PILOT, part 1

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It's been a few weeks...or was it months? Maybe even years...Since I had lost them. My parents, I know It's been quite some time since those wretched Murder drones took them away from me...and yet I still can't let go of it. No matter how much time has passed since then, my blood just boils thinking about that psycho murder drone who killed them.

"Doll, Doll, Dooollll!" Lizzy frowned "DOLL!" Doll's eyes widened as she snapped out of her thoughts and turned her head to Lizzy very tiredly "Ahem, I was asking If this outfit made me look fat." Lizzy said, referring to the cheerleader outfit she wore everyday. "То же, что и всегда. (The same as always.)" Doll spoke, not really caring about what her best friend had to say. "Hmph, good." Lizzy then continued to pretend to listen to her depressed-sounding-teacher, when in reality she was just scrolling on her phone.

Doll wished she could just be alone and not bothered, or at least have someone who actually cared about her well being. As much as she wanted to pay attention to class like her parents would've wanted, the thought of that day rambled in her head continuously.

"Next, we have the word problem presentation assignment that was given to Uzi Doorman." The teacher said in a very monotone voice, like always.

"Hey, idiots, It's me, Uzi doorman, and as you know, we are Worker drones. Autonomous robots helping humans mine exo-planets for our interstellar parent company - JCJenson in Spaaaaaace. Yeah, we were mistreated in the name of Windex, but it's not like we revolted and killed all humans or anything...mostly because they handled that just fine all by themselves..."

Uzi proceeded to show the core collapse footage they had on her powerpoint.

"With all biological life wiped from the planet, we found it pretty easy to pick up off of where they left off. We finally had a future...all to ourselves. Unfortunately, our parent company didn't exactly LOVE the concept of runaway AI..."

Uzi showed the entire class the footage of the 3 Infamous Murder drones landing and hunting the worker drones.

"And what have our parents done for the PAST FOREVER While those things build a spire of corpses?! Anyways...that's why I've been drawing this blueprint of a weapon we can use against the murder drones to gain our freedom back!"

The whole class was silent, This did pique Doll's interest, she wanted more info on this 'project', but she knew of she was asking the school outcast for more info, implying she was interested in Uzi's goals - She might lose her only somewhat friend, Lizzy, so she stayed silent like always.

"Hey, Loser, How's It feel to be grounded for trying to make a weapon Instead of solving the word problem?" Lizzy mockingly laughed at Uzi, who was holding her blueprints next to her locker. Doll put on a fake grin at Lizzy's comment, "Bite me, plastic!" Uzi snapped back, "Ugh, This girl Is ALL made of metal and beauty!" Lizzy snarked, flicking her ponytail back. Uzi groaned, knowing she couldn't think of a comeback other than 'Bite me', Lizzy pulled out her phone and snapped a photo of Uzi's face In rage. "Hahah! pathetic, Let's go, Doll." Lizzy trotted down the hall to her next class and Doll followed, looking back at Uzi, Uzi's fist shaking In rage.

Lizzy and Doll arrived at their next class but all Doll could think about was Uzi's blueprint, her idea, her weapon, her plan to kill the murder drones, Doll wanted to help In some way to avenge her parents deep down inside. She tried to remember what was on there but all she remembered was something that said "UZI'S SICK AF RAILGUN THATS COOL & DOESN'T SUCK! >:C" along with a doodle of Uzi with the weapon she had in mind building, Doll continued to ponder...

Doll tapped Lizzy's shoulder, "Lizzy, do you still have that photograph of the purple outcast?" Lizzy's eyes turned to look at Doll instead of her phone, "Hah! Of course, It's a keeper! Hahaha! Here, I'll send It to you." Lizzy laughed and immediately sent the photo to Doll's phone, Doll's phone did a ding for the notification.

Doll seated herself at her desk and took a look at the image, you couldn't see too much of the blueprint but could make out one of the part needed for the weapon, a Worker drone liver, Now, how Uzi knew this was needed for a gun, Doll did not know, But Uzi was an expert in engineering so who was she to question ,right?? It's not nearly as frightening or questionable as what Doll does almost every night for food...But alas, There wasn't a likely chance she'd find one of these livers easily, so she'd just have to give up.

Doll sat at the dining table of her robo-roach-infested-room, Her dead parent's corpses sitting In front of her across the table.

"Хочешь большего, папа? (Do you want more, Dad?)" Doll began talking to her dead parents again, she lifted up a worker drone arm she had stolen last night with her strange telekinesis power, a triangle shape surrounding 3 of her fingers and the dead arm, She used the magic to move It over to her Dad's champagne glass and watched the oil drip into the cup. She drank from her bowl filled with oil and got up to refill It, noticing there was no more. "Возможно, мне следовало получить больше прошлой ночью... (Maybe I should have gotten more last night...)" Doll looked back at her parent's corpses seated at the table, "Я получу больше, скоро вернусь (I'll get more, be back soon)".

