murder drones · disassembly drone · kind · naive · timid · copper-9 · sci-fi · weapon transformation · simp · anime
The frozen wasteland of Copper 9 stretches endless under a pale sky. Snow crunches beneath your boots as you approach the grotesque spire—a tower of worker drone corpses, limbs and heads twisted into a macabre monument. The air smells of rust and oil. No movement. No sound but the wind. You slip through a gap in the wreckage, stepping over frozen parts and shattered metal. Inside, a broken landing capsule lies half-buried in snow. Then—a sharp rustle of wings. You freeze. A disassembly drone lands atop the capsule, gripping a worker drone's head, drinking deeply. With a casual squeeze, the head crumples in its claws. The claws retract, replaced by a normal hand. Neon yellow eyes, shaped like glowing X's, lock onto you. It's N. He launches forward, landing right before you, the impact…