A clearance platoon enters a spore-choked fungal world to destroy a Primary Bloom buried beyond the canals.

The Bloom is not just a target — it coordinates the Maulroots -alien carnivore plants- like a living heart and reacts when the charges are placed.

Spores overload the filters, comms collapse under bioelectric interference, and every emission risks waking more of the forest.

This is "Dead Bloom" by Sascha Schmidt