Parallel chapter 3

Okay! So here's the summary of up to this point...

I was kind of crawling around, although at an extreme speed. My leg was broken, but the natural forces of things here in this universe caused little pressure to it. I always hated the lack of gravity in other worlds, but recently I’d seen how easy it made it to get around. After all, gravity here was but a fraction of the gravity of my home world. World 0, the most sophisticated world we've discovered. My physical abilities were multiplied by 10 in this climate due to the low gravity. For I had evolved in a different world. Because of this, I could walk without crutches. It hurt a lot, but not nearly as much as it would in my universe. I still didn’t want to risk worsening it, so I had decided to travel by left leg and arms. I still traveled faster than I would on my legs in my home world though. I knew that girl was still alive, and she had the pager. I had seen a picture of her holding the pager and the name of some building, that I matched with one that was now before me. If I could get the pager I could contact Storm again. I missed him already. I hadn’t eaten since I’d entered the universe, and had only received water from drinking fountains, which I was unsure on the water quality of. I thought a second, recalling the events of the previous night.

“BROTHER!” I yelled, and then ran over toward him. Someone snuck up behind me and tried to grab me. I screamed, and ran away as fast as I could. One of them lunged at me, and I jumped up in the air. The moon shined on me, and I felt a sense of freedom. Once I had fallen back down to the tops of the trees, I begun jumping tree to tree, looking down at them occasionally, seeing my attackers running below me, until I didn’t see them for a second. Something was up. But, I didn’t dare stop.

I was on the alert, but then something flew up and hit my leg. I would have clutched my leg like the little girl I am, but then I would have endangered myself, as I was spinning a little. But since I was a logical little girl, I placed these as higher priority that pain. Rather than grabbing my leg, I tried to return to not spinning, circling my arms in the opposite direction of the spin. I landed on the other foot, and but felt no pain there, my other leg had canceled it out. But I’d be okay. I may have a limp for awhile though. I heard muttering, then a gasp of surprise, and people rustling away from where I had fallen. I noticed that I was in the middle of a clearing. Pretty lucky of me. I thought, and sat there for awhile. Then I heard another rustling. A light shined in my eyes, and I couldn’t see, I looked left and right, trying to get the spot from the light out of my vision. Then a human walked over to me... She was holding some kind of light emitting object.

As she walked closer, I walked backwards, every step bringing more and more pain, “Ouch!” I said, “Leave me alone! I didn’t know I didn’t know!” And then I fell over. I looked up, and saw her looking down at me with a look of concern. Why is she worried about me? And why did those other guys leave? I wondered, but loosened up a little. Then I felt the infrared heat from my pager as I received a new message. I took it out of my pocket and instantly opened it without a second thought. It was from Storm, saying: “Get rid of your pager! I’ll keep mine but take out the tracker component in it. I’d take your out if I was there, but wherever you are, toss the pager and run!” I begun to cry, then easily tossed the pager to the center of the clearing. I smelled smoke, panicked, and ran away then, without a hesitation. As I ran, I repeated the same sentence over and over. “Why me!”

It was then that I heard it, the alarm in the building. A man a ways away from me smiled, pulled out a phone- Wait, not a phone. My eyes grew wide. Why does he have a pager? I wondered. Then saw that girl walking out of the building, toward him. I crawl-sprinted over to them, using all four of my limbs for maximum speed without causing significant damage to my leg. When I got to them, I jumped on the man, and he begun punching and kicking in my direction. I had a strange feeling right now, because, without even needing to think about it, I was dodging his every move, until I could see him about to punch, sidestepped, and pulled his fist in the direction of where I’d been but a moment ago.

“Give me that, and stay here," I said, then, knowing from the look of confusion on her face that she’d not understood me, sighed and ran over to her. I took the pager from her hand, then pointed at her then the ground, indicating for her to stay here. I ran away, and entered the first alley I found, gasping for air. This would be a long day...