NAAN (The Rabanians Book 1) by Dan Haronian, Thaddaeus Moody

the floor. 
    The cell started to rotate. The wall, hinged to the ceiling, gradually began to open until we were completely hanging in air.
    “Jump,” I shouted and jumped into the dark hole that appeared beneath us. I fell onto a big pile of garbage. The landing was painful, but it was nothing compared to the smell that assaulted my senses.
    Barefoot I slid to the bottom of the pile. I started to feel my way along until I hit a metal wall. I heard Dug shouting as he fell and a cry after he hit the garbage pile.
    “Slide down,” I yelled to him.
    I heard another fall, a quiet one. Probably Daio. 
    “I think I broke something,” I heard Dug crying.
    “Slide down,” I yelled again.
    The doors above us started to close, and the little light we had gradually faded until darkness completely surrounded us.
    “Daio, Dug,” I called when the sound of the closing doors stopped. I heard sliding noises, and Dug groaning. I could tell he was getting closer to me from the noises he made.
    “Dug,” I called to him.
    “I am here.”
    “Can you see me?” I asked and went closer to him.
    "We are inside the damn garbage hovercraft," he said and leaned on me. "How the hell did this happen?"
    “Bad fall?” I asked.  It wasn’t the time for long explanations.
    “I’m barefoot,” he said angrily.
    “Yes, me too.”
    “I think I broke something.”
    “I found a ladder!” I heard Daio shouting.
    “Daio, where are you,” I shouted.
    “Walk along the wall,” he shouted back.
    I held Dug’s hand and pulled him towards the wall.
    “Daio’s found a ladder, let's go…”
    “I heard him,” he cut me off, “I can’t breathe.”
    “We need to get out of here,” I said.
    He leaned his hand on the wall and we started to move.
    The hovercraft lifted off. Every change in its course or velocity shook us ferociously. We fell several times and I had to help Dug back to his feet. The smell was so bad it became a struggle to draw breath.
    “Daio,” I shouted just to get a feeling for how close we were.
    “Here,” he called back. 
    The hovercraft changed course and the pile of garbage shifted towards us, pinning us against the wall. I helped Dug climb above it.
    “I can’t make it,” he said desperately.
    “Just a few more steps and we are there,” I said to him.
    “Sosi,” I suddenly heard Daio.
    “We’re here,” I called back.
    A hand touched me from above.
    “Over here,” he said.
    I looked up but I couldn't see him.
    “Here,” he said and put my hand on the ladder.  “Climb.”
    “Dug is hurt,” I said.
    “I’ll get him. Climb!”
    I pulled myself up the ladder. The hovercraft changed course again and I found myself hanging from the ladder by my hands with my feet dangling in space. After a few seconds I felt as if all my strength was gone. The hovercraft stabilized and I locked my legs on the ladder and hugged the bar in front of me. I couldn’t move. 
    “Climb!” shouted Daio from below. I looked down and barely saw them, close together, on the ladder rungs. The door above me started to open and fresh air rushed in. I took a deep breath and scrambled up the ladder. I could hear the hydraulic engines working. When my head cleared the lip I could see the hovercraft arm moving. Its free end disappeared from my sight and I heard pounding noises. A few seconds later the arm moved again and another cell was hanging from its end.
    “Another dump,” I yelled as the cell stopped above the opening. It slowly rotated and a flood of garbage cascaded into the chamber.
    “Jump on it,” shouted Daio from below.  “Jump!”
    The cell was so close to me that even a small shift and it would smash me like a little bug. I reached out my hands and jumped towards the horizontal bars along the cell walls. I couldn't see what was happening with Daio and Dug.  A few seconds later I saw Dug hanging next to me, and then Daio landed squarely on top of me. I almost fell.  The three of us hung onto the bars of the