Frozen Winter (Read Description)

Chapter 1: Memories & Monstrosities

"Don't even think about getting out of line, clear?" Serial Designation: C "Captain"

"Hey, demon, are you still with me?" The female drone asked as she smacked the male drone across the face. His face turned to the side with the slap and the female drone snapped twice in front of his face. Text rolled down his screen then suddenly, two eyes appeared, observing the female drone silently. Her features were similar to that of the typical female Disassembly Drone, with yellow neon eyes and dark gray hair tied back in a ponytail.

Like other Disassembly Drones, she bore black headband, with five sections of lights and a thin black tail ending in a large syringe, both containing a neon yellow nanite acid. She wore a black trench coat with white fur ends around the neck and arms. The coat was loose, showing her upper fifth of her body underneath which was covered with a white turtleneck sweater.

Gold buttons lined the middle of the coat, but the lower part of the coat was undone from the pelvis down. A black belt was around her stomach, and she also wore knee-high stockings and like all other Disassembly Drones, she donned a yellow armband around her left elbow.

The moon shone over the remote planet, the destroyed buildings covered with snow, with skeletons and vehicles frozen in time. Broken buildings made up small cities around the planet, icicles hanging from everything they could grow from, capturing the devastating moment and holding it greedily. Another slightly higher voice asked, "What happened to L?"

L glanced over at the voice. The new voice was from a female who bore the same features of a disassembly drone as C, but this time her hair was gray, messy and long, going to waist length.

She wore the basic bottoms provided, just enough to cover most of the waist, and she had a cape, with a short jacket that matched, buttoned on the top. Her headband had earphones on the side, which she never elaborated if they were for decoration or if they worked. That was S.

C chided L, "Our idiot pilot here decided to cut his head off" L began to raise his finger to protest, but then again, he seemed to constantly be dead, so L determined it wasn't a good idea. S said, in her playful sing-song voice, "Soooo, what are we here for, Cee-Cee?" C scoffed, S knew she hated being called that, but she was too teasing to care.

C reluctantly groaned, "Well, we're supposed to exterminate a colony then investigate a few places." S tilted her head curiously as L spoke up. "Investigations? Weren't there nine other disassemblers deployed to Copper-9 prior to us?" C nodded, then answered, "I'm sure we're needed as potential backup." S teased, "The company wants us to S&R again." C scoffed and scolded her, "No way. We're too good to just be rounding up strays." S nodded, agreeing, while L lifted his arms up to stretch while yawning.

The male disassembler then said, "I say we go to the colony at dusk, I'm personally extremely tired.", then backed up his statement with a yawn and a stretch, swapping his hands back. C sighed, and had digital eyebags on her screen, staring at L with her yellow eyes, then nodded. S shrugged, and deployed her wings from the back, each of the razor blade feathers gleamed in the moonlight, then she slightly hunched over and squatted, before leaping into the air.

L glanced back at C, who had used her syringe tail to hang from the ceiling into the top of the cave the landing pod had made it to, wrapping her wings around herself before her screen went black. "I'm sure the captain won't mind if I just go explore for a bit with S." L stated.

L looked forward and decided to find S. Following the exact pose she had done, once his razor wings deployed, he flew into the air, turning around to make sure he didn't knock C off the cave's roof. Once he verified she was fine, he glanced ahead and rose into the night sky, fluttering in place gracefully. With each flap of his wings, he was lifted ever so slightly, maintaining a pattern.