Thomas Rico has been in the mobile infantry for three years now. What will he think when he hears his little brother Johnny has decided to follow in his footsteps much to their parent's dismay.
Bug warriors stand sentry on earthworks that tower the entrance to their colony where an endless line of workers enter bearing food appropriate to the exotic jungle planet.
A distant sound. A warrior looks up, curious. Suddenly a formation of Tac fighters scream down from high orbit and a white-hot nuclear firestorm burns and consumes the landscape.
Bugs scream as they twist and kick in the wall of flame. Heat melts the dirt into dark glass. Ash turns the sky red. Then out of the smoke comes the Roughnecks.
Rasczak: "Spread out, teams of three. When you locate a bug hole, secure it, gas it, and close it."
Tac fighters streak overhead. On the ground, Johnny, Dizzy and Ace are on the bounce. Ace spots a bug hole where workers and warriors have broken through the glassed surface.
Ace: "There."
Rockets take out warriors. Bug guts go flying. Dizzy sets workers on fire. Johnny and Ace step over burning bug carcasses to the rim of the hole and fire their gas rounds.
Johnny: "Fire in the hole!"
Johnny drops an H.E. round, and they're in the air when the explosion collapses the entrance to the bug city.
Thomas: "You three get over here!"
Bugs boil out of the ground. Thomas, Birdie, Sugar and other Roughnecks have accumulated and are about to be overrun when Johnny touches down with Ace and Dizzy.
Johnny: "Looks like you've got a little bug problem, brother..."
Thomas: "Stow, it, trooper. Give it everything you've got!"
The cap troopers let the bugs have it, but the insects keep coming, the living crawling over the dead, and now, trudging up out of the ground, comes a Tanker Bug.
Thomas: "WATCH OUT!"
The tanker bug starts to spray, creating a toxic perimeter around the hole. Rasczak arrives just as Birdie takes a chemical hit, falling to the ground minus an arm, screaming.
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Birdie: "AAAAAAAAAAA!"
Johnny jumps, landing behind the tanker bug in the mouth of the hole. It turns with surprising speed. Johnny flips up onto its back, cracking its armor with his pulse cannon.
Thomas pulls Birdie to safety. Johnny fires a rocket into the hole he's made in the tankers bug's back and jumps clear. KA-WHAP! The big bug explodes.
Thomas: "Gas that hole and close it!"
The roughnecks fire gas rockets into the bug hole. Johnny touches down beside Rasczak and Thomas.
