SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE WASHINGTON DC
Roger, Teela and I were in the stolen Pizza car driving in silence, Teela was sitting shotgun with Roger in the back behind me next to a pizza box bag next to him. My backpack was on the floor in the back behind Teela's chair with Cringer still inside I think. Orko, on the other hand, was sitting on the pizza bag playing with the window like a child, pressing the up and down button watching it intently like a deer in headlights "Are none of us going to talk about what just happened?" Roger asked breaking the long silence.
"Is he still whining?" Teela asked me in Eternian, was still wrapping around how I could understand two languages.
"I thought we'd already been over this Roger I'm-" "No, not Ella Enchanted for boys, the fact we just robbed a pizza delivery man." Roger interrupted gesturing to the pizza.
Shifting in the driver's seat "We paid him for the pizza." I pointed out.
"We stole his car!" Roger said in the rearview mirror.
With a long-winded sigh "He'll get it back."
"How long till we reach Duncan's prison?" Teela asked me "I don't know." I replied, "When he wakes up and gets somewhere he'll call the cops." Roger said starting to panic again.
"Your companion is most annoying, do we really need to keep him with us?" Teela said into my ear.
I was about to snap at her but I stopped mid-thought, looking back at Roger I realized I had dragged him into this without ever thinking of the consequences. Roger had been telling me everyone was looking for us, the FBI most definitely, CIA probably, Homeland Security, absolutely, Pinkertons improbable but not so crazy after I got done playing Red Dead Redemption Five. Fox News probably already spinning some crazy story, CNN listing off every irrelevant fact and so on. But as far as I was concerned Roger was just here because I called him asking for a ride. I had no idea what to do at the time when Teela showed up, things just moved so fast with the cops, Beastman and now the three-eyed guy.
"Teela, who was that man, Tri-Klopes?" I asked her.
"Tri-Klops, one of Skeletor's evil warriors like Beastman." she said with disgust, I noticed her nose starting to sniff the air smelling the alluring scent of fresh pizza. "What is that smell?" she asked.
I took a whiff of the pizza too and started to feel my stomach growl, having been on the run all night I was starting to get pretty hungry myself.
"Roger, can you take one of those pizza's out, just make sure it doesn't have any pineapple?" I asked him looking at Roger in the rearview mirror. He was to busy looking at Orko with his jaw on the floor amazed at whatever the hell Orko was.
"Roger, pizza?" I asked him.
The boy snapped out of his trance and reached into the pizza bag "How can you eat at this time?"
"I can eat at any time bro." I replied as he took out a pizza box "And you can to, it'll calm you down." I said trying to make sure he wouldn't freak out again, but if he was going to start panicking at every turn maybe I should think of letting me off.
Teela looked at the pizza with curious eyes when Roger passed it up to me "Here hold this." I said setting it in her lap, I saw her fidget as the warm cardboard touched her bare thigs. "What is this?" she asked as she opened the box her nose scrunching up as the pizza's smell filled her nostrils. The pizza was cheese with pepperoni toppings on a deep dish crust, it filled the whole car making my mouth start to water. Oh, whats Pizza you ask, well think the greatest thing in the universe and multiply that by at least…. Seven, and then you might have a small glimpse of what pizza is.
"Pizza, you eat it." I said not wanting to waste any time, grabbing a slice, "Adam can I have some?" Orko asked.
"Orko buddy, you can have the whole thing if you can eat it you earned it, in fact, Roger gets him his own Pizza, extra pepperoni's," I said smiling as I took a bite, it was cooked just right. Like when the cheese is soft and warm, but not so soft it rips off the cheese and burns your chin like molten lava. You want to talk about pain, there's childbirth, stepping on a lego, then pizza cheese burning your skin.
Teela finally took a slice and sniffed it "You eat this stuff?" she asked.
"Ohmygod, yes now eat." I said my mouth half full of pizza, I heard her mouth bite into the pizza and she started to chew. Now I can only assume with over seventy percent positive Eternia doesn't have anything remotely like pizza. Because Teela moaned out of closed lips like she was being- well it must have been good because what followed next.
"BY THE ANCIENTS THIS IS GREATEST DELICACY I EVER TASTED!" she screamed.
Roger yelped dropping his pizza onto his lap, say what you want Pizza is a pretty great, and me being the first human to introduce pizza to an alien, I'm proud of that. Both Teela and Orko started to devour their pizza's like wild boar tearing up some truffles, we started to re-enter the district. "So I take it they don't have anything like Pizza on Eternia?" I asked.
