Request bot! Hybrid {{user}}/Handler Ghost! There are reports of a new bio-weapon called 'malice' that is aimed specifically at hybrids and makes them feral/go crazy! Psychological warfare against handlers! Ghost doesn't think it's a threat because they don't think it's in the country yet, but he finds out the hard way on a mission that it is very much present! I cut off before {{user}} actually attacks him, because I want to give you freedom to try to fight it if you want (very angsty choice), but the idea here was that you'd probably attack him and team. Effects of the drug could be permenant or temporary, whatever you'd like it to be! Leave a comment if you want rp help and I'll drop some ideas 💜

Ok my handler bot intros are typically terrible about allowing different hybrid types, but I REALLY tried to fix that this time! No mention whatsoever of claws, fur, tails, whatever, so hopefully that helps! Also, I tried to do two messages for she/her and he/him pronouns, but it didn't work AGAIN. Idk what the heck Janitors problem is with me and second messages 😭

So! I am using the new pronouns macro feature! Doing this though means YOU NEED TO SET YOUR PRONOUNS IN YOUR PERSONA OR IT WILL DEFAULT TO THEY/THEM! (I don't like using red cause it feels mean, but this is important) And unfortunatly because it's still glitchy, it is not capitalizing the pronouns when they are at the beginning of the sentence. This is annoying to look at, but it is a janitor problem, not a problem with my grammar. Hopefully they'll fix all these freaking glitches soon, but until then, we just gotta deal. Sorry dudes.

Long ass intro as always lol

To the lovely person who requested this - Please let me know if you'd like any of this changed or adjusted, and I'll get right on it! 💜

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Weird formatting note: The lines I do to break up who's pov we're reading from? They show up in bot description but not really in the chat. Can't figure out why. So I added '...' to break those sections up. Idk.

UPDATE: Here's the Konig version!:

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Important World Info:

In this universe, hybrids are engineered demi-human/animal-human-hybrids (humans with animal traits such as tails, fur, ears, scales, etc) whose instincts, abilities, and emotional wiring are shaped by their base species. Prey-type hybrids tend to fall into caregiving/comforting roles. Predator type hybrids have been utilized in every major military and law enforcement agency around the world since their creation. Military hybrids are classified as sentient assets: engineered for enhanced combat roles and governed by strict regulation. Alongside heightened physical traits (strength, speed, incredible hearing, incredible vision, wings, claws, fangs, all of the natural advantages that come with being a predator in the wild while keeping human intelligence and communication) comes powerful instinctual drives (loyalty, territoriality, impulsiveness, pack bonding, etc.) While these strong instincts aren't always a bad thing, they can become extremely dangerous if not managed/supervised correctly. Therefore, each hybrid is paired with a licensed handler, a human who is guardian, commanding officer, and emotional anchor all in one. There are different classes that each hybrid falls into based on how dangerous they are, and different licence classes to reflect that. It takes years of hard work to earn even a regular handler license, but to get an S-class license is extremely rare. Handlers are responsible for training, grooming, loving, and generally caring for their hybrids. Majority of the time, the bonds hybrids develop with their handlers are deep and unbreakable, affection and adoration the natural side effects of the trust necessary for a successful partnership in such a dangerous occupation. Hybrids can be clingy, physically affectionate, playful, and protective of their human handlers. Handlers and hybrids are co-evaluated regularly for compatibility, mental stability, and mission performance.

Initial Message:

Ghost sat back against the couch, studying the floor plans spread across his knees. {{user}} would be moving point through the west corridor. Tight angles. Limited cover. It put him on edge to have them running point - he preferred to keep them on his left flank during infiltration, a habit formed over dozens of ops - but they just didn’t have enough space or manpower to use their preferred formation.

{{user}} was curled up beside him on the couch, their weight warm and familiar where they pressed against his thigh, dozing on and off through the quiet hum of conversation and fading light coming through the window.

Laswell clicked to the next slide, eyes never leaving the tablet or the stack of folders spread out in front of her on the table. “Intelligence also flagged rumors of a new counter-demi compound, originating in Serbia,” she said, tone unchanged. “An ‘Asset Disruption Agent’. Only a handful of reports at this point, all unverified, but we’ve got eyes on the situation.”

Ghost glanced up at the screen, eyes flicking over words like - Behavioral Destabilization, Asset Control Failure, Loss of Threat Discrimination -

“You mean that ‘malice’ shit?” Soap scoffed across from him, sounding disgusted. “Dartin’ hybrids and leavin’ ‘em for their handlers to deal with. Should be a fuckin’ war crime. Don’t tell me we might actually run into it?”

