12 Sergeant-at-Nothing

Chapter Twelve Sergeant-at-Nothing Vale slunk to the end of the tunnel and poked his head out of Saphrite's belly button. "Um, Vale?" asked Abigail. "What are you doing?" "I'm not coming out," said Vale. Abigail looked around nervously. "You have to," she said. "We don't have a lot of time to get to the pod and get out of here. Come on." "No," said Vale. "This whole planet, I haven't done anything well. I'm supposed to be the sergeant-at-arms, but you guys did everything. Even the bug was more of a hero here than I was." Finn tried to reason with Vale. "Come on, buddy," he said. "That's not true. Look, Elias and I are out in the fresh air now and we both feel a thousand times better. It only took a

second. You gotta get out of there. Get your head right." "Yeah, Vale," said Elias. "Come on. You can't stay inside an alien. That's nuts! You've been nuts all day!" "That's easy for you guys to say," said Vale. "Abigail is the captain, and she's always leading us. Finn is the chief detective, and he solved those joke clues. Elias is our technologist, and even he guessed one of the computer jokes right. I don't do anything. I need to do something to show how courageous I am."

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"Vale, may I?" said Foggy. "I know I'm just a robot, and I don't know much about your squishy human brains. But courage isn't just about fighting and battling." "Yes, it is," said Vale. "You don't know what you're talking about, Foggy." "Says the guy with his head sticking out of an alien," laughed Elias. "My point, Vale, my friend," said Foggy, "is that sometimes the courageous thing to do is not to do something. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is take a step back and let your teammates shine. Trusting your friends like that takes true courage." "That's such a good point," said Abigail. "That's why we're a great team," said Elias. "Your support of all of us makes you a hero," said Finn. Vale nodded and smiled at his friends. "Nah," he said. And he disappeared back inside the belly button.

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