This one was prompted over on my HMB fic but it fits in better here :D

Prompt: memberofWLM
I have a Starship prompt:
Maybe Bug finding out that there's more than just the bug world? For the first time?


Bug stood with his antenna pressed against the window as Starship 15-A-II pulled further and further away from his home planet. In his minds eye he saw Roach watching from so far below and felt a twinge of sadness at the thought of his best friend.

"You okay, Buggy?" asked February, coming up behind him and wrapping an arm around his shoulders.

"Yeah," Bug nodded his great orange head and turned away from the window. "It's just..."

DAMAGE REPORT... DAMAGE REPORT... STARSHIP RANGERS ASSEMBLE...

Megagirls robotic voice sounded over the speakers in the walls. Echoing down the metallic corridors and effectively cutting off Bugs sentence. His exoskeleton tingled with excitement and fear as he ran with February to the control room.

They skidded to a halt on the large control deck.

"What is it Up?" called Bug as the older man pressed several buttons on a console in the corner.

"Check engine light's just come on. Any reading from the warp crystals yet?" he asked over his shoulder.

"Possible Klystron Generator malfunction." answered Specs, pushing her glasses up her nose and consulting the screen of her Spectrometer. "Warp crystals are fine."

"Will we have to land to patch it up, Specs?" Up turned away from the controls and asked his engineer.

"I think it might be as well, sir, better safe than sorry."

In the end they decided on a short pit-stop on a planet they were just about to pass. Just to allow Specs time to check the outer engines.

"Specs, scan the surface of this planet. We need to know what's down there." Up spun back to the controls to change the direction they were headed and engage the landing sequences.

"Fascinating, it seems this is a previously uncharted dwarf planet. No idea what's on it."
This was surprising, it was not often they came across something Specs didn't know. In fact, Up was about to insist they landed somewhere they knew wasn't hostile when the left engine began smoking. Great white clouds of smoke billowed past the panoramic windscreen of the control deck, obliterating great swathes of the star-spangled sky into a dense white fog. Suddenly, landing on an unknown planet didn't seem too bad.

The landing went as smoothly as could be expected when one is trying to land something the size of a large bungalow on one and a half engines. The first one out was, of course, Taz. Zapper drawn and set to 'Pew' she scanned the horizon before waving the others out. Specs and Krayonder shot off to assess the still-smoking engine, Megagirl following at a slower pace to act as their lookout while they worked. Up moved to Taz's side, zapper in each hand and February and Bug began scouting the area as was the role of a Schience officer. After a lot of pleading Up had allowed Bug to tag along under the conditions that he did not get in the way or put anyone in danger.

February ran her usual diagnostics. Checking the air for Oxygen and other, more dangerous substances while Bug peered warily round the large boulders peppering the landscape.

He heard a rustle and frantic clicking which sent him running back to Feb.
"There's someone over there." he told her, backing away slowly.
She swung her scanner in the direction Bug pointed, the blip on the screen confirming the presence of a life form almost immediately. The pair backed up as slowly as they dared as every instinct told them to run. They were being as silent as possible until February tripped on a rock, let out a small scream and broke into a run back to the ship.

"Oh, hey February." greeted Up as she skidded to a halt, out of breath with strands of her short hair plastered to her bright red face. "We've found the source of the problem." he gestured to a pile of charred hay next to the broken engine. Tootsie was stood beside it, looking a tad embarrassed as he comforted the still-smoking haystack.

For a moment February forgot why she had just sprinted back to the ship. Until...

"Life signs detected." Megagirl spun her upper body to an impossible position before following with her bottom half. Scanners fixed in the direction February had just run from. as the Rangers watched a dark shape moved in from the horizon. It shifted, flowing like a liquid down the slope towards the ship.

"Wha da hell is dat?" Taz spoke for the whole crew. Aiming her zapper at the dark shape.
"Woah there Taz!" Up pushed the barrel of her gun down "Le's jus see what they want firs'." he said firmly.
Taz was going to argue the point but there really wasn't time. While Up had been speaking the unidentifiable mass had gotten closer. Close enough for even Specs to see that it was actually more of a swarm. Hundreds of individual creatures moving together. Then, all at once, there was a loud series of clicks and noises and the swarm stopped a couple of metes from the ship.

"Hey, guys!" called a familiar voice "Look! More bugs!" a large orange insect squeezed it's way between a purple and green snail and a shiny black beetle that was taller than Up.

"Buggy!" February screeched, rushing towards him.

After that things were explained pretty quickly. With a little help from Bug acting as translator Up was able to assure the frightened insects of this new Bug planet that they meant no harm and only needed to be there long enough to get all of the hay out of the engine.