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V had finally returned from yet another long expedition.
They were becoming more frequent, as the colony was still expanding at a rapid pace; thus they needed more and more space to accommodate new drones.
“I swear, they better give me a break after this. I know I’m built for it, but this is getting really tiring…” V groaned to no one in particular.
“Well captain, last I heard we’ve been getting less and less newcomers. So you may get your wish after all.” Jack remarked, setting his supplies down and dusting the snow out of his hair.
V seemed to perk up hearing that. A little break from the action sounded nice. Which sounded odd coming from V of all drones, but just showed how much had changed in the last few years. She’d grown, and had come to really enjoy the life she had, mostly.
It was all great really. Just, a few things bothered her is all.
Though the arrival of a particular pink drone didn’t let her continue this thought process.
“Hey Bestie! Girl, I’ve missed you so much!” Lizzy exclaimed, approaching V while still fiddling on her phone.
Most would be a little insulted by how Lizzy acted, but V knew it was just how the drone was. Always a little preoccupied.
“Hey Liz. Hasn’t been that long. What, a week?”
“Yeah- yeah. Whatever, I still missed having you around girl.”
V giggled at the remark. Lizzy didn’t show it well, but she really did seem to care about her friends. Which V could relate to, never being much for sharing her feelings.
But, other drones did not have that issue, like N and Uzi. Who, speak of the solver, had also arrived to greet V… though they seemed a little off.
Uzi approached first, having whispered something to N as they got closer. “H-hey V. How ya doing?” she asked nervously, a faint blush on her visor.
V took notice of this, obviously, but didn’t push it, “Hey Uzi. Doing great honestly. Just heard that I’ll probably be off duty for a while! How you and N been? Anything romantic~” she teased the purple drone some.
Uzi laughed, more in a nervous fit than anything else, but N spoke up before she could, “Really! That’s awesome V. So…” he paused, collecting his thoughts, “… would you be up for hanging out tomorrow? Just uh- just us three?”
V was now a little confused, as both drones were acting very odd… but she responded as normally as she could, “Uh yeah sure… just let me know when and where. I’m just… gonna catch up with Lizzy though.”
She didn’t really wanna sounds rude, but she was not super interested in dealing with two very nervous and outspoken drones at the moment. Besides, with the look Lizzy was giving the pair she likely knew something she didn’t.
“Oh yeah, I get that. You two have fun!” N stated before quickly returned to Uzi’s side and they walked off, muttering something to the other with just the biggest smiles on their faces.
—
Eventually, Lizzy and V had reached the bunker doors.
“Ok. What’s up?” V bluntly asked.
Lizzy giggled, “What? Nothing girl, just chill.”
That was all she got out of the pink drone as they made their way to the dorms. In recent years they had been extended and most drones had moved around, Lizzy included since she had moved out a while ago.
“Liz. I know you know something! Just give me anything here girl!”
“Well… let’s just say the emo and dork have a little surprise set up for you. I think it’s a little cringe but like, a cute kind of cringe, y’know. So I promised not to ruin it for them.”
V was honestly more annoyed by the answer than anything. Lizzy of all people not raining on someones parade was shocking enough, but she had agreed not to ruin Uzi’s idea of all thing.
She did wish the two would get along better; not all that fun when your friends hate each other after all. But she had decided it was best to let them do whatever and just not intervene. So for them to agree on something was almost worrying in a way.
Groaning, V thought it was best to drop the topic and just let herself find out when she hung out with the couple tomorrow.
But before she left, Lizzy commented, “So like, just curious. How do you feel about those two?”
“Who? Uzi and N?” Lizzy nodded, so V continued, “Well. I’ve known N for decades. I’d say were rather close now, after everything and I’m just glad I can be honest with him now. Uzi- she’s something else. Only known her for what, three years now, but she’s really grown on me. She’s fun, daring, and can actually dish it back when I get sarcastic with her.” she stated, not noticing her own visor had started to blush some.
Lizzy didn’t say anything, but she was smiling quite a lot. It was a very telling smile, it just screamed smugness. She had begun typing furiously to someone, not letting V see any of her screen and then shooing her out!
As the door shut behind V, she could faintly hear Lizzy laughing to herself. For reasons she would find out rather soon turns out.
But for now, all it meant to the disassembler was that she should just go home and not think much about it. Realistically she shouldn’t even be giving it much thought!
N was known to give gifts and surprise people. Uzi- well, she wasn’t one for such things usually. She would much rather just give you something and ramble on about what it did and how she made it.
Though, V didn’t really mind that. It was almost relaxing to hear the purple drone give word to her thoughts.
She thought all this as she made her way through the halls of the bunker, ignoring the few odd looks she still got all these years later. She could hardly blame them, given all the murder, but still it was a little annoying to deal with at times.
Once at the door, she opened it and stepped in. The room was mostly vacant of decoration, with just a few basics here and there. V never ended up spending much time in the dorm really, always being busy or just hanging at a friends place instead.
Mostly N and Uzi’s place now that she thought about it. She just couldn’t get them off her mind today for some reason. Well, an obvious reason but still.
“I hate how curious they’ve gotten me…” she bemoaned to herself.
But, it had been made clear she wasn’t going to be getting any more hints about it. V hated surprises. She had never been a huge fan of them, but after the manor she despised them really. It was one of the reasons she always was on guard when going out, so she could never be surprised.
“Well, N and Uzi know that. So, it’s not like they would do it for no reason. They must have something planned specially for me, like a uh- like a gift or something yeah.”
She decided that was a good enough reasoning in the end and settled on just calling it quits for the day. Because she was just actually tired and because it meant all her worrying would be done faster.
