The Promening

is the third episode of Murder Drones and it premiered on YouTube on February 17th, 2023.
As of May 29th 2024, it has over 24M views, making it the sixth most-viewed video on the Glitch Productions channel.
==Synopsis==
The episode opens on a female student with glasses running past some missing posters & away from someone, only to be caught up by that person, who is none other than Doll. Doll then uses the AbsoluteSolver to rotate the school's camera, cut the student's right arm off, and kills her with a cleaver.
Doll then comes home, using her telekinesis to put her books on the shelf, while crossing out Kelsey's name on a list. Her bag is then shown to be full of oil, and possibly Kelsey's corpse. She then says that she's home to her "mom" and "dad", while the camera pans to a swarm of cockroaches on the walls.
The scene then cuts to Uzi on sleep mode with the text "GUILT: ACTIVE" on her visor. A flashback plays, wherein Uzi still holds guilt over refusing N's help after their battle with Eldritch J. The camera pans out to show that her room's a mess, with even more papers than usual & an added notebook on the floor. Looking up at her investigation wall (or, in this case, ceiling) Uzi focuses on what is possibly N's drawing of himself and Uzi, thanking her for being his friend. She groans.
Her groaning is stretched out to her in class, the gym, and opening her locker. The stack of books she stood on to reach her locker gets kicked off by Rebecca passing by. Uzi angrily tries to throw a book at her, only to hit Braidon instead. As Rebecca and another worker drone continue talking trash about her, she sighs and walks away. She then sees the security cameras glitching, along with a janitor cleaning up an oil spillage, and realizes that something's wrong. She then sees missing posters, then cackles, taking some of them and skip home to put them up onto her ceiling, only to then see that the papers on her investigation wall (or, in this case, ceiling) were gone. As it turns out, Khan had gotten a hold of them, and had put them into a closet labeled "NORI'S KOOKY INSANE STUFF".
Khan then walks in to Uzi angrily sulking, who then yells at him for snooping in her room. Khan says that "personal space for very alarming coping mechanisms isn't covered under a non-optional family support structure", as he reads from a book. Uzi calls Khan out for previously being neglectful and tries to leave to talk to N, only to see a skeleton of a child in a dress. Uzi questions it, and Khan says that it's her prom dress, and that she's grounded from seeing the Disassembly Drones. As it turns out, Khan and her teacher got Lizzy and Doll to help Uzi prepare for prom, and that Khan himself is chaperoning, followed by Uzi screaming.
Her screaming transitions to two skeletons, one of a male in a suit and the other of a female in a red sparkling dress, sitting against each other in a pod. N still feels guilt over what happened, while V only cares about her plan of showing up in prom and killing everyone, including Uzi. N refuses to help V, then V says that she promises to only kill what they need to survive if N and Uzi stopped trying to investigate their past.
The scene cuts abruptly to Uzi, Lizzy and Doll in Doll's house. Lizzy complains about Doll's house being dirty, while Doll says that she put a sheet up, as "they're" sleeping. Uzi tries to leave, but the door gets shut. Doll then tells her that the bathroom is down the hall to the left.
The scene then cuts again to N and V. N tells V that if she's hiding something, they could figure it out together. N then asks V what she knows, but gets cut off because of V decapitating him. V says that it's best for him, even if N hated V for it. V then escapes from the Landing Pod, along with the red dress.
In the next scene, we see Uzi in the bathroom in front of the mirror, apparently fixing her hair. One of her eyes flicker to the AbsoluteSolver, and Uzi says, "Easy, robo-satan, not this mirror." She then gets back to getting ready, when suddenly the AbsoluteSolver reappears and the mirror shatters. Uzi then hears Lizzy saying that no one will notice she's (Uzi's) missing. Lizzy also tells the person she's talking to to do their thing, and she'll let 'him' be, and she'll see them at the prom. Uzi then realizes there was blood dripping from something that looked like a container. She goes to investigate, and opens the container. She gasps, and the scene cuts.
N wakes up, and with his head regenerated. He looks at the skeleton which used to hold the red dress, and starts to panic. He reaches for the ladder, and looks back at the skeleton with the suit. He then turns back to the ladder, but looks at the suit again, in a rush to find V, but wanting to wear the suit at the same time. He tells himself there was no time, and climbs out. But his head reappears upside-down, and he whispers, "Dapper N..."
