[ WP ] At the age of 18 , everyone picks an unlikely life event . They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens . After that , death is permanent .

The 9mm Ruger trembled under his shaky grip. 
 
 `` Again!,'' he shouted at the scientist, who was trembling more violently than his hands, `` and if it does n't work this time, I'll blow your head off, I swear it!'' 
 
 The pink creature wriggled awkwardly on the ground. It had been far, far too long, and he was beginning to go mad. Ah, who are we kidding, he's been mad for years now. Probably going on 700 or so. 
 
 `` I'm trying, I'm trying!!'' the scientist pleaded, entering a new set of figures onto the computer screen, his fingers flying furiously, `` but who the hell picks something so remarkably, and utterly impossible?? I've seen my share of `` events'', but this? This is unfair, it can not be done!'' 
 
 `` It better GET done if you want to keep all those little pockets of information you keep stored in your skull, INSIDE YOUR SKULL!'' 
 
 He knew it was the stupidest decision he'd made ever, in his 1000 long years of living, this was blatantly apparent. But that many years of life while watching your friends and family move on in the Circle of Life... it was unbearable. 
 
 It surely was n't completely his fault. I mean, come on! Who asks someone such an important question at 18 without properly explaining how their answer could affect them? He was young, he was stupid! They could have cut him a bit of slack... but they did n't. 
 
 And now here he stood, holding a world class scientist at gun point, with a strange pig flopping uselessly on the ground, all because he just had to say: `` How about....when pigs fly?''
