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Well this took longer than expected, the story could have branched off in so many ways during this chapter. I hope the one I chose will work out the best. I have some nice plans for this story. Well on with the show.

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Vince ran off in hope of finding the bug; when he found it he would probably make enough noise to draw the others to him… if he found it first. It suddenly hit him that he still had no idea what was in the case. He figured that the timer was at about 52:00 and he had time to check. He wished that he had done this sooner, Will had some nice input for the guns maybe he'd know what this did before anyone else too.

Click the case opened smoothly. Inside there was a black suit with some strange, silver, circular button-like things on it. It was definitely something he had never seen before. He doubted that the old man had any clue what it was either. Then he remembered that the bugs were mosquito-like and drank blood. Maybe the suit was really strong and could prevent that. To test his theory he took out the suit placed it on a rock and then tried cutting it with another sharp rock. The suit didn't tear at all, it was a successful theory.

"It looks kind of small" Vince said to no one in particular, comparing it to himself. It was a skintight suit and it would be impossible to put it on over his loose clothes.

He looked all around him to see that no one was around and quickly began to change into the suit. He thought that even if it didn't work as protection the black ball supplied them all with one for a reason. After he had put on the suit he decided to slide on his loose clothes over it, he thought he looked stupid with it on. He just left the case there and decided to move on, grateful for the lack of weight.

He spent a great deal of time looking for the bug, but to no avail. The black ball told them to hunt down the bugs, didn't it? Then where are they? Vince didn't expect this to be so difficult…

"VINCE!" Jake yelled at him. Jake was running from the general direction of the starting point. Blood was running down his face getting into his eyes, it was disgusting and coming from the right side of his head. He tripped and fell on the ground. When he hit he let out an "Umph!" and that was it.

Wide-eyed Vince ran over to Jake and tried to bring him back to consciousness. When his efforts failed he decided to go in the direction of where Jake ran from to see if he could stop whatever was happening.

He heard the fight before he reached it; trees were falling left and right and he could hear a hissing sound. It was Jessie and he had some sword like thing and was swinging it at a cloud of darkness.

"Die you buzzing bastards!" Jessie screamed at the dark cloud which seemed to be a swarm of the bugs. He would occasionally hit one, but for every one he hit more seemed to take its place.

"Where were they coming from?" Vince thought out loud looking from left to right. Then he spotted it, it was the tree that they had blasted down earlier it seemed to be the home of the bugs. "Just my luck!" he screamed. But this was a stupid idea; him screaming caught some of the bugs' attention. Vince's eyes went wide and he began to run.

Vince suddenly remembered he had a gun, he pulled out his gun and pulled both triggers, aimed at the slightly smaller swarm then Jessie had that was following him.

BOOM one of the bugs exploded, its skin and guts flying everywhere. A portion of its guts landed on a rock in front of Vince and melted right through.

"Crap! Their insides are acidic!" Vince thought.

But that wasn't it, the acidic guts melted through some neighboring bugs and killed them on the spot, it started a chain reaction until the majority of the bugs were dead. At this the bugs began to fly in patters making it extremely difficult to aim while running, let alone standing still. And to add to that, the guns had a slight delay on the explosion to make things even MORE difficult. Vince even tried locking on to the bugs, but the swerving from left to right made that impossible. Then Vince tripped and fell on the ground, unable to get up in time. The bugs moved closer and closer to Vince, he was sure he would die now, but at least he would try, he began trying to punch the bugs when they got closer, but to no avail. He was going to die, these bugs had no mercy whatsoever, Vince raised his gun, and tried hitting the bugs like a baseball. But they continued to swarm, getting closer and closer, avoiding his swings.

BOOM the bugs exploded. Vince was stunned he hadn't pulled the triggers, and to add on to that, the acidic guts didn't burn through his black suit. It did a number on his clothes though. He looked left and right to see if he could find the killer of the bugs. But he couldn't find anyone.

"Hey, are you alright?" Vince heard Will say from above. Sure enough Will sniped out the bugs from a tree above Vince. His downward shot gave him a greater chance of hitting a bug. The trees were over 50 ft tall and only broke out into branches about 20 ft up which is where Will was waiting. "I'll be down in a second!" He grabbed his things and jumped.

"You'll kill yourself!" Vince yelled, but Will landed on both feet and didn't break a sweat. Vince was stunned, even though he shouldn't be, considering what all had happened all that day.

"It's this suit, it enhances all my physical abilities," Will said as he pointed to his suit which showed through better than Vince's. "I'm stronger, faster, and more agile than ever before."

"It is also an armor," Vince showed Will his own suit and the hole in his shirt from where the acid guts had been.

"Amazing… Simply amazing," Will said in awe.

"The time! It has to be running low!" Vince realized. At this he ran off in the direction of Jessie, who at this time, was running around in circles taking occasional swings behind his back.

Will and Vince looked at each other and took aim and fired, taking out a large portion of the swarm all at once, but they had to be careful to not hit any really close to Jessie or the acids would hit him too. The bugs realized this too and tried even harder to get as close to Jessie as possible. Vince glanced at Will and ran off at Jessie, using his heightened speed from the suit to catch up easily. He picked up Jessie with ease and carried him away while Will shot the remaining bugs.

They all met up and took a break to try to figure out what to do now.

"These bugs are dangerous, they ruthlessly attacked Jake. Thankfully he only got bit by one on the right side of his head," Jessie said to the group.

"Oh no! Jake!" Vince shot up and ran off to go find Jake, with Will in pursuit.

BZZZT!

"What was that?" Will yelled.

"I have no idea!" Vince replied.

The sound was coming from the direction of Jake, it couldn't be good sign. When they reached Jake's position they saw a giant bug, it seemed much more "alien-like" than the others from before. This one was over 7 ft tall, had four short stubby legs and two chubby arms, and its head was rested on Jake's torso. It was quickly draining his blood and his skin was becoming a ghostly white.

"What the hell…" Jessie murmured.

"Shoot it!" Vince yelled as he aimed his gun.

Vince locked on to be sure and then fired three times. The Bug's back exploded and it crumpled up on the ground. Vince ran over to Jake and tried talking to him to help him regain consciousness, but it failed.

Will walked over and took a look at Jake for Vince, but he couldn't tell whether or not he would live. Even Jessie came over and tried to help.

Crunch

"What the…?" Vince said.

The alien wasn't dead, its blown up back sprouted wings and 4 extra long legs. The alien looked more like a spider now than the caterpillar-like creature it was before. What's worse, it was angry.

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Wow, this chapter might not seem long, but it took forever to make, still no word on what happened to Sarah. It ends on a cliffhanger and so far I have 1 reader, YAY!