Chapter 9 Thirty minutes pass, V requesting a redemption round, and then playing a while longer and talking. Eventually, Uzi gets up. She walks over to the worker drone corpse and yanks on the head until it comes off. Walking back to her bed, she holds the neck above her mouth to try and get some oil. She squeezes the head, but nothing more comes out. N turns around to face her, and places his claws on the head. He crushes it and all the rest of the oil comes out. “Thanks..” Uzi says, slightly flustered that she couldn't do it by herself. “Yeah.” He replies, turning back to continue his conversation with V, but she's looking at Uzi. “...Seriously, what is up with you?” V asks. “Nothing!” “Really?” She asks sarcastically, “because you've been acting so out of it! You barely even converse with me or N, and you ditched school. And I swear right before I came in here you told N to keep something secret from me!” Uzi shifts uncomfortably. “It's honestly nothing! And it hasn't been affecting my mood whatsoever!” “Yeah, totally! So then why are you acting so differently?” V shoots back. “Because I'm tired!” Uzi says. “It's honestly not that deep! I don't feel like using all of my energy right now, and also, I have every right to keep secrets to myself!” “...and N.” V adds. “I can tell him whatever I want!” “Okay! I really don't care about any of this! Jeez!” V rolls her eyes. “..But we don’t even know for sure if she’s gone.” V says hesitantly. Almost like talking about Cyn or saying her name is a curse- that something bad is going to happen. “It doesn’t matter!” Uzi says defensively. Uzi shrugs, but V doesn’t drop it. “Why are we just standing around watching movies when the universe is being taken over?!” “THE UNIVERSE IS FINE! IT’S ME! I’M BEING TAKEN OVER, AND IT IS FINE.” V’s expression softens, then tenses back up, glaring at Uzi. She stands up, yelling. “You?! YOU?! And you didn’t tell me?! We’re not doing anything about it?! The H3LL?!” “MAYBE, I didn’t want you to SCREAM at me like this and try to KILL me!” Uzi snaps back, her Solver hovering by her hands as a threat. Tears sting N’s eyes, watching the two fight, but instead of interfering, he shrinks back down. “Well, what is she doing??!!” V asks, not exactly calm yet. “SHE’S TRAPPED IN MY TAIL, V! I CAN FREAKING HANDLE THIS ON MY OWN!” Uzi screams. “You DO realize that that THING in your tail is the same thing that has tried to KILL us SEVERAL times, right?!” “Just shut up!” She yells, looking to the side, embarrassed, confused, and scared.
After a while, I finally spit out this chapter! It's my shortest one, but oh, well! Lowk is cringe BUT WHO CARES AHHAHAHAHA >:3
