[ well here it is, chapter 3, thanks to everyone we have successfully doubled the HTF cast. As of yet I am un sure of weather or not I'll need more OC's in the future but for now my needs have been well met. Well here you go, enjoy.]

Noon, a day had passed since the event of the dance. At the Train station sat an anxious group of Remmie, Lisa, and Petunia. They had followed the instructions written on their letters and awaited their new arrivals. Remmie stared into his with a look of dread but it was a lot for all of them to take in on such short notice.

"Did either of you even hear about this flood?" asked Lisa frustrated.

"What, you didn't?" asked Petunia "it was on the news a couple of days ago, apparently a tidal wave or something, the whole town's under water now."

"Umm, well… I haven't watched the news in a while" said Lisa feeling a bit dumb.

"Don't worry about it" assured Remmie "I barely ever watch it, so I missed it too."

"Yea, but don't you think we might have heard about it in town or something?" asked Lisa.

"It's probably been brought up a bit, but you know that stuff like that's nothing new, besides, who wants to talk about something so disastrous when things are getting so much better around here." Remmie replied.

"Yea, I guess your right, I'm sick of the bad news too" she said as she probed her eyes along the ground and stepped on every ant she seen.

In the Distance the horn of a train could be heard. Immediately everybody tensed up and Remmie shoved his nose into his letter seeming quite stressed.

"Figures I'd get the extra guy

"Glad I didn't" responded Petunia and Lisa in unison.

Remmie began bouncing his leg up and down, trying to tell himself that this is something he has to do. To everyone's dismay the mighty engine could now be seen chugging along just up the track towards them and reducing it's speed.

"C'mon guys, we have to look professional, we don't want to have a bad fist impression" Petunia rallied.

The two nodded reluctantly and stood up. Each donned a straight face and waited for the train to stop. As the windows passed through their view they could see numerous faces. Though that agitated them they knew that there was no way all of them were there for them.

They watched in anxiety as the train slowly chugged to a halt and the doors opened. Out stepped a small crowd of people who walked straight past them, they were not the people they were waiting for. After a brief pause In the action a few more doors opened, in their guts they knew that their crowd was coming. The first one to step out of the train appeared to be a dog. His fur appeared light blue but his floppy ears were a darker blue. He wore a grey sweatshirt and had a pink muzzle. His tail was thin and also tipped with pink. He carried with him a blue backpack with a soft yellow floral pattern weaved into it. He gazed around in confusion and spotted the three standing in front of a bench.

As he moved towards them another person stepped out of the train but not before rolling a large ball out in front of him. He appeared to be a fox with light grey fur and red eye makeup in a circle around his eyes that had points on the tops and bottoms. He was also carrying a backpack and looking around disoriented. He had also locked his eyes on the group standing by the benches.

"Excuse me, is one of you Petunia?" he asked politely wit a friendly smile.

"I am" informed the blue skunk "and you are?"

"Bubble, nice to meet you petunia" he replied kindly.

Seconds later the second approached.

"Excuse me Miss are you Miss Lisa" he said shyly.

"Umm, yea, and you're umm…" she said while searching through the letter for names "Doubble maybe?"

The fox looked down to the ground and held his tail in front of him, running his fingers through it's thick fur. He seemed quite anxious.

"No… it's… Glitter" he told her quietly though she was still able to hear him.

"Oh, sorry" she said.

Remmie kept eying the unusual ball he had beside him.

"So what kind of ball is this?" Remmie asked reaching out to feel it's texture.

"Don't touch it!" the fox shouted pulling it away from him.

"Ok I wont!" replied Remmie as he retreated his hand and his pupils shrank with surprise. Remmie glanced away from everyone and rubbed the spikes on his neck with his hand feeling horribly awkward.

"Sorry…" the Fox said quietly while hugging his ball.

"Yea uhh, it's fine." said Remmie still feeling awkward.

To his left he seen yet another person exit the train. It looked like a black panther. Instead of just walking out she swung herself out using the bar above the door. Over her shoulder she carried a large duffle bag that seemed to have a sword strapped to it. She looked around and rushed over to the three near the benches. Glitter responded by getting well out of the way.

"Hey, you're Remmie right" she asked immediately.

"Umm yea, and you…" Remmie started before being cut off.

