The Murder Drones

Chapter 2

The robots screamed in horror as the Sentinels emerged from the crashed pod. Z smiled, letting out a insane laugh. She slaughtered robot after another, her teammates doing the same. The remaining ones ran away, and suddenly large concrete walls and a thick metal door boxed around the survivors. Her teammates faded away into snow, along with the corpses. "Y? X? W? Where are you?" She called, and the metal door opened with a hiss. She turned towards it, and Cyrin walked from them towards her. "Cyrin?" She asked, and he smiled. "You must be so cold! Come on, lets get inside." He said, holding his hand out to her. She hesitated, and looked to see the pod and her teammates, then looked to Cyrin. "I... I can't. I'm sorry." She backed away, and he faded into snow. Everything faded away, and she was left alone.

It started to get cold, and she felt weak. She started walking, calling out for her teammates and Cyrin. She felt tired, the cold attacking her body. She fell to the ground, and her vision blurred, then went black.

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She woke up, and looked around. Her teammates were gone, and she walked out of the pod, looking for them. She heard hissing and crashing, and she flew to the metal door. Y was wrestling with an injured X, and Z grabbed her, throwing her at a wooden building. Y crashed through the wall, and W hissed at her. "What are you doing?!" She yowled, and Y climbed out of the building she had thrown him at.  "X was protecting a rouge. He had become corrupted. We can't keep him alive." Her hand shifted into a gun. "X is staying alive, whether you like it or not." She pointed the gun at Y, and she hissed when W tackled her.

W pinned her down and bit her shoulder while clawing Z's side with her sharp blade fingers, making Z roar in pain. Suddenly, a loud hiss echoed around them. W looked up, and growled. "Rouge scu--" She was cut off as a beam of light shot through her head, and she fell onto her side, dead. Z sat up, but pain shot through her side and shoulder. She fell onto her back, and everything started to get hazy. She watched as the blurry images of two rouges were attacked by Y, but he was cut in half and fell dead. One of the rouges picked X up, and the other approached her. "Hang in there Z." Cyrin's voice echoed in her head as everything went black.

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She woke up and saw that her cloak had been taken off and put on top of her as a blanket. She looked around, and gasped as she realized she wasn't outside anymore. She was in someones bedroom. It was decorated with posters and lights, and the bed she layed on was the color green. She put on her cloak, noticing her wounds were bandaged, and looked around, her long metal ears twitching in curiousity, along with her tail. She walked out of the bedroom and looked around at a hallway with three other doors, and to the left was a flight of stairs. She went down them and looked around. The building was empty, no other robot in sight, and she lifted her hood then went out of the front door onto an large area of grass.

Hundreds of rouges were wandering about, and she had trouble containing the urge to kill them. A few of them looked curiously at her, and she turned away. She walked down a stone path and looked around. She saw tall thin brown poles with branches that had poofs of flat green things on them. She had never seen anything like it. It was warmer inside the colony's home, and she felt anxious about the large amount of robots around her. She heard a loud ringing noise and turned to see a large building with a sign in front of it that said, "Colony High School." Hundreds of teens walked out of the doors, and she spotted Cyrin. "Cyrin?" She called, and he smiled when he saw her.

"Z! Your ok!" He walked over, and she felt a little safer in this place. "Where is X?" She asked, and Cyrin walked beside her. "He's at Mal's house." She tilted her head. "Who's Mal?" Cyrin chuckled. "Oh, that's the "rouge" that X had been protecting. Mal had convinced X that robots like me and her weren't bad." She looked down at her feet. "Sorry about, y'know, the killing we've been doing." She then looked up, squeezing her mouth shut. She didn't mean to say that out loud, but Cyrin patted her head. "Oh it's alright. It wasn't your fault." Her hand shifted into a long sharp knife, and she pointed it at his face. "Don't touch my head again." She warned, and he smiled. "Sorry, your just so small." She narrowed her oval eyes.

Cyrin chuckled nervously, then grabbed her hand and hid it behind her back. She was about to ask him what he was doing when three men walked towards them, wearing black jackets with an blue circle and a purple triangle inside it. "Who is this Cyrin?" One of them asked, and Cyrin smiled. "This is Z. She has lived here her whole life, she just didn't like to go outside until now." They narrowed their eyes at the two teens, and one of them smiled. "Welp, nice to meet you Z. Come on boys, let's go finish our patrol." They all walked away, and she shifted her hand back to normal. "Thanks i guess." She muttered, and Cyrin chuckled. "No problem, it's what friends do."

