"This isn't going to work...

"This isn't going to work," Larry said. "We've gotta get outa here."

"What's going on, what is that, how did this all get started?" The woman was trying her best to understand. Larry looked at her and then at the intensifying ball of energy. It was now feeding itself from the wire. It had rolled onto the wire and was now expanding.

"I don't have time to explain, just believe me when I say we have to get out of here or we have to find some way to protect ourselves. I think that thing is going to explode. If it explodes and we are here, we won't be afterwards."

The ball kept getting bigger, it was now twice its original size. It was starting to change colors. Intermittent bolts of electricity were coming off of it and striking the ground. This had the odd effect of making Larry's hair, and the woman's hair stand on end.

Larry's abdomen was bleeding. Not like before, he had moved so much the wound was completely open. His mind started to spin at everything happening at once. He pulled a large piece of scabby-like material off the wound, this actually made him feel a little better. He looked up at the blob of energy.
The bleeding accelerated. He patched the wound with more of his shirt wishing he could find something more antiseptic to bandage the area with.

The ball started to burn out a crater in the ground. A shot of lightning hit the side of the house Larry and the woman were next to. It scorched across the concrete block, paint flaking off in every direction. Larry and the woman huddled down closer to the ground as it peeled across the side of the house right above their heads.

"THIS IS TOO CLOSE," Larry shouted out. He rolled like a log, "C'mon, we've gotta run."

He managed to get up on his feet yowling in pain as he felt the bottoms of his feet touch ground for the first time since his sneakers were blown off by the wire striking him. Back down to his knees he fell. So much pain....