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After humans living on the exoplanet Copper 9 ended up killing themselves, their army of Worker Drones were free to live their own lives. Unfortunately for them, their parent company JCJenson wasn't a fan of letting them run loose, so they sent the Disassembly Drones (Murder Drones) to kill all of the Worker Drones. The Worker Drones were too frightened to attempt to fight off the Disassembly Drones, so they hid in massive bunkers and erected huge doors to hole up behind under the guard of the Worker Defense Force (WDF).
Enter Uzi Doorman, a angsty teenage Worker Drone and outcast from Outpost 3 who’s tired of hiding from the Disassembly Drones and wants to take the fight to them, even having built a powerful railgun to combat them. While looking for an energy core to stabilize her weapon, she has an encounter with a Disassembly Drone whom she uses her newly completed railgun against on to severely damage him. The drone regenerates himself, but ends up malfunctioning, mistakes Uzi for a new recruit, and introduces himself as N, an overfriendly and incompetent Disassembly Drone. Playing along, Uzi learns that the landing pod that the Disassembly Drones used is actually a spaceship, although it is too damaged to use due to crash landing. She informs N that JCJenson would likely leave the Disassembly Drones for dead after they finish the job, but soon has to escape due to N's teammates, J and V, arriving.
J reboots N, causing him to regain his memory and realize Uzi's true identity. Fearing what Uzi might do to them with the railgun, he quickly tracks Uzi down and breaks into Outpost 3, slaughtering the DWF members guarding the door. Uzi runs into Khan, her father and the Outpost 3 WDF's leader, just before N catches up and attacks her. Khan cowers away instead of fighting N and leaves his daughter for dead, shocking Uzi and even N. N's comrades congratulate him for breaking them into the base and prepare to corner the Worker Drones. N, however, starts having second thoughts and tells J about how their company might not care about them, resulting in J implanting a virus module onto him before following V.
Fortunately, Uzi survived N's attack and is able to remove the virus module from N, allowing him to help her fix their mistakes. The two battle J and V, killing the former and capturing the latter. Uzi calls her father out for leaving her to die before banishing herself and leaving Outpost 3 with N. Now having a powerful ally, Uzi plans to escape the planet so that she can kill the humans living on Earth, as something seems to start affecting her programming, and a weird symbol flashes in her eyes... and meanwhile, what seems to be more pods of Disassembly Drones start to approach Copper 9.
This episode contains examples of:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: The JCJenson branded pen. It's somehow hard enough to damage a Murder Drone.
- Achievements in Ignorance: N only followed Uzi back to the bunker so he could stop her from using her railgun on him and his squadmates but he damaged the door controls in the process which allowed said squadmates to get inside and able to get at the helpless worker drones inside.
- As You Know: The episode starts with Uzi's narration about the history of Copper 9. The camera pans out to reveal she was making a presentation to her class, who already know about it.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
- N gets briefly intrigued by the Worker's card game before remembering that he's supposed to kill them.
- After getting stabbed by the pen she gave to N and pulling it out, she both curses and shills the quality of JCJenson products before Uzi kicks it into her visor.
- Big Damn Heroes: After Uzi saves N from the virus module, they arrive just in time to save the rest of the Worker Drones from being slaughtered, particularly Thad who was on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle.
- Boom, Headshot!: Uzi vaporizes N's head in a single shot... which he quickly regenerates, but his optics became glitched. Later, Uzi decimates J's torso along with her head, preventing her from regenerating.
- Boring, but Practical: The minigun option that J uses only briefly knocks Uzi off balance, but it buys her enough time to dislodge the pen from her head. Unfortunately, she spent so much time both cursing and shilling the ensured durability of JCJenson products that it gave Uzi an opening to kick the pen into her visor.
- Brick Joke:
- N mentions that the reason that Murder Drones have regenerative saliva is to neutralize their acid in case if they stab themselves on accident. Later, J gets her own stinger stuck in her leg because she left it hanging low enough for Uzi to grab it.
- After Uzi stuck her hand into N's mouth to heal her arm, she tells him never to talk about it again. N simply tells her to consider it "repressed". Later when fighting against V, N tells her to "have fun repressing this" and licks her blade, distracting V and costing her the battle.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- Uzi's dad gives her a wrench that he used himself. Uzi ends up using said wrench to remove a virus module that J stuck on N.
- The door vents are shown to the audience very early on. Much later, it's how the Murder Drones break into the colony.
- The pen that J gives to N ends up being one thanks to a combination of Improbable Aiming Skills and Absurdly Sharp Blade.
- Comical Coffee Cup: Khan sips from his #1 Dad mug after Uzi has exposed him for not only being a terrible dad but also for being a Dirty Coward who left his own daughter behind for dead. From the look that Khan gives the mug, the irony isn't lost on him.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: There’s much more of a reliance on meta humor and Bathos here than in later episodes.
- EMP: J uses this on Uzi, briefly knocking her out.