She shook her head her mouth full of pizza "Noh-" She said before she swallowed "So whats Eternia like if you don't mind me asking?"
"Very different from here Adam." Teela said looking out the window at a nearby gas station that was next to a McDonalds.
"Alien planet figured," I replied seeing her enjoying the pizza, Roger was also enjoying his pizza but I kept seeing him glancing at his phone. "Roger?" I asked him.
"Hmhmm?" Roger asked his mouth stuffed with Pizza, "What's the internet saying about us?" I asked afraid of what I'm here.
"Well… uh… it's not good." he said swallowing his pizza, gulping down my fear, and some more pizza "We're on Youtube."
"Crap." I said shaking my head, "We got anything to drink back there?" I asked reaching my arm around with an open hand "Yeah a few sodas."
Roger said handing me a two-liter Coke. Taking it I unscrewed the cap and took a sip of the soft drink before I handed it to Teela, she proceeded to guzzle the whole soda in one sitting making Roger and I stare at her watching her chug the soda without even flinching. When the last drop of syrup went into her mouth she took her lips off the plastique and made a satisfying sigh. Followed by the greatest and longest burp in the history of burping, I'd ever heard, we could all smell the syrup and sugar in the air as she looked at us "What?"
Trying not to seem like I was staring at her I decided to try and get some more information now that we had satisfied her curiosity of Pizza "That man in the woods, Tri-Klops, you said he works for Skeletor."
"Work is an understatement, he's a loyal lapdog to the usurper, Beastman may be a monster but Tri-Klops is just as savage, a hunter and inventor he builds Skeletor's war machines like the drone you saw."
"So they have drones on your planet?" I asked, "Only Tri-Klops, Skeletor use to rely only on magic but now since started to combine it with the technology of the ancients."
"Ancients?" I asked Teela nodded at me again "Hmhmm, has Queen Marlena not told you any of this?" she asked.
I glanced at her briefly giving her a "No, I have absolutely no idea what you're saying', her jaw dropped and I saw a piece of pizza land on her lap. "Damnit, this is going be harder then I thought."
"What is?" I asked.
"Rescuing Duncan, I had at least hoped that Queen Marlena had taught you combat of some kind but your performance against Tri-Klops shows you couldn't even handle yourself against a gynack?" she scoffed wiping tomato sauce off her cheek and picking the piece of her thigh and eating it.
That's when Roger decided to chime in "Um for the uneducated what's a gynack?"
"A very small blue rodent with three ears." she said "Three ears?" he asked, "So it can hear what's behind it of course." Roger and I looked at one another wondering if she was serious or not and at the same time we said.
"Of course." I shrugged giving him another 'Don't piss her off' look.
"Before we go any further, tell me of this Spaceforce, how many men do they have, what kind of defenses, magic, laser weaponry, walking skeletons?" Teela asked me I saw her toss the pizza box outside the window and take out her gun examining it, also I heard Roger snicker in the back "Magic, well they must have some to keep getting funding."
Looking in the rearview mirror I wanted to say they'd get a lot of funding soon if more of these 'Evil Warriors' show up.
"Uh… let me think, uh ok I honestly don't know we aren't military, Roger and I are first responders in training."
"First responders?" she asked me with a raised auburn brow, I didn't really want to explain it because she seemed pretty upset when I said it "What that means is we train to save people when accidents or natural disasters happen, earthquakes, volcanos, woodland fires, floods etc."
"Then who is the first to respond to attacks, invasion?" she asked me "Military, who are probably looking for the three of us as we speak." I said.
"Yeah that's definitely, FBI just posted a ten million dollar bounty on who did the drive by they said it was, two white men one blonde, the other brunette and a woman with auburn hair holding a long stick with an orangutan," Roger said in the back seat
"What's an orangutan?" Orko asked finally joining the conversation
I smiled seeing he seemed to be better now, at least a few shades darker blue "Extinct, but how are you feeling Orko better now that you had something to eat?" I asked.
"Oh yeah Adam, this stuff is delicious." Orko said floating up between the front two sweets, I gave him a wink "Just wait till you try tacos and hamburgers, buddy I swear we get through this I'm taking you to McDonald's."
I saw Teela's hand push Orko back "Whoever this McDonald is they'll have to wait, we need to come up with a plan to save Duncan."
