We follow a
pair of worms as they lay eggs. The eggs
are carried away in a river of refuse, which goes into a smokestack, which we
reveal is in a toxic landfill, and then we follow the steam as it rises up and
merges with the angry storm-clouds that fill the sky. The clouds spread out as the worms grow
within. In a small south-eastern town, a
storm is suddenly punctuated by a rain of… worms. The worms are tiny, and disgusting though it
may be, no one is terribly affected.
Then they
bare their teeth… literally. They have
sharp fangs, and instead of burrowing in dirt, they burrow into human
flesh. And this epidemic is affecting
cities all over the world. Different
areas deal with the crisis differently.
Napalm and mass worm burns are popular approaches, but it seems that the
more the atmosphere is polluted the worse it gets. Foot long razor worms overrun chemical
factories and refineries, as a city scientist struggles to figure it out.
People seek
shelter indoors, but the more highly evolved worms are having no trouble burrowing
through stone. Finally, the scientist
notices something. Nothing he’s testing
on the worms works, but the worms that he first captured, the ones that he put
in jars full of dirt, are dead. So the
secret is healthy, unpolluted Earth, and the race is on to spread the word and
hope it’s still early enough to get rid of the worms.
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