Murder Drones Ep 4 Novels & Stories

She targeted the drone's power core, the small Barzil battery that kept it aloft. Short. It wasn't a sound. It was a sensation—a snap of tension breaking. A spark of black lightning jumped from her finger to the drone. The machine didn't explode. It simply died. The red eye winked out. The thrusters cut. Gravity reclaimed the metal carcass. It dropped out of the air, striking the thick sludge below. The sound was heavy. Glorp. No splash—just the wet swallow of the mire claiming the metal. It sank without a bubble.

Caleb growled. The voice glitched, static tearing through every syllable. “Coming… for… you.” The light died and the hum stopped. And the drone, without warning, exploded into dust, not fire and not shards. Just dust, looking gray and fine, scattering across the floor like it had never existed at all. Nobody moved. Hutchins was pale as paper. “Okay, I… I think we all….” “Shut up,” Derek said without even looking at him. Adrian’s eyes were on me, searching my face for something. Maybe a reaction or maybe fear. I didn’t give him either.

I yanked the necklace off her and got closer to her, whispering, "He's not dead, you say? In my eyes, a cheating Alpha is as good as dead." Desiree froze in place, unable to move. I took back the mic; I was about to continue speaking when a figure in a tattered outfit suddenly appeared before my eyes. "I'm alive, Bethany," Sampson choked. "I'm home."

They were not birds. They were drones. Thousands of them. Jason stared upward. Where did those come from? Richard's face became pale. They've found us. Who? Richard looked at Ethan. The people who built Eternity. A voice came from the nearest drone. Ethan Blake. He looked up. You have been identified as the primary anomaly. Jason stepped forward. Leave him alone. The voice continued. You have forty seconds to surrender. Ethan smiled. What happens after forty seconds? The drone answered.

Enraged, they hurled stones and dirty water at me. "Officer, execute him as soon as possible! We won't feel safe otherwise!" "Damn it–this kind of monster kills, dumps the body, cheats on his wife, and still tries to frame her? He deserves to die!" "He must be a psychopath–who else would murder someone and dump the body in broad daylight?" Suddenly, a thought struck me. I struggled again and shouted, "Officer–after all this, who exactly are you saying I killed?"

"Drake told me what happened. We came as soon as we heard. I'm so sorry for your loss. What can we do?" "Well, needless to say, we closed down the main lobby and casino for the day and the crime scene has remained untouched," Kellen said. "We were hoping you might share some insight as to the crime. We also wish to discuss other crimes in the area." Xander nodded. "Yes, of course." Then he turned to me. "This is Kalyssa Carran, our new Mate." My head snapped up, but I said nothing. "She's a veterinarian and her clinic just burned down," Xander replied. "And it was clearly arson. I suspect the crimes may be related."

"Hold them off!" Xander didn't shift, but he let the Alpha-Prime energy pool in his fists, hitting the drones with raw kinetic force. They weren't just stealing data; they were taking back the stolen dignity of their kind. As the drive turned green, the team vanished into the night, leaving the ATG Tower humming with the sound of a billion lost credits. While the Quads fought in the glass canyons of Chicago, Evangeline stood in a much older cathedral.

I sent a pulse of obsidian shadow through the water, a shockwave that short-circuited the first two drones before they could fire. I spun, my silver-obsidian wings acting as rudders, and slammed my dagger into the sensory array of the third drone. The machine bucked, sending a jolt of electricity through my arm, but I didn't let go. I pushed the Void into the machine until it exploded in a cloud of bubbles and sparks. The fourth drone fired its harpoon. It grazed my shoulder, tearing through my suit and leaving a trail of blood in the water. "ZORA!" Dante roared.

“I quit running.” I rotated my hand. The bolt spun around. It hit the chest of the drone. The machine shuddered, sprayed, and exploded in a hail of metal and fire. It was still on the riverbed. The third drone moved away and rose in the air. Then it vanished in the clouds like something that never was. “Why did it not attack?” Malek asked, still gazing at the burning wreck. I dropped upon my knees in weariness. ****** We crouched in the ancient riverbed till darkness crept in through the trees.

Something very old and very powerful had taken her place. “Killian…” Her voice wasn't a whisper. It was a roar that made the whole mountain tremble. It sounded like a hundred people speaking at the same time. Outside, the drones were only a few feet away from Killian. He was ready to die. His body was bleeding and bruised from the metal scraps of the drones he had already smashed. But suddenly, the machines stopped. Their engines went quiet. One by one, their red eyes turned blue. Then, they just shut off.