BEAT 0-2s: Hold on the frozen microscopic capsule above Earth as the core barely flickers.
BEAT 2-4s: Hairline cracks race through the capsule and the spiky virus slowly uncurls.
BEAT 4-5s: Red light spills toward Earth, turning the calm orbit into a warning image.
AUDIO DIRECTIVE: deep space hum, faint ice cracking, low ominous pulse. NO spoken words in any language, NO intelligible speech.

Pixel art aesthetic maintained throughout, crisp pixel grid, NO style drift, NO smoothing, NO photo-realism.