MURDER DRONES (PILOT)

**MURDER DRONES (PILOT)** is the Pilot episode and considered as the first episode of GLITCH‘s most recent webseries, Murder Drones. It aired on October 29th, 2021 and currently has a total of 8 Million viewers.

## Synopsis

Murder Drones is a show about cute little robots that murder eachother for reasons 💀🤠

## Plot

The episode begins with an exposition being narrated by Uzi. She explains that Worker Drones were created by JCJenson *in Spaaaaacee!* to mine exoplanets for them. The humans eventually wiped themselves out, leaving the Worker Drones to roam free and live their own lives on Copper 9. Unfortunately, their parent company didn’t necessarily like the idea of the AI living on it’s own, so they sent three Murder Drones to Copper 9 to do one thing; kill. The logo of the series is shown after a few panning camera shots, and then we see Uzi continuing to explain to her classmates about their current situation, saying that their parents haven’t done anything to try to stop them outside of building three doors under the ice to keep them safe, as the Worker Drones weren’t exactly built for combat.

Uzi then shows off her "sick as hell" railgun to her classmates, saying it’s her project. Her teacher, Riley, comments on this, saying that the railgun wasn’t the original work given, and that repressed emotional baggage was only worth 2 points. The railgun starts to malfunction and it causes a huge explosion in the classroom, creating a huge dent in the door.

After the accidental explosion, we see Uzi sitting beside her railgun as a few students walk by the door of the sick bay, one of them being Lizzy. She jokes about the fact that the railgun explosion didn’t kill Uzi before laughing and walking off. Uzi sighs as Thad comes into the sick bay, asking Uzi what happened before she cuts him off, denoting herself as an angsty teen. A few moments later, Uzi explains her plan to Thad, saying she needed to sneak into the Disassembly Drones’ lair that night to get the last spare part she needed for her railgun to work. Thad questions her if it was really necessary to do something like that, seeing as Khan, Uzi’s father, built the doors to protect all of them from doing "all of that emotional repressed sounding stuff". Uzi gets angry at Thad, walking out of the sick bay before coming back in to clarify that she wasn’t mad at him, just generally hormonal.

Once it hits 3 AM, Uzi gets ready and steals the Door Master Key from her dad's office quietly. As she walked towards Door 3, she looked around a bit before opening it. A few seconds later, she is met by her dad, who asks what she’s doing. Uzi lies to him, saying she wants to examine Door 1’s exterior for her project. Khan tells his friends that his daughter is into doors, and that she’ll be outside examining Door 1. After Khan opens Door 1, Uzi walks towards it, questioning aloud why that worked so weirdly well before leaving. Once she gets out, Khan exclaims, "They grow up so fast, don't they?" After she gets out, Uzi walks towards the Corpse House, stepping on a severed Worker Drones head, which startles her. She then looks up at the Corpse House, feeling uneasiness.

Once she gets inside of the Corpse House, Uzi throws an unnamed Worker Drone arm off to the side, picking up the component she needed. She then hears one of the Disassembly Drones, quickly hiding behind something as the Murder Drone landed on his own landing pod, taking a severed Worker Drone head and crushing it with simply one hand. Uzi sees this by using a glass shard, before the Drone spots her. She gets up and turns around, facing the now airborne Drone as she puts the component in her railgun, trying to aim before the Murder Drone lands in front of her, making her drop the railgun. She then backflips, landing in a fighting position as she says "Wow, and they said pirating all that anime would be useless." The Drone then appears in front of her, stabbing his syringe into her right palm as he threw her around before sending Uzi into rubble. She looks at her now impaled hand before she grabs her railgun. The Drone turns around to try and find his target, before seeing Uzi with her railgun in hand, shooting him. The Drones head gets obliterated and falls to the ground, before he then gets back up with his head being restored, his systems now offline. Just as he was about to turn on, Uzi hits him with a Worker Drones arm, causing the Murder Drone to question her saying, "Did you just hit me with that arm?" before Uzi replied saying he talked, as she didn’t know these things could even speak. The Drone says Uzi’s a little short for a Murder Drone, but shakes it off as he introduces himself as Serial Designation N. Uzi then says she’s going to go, walking away before her injury makes her wince in pain, N appearing behind her telling Uzi that she can simply heal the wound through "her" nanite neutralizing saliva, with Uzi saying that they can go inside of the landing pod.

Uzi then heals her wound through putting her hand in N’s mouth, with N saying they can consider the moment "repressed". Uzi then asks N about his squad, with N talking about his other two squad members to her. The scene switches to a flashback of V killing a Worker Drone, and after finishing, she claims that after all of the murder she has done, she still feels nothing. N walks up behind her, commenting on the storm the exoplanet had that day before V gets startled by him, flying away. The flashback then ends, with N saying he secretly has a crush on V, before awkwardly chuckling as he talks about J, whose the squads leader. Another flashback commences as we see J stepping on N, the latter of which is laying on the ground in pain as J says that he is worthless and terrible, and would kill him if the company allowed her to. The flashback ends, with N saying that J’s awesome.

N then gives Uzi a ”tour” of the area they're in, saying that besides the corpse wall of servered Worker Drones, in the center of it all is the Landing Pod, and that inside of it are the ”buttons”. He'd be pressing them whilst Uzi realizes that the Landing Pod is actually a spaceship, and that it could get them off of Copper 9. N says that *they* never taught the Murder Drones how to land the pod, rendering it to be unfixable to him. Uzi then makes a comeback, saying that the two could work with the Worker Drones to fix up the spaceship instead of murdering all of them, the latter of which Uzi questions N on. N says that outside of drinking their ***WARM, SWEET*** oil to avoid overheating and dying, he just wants to do his best with the job he was given. Uzi then stands up on her chair, claiming that N has barely gotten any respect from the Worker Drones (and possibly V and J), and says that he should think about what'll happen to him once all the Workers are dead, which could possibly be the company disposing of them. N then says that Uzi is rebellious, and while it's quite exciting, he wants to ”follow the rules”. The duo then hear V landing on the outside of the spaceship, Uzi automatically worried as N cheerfully says that V and J are back, before he realizes Uzi is gone and J tells him to get outside.

## Very Spoopy Trivia!

* On November 5th, 2021, this episode reached 2.6 Million views, making it currently the highest viewed video on the GLITCH channel.
	+ In only a day after that feat, the episode had reached 3 Million views.
	+ On November 12th, 2021, the episode reached 4 Million views.
	+ On November 28th, 2021, it reached 5 Million views.
	+ On December 30th, 2021, it reached 6 Million views.
	+ On February 24th, 2022, it reached 7 Million views.
	+ On April 8th, 2022, it reached 8 Million views. Interestingly, it hit 8M the same day *Sonic the Hedgehog 2* released in cinemas in the United States.
* This was the last video released on the GLITCH channel in 2021.
* The soundtrack for this episode was released on November 9th, 2021.
* On November 10th, 2021, Meggy Spletzer, a character from the SMG4 series, reacted live to this episode.

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