Absolute Zero – Michael Cheney (1)

Cutesy-wutesy. Well, they might look like that, but get on their bad side and they’re far from it. We’ve lost many good foxes to the bipolar bears.” The bear puts its hands on either side of its head and grips firmly. “Hold on a sec, rewind! What did you just say?” The bear’s fur is slowly turning from white to black. “Cutesy-wutesy. Well, they might look like that, but get on their bad—” “No, after that.”

“After that, I said we’ve lost many good foxes to the bipolar bears.” The bear appears to be twisting its own head off. “Bipolar?” The bear is now jet-black. It is also without a head. Well, its head is no longer where it should be. The little furry fucker has ripped it off and is pointing it at us like a weapon. “Bipolar as in – nice one minute and psychotic the next,” says Scar.

“What the fuck is going on?” yells Nick. I take a step back, putting my arm in front of Sarah and retreating with her. She pulls McKenzie backward too. “You pissed him off, Nick,” I say. “And now he’s going to throw his head at you.” “I’m afraid it’s much worse than that,” says Scar. And he’s right. The bear, now completely black, doubles over at the waist, revealing a neck hole with metal insides. It turns its own head so that the face points at the sky and spits out a great gushing fountain of reddish fluid from its mouth.

“Hit the deck!” I scream. We all crash onto the ice. A flicker of blue flame shoots out from the bear’s neck. It ignites the red fluid and sends a great arcing fan of flames toward us. I feel the heat over my head and back. “Holy shit!” yells Nick. “I did warn you,” says Scar.

The roar of the flames stops and the heat dissipates. The once white ice now has a watery sheen to it, half-melted by the fiery blast. A loud crack echoes beneath us. “Uh oh!” shouts Blinky. Large zigzags of broken ice splinter across the surface with ominous crackling sounds. Then the ice breaks beneath Blinky and he crashes into the dark-blue water below.

He scrambles at the edges as his rear half submerges. His legs scratch and scrape at the edges of the hole, desperately trying to get traction. “Help me! I can’t swim!” I run to the edge of the dark, jagged pool and grab hold of one of his legs. Sarah pushes McKenzie away to safety, then lunges forward, seizing one of Blinky’s pincers. “We can’t do this on our own!”

I yell. “Ugh, fine!” says Nick. He rolls his eyes and slowly walks over in a shuffling gait. He grabs hold of another leg. ArachnoBot hums as he readies his battery for a laser blast. “Should I just zap the rest of these assholes?” “I don’t think that’s the smartest move just now, Rachno,” I say. “We’re on ice.

Confessions of a Trash Droid, Book 7, Absolute Zero © 2026, Michael Cheney / Only Human www.trashdroid.com ⇐ Grab the secret lost chapters here! All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. MESSAGE FROM TEDD: Hey, meatbag. Come and join my Unhinged Facebook Group (to get exclusive access to and updates from me, Tedd): https://www.facebook.com/groups/trashdroid 1kitap1.com/en Contents 1.

Chapter 1 2. Chapter 2 3. Chapter 3 4. Chapter 4 5. Chapter 5 6. Chapter 6 7. Chapter 7 8. Chapter 8 9. Chapter 9 10. Chapter 10 11. Chapter 11 12. Chapter 12 13. Chapter 13 14. Chapter 14 15. Chapter 15 16. Chapter 16 17. Epilogue 1kitap1.com/en “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

– Sir Winston Churchill 1kitap1.com/en S Chapter 1 arah’s screaming. The pinless grenade’s between my feet, and I’m holding Nick’s limp body in my arms. I turn to the side, drop Nick to the floor and then kick the grenade as hard as I can towards the open door we came in through. It skitters across the concrete, and the heads of Sarah, McKenzie and ArachnoBot all turn, following it with wide eyes. Boom. Shrapnel and concrete fly in all directions. Suffice to say – the grenade didn’t reach the door.

Red lights flash on the ceiling, an alarm sounds, and water sprays down from sprinklers. Sarah rushes over and kneels next to Nick. “Nick! Can you hear me? Niiiick!” His legs are in a really bad way. The crab’s digestive acid has eaten through parts of his overalls. It gets worse the further down you look. His shoes are nowhere to be seen. His feet are red, raw and seeping from open sores. I kneel next to Sarah and put my hand on Nick’s chest.

I think I feel a brief murmur or vibration, but it could be my hand trembling. “I’m so sorry, Sarah,” I say. “There’s no way I could’ve known this was gonna happen. There’s no way any of us could’ve known!” She lifts Nick’s head off the ground and caresses his reddened cheek with her other hand, then gently lowers it down.

We both stand. Then she pounds me over and over and over in the chest. I take every hit.

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