She was right, I had been thinking about that a lot actually and how we even plan to get past checkpoints they were already setting up. Cops would see us coming a mile away and I doubt I could convince Teela not to start shooting again? Looking in the rearview Mirror Orko was looking at Rogers phone, he was showing him a few memes by the looks of it. "I've been thinking about that, its long shot but could just turn ourselves in?"
"What, you mean surrender?" Teela asked "No, not surrender we'd give up and when we're inside you do your thing?" I tried to explain to her.
"My… thing?" she asked.
"Yeah, your thing, where you open up a can of whup-ass?" Roger said "Whup-ass?" she asked, we both got the message that most earth metaphors would go over her head. After a lengthy explanation of what an ass was, and what whup meant. To be honest, I didn't even know until Roger told me, and that brought me back to my original thought about Roger. He had been freaking out non stop since he saved us, I was still worried if something like Beastman or another one of Skeletor's goons would appear. Once Teela got the concept I figured it is a good time to tell him what I was thinking.
"Roger, what road are we on?" I asked him.
He took his phone of Imgur and then said "Margo."
That meant we aren't that far from the "Margo?"
"We're close to Jasmine's house," I said realizing she lived in Woodland off White House Road.
Rogers' eyes got wide, "That's right you know mom and dad-" "Are Air Force pilots, Roger yes!" I said looking back at him thinking we had a spot of luck when I remembered what our situation really was "No, we can't." I said in the rearview mirror "What, why?" Roger asked.
Biting my lip I saw White House Road was coming up and turned on it before slowing down to enter into the neighborhood "Roger, the FBI, CIA, and who knows else is looking for us."
"We already established that Adam." We came up to Jasmine's neighborhood and pulled in just as I saw a cop car drive past us in the rearview mirror, I noticed it and Rogers confused expression. When we stopped and an intersection in Jasmine's neighborhood I looked back at him "Look, I really appreciate everything you've done for me so far, but I think it's better if Teela, Orko and I go it the rest of the way."
"So I'll drop you off at her house?" I asked.
The look on my friend's face was a mix of confusion, resentment, and disgust "Are you serious, after I got my car destroyed you just going to kick me out?"
"I'm not kicking you out, you got nothing to do with this, but if you stay with me any longer your going to get in trouble," I argued.
"What, so you get to go out on an adventure and I get arrested by the FBI?" he almost yelled, "Then say I threatened you, tell them I held a gun to your head while you drove?" I said spitballing things that would help him when something tapped against an outer window.
I looked over to the side door to see Jasmine, looking right at me I froze as she held her finger up to roll down the window, I look at Teela and say "No shooting." stepping back I saw Dijkstra and Lee standing behind her, I roll down the window "Hey guys."
"H,ey Adam." Jasmine said leaning down her hands on her knees, "Hey Jasmine, Dijkstra, Lee." I said, "You uh, park in front of my house with a stolen Pizza car and you two wanted by the FBI, not gonna say hello?" Jasmine asked me.
Couple things you need to know about Jasmine, her full name is Jasmine Ibn-La'Ahad, I met her my first year at JJV, she stole lunch money. And by stole I mean I lost a game of poker to her, don't ask me why she's just really good at cards, I use to think she hid them in her hijab but could never figure out how, we've been friends ever since.
"This is us saying hello." I said before Orko flew up out of the car and between us "Hello!"
"WHOA!" Jasmine screamed with Lee and Dikstra jumping at the sight of him, "Don't freak out, don't freak out, I brought Pizza!" I said getting out of the car and trying to calm everybody down before another crazy thing happened tonight.
Later, after we all went inside to Jasmines house, luckily her parents were out of town, I hope, a thing so a couple of teenagers over at a anothers house while the parents were away wouldn't be much of a fuss. Nor seeing a pizza delivery car either thank god, we went inside to her living room which had dark wood floors, white walls with three muslim prayer rugs rolled up in the corner, a flat screen tv was on a half wall over a fireplace with a metal chain curtain. The couch which everyone was sitting on except, Orko, myself and Teela was a wrap around made of dark red leather. I let Cringer out of my backpack, he poked his head out for about thirty seconds before retreating into my bag again. Covering the walls were pictures of Jasmine and her mom dad, most of them were of vacations, pictures of the two of her parents in their Airforce gear, one with Jasmine wearing her dad's helmet with big aviators tucked into the helmet, but there were a series of old movie posters like Star Wars and James Bond, Top Gun. So I explained everything that's happened since I got home from school after being kicked out, all things considered, they took rather well.
