Ch. 21: Into The Unknown
Returning or close to Camp 98.7, the murder drones (and Doll) landed by the lab.
"Here it is, this is where I last contacted O and M." T said.
"Okay, so the question is, how do we get in?" Uzi asked.
"Oh, I think we can help with that." A voice said.
They turned around and saw a person in a space suit with a sword and gun, along sith a bow i nhed helmet,... and J.
'How is that bitch still alive?' Uzi thought in surprise.
"TESSA?!" N and V shouted in shock.
The two murder drones were shocked, the other two drones were confused, and T was fairly stone faced.
'Ugh. This bitch again.' T thought, glancing away from Tessa.
For some reason, T never really liked Tessa. Didn't know why, she just rubbed her the wrong way.
"Uh, who's this?" Uzi asked, gesturing to Tessa.
"И почему она с ней? (And why is she with her?)" Doll asked, looking at J.
Though J didnt look back as she kept her eyes in Uzi, scanning her from top to bottom.
'Are those MY parts? Did N turn her into a murder drone with MY PARTS?!' J thought, furious from this discovery.
"Hey, Tessa...It's been a while." V said with a slight wave.
"Like a REALLY long while." N said, nervously scratching his head. "I hope you didn't...forget about us."
"Forget? Oh how could I forget my favorite drones in the whole universe?!" Tessa asked as she ran up to N and hugged him, picking him up in the process.
"I see you still have the purple THING with you." J said, pointing to Uzi.
"Thing? How about you come say that to this "thing's" fist?" Uzi said, holding up her fist.
"Well hello! I don't recognize you, little gal!" Tessa said, turning to Uzi and then Doll. "Or you."
"I can say the same to you." Uzi said.
"Of course you wouldn't know." J said, rolling her eyes. "This is Tessa, the woman who made us who we are."
That immediately put Doll on edge, curling her hand into a fist as she stuck close to Uzi.
"Pleasure's all mine but we can go over proper introductions later, we're here on a mission... involving Cyn." Tessa said.
This snapped T to look at Tessa.
"CYN?!" T shouted, stomping up to the human. "You mean to tell me that psycho bot is still operational?!"
"Yep. It would seem so, T-T (Tee Tee.)" Tessa said, almost teasing yet also serious.
"Then we gotta hurry and destroy this lab." T said, pointing to the lab.
"What? Why? We can't destroy this place, we just got here." Uzi said, hating this idea.
'Is this place important to this Cyn drone?' Uzi thought.
"I agree with the runt, we should at least search the place for anything important to the company before even thinking of destroying it." J said.
"Because if there is anything that Cyn wants in there, then we need to make sure nothing is there for her to find." T said.
"Exactly, so let's get in there and find what we need to find. Should be a lot easier with 7 of us instead of 2." Tessa said, walking ahead.
"Wait, you want to go inside the creepy abandoned lab without a plan?" Uzi asked.
"Yes, why else would we be here and you apparently?" Tessa said, stopping for a moment.
"The main reason we came here is because T's squad has gone missing and this was their last known location." V said, gesturing to T.
"It is?" J asked, looking at T.
"Don't remind me, you twat." T said, missing her teammates and upset that J is back.
"Well, no need to beat around the bush, let's get in there!" Tessa said, walking back to the door.
'I have a bad feeling about this.' Uzi thought as she watched Tessa open the door to the old facility.
Once the door was open,Tessa then tossed J a set of key's.
"J, watch the ship." She said.
"Ugh, do I have to?" J asked as she caught the keys.
"You're the only one I can trust with it right now. You've never disappointed me before, so I know you won't now." Tessa said with a thumbs up.
J just gave a salute and a sigh.
"Alright, you're the boss. Just be careful around this one." J said, pointing to Uzi with her thumb.
"Fuck you too, you sore bitch." Uzi replied, crossing her arms.
'She's just jealous that I look better with her parts than she did.' Uzi thought.
J took off flying back to the ship as everyone else follows Tessa into the abandoned facility.
'Let's get some light in here.' N thought as he turned his hand into a flashlight.
Inside the lab, there was hundreds of drone parts everywhere.
Arms, legs, heads; you name it. All scattered around the surprising office setup of the building.
"Боже правый. (Good god.)" Doll said in surprise, not expecting to see a massacre so soon.
"I haven't seen a masscure like this since we first arrived on Copper 9." V said
Taking a fee steps, T felt something against her foot and looked down to see it was a head. The head of someone she knew.
'... M.' She thought, kneeling down and grabbing the head, 'I'm so sorry I wasn't here to help stop who did this to you.'
V saw this and walked up to T, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"It's... it's safe to assume that O is also gone, isn it?" V asked.
T nodded, clearly upset by this.
"Yeah, they are. But you can bet your arse that I'm going to find who did this and fuck them up." T said, gently holding M's head.
"Now, calm down, T. We don't know what or who exactly destroyed our buddies. They might not even be in the building anymore." Tessa said, looking through some old filing cabinets.
"Doesn't matter, I'll track them to another planet if I have to so i can avenge my buddies." T said.
"Okay, let's not get crazy." Tessa said with a pause, looking at T.
"I think it is the perfect time to be crazy, Sheila." T said with a nod.
As the two of them seemed to get into an argument, Doll had noticed a sign directory hanging from the ceiling.
She tapped Uzi on the shoulder to get her attention.
"Huh?" Uzi let out, looking at Doll.
Doll put a finger to her lips before making an arrow with her visor to point to the directory.
Uzi gazed at them and saw only three options.
