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Chapter 3

☆The First Date☆

They planned to have their first date tomarrow after school, with both meeting at the front of Outpost 3 at around 7 pm so it was dark out, gussied up for the night on the town.

Uzi came out with the typical goth kid look; wearing her beanie, a short hello kitty tank top, her jacket tied around her waist, and combat boots with striped leggings.

N joined her, wearing his coat unbuttoned along with his dapper tux from Prom, and a bow he borrowed from Lizzy tied to his nanite acid tail.

Cyn appeared rising a head above Uzi's waist ”You both look lovely on this fine night, but personally I think you could’ve done better, as you look like something a cat dragged in, disgust.” Cyn whispered to Uzi.

she scoffed ”Just shut up and go into sleep mode.” Uzi hissed to the tail creature.

Cyn did just that, not because she was told but because she didn't want to be around to see whatever gross coupley things the two would be doing later that night.

”Hi.” N greeted his girlfriend, crouching down to meet her level.

Uzi felt her core beat like a drum, “Hey.” She greeted him, clasping her two clammy hands together.

N asked if she was ready to go, placing his hand out to her.

Uzi hesitantly said yes and took his hand.

They then began the date, heading off from Outpost 3 and down to the city

-Once they had made it to the city-

N and Uzi both trudged on the sidewalk, still holding hands, scanning the location setting top to bottom though having seen it multiple times before.

It was always nice to admire the big beautiful city, it was such an upgrade from the same old metal hallways at the bunker, well except for one detail.

They both turned a corner, seeing the silohette of the large large ever lasting corpse spire.

Both the teens stopped, they both cringed, at the sight.

"Woof." Uzi shook her head.

N looked the spire up and down, all the memories of those dead drones and their stories coming back to him all at once, darkening his mind for a moment.

"I always forget how big it is."

Uzi's mouth curled into a discomforted frown.

N squeezed Uzi's hand a little tighter, "I hate it." he confessed "It brings back too many bad memories."

In order to avoid looking at it any further, the two went down a different road.

“I think my dad’s been talking about getting all the other drone colonies together so they could get rid of the whole corpse spire.” Uzi explained

“Really? That’s great.” N said “When’s he gonna do that?”

“Well he hasn’t confirmed it yet, but if I had to guess about a week or so? That’s what he’s been saying.” Uzi replied

N thought that sounded perfect, get rid of that horrible reminder of his past.

"So...where's that secret spot you were talking about at?" Uzi changed the topic.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot!" N declared "The entire point we're here."

He slipped his hand away from her own, ”Come on, I’ll show you where it is.” He walked in front of her.

。。。

“I remeber finding it one night, when J was mad at me,” He explained as they walked up a sidewalk on a hill "She had kicked me out of the corpse spire because she got mad at me because I didn't kill enough drones that day, and it was almost day time so needed to find a place to sleep or else I'd melt."

Uzi frowned at this.

”When it came day time I stayed at the building, but I couldn't sleep because I got really bored so I just wondered around the place for a while, until I finally found it!”

Uzi grinned "The secret spot?" she questioned

"Yup! My secret spot." he chirped proudly.

”It was pretty nice too, I got to decorate it and all that.” N explained

。。。

Apparently the ”secret spot” wasn’t as secretive as she thought, for when she was brought to location, it was nothing more than the JC Jenson products factory, which was right in the middle of the city.

”We’re here!” N happily declared, as he showed her the front of the factory building’s front, where two metal doors lied

Uzi was not at all amused, “N, This isn’t a secret spot! Everyone and their grandma knows about this factory.” She declared

N pursed his lips together, and looked away, a little upset about her response. “Well yeah I know that!” He shrugged “but the spot isn’t specifically the whole building!”

He perked his face up as though he had a gotcha moment.

Uzi looked up at him with her arms crossed

”Then why’d say we’re here when we’re at specifically the front of the building?” she waved a questioning hand to him.

N's mind went blank.

"Uhh..." he placed a palm under his chin, confusingly scratching at it.

He then let out a hearty chuckle, with a grin on his face, "I actually don't know." he shrugged

Uzi simply stared at him stumped.

"I swear know what I'm doing, trust me." he akwardly promised her.

”No I mean I trust you-I just don’t understand you sometimes.” Uzi mumbled.

N then walked past the front and over to the side, “Here come with me..” He waved her hand for her to follow

Uzi reluctantly done just that, walking with him all the way to the back of the building, to a door, which was bent open.

The door just like the front one was made of metal, and just like the front one frosted over thanks to the cold, their was a sign on it, it read this.