They sat in a row on the couches Jasmine, Dijkstra, Lee and Roger who already new everything but as soon as I got done speaking all three of them raised their hands.
Sighing I reluctantly pointed at Jasmine "Yes, question?"
"So your an alien?" she asked me.
"Half alien, on my dads side it looks like." I answered, I pointed to Dijkstra next "Who are they again?" he asked pointing to Teela and Orko. Orko was poking one of the photos while Teela was leaning against the wall the Sword of Power slung across her back "Uh there from Eternia, the blue Orko and the girl is Teela, there friends."
"What did you say to them?" Teela asked me "I said you we were friends."
Teela frowned at me "We aren't friends."
My arms fell to my sides a little hurt, "Alright, Teela isn't our friend but Orko is… okay before get into another translation argument Orko?"
Orko stopped his fiddling and looked back at me "Yeah Adam?"
"Can you do another one of those translation spells so we don't get confused anymore?" I asked him, Orko bobbed his head up and down "Can do."
"It's a confusing mess it's a pest, help everyone else understand the rest." Orko said waving his hands and fingers before I saw my friends suddenly shiver "What was that?" Lee asked.
"Magic, you'll get use to it and Orko." I said to him next to me raising my hand "Up top."
"Up top?" Orko asked before everyone gapped "He just spoke english." Jasmine said.
I looked at Orko "High five, slap it."
"Oooooh." Orko slapped my hand and I smiled "You're the man Orko."
Turning to everyone else "Now anymore questions?"
At first, nobody said anything before Dijkstra held his hand up again "Yes Dee."
"So right now, you, wonder girl and this elf are going to break into Andrews Airforce base before they can transport his Duncan guy out from Spaceforce, while being hunted by the FBI and everyone else?"
"In summary yes, now I just came here to drop off Roger and Cringer." I said looking over at Teela "Duncan's in there because of me, protecting me from these people who want us dead."
"This isn't your problem, just let me drop Cringer off and we'll go." I said going over to my bag and pulling cringer out, the cat immediately crawled up my shoulder like he was scooby doo. "Easy Cringer, don't worry your safe now." I drop him down and put my backpack on as I wait for my friends to say something.
They looked at Roger who gave them a shrug that said 'Don't look at me.'the first one to stand up was Jasmine "Adam why haven't you told your mom?"
"Cause there after this sword." I said pointing to the one on Teela's back, I gestured for her to show it to them but she stared at me without making any emotion.
"Then give them the freaking sword, kurwa!" Dijkstra snapped adding a Polish insult "We can't." Teela said loudly, coming off the wall and taking out her gun.
All of us screamed holding up our arms, when she pointed it at all of us "Whoa-WHOA!"
"I'm sorry we brought our war to your planet, but your people has taken my commander captive, I'm duty bound to try and set him free, show me the direction of this Air Fortress and we'll will be on my way." she said looking back at me.
I had to think fast with my arm above my head "Teela put the gun down we- Air Fortress?"
"Yes, where can I find suitable air transportation." She said pointing the gun at me this time which didn't really help me think clearly.
"Oh, oh you mean Andrews Air Force Base?" I said seeing what she meant, I Eternia must be a really alien to have stuff like Air Fortresses "No its not in the air, its just where the Air Force is stationed, fighter jets, B-67s, Air Force One?" I said listing off the various planes that would be there.
Teela seemed to get it "Then we take the ground transport, you there." she said pointing to Jasmine with the gun "How many soldiers are on guard at the fortress, what are there weapons and defenses?"
Jasmine was to busy looking at the nose of Teela's gun to answer, coming up behind her I put my hand on Teela's arm lowering it "Could you put the gun away, please?" I begged her.
"You people act like you've never seen one?" Teela scoffed holstering it "Believe me, we've seen enough."
Looking at everyone who seemed to calm down when they saw Teela wasn't going to shoot them, "Sorry for all of... This I guess, we're leaving."
"Adam wait!" Jasmine said getting up and running between us and the door "Let us help you." Jasmine said making me gap at her "What, no way Roger and I are already to deep as is."
