Swamped

Your first instinct is to protect the guy who knows magic, so you push the wizard out of the way, and for your troubles you get rewarded with what feels like a mountain of bugs colliding with you.

You wish you had your mask. As it is, you barely have time to cover your mouth to keep them away. Good thing you've kept your goggles on.

Thankfully, the golem, or whatever it is, doesn't seem particularly interested in you, as it quickly pulls away. But that probably means it's going for the wizard. You hope he had some time to react.

"Deanimation!"

Uh-oh. Does that mean the thing's going to stop moving? You brace yourself for a bunch of dead bugs falling on you, since you assume they wouldn't stick together after that.

But it doesn't come. You look up and see the mass of bugs still advancing towards the wizard... much more slowly, though. Maybe the spell mostly worked? You don't know, you barely know a thing about magic.

On the other hand, you catch a quick glimpse of the wizard's face as you pick yourself up, and he seems as baffled as you are.

Well. Whatever's going on here, you'd best think of a way to stop this creature.