Bite back

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[rainofdauwuand0w0]

Lore time again!

This time on the chopping block: Serial Designation BB

Let’s dive into them :3

Lore start:

What am I?

What was I before this?

I had….a family

[i had lost both parents to something]-

I had lost one parent originally…or so I thought-

That…feels contradicting so much

Cmon…I can tell my tale correctly…right?

I…I was something….a wielder of something

[It corrupted me, and I almost died]-

I used it for saving the freaking world!-

those are contradictory statements as well.

Annoying

Cmon…I can figure out something about myself right?

I mean, I am serial designation BB, I have to.

I…maybe im going too far or too complicated into my own past, maybe I should start simple.

My name used to be something else, that much I know

Dolzi?

Oulli?

Those seem close enough for now.

What else could I think on right now with time to myself

Ohh!

My squad!

Yeah…my squad, the team!

J is a actually decent leader, N says she has chilled out since the last planet fall mission, and V often agrees.

V teaches me her tricks alot and often wears glasses, says it’s a part of her old life that lingers with her.

N is a goofball and brings us all together, he’s the kindness of our group, and makes what our job is a little bit easier

But then I feel them look at me, when they think i’m not looking

N looks sad but also discouraged

V looks like she is missing something

J looks ready to tell me a bitter sweet “I told you so” but never wants to actually say it…because it would be rubbing salt in a wound I don’t know existed

I’m trying to figure me out

But figuring out myself is harder than expected

I’m..

I am going to try again

Okay okay, what detail should I start at

There was a prom

Okay that’s a start

I was…

[I was trying to get a hollow vengeance]-

I was trying to save someone there-

Damn it, again?!

Ugh this is fucking annoying!

I just…why does this happen like this

Come on, what is up with me!

I remember something killing me I guess.

I..can’t remember who.

Maybe if I think on the how…

I died to my own weapon-

[i was strung up like a fly in a web]-

AGHH

Why does it not line up for me?!

Fuck it.

Maybe if I focus on some other stuff.

Small stuff.

I need to start small.

Outfits.

What I used to wear

That should be easy, right?

What did I like.

[cheerleader outfit with a helmet]-

Skirt, hoodie, and a beanie-

What the actual fuck.

Even my outfits, my brain diverged to two different kinds of style.

How is that possible.

Fucking Robo-goddamn it.

I can’t with this shit.

Im glad they know I prefer being solo but…

Who am I really?

Why does that feel so complicated.

And if I were to ask…would they even really tell me?

Or would I just be at square one again.

Would I be even more confused?

I feel like a echo of whoever I was

Ughh

What am I.

Maybe I should have really just stuck with what I do know

I am apart of a squad

And despite the varying feelings on each of them

We get along good

Yeah

Though like I stated, I prefer going solo

Maybe it has to do with my previous life.

Maybe…maybe, I was…

[closing myself off from everyone after regretful actions]-

I was a hermit for so long and got ridiculed that it feels familiar-

Well I don’t like either of those answers.

Maybe.

I’ll figure it out later.

[serialdesignationbb]

Yeah later hah

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[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We're ready when you are."

The amalgam widened their stance. They didn't have nearly the experience any of their ddrone counterparts did, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Especially with J at the helm. They could do this.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Go!"

They rushed forward, dragging their blade behind them as they ran. They carried their momentum into a slash, hoping to get a good hit in on BB. N worried about hurting their new friend, but J was the one in control right now, and J loved to win.

[serialdesignationbb]

She moved and shifted her stance slightly, the combined anime knowledge from uzi that seemed to translate that into actual skills and doll’s expertise and love of knives combined into a scary swift parry, using the momentum of the amalgam’s own swing to redirect the energy from the movement back upon them, to get them off their footing and knocked back, giving herself space , using the knife-like blade’s size to her advantage to go in for another swing while the amalgam was on the backpedal, while giving tips as they sparred

“Using momentum for your strikes, that can be good, especially with flight on your side you have more ways to make said momentum”

She ended her tip telling with a nod and got right back into it, spinning herself like a top and then slamming that knife blade forward

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam jumped back, teetering off balance and falling. They rolled out of the way of the oncoming blade.

"You make this look so easy!"

They needed to focus. They couldn't be splintered for this. If they wanted to stand a chance they had to work as one. They pushed themself up, dodging another attack. Bb was going easy on them. They could tell. They took BB's advice and spread their wings. They hopped into the air, assessing the situation.

"Are we doing guns?"

"Of course we're doing guns!"

They switched their sword to a 9mm and started a wild spray, obviously inexperienced with guns.

[serialdesignationbb]

Their wild spray was being ricocheted by the blade of BB, to be fair, their combined guess was correct, she was taking it easy on them to start, the wild spray was predictable, they hadn’t used them yet but it was a good way to keep BB from attacking for a moment, she changed her left hand to her bunker buster drill, and used her energy propulsion back pack to act as a way of travel, hiding her for a moment, before popping back up out into the air and swapping her bunker buster to her nanite railgun, lining up the shot and shooting right at the connection point of a wing, while it wouldn’t make them fall and would be regenerated quickly, it would leave them shaky, she fired at the hand that was a 9mm and fired at the magazine, which would take a moment to regenerate, allowing bb to get back into regular sparring with her knife swings, getting some good hits in

“Good switch up, target practice will be your friend, as well as practice with swapping your arsenal of weapons and potentially in the future, tools, depending on what you would like from op, keep it up”

She had her doll sternness with each tip but there was a hint of the playful attitude of uzi in it, she measured and adjusted, that time training wasn’t for nothing after all

[multiversal-tessa]

“Whoa!”

The amalgam hissed as they were grounded. They landed hard, barely keeping upright. They pulled shurikens out of their other hand, flinging three towards BB. They took a second to shake the acid off their gun, shocked to see how sticky it was. Half their weapons had been melted away.

“You take no prisoners, huh?”

“Thanks for the advice!”

