crawlingvoid
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Murderbot, post-memory wipe and capture by the Company, is very suddenly freed by a familiar transport ship.
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shield cold enough to freeze by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Jan 2026
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For a second I catch myself thinking about what all I can’t see, even on a clear day, under the surface. Of course, there’s things like fish and rocks and mud, maybe a shipwreck if we’re being generous, but I couldn’t for sure see any of it. Who knows what else might be down there?
After all, there is a lot of water beneath me.
I'm still chewing on that thought when I spot it: A smooth, snakelike appendage, slithering over the edge of my ship and onto the faux-wood of the deck.
Fitting, huh? Yeah.
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In which ART and (its) SecUnit hang around with each other.
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Murderbot grapples with being caught in a small explosion. ART grapples with its mutual administrative assistant finding its way into emergency surgery for the nth time.
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Alien grooms roommate like a cat? Not clickbait?? by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: Fire and Stone (Comics), Life and Death (Dark Horse Comics), Aliens vs Predators Series - Various Authors
14 Apr 2024
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In which Ahab attempts grooming his loved ones like a cat.
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Turnaround Time (TAT)
[noun]
The total duration from the making of a request to its completion and delivery.—
Or,
Finally, with palpable resignation, ART asked, 'What do you need, Secunit?'
I pushed myself off of the wall and walked to the nearest medical table. Slowly and deliberately, as though the beat of my central circulatory pumps wasn’t pounding in my ears, I turned around and leaned back onto my hands. The small of my back came to rest against the edge of the platform. When I tilted my head all the way back and found the lens of ART’s camera, my mouth split into a smile that I hadn’t planned.
I said, “You.”
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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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07 Jan 2026
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A vote takes place on Preservation. Murderbot and ART consider their options.
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30 Dec 2025
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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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28 Dec 2025
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Humans were screaming, I was sprinting toward the problem, and the sky was unleashing a chill, torrential rain that made me nostalgic for getting hosed off in the security ready room.
It should have been the perfect day.
Well, not for the screaming people trapped in the collapsed building. Their day probably sucked. For me, it was exactly what I needed.
More than anything, I really needed there to be a problem, because if there wasn’t then I was the problem.
And there's only one kind of problem a rogue SecUnit can be.