Once I arrived back at base

I jumped off the Flight deck back onto base ground.

I Turned to all of Dark Squad.

“Attention!”

Dark squad in formation stood in attention.

“ We Were Victorious Dark Squad, Rest up, replenish your munitions, I will message you all if another mission has come our way, At Ease.”

I turned for the Command Center Pyramid then walked towards the pyramid lobbies entrance.

My mother waited inside the command center for the Data I had in my Wrist communicator. The automated doors opened for me, I made my way to the Communication terminal.

I removed my helmet and the data chip from the side port.

“ Goood, Gooood MY Son.” Catie smiled, her red eyes glowed.

I placed the chip into the communication terminal for the data to transfer.

Looking over to the holographic display, Catie brought up the War map and the current positions of all the bases across the mars planet surface.

I examined the exact positions of all the bases. Then I checked my vitals, could use a refill on the hydration and protein.

I walked over and grabbed chicken and water packages.

I opened them up and started to ingest the contents.

Catie's message alert went off.

“Looks like the big one Came through.”

I stared at the hologram as it brought up the pictures of the martian city.

“Looks like we're hitting a massive assault on the bug city.” Catie put her black helmet on.

“Ready the Dark Squad we have a bug city and three red pyramids to capture.”

Catie looked down at the hologram

“Right away Ma'am.” I extracted my chip from the communication terminal. And inserted it back into the side port on my helmet.

My helmet scratched up from the teeth of the flying bug. That close, But not close Enough.I thought to myself Then placed the helmet back on and started to walk back outside to the choppers.

“Communications relay my voice to all of base.”

“Chryse Platina Center operations base we have a New mission Details, We Will need you all to gather out in centre square to go over Instructions.” The Doors to the dark hall opened and I walked down the halls.

As I was walking through the lobby I could see the Dark Squad gathering.

The Massive formation of Death marines waited in attention.

“We have a Bug City to exterminate, But the true target is these three distinct red pyramids, We must Capture these pyramids! The bombers will move in the city first then our flight decks will move in next moving the Marines into positions for the heavy mechs to drop in from the skies while our mini mechs handle any and most of the trouble in the streets, use all explosives and flame weapons. We are the first assault Catie will command the second wave assault which involves the rest of the forces tanks and trucks,Did I make myself clear! Move Out For The Dark Fleet!”

The Dark Fleet lifted all their guns in the air.

I raised my power glove into the air and Closed my fist. The Dark Squad roared!

I walked to my Private Attack chopper and to my surprise I saw Max standing in attention with my mother Catie casually standing outside the attack Chopper doors.

“Max, weren't you in the Regeneration tanks for at least another two and half weeks?”

Max stood Silent in attention, his gaze outward asif it never saw an end. Catie answered for him.

“Max, had the finest of our programming done on his chip; he's more of a death marine than before!”

“What do you mean?” questioning my mother I Looked back at Max. “At ease, soldier.”

Max still stood in attention.

“What the hell? How come he won't respond to me?”

Catie smiled then responded to my question. “He will be only taking orders from me, he was getting in the way, your friendship was hindering our strategic Plans for mars Planetary take over.”

“So he will be taking orders from you now?”

“That is correct, Max is my personal Grunt. Now get on the Attack chopper and take over that city.”

I entered the chopper, The Bases Dark forces were moving out and I was the one behind the convoy.

As the chopper was lifting off the ground.

I watched Catie and Max walk back into the pyramid.

Then Grabbed a Seat in the chopper. I was the only one on this ride along with the pilot.

It was nice to hear so heavy metal music again the sounds helped fuel me for my mission.

The red pyramids in the holo image wouldn't leave my head.

As we neared I could see the bomber choppers were being hit by blast bugs.

Blue plasma burned choppers consuming all the occupants inside the military aircrafts as they plummeted to the ground, more choppers led in bombing raids into the towering Bug City.

Fires consumed the streets, I noticed bipedal Bug like figures flailing and falling and rolling in the flames.

There were millions flowing out the buildings into the streets on fire like ants.

I could hear the shrieks from the millions caught in the hell fires.

The bug City was a Giant bonfire.

Over the radio a fellow chopper pilot mentioned.

“We pushed the blast bugs in a burrow. They aren't going anywhere from what we can tell they don't wanna be exploded by us!”

“Alright Dark Squad Move in!” I Commanded.

“ Pilot, Get me over to the red Pyramids!”

“You got it General!”

The chopper flew over the city. I could see Dark Squad Death marines moving into the city jumping off the Flight decks into the city districts as the flight deck would fly by, opposition Started to funnel out of the buildings.

These bipedal bugs had weapons that resembled our tesla rifles. And some actually carried some of our rifles. They fired at our dark squad marines killing and injuring many.

I opened the Choppers doors and jumped out, Opening fire mid air at the first bugs I could see with a weapon killing some standing on the bug roof tops. They fell off to the ground forty stories below. My landing thrusters kicked in just before the ground could meet my power boots.

Once on the ground I landed behind some bug’s squads flank, I put the rifle to one of the Bug's head and pulled the trigger, then turned the gun to all his friends and one by one the rifle tore holes into each of them. Beside me other Dark squad marines Landed throwing grenades at incoming Pinchers. We all fought bravely Killing and Dying side by side in the streets. I Jumped rolled and grabbed cover in one of the exploded craters left from the attack chopper bombings, in rolled a fellow marine, I reloaded my Rifle Magazine. Looked up and popped a shot into an incoming bipedal insectoid,it dropped to the ground squirming, The Marine beside me tried to peek over the top of the tiny pit rifle shouldered. And for a moment the Marine had a head the next I was looking through the hole burned through the middle of it. I ducked back into cover.

The bugs had the city streets covered from bug holes in their buildings. Snipers Headshot a lot of Dark squad Death Marines.

“As Long as I keep my head I can always grow my body back.” I thought to myself.

A mech unit came to our aid and I moved along underneath grabbing as much cover as I could from the bugs' weapon fire. From the skies the heavy mech units dropped in taking some of the attention as more troopers were dropped in with the heavy mech units.

Under the cover of the smaller mech unit the bug's weapon fire couldn't reach my armor. Running along from street to street nearing the red pyramids.

Then we turned a street to see thousands of blue little blast bugs crawling towards the mech. I ran backwards shooting exploding the oncoming mini blast bugs.

The mini blasts left small blast holes that shone a bright blue from the plasma residue left behind from the small blasts. The street was lighting up and it grew even brighter as the mini bugs crawled and swarmed the mech unit exploding it into billions of atoms leaving only small fragments behind. The Explosion rocked the Bug City Street. The buildings rumbled and some collapsed.

The blast sent me Flying backward towards a wall of one of the bug buildings. My power armor absorbed most of the Impact, but I crashed through the Walls and lost count after four.

Finally meeting a hard final impact that had me go unconscious.

End of chapter 007 mars bug wars Written by Travis Willier copyright 2021