There is nothing on Earth...

There is nothing on Earth quite like an earthquake, and for that matter, there is nothing quite like a volcano erupting for the first time after being dormant for a millenia.

As Larry started his crawl across the paved street, and the woman was now moving back towards Larry, they both heard the loud rumble from the ever deepening crater the malevolent globuloid in Larry's backyard was making.

The umbilical cord that was once the loose wire that had struck Larry in the abdomen, pulled taut as the hot globe sank even further. And then it broke away from the gaseous glassine bubble.

The reaction started with a rumble, then a deafening roar came up from underground and everything shook violently. The light coming up out of the hole lit up everything everywhere for miles.

Larry and the woman suddenly felt themselves compressed against the pavement, and as Larry looked to one side he realized the two of them were going upwards into the air.

"What is going on now?" he spoke to himself.

"What IS HAPPENING?" the woman yelled out loud at the top of her lungs.

The light around them was blinding, they both closed their eyes. Then they both opened their eyes as they realized that if they were going up, then they were also going to come down, and they both needed to be ready, if there was anything they could do about it.

The wind rushed by their faces. The light changed colors. The roar started to fade as they got further and further away.

Larry looked about, he could make out the tops of large apartment buildings and homes he knew were behind his house, he pondered their rooftops. Then he became aware that he could now see the intracoastal waterway.

"This is way too high." he said quietly.

They both thought to themselves, "We're going to die."