The Verrin Incident: An Elite Clearance Squad Dropped Straight Into Hell

Eight soldiers enter a silent weapons foundry. The machines are still working, and something inside has learned how to make them obey.

Corporal Nolan Kroll's squad expects an infestation clearance and a six-hour extraction. Instead they find dead workers stripped of their implants, security systems turned against them, and alien organisms grafting stolen human hardware into their own bodies. The foundry does not understand what they are. It only sees valid credentials.

Then the production line begins arming them.

With the squad cut apart and an orbital defense battery charging...