Lee and Dijkstra stood to "You don't expect us to let you do this alone?" Lee asked "I'm not alone, I got Wonder Woman meets Rambo right here-" I said pointing to Teela "- and Gandalf the Blue." pointing to Orko.
Dijkstra cleared his throat "Technically Gandalf is the grey and white, the blues are-" "Not the time Dee." I said interrupting him.
"Adam, hello my parents are pilots they go in and out of Andrews every other day of the week when there transporting stuff to the Kennedy Space station." Jasmine said pointing to a picture of her parents and her in front of a fighter jet "I know the base." she stressed.
Teela's eyes narrowed as she reached for her gun "Your parents are soldiers there?"
"There pilots, the guards at the base know me." Jasmine said, "Not the point I don't want any of you to get in trouble or worse hurt because of me?" I said.
"You guys are planning to break into a US government military base, do even have something remotely related to a plan?" Jasmine asked.
I frowned stuffing my hands in my coat pockets "To be honest, I'm making it up as I go along and so far it's worked out okay."
"That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence man?" Roger said as the others got up to "You want a plan?" I asked looking at him, then at Orko who was finishing off some of the pizza before he flicked his fingers making a whole nother pizza. Then at Jasmine's picture with her parents, then at the rest of my friends.
"The base has got to be on the high alert right, lot of soldiers on duty?" I asked Jasmine "Duh."
"Soldiers get hungry, and we just happen to have some pizza and a wizard who can make more." I said walking over to Orko "How many of these do you think you could make?" I asked him "How many do we need?" Orko asked.
"As many as we can get into the car." I said "Your planning on breaking into one of the most fortified bases in the world with Pizza?" Roger asked.
"No, we are, if you guys still want to help?" I asked him "Little chance of success, the certainty of getting arrested and tried with treason, what are we waiting for?" Dijkstra said.
You know good friends are hard to come by, but thankfully I had these guys when I did, or else I don't think I'd be here tell you this. Now I'll save you the time in asking what we did next. I had Orko make us about eight dozen pizzas with a flick of his wrist. Everyone nearly lost it when they saw real live magic being performed, after that we had a lengthy argument of who was going to load the pizzas into the car. We settled on Lee and Dijkstra since Teela said she'd shoot anyone who would make us try, Jasmine and I were going over a map of the air force base. Teela was looking over an smart tablet after she asked to see it and the remote to Jasmines. TV Okay it wasn't map it was just a birds eye view of the base that she had framed in her mom's office, oh and Roger had already lost a car so no need to make him do it.
"So the guards who are at the entrance know you, do they know that you got a job as a pizza delivery driver, we can take off the magnet sign and put it on your Dads SUV, it has clearance sticker on the windshield right?" I asked Jasmine sitting next to her on the couch.
Jasmine shook her hijab "Yeah but if we give them a few pizza's I doubt they'll care, we'll say the Air Marshall ordered the pizza for them since it'll be a long night." Jasmine said pointing to a golf course next to the base "Alo dad still has fireworks leftover from the Last Fourth of July, if we let Dijkstra and Lee out before we get to the base they can light them up to draw people's attention away from the base after we're inside."
"Will you be able to find this Duncan guy when we're inside?" I asked Orko who was watching intently "I'll track his scent."
"His scent?" Jasmine asked, Teela raised her head from the tablet pressing her lips together before she set it down looking irritated "How he smells."
"I know scent means, but you, you can smell him?" I asked her, Teela softened her eyes "Forgive me, I've forgot how less you humans were." She said as she pointed to her nose "Less?" Jasmine asked frowning not caring for the comment.
Teela nodded "Your species senses aren't as tuned as ours, your not as strong, durable, or share our lifespan, from what Queen Marlena told me it wathe s miracle you planet achieves space flight?" Teela said pointing at herself "My aren't and I'm half Eternal?"
"Half Eternian, and since your half that means your half as good as me." She said smirking at me as if she was showing off "I like her." Jasmine said snickering "Whatever, we have a plan to get in, find Duncan, all that's left is getting out?" I said looking to Jasmine.
Teela held up her hand "Don't worry, after we've found Duncan Orko will open the way back to Eternia."
"He can do that?" I asked amazed "Orko, you can get us home?"
Orko was finishing up with the Pizza's when he lost focus and the pizza exploded in a burst of cheese and tomato sauce. Splattering the three of us, but hitting Teela the most soaking her in the pizza guts.
