Title: Armageddon HP Style
Author: Jennifer
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters, nor do I own any of the original scenes or dialogue from the movie Armageddon.
Chapter Eighteen: Rock Storm
Now all they had to do was get the bomb into the hole. They worked hard and fast at the job, since they only had thirty-eight minutes to zero barrier. If they didn't get the rock split in two by that time, the Earth would be doomed.
"What's the problem? Why can't we get the bomb down there?" Harry yelled.
"There's a bent pipe jammed in the hole! I'm gonna go cut it loose!" Ron replied.
He hooked a safety wire to his suit, grabbed a tool, and was lowered into the hole to start cutting.
There was a rumbling from above. Another earthquake? "Rock storm!" Harry yelled. Rocks broke off of bigger rocks and crashed to the ground. "Watch out!" he called to George. George moved out of the way just as a huge rock fell where he had been standing.
"Hey, what's goin' on up there?" Ron called. Just then a rock hit the safety wire and flung him out of the hole, propelling him into space. As the safety wire unraveled, Harry struggled to grab it and pull him in.
Finally succeeding, they fell flat on their backs as a giant rock came face-to-face with them. Then the rock storm was over, just like that.
"Harry, you alright?" George asked.
"Yeah I'm fine. Ron, are you okay?"
"Yeah…yeah I'm fine. We lost Volga though. Volga's dead. Let's get that bomb ready and go home."
As they concentrated on lowering the bomb into the hole, Harry realized that the trip was almost over. If he had made it this far, he could make it the rest of the way.
"Oh, my God," said Smith.
"What?" asked Harry.
"The timer, the remote, the whole thing's dead!"
"What, the bomb is dead?" Ron said.
"No, the trigger's dead. It must have gotten damaged during the rock storm."
There was a long silence. Finally Harry spoke up. "So how do we detonate it?"
"We have eighteen minutes to zero barrier, and we have a problem," said William. "The trigger used to remote detonate the bomb was damaged during the rock storm. That means that somebody's going to have to be left behind."
Hermione closed her eyes and prayed that it wouldn't be Ron or Harry…
