[Meanwhile, on another moon.] While Ace and Cherry were trapped on their moon with no way of escaping, Jim and Anya were also on their ship, currently making their way onto the moon’s surface. Like the one the siblings were on, the moon Jim and Anya landed on was cold, with thin, frigid air blowing against their skin. Their bodies quickly evolved and adapted to the harsh moon environment. As soon as the mini ship landed, the two older blood mutants remained in it for a while, still searching for the mines. However, as much as they searched, the two failed to see anything from their vantage point, making them feel like the mission was some sort of hoax. "Could be a trap," Anya muttered softly as she sat back in the ship with her hands folded. "I didn’t see anything else while landing. Could be those aliens have set us up again." "We don’t know that for sure," Jim answered with a more positive tone as he stood on top of the ship. With his hand over his forehead, he scanned the area for any signs of life and activity to report back to Anya, but alas, there was nothing in sight. "But one thing’s for sure. There’s nothing here. I can’t see anything for miles." {M.O.S Update: Recapture the Colony.} "I don’t get it," Jim spoke to himself, "If there’s nothing in sight for miles, why does this piece of tech keep reminding us about our mission objective? Unless..." the man’s eyes suddenly opened wide as he saw multiple tunnels opening up around them. The tunnels eventually broke apart into holes with creatures emerging from them. "Crap!! We’ve got company!!" Jim repeated while transforming into his blood mutant form. Anya, who had closed her eyes for a few seconds, was quickly woken up by Jim’s loud roaring, followed by a streak of blood spilling onto the mirror of the ship. Surrounding the ship were the same type of crab-like creatures that were on the moon Cherry and Ace were on. The creatures kept coming from different holes and quickly surrounded the ship. Using their large pincers, they started to break the ship apart and destroy the only way of escape for both blood mutants. "What the hell’s going on?" Anya angrily asked as she jumped out of the ship while in the middle of transforming. As soon as she landed, she opened her mouth as wide as she could and prepared to let out a mighty scream. "Wait, I don’t think that will wor...." Jim tried to warn her, but the woman had already let out a powerful scream so large that Jim had to cover his ears. However, the woman quickly came to realize why Jim was warning her, for she saw her own sound waves bouncing off the tough carapaces of the creatures she screamed at and redirecting back to her. Quickly and instinctively, she raised her arms in an X shape and braced herself for the blow that was yet to land on her body. *BAM* Anya was sent skidding through the ground as she knocked down a couple of crabs. Thankfully, her scream wasn’t powerful enough to damage her skin, for it had already moved a great distance. Without wasting time, the woman sprang back to her feet and created as many blood tendrils as she could. With Jim not close by her, she found herself surrounded by the other crab-like creatures that did not wish to deal with the golden blood mutant at the moment. "Damn these freaking aliens!!" she angrily muttered. "Why couldn’t they do this themselves? Now they’re using us as exterminators? That’s so freaking messed up." Already angered by the fact that she and the others were being used as walking weapons designed for murder, Anya became even angrier at the fact that the Granians were using her, Jim, Ace, and Cherry for some messed-up experiment or war that she herself had not fully understood. All this pent-up frustration, anger, and hatred eventually led Anya into a blood-killing spree where she killed as many creatures as she could without resting. Her body suddenly became wilder and more ferocious, both in size and destructiveness. Her height increased by two feet, her body grew two times larger than it originally was, and her mouth began to stretch all the way to the top of her chest, making it look like the opening of a Venus flytrap with teeth protruding out. The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✶𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮✶𝓷𝓮𝓽 ’Holy mother of pearl what has she turned into?’ Jim and the creatures surrounding him remained frightened by the sheer monstrosity of a blood mutant Anya turned into. Her very presence alone was frightening, and now that she seemed to have lost control, fear started to creep into those who were watching her, with the exception of a few witnessing from space. "This is an astounding performance. This female’s showing much more improvement than the boy himself," Grim, who was in the Granian Mother Ship, made a remark on Anya’s transformation as he and the others watched a direct feed from both moons. "She must be at the blood bishop rank now, am I right?" He asked one of the experts on Blood Mutants. "Sadly, she had just moved up by one rank. To be more precise, she’s the same rank as the boy," the expert answered and went ahead to explain their reasoning. "The reason she looks that way is because of the way she was transformed. As you already said, the catalyst that transformed her was infused with the boy’s powerful symbiote, hence the reason for her immense power. She may look powerful, but she’s not as strong as the boy." "I see." Grand Master, who watched the whole event unfold in silence, finally muttered while placing his scaly fingers on his muzzle. "Tell me, do you think we’ll have to draw either of them from the planets?" "I do not wish to lie to you. It depends on them themselves," the expert answered. "If the humans have the will to live, they will most definitely make it out. The life forms they’re going against are of the lowest tier, so it won’t be a great challenge for them." "Let us hope they’ll be able to grow from this," Grim ended as he and the others continued observing the blood mutants." Back on the moon’s surface, Jim and the crab creatures slowly backed away from Anya, who seemed to have lost her humanity in the process. The already wild look her form possessed was now intensified tenfold. With each step she took, the woman roared and growled angrily as her body twitched and shook in an unsettled manner. One of the crab creatures panicked and started running away due to fear of losing its life. However, as soon as it moved, a long, sticky tendril protruded through its body and started to drag it slowly toward the woman’s body. The poor creature tried fighting for its life by pinching the tendril and trying to escape, but alas, all of its attempts were futile. The more it struggled, the deeper the tendril moved into its body until it got to the point where it started to wrap the creature in a tight grip. ’She’s no longer in control...’ Jim said, having realized how inhuman Anya’s moves were. He also remembered something similar that happened while on Earth. As Ace was moving to the next rank, he somehow developed some new and rare strength that enabled him to kill Murdock with only one jab. Even though he did not know what it was back then, he now started to understand that the same thing was happening with Anya. If he moved recklessly, he would end up like the poor crab the woman was crushing with the strength of only one tendril. ’I don’t even know if I can take her,’ Jim complained to himself while slowly backing away from Anya. ’She’s just a little taller, but I doubt if she’ll have the sense to brutally murder me, right? Think straight, Jim. Know your enemy and their strength. You’ve seen this woman fight; she’ll freaking kill you. Don’t confront her at all.’ Just as he thought things couldn’t get worse, some of the crabs behind him ignored the large, dangerous-looking woman and began snipping their pincers at Jim. The man tried as hard as possible to stop them, but it was starting to get harder for Anya’s focus was slowly diverting her attention towards Jim. ’Crap. She’s looking at me. Quit bugging me, you freaking crabs.’ Anya’s crescent-shaped eyes were now staring at Jim, who was trying his level best not to draw too much attention to himself. However, the crabs started eyeing him as well and started to snap their pincers at him. If he didn’t do anything, he was going to end up losing chunks of flesh before Anya got her hands on him. "Crap, I guess we’re going this way then!!"