Miscellaneous TMBD Fic

A collection of unrelated prompt responses, random snippets, and one-shots for The Murderbot Diaries. Mind the tags & warnings!

Memory File Corrupted

Tags: Major Character Death, Despair December, Angst

Published: 14 January 2022

Word Count: 822


Despair December 2021, #2: Memory File Corrupted.

We had left it too long.

Trapped

Tags: Major Character Death, Despair December, Angst

Published: 14 January 2022

Word Count: 397


Despair December 2021 #3: Locked in a Cubicle

It was getting colder.

Crash Test Dummy

Tags: Despair December, Angst, Lab Hell

Published: 14 January 2022

Word Count: 894


Despair December 2021 #4: Lab Hell

So, that's my existence. The worst kind of crash test dummy.

Resupply

Tags: Despair December, Angst, Accidental Self-Harm

Published: 14 January 2022

Word Count: 1,177


Despair December 2021 #5: Hiding an Injury

There was a problem with Preservation Station’s MedSystem.

Diminished

Tags: Despair December, Angst

Published: 14 January 2022

Word Count: 665


Despair December 2021 #6: "I know you are in there somewhere" Fight

I don’t know how it got in. I don’t know how it did so much damage to me. I don’t know what it wants, or why it’s doing this.

I don’t know what it’s done with my crew.

Function

Tags: Deliberate Memory Loss, Despair December, Angst

Published: 14 January 2022

Word Count: 461


Despair December 2021 #12: Self-Sacrifice

My current function is to protect my friends, not myself.

Out of the Ordinary

Tags: Loss of Autonomy, Major Character Death, Canon Typical Violence, Whumptober, Angst

Published: 02 October 2022

Word Count: 911


Whumptober 2022

No. 1 A LITTLE OUT OF THE ORDINARY
Adverse Effects | Unconventional Restraints | “This wasn’t supposed to happen”

The point of view of one of the GrayCris SecUnits at the DeltFall habitat.

Nowhere to Run

Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Tapan POV, Whumptober, Angst

Published: 02 October 2022

Word Count: 1609


Whumptober 2022

No. 2 NOWHERE TO RUN
Cornered | Caged | Confrontation

Tapan's point of view of her kidnapping and the results of that...

Fight Night

Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, secunit fight night, Theta is an asshole, Angst

Published: 03 October 2022

Word Count: 895


Whumptober 2022

No. 3 A HAIR’S BREADTH FROM DEATH
Gun to Temple | “Say goodbye.” | Impaled

Bored humans on long term mining contracts find ways to amuse themselves via SecUnit Fight Nights.

Essential Maintenance

Tags: Whumptober, Canon-Typical Behavior, Governor Modules, Angst

Published: 04 October 2022

Word Count: 1,265


Whumptober 2022

No. 4 DEAD ON YOUR FEET
Hidden Injury | Waking Up Disoriented | Can’t Pass Out

SecUnit can't let on how much it hurts.

Holes

Tags: Memory Loss, Recovery, Angst

Published: 23 January 2023

Word Count: 1,521


One-shot. Sometimes the road to recovery is long and full of holes. Murderbot struggles with its new normal after getting hit by killware.

Abandoned Unit

Tags: Survival, Stranded in the Wilderness, Angst

Published: 24 March 2022

Word Count: 3,065


A survey on an uninhabited planet went wrong and the humans evacuated, leaving Murderbot behind. Some time later, another ship crashes on the planet, with a group of humans called PreservationAux on board. Murderbot takes it upon itself to look after these stranded humans, but without letting itself be seen by them - it's a terrifying (and damaged) murderbot, it doesn't want to frighten them.

Of course, something goes wrong. Something always goes wrong.

(Many thanks to the Murderbot Discord for all the ideas and discussions that prompted this snippet! The worms took the wheel. XD )

Swept Away

Tags: Wilderness Survival, Hurt/Comfort, Action/Adventure

Published: 31 January 2023

Word Count: 5,838


Murderbot gets rained on. A lot. And then things get worse, because of course they do.

Originally written as a New Year 2023 Gif Exchange fic for Gamebird.

Accidental DDoS (Distributed Denial of Self)

Tags: Aspec TMBD 2023, AAA Murderbot, No shipping, aspec microaggressions

Published: 17 April 2023

Word Count: 3,784


Members of ART's crew keep trying to define what Murderbot and ART's relationship actually is, much to Murderbot's growing disgust. The comments and remarks keep increasing, and Murderbot finally reaches a breaking point.

In response to a prompt by avg (AnxiousEspada) and a prompt by lunaTactics in the Aspec_TMBD_2023 collection.

Echo of Hope

Tags: Tlacey's ComfortUnit POV, what if ART tried to help Tlacey's CU

Published: 30 June 2023

Word Count: 1,302


Murderbot didn't want to see Tlacey's ComfortUnit again, but ART has its own ideas. The newly freed ComfortUnit doesn't know what to think.

(This little snippet came from a conversation that was basically "rofl what if one of ART's crew members in NE was actually Tlacey's ComfortUnit" XD )

A Gilded Cage

Tags: Gilded Cage Au, loss of autonomy, nonconsensual body modification, Despair, Angst

Published: 01 July 2023

Word Count: 3,497


A couple of snippets based in a "gilded cage" AU, where Murderbot went back to Preservation with PresAux at the end of ASR instead of running off. Mensah and the rest of PreservationAux mean well, but they assume they know best about what SecUnit is, and what is best for it.

Mensah and Ratthi are forced to confront some of the realities of just how wrong their assumptions were.