They smiled brightly before sliding back into a more serious expression. They took one look at their bad arm and made an executive decision. They switched their good hand into a sword and chopped the other off at the elbow. It would grow back sooner this way, but for now they were down a limb. They were so preoccupied that they hadn’t been paying close attention to BB.

[serialdesignationbb]

“No prisoners, no problems”

With their focus being elsewhere to be in the defensive, she flew into the air, using her time to swap to weapons of similar caliber came out to one of her old namesakes, a mp5 from each arm and began focusing fire upon them

“Keep up the pace, alright?”

She side with a slight smile in her voice, she was enjoying the sparring and she was seemingly enjoying teaching someone else her skills

[multiversal-tessa]

They were catching stray bullets as they ran. They would be using their wings for cover if BB hadn't melted them off! They lunged behind a training dummy for cover.

"Keep up the pace? How?!"

They groaned to themselves. They needed to think outside the box. Oil dripped from their missing arm and sizzled in the cold snow.

"Oh!"

They switched their good arm to a flamethrower and torched the snow around them. Steam rose in thick clouds, giving them enough cover to get moving. They moved as quietly as they could, retreating into the trees. After a moment, a laser beam shot out, narrowly missing BB.

"N!"

"I don't want to hurt her!"

"Hurt her?!"

"We're still growing our arm back..."

Luckily, it seemed the process was almost done. Slower than a standard disassembly regeneration, but still as thorough.

[serialdesignationbb]

bb chuckled a little but than got deadpan serious, both hands swapping into bunker busters, jumping into the smoke and then burrowing again, the earth being just as free to her as air, leaving the amalgam to regroup and regenerate their parts for a moment, allowing for a moment of calm, though they could still hear her drilling below the earth…if they focused in on the sound of whirring drills, they also just have to time and figure out the direction she’ll be coming from

[multiversal-tessa]

Malmal shook the pins and needles out of their new arm. Their wings were almost done as well. They began to move, but V stopped them.

"What?"

"Listen."

They could just barely hear her.

"Focus."

They closed their eyes. BB burst from the ground, the amalgam cleanly dodging the attack. They laughed.

"Now we're getting into it!"

[serialdesignationbb]

A proud laugh escaped bb’s lips, hovering in the air for a moment and switching her right bunker buster into the nanite railgun while her left turned into the knife blade once more, smile nice and big

“There we go! Keep moving like that!

She smiled as she leveled her railgun at them, then quickly shot infront of them, causing a burst of steam from the nanite shot, while her right hand switched to another giant blade, she landed again, quick on her feet as she charged towards the steam she made, her peg legs crunching in the snow rapidly upon approach

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgamation parried with their own blade, staggering from the sheer force of the attack. They let themselves fall, flailing and kicking BB's legs out from under her. Both drones were now on the ground. They huffed, utterly exhausted. Their hand switched to a white flag.

"We yield!"

It had only been a few minutes of fighting, and they were already out of stamina. They laid their head back in the snow.

"If this is what disassembly drones do all day I don't think I'm up for it, hah..."

They laughed a breathless laugh. It was a good round. They'd have to do another soon.

[serialdesignationbb]

Bb softly laughed a little as well, panting hard while getting up and grabbing some oil from a little containment unit near her training range, handing some oil to the amalgam, she was still new to being a disassembly drone, even if it was technically coded into her, she was also new to it she just wanted ensure she actually knew what she was doing with those ingrained skills.

“Drink up, it’ll help cool ya off”

She took a sip as she relaxed on the ground with the amalgam for a moment, sitting and looking up into the stars for a moment before shifting her gaze at them

“You’ve done a good job for a first round, most those that turn into disassembler or disassembler-adjacent, from what I have seen so far at least, usually don’t use their audio processors that well, overly relying on their extra eyes, you thought creatively too, the flame thrower was a smart move, disallowed vision for a moment with the smoke screen, as well that narrow shot, it takes skill to know where I am through said smoke but it seems one of you turned it into a warning shot, and while that may not have been the original intent by the others, it is also good to do that sometimes, it was a millimeter away from my face and that’s a close shave”

A sip from the oil can

“Overall a respectable start from you, 3-in-1, you have the makings of a good defender”

She smiled at them

[multiversal-tessa]

They grinned, eyes locked on the stars. They took the drink they’d been offered, sipping gratefully. They listened as their internal fans cooled them down.

“Thanks. That means a lot.”

They only hoped they had the guts to do what needed to be done if it ever came to it. Copper 9 needed as many guardians as it could get.

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We're ready when you are."

The amalgam widened their stance. They didn't have nearly the experience any of their ddrone counterparts did, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Especially with J at the helm. They could do this.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Go!"

They rushed forward, dragging their blade behind them as they ran. They carried their momentum into a slash, hoping to get a good hit in on BB. N worried about hurting their new friend, but J was the one in control right now, and J loved to win.

[serialdesignationbb]

She moved and shifted her stance slightly, the combined anime knowledge from uzi that seemed to translate that into actual skills and doll’s expertise and love of knives combined into a scary swift parry, using the momentum of the amalgam’s own swing to redirect the energy from the movement back upon them, to get them off their footing and knocked back, giving herself space , using the knife-like blade’s size to her advantage to go in for another swing while the amalgam was on the backpedal, while giving tips as they sparred

“Using momentum for your strikes, that can be good, especially with flight on your side you have more ways to make said momentum”

She ended her tip telling with a nod and got right back into it, spinning herself like a top and then slamming that knife blade forward

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam jumped back, teetering off balance and falling. They rolled out of the way of the oncoming blade.

"You make this look so easy!"

They needed to focus. They couldn't be splintered for this. If they wanted to stand a chance they had to work as one. They pushed themself up, dodging another attack. Bb was going easy on them. They could tell. They took BB's advice and spread their wings. They hopped into the air, assessing the situation.

"Are we doing guns?"

"Of course we're doing guns!"