She stayed silent as they walked side by side down the sidewalk. She never considered him as a friend, nor an aqquatance. She noticed one of those tall brown things, and pointed at it. "What is that?" She asked, and he chuckled. "Not surprised you don't know what that is. Its a tree, a tall plant." She examined the tree as they walked by it, and something crunched underneath her foot. She stopped, and lifted her foot off an brown cracked water drop shaped object. She picked it up and he pointed at it. "Those are leaves. They grow on trees and other plants." She sniffed it, then shoved it into her mouth. He quickly snatched it from her mouth and threw it onto the ground. "Yeah, don't eat that."

They arrived at the house she had woke up in, and they entered it. A girl with short red hair, black bracelets, a red jacket tied around her waist, jeans with holes in the knees, and boots came down the stairs, and stared at Z. "Cyrin is this your girlfriend?" Z and Cyrins faces glowed red. "No of course not Rosey! She's just a friend." Rosey circled around Z, examining her. "Is she a murder drone?" She asked, and Cyrins eyes became outlines of ovals. "How'd you know?" He gasped, and she laughed. "She needs to hide her tail better." Z grumbled as she wrapped her tail around her waist underneath her cloak, hiding it. "Yeah, keep it like that."

She looked up at Rosey, who was taller than Z and the same height as Cyrin. "You seem quite calm about me being here." She murmured, and Rosey smiled. "Oh, I think murder drones are kind of cool. Minus the slaughtering part. I've tried to study them but theres little to nothing about you guys in the library. Every book just said. "Dangerous, stay inside the colony walls at all costs." They were able to give good descriptions and drawings of them, but nothing about anatomy. Never been able to catch and disect one i suppose." Z winced at the idea of her or her dead teammates being caught then cut up into pieces to be examined. "Anyway, you can stay with me in my room if ya want. Be awkward to share a room with a boy." Cyrin smiled, amused. Z nodded. "Sure." She said quietly, and Rosey grabbed her arm. "Great!"

She dragged Z up the stairs and opened the door to a room right next to Cyrin's bedroom. It had tons of books and pictures everywhere, with a red, messily made bed, and paintings of roses on the walls. "I'm guessing you use the theme of red and roses?" She asked, and Rosey laughed. "How'd you know?" She said sarcastically, and she jumped onto her bed. "Well, I'll go ahead and set you up an area to sleep--" Z cut her off. "No, that's not necessary. I'm used to sleeping on floors." Rosey looked at her. "Really?" She looked a little worried. "Yeah. Me and my teammates had to sleep on the floor of a pod during snow storms and such." Rosey's eyes lit up with curiosity. "Your teammates?" She asked eagerly, and Z looked away nervously. "Uh, yeah. They were W, Y, and X. X is still alive, but W and Y..." She trailed off, and Rosey put a hand on her shoulder.

"Sorry. But, where is X? And if you don't mind me asking, what happened to W and Y?" Z sighed. "X is kind of in the same situation with me. Made friends with your kind, no offense, and she was attacked by Y and W because of it." She spilled out the fight that had happened between her and Y, and how Cyrin and someone else had saved her and X. She took off her cloak, revealing her bandages. Rosey's eyes lit up. "Woah! You look so cool with those bandages!" She smiled. "Their not really necessary." Rosey looked at her curiously, and she removed the bandages on her shoulder. She winced at the pain, but she licked her shoulder and the wound healed in seconds, leaving  only a, slightly indented, grey bite mark. "Wow!" Rosey exclaimed, and she peeled off the bandages on her side. The pain shot through her body, but she licked her hand and rubbed it onto her side. She repeated it until only the gray indent of 3 long scratch marks remained.

Rosey shoved her face an inch from Z's. "You look like an awesome battle-scarred warrior!" She exclaimed, her eyes turning into the shapes of stars. Z backed up a little. "Uh, thanks?" Rosey looked out the window and groaned. "The suns already down? Time for bed I guess." She slipped quickly under her thick blanket and Z curled up onto the ground like a RoboCat, putting her cloak back on. She heard Rosey's blanket rustle and listened as the red haired robot rustled around in her closet, then lay down an soft fluffy blanket onto Z, who pretended to be asleep. Rosey climbed back into bed and soon fell asleep. Z wrapped the blanket tightly around herself and looked out the window at a full moon. The light of the round moon shined onto her face, and she soon felt tired, and moments later she fell asleep.