Chapter Twenty-Three Boy, did the next week seem to go by in a flash. I spent most of it in the medical station of the House, along with Blizzard, because apparently traveling through a worm hole from an alien planet—even if you are wearing an environ—can actually be pretty damaging to one’s health. Who knew? In any case, I learned that the rest of the team and the New Heroes did indeed survive their fight with the Pokacu. Most of them got hurt—and, in Slime’s case, completely flattened by a particularly large Pokacu soldier—but there were no casualties among the teams. The same applied to the captured NHA and INJ members; although they had been mistreated by the Pokacu, none of them were going to die and only needed basic treatment for some simple wounds and injuries. Even the various

