Archive of Our Own ^beta

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HELLO THERE!! B3@^Z here :3 I’m clarifying because I have a fren now! Plague here will be writing the book with me, or at least helping me make the book accurately! Why? Because J 13 (mentioned in the title) is their little J au that they thought up! We might release another book explaining their J’s backstory, so that ya’ll know what happened, but TLDR is Plague’s J got the exact opposite of what mine did. Uzi and the crew were really callus and aggressive towards her and never let her even try to explain herself or apologize, they just attacked her on sight no matter what, so after around 13 years of trying to survive and apologize she gave up and became more cold, uncaring, and untrusting herself, after the thirteenth year of trying, she just finally snapped and started upgrading herself, and also built a giant bomb using Uzi’s railgun blueprints to make a planet-go-boom-boom device :3 They shared with me and I though, since my J got such an insanely different treatment (Uzi and the crew actually cared about my J and they just attack Plague’s), so we both felt it’d be fun to shove J 13 into my au since she got such different treatment in hers than my J did in mine, 13 will be referred to as Jade in the books (not in the dialouge until they need a name to differentiate J from J and Uzi asks if they have full names, just in the writing/actions), and I may decide to refer to my J as Jessica or Jess/Jessi if I wanna call her a nickname as well but she’s probably just gonna be called J most times :3

This will also have the ghosts, but again only from J’s POV (Jessica, not Jade, Jade can’t see the ghosts, Jess just looks batshit insane to her), but yeah, now Uzi has adopted a second J, who’s also fucked up, just in an entirely different way to how her J is ^^  Also I calculated ages, all the crew is all 19 (obviously not including the adults/parents) when the main story takes place in my AU, and my post-canon takes place a year after my AU so they’re all 20, in Plague’s AU assuming that they’re the same age during canon as they are in mine, Jade is 32 years old since she gets taken to my AU after the thirteen years, as is everyone else (again, excluding the adults) in the 13 AU at the moment, but yeah, we thought it’d be fun to see how they interact, so here’s the fic quite literally no one but me and Plague’s ADHD asked for because they didn’t even know half of it existed until now lmao, hope you like Jade interacting with Jess and the rest of my Universe :3

(I may write more than Plague does btw, but either way we’re brainstorming ideas together and they’re proofreading n stuff, so even if I end up writing everything out it’s still a colab book, they even have access to the Google doc that I’m drafting in :3)

(plague here, yeah….i dont write much expect for like the empress J lore thing i got….so….i infact simply just exist here.)

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Jade sits at the little workbench she scraped together, looking over the blueprints for that stupid emo toaster’s rail gun as she makes another, slightly edited set of blueprints based on it, altered to instead make a bomb. Looking over the blueprints quietly as she writes down edits on a second piece of torn-up paper, her optics occasionally flick to the entrance of her little bunker to make sure no one’s entering (though as a Disassembly Drone she has improved hearing compared to a normal Worker Drone, so she’d be able to hear if someone was approaching anyways.), not hearing or seeing anything she goes back to the blueprints, she works on them for a few hours before she hears a strange sound best described as that of a vortex, she quickly turns around only to see a whirly black portal behind her, she barely has time to try and grab onto something before being sucked into it.

Uzi and J are sitting together with J kneeling in front of Uzi’s bed while Uzi brushes through her hair. I brushed this yesterday , how the hell did you get it so matted already? Uzi asks in annoyance, J just lets out a squeak (Imagine those screaming frogs) in return as she sits curled up slightly at the foot of Uzi’s bed, trying to sit as still as possible so that Uzi can do her hair. The Worker Drone sighs as she continues to brush through the Disassembly Drone’s insanely tangled hair. The two sit together for a moment longer before a portal-thing opens up above them. Uzi is slightly startled by this, as is J, but unlike Uzi, J just immediately jumps up onto the bed and crawls over Uzi, her wings spreading out as she lays over top of the Worker Drone (who is fully capable of defending herself by the way! She doesn’t need the big scary murder robot to keep her safe for her!!), the Murder robot growling quietly at the portal, as if that’s going to scare it off somehow.

