In her senior year of high school, Natalie Hope reunites with her friends, Adam and Barbara, at the funeral of the fourth member of their once-close gang, Jake. They remember the made-up superhero game they played as kids called "the Astronites," wh...
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Barbara was the first to emerge from the lunar rubble., Star's cabin was filled to the ceiling with lunar rocks, forcing her to belly-slide around in search of her two buried comrades. The chilling vacuum of space had converted her body into its icy form. She shoveled aside dirt until she saw five fingers coated in blood. Barbara grabbed them and with all her might pulled Yona out of the mess and away from Star's burning corpse.
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The inside of Yona's visor was spattered with blood.
"Yona! Can you hear me?!" Barbara shouted into her earpiece.
Yona moaned. "I don't know," she mumbled. "I can't . . . I don't. . . ."
Adam burst out of the wreck and dropped down next to Barbara. Aside from a few dents and scratches, he was unharmed. "Adam! Help!" Barbara trembled.
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Adam waved his hand over Yona's face. "She's got a concussion, multiple contusions, and five broken bones," he analyzed.
"What should we do?" Barbara asked. "What about Star?"
They both glanced at their once mighty fleetjet. It was now a dismal, burning pyre.
"I downloaded her software just before we crashed," Adam said.
A shadow passed overhead. The Mandata warplane that shot them out of battlespace peered down on their injured party. In the silence of space, its engines couldn't be heard.
