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Command deck, Administration tower Mars Colony 1.
Local time 12:33 pm.

Matthew Rilan Soames was on duty at the admin desk, he was going over the recent malfunctions of the spider bots.
Something had been bothering him over the past few days and he’d called up the live feed of the internal site sensors.
Every screen in the room was showing history over time and current received signals.
An insistent -hissing?- in his head told him to filter further, look at specific frequencies.
Hunh, he could detect himself and Eva in the earliest data.
Wait.
He scrolled back, then forward.
Denying what he saw.
Not possible.
No.

The signals data showed Eva’s signal stop, then a new signal popped up.
The first malfunctioning spiderbot.
Then something curious, five more signals popped up.
He tracked those, they went to crew quarters.
These were people.
The Eva signal would stop, then the new signals would continue on.

Then he went to most recent scan.

The realization of what he was looking at, he was still trying to rationalize it.
Mostly to himself, some vain attempt to explain it away to himself.

Outside the tower, down in the streets, the infected all stopped and turned towards the tower.

The phone on the desk rang, “Soames here, what’s” he stopped to listen to the panicked words on the other end of the line.
Then he went to the window to see the throngs of people moving strangely, all coming his way.

“Ooooohhhh boy.”
:told you: text flashed in front of his vision.