Flight of the Fingerfly
By: Jonnie Kitt and Kieran Callahan
Deep in rural Ohio, a mad scientist is working in his lab, determined to wreak havoc. He's making a new creature that he can control. In a large glass tube, he places a human hand and an atlas moth. If this works, he will have a giant bug with hands like a human and a body of a giant moth. Suddenly, a man bursts through the door. His name is Bob. He heard about this experiment in the paper and thought it was a bad idea. He yells to the scientist, “DON’T COMBINE THOSE CREATURES!” *Bum Bum Bummmmm (and other assorted dramatic music)*
He runs to the power outlet to unplug the machine, but before he can get there, the mad scientist hits him to the ground. Bob scrambles out of a puddle of blood to unplug the machine, but he runs into the power button. The mad scientist screams, “FIDDLESTICKS, YOU’VE TRIGGERED THE MACHINE!” The machine starts to shake and whir like a lopsided fan. The room fills with a flash of green light, and then silence… *Bum Bum Bummmmm (and other assorted dramatic music)*
Then, a loud banging starts from the glass cage of the machine. A six foot long monster with fingers for wings, a cow-like texture for skin, and huge red eyes, appears in the shroud of smoke. It taps its spiny fingers against the glass aggressively. The glass starts to form cracks as Bob panics. He sprints towards the door and opens it so the fingerfly can leave. The mad scientist pulls out a notepad and starts taking notes. “It is incredibly aggressive,” he says.
“THE GLASS IS ABOUT TO SHATTER YOU FUDGE NUGGET!” says Bob.
The glass shatters, and the demonic creature makes a beeline for the mad scientist. Bob shoves the mad scientist out of the way but the fingerfly pursues him. It slams into the mad scientist and digs two spiny fingers into the scientist's face. Bob watches as the bulging fingerfly tweaks on the scientist’s face, implanting its spiny fingers into the scientist’s skull. The finger flies nails go deep into the scientists neck gouging great masses of dripping pulsing goar. The scientist’s screams echo across the laboratory as he frantically grasps at the feeding fingerfly with blood dripping down his neck. As the scientist's life slowly drips away with the rivers of blood flowing down his neck he watches all of his veins pop leaving his whole body covered in a lumpy blood. The fingerfly squeals as it feeds on his liver gouging his intestines to an extreme degree. The food from the scientist's stomach rolls down his body as they leave his stomach only to be engorged by the fingerfly. The tired fingerfly jumps to a ledge. Bob watches as the scientist's face falls to the floor slowly morphing into a smaller fingerfly.“This is how it repopulates” Bob thinks to himself as he sprints out of the laboratory and into the night through a forest.
Chapter 2
As Bob runs, he thinks about what went down at the lab. He realizes that a fingerfly will always win in a 1v1 against a human, and they will have to think of a new way to beat the fingerfly. As he sprints through the woods, he finds himself running through a row of houses. He looks inside of one and sees the television. On the television it says: “ A massive bug is on a killing spree! It has been ripping the faces off of people and turning the faces into more bugs.”
Bob is flabbergasted. He says to himself, “I need to find a place to hide.” He keeps running until he finds a street that is familiar to him. He says, “It's my street! I've made it home!” He walks up his walkway and gets to the door. He grabs his key and walks inside shutting the door behind him. He walks around the house closing and locking doors and windows preparing for a takeover of the demonic finger flies. Once he finishes, he hustles down to his basement to make a bunker and collect rations. He goes upstairs, turns on the TV, and grabs food from his cabinets. He trembles as he realizes what he has gotten himself into and he starts to panic but he manages to pull himself together to focus up.
In the other room, the TV news anchor says, “The world is on shutdown until the government can figure out a way to kill or repel these evil creatures.”
Another anchor chimes in and says, “Our sources say these creatures originated from a lab in rural Ohio where they broke out just yesterday. They have now turned into a swarm and have gone west towards Colorado, but they are branching out. They appear to be repopulating at an extremely alarming rate they may overcome the world in a matter of days!”
Bob grabs all the canned food he can and sets them on shelves downstairs. He doesn't have enough to last him a few weeks, so he grabs his car keys and opens his garage door. He turns on the radio and hears, “The bugs are only about a foot long, but the queen, which the government has named TIMBO because of its size, is six feet long.” He hits the gas pedal and heads to the nearest Walmart. When he arrives it gets hectic. Everyone is rushing to get toilet paper and food. Bob grabs some bread and a ton of beans. He runs out of the store and back to his car. He drives to the nearest gun store and buys some ammo and c4.
When he's on his way back home he hears a whooshing of air, and then another one, and again, he realizes that it's a fingerfly that has spotted him. It flies towards him and he steps on the gas. He rushes through red lights and stop signs.
Taking a left, his car flies past the wreckages of other broken down cars, then he speeds down the highway. Suddenly the loud buzzing of the rabid fingerflies goes away. As he looks in his rearview mirror, he watches as the fingerflies converge onto a massive giant of a finger fly–TIMBO.
“Do not run,” the looming, pulsing fingerfly says as he flies behind his car getting closer every second. “I AM TIMBO DESTROYER OF WORLDS EQUAL OF NO ONE.”
“Ohhhhh crap,” Bob says as he veers his car into a broken down mine on the side of the road and he speeds into the darkness.
The first thing he notices is the stench. The cave pours the putrid smell of sulfur into the air as a deep. He quickly realizes that this mine is a sulfur mine and he can use that. As he looks behind him, he sees that the finger flies followed him into the cave but soon became disoriented as they went farther into the cave. Bob predicts that the fingerflies use smell to find their prey and don’t actually have sight. Bob has an idea!
Chapter 3
Bob attaches a piece of sulfur to his car and starts breaking it down. He cringes as the putrid smell reeks into his clothes and body. He watches as the yellow smoke seeps out of the vents in the walls like a snake looking for his prey. He then puts a large chunk of sulfur into his engine so that there is no odor of exhaust when the car runs. He then puts an average sized piece of sulfur into the trunk of the car and in the seats so that when he turns the car on it will hopefully explode.
Bob places some C4 in the engine too so that he can set it off at the right time. After he puts the rest of his C4 in, he puts as much sulfur as possible into the car to create the largest explosion possible. He starts pushing the car down the slope of the cave towards the swarm of fingerflies at the entrance.
Bob takes all of his belongings and food out of the car and puts it into a little cranny off to the side of the cave. Bob does a little math to figure out when the car will get to the entrance, then he pushes the car as it starts to accelerate down the slope as he starts the timer.
He runs towards the cranny and jumps into it just as the car explodes. The fireball from the car rushes past and down the cave and into the abyss.
Once the heat dies down, he gets up and looks at the aftermath of the explosion. Part of the cave had collapsed but still left a lot of space to escape. He saw little chunks of car here and there and even a dead fingerfly. Once he makes it to the center of the debris, he starts to realize that he never saw Timbo get hit by the explosion. Too late. Something hits him in the back of the head and he blacks out.
THE END
