Steve dropped his M16 and took out his Beretta with poisoned bullets. He then went with Ashcroft.

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I was cured all right.

As the car raced paced, Steve shot at the tires but he knew he would have to chase them. "You know who this guy is?" Steve asked. "My agency might know and we can find where he is. And if you want to drive, be my guest. Just don't get yourself injuried because I can't drive without making you sick."

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I was cured all right.

John went through the rubble and up stairs, to meet the other agent's. He had an intimate knowledge of the building's layout.

Thanfield took cover as shrapnel exploded outward. A few pieces lodged into his kevlar vest. He leaped back up, turned around - "What the hell."

Both Ashcroft and the Israeli were gone. He, Stephen, and Alanna stood alone on the burning staircase.

Apache 1 came over the channel again. "Hawk, Nighthawk, Wolf! The terrorists split! Their leader's in the car park, busting his sorry a** out of there. The rest are still in the building. But listen to this! The f***in' terrorists planted a time bomb on the fifth floor. You have exactly nineteen minutes and five seconds to grab a prisoner and haul your butt out of there."

Thanfield swore under his breath, glancing at the others to make sure they received the message.

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The information streamed to the Secret Service Agent, and he decided he should go back down.*goes down stairs to other agents running very quickly*

"Hang, hang, hang!" Alanna glanced at Thanfield. "Options. One. Race the clock. Two. I try to defuse the bomb. Pick."
Her specialty was munitions engineering ... but there was always an element of risk involved that meant that the leadership should call the shots.
She was fuming inwardly. A team was a team, and the members should know to stick to orders given by the leader. Any splits that hadn't been thoroughly thought through would only land them in a bucketful of trouble.

BTW the whole "enemy radio frequency" thing is highly improbable.

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Um, Caunion and Elegost, it's kind of pointless to chase him out of the car park, because if the Pentagon got bombed, the place would be literally crawling with Police and other guys, and the roads would probably be sealed off, so its not like the terrorists could go anywhere if they did escape. If I heard about terrorists bombing the Pentagon and staying inside, my thought would be that they were sealing themselves in and intending on becoming martyrs, because there just isn't a very feasible way out unless they have lots of backup.

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Stephen stood silently, watching the upstairs as he listened to Alanna give the options. He wasn't a demolitions expert, so he couldn't do anything to defuse the bomb, but he had a feeling that there were a lot of military secrets in the building that it would not be good to lose. A quick burst from his M4 hit a terrorist in the hand as the man stuck his gun out of cover to fire around the corner. A shriek came from the corner, and the clang of bullet on metal as his round tore through the terrorist's hand and rebounded off the gun handle.

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[Elegost added a nice plot twist. the terrorist leader guy could be escorted out by some American police who are traitors to their country. after the chase we would eventually have to rendezvous though.]

"There's little we can save here. The bomb's three floors above us. The Pentagon's doomed anyway. The terrorists' tactic is to make it harder for us to capture any live prisoners within the time limit." Thanfield whipped out a stopwatch, set it to eighteen minutes. He knew that if he were a terrorist, he'd lie low and try to evade his pursuers until the bomb detonated and killed them all.

He charged up the stairs to the third floor landing and kicked open the door. A blast of heat and smoke assaulted him. "We'll split," he decided, seeing the Secret Service agent, John Rider, catching up with them. "Nighthawk and Wolf. Rider and I. Search the floor. We've got seventeen minutes and twenty three seconds."

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John said "Happily." and went over to (insert LDM's character name here) and then said "Shall I lead the way? I may know this building more than you."

"Ten-four." Alanna let Stephen take point as they split off. "Stay in contact." Striding cautiously through the ravaged offices, she found herself psychoanalyzing. If she were a terrorist ... she'd wait until those eighteen minutes were almost up before springing out and gloating ... why such a long detonation period? To get as many rescuers inside the building as possible? Or was there one more piece of the puzzle, something within the Pentagon that was vital to yet another attack that would occur shortly?

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(The enemy frequency could be possible.....say if Ashcroft was scanning the frequency)
"Well?" Steve asked Ashcroft. "HQ reported that the terrorists left a bomb in the Pentagon. And I think there could be an inside job here."

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I was cured all right.

(ah..I have no idea what to post as Carly....*mainly cuz I'm tired from the volleyball game I had today*)

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Actually, I don't really have strong feelings about it, Elegost - I was just stating that it just wasn't very realistic. If you have something like what Lady Dark Moon suggested, then it makes sense.

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Pat didn't say much as they moved down the hallway - he knew Alanna was thinking, and he didn't want to break her concentration. She had a much greater capacity for analysing things than he did, so he was content to let her figure it out, and make sure nothing happened to make her lose her train of thought.

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Rachel sat back as the Secret Intelligence Service plane flew over the ocean. They were going to land in Washington, D.C., and she would go straight to the pentagon. There were terrorists inside it, she just hoped there would be a few left for her by the time she got there.

Meanwhile back at Arwen-Undomiel, The moderators finally come across a thread in dangerous circumstances....

Sorry people, this subject is extremely political...If it was on the planet Neptune, have the city be New Ceres, the home be Purple Palace, the item be an exploding death ray or whatever it would be fine...but how your thread stands now is far too close to reality, and is over the big red line of politics.

Sorry to spoil your fun, but we cant allow this topic to continue.

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