Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 1 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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Three man sized ‘mice’ and Stanley Dann stood gawping at the screens
Churchill muttered, “I don’t want to tell you what this means.”
Crocket shook his head and said, “I can’t believe they’re here,
And Cody said, “We thought they’d burned up in your atmosphere.’
Stanley Dann observed his three companions and he said,
“Are you not the Freezer Mice? What are these things you dread?”
Churchill said, “A walking nightmare - worse when they have fed,
But blast a laser through their brain… you still won’t see one dead.”
Cody tapped a monitor. “They live to breed and feed,
And slaughter is their only means to sate their every need
They seem beyond destruction so we lock them up in chains
For they go briefly torpid when we laser beam their brains.”
Crocket turned to Stanley’s cousin. “You should leave this place.”
He pointed to a close up image of an awful face
It glared into a camera as though it could trace their fear
“They won’t be long, we must be gone; those creatures know we’re here.”
“Listen Doc,” said Cody, “we must supercharge our powers,
Get us to our freezer and we’ll chill for several hours.
Those Terror Bugs will be here rather sooner than you think
If we’re to stand an Earthly chance, for now, we have to shrink.”
Those mis-named shrews clicked fingers and became as small as mice
It’s what they do in order to re-energise in ice
Stanley scooped them up and took them to his waiting car
Their strength would reach its peak at home… if they could get that far
Stanley raised his voice above the engine’s manic roar.
“Why minimise so soon?” he asked a shoebox on the floor
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Churchill said, “We’re saving our reserves for what’s in store,
For we could cryo-charge all day, but still we may need more.”
As they reached the garage of the house in which they hide
A splodge of something sticky landed on the car’s outside
It fizzed and melted metal til the engine was exposed
‘Acid rain’ was not the first thing Stanley Dann supposed
Cody said, “The Terror Bugs have sent a forward scout
For if they had arrived en masse we’d need our brollies out
These Terror Bugs secrete at will a highly caustic sweat
It drips from every claw or they can spit an acid jet
“I fear two hours ‘chilling out’ may be too much to ask
But give us all the time you can so we can face our task.”
Stanley took his friends inside and forced a little smile
And prayed the Terror Bugs would not come by for quite a while
The passing of three hours saw the Freezer Mice stood proud
Crocket was the one who spoke their one shared thought aloud,
“Why have the Terror Bugs not come to do their very worst?”
Stanley said, “It’s breaking news… they took on London first!”
“But,” said Cody, “that would mean they simply passed us by
Yet they could sense our aura from a mile up in the sky
Bypassing us for any reason ain’t what they’re about
So London should have waited til they spat our giblets out.”
Stanley Dann turned up the TV. “Everybody, look!”
The carnage on the TV juddered as the camera shook
People ran and people froze and people tried to hide
And Churchill said to Stanley, “Doc, we’re gonna need a ride.”
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[Continued in ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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Terry Flood
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