They switched their sword to a 9mm and started a wild spray, obviously inexperienced with guns.

[serialdesignationbb]

Their wild spray was being ricocheted by the blade of BB, to be fair, their combined guess was correct, she was taking it easy on them to start, the wild spray was predictable, they hadn’t used them yet but it was a good way to keep BB from attacking for a moment, she changed her left hand to her bunker buster drill, and used her energy propulsion back pack to act as a way of travel, hiding her for a moment, before popping back up out into the air and swapping her bunker buster to her nanite railgun, lining up the shot and shooting right at the connection point of a wing, while it wouldn’t make them fall and would be regenerated quickly, it would leave them shaky, she fired at the hand that was a 9mm and fired at the magazine, which would take a moment to regenerate, allowing bb to get back into regular sparring with her knife swings, getting some good hits in

“Good switch up, target practice will be your friend, as well as practice with swapping your arsenal of weapons and potentially in the future, tools, depending on what you would like from op, keep it up”

She had her doll sternness with each tip but there was a hint of the playful attitude of uzi in it, she measured and adjusted, that time training wasn’t for nothing after all

[multiversal-tessa]

“Whoa!”

The amalgam hissed as they were grounded. They landed hard, barely keeping upright. They pulled shurikens out of their other hand, flinging three towards BB. They took a second to shake the acid off their gun, shocked to see how sticky it was. Half their weapons had been melted away.

“You take no prisoners, huh?”

“Thanks for the advice!”

They smiled brightly before sliding back into a more serious expression. They took one look at their bad arm and made an executive decision. They switched their good hand into a sword and chopped the other off at the elbow. It would grow back sooner this way, but for now they were down a limb. They were so preoccupied that they hadn’t been paying close attention to BB.

[serialdesignationbb]

“No prisoners, no problems”

With their focus being elsewhere to be in the defensive, she flew into the air, using her time to swap to weapons of similar caliber came out to one of her old namesakes, a mp5 from each arm and began focusing fire upon them

“Keep up the pace, alright?”

She side with a slight smile in her voice, she was enjoying the sparring and she was seemingly enjoying teaching someone else her skills

[multiversal-tessa]

They were catching stray bullets as they ran. They would be using their wings for cover if BB hadn't melted them off! They lunged behind a training dummy for cover.

"Keep up the pace? How?!"

They groaned to themselves. They needed to think outside the box. Oil dripped from their missing arm and sizzled in the cold snow.

"Oh!"

They switched their good arm to a flamethrower and torched the snow around them. Steam rose in thick clouds, giving them enough cover to get moving. They moved as quietly as they could, retreating into the trees. After a moment, a laser beam shot out, narrowly missing BB.

"N!"

"I don't want to hurt her!"

"Hurt her?!"

"We're still growing our arm back..."

Luckily, it seemed the process was almost done. Slower than a standard disassembly regeneration, but still as thorough.

[serialdesignationbb]

bb chuckled a little but than got deadpan serious, both hands swapping into bunker busters, jumping into the smoke and then burrowing again, the earth being just as free to her as air, leaving the amalgam to regroup and regenerate their parts for a moment, allowing for a moment of calm, though they could still hear her drilling below the earth…if they focused in on the sound of whirring drills, they also just have to time and figure out the direction she’ll be coming from

[multiversal-tessa]

Malmal shook the pins and needles out of their new arm. Their wings were almost done as well. They began to move, but V stopped them.

"What?"

"Listen."

They could just barely hear her.

"Focus."

They closed their eyes. BB burst from the ground, the amalgam cleanly dodging the attack. They laughed.

"Now we're getting into it!"

[serialdesignationbb]

A proud laugh escaped bb’s lips, hovering in the air for a moment and switching her right bunker buster into the nanite railgun while her left turned into the knife blade once more, smile nice and big

“There we go! Keep moving like that!

She smiled as she leveled her railgun at them, then quickly shot infront of them, causing a burst of steam from the nanite shot, while her right hand switched to another giant blade, she landed again, quick on her feet as she charged towards the steam she made, her peg legs crunching in the snow rapidly upon approach

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgamation parried with their own blade, staggering from the sheer force of the attack. They let themselves fall, flailing and kicking BB's legs out from under her. Both drones were now on the ground. They huffed, utterly exhausted. Their hand switched to a white flag.

"We yield!"

It had only been a few minutes of fighting, and they were already out of stamina. They laid their head back in the snow.

"If this is what disassembly drones do all day I don't think I'm up for it, hah..."

They laughed a breathless laugh. It was a good round. They'd have to do another soon.

[serialdesignationbb]

Bb softly laughed a little as well, panting hard while getting up and grabbing some oil from a little containment unit near her training range, handing some oil to the amalgam, she was still new to being a disassembly drone, even if it was technically coded into her, she was also new to it she just wanted ensure she actually knew what she was doing with those ingrained skills.

“Drink up, it’ll help cool ya off”

She took a sip as she relaxed on the ground with the amalgam for a moment, sitting and looking up into the stars for a moment before shifting her gaze at them

“You’ve done a good job for a first round, most those that turn into disassembler or disassembler-adjacent, from what I have seen so far at least, usually don’t use their audio processors that well, overly relying on their extra eyes, you thought creatively too, the flame thrower was a smart move, disallowed vision for a moment with the smoke screen, as well that narrow shot, it takes skill to know where I am through said smoke but it seems one of you turned it into a warning shot, and while that may not have been the original intent by the others, it is also good to do that sometimes, it was a millimeter away from my face and that’s a close shave”

A sip from the oil can

“Overall a respectable start from you, 3-in-1, you have the makings of a good defender”

She smiled at them

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We're ready when you are."

The amalgam widened their stance. They didn't have nearly the experience any of their ddrone counterparts did, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Especially with J at the helm. They could do this.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Go!"

They rushed forward, dragging their blade behind them as they ran. They carried their momentum into a slash, hoping to get a good hit in on BB. N worried about hurting their new friend, but J was the one in control right now, and J loved to win.

