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wave overhead and a tree crashes beside me. My
heart is beating hard in my chest: we could be walking into an
ambush.
    We find the saucer is lying upturned between
two spires of rock. It’s small and looks shiny, like cut glass or
diamond. Never Lies motions us to spread out. She has one of
her shoulder cannons pointed at the saucer and the other pointed
back the way we came. The saucer has a crack down the middle and
looks like a broken egg.
    “What the hell?” says Bad Day .
    “Heads up,” snaps Never Lies
    Not a broken egg, a hatched egg.
    We spread out and search the trees. Branches
wave back and forwards wildly in the wind and rain lashes our
helmets. My suit is leaking; I hope I don’t get electrocuted. My
helmet visor is fogging up, so I flip my helmet open. I keep
searching, moving deeper into the trees.
    I find Slow Learner lying in the
mud.
    “I found Learner !” I shout, and wave
for the others to join me.
    No one does, and when I turn around I’m
alone. It’s not a good feeling to be in the dark, alone, and
hunting aliens, especially when a more senior member of the team
has been taken out. Being a superhero is supposed to be a team
sport, but it never seems to work out that way for me.
    “Saucer… okay.”
    I check Learner ’s suit. The lights on
his helmet say he’s still alive, but he isn’t moving. I can’t see
any obvious damage on his suit, but that’s no comfort. A branch
cracks behind me and I whirl around, but I can’t see anything. It’s
so dark that I turn the flashlight on my arm on. The lights cast
dancing shadows against the trees, so I shut it off before I get
totally spooked.
    I see a blue flare in the distance. It’s the
sign to gather, so I fly towards it. The wind is at my back, so the
flight is short and clumsy. I nearly overshoot, but Bad
Attitude catches me as I pass.
    “Thanks,” I say.
    She looks too tense to reply. Bad Day teleports beside me, but the wind picks him and throws him against
a tree. He slides to the ground and walks towards me, fighting the
wind with every step. Never Lies beckons me over and I stand
face to face with her. She does not look happy.
    “Update?” she asks.
    “I found Slow Learner . He’s
alive-”
    “You left him?” she asks sharply.
    “Um… yes? We didn’t-”
    “Get back there NOW!” she orders.
    Bad Day grabs me and I point to where
we need to be. We teleport into the air, through the trees and back
to Slow Learner . It’s a rough, clumsy ride and we land in
the branches of an ancient tree. I bash my way out and drop down to
the ground.
    “He’s over here,” I say, and then stop.
    An unfamiliar alien hovers motionless in the
air above his body. It has a teardrop body and six thick tentacles
that float around as if in zero-G. One of its tentacles is wrapped
around Slow Learner ’s head and two others each hold plasma
cannons. I have never seen anything like it.
    How did Never Lies know it would come
back?
    One of the tentacles starts glowing as it
reaches down to Slow Learner .
    “Hey! Get away from him!” I yell, and shoot
it with my multiblaster.
    It doesn’t even notice me. Bad Day pulls a flare from his suit and throws it to the ground.
    “Here we go,” he shouts to me.
    He teleports right next to the creature and
blasts it with his pistols as I try my multiblaster again. I use up
all eight of my egg cannon bombs, but our attacks splash harmlessly
against its shield. We may not have hurt it, but the creature did
notice us. It stops its study of Learner and spins all of
its tentacles towards us. Bad Day teleports above it and
blasts out again, but it seems more curious than worried. It lunges
towards him as he lands, and is about to catch him when a salvo of
heavy fire hits it right in its center mass. It shrugs off the
damage.
    This thing is tough!
    A salvo of plasma and lasers drive the thing
back as Never Lies and the others arrive. Never Lies bombards the creature with her gun platforms while Bad
Attitude flanks