Cut to upstairs where Mattie, Sarah, Amy, Wendy and Debbie have retreated.  Loud banging and crashing – the walls shake and floorboards crack.  The girls scream.  Mattie is filled with as much rage as she is fear.  She stands at the top of the stair, hurling furniture down on the cactus creatures that strive to make their way up after her.  Dresser goes tumbling, then a night stand, then a chair.  She knocks down several of the cactus creatures.

Debbie and Amy stand beside her, tossing objects off the railing.

Then a network of cactus roots shoots suddenly through the floor under Mattie’s feet, instantly encircling her.  Before she has time to react, she is dragged down through the floor, and she is gone.

Debbie and Amy cry out in horror.  They retreat to a bedroom where the other two girls are hiding.

All four girls huddle on a bed, hugging, praying and crying.

Cactus roots shoot up through the floor, lashing the air like a hundred whips.  The walls shake, and floorboards fall, revealing huge gaps.

Explosions from outside shake the house.

A glowing, gleaming light shows through the window – the light of many fires outside.

The roots that had been lashing the bedroom disappear, and the room grows strangely peaceful, while from outside the window we hear a huge commotion.  Flames mount higher and higher.

Cut to exterior.  We see that Randy, Jesse, Dan and Curt, Ernie and his Son have made it just in time to save the girls.  They are hurling canisters of gas at the cactus creatures, setting many of them ablaze.

Jesse and Randy shout to be heard above all the noise:  “Debbie!”  “Amy!” “Wendy!” “Sarah!”

Cut to the bedroom where the girls are huddled on the bed.  They hear their names being called from outside, and stepping carefully over the many gaps in the broken floor, they make their way to the window.

They see Jesse, Dan, Randy and Curt outside, and are relieved.

Girls in unison:  “They’re here!  They’re here!  They’ve come!”

Now the house itself has caught fire, and we see the front porch burning, with the forms of several cactus creatures in flames.

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