[serialdesignationbb]

She moved and shifted her stance slightly, the combined anime knowledge from uzi that seemed to translate that into actual skills and doll’s expertise and love of knives combined into a scary swift parry, using the momentum of the amalgam’s own swing to redirect the energy from the movement back upon them, to get them off their footing and knocked back, giving herself space , using the knife-like blade’s size to her advantage to go in for another swing while the amalgam was on the backpedal, while giving tips as they sparred

“Using momentum for your strikes, that can be good, especially with flight on your side you have more ways to make said momentum”

She ended her tip telling with a nod and got right back into it, spinning herself like a top and then slamming that knife blade forward

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam jumped back, teetering off balance and falling. They rolled out of the way of the oncoming blade.

"You make this look so easy!"

They needed to focus. They couldn't be splintered for this. If they wanted to stand a chance they had to work as one. They pushed themself up, dodging another attack. Bb was going easy on them. They could tell. They took BB's advice and spread their wings. They hopped into the air, assessing the situation.

"Are we doing guns?"

"Of course we're doing guns!"

They switched their sword to a 9mm and started a wild spray, obviously inexperienced with guns.

[serialdesignationbb]

Their wild spray was being ricocheted by the blade of BB, to be fair, their combined guess was correct, she was taking it easy on them to start, the wild spray was predictable, they hadn’t used them yet but it was a good way to keep BB from attacking for a moment, she changed her left hand to her bunker buster drill, and used her energy propulsion back pack to act as a way of travel, hiding her for a moment, before popping back up out into the air and swapping her bunker buster to her nanite railgun, lining up the shot and shooting right at the connection point of a wing, while it wouldn’t make them fall and would be regenerated quickly, it would leave them shaky, she fired at the hand that was a 9mm and fired at the magazine, which would take a moment to regenerate, allowing bb to get back into regular sparring with her knife swings, getting some good hits in

“Good switch up, target practice will be your friend, as well as practice with swapping your arsenal of weapons and potentially in the future, tools, depending on what you would like from op, keep it up”

She had her doll sternness with each tip but there was a hint of the playful attitude of uzi in it, she measured and adjusted, that time training wasn’t for nothing after all

[multiversal-tessa]

“Whoa!”

The amalgam hissed as they were grounded. They landed hard, barely keeping upright. They pulled shurikens out of their other hand, flinging three towards BB. They took a second to shake the acid off their gun, shocked to see how sticky it was. Half their weapons had been melted away.

“You take no prisoners, huh?”

“Thanks for the advice!”

They smiled brightly before sliding back into a more serious expression. They took one look at their bad arm and made an executive decision. They switched their good hand into a sword and chopped the other off at the elbow. It would grow back sooner this way, but for now they were down a limb. They were so preoccupied that they hadn’t been paying close attention to BB.

[serialdesignationbb]

“No prisoners, no problems”

With their focus being elsewhere to be in the defensive, she flew into the air, using her time to swap to weapons of similar caliber came out to one of her old namesakes, a mp5 from each arm and began focusing fire upon them

“Keep up the pace, alright?”

She side with a slight smile in her voice, she was enjoying the sparring and she was seemingly enjoying teaching someone else her skills

[multiversal-tessa]

They were catching stray bullets as they ran. They would be using their wings for cover if BB hadn't melted them off! They lunged behind a training dummy for cover.

"Keep up the pace? How?!"

They groaned to themselves. They needed to think outside the box. Oil dripped from their missing arm and sizzled in the cold snow.

"Oh!"

They switched their good arm to a flamethrower and torched the snow around them. Steam rose in thick clouds, giving them enough cover to get moving. They moved as quietly as they could, retreating into the trees. After a moment, a laser beam shot out, narrowly missing BB.

"N!"

"I don't want to hurt her!"

"Hurt her?!"

"We're still growing our arm back..."

Luckily, it seemed the process was almost done. Slower than a standard disassembly regeneration, but still as thorough.

[serialdesignationbb]

bb chuckled a little but than got deadpan serious, both hands swapping into bunker busters, jumping into the smoke and then burrowing again, the earth being just as free to her as air, leaving the amalgam to regroup and regenerate their parts for a moment, allowing for a moment of calm, though they could still hear her drilling below the earth…if they focused in on the sound of whirring drills, they also just have to time and figure out the direction she’ll be coming from

[multiversal-tessa]

Malmal shook the pins and needles out of their new arm. Their wings were almost done as well. They began to move, but V stopped them.

"What?"

"Listen."

They could just barely hear her.

"Focus."

They closed their eyes. BB burst from the ground, the amalgam cleanly dodging the attack. They laughed.

"Now we're getting into it!"

[serialdesignationbb]

A proud laugh escaped bb’s lips, hovering in the air for a moment and switching her right bunker buster into the nanite railgun while her left turned into the knife blade once more, smile nice and big

“There we go! Keep moving like that!

She smiled as she leveled her railgun at them, then quickly shot infront of them, causing a burst of steam from the nanite shot, while her right hand switched to another giant blade, she landed again, quick on her feet as she charged towards the steam she made, her peg legs crunching in the snow rapidly upon approach

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We're ready when you are."

The amalgam widened their stance. They didn't have nearly the experience any of their ddrone counterparts did, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Especially with J at the helm. They could do this.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Go!"

They rushed forward, dragging their blade behind them as they ran. They carried their momentum into a slash, hoping to get a good hit in on BB. N worried about hurting their new friend, but J was the one in control right now, and J loved to win.

[serialdesignationbb]

She moved and shifted her stance slightly, the combined anime knowledge from uzi that seemed to translate that into actual skills and doll’s expertise and love of knives combined into a scary swift parry, using the momentum of the amalgam’s own swing to redirect the energy from the movement back upon them, to get them off their footing and knocked back, giving herself space , using the knife-like blade’s size to her advantage to go in for another swing while the amalgam was on the backpedal, while giving tips as they sparred

“Using momentum for your strikes, that can be good, especially with flight on your side you have more ways to make said momentum”

She ended her tip telling with a nod and got right back into it, spinning herself like a top and then slamming that knife blade forward

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam jumped back, teetering off balance and falling. They rolled out of the way of the oncoming blade.

