Marvel 1919 : Rise of an Empire

Chapter 147: Bug God and Bug Queen



Though the Earth Federation had mastered interstellar travel, George's journey to Planet OM-1 wouldn't be easy. He wasn't going to war; he needed knowledge.

This world's combat data and biological adaptations would serve his future projects across Marvel Earth, the Naruto World, and the Ancient Star system he was building from scratch.

George used his position at the Federation Research Institute to board the L-6 satellite, an orbital station that monitored the Solar System and protected Earth from attacks. The station also supplied the Raiders squad's MK-II vehicles.

He took a transport ship to the Martian agricultural colony. Mars had become a bustling food production hub, but George had no time for sightseeing.

His final stop was the half-built Sanctuary Federation Command Station, the human outpost closest to Planet OM-1. George took temporary control of the front-line operations and arranged for a Fast Attack Ship to carry him into OM-1's orbit. After programming the ship to hover remotely, he piloted a smaller craft toward the surface.

As he entered the atmosphere, George expanded his perception field to cover the entire planet. It revealed a massive life form at the desert's edge.

From orbit, the exposed part of the creature looked like a living fortress, six stories high and only a fraction of its buried mass. This was the Bug God, deeply entrenched in Planet OM-1's crust.

The Bug God ranked high among the Bug race, surpassing even the Brain Bug in psychic power. Through specialized limbs, it could tap directly into captured lifeforms' nervous systems and force them to speak. Each devoured prey gave it nutrients and knowledge, making it more cunning.

In the original films, it had outmaneuvered the Federation's Literary Marshal, absorbed him, and accessed human intelligence networks.

When George sensed the Bug God, the creature sensed him back, but found its psychic probe blocked, as if hitting a steel wall. Alarmed, the Bug God concluded a powerful psychic human had arrived and began mobilizing defenses.

Massive Plasma Bugs turned toward George's craft and opened fire. These monsters, 31 meters long, launched deadly plasma barrages that could slice warships or target planets from orbit.

Though this long-range destruction required fully mature specimens, even standard models could disrupt space missions.

They fired from the rear, guided by psychic directives from Brain Bugs rather than their vision. Like most artillery units, they were defenseless while firing, their greatest weakness.

George's ship took a plasma hit, but he had already teleported to a distant hillside, safely outside the danger zone. He could have appeared before the Bug God instantly, but this was a field test. Ending things too quickly would defeat the purpose.

He released controlled mental pulses, revealing his location. Plasma fire redirected toward him while swarms of ground Warriors charged.

Bug Warriors moved on six legs, slicing across rocks with sharp talons. Their front limbs resembled swords, designed to shred armor and flesh.

Jumpers, winged Bug Warriors, soared overhead. They launched aerial strikes, tail-stabbing enemies from above or decapitating them mid-flight.

Scorpion-like Bugs joined them, firing pulses from their tails. Their hardened armor resisted traditional human rifles. Even mechs couldn't match their crushing claws.

Tank Bugs followed. Massive and heavily armored. Their carapaces resisted platoon scale machine gun barrages. They flung corrosive liquid in arcs that ignited mid air like fire.

But George wasn't passive. He drew the Morita Mark III rifle from his cache. An advanced hybrid of assault rifle and grenade launcher.

This compact weapon combined both functions, firing 10mm x 50 caseless ammunition. It boasted an extremely high cyclic rate, a 99 round magazine capacity, and a 1500m maximum range. Though eventually replaced by the new Morita Mk I, it remained impressive and reliable.

George tested its firepower. Fire flared from the muzzle, each bullet striking the Bugs' vulnerable points with precision.

When the bullets ran out, George casually swapped weapons from his spatial arsenal: Morita Mk III Squad Automatic Weapon, Gatling gun, M55 Rocket Launcher, MX-90 Fragmentation Grenade, E-Pulse 88 rifle, Speed of Light weapons, and individual nuclear arms. He even found time to throw two of them.

George moved fluidly, dodging plasma cannons and pulse beams from Plasma Bugs and Pulse Scorpions while watching for airborne Jumpers. The chaos suited him.

Eventually, he brought out mechs. Thanks to the Black Eyes he'd acquired in the Naruto World, George could control puppets, making mech operation simple.

He didn't have many, unfortunately. With more, becoming a true one-man army wouldn't be hyperbole.

He played with the MKII mech and M11 Babar, thoroughly enjoying advanced weaponry. Mechs and gunfire were a man's eternal romance.

But even George's vast arsenal had limits, and the Bugs kept coming. After testing his toys, George put them away.

He switched tactics, activating repulsive force control. Using Shinra Tensei, he repelled all Bugs and energy blasts within a hundred meters.

Then he manipulated gravity mid-air, drawing in all Bugs within a thousand-meter radius and compressing them into a dense meatball nearly 200 meters wide. It was a clean-up move, his way of clearing fodder. At full strength, George figured he could distort gravity enough to sculpt moons into planets.

Before George could act again, the Bugs faltered. Panic set in, and the surrounding swarm began retreating.

Bugs weren't mindless. This alien arachnid species had millions of years of evolution, intelligence, and a hive structure more refined than humanity's. Their selflessness and adaptability made them formidable.

"Human expert, I admit your strength. You have the qualifications to speak with me." A voice echoed in George's mind, telepathic communication.

"Are you scared?" George replied.

He looked toward the Bug God, a massive beast like a distant mountain.

