Cryptid Drones

Dead End Redesignation

Cryptid Drone Chapter 11: Dead End Redesignation

Indicate

() = action of character

Bold = time skip to a certain point.

[ ] = translated (yeah, I am not using Google translate and mess up the translation)

___ = Voice Censor

"" = thoughts

The scene begins with a beautiful beach where seagulls squawk in the background. This beach is revealed to be a background on a computer monitor in an office setting. The lights suddenly flicker and go out as a Worker Drone, Amda, hides under the desk. She peeks out to see the paralyzed body of a fellow drone stuck in a boot loop. She crawls slowly towards her colleague to try and reach them as a claw emerges from the shadows. She doesn't notice this, however, as she finally reaches her fallen friend. Finally noticing, Amda looks to her side to see a blue light flash, and she drags the drone by the foot. She stops to resume her hiding position until she works up the courage to finish pulling the drone. But before she can reach it, two creatures grab the drone and tear it apart, oil spilling everywhere. She quickly resumes hiding when a blue light shines before her. What was revealed was a raptor-like drone called Sentinel. A Sentinel has found her location. As she tries to escape, the Sentinel flashes a beam of light into her eyes, boot-looping her. The Sentinel crawls down and, presumably, feasts on her while a security camera captures all of this moment.

Continuing from the last time with Ghot and her friends, they encountered Doll alongside J and Tessa.

N: (Confuse) T-Tessa...?

Tessa: (Hugs N) N! You remember– (She begins coughing.) Tall, handsome... Air's toxic... (Notices Uzi) Who is this little– (Uzi bites her finger.) Ah!

Uzi: Uzi! Why are you here, human?! (Notices J) Real tired of killing this one.

J: (Strokes her hair back) Effective drones were cloned more.

Ghot: Ah, so first, that was you whom Uzi killed. For being an effective drone, you didn't last longer than N or even D, for that matter.

J: (Angrily growl) Why you-

N: (Chuckling) It is you.

V: Classic J.

D: (Waving at J shyly) Hello J... Wait, if you were cloned, had you seen my other teammates, E and F?

J: (thinks of previous time) Unfortunately, I hadn't seen them around. The cloning machine said they are still active. So why ask?

D: (side eye) Um....

Tessa: Discussion for later; Cyn disappeared on Earth–

J: Boss ran away.

Tessa: (Annoyed) We mutually disengaged. Her last known act was siccing you a lot on the human exoplanets.

N: Why?

J: (Land back to the ground) That's what we're trying to figure out, bozo.

Suddenly, Doll uses her Absolute Solver to snatch the bug on top of Tessa's head into her hands and takes off.

Doll: (In Russian) [Sorry, Ghot, but I must go on ahead.]

Ghot: (Confused) Wait, why did-

Tessa: That's... kind of a big piece.

J deploys her wings as Ghot realizes something.

Ghot: (Active her power) I... do not like the sound of what J is about to pull off...