After a moment the sound of panicked flapping is heard along side a bunch of panicked hissing, J growling slightly louder, before another Disassembly Drone falls out of the portal, claws and wings out and obviously panicked, Uzi and J’s optics both hollow out as the Disassembly Drone appears, and J quickly begins growling slightly louder and settles over Uzi more while glaring at the new arrival and transforms her hands into a set of three metal claws. The other Disassembly Drone lands on all fours and quickly backs away from the bed and towards the door, her wings also flared out defensively (Uzi’s found that Disassembly Drones do that to seem bigger and scarier) as she looks over J and Uzi with hollowed optics while also quietly growling at J and Uzi, while position her hands (currently transformed into swords) at the two defensively. After a moment of the two growling at each other, Uzi speaks up. Uh, how did you get into my room- She’s cut off by a violent flinch and the new Disassembly Drone backs further away from Uzi in specific, her yellow optics (with red dots into the middle of them?) remaining hollowed out in panic as she backs away from Uzi while growling, J growls back and, wanting to prevent a fight from breaking out in her room, Uzi pushes J off of her slightly so that she can scoot back and sit up.

Can everyone stop growling, please? Uzi asks quietly as J almost immediately crawls back over behind Uzi. … Seriously, stop. Uzi repeats as the growling continues, J’s growling stutters slightly before quieting as she lowers her wings after a moment, though they’re still showing as she glares quietly at the other Disassembly Drone and curls around Uzi’s back, and J’s hands remain claws as well the Disassembly Drone looks over the scene and is obviously confused, but still really anxious, and after a moment of looking over her while not having J on top of her, Uzi notices that the new Drone actually looks a lot like J herself, just with red dots in the middle of her optics, a black forearm with red L.E.D.s in the seems of it, more silver around her neck, chest, and joints, a long tattered black cloak on, she also has duller optics and her hair is messier and stained, unlike J’s is. Uzi raises an eyebrow slightly before deciding to test something. …J? She questions with a slight tilt of her head, J responds by looking over at Uzi and giving a soft trill, and the new Drone’s eyes also snap over to Uzi anxiously.

…Robo-Jesus, there’s two of them now… Uzi mutters, the second J speaks up W-what? What are you talking about? J growls quietly before Uzi raises a hand and boops J’s nose. Stop growling J. J pout-glares at Uzi slightly before moving her head away from Uzi’s hand, but still remains protectively behind her, the other Disassembly Drone looks over them while still tensed and in a defensive position, her tail curled up in front of her ready to lash out, and her wings still spread out behind her. Where am I. What are you going to do to me. The second J asks, though it’s more of a demand for answers than a genuine question. I’d assume you’re in another universe, because as far as I’m aware, there aren’t two Js on Copper-9, and I don’t plan on doing anything to you? Uzi questions the last part slightly as J continues glaring at the other J after having moved to sit beside Uzi on the bed instead of behind her. The other Disassembly Drone looks over Uzi’s face, seemingly trying to scout out if Uzi’s lying or not.

After a moment of silence, Uzi slowly stands up off the bed, the other J flinches back and hisses at her, and Uzi puts her hands up calmly. I’m not going to hurt you, I swear, I’m just trying to get a bit closer. Uzi explains gently as she takes another cautious step forward, J watching the interaction from the bed while still looking suspicious of her counterpart, who has been backed up to a wall for a while now, and who’s optics are now flicking around the room anxiously, but landing on J and Uzi more often than anything else. Uzi takes another slow step forward with her hands still raised and watches for the new J’s reaction. The drone flinches slightly but doesn’t try to back away anymore or seem to get more aggressive; she just looks over Uzi’s hands and body, presumably trying to spot if Uzi has any weapons. I’m gonna put a hand on your shoulder now, is that okay? Uzi asks with another small step forward, now only about an arms length away from the taller drone, with one of her raised hands reaching out slightly but not anywhere near close enough to touch yet as she waits for permission first, the Disassembly Drone looks over the hand intensely before looking back to Uzi’s face, over at J (who is now watching with more curiosity than anything else), before lowering her fighting stance ever so slightly, though she is still quite tense and ready to attack if anything happens beyond just gentle touches.

