounding the planet was surprisingly calmed, stars shined above...
The pod that had brought D into the planet was in silence. No one was heard inside.
Suddenly, the door opened. Slowly, without making any noise, someone went outside.
They were weird: a small, baby robot, with giant spider-like legs and a grafted murder drone arm.
They sneaked outside the pod, making their way to the forest... Until someone stopped them.
A figure, at first glance similar to N, walked outside one of the cabins, staring at the baby bot. "We reanimated you for our purposes, but…", he said, giggling. "it’s not a good behaviour to flee from your saviours, y’know?"
He took the other one and flew inside the pod. The baby tried to hide under one of the desks while the murder drone walked around the place.
Another voice arose, this time from a female murder drone who was lying on the floor, tickling with her pigtails. "Nyx, would you stop terrorizing the child?", she said.
The other one gave her an annoyed look. "Why do you care, J? You are not their mother or anything."
J groaned. "Did you find our prisoner?"
"Yes.", answered Nyx with a grin. "I’m sure she’s on the spire."
"Then why didn’t you bring her here?!". J wanted to punch him so hard...
"Oh, I wanted to play. I’m sure she won’t move from there.". His smile went even bigger.
"You’re a child. A stupid child.", said J while she stood up.
"I’m not gonna give you the pleasure of brawling with you.". His tone was provocative, of course he wanted to brawl.
"I’m not trying to-! Oh?". A sign appeared in J's screen: a message, probably from D. A few moments later, when she read it, she continued. "The boss says that we must get the pod to the spire assoon as possible. He’ll go there later. And he's gonna…". Her screen changed into a symbol, >///<, for a second, before she turned around.
Of course, Nyx knew what she was thinking about. "Lemme guess, he’s gonna do the Cyn thingy?", he said. She nodded, making him laugh. "Crow’s gonna cry when he realizes it… So what are we waiting for?"

At the same time, in the colony, Uzi was lying in her bed.
N was at his side, still asleep, while she was reading a fanfic on her own phone.
Suddenly, someone started banging on the door. "Uzi?", asked Khan from the outside. "Wake up!"
She turned of her phone and pretended to be asleep. "Why?", she groaned.
"There are friends of yours on the door!", answered her father, clearly excited for the idea that she had more friends.
"Argh… Okay, wait a sec.", she said as she started dressing up. At least she didn't need to choose new clothes, given that almost everything she had was the same.
As always, her tail tried to put a bow on her, which she quickly dismissed, as she took a pillow with the solver and threw it to her boyfriend. "N! Wake up! ", she shouted.
He stood up hazily as she opened the door.
As she expected, Crow was on the main door of the apartment, while D and V were talking outside. "Oh, good morning!", said the first one when he saw her.
"Hello, sweeties.", said D, almost as he was... Flirting?
Uzi took a few metal pieces from a bowl over the table, ignoring him, and started eating them. "What's up?", she said, swallowing them. "It’s so early, so I hope you have a good reason for waking me up."
N walked out of the bedroom. D's eyes widened for a second, before he started shaking his head. "There is. Can we talk while we walk?". He was... Nervous, like he didn't want to be there...
"Sure.", said Uzi, yawning. "See you later, dad!"
They all started walking down the hallway, as Khan muttered something like "Be careful, Uzi..."
N adjusted his cap, walking slightly faster to catch up with his ex-boyfriend. "So… What happens, D?", he said.
"Cyn’s remains are on my pod.", he answered , without looking at him. "I moved it to the spire, is closer from here."
"Yep!", added Crow from behind.
"Also, N, were you sleeping... In Uzi's bed...?", said D, his voice slightly shaking.
"Uh, yeah, what happens?", asked the purple drone.
"Oh! Nothing...", muttered D.
Uzi looked at Crow, who was smiling as he hadn't in days. "You’re so happy. It 's annoying.", she said.
"He’s just proud of himself.", commented D. "It’s normal, the first step of our plan is completed."
"Wait- first step?", asked Uzi.
"That 's right. There are… a few things left. I’ll tell you on the pod.", D answered, before turning to face the other female in the group. "V, you’re so quiet. Does anything bother you?"
