The Gunsmith

Chapter Two: C.O.M.P.A.N.I.O.N Launcher

Choppy Output Masterfully Pursues Any Non-friendly Idiots On Notice! - Launcher AI upon questioning what its acronym means.

[*?*]

"Testing?"

"Are we testing now, master? Prepping launch tube!"

"Ssshh… Companion, wait until I say so."

"Okay master... why are we whispering?"

The lab coat wearing girl goes into shot, covering what appears to be a battle between Hive and Fallen forces happening in the distance.

"So I forget how it happened… but I coded an AI. I don't know how, I pick things up quickly and forget how to do them very fast. But This is a test to show what the AI does when assigned to appropriate gear."

The girl reveals a rocket launcher sized object, more akin to a gun-shaped slingshot than an actual gun, which has a screen on the side. The screen shows a plain emoticon :3 face.

"All ready to fire, master!"

The voice comes from the screen, along with the :3 moving slightly to look like its talking.

The girl loads what appears to be a lump of metal into the top of the weapon… and then fires it into the battling armies in the distance.

"KILL KILL KILL. I SEE I KILL."

The face on the screen looks angier, and the soft blue the background was originally is now a deep red.

The camera is moved to get a better shot of the battle, which now has a metallic beast jumping at anything alive and ripping it apart. Eventually a dreg manages to shoot at it as a last hurrah before it's death, causing the tiny bot-beast to explode.

"Ripping gear destroyed master… but ready to fire once more!"

"I will call it. The Companion. That's an Acronym, the AI should be able to tell you it. Later."

With that the video ends.

[*The Tower*]

"Are we going to play soon, new master?" questioned the 'ripper gear' launcher. It looked a lot more refined now, with the screen now showing a slightly tinted and zoomed in view like it was a scope. The parts inside the launcher were covered in black metal and (Currently) blue lights, only revealing the open-topped chamber to place its ammo inside.

(Think Fat Man, Fallout.)

"Is it safe for us to be around this… thing?" Ikora asked Cayde, staring at the launcher and the 'gear' bundle beside it.

"Of course it is… maybe." Cayde replied. "I mean, the time I've had it there was only one accident, which won't happen again because appropriate people are now marked as ally.

"New master screamed like a baby before he was master!" The weapon giggled mechanically.

"SShhh. You weren't supposed to tell them that."

"I live to launch death, not keep secrets… master."

"I think we've seen enough. Anything you would like to tell us before you place it somewhere safe?" Zavala inquired.

"Not much, only that if we decide to actually use it that Heavy Ammo Synthesis will refill stocks."

"The purple glow feeds war!" The gun cheered.

"Do you ever shut up?" Cayde said to it.

"Old Master forgot to add a mute function."

"Of course she did."

"Before you take it away… what does the acronym mean?" Ikora asked to the deadly piece of equipment.

"Choppy Output Masterfully Pursues Any Non-friendly Idiots On Notice!" the AI replied.

Cayde decided at that moment to take the weapon away. Ikora and Zavala decided to ignore the AI's voice calling out "Can we shoot at the one horned person? I want to see if they squeal."

Weapon shorts will probably range from 600-1000 words each. Some shorts can have more things inside it.

Orbit, Cya

C.O.M.P.A.N.I.O.N Launcher

Fires a robotic beast which attacks enemies, which explodes when killed.