Part of a top secret government experiment, three teenagers wake to find themselves inside their favourite computer game: "Bug Wars" where they have to survive attacking waves of giant ants, slugs, spiders and more, as they search for the Cipher Key.

SYNOPSIS:

TONAL COMPS: TRON

PETER: 15 Warm. Friendly. Fancies Becky, but too shy to ask her out.

COLIN: 15 Funny, affable, easygoing.

BECKY: 15 Confident, warm and friendly. Wishes Peter would hurry up and ask her out.

Becky, Colin and Pete are playing the latest computer game; BUG WARS.

The following morning, Peter, together with his friends, wakes to find himself within the game. Crates falling from the skies confirm their fears and they rush to arm themselves with the guns and grenades within the crates before facing the first wave of bugs - Ants!

After a tense moment, Peter and his friends finish the last of the ants.

BECKY TAKES CHARGE

The boys look to Becky to lead them and she quickly organises them to gather supplies from the newly dropped crates whilst Becky sets about making a fire and cooking up something to eat. As they eat, they question how they are in the same dream.

A tremor stops the conversation. Becky packs her backpack as the tremors continue and suddenly the ground erupts all about them as huge worms explode into the skies, only to fall to the earth with a thunderous crash.

RUN! orders Becky, racing for the woods. Peter and Colin grab their backpacks and chase after her. Peter runs directly into the mouth of a worm as it falls in front of him. Without stopping, Peter runs right through until his head sticks out of the worm's back end, calling for help. Becky and Colin rush to help as enormous birds land, drawn by the buffet of worms on offer.

Pulled free, Becky, Colin, and Peter run on, only for Becky to get swallowed as the ground opens beneath her. Without hesitation, Peter runs inside the worm. Being ten times the size of Pete's worm, Becky cannot work her way through to the end and despairs as thick intestinal juices slowly cover her. Pete works his way to her, grabbing her and cutting his way out the side of the worm.

THE CIPHER KEY

As they catch their breath, Pete holds up a key he found. Not knowing its significance, he puts it in his pocket and they run into the cover of the woods.

Next, they are attacked by Gnats, running into an encampment covered by a wire mesh. Figuring they need to connect the wires to the battery, the struggle with the heavy leads until Becky figures out the solution and soon the Gnats are turned into crispy critters.

Surviving the Gnats, they walk on to find themselves within a dead part of the forest. The trees were dead, white, and skeletal. Tense, they make their way through, trying to remember what occurs in the game, when a tree explodes, falling on top of them, releasing a load of huge maggots. Trapped within the branches, Becky and Colin first have to free themselves before they can rescue Peter, who lies under the main trunk fighting off the maggots.

THE CHALLENGES CONTINUE

Making it through the forest, they get caught in a thunderstorm and hold up within a cave. Peter and Becky fall asleep with Colin and watch. Bitten by a spider, Colin and Peter wake to find themselves wrapped tightly in spider web. Becky saves them, and running back to the cave, Pete and Becky fight of a horde of spiders. Peter finally asks Becky out and she says, Yes! Colin explores the caves and finds the slug tunnels. Escaping the spiders, they run into the slug cavern, climbing the walls to an opening high up, only to rouse the slugs who slither up the walls trying to eat them.

Out in the open, they have made it to the other side of the mountain and finding a lake, Colin and Pete are soon clowning about in the water. Becky notices the ripples approaching and screams for them to get out. They swim frantically and make for the shore as a huge eel leaps out, jaws of teeth snapping in the air as Becky slices its head off its body.

Relieved and alive, the three warriors cross a grass plain to their next challenge.

THE LAST STAND

Crates fall. Peter, Colin, and Becky prepare. Ants, Beetles, Spiders, Gnats, Flying Ants and more attack, Peter, Becky and Colin fighting with everything they've got. Out of ammo, they are fighting back to back with long knives when the bees come.

Peter and Clive think they're done for. Becky knows the Bees won't hurt them and climbs aboard the first one that lands. Pete leaps aboard the second and coaxes Clive to get on the third. Flying high over the battle field they are jubilant.

GAME OVER

EPILOGUE

As they descend, Peter sees an old mansion and soon realises why it's familiar.

It's the Mansion from ZOMBIE WARS!

They have the cipher. Now they have to retrieve the coded message.

Thank you for your time

Simon