The Hogarth Experiment Part 6

It is strongly recommended you read Parts 1- 5 before reading this. Professor Hogarth watched in horror, at the returning insects and what they were carrying. He questioned himself about what he had done. His experiment had gone well beyond what he dreamt. It had created a horror unimaginable. Somehow, they had to be stopped before it went too far, if it had not happened all ready. He had to inform the authorities and tell them everything. The monstrous creations had to be destroyed or the world would be in peril. Hogarth picked up the telephone, telephoned the police station, and explained to the Inspector in charge everything that had happened. He said he needed to talk to someone from the Government, as these monsters had to be destroyed. The Inspector said that he would report everything to the Army as they were in charge of the situation. They would be around to see him that night. Hogarth replaced the telephone and sat down to wait for the night to call. Raymond Constantine sat beside the driver and watched in horror at what was going on. If the soldiers had not fired upon the swarm they would have merely passed overhead. Having killed one the release of pheromone from its body acted as an alarm causing the rest to become more aggressive and stinging anything near. All they could do was to wait and sit it out. To venture outside of the vehicle would be certain death. Hogarth waited and waited. Slowly the sun began to set. He could see their silhouetted form in the moon light returning to the nest. The forms that they were carrying made him shudder with despair. He watched the time as the hours ticked by. He felt like telephoning back to the station and asking where his visitors were. A knock on the front door answered his question. He answered it and let Captain Alex Walker and Raymond Constantine in. They explained why they were late. That they had been attacked and had to wait. Hogarth explained to them, his experiment and how he had suffered a heart attack three years previous. Then how this year things had been growing larger than normal including the wasps. He could only guess that there was a nest under his shed when it was destroyed and that the experimental serum had leaked into it. That it had taken three generations of wasps before it altered their genetic structure to make them grow as large as they have. He could only speculate that they could even grow larger in future generation. Constantine nodded as Hogarth spoke. His theory sounded wild and imaginative. He would have taken it as a flight of fancy had he not seen it for himself. They had to be destroyed and quickly before the new queens had a chance of escaping and starting new nests. As they knew where the nest was located, preparations had to be made to eradicate completely. Hogarth and everyone who lived within the house would have to be evacuated while this was done. Evacuation would have to take place tonight. At HQ Constantine explained the situation to the chief of staffs that had gathered. The RAF would be able to shoot them out of the skies as they emerged from the nest in the morning. On the ground, the Army would gather flamethrowers to ensure that the nest was burnt. It would take a couple of days to prepare. Over the next couple of days, the Army gathered a unit of armoured flamethrowers into the valley and positioned them around the opening of the nest. As the nest would be made of paper, it should burn quickly. The only worry they would have is those within the nest would come out and swarm. When this happened, the flamethrowers would concentrate on the swarm. The RAF fighters would shoot as many as they could down. The operation would commence the following morning. To be concluded… 5 November 2007