On-Brand Loyalty - Off the Clock

It Came From Copper-9!

Note: Directly based on the advertisement made for the merch of Murder Drones Episode 6 "Dead End". I really enjoyed the video (and the poster itself) so I made this for fun. Don't think too hard about how this fits in, like how Sam is somehow alive to leave a review.

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Uzi glared at the three drones sitting in front of her desk, twirling a pen in her hand. Facing her with varying expressions and emotions was her dad, Khan Doorman, her class's renowned druggee Sam, and the local Disassembly Drone leader J. While Uzi suppressed the urge to throw her pen at them (mainly J), she groaned and pointed them toward a curtained hallway. "Just get in there, watch the movie, and write a review or something when you leave."

Khan leaned over to give an unwanted pat to Uzi's head, to which she growled. "Sure thing kiddo!" The older drone smiled as he headed in, Sam following behind him with a dazed look in his magenta eyes.

J, being the last in the room, threw a glare of her own to Uzi. "What exactly compelled you to make a movie of all things?"

The edgy teen rolled her eyes. "Apparently N has a thing for selling merchandise based on our experiences now, so he wanted to make a movie about them as an excuse to sell more." Seeing J raise an eyebrow, she groaned. "Just watch the frickin' movie! And give it a good rating too or I'll tell Dror you're a snooty nitpicker."

Uzi had to duck to avoid getting shot with a bullet, peeking up behind her desk to see J's face flared in anger and pointing a gun in her direction. She gave a nervous wave. "Alright, too far, sheesh."

J huffed in annoyance and walked through the curtains, entering a dark room with a projector and 3 plastic chairs, 2 of which already being filled by Khan and Sam. As she took her seat between the two, the film finally began.

The movie opened on an establishing shot of snow-covered woods, the footage had a grainy filter all over it to give it a vintage look. All three viewers strained their digital eyes as they noticed.

Sam questioned. "Uh... Is it like... broken?"

Putting his hands together, Khan piped up. "I'll just take a look at the projector."

Just as he stood up, Uzi's muffled voice shouted from behind the curtain. "IT'S AN ARTISTIC CHOICE, NORMIES!" To which Khan quietly sat back down.

As it played, Sam suddenly perked up as a Worker Drone ran into the scene, one with a familiar outfit and eye color. He pointed at the screen. "Woah, I didn't know I would be in this!" True to his observation, the drone on screen was dressed in a familiar hoodie with a woolen hat and magenta eyes. It was fairly convincing, although J could tell that the eye colors are just a video effects filter. Sam, on the other hand, was a little weirded out. "Wait, was someone spying on me?"

He was quickly proven wrong when the fake Sam on-screen yelled in fear before something off-screen grabbed and brutally murdered him, spraying oil on the snow and trees (clearly done by throwing buckets of motor oil around). The real Sam's eyes hollowed out in horror as the film transitions to the title card:

IT CAME FROM COPPER-9

Directed by Uzi Doorman

Produced by Serial Designation N

J rolled her eyes at the cheesy title and music, leaning back into her seat as she reluctantly accepted how mind-numbing the experience was going to be.

Throughout the film, more familiar faces appeared. Ranging from other cinematic stand-ins like an actor dressed as the psycho Alice to others like Uzi and Doll playing themselves as they fought each other at Prom. For J, the most amusement she got was picking apart who were actors and who were the real drones. The movie itself jumped around so often with chaotically fast pacing that it was the only thing keeping her attention.