"Alright then… I kind of thought you'd be taller, anyways looks like I'm staying at your place for a while" she said throwing her duffle bag onto a bench "I'm sure you've got a bunch of others to wait for, so wake me up when we're done."

At that she threw herself onto the bench, rested her head against her duffle bag and went to sleep. Remmie had no idea what to think… she never gave him a name though.

Moments later two more people exited the train. The first was a male and he seemed to be carrying luggage for two people. He was of an unrecognizable species and appeared to be a mix of multiple. His hair was blue as well as his eyes. His tail was of a darker blue but the rest of him was white and he wore a black hooded sweatshirt. The alarming thing about him was the large demonic looking scythe he had strapped to his back.

He was soon followed by a similar looking creature. She stood shorter than the first but sported the color red instead of blue. Most of her appeared to be red. Her face had red colorations that resembled a mask you'd find at a masquerade but had white rings around her eyes and the area around her muzzle. Her legs also bared numerous white patches and had white stripes along her arms. Her tail was surprisingly large, even larger than her and had numerous quills along it. She wore a child size red dress but had a large bust that made it appear shorter.

They, like the others, looked disoriented until they laid eyes on the growing group of people near the benches and looked at a slip of paper.

"Either of you Lisa?" the male asked to the two skunks.

"I am, and you are?" Lisa replied.

"Ansom, my sister is Araya, according to this letter we are staying with you" he said plainly as he and Araya took seats on a bench. Lisa didn't like his attitude.

They had few seconds before yet another person exited the train, this tome a squirrel, for a moment The three mistook her for nutty but she lacked the candy all over her face and had one large stripe running from each eye to the back of her head. She had a number of bags with her but carried them with ease as if she had tactics for carrying them. Aside from the extra stripes on her face, blue stripes on her tail and lack of a googly eye, she resembled nutty to a tee.

"You Remmie?" she asked to the hedgehog.

Remmie was curious as to how she came straight to him despite the sizable crowed building around them but upon inspection realized that they were the only official looking ones around there. Nobody else even attempted to make it look like they belonged there.

"Yea, I'm Remmie" he replied.

"nice to meet you Remmie, I'm twitchy" she said with a smile as she reached out to shake his hand.

This caught Remmie completely off guard and hesitantly shook her hand. She had a firm, official handshake.

"Apparently I am to be housing with you, I promise not to be a burden" she assured Remmie. She moved to a wall and started rifling through her bags.

When Remmie turned his attention back to the train somebody else was already rushing his way out of the train. It appeared to be a red hamster. The second Remmie seen this guy he felt a terrible sense of dread that he may be housing him too. The guy exited the train by way of skateboard and was carrying a chainsaw. He skated around the station for several grueling moments shouting something after every trick he pulled until he rolled his way over to Remmie who he was noticeably shorter then.

"Yo, Remmie right?" he asked.

At that moment Remmie wanted his head to explode as he was already thoroughly annoyed by this guy.

"Yes" Remmie said grudgingly.

"Sweet, name's Tiny and I kick ass at everything I do, check this out" he said excitedly and held up his chainsaw "whoops, crap. I'll be right back."

At that he skated back to the train and along the way swiped another refugee with his shoulder. They recognized this one however as Alexis, she was a wolf donned in a gray cammo uniform with matching gray cammo skirt. Around her neck was wrapped a chain with a set of titanium steel dog tags. She wore a pair of black and white combat boots and atop her head was a grey beret with a strange symbol printed on a red strip. Her waste long black hair and thin black eyeliner contrasted her white fur and blue eyes.

Petunia examined her letter recognizing Alexis's name printed onto it.

"Lex?" Petunia asked curiously.

"Hey Pets" The wolf replied "Guess I'll be at your place for a while."

"Well yea…" Petunia said somewhat confused "I don't have a problem with that or anything but don't you have a house in town?"

"Yea" she started "I was curious about that. When I got this Letter it jut told me that I would be staying with you. I'm not the only one with a house here who was told to stay with somebody though. Chunky and Torch were too and I'm sure Twitchy also has a place here. I figured it was just too strange to ignore so I'm resigned to staying with you for now."

This somewhat unsettled the skunk who decided to pay it little mind. There were others approaching that needed to be greeted.

