Benji

..........That is the real cliffie to this, 4 missiles seconds away from impact, the only way they can avoid this tragedy is if the plane does a sudden tailspin. But then Major Pierce has sidewinders ready to fire, so even if Brandon crash lands the plane, saving himself and whoever else on board the goat deems worthy. There are F-16 ready to strike if the Major fails. But Brandon is the main character in the story afterall, surely the goat doesn't intend to kill off the main character?? There are too many unresolved issues left hanging if the band dies now.

.............Even if they get the cells working, it won't help, the sparrows can be destroyed at anytime. I am surprised a flyby wasn't done first...and the sparrows??

......I'll just take the wait and see attitude.....it will be hard to top this EVIL CLIFFHANGER though!

................Ouch Gunter, you were supposed to be there for the guys!! Great chapter CJ!! Talk about one of the GREATEST CLIFFHANGERS OF ALL TIME!! You have a novice at the helm of a jet that's about to crash by itself, leaving our self-sacrificing hero to battle all odds and then you leave us four armed missles rushing in to finish Instinct off. And here I was hoping for another show in Vegas .

.........Congrats Mry on 4,000th post, and for all you do too!!

.........Good question!! But I'm not even sure if Scar & Dimetri were able to escape the EMP blast from their distance. Vlad did such a great job, the yield was more than they had hoped for, unfortunately so was the EMP's perimeter.

sorry 'bout that!!

..........Canadian or not WTF is with a goose??

.............I said what?? Where??

..........You could almost picture a large bird and goat fighting over a piece of food that is dangling carelessly on the edge of a cliff!

.......Maybe this poll should have been "in which order.... for me my wife, than children.

..........I wonder if Joe will survive to realize it!

......Yep, Nucleoitumaniac sounds good!

.......NO!! Scar killed by garroting her, she probably saw what he was and what he did for a living.

.........Poor Vlad, and his stuffed kangaroo are now gone! True about the complex process, but it was still fascinating reading each nanasecound!

.........Not to dispute you, but I've read a thousand sex scenes, but only one intricate detailed description of a detonation sequence of a atomic blast!

..........I was surprised at the "results" so far of the 1st question, perhaps they misread it. Some may know that my wife suffered a massive ceberal hemorrhage 11 years ago, followed by being knocked to the ground by a horse 4 years ago that broke her hip. The brain injury has left her with a left paralyized arm, how she is able to walk is beyond me. The brain injury also left her with her making diminished decisions, her judgement is very bad (the horse, she was never supposed to go into the corral and knew it). (BTW, the horse was there only to motivate her to walk out and get some exercise) In fact, we had to leave our mountain where we lived because of some poorly made decisions. I woke up one winter morning to find her gone, at some point in the night she heard the puppies crying outside and attempted to investigate fell and could not get up again, mind you it was @ 28 degrees outside and she could have froze to death. I have had her family suggest that perhaps a "home" would be for the best. I could not even think of that happening, I'm committed til death does us part.

.......Different strokes for different folks....

........It certainly built tension the reaction was in nanoseconds, the wrench in midair inches from its thrower, the description of the detonation. I agree that is a lot better than with Wildone has written above (bold). Anyone notice the irony of the title?, the "hero" g_d who gave fire to the people.

............CJ, the best chapter yet!, very "Illuminating" we now know that Jerry had a soft spot for Joe afterall, including him with Helen in with the bands final act. As Mario is zeroing in Now our hero Eric will add everything up when the world hears the location of the explosion, the GPS + mystery Sub-woofers + new knowledge from Joe. I found the detonation sequence to be fascinating in detail as I imaged the thrown wrench being inches away from the engineers hand. BTW, CJ, I have never called you evil have I?? No, I sure I said that you were a lurker, yeah that's right, ......ah, please destroy my PM e-mail address as it is of little use, cause ah... ah...ah...... I being transferred!! yeah thats it!!

..........His Shadowyness has been profiling!

..........I hope there is no delay

...........Actually I'm not real sure who sang it first, but PP&M sang it waaayyyy before John Denver. (Might of been Bob Dylan)