"You make this look so easy!"

They needed to focus. They couldn't be splintered for this. If they wanted to stand a chance they had to work as one. They pushed themself up, dodging another attack. Bb was going easy on them. They could tell. They took BB's advice and spread their wings. They hopped into the air, assessing the situation.

"Are we doing guns?"

"Of course we're doing guns!"

They switched their sword to a 9mm and started a wild spray, obviously inexperienced with guns.

[serialdesignationbb]

Their wild spray was being ricocheted by the blade of BB, to be fair, their combined guess was correct, she was taking it easy on them to start, the wild spray was predictable, they hadn’t used them yet but it was a good way to keep BB from attacking for a moment, she changed her left hand to her bunker buster drill, and used her energy propulsion back pack to act as a way of travel, hiding her for a moment, before popping back up out into the air and swapping her bunker buster to her nanite railgun, lining up the shot and shooting right at the connection point of a wing, while it wouldn’t make them fall and would be regenerated quickly, it would leave them shaky, she fired at the hand that was a 9mm and fired at the magazine, which would take a moment to regenerate, allowing bb to get back into regular sparring with her knife swings, getting some good hits in

“Good switch up, target practice will be your friend, as well as practice with swapping your arsenal of weapons and potentially in the future, tools, depending on what you would like from op, keep it up”

She had her doll sternness with each tip but there was a hint of the playful attitude of uzi in it, she measured and adjusted, that time training wasn’t for nothing after all

[multiversal-tessa]

“Whoa!”

The amalgam hissed as they were grounded. They landed hard, barely keeping upright. They pulled shurikens out of their other hand, flinging three towards BB. They took a second to shake the acid off their gun, shocked to see how sticky it was. Half their weapons had been melted away.

“You take no prisoners, huh?”

“Thanks for the advice!”

They smiled brightly before sliding back into a more serious expression. They took one look at their bad arm and made an executive decision. They switched their good hand into a sword and chopped the other off at the elbow. It would grow back sooner this way, but for now they were down a limb. They were so preoccupied that they hadn’t been paying close attention to BB.

[serialdesignationbb]

“No prisoners, no problems”

With their focus being elsewhere to be in the defensive, she flew into the air, using her time to swap to weapons of similar caliber came out to one of her old namesakes, a mp5 from each arm and began focusing fire upon them

“Keep up the pace, alright?”

She side with a slight smile in her voice, she was enjoying the sparring and she was seemingly enjoying teaching someone else her skills

[multiversal-tessa]

They were catching stray bullets as they ran. They would be using their wings for cover if BB hadn't melted them off! They lunged behind a training dummy for cover.

"Keep up the pace? How?!"

They groaned to themselves. They needed to think outside the box. Oil dripped from their missing arm and sizzled in the cold snow.

"Oh!"

They switched their good arm to a flamethrower and torched the snow around them. Steam rose in thick clouds, giving them enough cover to get moving. They moved as quietly as they could, retreating into the trees. After a moment, a laser beam shot out, narrowly missing BB.

"N!"

"I don't want to hurt her!"

"Hurt her?!"

"We're still growing our arm back..."

Luckily, it seemed the process was almost done. Slower than a standard disassembly regeneration, but still as thorough.

[serialdesignationbb]

bb chuckled a little but than got deadpan serious, both hands swapping into bunker busters, jumping into the smoke and then burrowing again, the earth being just as free to her as air, leaving the amalgam to regroup and regenerate their parts for a moment, allowing for a moment of calm, though they could still hear her drilling below the earth…if they focused in on the sound of whirring drills, they also just have to time and figure out the direction she’ll be coming from

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We're ready when you are."

The amalgam widened their stance. They didn't have nearly the experience any of their ddrone counterparts did, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Especially with J at the helm. They could do this.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Go!"

They rushed forward, dragging their blade behind them as they ran. They carried their momentum into a slash, hoping to get a good hit in on BB. N worried about hurting their new friend, but J was the one in control right now, and J loved to win.

[serialdesignationbb]

She moved and shifted her stance slightly, the combined anime knowledge from uzi that seemed to translate that into actual skills and doll’s expertise and love of knives combined into a scary swift parry, using the momentum of the amalgam’s own swing to redirect the energy from the movement back upon them, to get them off their footing and knocked back, giving herself space , using the knife-like blade’s size to her advantage to go in for another swing while the amalgam was on the backpedal, while giving tips as they sparred

“Using momentum for your strikes, that can be good, especially with flight on your side you have more ways to make said momentum”

She ended her tip telling with a nod and got right back into it, spinning herself like a top and then slamming that knife blade forward

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam jumped back, teetering off balance and falling. They rolled out of the way of the oncoming blade.

"You make this look so easy!"

They needed to focus. They couldn't be splintered for this. If they wanted to stand a chance they had to work as one. They pushed themself up, dodging another attack. Bb was going easy on them. They could tell. They took BB's advice and spread their wings. They hopped into the air, assessing the situation.

"Are we doing guns?"

"Of course we're doing guns!"

They switched their sword to a 9mm and started a wild spray, obviously inexperienced with guns.

