Another Angst Idea, This Time For The Murderbot Series. (MCD)

Another angst idea, this time for the Murderbot series. (MCD)

Something has seized physical control of MB and is causing it to rampage while MB is basically stuck in its own head.

The only thing it can do is to call out warnings or for help over the feed.

MB manages to connect to ART and beg it to stop it.

The only problem is that ART is so far away and there’s no systems around except MB that ART has any control over.

The only way for ART to stop MB is to fry its systems.

ART doesn’t want to do it but MB is distraught and begging it to stop it because it’s in the middle of massacring its humans and tells ART to stop it by any means necessary.

ART caves.

It reaches out into MB’s systems, sharing the space like they have done before, allowing ART to feel what MB does.

MB’s head feels like it’s underwater, and systems go dark as ART cuts them off from MB’s awareness.

The pain, vision, and sense of time all fade away.

It’s just MB and ART alone in the nothingness, plunging MB into an artificial calm.

It reminds MB of when it had been held when it was too injured to walk on its own.

ART says goodbye.

And pulls the trigger.

ART had already cut off MB’s ability to feel pain, so it didn’t feel the electricity shooting through its systems, frying organic and inorganic parts alike.

One moment Murderbot had been floating in the digital void, and the next there was no more Murderbot to feel anything at all.

On the planet below, MB’s body collapsed.

ART would never completely forgive itself.

Chamomile and lavender tea, maybe?

Oh no, someone dropped Techno into a particularly large, half full teacup. I hope he doesn’t drown.

I think he'll be okay

The stonks meme, but the guy is Kronk and it says stronks

Meanwhile, in the city of angst:

A knock on a door, a boy answers, anxiously awaiting his father’s return.

Bad news is shared. Guilty. Eaten.

A tragic loss, a preventable loss.

A loss brought on by a boy’s lie, a false claim of innocence.

Accusations fly, and brother turns against brother.

It’s your fault he’s gone, it should have been you.

Words that can’t be taken back.

Grief for a father that they will never see again in the mortal world.

And now, the loss of a brother to betrayal.

Gods au

Phil lives in a city with his kids.

One day, his eldest child is accused of big boy crimes, the kind of crimes that get you executed.

So Phil asks for a trial in the eyes of the god of justice, with Phil being a stand in for a trial by proxy, which he can do because his eldest is still a minor.

If the god finds his child committed no crime, Phil will go free. But if Phil’s kid is found guilty, the god will kill Phil, but his kid goes free.

So off Phil is dragged to the high temple of the god of justice and blood.

Cut to Techno.

He’s doing his godly duties, visiting his high temple in the form he usually uses for these kinds of things.

He’s a giant hog about 3 carts long, absolutely massive.

The last thing he has to do is pass Judgement in the main temple hall.

The accused or their proxies are lined up on either side of the center of the main hall, awaiting judgment. Techno walks past most, the innocent, few are foolish enough to try to fool the god of justice. Those who do try to fool him, he kills painfully.

There are also the proxies of the guilty, though. Those who committed no crime, and only seek to protect their children. There are a few, and their deaths are swift, almost painless.

Techno comes to the last to be judged. Now here is a dilemma. He’s a proxy for the guilty, but he’s also been marked by the goddess of death for protection, so he can’t kill him. But Techno can’t let him go.

Techno panics a little. What does he do?

He has to serve justice, but he can’t kill him.

An idea pops into Techno’s head, and he goes with it.

Techno lunges forward and snatches the man from the ground with his mouth, pulling him inside completely, and makes a swift exit.

With any luck, everyone at the temple will think the man was killed.

Now Techno has to figure out what to do with the rather squirmy proxy in his mouth, though.

The man obviously can’t go back home, that would violate the whole god of justice thing Techno has going on.

Maybe Techno… could take him home? Just until Techno can figure out what to do with him?

Yeah, that works.

Just take the terrified man back to the god’s home. It’s fine. Maybe he can call the goddess of death to come pick him up or something. No big deal.

I adore this. Assigned Friendship at Death Penalty is such a fun idea. Especially when one friend is a giant terrifying diefic piggie. Does Philza know the god hog can speak? Will Techno's introversion lead to silly charade hijinks. Will Kristin find the whole thing hilarious because she was telling Philza that he needed more friends anyway? So much fun to be had!

Maybe because it’s a crime to eat it unless you happen to die from natural causes and she convinces someone to let her keep it.

when am i going to meet a woman who wants to eat my heart unironically

Just wait until other people start paying Techno in teeth. Or just giving them to him.

Any time an animal dies they take the teeth just in case the weird godling with a dental obsession comes around.

Techno goes to a bakery and gets teeth sprinkled on top of his cupcake.

Silly fic AU where Techno is a godling who sheds tusks which are super magical (think unicorn horns) and Kristin is the tooth fairy desperately trying to work out how much money to put under his pillow