Covie crash landed, she hit the ground head first and let go of Albur and Mysty. Who each crash landed towards different directions. Mysty flew towards a huge pile of building ruins and crashed into them. While Albur directly dove into the ground, cracking his jaw bone.
Rhea crashed into a building next to Mysty, collapsing the whole building. The moon hut didn't have a rough crash thanks to its light weight, it just fell on its side on the ground.
Mysty groaned as she struggled to stand up. The large orange mushroom cloud gave Mysty a color shade of orange on her body. She dragged her wounded body towards Covie, her screen was shattered, her microchip fell out, electric sparks appeared on her body time to time.
Mysty found the regenerating engine of Covie, and used the repair beam to repair her. Covie was back into good condition quickly. The atom bomb splinter didn't cause any atomic level damage to her. Mysty quickly hurried to Albur after ensuring Covie is OK.
Half of Albur's body is scorched badly, his clothes are all burnt black and he have severe bleeding. Mysty want to help him up, but when she grabbed his right hand and want to pull him up, she realized she couldn't. His whole right arm and his sleeve instantly turned into ash right in front of her eyes.
Mysty was scared to death, she dropped on the floor, staring at the ash. Albur is in extreme pain, his body is trembling dangerously. Covie quickly hurried to him and fire her healing beam. However, they didn't heal much. Covie was terrified, she looked around and found the moon hut. She quickly make it stand on its bottom again, then she flew to Albur and lifted him up before flying back into the moon hut.
Covie quickly hurried to the medic room. Mysty took a glance at Rhea who is groaning while slowly standing up, she then limped into the moon hut. Rhea wiped off the dust on her body, and tried to process what happened.
"Albur? Albur? Where are you?"
Rhea turned her head towards Albur's rifle, Havoc is yelling again. Rhea walked to the rifle, the shadow blade is sitting next to it. Rhea opened the hatch of slot 3 and took out Havoc.
"Can you shut up?"
"What happened? There was a splinter...then Albur went to block it...where is he now?"
Rhea looked towards the moon hut, and sighed.
"Don't tell me he is not ok..."
But then, a loud roar echoed across the tumor. The 2 looked around, they have a bad feeling.
"Is that...."
Rhea shut Havoc's mouth. She picked up Albur's stuff and quickly entered the moon hut.
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Covie took out the first aid kit and opened it, searching for lots and lots of bottles.
"Iodine...ointment...antibiotic.....no.....this is alcohol....where are the bandages....oh yeah...pain killers..."
Covie slammed the kit shut and placed all the bottles on the table near the bed. She gave Albur some pain killers to ease his pain. She quickly applied iodine and ointments on the broken arm part. She searched the med kit again and took out radioactivity decontamination chemicals and injected them into Albur's body. She then used more and more bottles and applied them on Albur before firing her healing beam and bandaging half of his body.
Covie panted as she sighed in relief. Mysty stood by the door of the room, looking at Covie. She slowly limped into the room.
"Is Albur ok?"
Covie turned to Mysty, and gently nodded.
"He's stable. But....he wouldn't live the same life he have."
Mysty's eyes widened.
"C-come again?"
Covie stared at Albur's bandage.
"His arm.....his right arm, its gone, forever...."
Mysty took a step back, and gasped.
Rhea and Havoc entered the moon hut, she quickly zipped the moon hut's entrance and pushed the sofa to block it. She panted and put Havoc and Albur's stuff on the floor. Havoc emitted a hologram of a head, it looked around.
"Where's Albur? Is he alright?"
Mysty and Covie stared at Havoc, and nodded.
"Where is he? Bring me to him!"
Mysty picked Havoc up and limped back to the medic room. Covie noticed Mysty's limping, and quickly fired a healing beam at her.
Mysty stared at the unconscious Albur on the bed, and slowly put Havoc on the table next to the bed. Havoc stared at Albur, half of his body wrapped in bandages. He is stable, he is alive.
Havoc sighed in relief, though Mysty and Covie doesn't feel the same. Rhea just stood by the door, not sure if she should talk to them.
"This man is a fool, he knew he is a human! And he blocks that nuke splinter all by himself!"
The crew's eyes widened, they turned their head towards Havoc.
"He block that on purpose?"
"Yeah, I clearly see him threw himself to block that thing. That naive man thought a puny little sword could block a nuke splinter, what a joke."
Havoc sighed and looked at Albur.
