Framed

A dodgy scientist is selling shares in his homemade teleporter, and Hal goes all in.
When the teleporter actually works, Hal and Clunk are trapped in a wilderness with no way home. Their only hope is a nearby settlement, but it's inhabited by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals.
Before long Hal is dressed in animal skins, wielding a machete and stealing food... from the cannibals.
As for Clunk, with flat batteries and no charger he's as useful as a smartphone in an asteroid field.
Go on, Hal. Try and get out of this one.

Framed is an 8,000-word Hal Spacejock comedy short, and can be read as a stand-alone story or anywhere after Hal Spacejock: Second Course.