Uzi gently reaches out the rest of the way and touches J’s shoulder, she can feel the Disassembly Drone shaking violently and see the distrust in her eyes as she touches her, and takes her hand back after a moment. See? Not gonna hurt you, promise. Uzi says gently as she takes a few steps back again. Think you can fold those wings back up and hide the giant sword so you don’t knock anything else over? Or would you rather keep them out? Uzi asks as she steps away from the drone, the second J looks over the things she knocked over, and blinks before hesitantly hiding her wings, and swapping her hands back to normal (though with the more cat-like claws on her normal hands are showing). I’m gonna ask this before anything else since I’m already assuming that it’ll be confusing having two Js around, but do you have another name you want to go by? Also, before you answer that, you look pretty dirty, so if you wanna wash up, there’s a bathroom out that door to the left, Uzi gestures to the bedroom door behind the second Disassembly Drone, My parents are out at the moment, so you won’t run into them. The Worker Drone explains, The drone by the door looks over Uzi for a moment, then over to the bed at the other version of her (or at least that’s what it appears to be), who is currently sitting on the bed alternating between looking at nothing and letting out quiet trills at the wall, and looking at the interaction happening between her Uzi and the other J. The New Drone speaks up. Uh… She pauses for a moment, looking over them again and trying to decipher any immediate ill intentions before responding quietly with, Jade.

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While Jade does whatever in the bathroom (they can hear the shower running, so she’s presumably washing up like Uzi mentioned she could), J and Uzi sit in the bedroom together, and Uzi decides to finish brushing J’s hair. J letting out occasional angry squeaks as the brush pulls on her hair. Uzi just continues brushing through the Disassembly Drone’s hair and ignores the squeaks before getting J’s ribbons to put her hair back up. While Uzi is in the middle of putting J’s second pigtail up, the door creaks open, and Jade peeks in. Uzi gives her what she hopes is a reassuring smile while J just continues looking quietly at the floor as her tail wags behind her, Jade blinks and looks over the two nervously before slipping into the room. So… Jade trails off. So. Uzi repeats as she finishes putting up J’s hair and pats her head a few times, J’s tail wagging a bit more before she just looks up at Jade with a curious tilt of her head. W-why… Why are you being so… friendly, with her? Jade asks quietly. Uzi blinks. Why am I so friendly toooo J?~ Uzi questions as J shakes off slightly before climbing onto the bed beside Uzi. I- Yeah, why are you just… doing this, with her… a-and me? Jade asks cautiously, Uzi blinks at her and looks around confusedly, J also blinks at her and tilts her head slightly. Uh, so this doesn’t happen where you come from then?

There’s a moment of silence before Jade simply says … No. With a blink. Well… Uzi pauses. Those implications are… concerning. She says hesitantly as J looks between the two of them while lying on the bed with her tail curled up beside her. Why are you concerned about me? Uzi blinks and looks to the side nervously at the blank question from Jade. Uhm. Cus you’re still J? Uzi says confusedly as she sits by J on the bed. T-That doesn’t answer why you care. Jade says, both of the J’s then flinching slightly as the air conditioning turns on, looking around the room nervously before realizing that it’s just the air conditioning, and then they both relax slightly. Robo-God, what did they do to you in whatever universe you come from… Uzi questions in concern as she looks at Jade, Jade looks back in confusion, seemingly just more confused by Uzi’s concern. O-Okay, can I just talk with … Jade looks between Uzi and J in confusion. M-Myself, I guess? Jade gestures lightly at J. Yeah, sure, but she doesn’t talk much. Uzi warns as she pulls gently on one of J’s pigtails to get her attention (since the Disassembly Drone was spacing out) before motioning to Jade. J blinks before getting up and walking over to J with a slight tilt of her head. Uh, yeah, thanks… Jade says cautiously before backing out of the room. J looks back at Uzi, and Uzi nods at her to go, before J follows Jade out. Uzi just gets on her phone after the two Disassembly Drones leave.