"Huh? I’m just tired.", she answered, looking away.
"Sure, sure…", he said, asking himself what she was thinking about.

They all landed in front of the spire, the snowstorm raging around them. "This was… your home?", asked Crow, as they all entered.
"Yes.", answered N, shakily. "It was more “house” than “home”, but yes."
"It’s-", started the blue-haired drone, before being interrupted by D. "Wonderful.", he said. "The biggest and more imponent lair of all the murder drones."
For some reason, he was laughing. The rest of them walked towards the centre, where D's pod had landed over the old one. "Do you think we should…", said Uzi, her voice echoing in the space. "Destroy the first pod?"
"Hm? Why?", asked N, approaching it. The capsule was even more damaged after the battle with Cyn.
" It doesn’t work.", answered her. "And it’s just there, occupying space... And I'm pretty sure that it brings you bad memories..."
Suddenly, another voice was heard. "Nobody touches my pod!"
They all looked up, for a figure was on the walls. A yellow light, which flew down and landed in front of them.
A figure they all recognized.
"J-J?!", shouted N. "How the hell are you here?"
Uzi stepped forward, rising her railgun. "You died twice! Do you really want to die a third time?"
J chuckled. "Well, I always come back, so-"
A sudden laughter stopped her. D approached the newcomer, without stopping his laughs. "Good reference, J!", he said.
"Stay away from her!", Uzi said, raising even more her railgun. "I’m gonna-"
"No, no, no.", he interrupted. "This is a misunderstanding. I brought her here."
Silence felt over them, before N screamed "What?!"
"You…", the purple one said angrily. "I’m gonna kill you too, then! Huh?". As everyone could expect, D had taken her railgun using the solver. She tried to retrieve it using hers. "Bring that back!"
"No, sorry.", he answered, calmly. "Lemme explain, I caught her mind and recharged it. She was a great help, thanks to her I knew almost everything about you three."
J stepped forward. "Guys… I swear I did everything for… a good reason. I’m just here to help. And I’ll only accept orders from him, so-"
She got interrupted when V raised a machine gun at her face. "I think you understand we’re not gonna trust you, dear.", she said.
D leaned towards Crow, smiling. "See? She said “dear”. I told you oilrose was canon."
"Shut up!", answered the blue worker drone. "It's not the moment!
"And I’m sure I’m not talking just for me.", continued V. "Right, guys?". Without lowering her weapon, she turned back to look at Uzi and N.
"I… I’m…", said N, startling.
"N, please.", answered V, begging at him.
He took a deep breath. "I’m gonna trust her."
Uzi shouted "Why!?", just before V made her machine gun disappear in her arm. She looked at him. "You too, N… That guy has brainwashed you…", she said. Her voice was filled with rage and suffering.
J was staring at them. Suddenly, D spoke. "J. Step back.", he ordered. She did it, as they three sit on the ground. D even took a corpse from the wall and started eating it.
"I told you he’s not trustworthy.", said V, confronting her friend. "And now he just says he brought J? Who knows what other things he didn’t tell us…"
"He’s trying to help.", answered him. "And I have seen something on J. I’m sure she’s not gonna hurt us.". He was really convinced about it.
"Are you listening to yourself? I told you what he did. And I’m sure he wasn’t looking for
Cyn. He looked for-". She stopped just in time. If D knew what she saw down there... "some other thing."
"Why? How are you so sure?", N asked.
"It 's… just a thought. But I’m sure we can’t help him.". How could she tell N about it...?
"If we don’t help him, this planet will end just like the others." In that point, N was totally right. He lowered his head, his hands turned into claws and closed...
"N, he’s obviously keeping things for himself! And you’re just being-"
"SHUT UP!". He shouted it at all the volume his inner speakers let him, involuntarily opening his wings in a burst of rage. "I don’t like him either. But… there’s a part of me who’s screaming “trust him! he’ll save
us”. I’m sorry, V."
They didn't notice how D's face showed a really hurt expression hearing that sentence...
"Okay.", V said, hurt too. "Uzi? No? You’re… you’re all gonna die…"
She went flying, leaving N to fall to the ground, crying, shrouding himself with his wings.

