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"Don't worry, Uzi"
"I'm not worrying"
"We can figure this out!"
"Of course we can, but we have five seconds left"
"No, we don't, Uzi, you're not gonna... you..."
"N... 2... 1... ah." Uzi winces as the bomb goes off in her chest and her core... explodes? Implodes? Disintegrates?
"No! Uzi!"
"N... It's... ah..."
"No, hang on, stay with me, Uz... please" Tears fill N's eyes as his voice cracks
"It's ok... N..." Her eyes flicker then her visor goes blank and her body limp.
"NO!" N holds her body as he lowers it gently to the ground and his own to his knees "no, no, nononono!"
N panics, breathing heavy and uneven, eyes darting almost as fast as his hands over Uzi's chilling body. Then everything freezes as he gets an idea...
Thinking for only a second first, he rips open his own chest, pouring oil over her body. Then he carefully but quickly unzips her jacket and shifts her shirt to reveal her coreplate. Dark... just like her visor, just like the backs of her hands... empty... just like her chest, just like her 'gaze'.
He shakes those thoughts from his head, opening her own chest and letting his hand hover over his own pulsing core, wondering if it would fit considering their size difference. Worth a shot, I mean after all, it was only half his core he ripped out with a scream of agony that pierced the very stars themselves and set gently into Uzi's chest cavity as he muttered a prayer that it would work, that her body would accept his core and either learn to operate on half of such an important component or grow a new one... regenerate the other half.
Panting, he waited for any sign she was alive, any flicker of purple or even yellow... heck, he'd take red or green, just a flicker...
"Biscuits" was all he could gasp out before collapsing on top of her. He was so exhausted from the short but intense ordeal that he couldn't even cry himself into sleep mode... the words simply appeared on his visor as one thought filled his brain. 'Please, work!'
...
Uzi took half a breath before coughing it back up with... a lot of oil... adding to the collection on her clothes and body... she hacked and choked.
When she finally caught enough breath to open her eyes, she saw N stir ontop of her.
"Uzi?"
*cough, cough, hack, gag, cough*
She tries to say 'off' but all that came out was more oil.
N, however, got the message and quickly sat up, the thrill of Uzi being alive electrocuted him to the illusion of a full battery.
"UZI!!"
"Ow!" *cough, cough*
"OH! OH, BISCUITS! UZI, ARE YOU OK?!"
"Yelli-" Uzi gets cut off by more oil joining the growing collection. At this rate, she's not gonna have enough oil in her body to stay awake... speaking of inside her body, why was her chest open? Why did she only have half a core? That's probably why it was bleeding so bad. What happened!?
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