Okay, what the hell is up with you two? Jade asks in a loud whisper as the two get to a spare room a bit away from Uzi’s room. J tilts her head and lets out a confused murr. Jade blinks rapidly before letting out a frustrated sigh. Words. Not murring. Jade says sternly. J blinks up at her curiously. Why are you so close with Uzi ? Jade asks sternly. J blinks before quietly responding. She’s the only reason I’m not dead in the snow right now. Jade blinks in bewilderment. What? The taller counterpart questions. Uh, I kinda lost my will to live and just curled up in the snow for a year, then Uzi found me and dragged me back here. J explains slightly nervously as she looks side to side and blinks. Jade looks at her and blinks quietly, and a loading symbol appears in red on her visor as she processes the information. Uzi’s voice is then heard from outside the room. Hey, just a heads up, if Jessica isn’t allowed to leave the house yet, you aren’t either. I don’t need one of you dying or getting hurt because someone else attacked you or you didn’t see something and got hurt! Jade looks at the door quietly and blinks once more before looking back to J with a confused look. … You can probably sleep in here tonight if you don’t wanna sleep in Uzi’s room. J offers, seemingly not knowing what else to say. …Yeah whatever just get out of here. Jade responds sternly as she looks over J. J just nods nervously and skitters out of the room and presumably back to Uzi’s room.

J finds Uzi sitting on her bed on her phone, smiling slightly and blushing a little as she texts with someone (who J manages to spot that the name is “Stupid Pink Popular Bitch Ass Mf”, and the profile picture for the contact is a cat, also the text convo just seems to be a lot of insults with heart emojis at the end of the messages.) Noticing J entering the room, Uzi looks up from her phone. Hey, how’d it go? Uzi asks with a small tilt of her head as J walks over and climbs onto the bed to curl up beside Uzi. She wants to stay in the spare room. J responds calmly, giving a soft purr as Uzi pets her head for a moment. I’ll bring her some blankets and pillows then, you get comfortable. Uzi says softly before getting up, J pouts slightly before just stretching out like a cat with a quiet purr, and then curling back up on the bed. Uzi collects a pile of blankets and pillows (really as many as she can carry with both the Solver and her arms), and then heads to the spare room, knocking on the door gently before waiting for a reply. There’s silence for a moment before the door cracks open and the much taller drone peers down at Uzi. Uzi looks back up at her with a small, slightly nervous smile. I brought you some pillows and blankets? She offers Jade nervously, the Disassembly Drone looks over them for a moment before hesitantly opening the door a bit wider and letting Uzi hand her the pillows and blankets before bringing them over to the bed in the spare room. Okay so uh, fair warning you should probably just, stay in here. I-I promised my mom and dad I wouldn’t adopt another Disassembly Drone after Jess because I didn’t expect anymore to appear so there will probably be a lot of yelling about bringing in another murder bot tomorrow. Uzi pauses for a moment. P-plus if N and V catch you they’ll probably freak out, and I’d rather you’re at least comfortable with me and Jessica before I let them know you’ve appeared. The Worker Drone explains nervously, she hasn’t entered the room or even tried to approach Jade for the moment, she only got near her to hand her the bedding and immediately backed off after that. Seemingly trying to keep the drone comfortable.

Jade looks over Uzi quietly. Yeah, okay then. She says with a slightly unsure tone as she continues to look over the Worker Drone with a mix of caution and suspicion. Uzi gives a thumbs up and a nervous smile before closing the door and leaving Jade alone in the room. Jade looks back at the bed quietly and then back at the door for a moment, before she pads over to the bed and begins cautiously arranging the blankets and pillows into a nest on it, glancing back at the door one last time before cautiously climbing onto the bed and curling up in the nest, her tail curling up beside her and wings popping out to cover her more as she attempts to head into sleep mode. Uzi meanwhile has headed back to her room to find J curled up under the covers, purring softly while fast asleep. Uzi smiles softly before walking over to join J in bed under the covers.

