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27 minutes in, shaking but still hanging on, her breath gone ragged, Mensah worried this had all been for nothing.
Murderbot gets captured at TranRollinHyfa before it can rescue Mensah. Can Mensah instead use her strength and bravery to retrieve SecUnit from GrayCris before it’s too late?
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- Part 4 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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Murderbot is stressed, analyzing and reanalyzing the events and memories of [redacted]. It doesn’t want a hug or a chat, but Dr. Mensah’s presence could still be a comfort.
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- Part 3 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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Subjective Eternity by molecular_machine for ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Mar 2026
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Mensah is in distress. SecUnit wants to help with a hug.
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- Part 2 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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Fugitive Effect by molecular_machine for gleomu
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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I planted my feet and skidded to a stop an inch from its immobile face, eye to mechanical eye, my aimed energy weapons bracketing its head. This close I could see the blades of its false irises rotating, adjusting to my sudden proximity, the only movement it was making.
What the fuck was I supposed to do now?
And then it pinged me.
It's Murderbot's worst nightmare: a Combat SecUnit on Preservation Station. The unexpected arrival brings trouble, but not in the way Murderbot imagined.
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Murderbot needs to purchase its first set of clothing. It receives some subtle assistance.
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- Part 10 of Molecular Drabbles
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m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics) by molecular_machine
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Mar 2026
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Stories of varying length and tone with one thing in common: Mensah. There's a focus on Mensah as a strong and capable person, and Mensah's important platonic connection to Murderbot. Fics are standalone and may be read in any order.
- Words:
- 7,296
- Works:
- 4
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Still on Inventory (standalone fics) by DoomNightAt12, Kitsunebaba, molecular_machine
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Oct 2025
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A series of unrelated fics in which a SecUnit (usually Murderbot) is on company inventory and dealing with its governor module, or hiding its hack of its governor module.
The fics are arranged semi-chronologically relative to Murderbot's timeline, but they can be read independently and in any order. All are a balance of angst with hope, except for everything, this, me especially which is more of a mix of fluff, angst and humor.
Stories by molecular_machine, with art and podfic by DoomNightAt12 and Kitsunebaba in The Junkyard Society of Discarded Robots.
- Words:
- 22,315
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 17
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Molecular Drabbles by FascinatedFinch, molecular_machine
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Dec 2025
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Murderbot drabbles that are unrelated to each other except by length, so check the tags and ratings on each work.
Written by molecular_machine, with art by FascinatedFinch in Face to Face.
- Words:
- 1,245
- Works:
- 10
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𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴 (ART & MB fics) by molecular_machine
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Sep 2025
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A collection of unrelated post-canon short stories about ART and Murderbot sticking together during difficult times. All are sad, none are hopeless. Arranged in order from least to most sad (individual results may vary), with only the first fic being pretty gentle. Their relationship is portrayed as somewhere on the friendship/ partnership/ queerplatonic type spectrums.
- Words:
- 9,089
- Works:
- 5
- Bookmarks:
- 5
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Disaster Squad Detours (NULLverse ficlets) by molecular_machine
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Apr 2025
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Short works set in FlipSpring's NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad canon divergence series. Tone and content varies, so check individual tags and warnings. Context is provided in each fic, if you want to read these as standalones, although reading NULLverse is recommended because it is awesome. The fics in this series are all "NULLverse canon compliant" bonus scenes that are arranged in order of the corresponding inspired-by work.
- Words:
- 5,528
- Works:
- 6
- Bookmarks:
- 5
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Podfic of "Sanctuary Murder Mystery Moon" by OccasionalStorytelling by Murderboy (1happydaiz) for molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Mar 2026
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Murderbot accompanies Ratthi, Pin-Lee, and Amena on a trip to the set of Sanctuary Moon. What should have been an easy contract turns into a broken set SecUnit, a murder mystery, and a little bit of trauma, but Murderbot doesn't have to do this all on its own.
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Condition Report (Stormy with a Chance of Amphibians) by pellucid_prose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Mar 2026
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As Planetary Admin, Dr. Mensah occasionally has to take part in maintaining inter-local political relationships - one of those being with Preservation’s educational establishments. Also, she wouldn't exactly wish her youngest on an unwitting chaperone.
Or: Dr. Mensah, a few assorted adult humans, 28 juvenile humans, and a Murderbot go on a field trip.
(It's like no one even CARES that Murderbot hates planets!)
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Murderbot finds out about some new options to solve the logo problem. There may be some consequences and ART isn't on board with the idea.
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caregiver_package_human(adolescent).exe by lionofsounis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Dec 2021
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Look, I didn’t want to see Amena crying again. For one thing, it was awkward and gross, and for another thing, I guess I sort of liked her and I didn’t want her to be sad. But after we’d talked to Mensah, Amena had gone back to the bunkroom I’d claimed for her.
Which also happened to be the bunkroom I’d claimed for myself.
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[podfic] Emotional Context by The Voice Of The Radish (I_D_Clare) for Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
11 Mar 2026
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
Podfic of Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Bookmarked by molecular_machine
07 Oct 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Great podfic
Last listened to chapter 2
(Complete of what's written)