The beginning of the new world

It was an accadent!

I rush at the two little girls, quickly taking the gun away from Bells. Then I pick her up and get away from the guns. Out of the corner of my eyes see Mandy doing the same with Kate. Once we are far enough away from the guns I assess the situation.

Bells had shot a person. It wasn't me or Mandy, so someone must have been following us. I turn Bells around and give her to Mandy so that she can't see the person then I go and look. Much to my surprise, it's Ashton.

Oh cowpattie! Of all people why did it have to be her? Dashing over to the wounded Ashton I pale when I see her.

"This is bad, this is bad this is very very bad!" I mutter to myself. "We might have just killed the president! For ship sakes!"

Blood is pouring out of a hole in Ashton's chest, already it has soaked most of the ground around her. The hole in her suit was invisible due to the amount of blood around it. Her lips were turing blue and her eyes were unfocused. When I move above her to see if she's breathing, her eyes seem to focus on me.

"You..... Bitch." She breaths out, before coughing up blood inside her helmet. It splatters on the inside and I jump back in shock. She thinks I shot her?

"What's going on!" A Male voice demands from behind me. I look up to se the man who was timing the running track. He is looking at me in shock, and I can't help but notice that this looks bad. Like, if I was him I would believe that I had deliberately killed their leader.

I have the gun that Bells had shot with near me, there was an obvious bullet wound in Ashton's cheat, and my hands were covered in blood. He might have heard her call me a dog, but I doubt it.

Mandy, Bells and Kate crying as far away from me as they could get did not help my situation at all. That and the fact that this guy knew that I didn't like Ashton. As in, he had witnessed me stomp off muttering about killing her is how much I don't like her.

With unbelievable speed a crowed gathers around, alerted to the mishap by the unexpected gunshot.

Whispers of "who's that?" Followed by a hasty explanation and " why would she do such a thing" wiz around the crowd, confirming my suspicion that it looks bad. It looks like I murdered the president of New Earth.

For some reason the fact that I actually didn't caused me to start laughing. It was a slightly nutso laugh, one you would expect a murder to have.

"It-hiccough- was an- hiccough- accident! I swear!" I choke out once my crazy laughter dies out.

"She killed our leader! As the second in command it is my responsibility to lead you. What would you have me do to this criminal?" Timer guy shouts out to the crowd. Of course he's on the dead girls side.

"Kill her!" A person in the crowd states, and quickly the chant is confirmed by the others. Dammit! I don't want to die!

"I can't do that without proving her guilty. If I did it would be like the Middle Ages on another planet. We're better than that." Timer guy states firmly.

Wait, so he's not going to kill me right here, right now? Thank goodness!

"James? Would you be so kind as to take her to the jail?"

They have a jail? Seriously? Before I can think much else the shooting instructor grabs me under the arms and drags me away from the angry crowd. He was being quite rough about it to. Naturally I fight the whole time I'm being yanked along. It's not a good fight, I'm fairly helpless against him.

When we are quite far away from the dead body James releases me. In fact, we are on the other side of the town, right near the border between the forest and the town.

I glare at him, but even I'm not stupid enough to try attacking him.

"I'm on your side damn it all!" He hisses in my face. "I know your dirty little secret, and I know others as well. Get the hell out of here and don't show your face again. I won't tell anyone; that filthy little scum bucket deserved to die. You did this town a service if you ask me."

I stand there staring at him. What was he, a freaking double agent? No flippen way was he on my side. That's nuts! I mean, seriously?

"Now!" He snarls at me before pushing me into the forest. I stumble, then get up and run, realizing that I'll get killed if I stay here. Of course, in the forest I just might get killed anyway.... That thought causes me to run harder.

I run and run until I can't run anymore, my legs feel like jello and I'm gasping for non-existent oxygen. Stumbling around I tripped on a root, hitting my head on a tree. Just like that, the world went black.