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Elsewhere on Copper-9, some other Drone has fallen out of a portal and landed in the snow ;)

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The next day, Uzi wakes up fairly normally, but now she knows there’s another J in her house. Gently moving J’s arms off of her, Uzi gets up and heads to the bathroom to get dressed and to do her hair. After she’s done with that she heads back to her room, gently wakes J up, and then helps her get dressed and do her hair as well. Uzi is currently wearing her normal outfit, but J’s uniform needed to be cleaned so she’s wearing a plain black skirt that V got her along with a somehow-oversized black hoodie with a white skull on it, and a plain black shirt under the hoodie, along with a black dog collar that she requested Uzi to put on her. After helping J get up they head to the kitchen to get some oil, Uzi hands J a can and gets a happy chirp back, grabs a can for herself, and then grabs an extra for Jade and begins leading J back over to the room Jade was in. With J both nibbling on and drinking from her can of oil behind her, Uzi knocks on the door. Inside the room, Jade hears the knock and immediately startles out of her nest, she tenses up as she sits up immediately and turns towards the door with her wings tensed defensively behind her, her optics look over it before noticing that no one’s entered the room, at which point her wings lower slightly, she shakily sits back and then gets off the bed, her wings folding up into her back as she walks over to the door and hesitantly cracks it open. Hey, get you some oil. Uzi offers as she holds up a can to Jade. Jade blinks at her and looks over at Jess behind her with a raised eyebrow at the collar and the way that the other Disassembly Drone is chewing on her can. Noticing Jade’s gaze Usi speaks. She says the collar keeps her from being decapitated and me and V don’t want to fight her or N over their logic on that. Uzi shrugs as she shakes the oil can slightly and moves up on her tippy toes to get it closer to Jade. Jade blinks at her, still looking sceptical, before hesitantly taking the oil can from Uzi and inspecting it. Also, can I leave Jess with you for a bit? I kinda need to explain to my parents about uhh… Uzi looks over Jade. Well you. She finishes lamely as she drums a finger on her own can of oil. Jade blinks and looks over at Jess quietly. Uh… Yeah sure I guess… Jade mutters while stepping to the side and opening the door slightly more. Thankssssss, I’ll leave you two here together then, don’t like, hurt each other or anything, I’d like to come back to both of you unharmed and alive please. Uzi says nervously as she waves and then runs off to the living room, presumably to wait for the confrontation with her parents.

Jess blinks as Uzi leaves, before looking back over to Jade, Jade blinks back at her before moving to the side slightly to let Jess in. The smaller variant looks at Jade for a moment before walking past her and sitting down curled up next to the bed in the middle of the room while still gnawing on and drinking from her can of oil. Jade glances out of the door once more before closing it and walking over to sit on the bed nearby to Jess. The two sit together quietly while Jess finishes up her can of oil and Jade hesitantly begins to drink from her own, while questioning why Jess is eating her can. The two sit quietly for a long while while Jess stares at the floor and Jade drinks quietly from her oil can.

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I was raped by tenticals. Jess says as if discussing the weather, Jade is quickly thrown into a mini-coughing fit by these words as she spits back up a bit of oil and is forced to cover her mouth with her hand as she coughs. W-What-t?! She questions while still coughing and now looking over at Jess with optics hollowed in both concern and bewilderment, her tail raised up in shock behind her. As Jade tries to come back down from her coughing fit, Jess just looks at her and blinks quietly, not elaborating at all. Once calmed down, Jade continues speaking. Ma’am you can’t just say that to someone and then give no further explanation?! She exclaims in both concern and annoyance, Jess blinks at her before responding. The Solver raped me with tenticals? J elaborates with a small tilt of her head, Jade just looks at her in concern while Jess blinks back. I-I… What the hell happened to you in your universe? She questions. Jess’ tail sways up beside her as she speaks again. Did it not do that with you? She asks innocently. F***ing no??? Jade exclaims. I was locked out in the snow for thirteen years, hunted, and attacked, I wasn’t f***ing r*ped?! She says in concern as she sets the oil can down beside her, Jess just sits there with little yellow question marks appearing on her visor as she sits by Jade. You weren’t? Jess asks in confusion as Jade looks at her in concerned bewilderment. No, I wasn't abused physically not sexually! Jade still seems really concerned, and has a little yellow anger symbol on her visor, while Jess just seems confused that Jade didn’t go through the same stuff as her, and has a few question marks on her visor. After a few moments they then hear the front door and the beginning of a muffled conversation as Uzi presumably begins to try and explain to her parents about the second J now in her house.

