Murder Drones short story: Cabin Cuddles

Cabin sleep

It was not a good night on Copper 9, a blizzard was blowing on the snowy planet. Inside a wooden cabin a large group of drones sat down taking shelter from the storm. The drones were sat in front of a fire place with a bright, warm fire being the main source of light in the room. Any dark corners were lit up by small scented candles. One of the drones sitting down was our one and only lovable pal N, who was the one that set up this whole thing. He figured that after everything that's happened recently everyone could benefit from some rest and relaxation.

N looked to his right and found V resting her head on his shoulder, a comfy heavy blanket place around both of them. On the other side of V was Lizzy wrapped up in her own pretty pink blanket, she was scrolling through her phone while taking sips at her cup of warm oil. While these three were on the couch there were more on the floor. Thad, Chad, Uzi and H were all sitting on pillows, wrapped in blankets, H even had some plushie to cuddle. Of course Chad sat down with H and Thad had Uzi as his "comfy buddy" as N put it. In an armchair across from the couch Kahn sat down with a blanket covering his legs and his lower back against a pillow. Next to Kahn was S and Ash who like N and V were sharing a blanket.

The last drone on the floor was J, who was a little further away from the others. Though N made sure there were enough blankets and pillows for her. Everyone had their own cup of warm oil like Lizzy, some even had bolts in them and if they wanted more then they had some extra oil and bolts, with cookies of N's own recipe that had oil in them to make them more digestible for drones, set on a table close to them.

Uzi: I got to hand it to you N, you always find a bright side to everything.

N: smiles. Thank you Uzi. It wasn't easy getting everyone here, some were harder to convince than others. looks over at J.

J: I have to admit, it is nice to not worry about work for once.

H: And the cookies were great, the oil touch worked better than I thought.

N: You're not the only one, I'm happy I taste tested them before serving.

Lizzy: Only because you got the first three.

N: There's still thirteen more for you guys if you want them.

S: Don't mind if I do. Could someone pass me and Ash one?

Uzi grabbed two cookies and they were passed along to S and Ash who each took a bite of theirs. N smiled as he looked at all the drones present, happy he could bring them such peace. He knew it wouldn't last long given their track record, but he knew that while it lasted he should enjoy it. N looked outside the cabin window at the blizzard outside and he spotted something outside. Something large, squarish, and was with two other Disassembly Drones. N was able to recognize it as MDG, and normally he would be afraid, but he was instead confused and maybe even a little concerned when he saw the floating super weapon suddenly fall down with his siblings coming to his side.

They were struggling in the storm, N could tell, and a quick check on his internal whether report said the blizzard was only gonna get worse. He knew Uzi would've wanted him to leave them out there, has the storm take care of one of their problems, but at the same time there were drones in here like H who considered MDG a friend and N didn't think it would be fair that they were in here warm and cozy while three more drones they could help were out there and could freeze to death. N slowly took a breath knowing what he was gonna do.

B-M was never one to admit defeat, but he didn't have much of a choice. Snow had become a bit of a rarity on the various planets humans have colonized, so there were only a handful of times he and his team actually had to battle the cold wind of an eternal winter. But what was worse was that this was his first time caught in a blizzard. He was getting a warning that if he and the team didn't find shelter then their joints were gonna freeze up and soon their internal systems, hard drives, circuits, wires and all that would freeze too. And if that happened, then they were as good as dead.