NOT AN ENTRY, DO NOT OPEN

Must’ve been a fire exit.

Another thing Uzi had noticed was it wasn’t open like one would normally open a door, it was actually opened by it’s hinges, the nails from them completely missing.

If her dad had seen this he would’ve died of heart failure, he just hated to see a perfect door be broken.

N went to the front of the emergency exit, and started to squeeze in between the opening of the door, and somehow managed to pull through, which Uzi personally thought insane since the crack looked too small for even a worker to get through let alone a whole 5 foot disassemble drone!

She watched his syringe squeeze through with the rest of his body

“You coming?”

She heard his voice echo from inside.

Uzi wrinkled her face in discomfort, oh what the heck? If that big lug could get in there, what was stopping her??

She pulled herself in head first, trying her hardest to suck in her (nonexistent) gut.

she pulled herself in nearly falling onto the ground Luckily though N was quick to her rescue, and grabbed the scruff of her jacket.

”I got you, little buddy.” He grabbed her by her side and pulled her through, and gently placed her onto her feet.

"Don't call me little." she hissed pointing a finger to him, causing N to place to hands up in front of him.

"but thank you, for catching me before I fell." her expression quickly changed to a smile "that does mean a lot to me."

N smiled wagging his tail "Of course, you can always count on me!" he done a salute.

Uzi smiled watching him, fricking adorable. She thought, prideful that he was her boyfriend.

The inside of the factory, or atleast the back room of it, was a storage area, with isles of shelves with every single JCJenson product, from their bottles of windex to little branded pens on small containers, all neatly packaged and taped up in brown cardboard boxes.

Uzi personally found interest in this, for her father had told her many stories way back when he was forced to work for Jcjenson around the same age she was at now.

Uzi hummed impressed as she wandered around the building, looking at all the shelves and safety signs placed all over the walls and such.

The place actually seemed pretty gnarly when their wasn’t any humans around to enslave her and her entire race.

She then looked onto one of the shelves and noticed a default worker drone bauble head with the logo JCJENSON written on it’s hardhat.

She put her hand onto it’s head and pulled it back, the head sprung frontwards and wobbled all about the place, making a light tapping noise when it’s head would collide with the body.

She smiled, Okay that was kinda cool, she might need to keep that.

Before she could grab it however, she heard a loud screeching noise, so loud and deafening she had to flinch and cover her sound processors.

She looked to where she had heard the noise.

It was N, he at the right side of the building pushing a shelf that was placed onto the wall, farther down.

SCREEEEE She held the sides of her face once more, gritting her teeth.

N stopped for a moment to catch his breath, he then continued moving the shelf.

He done this about three more times until finally the shelf had been within five feet of it’s originally positon, revealing a vent on the on the lower side of the wall, and closet to the floor.

Seeing their was no longer an earbleedingly loud noise to worry about, Uzi took her hands from her hearing processors.

“What are you doing?” She walked to her boyfriend’s side.

“Hold on...” N mumbled, bringing himself to his stomach, bringing his face close to the vent.

Uzi, curious of what he was about to do, crouched down to watch.

The male drone raised his right hand, and swapped it out for his talons, he places the index of it unto the slit of the screw and began to twist it, slowly but surely pulling and popping it out from the hole of the vent.

His girlfriend raised a brow impressed at the use of his claws, well that was something she didn’t know he could do.

N then untwisted the new screw, and afterwards with a loud CLANG! The vent fell onto the ground.

“Got it.” N smiled triumphantly.

“Is that why the back door's opened like that?” She looked to her boyfriend.

“Heh.” N bubbled “A Magician never tells reveals his secret.” He winked to her as he prepared to slide into the vent.

He pushed his head in, but quickly pulled it out, “but yeah, that is how it got opened.” he nodded to her, before finally officially going in.

“Hey!” his voice echoed through the vent “You coming up or not?”

At first Uzi was confused, but then she realized it.

Oh no…

“It's in their?!” She exclaimed

“Yup!" He popped the p, as his voice echoed through the location.

Uzi looked up with dread, she'd seriously have to climb up all the way their??

“Come on Uzi! It’s not as hard as it looks to get up here.” N said happily eyes turning to two ^ shapes

Uzi looked up for a moment, before finally folding.

She let out a loud groan, her head turning up to the Heavens and hands falling to her side as she done so.

“Okay okay…” she went to the vent, getting down on her knees, preparing to go into the vent just as N had “I'm going in I guess."

"Great! I'll wait for you till then."

Uzi mumbled to herself, he didn’t even pay any mind to her annoyance.

The girl just as boyfriend had done, pulled herself into the vent, wasn’t as tight of a squeeze as the door thankfully, but was it cramped? Oh you better believe it.