At the same time, the other three waited near the walls.
"Did you know… This was going to happen?", asked J, seeing how her old friends suffered.
"It was a… possibility.", answered D, who had just ended eating that corpse.
"And why-?"
"The plan, J. We must be their saviours, remember?", he interrupted. He then looked up, talking to no one in particular. "Nyx? You there? Please, make her come back. Try to not hurt N too much."
Uzi had approached her boyfriend... When his cries turned into a frienzied, maniacal laughter. "Are you… okay, N?", she asked.
"Better than ever.", he answered... Just to open his wings, hitting her and making her fall.
"N?", she asked, as he stood up over her.
"I’m sorry, dear. N is not here.". His voice glitched, turning colder and deeper. "You can call me Nyx."
His eyes turned pink.
"What the hell is happening? D? D!". Uzi looked back... Just to see that the three of them had disappeared. "Ugh, bite me. N, I don’t wanna hurt you, bu-"
As she raised the railgun, the thing that had possesed N started laughing. "You are not gonna hurt him. But I’m gonna hurt you."
He started flying and shooting at her with everyone N had. She flied to avoid it, trying to fire back the railgun.
Suddenly, he appeared just in front of her, smiling maniacally. "What? Are you gonna fire?"
"Bite me!", she shouted, doing a backflip on the air to hit him with her tail. It grabbed his neck, biting it and giving her enough time to throw him to the ground using the solver.
She landed among the snow raised by the impact.
Nyx raised from the ground, running at her and grabbing her from the neck. "You don’t stop saying “bite me”, so, okay, why not?"
She should change that catchphrase.
The monster bit her right arm, tearing it whole.
She screamed in pain as he ate it, oil dripping from his mouth.
He stopped. Without finishing it, he looked around, looking for something. In the silence, Uzi heard it too. Steps over the snow, near the walls. "What happens? Too bitter for ya?", she asked, attempting to distract him.
"Oh, no, it’s delicious. But… I hear someth-"
Suddenly, something came flying and hit Nyx on the face, with a force so great that Uzi fell to the ground. She looked at whatever had saved her.
"Who… throwed me a head?!", Nyx shouted, standing up. More steps were heard, as whoever had protected Uzi tried to run away. "It’s you, child? Do you really think you can do that and get well? I’ll leave you for later, grape."
He started flying again, as Uzi tried to get away, crawling with the only arm she had left.
The murder drone looked around the space. And he saw her. He lunged forward, hitting somewhere in the shadows the wall casted.
With a quick movement, he hit someone with his wings. They landed just at Uzi's side.
She just had a moment to observe the new worker drone that had fallen near her. A worker drone with the same silver hair as the murder drones, wearing only a green shirt. "So… I think we’re dead.", she said.
Uzi stared at her. "Who are you?!", she shouted, as Nyx started flying over both of them, his claws ready to kill them...
Until a missile hit him.
They all looked at the entrance of the spire... Where V stood up after firing at him. "Nobody bites Uzi but N!", she shouted, lowering her voice to a whisper to end the sentence. "And me…"
"V!", exclaimed Uzi.
"Yep, that 's me.", she answered, blushing slightly.
"Why are you here?", screamed Nyx, recovering from the attack. "You weren’t on my menu today!"
"That stupid came for me.", she said, turning her hand into a laser gun.
Nyx came to realize who she was talking about when D landed behind him. "Traitor...", the monster muttered.
"Traitor?", D answered, chuckling. "It was you who decided to start this madness. I didn’t order you to possess my dear N and try to kill the grape." Well, not directly, at least...
"Hm, maybe.", said Nyx, playing along. "But I’m tired of just working for you."
Nyx turned around, firing a missile at D. He didn't react until it was just inches away from his face, when he caught it with the solver without making a single movement, turning it around towards the one who fired it.
He started flying again, as V pursued him into the air.
Hundreds of bullets flew through the spire as the two of them engaged in combat. D observed them, as he surrounded Uzi and the other worker drone with his wings to protect them.
V ascended, launching another missile which Nyx stopped in mid air with another shot.
She was looking through the smoke, hoping that he was defeated, in the moment that the being controlling N's body appeared in front of her. He grabbed the other murder drones by the neck and threw her to the ground.
