Into the Bug's Mouth

Mission Control.

The room was in complete chaos.

Just ten minutes ago, they interrupted the national broadcast on Mars. Soldiers were deployed to maintain the order outside the launch center and yellow tapes were set up at the door to stop the eager reporter waiting for the news as the entire center was locked down.

"...this is Ares! We need backup! God...they, the bugs! They are hitting our spaceship!"

"Hell, don't they not attack?"

"We may have fallen on their nests... the hull has suffered 11% damage, damn it!"

Pieces of information came back intermittently from Ares, tens of millions of kilometers away.

Bolden stared at the screen in complete shock.

He could not believe everything happened so unexpectedly.