Lana stared at her. “What are you talking about? That thing must weigh a ton.”

“We’re on the moon, remember? It only weighs a couple hundred kilos at most.”

Lana's eyes lit up. “Right, sixteen point five percent of Earth.” She frowned. “That’s still too heavy for us to lift.”

“I know, help me get to the Hummer, we’ll shove the boulder off him.”

Lana shook her head. “It’s too risky, you could end up squashing him even more.” She looked with concern at Nathan’s still body. “I have an idea, but I’m worried about Nathan. Will you watch him?”

Nori let out a pained sigh. “Sure, I can play sitter.”

Lana helped her limp over to Nathan, then walked to the disabled excavator.

“Lana, what are you doing?”

“Just watch.”

She climbed on the machine’s ring body and accessed the hacked terminal. Her fingers thrummed on the light console for a few seconds, then she lifted her head. “I can’t fully control this thing, I don’t have the right Path for that, but I can still do this.” Her fingers touched the final key.

Two giant legs unfolded underneath the construct. They gently squeezed the boulder and lifted, revealing the flattened Engineer.

His body was literally pressed into the ground, forming a human-shaped indent. It looked like every bone in his body had been broken, but his head appeared mostly intact, thanks to his shattered hands that were positioned protectively over it.

Bulco’s eyes fluttered, and he spoke weakly. “Did we win?”

“Yeah, we did,” Lana smiled at him, then her face fell as she looked at him. “How do you feel?”

“I think I suddenly understand what being a pancake feels like. Not a great experience, I can tell you that.”

Nori chuckled. “If you’re well enough to joke I think you’ll recover in no time.”

He winced in pain. “I really hope so. Right now, the only thing that’s keeping me lucid is that I can barely feel my body.”

“You’ll recover,” Nori assured him. “I met a guy who had shattered his spine in a car accident that was back on his feet a day after the Calamity.”

“We don’t have a day to stay put,” Lana said. “My suit has only three more hours of air left.”

“Mine too,” Bulco said, his voice sounded weaker. “Thank god the aliens know how to build these things to last. An Earth-made space suit wouldn’t have survived that hit.”

Nori put a hand on his shoulder, causing him to wince in pain. “Sorry. Don’t worry about oxygen. Worst case, I’ll bring the Hummer and we’ll return to Unity. But I don’t think that will be necessary. We’re level five now, so I think we should heal up pretty quickly. I can already move my arm a little and my knees are feeling much better.”