“Harper, Put the gun Down.”

Harper arm extended towards me shaking, the pistol trigger underneath his shaking trigger finger.

The pistol fires. Two rounds rip right through me. I open fire, sending a rifle round through Harper's chest cavity. Harper flew over the lobby desk. And stayed lifeless on the black reflective flooring. Hole burned through his chest.

I took off my helmet and threw it to the floor, using the side of the dark halls to hold myself up.

I was nearing the command center doors.

“Mother!......... Mot ……….CATIE!”

Blood poured from my body and onto the floor.

The doors opened up and I could hear her leaving a message to the High command.

“We have taken the temples of old and have started up the force fields, everything is going as planned. We will have Mars after we Clear the bug infestations. Catie Mars Command out.”

Catie turned and looked at me.

“Everything alright son?”

She stood and looked at me in shock, her red eyes glowed, enamored at the brutality of my arm and blood gushing from the wound pleased her. Catie smiled.

“Your, not my mother! You fucking evil whore!”

“Whore, hardly your mother sits in the darkest subterranean levels known to the Dark base taking reptilian cocks for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”

I raised my rifle and shot.

Catie lifted her arm and a protective shield quickly activated and deflected my shot. It ripped along the walls and hit the transportal device at the end of the room, the portal activated and opened a wormhole.

I turned on my chainsaw and leaped at her. Slicing at her side cutting into her right side of her hip as Catie spun a cartwheel kick and hit me and the gun flew on the ground just before the portal opening.

I flew back into the counter on the wall knocking over her black helmet.

Cracking the green lighting in the room. It started a green strobe flickering.

Catie couldn't see well and being wounded she slipped on the bloody waxed floor, I climbed on top of her and started to punch her connecting fist to face. I started to see her face cut open and bleed,then bruise turning purple. She somehow was not going unconscious even though my fist was turning a broken bloody pulp. Catie hit me with her right hand and knocked me good. She pushed me off enough to escape and get back up to her feet using the desk. Catie felt around the desk till she grabbed her pistol from the desk and pointed it back at me, who was laying on the ground just before the portal with the rifle aimed at her head. Both of us are pouring, making a bloody mess of Things.

Now more than ever, I could really feel that the end was near.

“Alert! Bugs Incoming!” The Base defensive system alerted the whole facility.

“Look!” Catie said and she pointed at the camera feed the bugs are making and surprise attack the base will be surrounded and destroyed and there's no way out, it seems we're both gonna meet an end.

“One of us will live, the portal is still open and it looks like you will have to go through my rifle to escape, your move bitch!”

Catie's Pistol aimed at my head, my rifle aimed at hers.

The End Mars Bug WARS Written by Travis Willier copyright 2021