"No, Human. Even if you are strong, you are still one. This is my planet. You should be the one who is afraid."

George teleported directly before the Bug God. Its size was immense. George used repulsion to hover at eye level.

"Roar!" A thunderous growl echoed. A rush of noxious wind followed.

George conjured an energy barrier just in time. The gust was the Bug God's breath.

"Do your kind even brush your teeth?" he said, waving the stench away.

"I had imagined speaking with Humans one day, but not like this. I didn't expect an expert like you," the Bug God admitted.

"And I bet many Humans didn't expect Bugs to talk. Is there someone above you, more advanced?" George asked.

"That is a secret of our kind. But if you join us, I will share it with you."

George chuckled. "Trying to bribe me now?"

"Some Humans willingly become believers. That's how we understand you so well," the Bug God said. "Join us and you'll understand everything."

"Tempting. But I don't like your recruitment process."

"We seek peace. But our path is through assimilation."

George sighed. "Then it seems we're fundamentally incompatible."

"You will join us. Provide knowledge. Pacify the Humans. Your plans, deployments, fleet designs, "

"Pfft!"

A sharp bone spike pierced where George had just stood. He'd left an afterimage.

"You have tried this before. Sneak attacks, classic." George reappeared on the opposite side.

Bugs swarmed. The Bug God lunged, claws slashing wildly.

"Too bad you're ugly and too big. Otherwise, I'd offer you a vacation home," George quipped, teleporting to a distant hillside.

He began to run.

To George, the world slowed. Bugs became statues. Time itself bent.

He had activated the Speed Force.

Since acquiring it, he'd always wondered: what would happen if he threw a punch at near light-speed? Could it create a black hole, like some theories suggested?

In the Marvel world, there was no room for such tests. But here… he had freedom.

He ran faster and faster. Illusions of past moments flickered beside him.

"Bang!"

"Crash!"

The bang was his fist connecting with the Bug God's skull.

The crash was its head exploding, green bug fluid bursting across the horizon, the giant collapsing.

George flew in mid-air, observing the endlessly cracked Earth below. Magma gurgled from the ruptured ground, and his right arm now hung limp and noodle-like from recoil.

George now understood his strength's true nature. Destroying a planet with one punch wasn't yet within his reach, not from lack of power, but because his body wasn't durable enough to absorb the impact. Even with the Bug God acting as a buffer, the recoil had ravaged his arm.

Still, within three seconds, the severe injuries on his right arm had completely healed.

The Bug God's massive soul was absorbed into George's Chaos Space, feeding and expanding the Soul Lake, an ever-growing reservoir of power.

George glanced one last time at the devastated planet, then retrieved a high-powered bomb from his inventory. Without hesitation, he teleported back into space.

As he pressed a remote control, a dazzling explosion lit up the void. The entire planet shattered into cosmic dust, erased from existence.

Aboard the Fast Attack Ship, George entered coordinates for Klandathu Fortress. The FTL engine flared, and the ship vanished from the ruins at light speed.

He still had one crucial task: capturing the Bug Queen. George recalled from his archives that Karl had originally discovered the Bug Queen at Klandathu Fortress. It had taken heroic sacrifice by many soldiers to subdue her.

She had nearly succeeded in hijacking a warship to launch an invasion on Earth.

According to this timeline, the Bug Queen should now be hidden within the massive meteorite where Klandathu Fortress was situated.

Arriving at Klandathu Fortress, George noted that the outpost was still just an early-stage observation site, the first Bug War hadn't broken out yet.

Rather than docking, George teleported to the meteorite's surface. Through his advanced sensory field, he instantly located the Bug Queen.

Using his psychic power, George instructed all humans in Klandathu Fortress to evacuate. Then he warped directly to the Bug Queen's chamber.

Within the Bug hierarchy, the Bug Queen was a pinnacle lifeform with high intelligence and near-limitless reproduction. Her grotesque abdomen could spawn up to 1,800 eggs daily.

Moreover, she possessed formidable telepathic capabilities, she could infiltrate human minds, hack computer systems, commandeer spacecraft, and weaponize them against their own.

Yet to George, this was mere static. She launched a psychic assault the moment she detected him, but her reaction was laughably slow.

George effortlessly absorbed the Bug Queen into his Chaos Space, imprisoning her within an isolated dimensional cell. Without a glance back, he returned to the surface.

Floating above the meteorite, George conjured a gravitational field. The massive rock began to fracture, then compress, ultimately forming a dense sphere. All remaining Bugs inside were annihilated by the gravitational collapse.

With the Bug God vanquished and the Bug Queen secured, the major threats in the Milky Way Galaxy were neutralized. But George knew the Bug species, and many others, still existed in vast numbers outside this galaxy.

Before leaving the warship, George had left a final transmission: a warning to the Earth Federation that humanity was not alone, and that galactic threats loomed beyond their star system.

His exploits, from OM-1 to this meteorite, would serve as unforgettable warnings for the Federation's upper ranks.

Perhaps one day George would return. But that tale lay in the future.

After George exited the plane, surveillance logs from the warship were delivered to the Earth Federation's highest command. They saw it all: a man surviving unshielded in space, altering a celestial body's structure with a gesture. It was beyond comprehension.

Coupled with the message George had left behind, whispers of divine intervention began to circulate.

Soon, belief crystallized. The humans who had been psychically influenced by George became fervent missionaries. Over time, a new sect was born within the Milky Way Earth Human Federation, one devoted to the worship of cosmic beings and a returning god.

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