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    "Mom, come pick me up, I’m scared.” - Three maybe, whatever the fuck spacefuture year it is

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    “Did you bite one of them on the ear?”

    “Closest thing I could reach,” Ratthi says, sounding strangely cheerful. “Incidentally, you can actually bite off part of someone’s ear if you’re trying hard enough. Volescu was wrong about that one.”

    “I don’t think Volescu ever said anything about ears.” Once they’d gotten on jaw augments, the conversation had gone off the rails pretty quickly. If it had ever been on the rails to begin with. Which it hadn’t.

    It’s difficult to imagine Ratthi biting someone’s ear off. It’s also difficult to imagine Ratthi choking someone into unconsciousness, and Gurathin’s pretty sure that one also happened.

    When Gurathin volunteered to keep Ratthi company on the shuttle, he wasn't expecting the shuttle to get stolen with them on it. He wasn't expecting their captors to be both violent and idiots, and he really wasn't expecting the part where Ratthi bit someone holding an energy weapon.

    This would all be so much easier if he had augmented jaws.

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    Planets are dumb and dangerous, but at this point I'd argued— okay, more like complained— complargued so many times that nobody except ART was still willing to argufy back.

    (That stands for argue-pacify, in case it isn't obvious. I think it's not obvious. And no, I hadn't forgiven ART yet for saying I needed pacifying.)

    Anyway, I was currently complarguing from my seat in the back of the snow-capable bot-driven transport heading out to the middle of nowhere, so I had the sneaking suspicion I'd lost the fight.

    Murderbot accompanies its humans on a winter vacation. Then the storm hits.

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    Ratthi bounced up to me with a concerning smile. About fifteen percent of that time, that smile came before an invitation to something I wanted — a new musical, a new serial, some event where my humans (and only my humans) would be present. Another twenty percent of the time, that smile came ahead of something I didn’t mind doing, and so would participate in for Ratthi’s sake.

    The other sixty-five percent, it was something I very much did not want to do, but would, for Ratthi’s sake.

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    “Did you know,” Three said, “that over half of the stars in the universe are part of a multiple star system?”

    (Prompt #21: Planet)

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    How old is SecUnit? I field hesitantly.

    Perihelion remains silent for another fifteen seconds.

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    This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?

    Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?

    Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.

    This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.

    Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.

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    (When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)

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    - Babysitting hardly ever involves an actual baby
    - You are not supposed to sit on the “baby”
    - No, not even if that would be tactically expedient

     

    Three times SecUnit plays babysitter (plus one time that’s not what happens).

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      “Oh, good, SecUnit,” Ratthi said over his shoulder. “Here.” He stood, something small cradled in his hands, a soft little smile on his face.

      It was a plant. A very small plant, in a small clay pot that looked hand-painted. Ratthi held it out to me.

      “It was a gift from Volescu. Isn’t it precious?” I’ll admit, it kind of was. “But I’m worried it’ll get dropped, or crushed, or —“ he gestured at the large numbers of humans and augmented humans around, many of whom were visibly intoxicated and exhibiting reduced physical coordination. “I was hoping you’d take care of it for me.”

      He had a good point; parties were dangerous. I accepted the pot. It was lighter than I expected, and the little plant (which I designated Flora One) quivered with the movement.

      Ratthi smiled at Flora One again, and said, “I have to go. The band’s about to start. But I think… If you put a chair over there,” and he nodded to a shadowy area just inside the enclosed part of the tent, “you should be able to see the band and keep away from other people.” He nodded meaningfully. “So that the plant is safe.”

       

      MB (self-designated babysitter) gets kidnapped by fauna and sat on. How the turns have tabled.

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    When a terraforming inspection team from The Divarti Cluster is cut off from rescue by a deadly storm, they think the one team member from Preservation is foolish to expect a rescue. Dr. Ratthi knows that his friends will come get them no matter how bad the odds seem.

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    When Three is seriously injured on a routine mission, SecUnit is forced to re-evaluate its stance on friendship

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    A podfic of No Protocol For Burnt Food by RoundedLoaf.

    "I’m confused at why these humans insist on performing additional work to make food when there is no lack of access to meal packs. On assignment, complaints about access to specific types of meal packs had caused a significant number of fights and productivity-costing injury.

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    Three goes to Preservation, goes on nature walks and learns to bake."

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    I’m confused at why these humans insist on performing additional work to make food when there is no lack of access to meal packs. On assignment, complaints about access to specific types of meal packs had caused a significant number of fights and productivity-costing injury.

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    Three goes to Preservation, goes on nature walks and learns to bake.

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    When Three's pulmonary system is compromised during a mission, Murderbot lets it borrow one of its lungs. Shenanigans ensue.

    We were planning to tell ART about the lung situation right after I took a recharge cycle, I promise. But then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were standing at the airlock, ready to be deployed on our next mission.

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    SecUnit is in pain all the time. So what? It has pain sensors it can adjust for a reason.

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    Even though 1's feed connection is disabled, they both turn their heads to look at me. They are making an expression. They are so focused on me.

    "Armour off," says 2.

    "Protocol requires—"

    "Fuck protocol," says 2. "Take it off."

    "No. Let us take it off," says 1.

    SecUnits 1 and 2 survive. With all three of them together— and ungoverned— 3 discovers that there are things it wasn't aware 1 and 2 wanted to do to it.

    Things it has no objection to.

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    A podfic of The Chinchilla Conspiracy by FlipSpring.

    "ART said, Relax, it is not a serious security concern.

     

    I’ll be the judge of that.

     

    It is a chinchilla. It’s harmless.

     

    I didn’t know what the fuck a “chinchilla” was supposed to be, but I hated the sound of it already.
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    Murderbot provides security for a group of students aboard a certain educational research and teaching vessel. SecUnit 3 and Amena are among these students.
    Also there's a chinchilla."

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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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    Three observes that the humans on board The Perihelion do not touch SecUnits. This does not upset it. Of course not. That would be a strange thing to be upset about.

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    You are accustomed to a certain sense of helplessness. It is inevitable, as your designated role is to watch over those you hold within yourself. You can protect your crew from the vast, unforgiving vacuum of the universe outside of your hull, but you cannot protect them from danger that comes from within. You cannot save your SecUnit from itself.

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    ART makes a troubling discovery about Murderbot and construct biology.

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