"Thank god he's alright."
Mysty moved her eyes to Albur, her fist gripped hard. She turned towards the exit, and sighed, releasing the grip. Rhea stared at her mumbling something in her mouth, and shook her head.
Rhea turned to the living room of the hut. She is surprised that the stuffs in here are all good despite falling from a place around 40 meters. She wondered if its a setting that made the things in the hut to stay in place.
But then, Havoc noticed Albur's face expression changed. His eyebrows were pulled together, and he is moving slightly. He scanned him, and noticed his heart rate is speeding up.
"Guys! Guys! He is waking up!"
The crew turned their head towards Albur, Albur's left hand's finger moved. He slowly opened his eyes, and coughed. Covie and Mysty ran to the bed, Rhea took a step forward, but quickly retracted her feet after thinking for a second.
Albur fully opened his eyes, and groaned as he slowly sat up.
"Albur? Are you ok?"
Albur scratched his head, and looked around.
"What happened? This is....the hut?"
"Are you alright?"
Albur looked at his legs, and gently nodded. Covie sighed in relief.
"Thank goodness the radioactive substances were cleared in time."
Havoc sighed, but then, he noticed the right side of Albur's body, his right arm is missing.
"Albur....."
Albur turned towards Havoc, but then, he realized he had trouble balancing himself.
"Where's your right arm?"
Mysty and Covie quickly shut Havoc's mouth, but he already said that. Albur blinked, he tried to move his right arm, but its not too late that he found out that he is missing his right arm. No broken part, no injured elbow, just, the whole arm gone.
Albur was shocked, his words stammered, Mysty and Covie let go of Havoc, and looked down at the floor. Rhea crossed her arms and silently walked out of the room. Albur stared at Covie.
"Covie...why isn't my arm growing back?"
Covie wrapped her arms around her body, avoiding eye contact with Albur. Albur stammered again, and looked at his empty right side.
"There's no way my arm was atomically destroyed....is it..."
Covie choked and shook her head.
"I'm sorry...."
The room went silent for quite a while.
Albur looked down at his legs, his only left hand trembled dangerously. He's breath became heavy, and his chest felt super heavy. Mysty doesn't bear to watch, though she refused to leave the room.
"It's...ok...its ok...its just an arm....its just an arm..."
Albur whispered, trying to persuade himself.
Mysty and Covie slowly processed next to him. Havoc's words 'he did that on purpose' gave them a huge shock. He wasn't accidentally caught in the explosion, he put himself between it and the two of them.
They did not want to leave Albur alone, they just stood there, silently.
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Rhea controlled the trolley to go auto mobile mode to head to the next core. She thought that the crew had to go for another depression for another hour. She ensured Siwel isn't around, she slowly programmed the trolley, but then, a sound caught her attention, she look towards the direction of the sound.
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Albur continued to stare at his legs, processing the lost of his arm. Perhaps its because he had experienced a more painful grief, this one didn't hurt much to him. Mysty and Havoc stayed by his side for all this time, Covie went to check out the survivor and heal Rhea while helping her out.
Albur then stared at the ceiling for another minute. There are so many times he almost hit the table next to the bed because he couldn't balance his sit. Mysty just stared at his missing arm, unable to understand why Albur block that nuke splinter and cause himself to this.
"You finish grieving?" Havoc broke the silence again.
Albur turned to him, and sighed.
"You don't have arms, how are you suppose to know the pain of losing one."
"Well, I guess I have no rights to talk then."
Mysty sighed, and looked at Albur.
"You know, I'm actually shocked when I hear Havoc say that you block that nuke splinter one purpose."
Albur turned his head towards Mysty, and sighed.
"What makes you think I shouldn't?"
"I-I.....I knew you for years, I don't know what had gotten into you. You had changed so much. I don't- I don't see why would you sacrifice yourself."
Albur looked at his left arm, and sighed heavily.
"Well, I used my right arm in exchange for you and Covie still being able to run and jump."
Mysty looked down at the floor. 'What had gotten into this woman? She isn't like this when I observed her for the past 3 months.' Havoc thought.
"Why though? I don't understand."
Albur noticed Mysty's mental change, he looked at the ceiling, looking at the fan.
"I have already lost someone I care about, I don't want to lose two more."
Mysty smirked,
"Is it worth it though?"
"I'd rather lose something of mine than let you guys lose something of yours."
The room went silent, everyone returned to being quiet.