Being in the vents was like being placed in an icy cold metal box, it was slippery, and bits of ice that had frozen inside of it did not help.

In order to get up to where N was, she had to somehow find a way to stand back up, and she had to figure out how to climb, by pushing her arms and legs on opposite sides of the walls and climb up one limb at a time (think of a spider going up a water spout)

Until finally she got into that pesky vent shaft that went across the ceiling, where she seen her boyfriend still crawling around in.

Since it was such a tight squeeze, N couldn't turn to face her, so he had to twist his head by an inch in order to see her.

“There you are!” He bubbled

Uzi sighed with relief. She pulled herself up into the vent shaft and crawled over to him, a big upgrade from climbing upwards.

“Okay…” she muttered “How much farther?”

She hoped for a not too long.

“A little bit farther.” N turned back around.

Uzi groaned once again, falling onto her stomach face first into the vent.

“I’ll tell you when we’re their, c’mon.” N still coerced her, and for whatever reason she still followed behind him.

This was not what she had in mind for a first date…

—A few twists turns, and climbs in the vents later—

Their long agonizing journey had came to an end.

He stopped at what looked to be a deadend, Uzi stopped with him.

"Okay, I think were here." N said

“Ugh, finally!” Uzi crawled to his side.

“This better be good with how many times your tail slapped me.” she muttered to herself.

“Oh ROBO GOD-NONO-”

She began to fall, but luckily for her, N grabbed her wrist before she could fall all the way down.

She saw him smiling down at her, before next thing she knew she pulled her up, and she fell into the area

“OOF!”

The two drones grunted in unison.

At first she wasn’t entire sure what had happened, before impact, she had shut her eyes, but she felt her hands and knees now places on that same wooly texture, as well as a strange feeling of warmth touching her chest and waist.

She opened her eyes, her now equally as hollow eyes met with N’s.

Aaand she was on top of him.

She puffed her lower lip out and furrowed her brow in alarm at this.

“Your eyes are really beautiful, Uzi.” N finally broke the silence, in what Uzi believed to be the worst way possibly.

“GROSS!” Uzi sat up on him, pushing his face away in disgust “GET OFF ME!” she exclaimed falling back onto his knees, and climbing off from him

N whined in response to this aggression. which was reasonable because he didn't even do anything wrong.

Finally when pulled off from each other, Uzi could get a clear view of the secret spot.

The secret spot, was a vent shaft, that’s right a vent shaft.

The vent shaft was about as large was a big early 2000s tv, not even room to stand up and walk around, but enough room to sit down and crawl over to different spots.

There was more to it however.

On the bottom part it, their was a crypto superdog blanket, textured like that of a itchy old lint covered sweater no one in their right mind would want to wear.

A few pillows on the right side, then some dog plushies on the left.

Then finally where the iron bars revealing where the outside floor was of it was, an old comforter shoved between the top parts of it, hiding away the outside world.

Well this certainly was not what Uzi she expected…

“So this is the place?” Uzi asked, crawling over to the pillows and leaned down onto one of them

“Yeah.” N nodded hesitantly, as he went to sit by her side.

“I’m sorry, I know it isn’t much, but it’s where I used to have to hangout I guess.” he explained

Uzi continued to look around, the more she looked she more she actually kinda liked it, though it was more a crawl space than a hangout area, it was a little comfy and cozy, and admitably it was nice, and felt like a place N would specifically have made, and she loved it because of that.

 “No, no it’s nice.” Uzi said “It is actually kinda homey in here.” She laid down onto the pillows “It’s not big, but it is peaceful.”

“Plus the view’s not bad either.” N said, as he grabbed the top part of the comforter, and pulled it off from the bars, causing moonlight to flood through the filter, revealing the beautiful night sky, painted in stars, impressive .

”It is pretty cool.” She admitted, as N placed the comforter over both her and him.

He scooted close enough to where Uzi could feel their hips touch, she felt a light headedness from this.

“I actually remeber wanting to show you this place earlier.” N confessed, “like a few days after the prom fight with Doll.”

”Really?” Uzi looked at him, stumped “What made you want to do that?”

N looked out to the sky, with a smile.

”Because you were the only person that I felt would care.” he explained “That means a lot to me.”

”Don’t mention it, dude, you know I’d do anything for you.” Uzi pointed out

”I do, and you know I’d do anything for you too.” N said.

They both looked to each other with half smiles, and their hands met in the middle.

This hand holding and soft smiling went on for what felt to be forever, until a moment when N would closed his eyes, and slowly leaned towards Uzi, his lips puckered out.

