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349mostly excitement. He could hear the sister soldiers; their thumping in unison as they piled out of the tunnel in front of them. And then the two of them were there.The commander halted and tapped to Anton, %u201cMy God. So many. Far more than our number. We need a new tactic to win. They are already overwhelming our front line.%u201d%u201cTell the workers to dig deep trenches, here, near the entrances. It has rained all week. The earth, once removed, will cause water to rise. We can create sister bridges and recall our soldiers behind the trenches,%u201d Anton tapped back urgently.The commander ran off and tapped to a group messengers, and Anton looked for his sister workers, found them, and told them to dig. Within minutes a series of trenches were fast being made. He saw Eve at one of the trenches being made and went to approach her and the sisters with her. As he arrived beside her, an enemy soldier red ant arrived at the same time. The soldier looked at the workers and immediately realised what they were doing. She leapt into them, a vicious monster much larger than the small workers. Anton leapt into her path, and the soldier went for him, saving the workers from certain death. Her huge jaws started snapping and trying to remove his head. Anton had never seen a red ant soldier before but it had the same anatomy as his own kind except it was red. He was smaller but more agile. His lighter mass gave him but one advantage: speed! He used it, running up onto the red ant whist dodging her snapping jaws. Anton went straight for the antennae, snapping off one and then the other one. The red ant reared up trying to unseat Anton, successfully causing him to slide down and off. He gained his balance immediately and grabbed one of the red ant%u2019s rear legs in his War