Top 25 One-Shot Murderbot Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Murderbot fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
System Repeat
by CardcaptorGhost
What the fuck was going on? Gurathin tore his eyes away from SecUnit, looking for something, anything that would explain why the hell his spouse was acting so weirdly. Mensah and SecUnit weren’t the only people in the room with him; there was Ratthi, Pin-Lee, Arada, Overse and… himself? Gurathin sta
sight of the sun
by CellBlock1138
ART has something to give SecUnit. There's just one problem.
Heat/Stroke
by Rosewind2007
Murderbot and Gurathin are stuck on a planet, lost in a desert: their hopper downed by a sand storm…It’s very hot.
Sound Check
by Abacura
Murderbot needs its voice box checked. Gurathin is happy to lend a hand.
Display Model
by Brushtail
When you are the secunit assigned to a construct supply store, your life is safe but boring. Until someone hands you a file that is.
Proportional Response Module
by pacphys
While poking about in ART's modules, Murderbot discovers that ART actually does have a module on Proportional Response! Or... perhaps more accurately, it did have a module on Proportional Response.
SECURITY
by ESE (SecurityUnit)
(An illustrated fight club human trafficking AU)
Starlet Extraction
by beloved000
A rising star on the entertainment feed is taken hostage to fend off a corporation's hostile takeover. She is rescued by a strange SecUnit and its friend(?), a bot-driven transport. When asked why they are going so far to help her, they respond, "You need to survive to film the next season of World
Aesthetics
by Aylwyyn228
We were 'playing' again.I don't really know why Gurathin called it that, except I guess it covered a range of sex and not-sex activities. I liked that ambiguity. Sometimes I changed my mind halfway through.Gurathin had never made a 'thing' of it.I liked that. Sequel to Control
if i hit a squall
by asphodellic
We finish ART's cargo run. We somehow get roped into stopping a robbery at a food kiosk on the station, and I save the image of Three's tiny smile when the owner thanks it to permanent memory. For…security reasons. And then the humans come back, and everything goes to shit.
Princess Party Etiquette
by Arten
Murderbot gets roped into a princess tea party with Sofi and does not entirely hate it.
A We Problem
by MrCelleOshkosh
Set immediately after Platform Decay. Perihelion is angry at Three and Three doesn't know how to deal with that. It just wants to be part of a team again, but doesn't know how to go about that. This story will be about Three's trauma and how it heals and finds a family again.
What Should I Do But Tend?
by nomadriver
The unsung heroes of the deep space research vessel, ART's specialized drones have long gone unacknowledged and underappreciated for their service to the Perihelion. This will continue to be the case. But here are their stories, anyway.
Hostage: Caught, Disarmed, Broken, Held
by ESE (SecurityUnit)
Alternate Universe where Mensah and SecUnit are caught by the Combat SecUnit in Exit Strategy.
show me how's the way to be
by brahe
I don’t know how to explain this to her, SecUnit tells me, and dumps a massive metadata file at me. I’m not sure what it expects me to do to help until I open the file. It’s comprised entirely of tagged interactions between SecUnit and Dr. Mensah. This log is deeply personal, and I take great care w
Fanart: Me, I'm Not
by verilyvexed
Because PresAux definitely has a monthly goth night.
Little Discovery
by spectralOasis
Mensah's POV of the aftermath to Little Death.
Fanart: Ill-Advised Murderathin Doodles
by verilyvexed
A catch-all for random doodles. Some of these are WIPs that may be finished soon! Thank you to the unhinged Discord servers. You know who you are.
It’s Panto Time!
by Rosewind2007
Discussing something else altogether in the New Tideland Discord (how chimpanzee ‘smiles’ are fear or threat displays) led to a discussion of how if we growled or hissed at people who annoy us it’d be a satisfyingly clear form of communication… Which obviously led to me deciding SecUnit would love t
Sand Rust
by Voyager_DenAce
In this barren wasteland, golden from erosion and devoid of life, there’s no real way to hide from the ever-present sun, which hangs in the sky like an all-seeing deity. But you can hide from your augmented human, who tends to get on your nerves and whom you don’t exactly like, if you really try and
You blasted fool. They dont know you're only bluffing.
by Kaydenx3
The series finale, except Dr. Mensah dies, and Murderbot stays.
Once Bitten...
by MrFarty
A SecUnit is bitten by a apparently drug-addled human. It subdues its attacker, but then its own behaviour starts to change ‐ in disturbing ways.
[Podfic] Get Cared For, Idiot
by sisi_rambles
Fine. Be that way, asshole.
[Podfic] Reclaimed My Pound of Flesh
by sisi_rambles
“I... like this.”SecUnit sounds guarded, and Gurathin smiles.
[Podfic] A Rose By Any Other Name
by sisi_rambles
He doesn’t look like Gurathin in that first nanosecond of processing; he looks more like a character in my media—one of the sappy serials I let Ratthi convince me was almost as good as The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (it wasn’t.)
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About This List
This list of 25one-shot Murderbot fanfics spans 94,573 total words. Kudos range from 3 on the newest entries to 149 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (11 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries) · Canon-Typical Violence · Spoilers for Book 8: Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries) · POV ART | Perihelion · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence.
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