V looked as her best friend's body raised above her, his mouth filled with nanite acid. "Well, well. I can eat this too.", he said.
Just when his chest got pierced by a sword.
"Now, boss!", shouted J from behind him, extracting her sword.
Crow ran towards Nyx, slamming him and making both fall to the ground. The blue worker drone took one of his arms, as J did the same with the other.
The other, newest worker rushed through the snow, falling over Nyx's legs, as D walked around him.
"Giggle.", he said, in a voice so low that not even V heard it. "Well done, Nyx. You almost killed V."
Nyx bursted in screams, mimicking N's real voice. "Please! Please, don’t- Uzi! V!". His eyes were still pink.
"Shut up, Nyx.", ordered D, kneeling near him. "Y’know, you’re not gonna die, right? I’ll upload you again once we’re finished here."
"I know, boss, it's not the first time we do this, I know how it works.", he answered.
"Okay, so… Die, Nyx!", D shouted ominously, summoning a solver sign on his hand and throwing it towards his beloved N's body. Nyx screamed in pain for a second, before shutting off abruptly.
They all released him.
He stood up, sitting in the snow. His eyes were yellow again. "Oh, I have such a headache…", he muttered.
"N!", shouted Uzi. She stood up with difficulty, the remains of her arm still dripping oil, and ran towards him, hugging him as she fought to not cry.
"U-Uzi?!", he asked, shocked. "What happened?! Your arm-!"
"Oh, it’s a long story.", she answered. "N, I thought you were dead… Stop being almost killed, stupid!"
She kissed him, their silicone lips touching as the rest of the group stared at them.
"D, what was that?", asked V.
D didn't answer for a few seconds, looking at Uzi and N. "Something we called Nyx.", he answered at last. *He is- he was an experiment. We took part of the personality of a certain murder drone and imprisoned it on another body."
He didn't stop looking at them.
"Does that mean-?", started V.
"Yes. It was N’s… dark side, let’s say.", interrupted J, who was trying to force D to stop looking at the couple.
"What?! I wasn’t going to say that!", screamed V, trying to process what she just heard.
"Oh. Well, I said it.", answered J.
Finally, Uzi stopped kissing her murder drone. In that moment, D stopped staring at them. "But yes, it was the result of taking N’s sadistic and murderous part from his total mind.", he said, looking at the ground.
"He… could have been that thing?", asked Uzi, shocked too.
"No.", answered D. He walked towards N, chuckling. "Nyx was around… 20 percent of your mind. Your “good boi” part was always bigger." He patted the other murder drone's head.
Silence fell over them again. Uzi tried to use her solver to fix her arm, having no success.
J broke the atmosphere. "Hum… Boss, shall we?", she asked.
D blinked, as if he had spaces out again. "Of cou- Wait a second! Sidney! Come here!"
They all turned around to watch at the other worker drone. She walked shyly, and stopped between D and J, looking at the ground.
"Guys, this is Sidney!", said D. She blushed.
"Hm… nice to meet you…", she muttered.
"Who is she?", asked V, staring suspicious at her. "Another mad friend of yours?"
"More or less.", D answered. "She is a friend we saved on the last planet we were."
The silver worker drone sighed, tired... And making something fall behind her. She covered it up immediately, but they all had seen it.
"Wait.", exclamed Uzi. "Was that an acid canister?". It was broken, but she had learnt to distinguish the murder drone's tails.
Sidney started shaking. "No! Aw… Okay, yes. I’m… a hybrid…". She blushed even more.
"Long story short…", started D. "Serial Designation I was a bit nymphomaniac, one thing led to another, and… Sidney!"
Uzi and N looked at each other, even more shocked for this. " Is that… Possible?", asked the murder drone.
"I think I’m proof of it…", muttered Sidney, hiding behind J.
"N, do you know what this means?", asked Uzi.
"Can we have children?", answered N.
"Yes, so… We should be more careful on the bed…". D's face turned into a cross when he realized what that meant. How could that stupid grape dare to be doing that with his N?!
"Surely I didn't hear what I think I hear...", he said, his hands turning into claws.