While Jade continues to try to get Jess to elaborate on the whole tentacle rape thing, Uzi tries to explain to her parents that there is now another Disassembly Drone in the house. Uhhhh, hey, so how would you react if hypothetically I somehow found another Disassembly Drone? Uzi asks nervously from the couch as her mom scuttles into the house beside her dad. How would you I thought there were only three on Copper-9. Nori responds as she climbs up one of the chairs and onto the counter as she talks with Uzi, Khan also raises an eyebrow at the hypothetical question. Uh, Yeah but like, you wouldn’t be mad if I had another one at home, right? Uzi presses. Uh, It would depend on the circumstances but I suppose we wouldn’t be angry at yo- Khan is cut off by Nori. I would be both pissed and disappointed. A few sweat drops appear on Khan’s visor as he looks over at Nori, Uzi’s visor is suddenly displaying a bunch of sweat drops as well. Uh, what if it wasn’t my choice and the Disassembly Drone appeared in my room via portal? Uzi asks nervously, attempting to rephrase the question to something she’d get a more realistic response for. I would still be disappointed in you for keeping it but you at least didn’t actively look for one this time. Nori responds as she uses the Solver to get into the fridge and carry an oil canister onto the counter, then closing the door behind her and skittering back across the counter to get in a drawer and get a straw. Uh, cool what if that last one wasn't hypothetical then? Uzi asks softly as she glances back at the spare room the two Js are currently in. …Are you trying to tell us something? Nori questions with a slight tone of annoyance as she gets the cap off the oil canister, puts a straw in and begins to drink from it, Khan heads over to re-organize the drawer and close it while now sweating profusely at whatever Uzi is trying to say. Uh, maybe? Uzi questions, Nori blinks at her. I- Yeah, okay another Disassembly Drone fell out of a portal into the middle of my room. Uzi admits. Ugh. Nori groans as she flops over onto her front, Khan just closing the drawer and quietly slipping away past Uzi and back to his room. Uh, you said you wouldn’t be mad, just disappointed! Uzi reminds, Nori making a sighing noise as she gets back up. Yeah, yeah, I know I did, whatever, but if it eats me or anyone else in the colony then you’re the one in trouble. Nori points at Uzi with one of her weird little claw-hands before hopping off the counter and heading past her daughter to the Kooky Closet, floating bottle of oil following close behind.

Oooooo-kayyyy then, gonna be glad I’m not in trouble and go make sure no one’s died. Uzi mutters to herself as she leaves the living room and heads back to the room she left the two Disassembly Drones in, knocking on the door quietly before waiting for a response, she’s met with the door opening and Jess being held out to her. Take it back, I don’t want it. Uzi blinks in surprise, mostly at the fact that she’s just now seeing the small differences in the two different Js, not including Jess just noticeably being much shorter, Jess also has pawpads, claws, a yellow tongue, and is much softer and more puppy-looking, plus her tail is wagging and she looks like a cat being held up by a child while being offered to Uzi, while Jade doesn’t have any of the hand details, has a gray tongue, and is much more stern and cold looking, her tail is also drooping down by the floor. Uzi holds out her arms for Jess and as soon as the Disassembly Drone is set down Uzi is met with Jess kneeled down to cling to her like a puppy. Uhhh, what happened here? Uzi questions as she pets her J’s head. I do not want to repeat any of the things that were just way too graphically explained to me. Jade responds with, as she shuts the door. …Jess you need to stop just randomly telling people you trust about what the Absolute Solver did to you, you already traumatized N into shutting down for a week with it, I don’t need that to happen again but with another version of you. Uzi scolds slightly as she forces Jess to stand up, she only gets a bark in response. Got all of your talking out graphically describing shit to yourself huh? Uzi questions in exasperation, J only blinks at her in response. Uzi sighs at the blank look. Whatever, just don’t do anything like this to strangers or friends ever again please… Uzi pleads as she works on leading Jess back to the bedroom, she just gets another small ruff in response.