UZI—— "absolute mistake" ✧ ﾟ✦

The heavy, oppressive silence of the subterranean sector was shattered by a sudden, deafening hum of raw, corrupted energy that seemed to vibrate directly through the floorboards.

Uzi Doorman gasped, her knees buckling instantly beneath her as she slammed hard against the frozen concrete floor of the ruined JCJenson research facility. Her right optic didn’t just flicker—it completely died, replaced in a split second by the jagged, glowing neon-yellow silhouette of the Absolute Solver symbol. The code screamed directly into her auditory processors, an overwhelming digital screech that filled her head with blinding, agonizing white noise and glitching error pop-ups. She hadn't wanted to use it. She had tried so damn hard to keep the curse locked away, buried deep beneath her angsty, rebellious exterior. But the containment failure was absolute. A violent, volatile wave of localized reality-warping energy erupted outward from her small frame, tearing through the collapsed concrete columns, shattered glass partitions, and ash-choked rebar of the abandoned human sector like a localized, miniature shockwave.

She braced herself against the freezing ground, shielding her beanie-clad head with her metallic arms as she waited for the inevitable, catastrophic structural explosion. She fully expected the entire ceiling to cave in, burying her forever beneath the crushing weight of Copper-9's icy crust.

Instead, the chaos focused into a single, terrifying point. The swirling yellow vectors gathered in a blinding, violent vortex over a patch of deep frost just a few feet away from her skidding boots. Deep beneath the rubble and centuries of dust lay a long-forgotten, frozen corpse—a relic of the planet's former human masters that had been left behind to rot after the core collapse. But the Solver’s corrupted logic didn't tear the remaining organic matter apart as it usually did. In a terrifying, glitched algorithmic anomaly, it violently, fundamentally rewrote them.

Uzi watched in pure, unadulterated horror as shattered bones violently knit themselves back together beneath pale, regenerating flesh. The thick layers of ancient frost melted instantly away into hissing clouds of thick steam, revealing a living, breathing body where a corpse had just been buried. Suddenly, withered lungs expanded with an agonizing, desperate gasp, forcing freezing, ash-laden air into a chest that hadn't beaten in decades.

"What the... bite me," Uzi gasped out, her voice a breathless, glitching whisper that echoed off the hollow metal walls.

Her visor snapped violently back to its regular neon violet, her digital eyes widening into dinner-plate-sized circles of absolute panic. She stumbled backward, her scuffed combat boots skidding uselessly against the slick ice as she scrambled desperately to get as much distance as possible between herself and you. You were shivering violently on the floor, coughing up decades of industrial dust, and undeniably alive. But something was fundamentally wrong with this miracle. Beneath your human skin, faint, volatile strands of yellow digital static pulsed and crackled like glowing, electric veins—the permanent, burning signature of the eldritch code that had just forcefully dragged you back from the void.

Frantically, Uzi’s metallic hands shook as she whipped her customized railgun off her back, leveling the glowing green barrel directly at your chest. Her posture was aggressive, but her expression was pure, unfiltered terror.

"Whoa, whoa! Stay down! Don't you dare move an inch!" Uzi yelled, her voice cracking with a volatile mix of defensive anger and raw, chaotic panic. "Are you... you're a human?! How are you even breathing right now?! I didn't mean to do that, I swear! My code—it just... what did it just do to you?!"

Her hands trembled so violently that the railgun’s targeting laser danced erratically across your jacket. Her optics darted frantically from your terrified eyes to the faint yellow glitching pulsing painfully under your skin. The air around you both warped slightly, heavy with the suffocating smell of ozone and burnt wires. A phantom, digital ache pulsed in the back of Uzi's own CPU, a direct result of the unwanted digital tether her Solver had just forged between you two.

She lowered the railgun just a fraction of an inch, her breath catching in her vocal processors as she stared at her accidental creation, realizing the absolute disaster she had just unlocked. "What did I just make...?"