"Shut up you all.", interrupted V, standing between D and the rest of them. "D. Are you hiding someone else in there?"
He stopped. His eyes returned to normal. He looked at his claws, turning them back to hands, even as if he didn't know what he was doing. "Erm… actually, yes", he said at last.
Using the solver, another one was taken out of the pod: the same robot baby Nyx had been terrorizing, wearing an old cowboy hat.
The trio looked confused at them. "Who-?", started Uzi, before realizing that she already know them. "Wait… Is that the child who was with that crazy woman down there?"
The baby's face turned into an angry expression. "Yeah.", started D. "Beau was a good source of information about the planet, so I decided to reload him and bring him here. Also, he doesn’t like when someone talks bad about Alice, so…"
The three of them stared at him. "How… random.", said N.
"That’s what I thought.", agreed J. She walked towards D. "Well, boss-"
"Just boss, J?", he asked, giggling.
She sighed. "Okay, okay. Well, my dearest brother, can we continue?" They both started laughing.
"Brother?", asked Uzi. "You must be kidding me."
N hissed through his teeth. He knew it, of course, he had remembered everything. "Just as Cyn and I, J and D are something like siblings. Y'know, they have some specific component inside that is exactly equal, so..."
D stopped laughing. "Yes, sis, we can continue.". He raised his hand.
A moment later, N was on the air, caught by the solver. "What-?", asked V.
J threw her to the ground and pushed her machine gun against her. "I’m sorry, V. It's the only way, you wouldn't listen if we explained it to you."
Uzi had been thrown to the ground too, with Crow holding her own railgun against her. "D, what the hell are you doing?!", she shouted.
"Nothing bad. You’ll understand it in a few seconds. Beau, bring it.". The baby ran into the pod, as D got surrounded by holographic screens displaying data at an incredibly high speed.
A moment later, Beau went outside the pod, bringing the few remains of Cyn they had found.
D started touching the screens, talking without looking at the rest of them. "Let me explain to you. The being known as Absolute solver needs a host. When the host
dies, the Solver will disappear from it, leaving said host dead. My reasoning is…". He looked at them. His left eye was displaying the solver symbol, his mouth twisted into a smile. "It would be a shame if the host was left dead, right?"
He hit one of the screens.
A yellow flash covered the whole place.
Then, smoke, as if a great explosion had happened.
And steps were heard.

She was awake.
For the first time in decades, it was only her. She walked through the smoke, recognizing those who were there. "Hello, Uzi. Hi, N!", she said. Her voice sounded strange to her, now full of emotion, not only the plain one it had. "Wait…"
She turned around.
There he was, her best friend, the one who had helped her all these years... They couldn't understand him, they would say he was a monster, but she knew it.
Deep down, they were the same
"D! Oh my gosh, you did it!", she shouted, hugging him regardless of the height difference.
"Of course I did. I always keep my promises.", he answered, hugging her too and trying to not cry.
"Oh, leave these three", she ordered. N fell to the ground, while J and Crow stepped back.
Uzi and V stood up. She had to admit, both of them were kinda hot... Specially the purple one.
She then looked at J. "Oh, D, you brought her too?", she asked.
"Of course, boss. The whole team, reunited again!", he answered, laughing. She could swear he was crying too.
She ran towards J, hugging her even tighter than she had hugged D. "How’s my amazing and beautiful girlfriend?", she asked. J just hugged her too, crying even more that her brother.
"Well, guys…", D started. "I’m glad to introduce you to… The real Cyn."
She stopped hugging her girlfriend and looked at them.
"She’s… alive…", muttered N.
Then he fainted. She giggled.
"What do you mean by girlfriend?", asked Crow. And he fainted too.
D didn't even realize it.
His best friend, Cyn, was back again.
And he couldn't be happier.

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EDIT: things are slowly returning to normal w all them so im glad to announce that ill be writing this again!!! These next two weeks ill advance both on this fic and in my dandys world AU, and then ill start writing a tcoaal fanfic too ;3

Feel free to check if ur in any of these famdoms 

Murder drones: Gods is coming back!!!!

 ~Andrew :3 (yeah name reveal lol)