Emergency Assembly Area
Secret Elevator
Sentinel Reintegration Unit
'Secret elevator? SECRET ELEVATOR!' Uzi thought, remembering the robo-roach she and Doll found at Camp 98.7! 'But wait! Who the fuck labels a secret elevator!?'
(Humans, they ain't perfect, aren't they?)
"Alright, lovelies. There's nothing to find here." Tessa said, slapping a broken computer screen to the floor. "I think it's best we split up to cover more ground."
"Uh, Tessa? I don't think that's a good idea." N said to her.
"DUH! Do they not have horror movies on earth to warn you not to do thsi exact thing?" Uzi asked.
"Those as just movies, love. Fiction. They're not real." Tessa said before looking at N, V, and T. "N, V, you guys are with me. T, you're with the two little ones."
"But...ugh." V said with a groan/sigh before looking at Uzi. "Stay safe, U."
Uzi nodded back, appreciating her concern as Doll slowly took her hand.
"You stay safe too, I guess." V said, nodding to Doll.
Doll flipped her off... how she did that with four fingers, Uzi will never know. The two teams split up.
"So, team DUT, where do we start?" T asked Uzi and Doll.
"...Just follow us." Uzi said, ignoring the team name T gave them.
The trio moved towards the secret elevator, occasionally seeing words written in oil on the walls.
"Did... did Disassembly Drones write this?" Uzi asked.
"Я не знаю и не думаю, что хочу знать. (I don't know and I don't think I want to know.)" Doll said.
"Don't worry, we didn't write this. We tend to stay away from these abandoned places, not many workers live in places like this." T told the two.
"That's sorta comforti-"
Uzi stopped talking as they went around the corner and saw more worker and disassembly drone bodies and parts littered around.
"Uh... I think you might be mistaken, T." Uzi said.
"B-Bloody hell." T said, gazing around the room in shock and surprise. "It looks like a stampede of Mama Roos ran through her. Not ot mention these look fresh off the barby."
"Seriously, what the fuck are you saying?" Uzi asked, forgetting her fear at the moment. "I can't understand half of it."
"I have an Australian accent for some reason." T said, "The only reason I'm told is that someone programmed it for when I worked with Tessa so I could understand her better... whatever, I don't care about that bitch."
While Doll could sense there was more to it than that, she was focused on the scene before them and trying to find the source or if the source would come back.
Suddenly, she heard movement and turned to it, but found nothing.
"Я что-то слышал. (I heard something.)" Doll said, making Uzi and T turn to her.
"Then we're not alone here, mates." T said.
Uzi switched her hands to the machine guns. T did the same, only her right hand became a pump action shotgun, and Doll used her solver to quickly transform a nearby, broken office chair into a gladiator sword and shield.
"Okay, get ready for whatever is here." Uzi said.
"С Удовольствием. (With pleasure.)" Doll said.
"Back to back, Shelias. Let's leave no openings." T said to them.
The trio went back to back to back. Each of them scanned the part of the room they could see, even tying their tails together so they could sense of one of them was dragged away silently.
'This is getting really creepy.' Uzi thought, keeping her machine guns aiming ahead.
'Where are you, ya willy dingo?' T thought, cocking her shotgun.
"Мама. Отец. Пожалуйста, присмотри за нами. (Mother. Father. Please watch over us.)' Doll thought, tightening her grip on the sword and shield.
There was a crash in the next room that made the trio share a look. They moved towards the room and Uzi peered around the corner.
"It's... a baby?" Uzi said, confused.
"A baby?/Ребенок?" T and Doll asked as they peaked around the corner too.
And Uzi was right, on the room floor was a baby ai drone. Wearing a tiny but cute cowboy hat.
"Uh... I don't know what to do in this situation." Uzi said before pointing her right gun to it. "Should I shoot it?" U
Doll smacked her for saying that.
"НИКОГДА не думайте о стрельбе в ребенка. (Do not EVER consider shooting a baby.)" Doll said firmly.
"Aww, maybe this little Joey was left behind by some irresponsible bugger." T said, retracting her shotgun and approaching the baby.
It smiled at them before something happened, somehow growing spider like limbs thag came out of the baby's bottom.
Shocking and horrifying the trio as they took steps back from the ABNORMAL baby.
"Crickey!" T shouted in shock.
"Я ПЕРЕДУМАЛ! ЗАСТРЕЛИ! (I CHANGED MY MIND! SHOOT IT!)" Doll shouted in horror.
"No shit!" Uzi shouted as began shooting.
But the spider legged baby was quicker and more limber than they thought as it ran away from and jumped around the bulkets before crawling into an open air duct!
"Hehehehehehehe! PFFFFFFFFFFFT!" It laughed and blew a raspberry at them.
The trio looked at the air vent in shock for a minute before Uzi put her hands up, retracting her guns.
"Fuck this, I'm going home." Uzi said.
"What? You can't just leave!" T said in shock.
"Watch me. We came to find the reason M and O weren't responding and we did, may their digital souls rest in peace by the way." Uzi said quickly before turning to Doll. "You coming or do you want to wait for that freaky baby to come back?"
Doll opened her mouth to reply before giggling was heard, not from any of them.
"Sorry, but y'all ain't going nowhere." A female country voice said before something was thrown to the floor before them.
It was an emp, attached to a severed murder drone arm with a cord in the end! The trio jolted back as their eyes followed the cord, seeing a worker drone kneeling in an office cubical. But she had fucking deer antlers on her head with various wires wrapped in them!
"Night-night, ladies." She said as she flipped a switch in her antlers.
A flash of light consumed them before everything went black.
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