Terra Formars 2

This translation is ONLY for Utopia.

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What...

are these creatures...!?

2nd MISSION - Sudden Metamorphosis of Species

Aki...!?

Hey!

Aki!!

Cerci...

Antenna...

They can't be...

Cockroaches!?

It doesn't matter if we die...

That's why you got us...!!

That's not true, Mr. Davis!

You are no longer normal humans!

You have already been given the power you need to complete your mission!

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2nd MISSION - Sudden Metamorphosis of Species

"...Favorable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavorable ones to be destroyed." - Charles Darwin

500 years earlier...

Our ancestors released cockroaches on Mars as part of the terraforming project.

However they did not include

the laws of living organisms in their predictions.

With an endless downpour of space radiation and -80C temperatures...

This harsh environment has finally...

forced cockroaches, who have not changed their shape in 3 hundred million years...

to evolve!

Bugs #1, the previous spaceship, was most likely attacked and destroyed by them.

And the fact that... mankind's strength, and all the weapons they could carry could not stand up to them means...

There are many of them...

Or...

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Each one of them...

is extremely strong...

It is common for a species to grow large in order to deal with cold...

But if these cockroaches retained their same abilities...

Agility...

Toughness.

and their sturdy carapace.

If they still have all of that...

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then a normal human being

could never extreminate one.

Bastard...

You are

dead!

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Please... don't...

Shoki-...chi...

I don't want...

to see that... side of you... again...

We can...

talk it out... you said...

... right...?

Aki...!?

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Hey...

Aki!!

Hey...!!

Hey...

Aki...

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Wait!

Don't inject that just yet.

Look.

He's not attacking anymore.

He looks more like he's falling back now that we're here...

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It has to be...

afraid of us.

We've been ordered to withdraw.

Let's go back to the ship.

And bring Akita with us...

... Okay.

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Meanwhile, on Earth

Washington D.C.
United Nations Aeronautics and Space Administration
(U-NASA)

--*beep*

Hello.

Hey there, Dr. Honda.

Thank you for the delicious sushi the other day.

One was especially delicious...

The...

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Seafood bulgogi sushi.

Who cares about that! Are you insane!?

I heard about Mars!!

Are you really going to continue the mission!?

Don't worry about them.

Mars' atmosphere is not stable yet!!

It's the same as trying to be active at a 7000m altitude, you know!?

Normal cleanup alone would be difficult,

but this is a battle!!!

You can't use the Bugs Procedure as an excuse to--

Mr. Honda.

I take it you are under the impression that these men and women

underwent the Bugs Procedure which has a 30% success rate, just to be active?

Alexander Gustav Newton
Senior Supervisor for the U-NASA Bugs #2 Project

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An insect DNA array

has been inserted into the cells of their bodies.

With this, the cells inside of mankind's weak flesh and blood

will be able to transform into those of an insect.

In other words...

You could say that they are the same race...

as the roach people who have adapted to Mars.

Normal men were not able to stand up to them.

If man is no use, then you have to take Spiderman with you.

...But.

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Still, I'd never heard that they'd...

Turned into that...

They told us that...

The procedure and the training was only for emergencies.

Just in case they'd gotten bigger...

Or they'd increased in number, or they were hard to handle...

But...

They...

I can't believe they...

Took human form...

And are so...

Ridiculously agile...

I mean, Akita...

Was... Was so

easily...

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I never thought this...

We can't continue...

Let's return to Earth!!

Captain...

No...

We can't go back, right?

Truth is,

we haven't done one tenth of our mission yet. Right?

My Captain.

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Lee...

God Lee (Israel)
26yrs

Hmph.

... Well,

someone dying was more or less not part of the plan, though.

... Hah...

What's with the face?

Is it that rare for someone to have their neck broken before you can react, Japanese man...?

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What are you trying to say...

Don't get it?

Some woman in massive debt who lived like a maggot

actually became a maggot through surgery and then died like a maggot. Are you really that sad?

Huh?

... Well,

that's what the guys in the government are thinking, you know?

Pretty much.

Our lives have no value.

If we don't kill them like we're told we can't go home, nor will we get our money.

It'll be just like before we came here.

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I'll take care of this.

Roaches shouldn't be able to stand up to high heat.

I'll bring back their carcasses to Earth...

and shove them into the employee lockers at U-NASA...!!

First thing's first, I'll find their nest.

Be back in one hour.

Wait!! I can...

I'm better alone.

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A samurai or a muay thai boxer would only

slow me down.

Lee...

... Are you okay with this, Captain?

... Yeah.

Of all of us, Lee is the most familiar with war.

He was once part of an armed insurgency group in Israel.

Abandoned as a child...

He fought for the next 26 years straight... I don't think

he'll go overboard, despite how he talks.

Besides...

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His special skill is for battle.

Take God Lee, for example,

we used pheropsophus jessoensis, ground beetle in his surgery.

Ground beetle...!?

I seem to remember hearing that

for the experimental stage we'd be using fruit fly...

No...

Their fundamental strength was not enhanced when we used the mostly compatible fruit flies.

That is why we experimentally inserted different insects into each of their bodies.

And in a pinch, they can...

"Hunt"...

or "defend"...

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and use the abilities of their various insects.

What's that...

... Already, huh...

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Sorry but...

Victory goes to the one who makes the first move.

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"Ground Beetle."

The insect that was used as the base of Lee's procedure takes...

"hydrogen peroxide" and

"hydroquinone"

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and combines the two substances inside its body,

and then sprays out the extremely hot benzoquinone with a loud roar.

It's no longer just a little gas bug when Lee does this on a human scale.

It will cause a huge explosion just like a flamethrower...

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... (note to typesetter: this bubble has one Japanese character in it, but it should just be an ellipsis)

However.

The roach, king of the insects...

Does not die.

Generally, cockroaches are weak to high temperatures like boiling water or fires,

but cockroaches have easily adapted to any and all kinds of environments.

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Tch.

There are reports of a cockroach that didn't die after being burned in an oven in Korea in the year 2009.

How fun...!!

He's late...

...Captain...!!

Something is coming...!!

It's... almost here!!

It can't be...

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Maria, run!!!

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Stag beetle* carapace!!! *Phalacrognathus muelleri

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Everyone stand down...

I will handle this.

I should have handled this.

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Humans universally despise

only cockroaches.

Why do you think that is?

I'll tell you what I think...

I think it's something like homologous hatred.

We don't want to see the faces of our ancestors.

I've received a wonderful image from God Lee's internal camera...

The answer to Mother Rahab.

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The reason Bugs #1 was destroyed...

there were many cockroaches, or...

Each one of them...

is extremely strong...

Or maybe...

Both...

These roaches...

They're afraid of us...

No...

Captain!! Outside...!!!

What if they're not "afraid" of us... but they in fact "despise" us...

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Does that mean that the insects to be exterminated...

would be us?

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