On the Outer Rim

Chapter 13: Avoiding Jamal's Mistakes

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Jaden rushed to the impact zone. It seemed Justin and Addis had been crushed by the pod but it was hard to tell behind the smoke, dust and bits of flames that obscured eye sight. Pushing past ripped metal Jaden was showing up fruitless.

Chandi and Amber started to get worried and pushed past some of the metal too. Thankfully, they found them still alive and breathing. Justin laid on top of Addis protecting her with nothing but his body it seemed.

His shirt was...slightly on fire, so Jaden took his shirt off to smack the flames away. They got up slowly, the very vibrations from the pod hitting the ground was good enough to send shocks through their bodies giving them painful agony.

They groaned but thankfully they were fine and completely unscathed. "You okay?" Covy asked worried but Justin nodded.

"We're fine...we're fine...you okay Addis?" She held her head, a bit of dirt covering her face.

"Yeah...I think I'm good."

"Someone get her inside," Chandi hastily took Addis inside by Justin's orders, with all that sorted, everyone turned their attention to the pod. Zilo pulled out his pistol.

"What do you think is in there?" Zilo asked. The metal cylinder's flames went out. The door to the pod was slightly busted and bent.

They didn't bother to instigate, they stood back and waited for something to happen. Covy grew tired of waiting though and she went ahead. "Covy! No!" Zilo shouted but she out stretched her hand anyway.

As soon as she did the pod doors opened and a teenage boy stumbled out. He was dazed, he barely could walk and he felt weak. His eyes slightly opened and the first person his eyes fell upon was Covy.

Then they closed and he began to fall, his eyes trying to stay on Covy but he failed. Covy sprung to catch him "No! Wait-" she said but he was already on the ground.

His eyes blinked open and close again. He heard arguing of some sort. "How can we trust this guy Covy? He fell from the sky."

"You don't have to trust him Zilo but as far as I'm concerned, we started trusting you guys real quick didn't we?"

"That was different!"

"How? Didn't you guys 'fall from the sky'?"

"Look, I'm just saying...I don't feel comfortable with you watching him...maybe Jaden or Justin- a guy for God's sake. I don't want you getting hurt."