The Two Rico's (Starship Troopers Male Oc)

This is the end?

The roughnecks board the skimmers. Zander approaches Johnny, upset.

Johnny: "What's your problem now, Lieutenant?"

Zander: "The Rodger Young just burned up..."

Johnny's face falls. Thomas approaches having overheard Zander.

Thomas: "Any survivors?"

Zander points. Far in the distance, a glowing pod plummets toward the planet. Thomas tracks it on his heads-up display.

Carmen is shaken violently as the pod hits the atmosphere. Then it goes straight through the crust of Planet P.

The pod comes to a rest. Carmen blows the hatch, pulling Deladier out, she grabs a Morita pulse rifle. Tunnels lead in every direction.

Carmen: "This is Lieutenant Carmen Ibanez. Is anyone receiving?"

Thomas grabs the handset from Diz.

Thomas: "Affirmative! Carmen, this is roughneck base camp...What is your present location?"

Carmen sees a warrior coming at her from out of the shadows. Carmen fires a burst and kills it. Now there are two. Carmen backs up firing, but there are too many.

Carmen: "My present location is 42 degrees south by 176 degrees east...situation is extremely hostile...I... AAAAAA!"

They have her. She puts the barrel of the Morita in her mouth, but a claw cuts her trigger finger off at the knuckle.

Johnny and Zander are horrified by what they hear. The screams of Carmen over the comms.

Johnny: "We've gotta go get her!"

Zander: "You know as well as I do, she's probably already dead."

Johnny Know's it's true, he swallows bitterly, turning away. That's when he sees it. Nearby, the ground shifts, a claw breaks through, a hole opens up and bugs boil up out of the ground.

Sugar Watkins: "Here they come!"

They turn and see a second bug hole open up.

Thomas: "We're outta here. Flyboy, get your men into the skimmers. This real estates about to go buggy."

Zander: "Hey, just calm down, I'm giving the orders here-"

The entire area underneath the base camp collapses to form a huge new canyon. The Hercules boat topples, crushing skimmers and unfortunate fleet personnel.

Thomas and the surviving roughnecks pick themselves up. They are now 30 meters below the planet's surface. Above them, bugs line the wide rim of the canyon.

Thomas: "Form a perimeter!"

Through the dust, exposed bug tunnels can be seen in the canyon walls and piling out of them by the score, deadly Arachnid warriors. Thomas throws Zander a pulse cannon.

Thomas: "Make yourself useful, flyboy...PREPARE TO REPEL BUGS!"

The roughnecks open fire at the charging bug horde. Warriors are cut up. Gas grenades fly and H.E. rounds close tunnels. A maimed warrior gets through and heads for Zander.