They Found a Way to Make Us Obey to the Hive | Military Sci-Fi Infantry Story for Sleep

The White Sheet is an acid-snow permafrost plain where Tower Nine once processed atmospheric nitrogen for a human colony that stopped answering six weeks ago. Around its base, the Scissorbugs have chewed the colony into stripped alloy, resin, tunnels, and mound-work, and a breacher section is sent in to recover the signal core, plant antimatter pins, collapse the geothermal tap, and deny the nest.The team rappels onto the tower and begins the climb up the east thermal conduit. But the Scissorbugs are no larger than matchsticks, thermally invisible until too close, and the swarm’s rhythm finds the old obedience dampeners in the soldiers’ skulls, and men begin opening vents, attacking their own squad, and reaching for their own seals as if obeying an order.This is "The White Sheet" by Sascha Schmidt