The next scene, we see a close up of Uzi's visor, and we see her sweating. She pants, and the contents of the container we saw earlier appears to be a bunch of discarded mirrors. Uzi hears steps approaching, and she looks around for an escape. She looks at the ventilation shaft, and the next thing we know, it cuts to Doll coming into the bathroom, only to see a pile of mirrors, and the ventilation shaft open. Doll proceeds to say, "As they say in Russian, whoops, I should've predicted that someone could escape out of a ventilation shaft using discarded mirror as stairs."
We then cut to Uzi running away from Doll's apartment, panting. N then suddenly appears, and crashes (or lands) in front of Uzi. They then have an awkward moment, and N says that he could help at the prom, but thinks that Uzi probably doesn't want him. Uzi then admits that she could use his help by being there with her. N then rushes behind her and hugs her, saying, "Dapper Buddies!". Uzi then hits him, and proceeds to smile.
The scene cuts, and the prom has started. We can see a close up of the Punch Bowl, which has the words, 'Decoration only, you will super die" on it. We also see Thad break dancing and doing push-ups, and being admired by a group of drones. We then zoom into Khan, who is looking around for something, worried. Then, we see Lizzy on the stage, saying that since the whole prom court 'mysteriously' disappeared, they were doing it a little early. She says "Your queen by forfeit is... this.". 
Right after that, V crashes right onto the stage, while someone in the crowd yells, "Oh, we're gonna die!". V cackles, and Lizzy tells the crowd that V is her friend, and that V was done with the murder and they've been hanging out. V then reveals that she'd been manipulating Lizzy, and cackles, But then stops, saying, "Prom queen?". Lizzy grins nervously, and V catches sight of the Crown. V gets disgusted. We then see Doll crumbling the Prom Queen paper and smiling. Then we zoom back to Lizzy, who apparently forgives and forgets what V has done, and she says she would get her dad to dock their grades if they don't agree. She also says Rebecca can't sit with them, and the spotlight goes to Rebecca, and she says, "Fine, I forgive her! Settle." Then, V gets crowned Prom Queen, and everyone asks for a speech. Khan tries to open the door, but finds out the door had been closed by the AbsoluteSolver, the working of Doll. V then decides to kill everyone after, and goes in front of the microphone, which was marked with an X. Doll gets ready to set up her AbsoluteSolver powers just as V is about to speak, when Uzi and N suddenly appear, jumping from above.
Uzi shouts “Unhand them, you fiend!” while stopping midway. Doll continues on her revenge plan and gets ready to strike, to which Lizzy yells at V that she's way hotter than Doll and tells her to run. Doll then chains up V and impales her arms, trapping her, while Lizzy gets flung across the venue and Penny gets crushed to death.
Doll slowly approaches V while teleporting, and greets her "Hello, V" while killing another Worker Drone in front of her. She then shows V a flashback of her killing Doll's Father as he flashes a camera in her face. The younger Doll watches in fear as he gets killed, with the AbsoluteSolver glyph flashing on her visor. V is then brought back to reality, dumbfounded at what she just saw, as Doll says "Anyway, you get it" before impaling V's stomach. V manages to free her right arm and shoots at Doll, who shields herself with an invisible force field. Doll summons a cleaver and throws it at V's arm, slicing it off. She then rips out the blades of a fan and makes it deadlier, getting ready to use it.
Meanwhile, Uzi and N contemplate on what to do. N suggests helping V, while Uzi groans. Just before the fan blades can hit V, N kicks it away while Uzi throws a knife at Doll, who effortlessly throws it away. The door gets unsealed at that moment, and everyone else runs off as Khan gets pushed out of the gym, who watches the scene worriedly.
Doll, shocked, asks Uzi why she's siding with the Disassembly Drones, as she's not the only one who's lost family to them. Uzi tries to reason with Doll, saying whoever started the mess wanted them to fight, and that she's done with dealing everything alone. N and even Khan smiles as Uzi, while V looks at her sadly. Doll, however disregards Uzi's speech, saying that she doesn't need help, impaling N's left leg and throwing more fan blades at him. N pushes Uzi out of the way while giving her a thumbs up as he and V get dismembered and thrown backstage.
