I can hear Jack cursing now. "Stubborn; non-military; teenage superheroes; not listening to orders; getting me in trouble with her family and my girlfriend."

Of course I left out various other words that I'm not sure how to spell and even a few that I do since I don't want to impinge on anyones' sensibilities.

Yep. At this juncture, I just go with the way Muttley used to curse in front of Dick Dastardly. renner-frenner-senner-renner... :-)

Lion size my tookas! And yep! Spiders 'Bug' me ;)

Of course, this also means fewer spiders in the sack, since they're so much bigger than expected... (Gotta look for the good news here)

I really hope Terrawatt was 'silvery' when she made things go BOOM.

It's an egg sac the size of a school lunchroom. The eggs are the size of weather balloons. There's room for a really unfortunate number of giant baby spiders in there.

Very ouch... I doubt going silvery will help much. WIllow and Alex's parents are really not going to be happy. And Jack probably isn't either. Though he deserves it for bringing kids...

Thanks for writing

Yes, Jack deserves it for bringing kids into this. Even if they're the only people on the planet who can save the day.

Holy Shit!

Oh come on! You are not making us wait until Wednesday for the finish?!

You are?

Now thats evil ;-)

Thanks! If I don't get enough complaints, I could lose my Evil Authors School diploma. :-)

Very exciting. I followed most of the visual and the planning.

Thanks. And we all know the rule: the more details of the planning that you see, the more the plan will fall apart.

When I heard jack explain the risks with Claymores and electricity (or radio waves) I thought that it sure looked like a Chekov gun. Hehehe.

Normally I'd say that you are evil for ending things here, but after reading that last paragraph and before scrolling down to see that it was the end of this chapter, I thought that it would be a perfect place to stop the chapter. So when i saw that there would be no more Alex Mack this week, all I felt was satisfaction.
Delicious, delicious cliff-hanger. I'm going to enjoy the wait to Wenesday.

As usual, thanks for writing and sharing a great story. I'm a bit busy so I won't take the time to re-read it for a detailed review this time, but there was a lot of parts I liked, just take my word for it.

Thanks. What Jack told her is a serious issue with blasting caps and the like wherever you are.

And you can get ready for Wednesday. Go to Youtube, find the orchestral piece "Heart of Courage” from the album ‘Invincible’ by Two Steps From Hell, and be prepared to listen to it on repeat while you read the first 2/3rds of chapter 66.

My vote: cliffhangers bad. Your story, however, is as exciting as always. Kudos.

There really wasn't any place in this stretch (or the next chapter) to stop that wouldn't be a cliffie.

Plus, I'm evil. I think I've mentioned that before. :-) Next chapter will be up Wednesday.

"She had to do it. Not just because Jack and Riley and Jo and Hanna were watching her, but because people could die if she didn’t."

AWESOME. This is why she's a hero. I hope someone who doesn't know her tells her so.

Thanks. As time goes by, more people will get the chance to tell her.

Really nice Story.

I especially like the way Terrawatt is interacting with the SRI. Though the way she, Jack and to a lesser extent the rest of the SRI has carried on worries me. I am not sure her secret identity could stand up to much scrutiny right now. Especially Anne Farrell seems to be well on her way to being exposed. (Hermione is kind of really clever)
Alex's Daredevil stunt with the Plant is not really helping matters, but I can see that she took every precaution she could.

Even on the threat of adding more to Alex's already big workload, is she going to take acting lessons to sound less like a teenager?

Yeah, the Annie Farrell ID isn't going to stand up to Hermione-level scrutiny. And Alex could stand a lot of help in things like diction, acting, makeup, etc. Still, she's way ahead of most comic book supers who have years under their belts already.

You know, the standard "The End?" is unusually cruel on this one!

Fortunately for you, there is no end in sight. And the next chapter will update on Wednesday. Same Tera time, same Tera channel.

I think she's going to have nightmares for Years. It's a good thing she can go invulnerable.

Well, I certainly would have nightmares for years, but I would have wet myself long before I got to that vertical shaft.

Nice work on the spider chutney guys! If I was Terrawatt I wouldn't be looking forward to going down a big dark hole to check for Giant spiders either :( Where is a magic sword when you need one?

Well, at least Terawatt can fly and hurl lightning bolts, and she has backup. Imagine if it was two twelve year old boys who had nothing but magic wands and 'plot armor'. (I swear, Hagrid had the IQ of a flobberworm, much of the time.)

Alright so I caved and finished it. I am oddly glad for your annal retention, not that many people are willing to go that far. Looking forward to the next update! I can't believe I read practically the enitire thing in one sitting...

Mwa-ha-hah! My OC nature and Authorial Evil have ensnared yet another victim! :-)

I'm very pleased you liked it enough to have trouble putting it down. I'll take that as a real compliment. Next update: Saturday!

You are still very very evil. I'd have to go back through the entire story just to list off what crossovers I've picked up on! I'm not even sure that you picked up on some of them yourself when you wrote them but with such a mega cross? That's fairly understandable and expected. I'm tired and hate being sick or I would have waited to finish the last 3 chappys that are up before reviewing.

[1] Thanks! I work hard at being an Evil Author. I even took lessons. :-)

[2] I hope that I have all my crossovers all carefully indexed (not counting silly references and jokes and asides that don't count).

[3] I'm sorry to hear you're sick. If reading the story cheers you up in any way, my work is done.

"Eeeeeek spider!" indeed.

In fact, come to think of it, here's the theme song for the last few chapters...

Simons & Cameron "Spiders!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GGslnxsB6Q

Heheheheheheh...

:-) :-)

I was thinking more along the lines of "I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes" by Jim Stafford. It's kind of surprising just how many videos of that you can find on YouTube.