“I was Like Waaaahhhh! You want another, you want another?”

Zach was explaining his heroism, “Then I lifted my Sword and shouted, For Dark Squad For The Dark Fleet!”

The Utopia Basin FOB1, Is no longer a viable place for settlement.

I’m Guessing Command will have the Medical Base Drop at Arabia Terra FOB1

I stared back out the chopper doors windows, Then that lonely feeling hit me.

“Hey Sam, here's another 4 missiles for that launcher.”

Max broke my concentration on the red swells in the Martian Plains.

Handing me more rounds for my rocket launcher.

“Thanks Bro, I used up my last one in the tunnel.”

“Just looking out, So what's next?”

“Well since we lost all hope for Utopia Basin FOB1, we're going with a back up plan.”

I grabbed my last Drink from my hydration pack that was part of my battle suit.

“The Medical Base will Drop With us at Arabia Terra, Although this will mean we will have to heavily Defend The Central Base of Operation.”

Max and the Dark Squad Chanted “For the Dark Fleet!”

“Great, once back I will establish communication With Command.”

I sat back and listened to the heavy metal music.

The Dark Squad looked tough out there.

But we could always use more fire power. I thought to myself.

Looking at the Martian Craters that started to bowl out like an unclean soup dinner.

The Arabia Terra FOB1 in the distance looked fully operational and outstanding with its towers and center Black Pyramid.

The choppers started to slow down to landing speeds as they approached the base.

“Clear all chopper landings, we're coming down.”

The chopper was on a slow descent towards the black pyramid helicopter landing pads.

The walls with towers and mand turrets, and guard patrols chatting on the walls, the base filled with lots of marines from different units. Awaiting the Arrival of General Sam.

I put back on my helmet.

The chopper landed and the doors opened up.

I Stepped out into The Martian Daylight.

“Attention, General on Deck!”

“As you were, I want Sout Units to Patrol the Parameter, Set up Radar Beacons and fly out drones.”

“Right away Sir!”

Scout units and afew Service Droids made way for the Land Cruisers fitted with heavy machine guns.

I continued to the Command Center walking into the Black Pyramid.

Down the Dark Halls to my Private communication Center.just outside the command center was Dark Helmet, He Saluted then stood at attention.

“You're dismissed.” Dark helmet walked away after my dismissal

I walked through the doors and took off my helmet.

Placed it on the wall counter along with my rocket launcher.

I rotated back to my communications center, then walked up to my Computer and turned it on.

The Hologram displayed the AI Communication menu, I chose

Main Command.

“Admiral Catie,Command, Come in This is General Sam reporting over.”

“Report!”

“We Lost Utopia Basin, Requesting Medical Base To Be Deployed Here in AT FOB1.”

“Negative, We Can't Have The Bug force focus its Main attention on your location.”

“Mother! I Insist we Do This, To make sure we Keep the base from being taken over, My Dark Squad.”

Catie cuts him off. “YOUR DARK SQUAD IS MY DARK FLEET REMEMBER THAT, I MAKE THE CALLS AROUND HERE, YOU OBEY!”

“Right… I’m Sorry Mother, it won't happen Again.”

“I'm making the order for your Dark Squad to mobilize a large convoy of Tesla Tanks and Choppers, you will rendezvous with Chryse Planitia FOB1 and fortify that Northen position.

There we will drop another FOB 2 With Medical Base.

Making Chryse Planitia the Center of Base Commands you will leave this base in the hands of Dark Helmet.”

“Understood, WIll Make these Arrangements Right away.”

The Hologram call ended and I walked back to my chair and sat down.

I opened a can of food paste and started to slurp it back.

The bland taste left just that a Mashed substance with a coated beef powered mix to give it some taste.

The Doorbell rang.

“ Who is at the Door?”

The AI Voice Spoke over the Communications Terminal.

“It's Lieutenant Max.”

“Let him in and actually there have been two promotions I'm going to need updated.”

The doors opened and Max Walked in.

“Max is Now company Captain, and Lieutenant is Zack Sive.”

The AI Voice replied “ Updating Records.”

“Ah I See you made it official, and is that the beef sauce?”

“Yup and yup.”