As Uzi gets thrown on the floor, Khan tries to enter the gym to help her, only for Doll to smile at him and close the door on his face. Uzi coughs up oil as Doll approaches her and throws a knife at her, but Uzi stops it with her left hand. Uzi grabs the knife as she cackles menacingly, while Doll attempts to use her powers, only for an error to come up. Doll throws a knife at her but Uzi swats it away, which shocks the former.
Backstage, V's arm crawls near N, who grabs it. He asks if that's her arm, but she grabs it with her mouth before she can finish. Lizzy looks at them, saying that they look like garbage. V calls Lizzy a traitor before her arm gets snatched. Lizzy says that she was aware of V using her to kill everyone, then asks where her arm goes. N thanks Lizzy for helping them, before he gets called a loser by Lizzy and V. Lizzy then helps the two Disassembly Drones repair themselves while the camera cuts back to Doll and Uzi fighting.
The knife Uzi swatted away gets thrown onto the DJ controller, breaking it and lighting up the whole gym. Doll uses her telekinesis to grab the knife and throws it at Uzi again, who does a back-flip onto the stage to dodge it. Uzi throws the microphone stand at Doll, who uses a pop-up force field to stop it. Uzi rolls down the stage and walks towards Doll, but then gets held down by the microphone stand as the knife flies near Doll. She picks it up and clones the knife, throwing all of them at Uzi. Just as Uzi is about to get impaled, N reappears, this time fully repaired, protecting Uzi with his wings. He offers a hand to Uzi who tells him to quit saving her as she frees herself.
N grabs her hand and spins her around as they dodge a table that was thrown at them, while Uzi grabs a knife that was flying towards her. Uzi spins back to N and hugs him as he throws a missile while she throws back the knife. The knife merely flies through Doll's hair, however Doll gets flung back from the missile and onto the chairs and tables.
Uzi looks at N's stomach wound, and tells him not to risk himself to save her again. N only says her name, before immediately throwing her as Doll recovered and lifts up the tables, making them fly around the venue. Uzi gets caught in the crossfire, as Doll hurls the tables at Uzi. Uzi jumps on the tables to keep herself afloat just as Doll chucks even more knives at her. Uzi uses her legs to kick back one of the knives and manages to break off Doll's bracelet. Doll looks at the bracelet, giving Uzi an opportunity to kick her in the face. Doll stands up and tries again to use her powers on Uzi, however she gets shot from behind by V, killing her off... for now.
Uzi scolds V for rendering Doll unconscious, as they needed her for answers. V brushes if off, saying that she's fine, even with the mess that resulted from her shot. N yells that V did it on purpose, as "she's hiding mystery stuff and being over dramatic about it", making V punch him and telling him at he sucks. Uzi yells "You!" at the both of them, to which the two pointed at each other, trying to dodge the blame from themselves. Uzi picks up Doll's bracelet and reveals the key to her apartment.
A time skip happens, where the trio enter Doll's house. Now able to investigate her apartment more clearly, N and Uzi get shocked by the amount of corpses and oil everywhere, whereas V only says "Nice". The camera gives close ups to bodies, oil and cockroaches swarming the surroundings. Uzi is shocked, but then an arm appears, revealing V sucking on it for oil. Uzi throws it away and yells at her to have self respect.
Uzi and V split up, while N follows V. Uzi questions why Doll, a Worker Drone, would do this, as she picks up oil with her finger. Uzi asks herself if Doll was eating her victims. Uzi throws the dismembered arm in a pot, then looks back, staring at it. It then cuts to N, who stops himself from stepping on a roach, then sees a large, dirty sheet by the table. It cuts back to Uzi, who stares at her oil-covered fingers while a ringing can be heard in the distance. It closes up to her mouth, almost as if she's tempted to eat it...
It transitions back again to N uncovering what's under the sheet, showing the remains of Doll's parents, looking as if they're frozen in time back when they were killed. V says that the oil didn't even taste that good, and N tells her that she "kind of sucks", which V agrees with, eating a roach. N looks back at Uzi, who seems to have licked the oil from her fingers, as they give each other a thumbs up. N helps Uzi through the kitchen table as she approaches the corpses.
While they focused on Doll's parents, however, Doll herself teleports inside her apartment, smiling. She repairs her visor and rips out the bullet, preparing to shoot. She says "Just in time for dinner.", to which N, V and Uzi notice her and gasp. The screen cuts to black while a gunshot sound is heard.
