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Face to Face by FascinatedFinch, molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Oct 2025
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Murderbot is face to face with the SecUnit it kills at DeltFall. A drabble from this SecUnit's POV, followed by a drabble from Murderbot's POV. With art by FascinatedFinch.
I shoved its hand up under its chin and took the pressure off its weapon. It had a split second to try to abort that fire command and it failed. (from All Systems Red)
(Pardon me, excuse me, ignore this if needed: reposted again, this time with a rewritten second drabble. I think after this I'll be able let this one rest forever.)
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- Part 5 of Molecular Drabbles
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On his twentieth mission helping indentured miners escape, Lutran thinks about what he's accomplished.
(This is the first (and currently only) Lutran-tagged work on AO3! I figured he's a hero who died for his cause and deserves a little POV.)
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Iris and Peri find a memo from the company about SecUnit. Iris takes the heartlessly cruel message and transforms it into something that better reflects SecUnit's true worth.
For the Murderbot September 2025 prompts: Iris | Mihira and New Tideland | Blackout Poetry
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When Iris can’t get to Martyn’s bedside in time, Murderbot and ART relay her final words of comfort to her dad.
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- Part 5 of 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴 (ART & MB fics)
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considerable trouble and considerable joy by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Aug 2025
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“Can I come? Please?” Huck asked.
I hesitated. There was so much trust in that question, but it felt bittersweet, since I’d done so little to earn it. I’d wanted to do more, but with every act of affection or fierce protection curtailed by the governor module, I’d been little more than a reassuring presence.
As Huck looked up at me, his chin dripping tears, I realized how much I valued that trust. I had an answer to a question I’d never been free to ask: What did I want?
After its governor module is hacked, Nova risks its new freedom by returning to the mining installations of RaviHyral to search for Astra, Tlacey’s other ComfortUnit.
Along the way, Nova will encounter an abandoned SecUnit, an illicit troupe of performers dramatizing the injustice of the Corporation Rim, and Tlacey’s son, Huck, a child who is also in need of a chance at freedom from the cruelty of Rim life.
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Hands to Hearts | Iridescent by molecular_machine, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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In a quiet moment shortly after the events of System Collapse, Murderbot and Amena have a chance to take their friendship to a new level through an astounding display of care and trust: it agrees to let her paint its nails.
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The Junkyard Society of Discarded Robots by DoomNightAt12, Kitsunebaba, molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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Murderbot is once again injured while saving careless humans from certain death, but the company techs decide it’s too damaged to be repaired. It must keep its hacked governor module a secret and survive in a junkyard full of broken bots. Murderbot finds unexpected help and hope, but can it truly escape?
With art by DoomNightAt12, story by molecular_machine, and podfic by Kitsunebaba.
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- Part 2 of Still on Inventory (standalone fics)
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I take hits to my shoulder and back, right through my cheap-ass ACME armor.
The Exit Strategy dock fight, except make it Looney.
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Eighty-five indentured laborers are trapped with little food and no way out. Can one SecUnit help them escape through the Gate despite the obstructions and objections of its governor module?
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- Part 3 of Still on Inventory (standalone fics)
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Murderbot remembers Amena while carefully braiding the hair of Amena’s child.
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- Part 3 of 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴 (ART & MB fics)
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POV of the PortSec worker who opens the security barrier for Dr. Mensah during the Exit Strategy dock fight
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My armor is your armor by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Apr 2025
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Three has trouble articulating its offer to Murderbot.
(Yes, it had taken 2.3 minutes of questioning by both me and ART and Overse and Turi to figure out what it was trying to tell us.)
—from System Collapse
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- Part 4 of Molecular Drabbles
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With Murderbot’s cubicle broken, the Combat SecUnit is called upon to repair the damage from their latest test match. A construct mutual maintenance interlude from Lab Hell.
Intended to be readable without prior NULLverse experience.
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Tarik’s butt (and other ways to keep the SecUnit fan club a secret) by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Mar 2025
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Five times ART’s crew kept SecUnit from finding out that the students were swooning over it. And one time they didn’t.
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A Grand Romantic Gesture by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Mar 2025
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Gurathin had planned his grand romantic gesture for SecUnit so carefully. So why can’t he shake the feeling that something is wrong?
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The tense hours in the damaged Network Effect safepod, from Ratthi’s POV
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Chapter one of Network Effect from three alternative POVs: the Stupid Boat’s crew, Potential Target Leader, and the planet’s unusually divergent/deeply weird seafaring inhabitants
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Original [Redaction] by molecular_machine for Gamebird
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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A pre-hack Murderbot helps a client survive after a hostile fauna encounter.
Okay, the thing I didn't tell anybody about my right leg getting eaten in the altered memory sequence: I'm 73 percent certain that never happened to me, but there's an 89 percent chance I did see that happen to a human at some point. (from System Collapse)
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- Part 1 of Still on Inventory (standalone fics)
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After an accident, Murderbot is adrift in a damaged ART shuttle.
Now with an added chapter and a new ending!
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- Part 4 of 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴 (ART & MB fics)
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Clash of the Cargo Bots by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Jan 2025
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Can Murderbot contain the combat code that is spreading through the bots of Preservation Station without causing rampant destruction and chaos? No, no it can’t.
So they caught me with half a bomb when they brought me in for fighting some hijacked bots in the ports… It was clash of the cargo bots, like BattleSmasher III The Smashening or some shit. (from No Compliance: Under Preservation)
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