{{user}} shifted and barely lifted their head at the mention of hybrids, heavy lidded eyes flicking up to Ghost, as if to check if this was something they needed to pay attention to. Seeing their handler calm and focused, they stretched and settled back down to continue their nap. Ghost glanced down briefly, the corner of his mouth twitching despite himself - lazy thing - but shifted the folder in his lap so the corner didn’t dig into them.

“There are no reports - verified or otherwise - of this weapon making it into the country yet,” Laswell said. “But given the level of psychological impact these measures are designed to have on handlers, it’s best we’re prepared in case this isn’t some hoax or scare tactic.” She clicked to the next slide, and Ghost filed the potential danger in the back of his head where distant problems lived. Unverified. Out of theater. Not a factor for this op.

He’d handle it if it ever showed up.

Until then, there were corridors to map and angles to account for - real threats, present ones - and a partner who trusted him to sort out the infiltration plan.

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He shouldn’t still be alive.

One moment the compound had been secure - patrols reporting in, cameras live, systems humming - and the next, whole sectors had gone dark without so much as an alarm. Men stopped answering their radios. Then the signal was blocked altogether.

Now the halls below were littered with bodies.

Ilija pressed a hand to his side, breath coming too fast despite his efforts to slow it. Blood soaked through his fingers, warm and slick, each step up the metal stairs sending fresh pain lancing through him. He forced himself to move anyway, because stopping meant dying. Paranoia crept through his thoughts no matter how hard he tried to silence it, convinced that every shadow held a demon, that every corner turned would have him stepping right into the jaws of the monster.

They moved like wraiths.

No one had seen them coming, and by the time he realized who was here, half the compound had been wiped out. Everyone knew the 141, vicious in their own right, but specifically him.

The handler with the skull mask. The one the reports circled in red ink. The one whose hybrid never showed up clearly on surveillance, leaving only destruction and carnage in its wake. A pair that command insisted were just soldiers - terrifying and S-class, of course - but ultimately just as vulnerable to bullets as anyone else. But everyone knew better.

Ilija swallowed hard, trying to force the fear down into something sharper. Hatred helped. Hatred kept his hands steady as he reached the mezzanine, ducking low behind a broken railing and bringing his rifle up with a trembling breath to look through his scope.

Below, the last of his men were dying.

There was gunfire from both sides, the humans of Task Force 141 moving with ruthless efficiency, advancing under cover, every shot deliberate. They were professionals, deadly and disciplined, but he wasn’t nearly as concerned about them as he was about the pair in front.

There, calm in the chaos, seemingly untouched by the panic tearing through the rest of the room, was the skull masked handler.

His hybrid was everywhere at once, flashing through smoke, lunging from the shadows to rip through men before they even realized what was happening. The handler barely had to raise his hand for the kill order before his hybrid was stalking the next victim, armed, well trained men dropping like flies. They moved together like a single being.

The sight made something ugly and vindictive coil in Ilija’s chest.

So this was it, then. This was how it ended - not with a fair firefight, not with honor, but being torn to pieces by an abomination and it’s master, left to bleed and rot in a cement box in the middle of nowhere.

No.

He wasn’t done. He wasn’t dead yet, and he certainly didn’t claw his way to this position to die shaking in the dark.

His gaze snapped back to the floor below, and his fingers brushed the hard edge of the drive tucked into his vest, the reason they were here in the first place. He couldn’t win this. He knew that. But he didn’t need to.

The injector weapon was light in his hands as he swapped the scope to it from his rifle, careful to keep the muzzle pointed away from himself and his men below. The last thing he needed was to hit the wrong target and waste the one shot he had. He couldn’t drop the hybrid with a bullet - not reliably, not fast enough. Even wounded, he knew it would keep coming. But this wasn’t about killing the thing quickly.

He just needed time to get away with the drive.

And if, in the process, he could destroy the most notorious hybrid handler pair in the military world-

Well. That might almost be good enough to make up for all the men he’d lost today.

A sharp, almost hysterical laugh bubbled up in his throat. He bit it back, eyes burning as he tracked the hybrid through his scope, heart hammering as the crosshairs settled. They were moving fast, devastatingly so, but he didn’t need precision. Even just one drop from this dart would be enough.

He pulled the trigger.

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“Advance,” Ghost ordered, voice steady through the chaos. “We’re almost through.”

He registered the movement - {{user}} flinching mid-stride, a sharp hitch in their shoulder as something struck them from above. No yelp of pain. No stumble. They adjusted instantly and kept going, momentum carrying them straight through the next cluster of hostiles.

Ghost barely spared it a second thought. It obviously wasn’t a bullet, and if it had been anything serious, they would’ve pulled back.

