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I feel a hand slap me as my optics come on “Did you just slap me with that hand?” I ask bewildered. “Holy Crap, it talks” says the weirdly blurry Disassembly Drone, what a weird thing to say, of course I can talk the audacity to say otherwise. Wait no, focus N introduce yourself to the new girl, and don’t call them short even though you’re thinking it.

 I shake my head “Sorry, my head kind of hurts, I’m Serial Designation N, the marksman of the team in this city… Hey you wouldn’t happen to know why I can remember the past 3 hours” She doesn’t say anything, that’s suspicious, dang it I wish my sensors were working properly so I could see her face. “Eh, I’m sure it’ll sort itself out sooner or later” I say with a shrug, the new girl “I-uh Need to go” She takes two steps before wincing in pain while grabbing her wrist . “Did you stick yourself? Just pop it in your mouth, our saliva naturalizes the acid, remember?” I say with an eye roll, how does one manage to stick themselves with an acid tail. Whatever after showing them the spire and pod, I’m going to leave before that bratty prick gets back, oh wait, maybe I could convince her…

 “And by ‘our’ saliva you mean” I give her a confused look, she should know this “Disassembly Drone, did you lose memories too?” I asked.  “Right~ Hey, let’s go into that landing pod over there” I turn to where she’s pointing, and shrug, I was going to show her the pod anyway. “Sure, why not”

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The weirdo takes her hand out of my mouth and I stare at her just horrified. “We are never talking about this again, in fact consider this repressed.” She nods after looking at her hand (she probably regrets doing that),  before looking back at me. “You mentioned other members of your team, are they… coming back soon” She says nervously, she’s definitely not supposed to be here, finally someone who doesn’t only follow the rules, J and V were getting boring., V’s nice and all but still. “Two others, Our leader and our melee specialist, and if I’m going to tell you about them might as well start with the only tolerable one.”

I relax in my seat before continuing. “V’s our melee specialist, claws or sword doesn’t matter, she's the best of all us when it comes to it. She’s friendly enough but she’s really sadistic so be careful I guess.” The new girl gave me a nod to signal she understood so I continued “Then there’s J, our glorious leader” I say with sarcasm. “Bratty little prick, rule obsessed and constantly using corpo buzz words, if you plan to break a rule, you best expect to get scolded, I honestly think that she’s just a nuisance” I sigh before finishing off with a more official version of my introduction “Lastly, me,  like I said I’m the marksman of the team, and as J will surely tell you, I’m the least efficient member of team as I out right abandon my post and hang around majority of the time. Simply put I hate this job but the company made it so we need to kill worker drones to survive, in other words we’re screwed when our job is done. The reason I’m telling you this is because J had gotten into your head with her corpo crap yet so you might be sensible.” I hear two drones land to the side and turn, it seems their back, I turn to the newbie… or at least try to, when I turned back she was gone. “N! You walking liability, get out here!” Oh I wish I knew how to do that vanish thing now. I walk outside only to get slapped into a reboot by J…

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Oh…. That makes sense now I suppose, ugh how annoying, I’m not going to kill her, I will have to ask about that railgun it seemed really cool… I should probably warn her about V and J though.  I walked away “I’m out of here…” I leap into the air and spread my wings, and remember something,  an old plan of mine, maybe just maybe, I could convince her… Guess I won’t know until I find her

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It took me a couple minutes but I found her. I dive onto her and pin her down, time to talk her into the plan. “Before you freak out, I’m not gonna kill you. Look, I made it clear earlier that I hate my job, and I’m sure you’d want a disassembly drone working with you rather than against you. Now, we need to hurry to whatever place you live at cause V and J will probably realize that I didn’t leave out of being angsty over J slapping me, I’ll drop you off, but you’ll have to let me in, and don’t worry about my visor color or acid headband, I can change it’s color as easily as you workers do but J would get on my case about it, and the headband is easily covered by a beanie, this is probably the sole time I get to ask a worker drone to help me ditch this job so please say yes” I plead, the purple girl stares out me, definitely overwhelmed, but I don’t care, my freedom comes first for now.

“F-Fine, just get off me!” I let out a sigh of relief as I let go of her, as she got up I made good on my word about my visor and switched it to teal. “Just tell which direction to fly in” she hesitates, and I can’t say I blame her, today must be a nightmare and a half for her, but she still gives me an answer with a point west. “How far” “an hour” I nod before grabbing her, "Up we go” I launch us into the air, chuckling when she yelps before flying west. “So… What’s your name, can’t just call you purple girl in my head forever” she doesn’t answer “Listen I owe you one for even agreeing to my mad plan, least you can do is tell me you’re name”  she stays quiet for a bit before saying “Uzi… my name is Uzi” I smile “Nice to meet you Uzi”