They Sent Us to Rescue Prisoners Who Never Existed | Military Sci-Fi Infantry Story for Sleep

Beneath a corporate arcology spire, black water has swallowed the abandoned hydroponic levels and turned the foundations into Flatback territory. A five-man resistance sapper team enters the flooded corridors to destroy a tactical array, draw corporate security underground, and help another cell rescue political prisoners from level twelve. Carrying ceramic penetrator charges, they begin moving toward the foundation spine.Flatbacks press their armored bodies into mud and concrete, vanish from thermal and sonar scans, and strike when footsteps, machinery, or gunfire disturb the water. They build nest-mounds that force soldiers into flooded chokepoints, packing the dead into their dams while already-armored juveniles scatter through pipes and foundation cracks.This is "Under the Spire" by Sascha Schmidt.