“Nice, the beef one is always the best kind.” Max said then reached for his helmet's visor chip port.“ I wanted to Grab an update on the situation, cause I got a development for you.”

I took another slurp of the beef paste, after swallowing it I continued to explain.

Letting out a Sigh,“Well it's quite a bit, but nothing our squad is not capable of handling.”

“That's what I Like to hear Bro, you know the scouts you sent out.” Max Repiled.

“Yeah, what about them, we lost communication?”

“No, they are alive, They found some unusual formations towards the craters in the south 4500 kilometers away. They sent in a Drone. The Drone was relaying these images back to us.”

Max walked up to the hologram terminal. He places a Chip from his helmet visor into the communication terminal then a holo display turned on with images of the scouts findings.

“See, they thought they were seeing cliffs of mountains, but when you zoom in what do you see?”

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

“That's a city Surrounding those Ancient red Pyramids!”

“AI, copy this image then have this intel passed along to Main Command.”

“Affirmative.”

I looked at max. “ Rally up Dark Squad, ready a Tesla Tank convoy, have the choppers ready for us and get Dark Helmet to Report to me We Got a War To Fight!”

“Right Away Sir!”

Max ejected his visor chip from the communication terminal, then carefully pressed it back into its slot on the side of his helmet's visor.

Max nodded and Jogged out the door down the Dark Halls.

I sat looking at the image I had copied of the Bug City.

“They have a civilization?” I said to outloud

“Not for LONG, Me, and you Sam, ARE GOING TO FUCKING BURN IT ALL.”

Dark Helmet walked in, stood beside my terminal and stared at the image of the Bug City.

“ I Will personally watch this infestation burn.” I Concluded.

“Dark Helmet, Admiral Command Has made the orders and you will take over command of this FOB1 when I take my leave in the chopper and Convoy of Tesla Tanks.”

I threw my empty can inside a recycle droid.

“You will have to order a Another Garage Depo Drop.”

Dark Helmet saluted. “ understood!”

I saluted back.then walked towards my gear on the counter.

I walked up to the wall counter lit up by neon green lighting, Then I picked up my helmet. Placing it back on, looking at my vitals, the sleep clock has run one full cycle, suit systems injecting epinephrine. Administering Steroids, Vitamins, Vitals looking Excellent.

I shouldered my Rocket, and walked to the door stopping before I exited.

“Dark Helmet, Don't Attack or attract anymore attention to the Bug City let's get more information from the Higher Command before we mobilize on them. I don't want them Bugs knowing we know about the City?”

Dark Helmet Replied “ Understood General.”

I walked out and down the Dark Halls.

I exited the Pyramids entrance and the Tesla Tanks Were convoyed. I walked past and towards the helicopter Launch Pads.

I Entered the Chopper Filled With Dark Squad Members.

Max, Black Death, and fellow Dark Death Squad MarinesWelcomed me into the chopper.

“Pilot Here's our destination.” I entered the coordinates with my wrist communication link.

“Got it, Take us up! Hold on Tight!”

The choppers' propeller blades propelled faster and lifted us into the Martian atmosphere, staring down at the tanks watching them rolling top speed in the sand.

The Martian Daylight was almost over and the evening approached as the choppers and tanks moved along together across the vast Martian desert plains, the Blue sunset was amazing. It matched our Blue power suits. As the Pure white sun set its course over the Martian Hills to bring the night.

“Come in General, Radar is picking up something in the distance, a large force making its way towards our convoy.”

“Alright all ground units, Battle formation, Fire on Sight.”

All the tesla tanks lined up in the blue evening light that painted the martian floor a dark blue.

Glowing neon white lights on the tanks helped light up the area around the tanks.

The large blue personal carriers manned the flamethrower and side mounted machine guns.

A Small Mobile Force of 150 Tanks and personal carriers. All together 2700 super death squad marines.

Protected by 4 attack helicopters.

Versus what the Radar data is reading.

“6432 Large and small Pinchers and unknown Large round bodied bugs with eight long appendages for legs and tentacles coming out of their backs.

The species is still unknown.” The AI indicates the information relayed back to it from the tesla tank radars system readings.