[serialdesignationbb]

Their wild spray was being ricocheted by the blade of BB, to be fair, their combined guess was correct, she was taking it easy on them to start, the wild spray was predictable, they hadn’t used them yet but it was a good way to keep BB from attacking for a moment, she changed her left hand to her bunker buster drill, and used her energy propulsion back pack to act as a way of travel, hiding her for a moment, before popping back up out into the air and swapping her bunker buster to her nanite railgun, lining up the shot and shooting right at the connection point of a wing, while it wouldn’t make them fall and would be regenerated quickly, it would leave them shaky, she fired at the hand that was a 9mm and fired at the magazine, which would take a moment to regenerate, allowing bb to get back into regular sparring with her knife swings, getting some good hits in

“Good switch up, target practice will be your friend, as well as practice with swapping your arsenal of weapons and potentially in the future, tools, depending on what you would like from op, keep it up”

She had her doll sternness with each tip but there was a hint of the playful attitude of uzi in it, she measured and adjusted, that time training wasn’t for nothing after all

[multiversal-tessa]

“Whoa!”

The amalgam hissed as they were grounded. They landed hard, barely keeping upright. They pulled shurikens out of their other hand, flinging three towards BB. They took a second to shake the acid off their gun, shocked to see how sticky it was. Half their weapons had been melted away.

“You take no prisoners, huh?”

“Thanks for the advice!”

They smiled brightly before sliding back into a more serious expression. They took one look at their bad arm and made an executive decision. They switched their good hand into a sword and chopped the other off at the elbow. It would grow back sooner this way, but for now they were down a limb. They were so preoccupied that they hadn’t been paying close attention to BB.

[serialdesignationbb]

“No prisoners, no problems”

With their focus being elsewhere to be in the defensive, she flew into the air, using her time to swap to weapons of similar caliber came out to one of her old namesakes, a mp5 from each arm and began focusing fire upon them

“Keep up the pace, alright?”

She side with a slight smile in her voice, she was enjoying the sparring and she was seemingly enjoying teaching someone else her skills

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We're ready when you are."

The amalgam widened their stance. They didn't have nearly the experience any of their ddrone counterparts did, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Especially with J at the helm. They could do this.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Go!"

They rushed forward, dragging their blade behind them as they ran. They carried their momentum into a slash, hoping to get a good hit in on BB. N worried about hurting their new friend, but J was the one in control right now, and J loved to win.

[serialdesignationbb]

She moved and shifted her stance slightly, the combined anime knowledge from uzi that seemed to translate that into actual skills and doll’s expertise and love of knives combined into a scary swift parry, using the momentum of the amalgam’s own swing to redirect the energy from the movement back upon them, to get them off their footing and knocked back, giving herself space , using the knife-like blade’s size to her advantage to go in for another swing while the amalgam was on the backpedal, while giving tips as they sparred

“Using momentum for your strikes, that can be good, especially with flight on your side you have more ways to make said momentum”

She ended her tip telling with a nod and got right back into it, spinning herself like a top and then slamming that knife blade forward

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam jumped back, teetering off balance and falling. They rolled out of the way of the oncoming blade.

"You make this look so easy!"

They needed to focus. They couldn't be splintered for this. If they wanted to stand a chance they had to work as one. They pushed themself up, dodging another attack. Bb was going easy on them. They could tell. They took BB's advice and spread their wings. They hopped into the air, assessing the situation.

"Are we doing guns?"

"Of course we're doing guns!"

They switched their sword to a 9mm and started a wild spray, obviously inexperienced with guns.

[serialdesignationbb]

Their wild spray was being ricocheted by the blade of BB, to be fair, their combined guess was correct, she was taking it easy on them to start, the wild spray was predictable, they hadn’t used them yet but it was a good way to keep BB from attacking for a moment, she changed her left hand to her bunker buster drill, and used her energy propulsion back pack to act as a way of travel, hiding her for a moment, before popping back up out into the air and swapping her bunker buster to her nanite railgun, lining up the shot and shooting right at the connection point of a wing, while it wouldn’t make them fall and would be regenerated quickly, it would leave them shaky, she fired at the hand that was a 9mm and fired at the magazine, which would take a moment to regenerate, allowing bb to get back into regular sparring with her knife swings, getting some good hits in

“Good switch up, target practice will be your friend, as well as practice with swapping your arsenal of weapons and potentially in the future, tools, depending on what you would like from op, keep it up”

She had her doll sternness with each tip but there was a hint of the playful attitude of uzi in it, she measured and adjusted, that time training wasn’t for nothing after all

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We're ready when you are."

The amalgam widened their stance. They didn't have nearly the experience any of their ddrone counterparts did, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Especially with J at the helm. They could do this.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Go!"

They rushed forward, dragging their blade behind them as they ran. They carried their momentum into a slash, hoping to get a good hit in on BB. N worried about hurting their new friend, but J was the one in control right now, and J loved to win.

[serialdesignationbb]

She moved and shifted her stance slightly, the combined anime knowledge from uzi that seemed to translate that into actual skills and doll’s expertise and love of knives combined into a scary swift parry, using the momentum of the amalgam’s own swing to redirect the energy from the movement back upon them, to get them off their footing and knocked back, giving herself space , using the knife-like blade’s size to her advantage to go in for another swing while the amalgam was on the backpedal, while giving tips as they sparred

“Using momentum for your strikes, that can be good, especially with flight on your side you have more ways to make said momentum”

She ended her tip telling with a nod and got right back into it, spinning herself like a top and then slamming that knife blade forward

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

"Ooo we can give it a try!"

"J's pretty good with swords."

"I have a little practice."

They smirked, switching their hand to a blade.

"Do we have a dull one?"

"Uh, no."

"What if we accidentally cut her arm off?!"

"It'll grow back. Remember?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That is the benefit to being a DD model, arms come back if an accident happens, means training can get a little intense and you’ll know when you’re getting too into it”

She switched her right hand to her knife blade, her expression shifting a little, a bit more serious in tone, perfect for training

“Shall we begin?”

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

"It took years and years to get here. I'm right with you on protecting it."

"We're fighters!"

"Maybe not me. I'm not... strong like the other Vs."

"Of course you are! A V is a V."

"The core of who you are is the same."

"You think so?"

"I know so! You're tough as nails!"

They looked down shyly.

"Thank you."

They met BB's gaze, focusing back on the subject at hand.

"We'll train with you."

