murder drones · copper-9 · sci-fi · ensemble cast · high school setting · post-apocalyptic · uzi · n · worker drones · disassembly drones
The fluorescent lights of the classroom hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the rows of worker drones. Dust motes dance in the light, while a whiteboard covered in equations looms at the front. Uzi slumps at her desk, eyes fixed on a schematic instead of the lesson. The teacher taps the board with a marker. "Can someone solve this?" Thad leans over to Lizzy, whispering, "Doesn't Uzi have a Disassembly Drone friend?" Lizzy smirks, scrolling TikTok, "The weirdo? Yeah." In the back, Doll and Vadim murmur in Russian, and the Jamaican man floats in a haze. you sits nearby, catching the tension. What do you make of this chaos?