His girlfriend soon noticed and realized what he was trying to do, she froze.

Needless to say she was taken aback at first, but hesitantly she puckered her lips back and shut her eyes, shakily trying to bring herself closer.

The two got closer, and closer, until…

Uzi pulled away, and with a sigh of defeat looked away, and shook her head

She couldn’t do it.

Uzi scooted away from him, and pulled her phone out from her coat pocket.

N, realizing nothing was happening, opened his eyes.

He looked down to Uzi, a confused expression across his monitor.

”You wanna watch one of these movies now?” Uzi pointed to her phone screen.

N still appeared dumbfounded

He tried to speak up, but failed a few times.

”Uh—yeah! Sure, let’s do that.” N sputtered out, feeling a bit embarrassed that his attempt to kiss her might have not been reciprocated.

They looked for one of the Ghibli movies Uzi had pirated on her phone, but then N seen another movie called “How to Train your Dragon” and thought it looked cool, and asked if they could watch that instead, Uzi seen no problem in it, since she  loved that movie and decided they could watch that instead.

The entire time they were watching it, N was completely sucked into the plot.

He was very interested in world building and related to Hiccup about how he had to kill dragons just because “he was told to” and loved the part when he began to train toothless and the two started to form a bond.

The drone also freaked out during Hiccup’s possible death, and begged Uzi to tell him whether he was going to live or not, but Uzi simply smirked to him and told him he was just gonna have to wait and see.

Then the ending, the ending completely blew him away! He didn’t think in a million years that Stoic would let Hiccup keep Toothless or all of the Vikings would accept dragons into their society. Maybe their was hope for him.

After watching the movie, the two decided to leave N’s spot and head back for Outpost 3.

While walking down the street was N really began to speak his mind

”WOW! That was amazing, Uzi!” N exclaimed “You have great taste in movies.”

Uzi smirked “Yeah, I know.”

They took a turn down one of the streets “Their’s two more movies in the franchise, I’ve watched the second one, but I haven’t gotten around to the third one yet.”

”Well if there's anything like the first one we should watch them both some other time!”

”Sure! I like that idea.”

N ran over to a street lamp, placed his hand on it, and began to spin around, Uzi watch him

”Can you imagine that? If I was Hiccup, and you were Astrid, and Toothless was like a dog, and I got to train a dog and I convinced you to join me and the dog and we just flew around the sky for half an hour?” N asked her.

Uzi looked to him in amusement.

”N, I don’t think with what you told me dogs work like that.” She chuckled.

”Oh yeah, no you’re right” N stopped spinning, and went back over to his girlfriiend, “Well then we can switch and we’d fly around in the sky while the dog was on our backs or something.”

Uzi hummed in confusion.

”You know, because we can fly.’ He explained “Obviously.” 

Uzi’s eyes went hollow, “Uhm…”

”Or maybe me and the dog on your back?” She quickly replied, an akward grin.

N looked to her with a stumped expression “but why, wouldn’t you rather be flying on your own?” He asked

She didn’t respond, she couldn’t tell him, she was far to ashamed.

Unfortantly for her the parasite decided to appear to market the moment much worse and woke up from her slumber. ”It’s because Uzi can’t fly!” Cyn exclaimed, popping up and in front of Uzi

Uzi snatched Cyn’s neck up, looking her directly in the eye as she did it, with a death grip that matched even V’s (“EEP.” Cyn cried her voice unusually high)

”Bite. Me.” She hissed.

”Uzi, you can’t fly?” N asked

With a nervous sigh her expression softened.

She shoved Cyn behind her, still holding onto the creature’s neck.

”I tried to do it one time by jumping off of Outpost 3, but when I jumped all I did was freeze up and fall right on my head” She nervously blabbered “I couldn’t do it, and I don’t know why, I think it’s just not for me or something.” She twisted and turned Cyn’s neck nervously.

”CHOCK-STOP.” Cyn shouted from behind her, trying frantically to go back into sleepmode, but failing thanks to Uzi’s grip.

N looked with a look of sympathy.

”You never learned?” N couldn’t belive that, “Aww, Uzi you should’ve said something!”

“Their’s nothing to say! it’s just something I I’m not supposed to do.” The female drone insisted

”but If it wasn’t something you were supposed to do, then you wouldn’t have wings that are specifically made for flying.” N said

Uzi realeased Cyn’s neck and crossed her arms.

”Oh yeah? Well how do you know their made for flying?” She asked.

Cyn then fell back into sleep mode, Uzi’s tail unforming.

