Terra Formars volume 5 - Yu Sasuga and Ken-Ichi Tachibana

 The survivors of the ANNEX program are being besieged by the cockroaches, and the situation looks dire!

 

 

And we pick up continuing the dire situation of the German / South American division.

 

Led by Adolf, who is Mars rank 2 (meaning only one member on the crew is actually stronger then him in fighting Terra Formars) and has the abilities of the Electric Eel.

 

His team is captured after losing a few members to the assault, and he faces the leader of the battle as he electrifies hordes of the bug warriors.  Making use of the cockroaches lack of knowledge about how lightning works, he burns him down at the cost of nearly his life.  But the bug somehow survives, and as they start blasting first with rifles, and then with rocks at Adolf and his forces, he finally succumbs to them.

But a secretly implanted device goes off, nuking the whole area and taking both bug and the division with them.  In the meantime, the Japanese division figures out that the bugs have been harvesting the corpses of the previous mission to improve their own abilities...

They find out that the bugs have been laying a trap for them, but during the ensuing confrontation they seem to be able to turn the tides in their favour.

Now to get the next volumes of this excellent series...