Chapter 5
June 14, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Samantha and Joshua slammed forward in their seats. Luckily, they were wearing their seat belts and they were automatically snapped back into their seats.
"Ow!" Samantha cried out as she rubbed her chest.
"Are you ok?" Joshua asked.
"The seat belt hurt my chest but I think I'll be ok. What about your parents?" She wondered. Immediately, Joshua focused his attention to his parents in the front seat. The airbags had deployed and both his parents didn't seem to be moving. Quickly, he unbuckled himself and tried to open his door. It wouldn't budge, so Joshua placed his strong powerful legs and feet up against it. With one great push, the door flung open. Climbing out of the wrecked vehicle, Joshua looked at the scene before him.
The car had collided with another car that had crossed the centerline and it looked as if his father had been impacted the worst.
"What should we do?" Samantha said from the other side of the car, breaking his attention away from his parents.
"Let's see if we can get them out." Joshua said. She nodded and moved a few feet toward Stephanie's door. Trying the handle, Samantha found that the door wouldn't budge. Looking down, she noticed that it was locked. Quickly, she reached inside through her open door and unlocked it.
"You'll have to unlock the door." Samantha called over to Joshua.
"Uh… ok." Came Joshua's reply. She gave him a look over the top of the car. His answer seemed odd. Samantha bent over to look at Stephanie. That's when she noticed why Joshua had replied so strangely.
The front end of the car had taken the brunt of the impact but it looked as though Sportacus was trapped. From the inside the driver's door looked compacted like it wasn't able to open, Samantha only assumed it looked worse on the outside. Someone coughing caught both their attentions. It was Joshua's mother. In a flash, the new hero was at Samantha's side.
"Mom?" He asked.
"Joshua?" She asked.
"We're going to get you out of there. Hang on." Joshua promised. Quickly, he grabbed the door and threw it open almost wrenching it off the hinges. However with the airbag deployed, he couldn't get at the seat belt.
"Samantha, can you climb in the back seat and unbuckle my mom?" The fourteen year old nodded and jumped into the back of the car. Reaching through the middle console, she found the seat belt lock and managed to get it open.
"I'm going to try to feed it over to you." Samantha said to Joshua.
"Ok." Turning to his mother he said, "Mom, I'm going to reach across and take off your seat belt." Stephanie nodded and smiled. The seat belt was carefully fed over the airbag, which Joshua had pressed down a little. Once it was off of Stephanie, he carefully reached in and put his left arm around her back and his right arm under her legs. Slowly and steadily, Joshua pulled his mother out from under the airbag. Samantha closed the back passenger door and he set Stephanie gently down so she could lean against it.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"I think so. My face hurts a little." She replied. Bruises were beginning to appear on her face from the impact of the airbag and there was a cut on her lip.
"You just sit tight and we'll get Dad out of the car." Joshua told her. He didn't tell her how bad it looked or that he wasn't sure how he was going to get his father out.
Samantha carefully unbuckled the above average hero and crawled over to the open passenger door. She pulled up the locking mechanism and then left the vehicle. Joshua had raced around the outside of the car and the two were about to try to help Sportacus when they heard someone crying for help.
To Be Continued…
