Chapter Four
Strike and I joined our teammates at the bottom of the staircase, where they had all gathered. We didn’t bother to open the door and try to look outside, primarily because of our concerns over the possibility of being caught and killed by the Pokacu. We were also worried that the explosion might have made the air unsafe to breathe out there, though we didn’t know for sure.
The others wanted to know what happened to Mecha Knight. We told them that we didn’t know for sure. We just told them that Mecha Knight had chosen to stay out there in the open when the explosion happened. We said he was probably okay, but deep down, I had my doubts. It seemed likely to me that Mecha Knight was dead; and, if he wasn’t dead, then he was probably too badly damaged to rejoin us, which meant h
