Land of The Giants
"Ohh," Todd groaned as he held his head. "What hit us? Poopsie!" He hopped over to Althea lying on the sand. "Speak to me baby! Speak to me!"
"You're standing on my foot," Althea muttered. She sat up. "Is everybody all right?"
"Everyone who's here," Wanda told her. "But Lance is missing!"
Pietro zipped up to them. "I found this further down the beach!" He gave it to Althea.
"It's Lance's watch!" Todd remarked.
"Well at least we know he's somewhere on this island," Althea said.
"The trouble is where'd he go?" Todd asked.
"Okay we need to take stock of our situation," Althea said. "Any supplies left?"
"Some of the stuff is pretty ruined but I think we can salvage it," Fred said.
"Fine, Blob you and Scarlet Witch start making the campsite," Althea said. "Quicksilver, Xi and Toad you three go look for Lance. I'm going to go work on the radio and see if it's working. And I need to find a source of fresh water."
"Fine, let's go!" Pietro grabbed Todd and Xi's arms and dragged them along.
"Not so fast!" Xi yelled.
"I'm getting sand up my shorts yo!" Todd protested.
"Okay let's get the radio working while you guys make a fire," Althea sighed when they left. Not long after she sighed. "Well its official. It's toast."
"Can't you do anything with it?" Wanda asked.
Althea picked it up and dumped a huge amount of water from it. "Well I could make it into an aquarium."
"I see your point," Wanda said. "But what gets me is what attacked us in the first place?"
As on cue a huge spout of water rose up. Both Althea and Wanda dodged out of the way as it hit the land. "Incoming!" Althea shouted.
"That is it!" Fred roared as he dove into the ocean. "I've had it! Come out and fight like a man!"
"Fred you big dummy!" Wanda waved. "Come back here! Althea we have to do something!"
There were huge splashes in the water. "I can't believe that moron is trying to fight a sea monster all by himself!" Althea shouted. "I'm going to go…."
Her jaw dropped as something huge flew out of the water and slammed onto the beach. Once again the girls barely had time to get out of the way. When the sand cleared they saw what it was. "No way!" Althea gasped.
"The Blob does it again!" Fred climbed out of the water and looked at his prize. It was a huge fish flopping around on the land. It was so large it was making mini tremors as it flopped.
"Blob you big oaf!" Althea snapped. "What were you thinking? You could have gotten killed!"
"No way! I'm too tough!" Fred puffed up. "And besides! I got dinner."
"You not only got dinner," Althea blinked. "You got breakfast, lunch and snacks for two weeks!"
"Hey did the Blob do good or did he do good?" Fred strutted. "Now we know what made those water spouts. I saw a whole bunch of them swimming away. Thought you could get away with it didn't ya?" Fred stuck his face in front of the fish. It spurted out a torrent of water from its mouth that knocked Fred backwards into a nearby tree.
"Are you telling me we got clobbered by a carp?" Wanda blinked.
"Fred look out!" Althea shouted. The tree had knocked loose a coconut the size of a small house.
"Huh?" Fred looked up and yelled as the coconut smashed against his skull.
"Fred!" Wanda yelled.
"I'm okay…" Fred muttered from inside the coconut. He stood up on two legs. It looked like he was a walking coconut. "I can't see!" He bumped into another tree and fell backwards. "But boy this milk is tasty!"
"Giant fish and giant fruit?" Wanda scratched her head. "What's going on here?"
"Something tells me we'd better find the guys," Althea said. "And fast!"
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"Lance! Lance where are you?" Todd called out as he and Xi walked along the jungle. Pietro zipped back to them. "Find anything?"
"No and these stupid plants make it hard for me to run anywhere!" Pietro grumbled. He fidgeted with his leg. "Oh great now I'm caught on something."
"Is it me or are a lot of these trees and plants unusually large?" Xi blinked as he looked around.
"They're big all right but nothing…….AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Pietro shouted when he suddenly noticed that not a vine, but a huge snake entwined his leg. "SNAKE! SNAKE! SNAKE!"
Todd and Xi managed to pull his leg free and Pietro climbed the nearest tree using his super speed. The other two followed him. "Geeze! I hate snakes! Great! I'm not even on this island a minute and I'm nearly python chow!"
"Uh…Pietro…" Todd gulped as he and Xi's eyes widened. "Uh…" He pointed behind Pietro.
"What?" It's just a…" He looked and saw that the limb he was on was actually a very large chameleon that changed from brown to green. It started at Pietro with huge googly eyes. Then it licked him with a huge tongue. "AAAAAAAAAAAA!" Pietro screamed as he ran down the tree. "Run! Run! Evil monster! Evil monster!"
He didn't get far when suddenly something popped out of the bushes. A huge blue and yellow bird squawked and flew over his head. The force of the wind from its wings knocked Pietro down. "Pietro you okay?" Todd hopped over to him.
"Oh yeah I'm fine!" Pietro snapped. "I was only nearly eaten three times in under three minutes! I'm peachy…" A noise sounding like an airplane whoosh interrupted him. "Keen?"
He looked up and saw a flying squirrel the size of a jumbo jet fly overhead. He stood still as it whooshed by. "Tell me I did not see that," Pietro gulped.
"You mean a giant squirrel?" Xi asked.
"I told you not to tell me!" Pietro snapped.
"What kind of crazy island is this yo?" Todd grumbled. Then he saw a few giant butterflies fly by. "Oooh! I think I've died and gone to heaven!" He started to hop after them.
"Toad come back here!" Xi shouted.
Todd did, but two very large dragonflies were chasing him. "RUN FOR IT!"
"Why are we running?" Pietro yelled as he tried to get out of the way. Of course the vines in his way were making it hard for him to run. "Toad you eat bugs all the time! Just go after them!"
"Hey you guys eat hamburgers but do you go out and pounce on a two hundred pound steer to get 'em?" Todd snapped.
Suddenly the two dragonflies flew behind Pietro and Todd bumping them onto their backs. Xi barely managed to get out of the way. "This is not good…" Xi said as the two flew off into the sky.
"Xi!" Wanda shouted as she and the others managed to make it to him. "What happened?"
"Uh…" Xi pointed to the sky.
"Oh dear," Fred gulped.
"HELP!" Todd shouted.
"AVALANCHE WHERE ARE YOU?" Pietro screamed.
Next chapter: We find out where Lance went and meet some new characters!