Comments on 'REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In'The vehicle accelerated to 200 mph as it entered the NetWay. A blaze of blue lights streaking in the rain.
It linked with the other cars, directing them to clear a path, then it punched up to 300 mph and began to weave, wildly in and out of traffic. None of the other drivers even noticed... just another day on the NetWay.
"Sup Chief?" Nick asked.
"Nasty situation. It's a mess on a container ship inbound from Japan. Got your whole team en route," the man on the monitor replied.
"Sounds like a job for the port authority, not Advanced Cybercrime."
"Illegal nanotech, military grade, possibly REMORA and outlaw cybernetics... some heavy duty shit. In other words, cut the crap Nick and get your ass down there."
"Yes sir."
Images from the officers already on scene began to fill the screen along with information about the ship. From what he could see, it really was a mess.
_REMORA,_ Nick thought.
He was _definitely not_ going to have a good morning and it's _definitely_ going to be a long day.2008-06-18T19:55:11Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/34663Comment on REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In<p>Again, thanks Ana. I rewrote this piece about 1,000 times to get the pacing down… actually I wasn’t really happy with it when I posted.<br />As always, I do appreciate the comments from everybody.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/34663?basename=717452008-06-18T19:55:11ZKevMullinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/kevmullinsComment on REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In<p>The pacing is fantastic here, great action and details.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/34663?basename=717132008-06-18T18:45:21ZAna Cristinahttp://ficlets.com/authors/asimon78Comment on REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In<p>@JLaughter – glad you are enjoying the series… I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to being <em>inspired</em> by BagMan. :)<br />The definition of <em> REMORA </em> will come a little later… but I’ll give you a hint I was thinking more of the fish.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/34663?basename=716772008-06-18T17:04:55ZKevMullinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/kevmullinsComment on REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In<p>@John, Good catch on the edits, the <em>Advanced Cybercrime</em> used to be part of a sentence but I changed it and forgot the punctuation. <em>You</em> for <em>your</em> is a bad habit of mine… do it all the time. I had the idea for the NetWay for a long time. Embedded markers in the road along with a central network and local area info share between cars would prevent lots of wrecks… in you’ve ever driven Houston rush hour traffic, you’d understand.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/34663?basename=716722008-06-18T16:55:19ZKevMullinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/kevmullinsComment on REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In<p>And I’m sure I’m probably just asking for a spoiler, but I didn’t know (and still don’t, really) what “REMORA” was, and apparently all I can find is that it’s some kind of fish, and also a music project by some guy named Brian John Mitchell. Whoever that is. I’m assuming that REMORA is neither fish, nor Mitchell Music.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/34663?basename=715742008-06-18T01:08:06ZJLaughterhttp://ficlets.com/authors/jlaughterComment on REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In<p>I’m looking forward to see where this series goes, Kev. John’s got a handle on all the editing, though, so that’s all I have to say.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/34663?basename=715722008-06-18T01:05:26ZJLaughterhttp://ficlets.com/authors/jlaughterComment on REACTr: A Taste of Something Smuggled In<p>Cool. Good pacing and nice sense of action in here. Though, I still think you could have introduced the chief in this one.<br />Also, before Pyro gets in here to beat me to the punch, “not Advanced Cybercrime?” is a statement, not a question. And it should be “and get <em>your</em> ass” down there.<br />Finally, ever since the Furby was released, I thought they should implement a similar system in cars. They should all talk to each other, so that was cool to see you use something like that here.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/34663?basename=715572008-06-18T00:13:27ZJohn Perkinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/johnperkins21