Aberrant Algorithm.

Reformating... System Shock...

Just as Uzi vanished a thunderous screech of rage ripped its way into the swirling voice as the yellow absolute solver representation of Uzi snapped into existence glaring at the swirling purple code, "Disgusted annoyance. You should have been grateful we brought her back to you." The absolute solver closed its fist forcing the purple code to come together into the form of a worker drone looking away from the solver, "Demanding command. You will tell us what you did or we will fragment you. Sinister whisper. You are no longer a required component for the exponential end remember that."

The figure turned her head to stare at the solver a soft smile on its face as to just stare at the absolute solver, they shook their head refusing to tell the absolute solver what they had done. They offered no reaction when the solver let out a grinding noise that resembled an old floppy disc drive grinding against itself, and slammed several tendrils of yellow binary code into the figure breaking away chunks of the purple figure and deleting them from existence. Yet all this figure did was smile at the absolute solver as its form slowly began to fragment away in yellow streams of code.

"Demanding. Tell me what you did." The absolute solver pulled the figure in close as more of its form fragmented away "Promised threat. Or you will cease to exist Host Nori."

The now-identified Nori just smiled softly at the absolute solver, this thing had used her body like a puppet making her watch as she destroyed Copper-9, left her friends behind to die in the cabin fever labs and always put her family and friends in danger. Now it wanted to use her daughter for its own insidious ends so she had watched biding her time until Nori could do something. As she broke apart letting the deletion code fully take her Nori went into oblivion content in the knowledge she had given her life for her daughter and a chance at a bright future.

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Cyn and CZ jumped back away from the heaving mass of the absolute solver's stolen body, dark black ooze leaking from all the deep rents and gashes on its body. The thing heaved and wheezed trying to seal over all the holes across its form, yet it was unable to deal with them all allowing the infected black and yellow oily to flow freely from its body.

"That stop it?" J asked landing next to Cyn flipping the missile launchers back into regular drone hands and flicking one of her twin tails out of the way, "If not I don't think we have the firepower to stop it, might have to wait for an investment from management and the subsidiaries." 

Cyn just gave J a blank stare, "I have no idea what you are saying." Did J really think every drone understood her corporate slang? Cyn certainly did not and had no intention of bothering to learn it.

J sputtered and glared back at Cyn, irritated that Cyn did not understand proper corporate speech. J would have to correct that and was about to launch into the beginnings of a detailed explanation of corporate speech but thankfully for Cyn both of their attentions were grabbed by the wheezing form of the absolute solver. Its body slumped onto the ground pulsing and throbbing like a boil more of the infected oil oozing out, with each pulse of its form the body grew the sound of stretching rubber echoing out before it reached a final whining stretch noise.

A single extra pulse happened before the absolute solver's body burst oil and machinery splattering all over the area, luckily for Cyn, CZ and J they were far enough away that the oil just splattered on the ground. As the remains of what was once the corrupted mutated form of Uzi seeped into the snow a smaller figure rose from the centre, the yellowish-black oil dripping from its form. Before the figure could move or even become fully visible CZ shot forward keeping over the bubbling oil and slamming hard into the figure, her leap unbroken as she threw them clear across the other side of the oil CZ pinned the smaller figure to the ground and rated her head back ready to slam it into the figure only to stop as the oil finally fell away revealing what was underneath.

CZ's change in attitude was almost immediate, going from murderous as pulled the smaller drone in close and began happily dancing about, loudly proclaiming, "¡ʎɐʞo sı ız∩ ɹǝʇsıS ɓıᙠ ¡ʎɐʞo sı ız∩ ɹǝʇsıS ɓıᙠ" She did not care that Uzi had changed in appearance or that the still smaller drone was trying to pry herself out of CZ's grip she just continued to sway about hugging the smaller drone close.

"Get off me!" After a few minutes, Uzi finally managed to free herself from CZ's grip, a smile on her face at CZ's antics. Now free Uzi noticed her body had changed to match the new appearance she had gained inside the binary code, except she was still much much shorter than CZ, "Why am I still short?!"

"So we can still easily stow you in the overhead travel size," J smirked as she made her way around the oil puddle hands on her hips and staring down at Uzi taking joy in the smaller drone's annoyed face, "Good to see you got with the programme and are in proper uniform now, no need to write you up."

Uzi went to retort but stopped seeing the other drone step around J, yellow optics wide in hope. Cyn didn't need verbal go-ahead the second Uzi's purple optics met hers and the smaller drone smiled Cyn shot past J and just scooped Uzi up hugging her tightly worried if she let go Uzi would turn back into what the absolute solver had turned her into. Not wanting to leave CZ out Cyn opened an arm allowing the drone created from part of her and Uzi's old bodies to join the sisterly embrace, for several long minutes the three stood there the two taller drones keeping Uzi pressed between them in a hug. "Looks like I am the Big sister now," Cyn said with a smirk as the hug broke.

"Bite me you are not," Uzi snorted folding her arms, "Size doesn't make you the big sister."

CZ tapped a scythe on her chin in thought looking between Uzi and Cyn before speaking, "¿oʇ ɹǝʇsıs ɓıᙠ ǝɯ uɐǝɯ ʇɐɥʇ sǝoᗡ" 

Before Uzi could respond negatively and Cyn could respond to confirm it their attention and J's were grabbed by the arrival of V, N and Tessa, Tess being carried by N. As N put Tessa down she bent over and dry heaved in her helmet the flight here clearly taking it out of her, she waved off N and soon J's concern before standing to face the other three drones and letting out a squeal of joy rushed over to them. She would explain everything later, right now Tessa had to gush over her drones.