His Own Suit Turned Against Him | Military Sci-Fi Infantry Story for Sleep

Beneath eleven kilometers of pressure ice, Tania Aggregator Two is a deep-ice refinery built to feed the Tania Borealis colonies with brine, fuel components, oxygen feedstock, and reactor salts. After a pylon shear floods Pump Gallery Seven-Alpha and threatens the oxygen liquefaction coils, Combat Engineer Matt Simmons and his squad are sent down the Anchor Trunk to secure the failing life-support heart. But the confirmed Wire Mold infestation is not just growing on pipes. It is inside legacy fiber, suit telemetry, winch logic, firmware, and the coil systems, turning the refinery’s own machinery against the team. When the squad tries to stabilize the coils and pull Corporal Mears from the black sump, the Mold opens his purge valves and locks his suit around him. This is "The Wire Mold" by Sascha Schmidt