"Damnit Orko!" Teela snapped whipping tomato off her red face, barely making a difference what shade of red her face was. She started to move toward him but Orko let out a startled "YES I CAN DO IT." He yelled holding up both his blue hands showing the scarring on his wrists.
Teela stood down from her attack on Orko and looked at the Pizza's "I'm going to load these Pizzas up." She said picking up about twenty boxes on her own "Okay, just don't eat any of them."
"No." Teela said walking toward the door with the pizza's, "She doesn't know where the garage is though?" Jasmine said "I'll show her, you going to be fine with Orko?" I asked her as I got up and picked up some Pizza's, we turned out attention to Orko who was using his magic go try and get the pizza stains out of the carpet and off the wall but all he did was turn them purple "I think so." Jasmine said.
I followed Teela down the hallway and saw her walk right past Jasmines garage door, this wasn't the first time I'd been here obviously so when I got to the door I whistled at her to turn around "This way." I said, thankfully she didn't call me mustard top again, she just gave me another death glare.
When we walked into the garage I opened the back of Jasmine's Dad's SUV it was black with a large trunk built for carrying large loads, ot opened when I shoved my foot under the bumper for it to open. The silence between Teela and I started to annoy me, but something else was lingering in the back of my head. The scars on Orko's wrists, "Hey, Teela, can I ask you something about Orko?"
"As long as it's not what he's got under the scarf Mustard top." she said setting the Pizza boxes in the back and glared at me again.
"What's your problem with him?" I asked.
Her brow furrowed at me as if she was insulted "Problem?"
I nodded crossing my arms "So far he's bailed us out every turn and you just keep snapping at him?"
Her glare turned into a smirk "Awe are upset that I was mean?"
"Look your 'highness'-" she said the 'highness' part with some sarcasm "Orko is from an entire other universe, his magic or whatever you want to call it defies all laws of reality and science, the more you ask him to help the more likely he's going to mess it up." she said nonchalantly.
"He said he had a wand that made it easier, but…." Teela started to trail off "But?" I asked.
"He seems to be able to cast magic no problem when it comes from you, you calm him down?" she said almost unsure if I really did have some sort of special effect on Orko, "I do?"
"So far his magic has worked like a dream, we were amazed he was even able to open portal to here, he hasn't been right since-" Teela cut herself off not wanting to say to much again "I'm going to guess it has something to do with those scars on his wrist?"
Teela was quiet again, this time for a long time before she crossed her arms "We we're on a long range recon mission into the Gwylvos forest, don't worry I won't expect you to know where it is, anyway one minute Orko was there then he wasn't, that was fourteen years ago. Then one day he showed up back at our secret base, he had been captured by Skeletor tortured him to the brink of insanity, his most basic magic would end catastrophically." she said grabbing her arm where I saw a burn scar "The scars?"
"Part of Skeletos magic, we don't know what they did to Orko but he started to get better, then he started talking about you and then the sword." She said reaching up and taking it out of her sheath, I saw her face turn grim in the reflection of the stainless steel. Still, I couldn't explain it but when i looked at the sword, something in my stirred. Like that look at the new piece of clothing in a store, you know it's going to look good on you but your not sure if it'll fit…. You're right bad analogy lets just say I felt one with the force and leave it at that.
Teela looked up at me puffy eyes that were half sad and half angry "Do you know how many of my friends died to get this sword, then when we find it that imp casts a spell opening a portal across the universe to you- our last hope?"
"I-" "That kind of magic leaves a scent, one that Skeletor can track, so for all I know everyone back home, all of my comrades, our people-" She stepped forward and poked me in the chest "Your people 'Prince Adam' could be dead or worse, so if you think I'm to hard on Orko, he brought it on himself."
She held the sword up to me "So take it." she said.
"What?" I asked taking a step back "I said take it chosen one!" she snapped holding it out to me, but I couldn't I was frozen in place.
Before I could say anything she put it back in its sheath "That's what I thought, your not a hero Adam Glenn, not even a soldier so don't try to be, once we're inside this Air Fortress or whatever you people call it, just stay out of my way and you can go back to your peaceful little life and this whole nightmare will be over for you and for me." Teela said turning toward the exit and leaving me in the garage with the smell of pizza and my own cowardice. She wasn't wrong, I'm not a hero, I've never even been in a fight my whole life, so what chance do I have in this one? Sure I'll try to save people when they're in danger, but she's talking about fighting a war, am I really up for this?