A purple AbsoluteSolver glyph lights up as the black screen is revealed to be from Uzi's visor. As it turns out, Uzi's AbsoluteSolver powers activated, stopping the bullet mid-air. Doll, shocked, says that she's sorry for Uzi. She says that she'll help her if she finds what she's looking for, while Uzi is startled. Doll apologizes again and tries to teleport away, but not before V shoots her again, this time with a missile. Doll herself is not found, however. Uzi whines and yells "I hate it here!"
The camera transitions to the winter wasteland that is Copper 9, as a lone Worker Drone, Reid, looks for something. He finds his "excuse to be outside right now", that being his glasses. Reid then hears something in the distance, then looks up to the sky and sees a flash, which turned out to be a Disassembly Drone Landing Pod coming straight towards him. Reid manages to dodge the pod as it crashes, as more debris fly towards him. He looks up to see another Landing Pod nearby, this time landing more gracefully, latching onto the decayed buildings and landing properly. A human jumps out, pulling out a sword and immediately slicing off Reid's head. The human is then revealed to be none other than Tessa, now an adult woman who works for JCJenson as a Certified Technician.
Tessa says "Righty-o, work to do, eh J?" as a fully reconstructed J flies next to her. J gives her a key with a key chain of the Earth as she notes "Maintenance work", the Landing Pod beeping like a car. The scene pans out to the two Landing Pods with Tessa and J in the distance, as they all get completely obscured by a winter storm.
== Characters ==
=== Main Characters ===
* Uzi Doorman (voiced by Elsie Lovelock)
* N (voiced by Michael Kovach)
*V (voiced by Nola Klop)
=== Antagonists===
*Doll (voiced by Emma Breezy)
=== Supporting Characters ===
* Khan Doorman (voiced by David J. Dixon)
* Lizzy (voiced by Caitlin Dizon)
=== Minor Characters ===
* Penny (voiced by Elsie Lovelock)
* Rebecca (voiced by Nola Klop)
*Kelsey (voiced by Nola Klop)
*Reid (voiced by Michael Kovach)
*Trevor (voiced by Liam Vickers)
*Tessa (voiced by Daisy Rose)
*Braidon
*Thad 
*Teacher
*J
== Deaths ==
Total of On-Screen deaths: 2
*Kelsey at 1:08
*Penny at 11:04
*Unnamed Worker Drone at 11:08
*Reid at 18:05
----Total of Off-Screen/Unknown: 8 (4)
*Missing Posters at 1:00
*Lainey Gilmore 
*Angela Palmer
*Dillon Hall
*Kenzie Rivers
*
*Doll's Apartment
*Various Worker Drones 15:15 - 17:30
*Doll's Parents at 16:15
----
Total: 10
== Title in different languages ==
Language 	Localized title 	Literal translation
Filipino 	"Ang Promening" 	The Promening
French 	"Le Bal de Promo"	The Prom
German 	"Balltanz" 	Prom Dance
Hungarian 	"Bálkirálynő" 	Prom Queen
Japanese 	"プロム開催" 	Prom held
Brazilian Portuguese	"O Embailamento" 	The Embedding
Russian 	"Выпускной Бал" 	Prom
Spanish 	"Elegantes" 	Elegant
Thai 	"บทนำ" 	Incline
Turkish 	"Balo Kâbusu" 	Prom Nightmare
Ukrainian 	"Випускний Бал" 	Prom
==Errors==
*In the beginning of the video, the captions erroneously refer to Kelsey Day as Uzi.
*The credits incorrectly list Reid's voice actor as David J. Dixon instead of Michael Kovach
==Trivia==
*When Uzi first enters Doll’s room she almost steps on a robot roach, but doesn’t, and the roach moves its arms in a thanking motion.
==Gallery==
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Murder On The Dance Floor.png|A teaser from GLITCH's twitter.
FoY67GDWYAIQJfa.jpg|Ditto
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FpIWkXLXwAMCggY.jpg|A still-shot taken from the episode itself during the prom sequence.
Screenshot 2023-02-20 NORIS KOOKY INSANE STUFF.png|The sign posted on Khan's closet, wherein he stores Uzi's "crazed ramblings". Source: Taken directly from the episode itself.
Dolls Room.png|Doll's room.
Dolls Room 2.png|Ditto
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