As she hung from the bar above her bed, something she had tried but found odd feeling, she slowly went into sleep-mode, her visor displaying as much.
—
V was woken up abruptly by a flurry of messages from Lizzy.
preppy101: [Miss Emo has been blasting me cause YOU won’t respond to her!]
preppy101: [V! GIRL! BOOT UP ALREADY!]
preppy101: [OMG! DO YOU NOT HAVE ALARMS!!!]
Once V was awake enough to properly read the messages, she checked her other logs and noticed that Uzi had messaged her ten times, and tried calling three. Oh boy…
the-vanny: [Up now. I’ll get going. Thx.]
She would have said more, but Uzi seemed a little more pressing right now…
Rushing a little, she fixed her hair and dashed out the door. Having glanced through the messages, she was supposed to meet them in the bunkers planetarium… over two hours ago. An odd place, but she wasn’t thinking enough to question it.
Upon reaching the entrance, she slowed her pace and took it in. She had never taken the time to come here beforehand. Even though she was quite fond of space, especially the stars. N had dogs, she had constellations.
“Wonder if that’s why they chose this place.” she mumbled to herself before going in.
Stepping through the double doors, she noticed how quiet it was. She imagined it was always somewhat empty, but this felt more staged than the usual quietness of an empty room.
This was almost immediately confirmed when, out of shadows, Uzi and N jumped out, “SURPRISE!”
V, obviously, jumped at this and nearly shot the two on instinct.
“Whoa-whoa! Calm down V please!” pleaded N.
“Yeah! Just uh- maybe don’t shoot us yet!” Uzi frantically added on.
Taking a moment to calm herself, V put the guns away and her eyes filled back in to their normal appearance.
“Geez. Don’t scare me like that!”
Uzi and N both looked sorry and apologized. N more so, as he had seemingly forgotten her dislike for such things in his excitement.
“Ok… that aside. What’s all this about? I mean, we never meet here so…” V trailed off. Her curiosity growing.
Uzi started explaining first, “Well, while you were gone, me and N had discussed some things. And he may have mentioned your love of stars; so I thought I’d fix the place or whatever…” she tried to retain some edge to it, but it was clear she did this to make V happy.
N continued this line of thought, “Since she was going to fix the place up. I suggested we make it a uh- chance to ask you something…” his visor glowed, blushing at whatever idea was in his head.
“Ask me something?” V inquired further.
Uzi and N looked at each other and nodded, seemingly agreeing that now was the time to do whatever they had planned.
Using her solver powers, Uzi had turned the planetarium on. And as the stars appeared above them in dazzling arrays that were usually hard to see due to Copper-9’s cloudy skies, Uzi and N approached V and both got on one knee.
Simultaneously they asked, “Serial Designation V. Would you go out with us?”
V was taken aback, her visor shining quite a bit brighter once the question was fully processed.
“You-you wanna go out with me? Like, all of us at the same time!?”
The two drones chuckled at her questioning.
“Of course we do V. We both realized we sorta have crushes on you. Well, I always have but still. You’re kind, smart, and care about me more than I can imagine, always looking out for me in your own way.” N answered.
Uzi was quick to add her own reasoning, “Yeah. You’re incredible; I wasn’t lying when I called you both hot while fighting the solver. I can always count on you to dish it back at me, and you’ve been one of the few drones that I’ve been able to call a friend.” she stated, a smile growing on her face as she did.
The room had become a mix of yellow and purple as the three drones blush only grew in intensity with every word they spoke. V’s own blush growing to match them.
“I-I mean… I don’t know what to say.” she seemed lost for words, but knew that no was one she wouldn’t find again for a while, “Yes. Yes, I’d love too.” she eventually responded.
That was the right answer as Uzi and N grew rather ecstatic, quite literally throwing themselves, embracing V in a hug.
The three drones laughed in joy together, with V receiving a few kisses from both drones, which she returned in kind.
Settling down some and enjoying the digital stars. V remembered something and asked, “Oh. So what did this have to do with Lizzy?”
Uzi answered, “Oh her, yeah. She overheard us planning this and we begged her to not spoil it. I knew that bi- uh, prep would probably blabber about it once you got back.”
V nodded, choosing to not call Uzi out on almost calling her best friend a literal bitch… but that did explain her weird behavior about it, and led her to imagine why she seemed so busy messaging someone.
“Wait! Was she telling you what I said?” V exclaimed, embarrassed at the thought.
“Yeah, maybe. Glad you find me so entertaining.” she chuckled, with laugh a little manic as usual.
N didn’t say anything, but the look and his face said all it needed, he had also heard all about the things V said about him.
The three then simply enjoyed the stars for a while, a long while actually.
—
After however many hours of digital stargazing and chatting, Uzi yawned.
“Man, we’ve been here a while. May have to cut it here.” she commented.
N agreed, glancing at his internal clock. They had spent a majority of the evening here, and it was actually approaching night again.
“So… since we’re like… all dating now. Do you wanna- maybe- sleep at our place?” Uzi asked V, though it was more of a request.
V giggled at how nervous the purple drone sounded, “Yeah. That sounds great, girlfriend.”
Uzi blushed at the word, “Oh bite me!”
Turning off the planetarium, the trio the made their way out of the room and into the halls, holding hands all the while.
The trip to the dorm was quick, as they were all rather excited to be together in the same bed, but as a throuple now.
As the three got into bed together, V laying in between the other two drones. N’s tail wrapped around her leg, while Uzi seemed to nuzzle into her neck.
And it felt good. Felt… right.
“Goodnight V.” the two drones either side commented, both drifting into sleep-mode.
“Goodnight you two…” as V slipped into her own sleep-mode, having never felt so comfortable in a bed before.