Smack appeared beside me and looked down at our fallen corporal before taking a deep breath. “Okay, listen up,” she began, in the most authoritative voice she could muster, “I’m running the show until we get back to New Berlin. Nordie, Mo, get into the cockpit and check on the pilots. See if you can access the lander’s logs to find out what happened. Intense Dan, double check those civilians. They’re probably all dead, but I don’t want to find out that we missed someone we could have saved. Dub, Farmer, Noid, outside. See what you can see and get me our location. Check the engines, too. Let’s hustle, people.”
Without any delay, we broke up and dived into our tasks without question. Smack remained behind with the boy as Farmer, Noid and I climbed over the shattered wreckage of the lander t
