The sixth chapter opens on Burt Gummer and his Travis son confined to a remote station surrounded by Graboids that have been converted into living weapons. Burt Gummer and his son, Travis Welker, are surrounded by the Graboids on a trip to Canada to investigate a series of fatal attacks. Arriving at a research center in the Arctic Tundra, Burt begins to suspect that the Graboids are secretly used as a weapon, but before he can demonstrate his theory, he is struck by the poison of assassinous vermons. With only 48 hours of time, the only hope is to create an antidote, and to do this, someone has to understand how to grab a Graboid …