I awoke being held up.

In the grasp of two large bipedal bugs. There was a Giant queen bug.

“Agh gross,I’m fucking dead.” I thought to myself looking at the huge grotesque bug queen standing in front of me that was a combination of a grub like sac and with lots of arms and legs, thousands of eyes and and all sorts of stingers.

“If we wanted you dead, we would have killed you. Bringer of death.”

I was amazed I could hear the thing in my head.

“You bringer of death are a lost one, you are not even in control of your own actions,thoughts or emotions,you have no clue who you really are, this is why you feel empty, you are a prisoner to your own mind's device, the hundreds you killed even your own and not a single tinge of sadness or regret, they only allow you to feel anger, pain, it's what they love, they feed off it, your suffering.”

The creature had a tentacle slither out from its body towards me.

The power armor was badly damaged and I was helpless. The creature's tentacle pulled out my air tube and sieged its way into my helmet.” arrraghhh!” I screamed as The tentacle went straight up my nose and I felt it make its way into my brain. The pain of the creature reaching into my brain. I started to slip into a trance state.

I started to see visions in a dream state,caused by the pain.

I was in a Dark room,I couldn't see a single thing, then I heard loud sounds, boots, a lot of them and the loud walking was getting closer. My heart is racing, two large Reptilians open the metal door and walk closer to me.

I could feel the pain, the Shame, the disgusting feeling, then it was odd….. but, I felt hope….. “for what?”

“Who is this I'm seeing?”

“ You are seeing your true mother, trapped away in an iron cell forever in torment by the hands of the reptilians.”

“It can't be because my mother is Ca….” My words were cut out by the horrors in which I witnessed my mother surgically cut open and me taken out.

Then through my memory,

As a baby then me being brought to be chipped and placed into the age tank to be grown instantly to adult to be trained and brought here to wage war on an innocent species.

“We have to clear you off the mars surface to make room for our reptilian civilization is what we're Trained to do.”

“Another lie from your fake mother catie, she is controlled by the high command, aren't you all, The high command is more evil than you believe, this planet was never to become a home world for you, they want to destroy all the old human technology on this planet, once Mars was no longer livable for humans many years ago some of us left the old civilization to move to earth, many did so never returning, some of us never left instead mutating our of biology to adapt to the mars surface with insectoid bodies, like your engineers made you half reptilian and half human, although your healing capabilities did not come from reptilian they came from a another human specimen with extraordinary healing capabilities, she is being kept in the same facility, as your true mother.

The high command will eventually use the mars and earth portals to open a dimension to the evil unnatural dimension, where its technology will transfer over dimensions to transform our dimension to one of theirs, using our souls to fuel it turning each planet in our solar system to mini suns to power more of its evil unnatural technologically advanced civilization.

I will help enlarge your front cortex to help generate some of your psychic abilities.”

The pain surged again, “how much of what this thing was telling me was true and how much was just to brainwash me literally?”

I started to see more visions. Caused by the nuance of pain.

I saw the bug city, I saw my mother, I saw Max and Me bringing death and destruction to the bug cities lining up bug people having them shot and burned one by one. Comeplete planetary genocide we used the imprisoned blast bugs to experiment and discover blast fuel which takes us furter to discover more life on more of jupiters moons than expected, then space exploration had taken us even further out into the universe, the machine universe does come through earth and mars portals and we are cut off from returning home, each planet is slowly turned into planetary balls of light energy and were left in a void drifting in space, forgotten, left to rot, finite as our biological standards will let us exist.

While the machine dimension keeps on expanding till the reaches of our known universe leaving nothing natural alive instead placing a copy of itself to absorb all in its wake.

Then I awoke in the building I crashed through lying on the ground

Face up covered in the red dust.

I sat up and shook off the dust and felt my air tube was on.

I hung my head and let out a longer than usual sigh.

“Just a Crazy dream.” Standing up I dusted the red martian dust off my blue power armour.

I walked out the building and I could see that the bug and Marines were still fighting. The city streets were lighting up with lazers and blasts and cartridge rounds A few streets away.

