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! __________ 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. *** 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.” __________ [Continued in ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]