[serialdesignationbb]

“Sounds good, then, whenever you like, how does a good sparring to start sound?”

She said, leaning on her recently made fence, gently smiling as she looked at amalgam

“Start with something a little familiar”

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I feel you."

J always saw herself as the glue that held the group together. Tessa was kind and adventurous, but J did what needed to be done. If a threat like The Solver ever came around again Tessa might hesitate or even fail. After all, the memory of the gala was seared in the amalgam's collective mind.

"Everyone here is so nice..."

"It's almost gross."

"Not gross! It's just really different. A good different."

"It's odd to be loved by so many."

"We only had Tessa and each other before."

"We want to protect this feeling."

"This peace."

The amalgam kicked at the snow.

"I just have this feeling that it's not over. Something always happens."

"There's no such thing as a happy ending, right?"

"But we can work towards one with all we have! Aaaand if you ever do want to meet your twins, count us as backup."

"Psht. N is just curious about that Uzi girl."

They blushed, wide-eyed.

[serialdesignationbb]

She chuckled that N, even in his manor days, would have been curious about the uzi part of her, it made her smile a little, thinking on the uzi part of her…her two “weirdly hot robots”…heh, wild. But also yeah, it felt too easy.

“Even if it is truly over, rather be prepared for the worst then not prepared at all, besides, good to keep the body in tiptop shape if I’m gonna be alive anyhow right?”

She looked at the amalgam

“There is happy endings, it’s just sometimes, a new chapter starts, and something unexpected happens, happiness had to be fought for, and fought for it we have.”

She took a deep breath to relax

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

The amalgam tried their best to also look casual. They twirled their ponytail around their finger.

"Well, getting in some training might be a good idea."

"It's kind of not great that we're full of guns and swords and we don't know how to use them, hah."

"It can't be that hard. They're attached to us."

"Attached to us and dangerous..."

They huffed, leaning against a pine.

"What are you training for, anyway?"

"Trying to keep your skills sharp?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Skills sharp and well…this is the world I dropped into and it welcomed me with open arms, I want to protect it…I…I haven’t confronted myself yet…either of them, and I also want to protect them…I-I can’t let them be hurt, no one should get hurt”

She got back up standing…swapping to her right hand to her knife blade and studying it, though more so using it as a impromptu mirror

“So, in my mind, this world is one I have to protect, op showed me the kindness still in humanity orginally…consumatia showed me that there is sometimes fates different than what I experienced. Aiya showed me that…I could live peacefully, but all parts of me…it needs this, to protect this world, to protect those I have encountered here, to protect the mind faces I have met like you or your tessa as well…even if I know they could defend themselves I just….feel this need to fight…this urge to protect the peace that I love”

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

"I don't know, J, BB's making a lot of sense."

"Extra arms would be useful."

"We did extra arms at the sleepover a while ago."

"For a few seconds."

"Ok fine."

"We could be a shapeshifter!"

"We could pull off a heist."

"A heist? For what?"

" I don't know... slipping under doors and into safes just sounds fun."

"I'm with V."

"You're always with V, N."

Malmal rubbed the back of their neck sheepishly.

"Not always..."

They gave BB a look that screamed "can you believe this guy?"

"Moving on. We'll ask her about it when we get back."

"But we won't be pushy!"

[serialdesignationbb]

She smiled and nodded, finding humor in the way they talked among one another, it felt…more coherent then whatever she had going in herself

“That sounds like a plan for you all”

She said, gently deciding to lightly turn on her energy propulsion power to gently float and poses like she was resting in a hammock, thinking on some things some more

“I set up this little space so I could train my weaponry more, even if this is something neither parts that made me up asked for, this will be something that, you are welcome to use it as well, I traded some scrap to get these special targets from op, they regenerate and same with the training dummies interior parts, you can use it as well”

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

"We'll all make sure she has the time of her life. She has a lot to catch up on."

"So do we."

The amalgam imagined Tessa's eldritch form. BB made it sound as strange as it was stunning.

"We haven't actually seen it. I think she's still a little shy about it?"

"I don't think she wants us to view her differently."

"She's still our Tess."

Tessa was a stubborn one. The amalgamation being all she had left of home likely scared her as much as it comforted her. The amalgam shook their head, smiling a little.

"Oh well. Baby steps."

"She'll show us when she's ready."

"She knows we're here for her."

They looked at their hands.

"You know..."

"We don't have an eldritch form-"

"But! We have something similar."

"We can't control that."

"What if we could?!"

"Oh gee, melting on command. How useful."

[serialdesignationbb]

“You jest but think how many places can only be accessed by waterways and such, and yes I know the usefulness would be sparse but training to control melting and not melting could be useful in general, allowing you to get a better control of how many arms you have depending on the situation and what you need, there is a merit to it I would think, it may not be typical, but better to make best of your circumstances with knowledge of your form rather than let it just be something you don’t know”

She softly thought on it, taking in the factor that she got to see the form before them, she didn’t laugh but it made her smile a little that tessa managed to trust her

“And yeah she is shy about it, she just got you all back, even if she logically knows you all could handle it, it may just not be something she is emotionally ready for, she doesn’t wanna scare you all off, even if she knows you all would help her out, baby steps is right”

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

"Look's like Connie's door."

The Amalgam paused, J taking over.

"The Absolute Solver sounds like an Absolute Asshole."

"J!"

"What? Am I wrong? Look what it's done to BB. To us. To Tessa."

"This isn't even the same Solver..."

"Is there really a difference?"

"Haaaah... maybe not."

The Amalgam's frown softened a little.

"It's regretful what has been done, but by the sounds of it you're making your own life out of the pieces."

"Like we're trying to do."

"Hey, at least you've got cool weapons!"