The Bugs Crawled over the hill making the hills silhouettes move, the sight from the chopper looked like Mars had an black ocean and the currents swelled and pushed its way across its Martian Desert floor.

“All Choppers! Drop all your bombs on that insect horde!”

The Choppers Flew over and As Ordered dropped bombs and flames engulfed pockets of the massive bug horde, smoke rose from the burning bodies and they still even moved through the flames of their dying bug allies, towards the Tesla Tanks and personal Carrier units.

“Radar readings say we dropped the number down but not nearly enough!”

Awaiting the onslaught was the Line of the Tesla tanks They opened fire sending massive blasts of green energy.

Huge explosions wipe across the bug's front line decimating the First wave of Pinchers.

Every Personal Carrier waited patiently while the Tanks went to Work.

Choppers flew over again dropping more firebombs into the bugs lighting up the night sky.

The Bug horde swelled and with its mass numbers flooded towards the land Units.

Now the Land units The Tesla Tanks and the personal carriers fired into the mass of bugs.

bullets , energy Blasts, Flames, held the Bug army for a while but the Horde was unrelenting.

“All units Full Power!”

“Sir, We cant we are all pretty much drained and the Sun isn't out to Aid our machines performance.”

“Those fucking bugs, They Will have you all for dinner if you dont put up a fight!”

“Right away Sir!”

Over the communications links the order was given.

“All units, Engage weapons in full power modes.”

Every Land unit fired heavier full powered rounds into the Insect horde.

The hordes' numbers were declining but were inching forward by the dead wave.

Soon all units were about to be surrounded and engulfed.

A Lone order was given in the heat of the moment amongst the Tesla tank Units and they all maneuvered into a circle formation with the personal carriers in the middle.

Attack helicopters expend all their ammunition killing what they could as the doors opened and I fired into the bug horde from the chopper hovering in the sky.

My shots chopped into the back of one of the tentacle eight legged freaks of nature.

I could see the Horde surrounding the Convoy and one by one Each Land unit ran out of power.

Large and powerful the pinchers ripped open the tesla tanks the Maries fired their rifles, some tried to run, they were pounced by crawlers torn apart and eaten. Then the large Pinchers opened up the Personal Carriers. The marines opened up firing being ripped out one by one the tentacle creatures reaching in and pulling them out and eating them throwing some to the horde.

Some of the marines chose to pull the pin on a side fragmentation grenade, light little flashes strobed around from the blasts in the horde. The Martian surface moved like an Black ocean but this planet had no water,and this surface was covered in bugs.

“Drop the Nuke on board, were leaving, a Fucking Dent Right here on this Planet.”

The main Attack chopper unit Released a Timed Nuclear Bomb down to the Martian bug surface.

“ Pilots Take the Rest of our unit to the desired location. We still have a mission.”

The choppers were over the hills in the distance before the timer went off.

Looking back at the blast my visor protected my eyes from.

I could see half the horde was still in the position to be in the blast radius.

“Good Fucking Riddance.”

I Turned back and continued to listen to the Music.

Looking at the fellow marines in the chopper. “ You guys think they would have survived if I didn't make that call?”

The chopper was silent. I looked back out the window.

It was a long ride to the Landing Zone.

We all exited the aircrafts.

The Pilots Lifted off and flew the attack choppers back to Arabia Terra FOB1.

While we made land fortifications.

The droids dug small trenches while we waited for the Medical base drop.

Rifle pointed out over the dirt trench into the desert sands of Chryse Planitia

We Waited.

And Waited watching the moons Phobos and Deimos pass along through the night sky till morning sunrise painted the sky.

Then from the martian atmosphere descended the two base Pyramids and one gigantic Center pyramid, that dropped together and walls formed around them that made the most fortified base I ever seen with towers and advanced weapon systems.

“Didn't know they Came in that size!” Max exclaimed.

“Ethier did I, Now Let's move Team I got A base to Command and we can Regroup inside of.

We are going to return hell to every last one of these bugs, were going to smash em , burn em, rip them, were going to fucking kill them all!”

The Squad in unison “ For The DARK FLEET!”

And we all Walked together rifles out towards the biggest military base to grace this cold unforgiving red martian surface.

End of chapter 003 Mars bug WARS written by Travis Willier Copy Right 2021