Team Vespidae: A huntin' we will go <Part 2>

Who: Team 'We're in deep smeg now' Vespidae
Where: New Oz
When: After Part One
Amber felt ambivalence. She was furious with the foolishness of her
team, but at the same time an overriding sense of fear was creeping
in. She aimed her gun at the eyes surrounding the groups.
"Suggestions welcome guys....." She murmured.
"Can we fight them off?" hissed Callum as a few pairs of eyes moved
in the darkness, the Mush-a-roos creeping nearer.
"There must be dozens of them. We're not equipped for that," Amber
replied quietly.
"I've got a suggestion," said Mel from behind them, "We can do what
he's doing."
Peter, Callum and Amber turned to see Mel standing there, holding a
few ripped shreds of bandage, the rest of which were scattered on the
ground. She was pointing to the distance behind her, where the form
of Doctor Keto was faintly visible, running as fast as he could go
back towards the ship, apparently forgetting his damaged limbs in a
sudden and unexpected recovery.
"For once, I think we shall have to agree with Keto" said Peter, and
with that they took off in a sprint, desperately trying to match
Keto's speed. Fear making a great motivator. Amber and Peter fell
back to try and take a few of the mush-a-roo's out, but they were
barely visible in the growing darkness.
Meanwhile, Callum and Mel had managed to catch up with Keto, hobbling
at a speed impressive for a man with two injured legs. "What we going
to do?" Callum puffed to his companions
"I have to outrun them" Keto murmured,
"Well, your doing that fine enough now. So mission accomplished" Mel
cried out
"What? no I meant I have to outrun YOU" Keto replied, putting on a
fresh burst of speed
Amber huffed and puffed slightly, flipping to avoid a glob of burning
acid. She wasn't finding it as hard going as Peter was, she thanked
her father for some of his genes.
"Those... Spores!" She yelled at Keto. "Deadly right? To humans?!"
She yelled at the top of her lungs, puffing in between.
"Yes!" shouted back Keto, "That's why the sensible people are OVER
HERE!"
"Good good." Amber smiled, dropping behind Peter marginally. "Run on
ahead, I wont be long." She said, whispering afterwards "I hope." She
realised if she failed here she was dooming the others to a living
hell on New Australia, but her death to save millions on New France
was worth it, after what she had done. She stopped dead, the Mush-a-
Roo's speeding past her then grinning to a halt as the noticed her.
"Bring it boys." She said, crouching low and jumping and dodging acid
as best she could. She jumped onto one of the deadly creatures and
kicked it in the spore sacks, causing huge plumes of the stuff to
spew out, she coughed at the toxic substance and swung a large
medical jar through the air catching the spores in it. She rolled off
and tucked in close protecting the jar. She set off at full tilt
again, soon overtaking Peter.
"Gotta love being GELF" She said, coughing hard.
Amber and Peter soon caught up with the other three, who had been
slowed down somewhat - Callum and Mel by Keto's repeated attempts to
trip them up, and then Keto by the fact that his legs gave way and he
collapsed, finally succeeding in bringing the other two down with
him. The three of them were just untangling themselves when the
other two arrived.
"I've got the spores," said Amber, coughing violently and waving the
jar. Keto gave her a half-hearted glare.
"In your lungs as well, apparently," he said, "More work for later, I
suppose. Get me back to that ship now..."
There was a loud series of mush-a-roo cries behind them, rapidly
growing louder and nearer.
"...NOW NOW NOW!" yelped Keto, almost leaping to his feet with little
help.
The bulbous form of the Vespidae was about half a mile away, the
twenty or so Mush-a-roo's were slowly gaining on them.
"Come on, Come on" Peter called to the others, feeling his heart
pounding in his chest from the exertion, "We've got to get back to
the ship"
"Thanks for the information Pilot boy" huffed Keto, his wounds and
running having taken none of the edge off his wit.
They were now only about a hundred yards away from the ship, and the
mush-a-roo's were still behind them, they had no time to wait, so
Amber called out in Hymenopteran for the door to unlock. Amber piled
into the cockpit, her vision slightly blurry and commanded the ship
to take off and orbit New Australia.
"Where to next?" She said, coughing up small flecks of blood and
seeing purple fairies floating around.
"New Hawaii" said Keto, reading from the ingredients list "for some
new Hawaiian pink furred coconuts"
"New Hawaii it is then" smiled Amber, speeding away from the planet.
<Next stop, some r&r on New Hawaii!>