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Terror Bugs: Part 1 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
In case you don’t remember them they came from outer space
They were to be the first beginnings of the human race
But when they crashed they came down in a stark and frigid place
Antarctic ice interred them and they vanished without trace
The dinosaurs, the mammoths and the dodo came and went
Before an excavator driver went where he was sent
He clawed the ice and found a rock which glowed a neon blue
The Freezer Mice were ‘rescued’ when the whole thing split in two
Though boffins tried to slice and dice them in the name of science
A doctor by the name of Stanley Dann stood in defiance
By and by, the Freezer Mice were strong as well as brave
They fought their mortal enemy and sent him to his grave
That awful creature, Catonita, prowls the Earth no more
But humans soon will get a scare that shocks them to their core
The Freezer Mice and Stanley Dann will once more fight for you
But though we call them Freezer Mice, those Freezer Mice… are shrew!
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Not so very far from where the Freezer Mice were found
A prison ship of Terror Bugs emerged from icy ground
Had they come down somewhere warm our planet would be swarming
But when they crashed they froze real fast…
…and now there’s global warming.
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Millennia beneath the ice, their evil did confound
But now those long lost frozen bugs were starting to come round
Their erstwhile tomb was fractured showing lights aglow inside
And its repulsive occupants soon forced the fracture wide
They’re bigger than a grizzly bear with hair as black as soot
They won’t be flattened under foot nor stay where they were put
They stand and walk upon two legs, their arms are in three pair
And these bipedal octopeds have limbs devoid of hair
Never should such creatures walk upon our Earthly shores
For all eight of their hairless limbs are armed with savage claws
But two degrees of warming since the creatures froze alive
Was all that was required to allow them all to thrive
Their distant planet wasn’t one inclined to overheat
So here their new priorities were multiply… and eat.
But lest you feel that southern pole will see them starve then die
These terror bugs can travel at great speed: These bugs can fly!
The penguin population took a predatory hit
Before the terror bugs found warmer seas a better fit
And when they found a ship those bugs latched on with suckered legs
They spun their webs and then each one laid twenty thousand eggs
The ship, with all its crew imprisoned, sailed a preset path
And smashed into a dock as hatchlings finished off the staff
These creatures that survived no matter how intense the chill
Found warmer climes meant better times for bugs who loved to kill
And so it was that no one in that South of England port
Survived to tell reporters that the army came up short
But one man with a wall of screens had watched the whole thing twice
He called his cousin, Stanley. “Stan, we need the Freezer Mice.”
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[Continued in ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
Copyright ©
Terry Flood
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