[Open RP]

[sm_art_ass]

TFLN • ACTION • TEXT

[ Open RP post! For TFLN overflow, PSLs, random prompts/memes, etc. Feel free to leave a starter if you so choose.
Prose preferred but I am also good with action, pick what's most comfortable for you and hit me up for anything you like! ]

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[sm_art_ass]

Noted.

[ 1 minute later, 12 drones the size of a small beetle come flying through the door of the room SecUnit is in, in a neat triangle shape formation. They are all black except one, that is a little bigger and colored with an iridescent metallic hue of dark blue. Not unlike a real blue beetle.

That one breaks formation and starts circling SecUnit's head. It won't object to being grabbed and examined closely, but if SecUnit doesn't touch it, then it will simply land on its right shoulder. ]

Say hi.

[secunit]

[ Murderbot's not a human, it doesn't grab drones with its hands. It does, however, gather up the controls for the eleven standard drones first, while the strange one comes in for a landing on its shoulder. Only once it has the inputs from the eleven sorted and tagged, and has given them patrol instructions, does it turn its attention to its... passenger. ]

You did something strange with this one.

[ A statement; also a question. ]

[sm_art_ass]

How very observant. What gave it away?

[ Despise the playful ribbing, ART made the drone different on purpose, so of course it was expecting SecUnit to ask about it. Waiting for it, really. ]

That one comes equipped with threat discouragement capabilities

[ Aka, it is armed. Only with a stun mini gun, due to the small size limiting the power core, but still. ]

[secunit]

[ It is, of course, scanning the little drone even as ART informs it of the modification. ]

Interesting.

[ Probably not very useful directly as a weapon; for its own part, energy weapons only piss it off. But Murderbot's awfully good at finding creative uses for stuff. It could do stuff like short out enemy drones with that, possibly.

It's already pondering various ideas as it takes the controls to the little drone and has it lift off again, then... tuck itself into one of Murderbot's many sealable pockets. ]

I'll try not to break this one.

[ Not that it likes getting any of its drones destroyed, but, you know. It's usually for a good reason when it happens. Emotional collapse-fueled rage-kills using up too many drones per target, aside. ]

[sm_art_ass]

Thank you.

[ ART let go of the control of the first drones the moment it felt SecUnit's presence in the feed taking over, and it does the same with the last one. A smooth and easy change of owner, so to speak. ]

I know you don't waste them on purpose. Even if they get destroyed, that's fine; they are accomplishing their function, in a way. Which is to help keep you safe.

[ Better it's drones than you is what ART's saying. ]