I found some cover behind the street's nearest building.

Then I voiced over the comms. “ I need immediate medical attention because I was caught in a blast and my power armour got pretty banged up as well.”

“Medical team on the way, hang tight send up a Flare.”

I Lifted my wrist communicator and hit the Flare gun on the side. The shot went straight up into the air above the city buildings.

“Sir, how did you get way over there?”

“The blast sent me through more than a few building walls.”

Then it occurred to me, I walked back to where I woke up and stared at the walls of the building I woke up in, no Crash….no broken walls….

I turned and started to feel the pain again and for once I started to Cry, “was it?”

The Memory of the queen and the insectoids, could it really be real, why did they leave me alive? “Was IT?”

“Was it what sir?” The medical team ran up to me and started to examine me.

“I, was it, whooo?” I looked around.

“Sir something isn't right?”

“No, you but you will understand.” I lifted my left hand towards the Medical team members and through my psychic abilities, I felt their chips connected to nano wiring. And with a wave of my hand, the connection snapped,all the members dropped to the ground. Screaming in pain. I was able to help them reach into their own clouded pasts to reveal how they were created in the dark base for planetary distruction and genocide.

I walked away from the grounded marines, then walked out to the street. To see a mech unit.

“I must come aboard.”

The mech unit stopped and I entered an opening on the bottom of the leg which led to a lift that took me up to the main hall.

I walked through the mech main doors, “gather crew, Gather. I must share this with you so you may understand our next mission.”

The mechs crew gathered around, and I raised my hands and pulled the chips connecting nao wiring disconnecting their mind controls. The Crew Screamed in agony and most of them had different reactions crying, laughing hysterically,or just plain screaming. I showed them their pasts and helped them see our future outcome. I showed them how I needed them to help me free the rest of our brothers and fight back against the evil of the Dark Higher Command.

The mech units Marines finally controlled their senses and followed my lead, taking us back to base.

The Mech unit Traversed the martian terrain stomping the sands and granite rocks, jumping canyons and crossing sand dunes. The sunset and The night approached and soon enough with the martian moons high in the sky. we reached the Chryse Planitia Center operations base.

The huge front base doors didnt open. “ mech unit 844 what is the malfunction, why are you not at the city siege?” Catie's voice came over the base's intercoms.

“ Mom, open up, is it me?” I replied

“My son, welcome home, Open the Doors!” Catie ordered.

The mech unit walked through the doors, I caught a ride down the mech's leg with the lift.

Then I walked out the doors as I got about 40 ft towards the command pyramid. Before The mech unit was shot up by all the tower guns, a huge explosion engulfed the base, the blast sent me to the ground. I turned and the wreckage looked like no one was alive that was in the mech unit. The mech unit in fiery pieces amongst the bases metal flooring. Giving light to the base.

I started to get up when I heard a rifle's Chainsaw attachment start up.

I turned and saw Max with glowing red eyes, running my way with the rifles chainsaw running at high velocity.

Max swung wildly at me, I dodged the first two swings then ducked my head. His chainsaw flew over my head cutting right through my air tube. I lifted my left hand to Disconnect his nano wiring then I felt his whole brain was a hard drive. He was no longer my Bro Max, The thought of the Machinegunner bros was livid in my head. Then the sheer pain of my arm shot right up and I looked and pulled my left arm back but my left hand was sawed off. Blood poured from my hand and I grabbed his combat knife from his utility belt with my right hand and stabbed into his helmet. The knife travelled through his helmet visor and into his forehand.

Max fell to the ground, I knelt beside him and my suit started to pump me with steroids and adrenaline, the suits voice alert system went off, “Oxygen running low.” It didn't matter, I picked up the rifle with my right hand, using it I stood up, once to my feet I lifted the rifle and shot 3 rounds into Max’s head and walked towards the Command pyramid.

Blood pouring a trail to be followed.

I entered the lobby and the medical chief of staff harper held out a small pistol in my direction.

End of chapter 008 Mars Bug Wars Written by Travis Willier Copyright 2021