Hova's Duty
Chapter 8 Wasp Attack
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
The sound of buzzing filled the air around the ant hill. Lucas looked up in the air wondering what the buzzing sound was.
"We have to get into the hill right now!" Said Hova as she grabbed Lucas's hand and the two of them began running together.
Hova ran as fast as she could tugging Lucas along behind her. Lucas looked up at the sky in confusion as he saw some large fly by overhead. He wondered what Hova and the other ants were worried about, since he was shrunken and an ant, he had no idea what could pose a threat to the colony, since he believed that he had been the ants' greatest threat . Hova saw the ant hill and ants running about. Up in the sky the shapes became more clear and revealed themselves to be wasps. The wasps saw the ants and their caterpillars as a prime source for food to be taken back to their home and feed on. It appeared the wasp were launching a raid and Zoc and a few other ants were fighting the wasp with blast from Zoc's staff, rocks thrown by ants, and silk fired by silk shooters. Lucas watched the fighting go with with a mix oh awe and horror. Hova cast a glance over at Lucas and a small part of wished she could just swallow him back up and put him back in her stomach to keep him safe. She then shook the thought from her mind because she realized she would slow down if she had Lucas in her stomach and that wasp would most likely target a fat ant.
"We have to move!" Said Hova to Lucas as she and the child began to move in the direction of the ant hill.
The two didn't get to far, when a wasp flew down and landed in their path.
"A family meal!" Laughed the wasp.
Hova backed up with Lucas cowering behind her as the wasp got closer and closer. Hova looked at Lucas and saw the fear on his face.
"Run and hide Lucas!" Yelled Hova as she ran directly at the wasp and quickly jumped out of the way as it tried to grab her.
Lucas quickly took off running through the grass and soon came across the area of broken glass. He stopped to rest and catch his breath, when he became aware he wasn't alone. Another wasp was nearby and it was hunting him. The wasp circled the area on the ground as it looked at the small prey.
"Looks like I have you all to myself little ant! I think I'll swallow you whole and let you struggle inside me!" Cackled the wasp.
Lucas shivered in fear at the thought of being eaten and unlike Hova, Lucas figured he was going to meet a terrible horrible death in the wasp's stomach. The wasp lunged at Lucas and he quickly scrambled out of the way to avoid the insect's mandibles. The angry predictor lunged at Lucas again, who grabbed a piece of glass and hit the wasp in the face forcing it to back off. Lucas took off running through the grass and came across something that surprised him. A firecracker. It was one of the tiny firecrackers that the neighborhood bullies had thrown at Lucas when he was big and human. The firecracker was tiny by human standers, but it was big by insect standers. Lucas stared at the firecracker and the glass he still carried and came up with a crazy idea that could get rid of the wasp that was chasing him and maybe scare it off.
Lucas found some rocks to climb on and hopped onto the firecracker. He began to make his way to the fuse, when the wasp came in flying at Lucas. The wasp stabbed at Lucas with it's stinger, but he rolled out of the way and the stinger became stuck and imbedded in the firecracker. Lucas scrambled to the fuse as the wasp buzzed it's wings and snapped it's mandibles at him. The ant held the glass over the fuse and got sunlight to go through the glass to make a beam of heat to light the fuse. The fuse became lite with a small flame and Lucas jumped off the firecracker and started running as fast as he could. The wasp buzzed angrily as Lucas ran past Zoc, who had been sent by Hova to help Lucas. Zoc's eyes went wide as he saw the firecracker not to far away. The firecracker then made a tiny boom.
Pop!
The sound of the firecracker wasn't very loud, but it did confuse the wasp and put a bit of a scare in them, causing them to retreat. A wasp that had captured Hova dropped her and quickly flew off with the rest of the swarm. Hova got up and saw Lucas coming from the direction that the pop had come from.
"Lucas your ok!" Cried Hova as she ran to Lucas and embraced him as she looked him over for injuries.
"That little one scared the wasps away!" Cheered one ant.
"Didn't that ant used to be the destroyer?" Asked another ant.
"He was, but he saved us!" Said another ant.
The ants began to cheer for Lucas as Zoc stumbled from the grass with soot on his body and a bit dazed. Zoc looked at the cheering crowd in dismay and cast a glare at Lucas, before he made his way to the ant hill to patch himself up.
To be continued.