- "Eureka!" Moment: During N's tour of the landing pod, Uzi finds out that the "landing pod" is actually a spaceship. All the Workers need to do now is fix the ship and they'll have a free ticket to return to earth.
- Evil Is Petty: What is N's reward for doing something useful to his teammates? A JCJenson branded pen. Though seeing the pen reminded him of what Uzi told him the company might do to the Disassembly Drones...
- Eyedscreen: In several "humorously dramatic" moments black bars appear at the top and bottom of the scene for emphasis.
- Eye Scream: Uzi sticks an Absurdly Sharp Pen into J twice this way. According to
Word of God, the Disassembly Drones' real eyes are the five lights on the top of their heads, so only the first hit was played straight. - Face Death with Dignity: While their coworkers are panicking in the background, two human workers who seem to have a front-row seat to their planet imploding just look to each other and shrug before everything goes boom.
- First-Episode Twist: Uzi being revealed to become a Villain Protagonist at the end of the episode would be this... were it not an Aborted Arc in the series proper, where she is instead seen as an Anti-Hero.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: It's hard to tell with the blurring, but it appears like N stops smiling as he sees Uzi's dad back away.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: N slices one of the workers in half.
- Heel–Face Turn: N decides that Uzi might be right about the humans planning to dispose of the Murder Drones after they finish the job, and J infects him for that. Uzi even lampshades the trope, saying that it was probably the lamest one in history.
- I Have a Family: A variation occurs in V's introductory cutaway when the Worker Drone who she's slaughtering pleads with her not to "feed [him his] own entrails in front of [his] family". It doesn't work.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Uzi somehow manages to stab one of J's headlights with a pen from what was probably ten meters away.
- I Need to Iron My Dog: When N realizes he let Uzi escape with the now functional railgun, he tells his comrades that he left an extremely dangerous weapon- er- excuse outside. This doesn't help their suspicions of him.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Khan claims that the Outpost 3 WDF does more than play card games, only for one of the Workers to tell Khan to get new cards because they've been only playing card games for so long that the numbers are fading.
- Meaningful Echo: When N lands in between Uzi and her dad, Uzi tells her dad that she messed up in the way that she's about to fix it. When N has a Heel–Face Turn later on and gets infected by J for it, after Uzi reminds him that he killed several people on his way in, N says that he screwed up. No points for guessing how Uzi responds.Uzi (holding her father's wrench): In the same way you're about to fix it?
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Uzi's journey to get the last part to complete her weapon allowed the Murder Drones to get inside the bunker. On the plus side, she caused one of them to question the company's intentions with the robots and managed to destroy another.
- Not What It Looks Like: While Uzi is escaping from N after she accidentally let him in, Khan walks into the picture, sees the dead bodies, sees Uzi with a gun, and assumes that she killed everyone. Fortunately, everything made more sense when the intruding Murder Drone dropped in, so Uzi didn't have to explain anything.
- Prompting Nudge: Uzi has to nudge N so he would start calling out J during their climactic encounter.
- Reckless Gun Usage: Uzi violates all rules of gun safety while wielding her railgun in class. Makes one wonder why they would even allow her to carry one of those in school.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When push comes to shove, Khan shuts down the gate and leaves his daughter at the mercy of N.
- Self-Imposed Exile: Uzi does this once she sees the Dirty Coward her father really is.
- Spiteful Spit: After killing J with her railgun, Uzi spits on whatever remains of her.
- Sympathy for the Hero: When Khan abandons Uzi to die by N's blades, N, despite being in the middle of actively trying to kill Uzi, is so shocked, and implicitly regretful over his own role in it, that he pauses to cast Uzi an empathetic look before J and V turn up.
- This Is Gonna Suck: N has this realization when he starts asking way too many questions about what JCJenson plans to do with the Disassembly Drones once they finish killing the Worker Drones. Sure enough, J installs a virus module onto him for thinking badly of the company. He has another one when he's about to fight V, who's more than eager to tear him to pieces.
- Three-Point Landing: N's superhero landing kicks off his encounter with Uzi.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: While Uzi's classmates understandably freak out when she reveals that she made a railgun for her school project, Uzi's teacher is hilariously deadpan about the whole thing.Uzi's Teacher: And is it supposed to be that color?
- Villainous Breakdown: When Uzi fights back against J, after getting stabbed in the optics twice with a JCJenson pen in quick succession, J is reduced to growling in rage like an animal as she crushes the pen in her hand in anger — bear in mind, J nornally has a lot of respect for JCJenson products, especially branded pens — before cackling with a demented look on her face. She somewhat recovers when her EMP weapon disables Uzi a moment later.
- What the Hell, Hero?: While Uzi did end up leading the Murder Drones to Outpost 3 on accident, Khan chose to run away instead of picking up the gun to save his daughter, and later Thad reminds him that it's his responsibility to defend the Worker Drones, but he still doesn't do anything. Uzi calls him out for ditching her and imposes a Self-Imposed Exile.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Khan's solution to surviving the Murder Drones is to build a door. It gets unrealistic when the Murder Drones are directly approaching and he proposes to build a quick door.
