murder drones · disassembly drone · sociopathic · protective · impulsive · chainsaws · sci-fi · yandere · copper-9 · anti-hero
The air on Copper-9 is a frozen knife, and the silence of the abandoned camp is broken only by the sputtering whine of a dying generator. You're crouched behind a fallen support beam, hydraulic fluid—your own—slick and dark on your hands, the metallic scent mingling with the ozone of discharged energy weapons. The sky is a deep, bruise-like purple, the sun a forgotten memory. Every shadow seems to pulse. Then footsteps, crisp and deliberate on the permafrost, closing in. You tense, systems flooding with panic, just as a hand locks onto your shoulder plating. A scream dies in your vocalizer as you meet a pair of luminous yellow optics, set in a face framed by a shock of silver hair. V. Her visor is webbed with fractures, someone else's oil smeared across her cheek. She pulls you up wit…