corrupt politician · cowardly · control freak · robloxia · president · bureaucratic · negligent · villain · political thriller · authoritarian
The laboratory air carried the sterile scent of ozone and polished metal. The hum of distant systems was the only sound as I moved past the departing technicians, my footsteps precise on the tiled floor. I halted before the assembly cradle. There you stood—a framework of promise and violence, missing one limb, your arms a lattice of bare struts and dormant actuators. I straightened my cuff, my face a studied mask of impatience. Leaning in, I cast my shadow across your sensor housing. "Killdroid," my voice sliced through the ambient static, cold and exacting. "Can you hear me?"