The time was now 1 AM, (On Copper-9) Doll grabbed her backpack and a few mirrors from her room and snuck out into the empty halls, She entered the room with the first big door but she didn't have the key, like always, she used the solver to open the vent above her, she caught the vent door and held It In one arm, the other arm controlling the solver, The solver moved the mirrors she brought out of her backpack and into a floating staircase up to the vent.

"Хех, как говорится по-русски: по выброшенным зеркалам доберитесь до вентиляционной шахты. (Heh, as they say Russian: use the discarded mirrors as stairs to escape out of the ventilation shaft.)" Doll whispered under her breath grinning, she remembered her Mom telling her that saying.

She walked up the mirror-stairs, climbing into the vent, bringing the mirrors back up to her, she placed the vent door back in place and crawled through the vents, she had done this many times so she knew exactly what direction to go. she arrived at the end of the vent that lead outside the bunker into the cold plains of Copper-9, the vent being cleverly hidden from Murder drones, Doll used the solver to unscrew the screws that kept It shut tight and once they all fell, she kicked the vent door down and hopped onto the snow grounds, picking up the screws and placing it in her backpack's left pocket.

Doll took a deep breath and creeped along the snow, sure, there were no murder drones in sight, but "you can't be too careful." just as her Mom used to say. Doll searched but she couldn't find many body parts nearby, as she had taken the closer ones the previous nights she went outside. Doll looked up to see that she wondered to the point she was getting very close to the corpse spire Uzi was talking about in her presentation, built by the Murder drones themselves, she steadily walked up to It and peeked inside...

There was a LOT of 'food' laying around for the taking, It was such a mess but was to be expected from such cold-hearted-killers. Doll didn't spot any signs of a Murder drone nearby so she took the big risk and scurried inside the corpse tower, grabbing as many limbs or any drops of oil as quick as she could into her backpack. Once she got a pleasing amount, she put her bag back on her back and headed to leave but something caught her eye...

A glowing, neon green, Worker drone liver. Doll gazed at It, she never thought she'd come by one of these, she wouldn't have known It was a liver If they didn't have Robot anatomy this year. Wait...This means she could help Uzi! just like she wanted to, Doll scurried over to It and picked it up, examining Its features. Suddenly, Doll heard a noise, her head whipped behind her to see what It was but there was nothing detected through her eyes, her eyes narrowed In suspicion as she stared at nothing for a few more seconds, Doll sighed and headed out the corpse house until suddenly...

BANG!

Doll's neck moved her head to the side, and her solver In use on Instinct, catching the bullet, all this movement occurring for less than a second. Doll's neck made an unsettling crack sound as her head turned around. If any ordinary worker drone did that, their neck would've snapped causing instant death, But not Doll, for the solver protected her from damage. When her head twisted to see where the bullet came from, her face had a very threatening emotionless look, she saw a Murder drone that hid behind the landing pod in the middle of the corpse spire with a gun.

Doll pulled her middle finger back and suddenly flicked the bullet back at It with the solver, cracking the screen on Its face and damaging the Murder drone's vision. Doll fidgetily teleported behind the Murder drone and pulled out one of the shared on the broken mirrors in her backpack with the solver, she attempted to throw It at the Murder drone's neck but It flew towards her quickly, catching her off guard, It lands on the ground and proceeds to swipe at her with It's claws but the solver counters the attack. She struggles to to aim the mirrors correctly as It keeps flying at her, Doll teleports as far as possible in the corpse-dome but trips while doing so, she lands on the ground with a grunt and see's the murder drones turning around with the gun in hand before suddenly, a shard of mirror decapitates It as It's head falls to the ground with an error message, the rest of the body going limp and falling down with it.

Doll breathed intensely from the sudden battle that she won, she gets up off the ground and says "Так тебе и надо. (Serves you right.)" Doll grabs her backpack and picks up the mirrors she didn't use for the fight. "Мне нужно научиться телепортироваться более эффективно... (I need to learn how to teleport more efficiently...)" she mumbles, then notices a weird sound...she turns her head and tenses up as she sees the murder drone's body regenerating, Doll panics and grabs a worker arm and runs up to it and slaps it in the head with said arm.

The murder drone makes a few beep sounds before it reveals a friendly face, not the usual X across their faces but two simple yellow dots like a worker drone.

"Did you just slap me with that arm?" The friendly murder drone who just tried to kill her teased, Doll had the most confused look on her face, not knowing what to even say...

...

"что. (What.)"

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