N got closer to her, “Show me your wings.” He said

Though confused, Uzi transformed into her Solver form, unsheathing her wings and her now unpossessed tail. N grabbed her left wing and spread it out, examining it.

He hummed softly, “Thin membrane of the wing.” He drug his hand across the skin of the wing, Uzi felt a tingle crawl across her spine from this.

He then tapped the top of the wing “Hollow metal structure, just like a disassembly drone’s wings” He pointed out ”Yup! Meant to fly.“ he smiled to her

She folded her wing back with a scowl, and turned her front to N so he wouldn’t touch her wings again, trying to suffocate whatever unholy feelings him touching her wing had caused.

That fact made her feel more ashamed, she was meant to fly, but was possibly too dumb to even know how.

”It’s okay Uzi!” N said “I’m sure me and V had to learn sometime that I can’t remember, don’t feel bad.”

Uzi ignored his advice, and simply looked down to the ground, blushing from embarrassment.

”As matter of fact, why don’t you let me teach you right now?” N asked, “I’d be happy to do so.”

She could recall the pain of slamming into the ground, when she had jumped from the roof, and how sore she had felt the entire day.

”Forget it.” Uzi murmured “It’s not that important, let’s just go back home, and pretend this conversation never happened, okay?”

”Come on Uzi! It clearly is if it bothers you so much.,” he reached out for her hand

”Why don’t we just find a building and-

”Quit it, N!” She spun to meet his face, fiery eyes full of rage and gritted teeth meeting his shocked facial expression finally snapped at him, slapping her hand away, and putting her foot down.

N backed up from her in surprise.

“I said no,” She exclaimed. “Stop talking about it.”

That tone of voice, Uzi had never spoken to him like that, he had crossed a line, and if he didn’t stop, he was going to cross more.

N’s tail dropped to the ground, and he felt a sickness in his e-stomach,

“I’m sorry,” He apologized “I didn’t know it was that big of a deal.” He really didn’t.

Uzi didn't reasure him or anything, instead she simply walked past him.

She stopped once she was a few yards away “Let’s just go back home, okay?” She said as she continued to walk.

N hesitantly nodded, seeing this a good idea.

The walk back was awful. the former warm atmosphere full of socialization and lame attempts of flirting was now replaced wit a tenseness in the air and both teens didn’t want to confront, and the two stayed far away.

They had their first date, and the same day as their first fight.

***

Later that night

Khan and V would be in the kitchen, looking at blueprints of Outpost 3 on the island counter

”See I think you could probably live in there, where the Rustbuckets used to be.” the father pointed to an empty dorm that use to inhabit an elderly drone couple.

”Oh I remeber those two jerks, I could never get a hold of them.” V explained “Always with those smoke bombs, and tear gas canisters.”

”Heh, yeah I remember Uzi saying she was inspired by them one time.”

The door creaked open, Khan and V turned to see Uzi and N outside the front door, neither looking as happy as they thought they were when they had left.

”Well hello you two!” Khan waved to them both

”Hey N, hey Uzi, you guys have fun on your little date?” V sneered

Uzi glared daggers to V.

”Bite me,“ she monotoned “What are you two doing anyway?” Uzi walked over to them both and looked down.

”We’re Looking for a nice dorm your friends could live in.” Khan explained “You know, so I don’t have to keep them here and feed them all the oil that I have.“

”Or we get hungry enough to eat you two.” V commented with a devious grin.

Khan looked at her in horror.

”What?" V tilted her head "I was Kidding! Sheesh it was a little joke.”

Uzi went to the fridge to get a bottle of oil to drink.

”Yeah, that’s probably not a bad idea, I wouldn’t mind having place of my own to live besides here sometimes.” N said as he took his black ice scentsy off from his neck and placed it on a hanger that was by the door.

”Really? And here I thought you had said you wanted to live with us forever.” Khan reminded him

N’s expression grew even darker.

 “Yeah, I guess I did say that.” He recalled “it’s just, probably would be a good thing for us to not be here all the time-.”

SLAM!

Completely avoiding eye contact with everyone, Uzi shut the fridge door and marched to her room taking a big sip of the bottle.

N watched biting his lip with guilt, V looked with curiosity, while Khan completely paid no mind to her.

V giggled nervously, taken aback by her change of demeanor

”Uhhh…N? Did you two have a good date?” V asked, a half smile on her face.

The male drone simply went to the living room couch and sat down, wrapping his tail around himself in shame.

Both V and Khan were confused at this.

”What’s wrong with them?” V whispered to Khan.

”I don't know maybe their date didn’t go as planned.” Khan replied

V thought the same thing, and looked to N with confusion.

。。。