The Pole Shift

Into a Pod

Helen was trying to fuss, pushing back his long T shirt sleeve to get a look at his wound. Jimmy ignored her questions, he was totally focused on what Prophet was saying.

                " A strike drone is circling. Shield your eyes in three, two," Jimmy shouted at them:

                "Close your eyes close your eyes!"

                "One." An enormous shed of light filled vision, so bright it burst through the lids of Jimmy's eyes and he was dazzled, his vision polka dotted with swirling orange and red. There came a shout of confusion from the teachers and their pets, Jimmy looked at his group, they had mostly obeyed his command, his urgency cutting through normal teenage reluctance at being told what to do. Daniel was reaching out in front of him, saying :

                "What? What!"  George was yelling:

                "I can't see I can't see! I'm cut and now I can't fucking see!" Prophet spoke to Jimmy:

                "Vision will return slowly, get who you want in the pods. Take those with you now, coincidence is a powerful variable." Jimmy spoke quickly:

                "Tanya and Helen, lead Daniel, Michael, help me with George."   The group of six headed for the school hall. they passed injured students that were now temporarily blinded. The crux of the fight was twenty steps from the hall's doors, and hands and arms were reaching out like a many tentacle animal. Jimmy noted Mr Knowles, he was muttering something and he couldn't resist getting close to listen:

                "Your friends, your friends, there after all." The man was old again, his brief spark of 'what might be' fled. He suddenly reached, "Jimmy? You're there. Get in the pod lad, go."

                Jimmy didn't deign to answer, his group passed the stunned and into the hall. In the excavation the three pods lay, Jimmy said:

                "There's only six of us, we must at least get eight! I don't care who gets in the other pods, but I want eight of us."  Daniel's eyes were clearing he said:

                "I can see light and dark, shadows, I'm starting to see again, thank fuck!" George wailed about not being able to see at all. As they clambered down the makeshift stairs, Jimmy took Helen's eyes, he said:

                "You and Tanya, get another two be quick!" Helen nodded and Tanya followed her outside. Then the four of them opened the door of the nearest pod and got in. There was much shouting from outside, it seemed the fight was commencing and there was indications it had moved to the school hall's entrance. Moments later Helen's face appeared at the top of the old school floor,  she was looking dubious as she sized Jimmy up.

                "Get in Heren!" She frowned at him, then  Tanya along with a boy with closed cropped hair and a bloody mouth descended, the boy was disorientated, trying to espy the rough stairs and appearing like an old man. Tanya hurried him along and he nearly toppled down, then Helen appeared, and behind her came Miss Wright. She was blinded too, and was being led by Helen. Jimmy's mouth went O, and he felt outrage well up, closely followed by an excitement teenage boys understand very well.