When eighty pounds of molten potion-made melted rock waste traveling at six hundred feet per second strikes an ordinary wooden wall, the wood shatters into matchsticks and erupts in flames.
When it strikes an engineered heavy-duty power grid, it encounters the uncompromising laws of magnetic grounding.
The incendiary shell struck the northwest outer edge chain-link fence with a terrifying, blinding blast.
A cascading fountain of sticky, fourteen-hundred-degree potion-made fire splashed across forty feet of zinc-coated steel mesh.
The burning sulfur and white phosphorus ignited in a heartbeat, generating an intense, spark-charged heat star-fire plume that bridged the air gap between the thirteen-thousand-volt energized fence and the grounded steel support posts.
A massive spark short-circuit formed in less than two split seconds.
An eighty-thousand-volt transient surge of raw live spark charge roared backward along the signal lines. It screamed toward the step-up transformers of Substation Alpha.
Inside the power yard control vault, the alarms began clattering.
