1 - 20 of 115 Works in Book 4: Exit Strategy
Navigation
Listing Works
-
Tags
Summary
After SecUnit leaves, the PreservationAux crew are left behind on Port FreeCommerce. They'll have to deal with GrayCris, the Company, DeltFall Group, and all the fallout from the planetary survey.
Everyone just wants to go home to Preservation.
With little else to do, Gurathin puts his old skills to use.
*
Set during the timeline of Artificial Condition and Rogue Protocol. But contains spoilers for Exit Strategy because stuff happens that SecUnit doesn't learn about until book 4.
Series
- Part 9 of Perceptive, Observant, Vigilant
-
Tags
Summary
Self-indulgent vampire AU. Why does Gurathin keep staring at Murderbot? And why does he look hungry?
Set generically on Preservation Station, no spoilers past Exit Strategy as far as I can tell.
-
An Hour From the Kitchen Cupboard by noctiphobia
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Oct 2025
Tags
Summary
Dr. Gurathin has quietly come to the conclusion they prefer neutral gender identifiers. Murderbot feels indifferent about this. Still, this change somehow sets them on a path to forming a strong, strangely close bond. They end up talking about gender and feelings and learn a lot about each other. It's all very complicated and weird.
"I’d sat down 32.6 centimeters closer to Gurathin. My body had subconsciously chosen to sit in the middle of the couch, when previously we’d been at the two furthest ends from each other. Worse still, in the moment I somehow hadn’t even registered this change. I ran a full retroactive systems diagnostic, but everything came back operational and untampered. Upon seeing this complete report my performance reliability dropped by 2%. What was happening to me?"
-
Your New SecUnits A, B, and C by Benny_IsA_Dog
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Oct 2025
Tags
Summary
Ratthi stopped. "Do you have names? Or something you want to be called so we can tell you apart?"
Silence. Then, at the same time, all three of the units’ feed profiles updated: SecUnit A, B, and C. The unit speaking to him was “C.”
Ratthi suppressed the urge to sigh. That would have to be good enough.
______
AU timeline where Murderbot hacks the governor modules of the three SecUnits on TranRollinHyfa. Of course, PresAux brings them home to Preservation.
Series
- Part 2 of Snippets from Discord
-
the comlink's open but there's no one tuned in on the other side by half_baked_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Sep 2025
Tags
Summary
For this to work, my governor module would be partially reactivated and I’d have to act as a governed Unit again for the next two cycles.
Yeah, this was going to suck. Even if I did get to keep my access to the feed and my media archives.
Written for 100 Prompts Challenge: Dull (56); Gamble (82).
Series
- Part 3 of HBI’s 100 Prompts [Redone]
-
Tags
Summary
[Do you remember your name?]
[Self.designation: GrayChris ComfortUnit 135729433. Self.designation.humanreadable: “ComfortUnit” OR “sexbot” OR “Hey You” OR “that short-haired one!” OR “the prisoner”.]
-
[podfic] System System. Assistance, by Rosewind2007 by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for Rosewind2007
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Sep 2025
Tags
Summary
There is a big gap between Murderbot hitting the deck and waking up again in Exit Strategy…a little missing scene.
Series
- Part 44 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
-
Tags
Summary
Maybe you want to fully understand what it means to be human.
I don’t, I responded quickly. And besides, I will never be human.
No. But you can get close. Closer than you are now, at least. Can’t you?
-
Tags
Summary
There are a lot of security cameras. Usually that means very bad things, especially for secret human spies and their murderbot accomplices. Was I an accomplice? I planned the whole thing. Maybe the mastermind would be better. I knew Gurathin would take issue with that—because that made him the accomplice to a terrifying murderbot, rather than the one in control, and I knew how much it annoyed Gurathin 1. not to be in control, and 2. admit that I was right.
--
Or: Murderbot, Gurathin, a heist, and some
(probably)(definitely) ill-advised kissing. -
Tags
Summary
A podfic of Local Network by blackglass, theleakypen.
"And when it wakes up we'll be here to help it," Mensah says, "in whatever way it wants. We'll do it right this time."
Ratthi and the rest of the PresAux survey team do their best to assist in SecUnit's recovery after the events on TranRollinHyfa.
-
Local Network by theleakypen for blackglass
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
"And when it wakes up we'll be here to help it," Mensah says, "in whatever way it wants. We'll do it right this time."
Ratthi and the rest of the PresAux survey team do their best to assist in SecUnit's recovery after the events on TranRollinHyfa.
-
New Project by ArtemisTheHuntress for IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
Everything is over. Everyone is home. Dr. Bharadwaj struggles to write the planetary survey report. She has something else on her mind.
-
Tags
Summary
She takes a steadying breath and reads the words waiting for her in the feed: Don’t panic, I don’t need a lot of air. You will have 1 hour and 6 minutes before you become at risk of suffocation.
-
[podfic] Took Me Over Like a Fever, by sweatervest by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for sweatervest
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)
18 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
When you saw Gurathin again, it only confirmed something that made your organic tissue itch: you don’t know everything that you want, but you know that you want him.
Series
- Part 33 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
-
[podfic] Security Blanket, by Abacura by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for Abacura
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
I strode across the common area to pick up the blanket, unfolding it to look at it in its entirety. I noticed two things right away.
One, it was incredibly soft.
Two, it was me.
Series
- Part 31 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
-
Tags
Summary
I looked around and took in the remains of the habitat I was in. It was a research habitat, with very familiar Preservation logos on destroyed sample boxes.
-
Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
One nanosecond I was standing behind Mensah, the next my weight transferred forward as my legs started to move me towards the cargo pod. I was so surprised I didn’t feel any emotions and all my thought processes ground to a halt as I watched myself move away from her.
-
Emotionally hostile refrigerator by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Aug 2025
Tags
Summary
I have internal temperature controls and my protective survey clothes (not armour) covered my organic skin from harmful UV rays. I am also able to adjust my eye filters to reduce the intensity of the rays and maintain my position monitoring.
The humans had not fared as well as me. -
Forging a Familiar Face by mismatchedmuses
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jul 2025
Tags
Summary
Tapan and her family needed help to recover their research. The security consultant they hired, a shy but determined augmented human, saved not just their work, but their lives.
Months later, Tapan sees a familiar face on a documentary about constructs.
-
Tags
Summary
When you saw Gurathin again, it only confirmed something that made your organic tissue itch: you don’t know everything that you want, but you know that you want him.