yeah, you have to act, you can't just run away cowardly while he could be ruining things up, time to drive him away and use the first hiding spot around
surprise! your loud mess woke people up around you, no way around it now, you'll probably get ditched by this crew if they learn what you did, if you make it out of this desert alive that is, you are out of rational solutions to get out of this mess, what should you do?