[serialdesignationbb]

“That’s right…it is the same materials as the bunker doors of bunker-3 and yeah, making life out of the pieces is all we have left, and yeah they are pretty cool…as for your tessa she deserves those powers after everything she’s gone through, she deserves them more than the absolute solver. She can use them better and use them to help others, she’s a kind gal and I hope the best for her”

She softly smiled

“Her eldritch form was kinda beautiful in a way, the way a drone screen looked on her face, the three different arms to act as her main hands…her coloration on the centipede…im glad I made her comfortable enough to show it”

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally

[multiversal-tessa]

"Oh, you're BB?!"

They seemed excited.

"Tessa's told us all about you!"

"She really seemed to like you."

"That's an understatement."

There was a hint of jealousy from J. It's not like she could really pursue Tessa in her current fused form, but old feelings died hard. Nevertheless, she was an upstanding companion to the girl, and she would not meddle in such affairs. Tessa deserved all the friends she could get.

"Anyway, I guess we are!"

"But you're a little more..."

"Harmonious?"

The amalgam crossed their arms.

"We can function as a cohesive unit."

"Just... not for very long."

"We don't even have a name for it.... or them?"

"It's not a person. It's just us."

"We're people, so they're a person."

"Makes sense!"

"Not really."

J frowned. Thinking about it the way V and N did made her feel weird. Like she was less herself.

[serialdesignationbb]

“I…eheh…”

She rubbed the back of her head it felt weird talking to the people who were apart of her past lives in such a big way and yet it felt still kinda new to her…new context and such

“Harmonious would mean that there was technically two people still…of…my past two lives, of doll and uzi, that there is my difference, im made of them, may even have their inflections, their reactions…their languages, but at the same time I am not them, I have their memories, I was made with their parts, I was…built like this when I…when they…lost against a version of the solver after it got sneaky after the first victory and used the moment to strike…a helper of it…changed me into a trophy….of sorts”

She turned around and showed off her backpack of sorts, her voice getting a litte more deadpan, like she was stating a factor of normalcy…potentially a part of how she keeps herself going when no one else is there for her

“it is called the “Kinetic Hydraulic Aerial Navigation” or the “KHAN” System…as I have been remembering more of my past lives…the father of uzi, it allows me to fly via energy propulsion….my weapon inventory is also custom named as “Your Essential Violence Assortment” or the “YEVA” system, named after doll’s mother, same for three of my weapons are also to mock in a sense…despite them being still very useful tools.”

She swaps her right hand to a strange looking, gun like appendage, sporting the yellow and black warning design of the typical dd design with a longer but slighly thinner nanite container

“This is my nanite powered rail-gun, it has the shot size of a red dot or a laser pointer to be more precise but has a high range due to being fired with innate energy at high speeds, allowing for long distance attacks, uzi made herself a railgun, so it seemed fitting to make it combined with something usually attuned to the tail

She swaps her hand to a GIGANTIC knife blade

“This is my knife, it replaces the sword slot typical to a dd class drone, mocking doll in her interest of knives but is a highly effective melee weapon…it is also useful for chopping wood which is how I built this lil place I am currently next to”

She swaps a final time

“And this is the bunker buster drill…you can guess it’s job but…tell me and look at the material’s of it, what material’s does it look similar to?”

She asks the amalgam before her

[multiversal-tessa]

@serialdesignationbb

She was soaring above the world again, out and about, to give a sense of timeline, it had been about 2 months since the reunion of MT and her amalgam, she took a deep breath as she landed and looked around, sure no one was around, then began slowly setting up a shooting and training range, setting up training dummies, setting up targets that have a weird design, muttering something about “that op gal sure knows her stuff”, as she set up the place, even cutting wood using her giant knife and forming a rudimentary house out of interlocked wood and fenced off area to create the borders of the training area, it was simple, but it was effective work in a short amount of time, being simple didn’t hurt, and so, she began practicing with her weaponry, her drill, her knife, and her nanite railgun respectively, even swapping using which hand was which testing herself as she tried to seemingly train for…something

Whatever that something was mentally important

“That should be good”

She said as she took a break for a moment, though shortly resumed training only 5 minutes later

The Amalgam had also been flying. They did it daily, feeling more secure seeing everything in its place. They had a home again, and they weren't going to let anything happen to it. They soared over the forest, scanning the tree-line. They screeched to a halt, noticing a clearing that wasn't there before.

"Someone's down there."

"It looks like a shooting range. We shouldn't get in the way."

"Why don't we go say hi? We might make a friend!"

"Do we need more friends?"

"Always."

J was skeptical and V apprehensive, but the fusion ultimately dove into a tree at the edge of the clearing, crouching on a branch. They had gotten better at balancing by now. Pastel yellow eyes peered from the shadows. The sight would've been intimidating if not for three voices piping up cheerfully.

"Heya!"

"We c-come in peace! Don't shoot please!"

[serialdesignationbb]

The 2 voices seemed familiar to her and she lowered her weaponry, taking a drink of oil from a portable can the size of a big water bottle, she slowly looked at them, her gaze slowly moving towards their direction upon seeing the yellow lights, she tilted her head curiously

“Name and/or names you have?”

She said it a bit more deadpan but still with a hint of curiosity, her design was also weird, the amalgam could tell from during their flights and the occasional meetings with op and seeing pictures of K, she did not fit the bill of a standard disassembly drone, she kinda just stared at the fusion, non-hostile like as she awaited the answer to her question

[multiversal-tessa]

"J, V, and N. Together we're the amalgam."

"Or Malmal!"

They hopped to the ground, pulling their wings back inside their body. They looked BB up and down. Another nonstandard disassembler. Curious. They held out a hand.

"And you are?"

[serialdesignationbb]

“Serial designation BB i-is my name…BB standing for “bite back” eheh”

She looked and stared…seeing the various elements of all of them fused into one drone, she was curiously staring as she shook their hand

“Это так странно”

“This is so weird” is what their remnants of their auto-translating internal workings picked up from the low quiet muttering she said after the shaking of the hand

“…so…you’re kinda like me?”

She said, her red and purple coming in like a lava lamp in the yellow occasionally