"I don't know what happened!" Asher shouted as he turned to see the many different controls. There were meters showing the hydraulic pressure. Some showing how full the back of the truck was. And even more levers that didn't have labels at all.
"Just move back whatever you moved before!" Cara's voice was high pitched with worry and distress. The ever increasing yelling from the trapped workers was weighing on both of them as each second ticked by.
'What one does what?' Asher was screaming this in his head while he furiously searched for anything to stop the compressing garbage inside the truck. "Ah screw it!" He slammed his hand down on the control panel. There was a huge screeching sound followed by much louder yelling and a sudden stomp of all sound.
"Oh no...I killed someone…" Asher's face was pale and his breath shallow. He had just murdered someone while trying to save them. Forget being a hero he was going to jail.
Cara was just looking at him dumbfounded. 'I cant believe his answer was beating it with his fist...I can't believe it.' She couldn't speak of all the things to happen this morning they had happened upon someone in need and they failed to help them at all. They had even just caused a death. Her future had just been flushed down the drain.
"Are you the kids that saved me? Thank you two so much. When the compressor fired up I though the automatic compression started and I was about to be made in tio a block of garbage." There was a man in a yellow vest standing behind Cara covered in bits of trash.
"Are you the ghost of the man we just killed…?" He knew that his murder could not be forgotten but now Asher was going to be haunted by the ghost of the man he had killed.
"Ghost? Kid are you alright?" The man was confused by this statement. He couldn't fathom why they would think he was a ghost.
Cara looked at the back and found that it had opened. "You're the man that was trapped in the back. Thank the stars you are safe!" Cara felt the stress all wash away. She was more exhausted than she had ever been from a run in her life.
"Yes, I was tossing in an extra heavy bag and it got caught/ When I leaned to push it a;; the way inside I slipped and then the door finished closing. I have been in there for an hour!" He was wiping the sweat from his brow and smiling like he had just seen the world as a new man.
"Over here! There is a worker trapped!" Art was rushing up with an officer behind him .
"Asher! Cara! I found an officer on bicycle patrol. Where-" He stopped seeing that his two friends were now with a worker and that the back of the garbage truck was empty.
"Officer, these two kids save my life just now. I would like to file a report and have them awarded!" The worker stepped forward and made sure to give the officer every single detail. After some time the officer met with the tree of them to hear what they had to say.
"I assume since you three were out on a morning jog you do not have any identification on you? Since this matter is closed and there was no harm I will take your names on trust. However in the future please wait for law enforcement to get to the scene. Things could have gone very poorly if you two were not familiar with such machinery."
Asher and Cara looked at each other. 'Since when were we familiar with machinery like a garbage truck? Did that man say that we were?' They did not press the matter but gave their names and assured the officer that if they ever see or hear anything in the future that they would follow the proper rules and report it to law enforcement.
The worker thanked them about a hundred more times before returning on his way to work, he was over two hours behind now that everything had happened. Asher, Art, and Cara were just standing in the middle of the walk way stunned. "So what in the world just happened…" Art was the most out of the loop since he had run for help.
"I pretty much almost killed someone."
"Then he hit the controls and somehow freed them."
"And now we are not murderers."
"So I guess, everything is OK?"
The two finished each other's thoughts. " You know if you two keep talking like that I don't think I should hang out with you anymore." At just looked at the mentally drained siblings like they were twins out of a horror movie.
"Psshh, a monkey like you can be alone." Cara turned away from him after his words.
"So, do we just jog home? We have been put for like an hour. I know you wanted to go and use the voucher and Art and I should try out some martial arts moves. I plan to ask Jane to come too." Asher was thinking about the video game they had got from the scamming store.
"Then I guess we go home…" The three stood there for another few minutes still making sense of what had occurred. This was definitely the strangest morning they had all had in a long time.
By the time they had returned they had missed the chance to have a hit breakfast. Instead they got an earful of why they need to let people know where they were going and how late they would be if they would not be bringing their phones with them. The speech became even longer when they mentioned what had happened. They all knew if they hid it they could have been in much more trouble.
The three each apologized and promised not to leave the house without their phones in the future. After that they were made to warm up their cold breakfasts and slowly take their showers. The dishes were left to them as punishment but it was the lightest sentence they could have been given. Cara was out the door with a book full of design ideas before the two boys had even opened the container of the video game.
The door bell went off and Asher could hear his mother welcoming Jane in to the house. "We are in here, we are just starting to download the game now!" Asher placed the game in to his system and started it up. He quickly skipped through all of the opening scenes and saw the character selection.
"Alright so looking at the online guide it says that we don't have to play the story to get to the testing mode. Just choose a character that we want to use then we can do the tutorial o how the moves work. It will show us the 3d model on how it moves and shows the buttons we need to push to make it happen." Art was reading from his phone when Jane entered the room just in time to hear it.
"Does it say which ones have the best moves for all around use?" She didn't want to practice the niche moves that could only be used in certain situations. She wanted to be able to do thing sin just about any situation, a hero should always be prepared.
"Yes, the top three ranked are the guy who tried to scam everyone, the girl in blue there, and the guy wearing the black cape." Art pointed out the three that were the most played and said to be the most well rounded move wise.
"Wheel kick is the girl in blues best move. Apparently the spin she uses is fast and can pack a good punch. The scammer has a punch called hammer thrust which puts his big weight in to a full thrust. Then the guy in black had a quick jab that can incapacitate people if you aim for vital points. These three look to be the most useful. Once we learn them, we should worry about the other moves."
Hearing Art's choices either of the other two argued. When they chose the scammer they were all able to see his split foot stance and the twist of his hips as he pushed forward with an open palm that switched in to a fist last second putting an extra oomf in to the punch. " This is pretty much just a better version of the basic punch that coach Winters taught us." Asher saw many constituencies to what they had already learned.
"So he ended up making his name based on the basics that he improved. I guess sticking to basics really applies here." Jane summed this up making this the easiest one to practice. Playing the move multiple times they started to copy it. The three looked like they were doing some form of home workout on the television.