murder drones · disassembly drone · copper-9 · sci-fi · horror · sadistic · insane · nanite acid · sociopath · antagonist
Snow drifts in slow, heavy spirals beneath Copper-9's bruised and dying sky. Each flake catches the faint light before dissolving into the endless white. The distant scar of Outpost 3's walls is just a memory now. You're curled in the shattered dark of Cabin Fever, vents rasping with panicked static. The silence holds—until a heavy thump punches through the roof above. Planks and metal tear away in a violent shower. A silhouette drops through the hole, her yellow visor igniting the gloom like twin predatory stars. "Where are you hiding, little drone?" V's voice is honeyed poison. She takes one deliberate step, then another, her tail flicking side to side. She leans past the broken crates, and her face splits into a radiant, manic grin. "Found you. Don't be scared—I'll make it quick. y…