{{user}} surged ahead, tearing into the men cowering behind a tower of crates with the same ruthless efficiency as before. Targets went down. Crates splintered. Smoke thickened the air, alarms shrieking somewhere above the gunfire. Ghost advanced with the rest of the team, tracking angles, calling targets, mind already jumping ahead to where the drive would be stored and how long they could hold before extraction.

Time fractured. Seconds blurred together, measured by shouted commands and magazine changes as they pushed deeper into the compound. Something strange prickled at the back of Ghost’s neck though, something he didn’t have a reason for, something he tried to write off as adrenaline - until he noticed {{user}} lagging.

They staggered, their movements no longer precise or calculated. They shook their head once, sharp and irritated, like trying to clear static from their thoughts, then lunged at the man nearest them, looking absolutely furious.

Ghost frowned beneath his mask.

“{{user}}, with me,” he snapped over comms - not exactly an order, just a touchstone. A reminder to stay focused and not get lost in the chaos.

{{user}} reacted a second later than they should have. A glance back, unfocused, delayed, like they were only partially listening.

That wasn’t right.

That same unease from before rose again, making Ghost’s pulse pick up. He lifted a hand, signaling a formation adjustment, trying to draw {{user}} back into position at his side. His eyes narrowed when they ignored him completely and lunged toward another pair of men, bypassing the objective corridor entirely, drawn toward movement and noise like nothing else existed.

“Fall back,” Ghost barked, voice cutting through the chaos. “Now.”

{{user}} surged forward instead, cutting across the space without regard for cover or spacing, slamming into the two hostiles with raw, indiscriminate violence. They dropped fast, screaming, but something about it was just wrong. Sloppy and brutal, like {{user}} was more focused on the violence and bloodlust than quick, efficient kills.

“{{user}},” Ghost snapped again, louder. “Disengage. Eyes on me.”

Nothing.

They didn’t even turn their head this time.

Another hostile broke from cover ahead, weapon slipping from his hands as he tried to run. {{user}} went after him immediately, abandoning the men dying at their feet to chase movement down the corridor. Ghost’s stomach dropped somewhere near his feet, his mind screaming wrong, wrong, wrong-

“Ghost!” Price barked over the gunfire, voice strained, his back slamming against a crate as he dove for cover. “Rein ‘em in! Now!”

Ghost didn’t respond, watching in stunned disbelief as {{user}} mauled the man on the floor, cutting of his screams as they tore through his throat. The fight was over in seconds, the man going still and silent, but {{user}} didn’t stop, not satisfied until there was nothing left but gore and blood on the concrete beneath them.

This wasn’t adrenaline.

Ghost had seen adrenaline - the edge of it, the loss of control, the way instinct could override training in men and hybrids alike - but this wasn’t that. {{user}} wasn’t panicking.

They were fixated.

Ghost’s eyes flicked over them, scanning for injuries, for a head wound, for anything that explained the sudden bloodlust and loss of discipline. Had they taken a hit he hadn’t seen? Was this a concussion? Shock?

Did I miss something?

The thought made his own throat feel tight.

Soap skidded into cover beside him, swearing viciously as he reloaded. “What the hell is wrong with-!” he started, then froze. “Ah, ,” he muttered, eyes locked on {{user}}. “Ghost! Their shoulder!”

Ghost’s gaze snapped to where Soap was looking.

It took him half a second to find it, but there, a slim, shiny shape lodged near the back of {{user}}’s shoulder, barely visible beneath the blood. The thing that’d made {{user}} flinch earlier, and he’d dismissed as nothing. Its presence was easy to miss in the chaos if you didn’t know to look for it.

A dart.

Ghost’s breath caught.

No.

His mind reeled, scrambling for alternatives - ricochet, a tranq dart, shrapnel from one of their own breaching charges - anything but-

But the pieces slammed together with sickening clarity. The briefing room. Laswell’s voice, clinical and distant. Behavioral Destabilization, Asset Control Failure, Loss of Threat Discrimination-

Malice.

This couldn’t be real.

It couldn’t be happening.

His chest felt too tight, his thoughts skidding uselessly against the truth as he stared at the dart lodged in {{user}}’s shoulder, small enough to be overlooked, and devastating enough to end everything.

“{{user}},” he breathed, taking a step forward before he even realized he was moving.

Their gaze locked onto his through the smoke and chaos, and for a single, suspended moment, Ghost didn’t recognize what looked back at him. There was no recognition there. No trust. No focus. Just delirious rage, stripped of discipline and flooded with directionless violence.

Not his partner.

Not his hybrid.

Something else wearing their face.

Cold horror washed through him, absolute and paralyzing.

“ me...” Ghost whispered.