The first of a set of three was a black cat with red eyes with white markings around them. Her cheeks also bore similar markings. She wore a red and white striped skirt with a blue skirt made of leather. On her neck she wore a yellow and silver choker with a matching one on her leg. She also brandished a pair of brown boots and what appeared to be a weapon wrapped in brown cloth and tied with black string.

By now it was quite obvious who the people of interest were and the refugees simply flocked to them.

"I'm looking for someone named Lisa" the cat stated.

"Right here" Lisa replied though she seemed to be getting tired of stating the same thing over and over again "just give me your name and we can get through this much faster".

"Alright I'm Tho… or I mean uhh, Shelby" she said forcefully.

Lisa was confused and annoyed at this but decided she'd stop caring as it would only take longer.

The other two behind her seemed to be struggling with getting something out of the train the first one in line was a dark green porcupine. he appeared to be dressed ready for a battle. His tops consisted of a dark grey jacket over a black tee-shirt that were both designed to be worn well with his quills. His bottoms were tan pants with black knee plates. Finally he had worked the short quills on top of his head into a mohawk form. He could be heard arguing with somebody else who later stepped out of the train followed by a flood of weapon cases.

The person who had stepped out appeared to be a civet. His fur was light grey and he wore a fedora, dark red tee shirt, and dark grey shorts.

While they figured out how to manage their situation another Refugee stepped out of the train. It was a koala, and one familiar to the group. He was quite heavy set and wore a Tee-shirt with a hand that had two fingers sticking up and a thumb missing with the writing Left 4 Dead 2. Though it was difficult to see with him having his nose buried in some sort of handheld game he wore a large set of round glasses. He had grey fur, a large nose, large ears, and was a bit taller than the others. He eventually raised his head from his game and scoped out the area to find the large group growing around the benches. He quickly realized what he was doing and hurried over.

"Hey Remmie" he said to his friend.

"Hey Chunky" Remmie responded.

Although Remmie was a bit pudgy as most hedgehogs naturally are it was nothing compared to Chunky.

"Well I'm sure you can already guess that I'm staying at your place for a while, that's gonna be awesome, we can play video games all night!" he exclaimed looking excited.

By now the other two had approached. The civet seemed to be carrying the most luggage which was lashed together to be transportable. The porcupine still had cases of his own to carry though.

"So Petunia" the porcupine started "I guess Andy and are gonna be spending a few days with you, I'll assume you've been looking forward to it huh?" he said teasingly.

"Can't say I have Kurt" replied Petunia "just try not to trash the house while you're there, Andy could you keep an eye on him."

"What, you don't trust me?" Said Kurt grinning.

"No problem Pets, he'll do whatever I tell him if he knows what's good for him" said Andy chuckling to himself.

"Get real Andy you know I'd kick your ass. Don't worry Pets I won't cause you any trouble, just keep Giggles away from me, she annoys the crap out of me." Kurt ordered.

"I think Petunia has better things to do than talk to you Kurt" Chunky said firmly.

"Ahh shove it Chunks, side's I thought you two stopped going out a while ago, why so defensive huh?" he said tauntingly.

"Excuse me!" someone said from behind the squabbling refugees "I need to talk to Petunia."

Chunky and Kurt moved apart to make way for a white cat. She wore a grey jacket with a white shirt beneath it and a chain necklace that went beneath that. She wore brown shorts on the bottom with neon pink shoes and white socks that rose to her ankles. Her eyes were grey.

Lisa happened to take notice of Shelby who seemed somewhat uneasy now that this cat was here.

"Petunia, that's you I take it" started the cat "I'm Rose, I guess I'll be staying at your house for a while?"

"Yea… you are on the list after all" stated Petunia.

"Alright then, I'll wait till you go then." she said while wandering off to an area behind the group.

"Anyone else think we could be a bit more efficient than this?" asked Remmie after observing the disaster of a situation they had just experienced.

"Yes, I've been thinking about that ever since we got here" Lisa said somewhat frustrated.

Petunia thought to herself for a moment as another group of three stepped out of the train.

The one closest to them was a chipmunk. Her fur a pale yellow with dark brown hair and stripes typical of a chipmunk. On her head she wore a large pair of black and white headphones. Her attire consisted of a white tee shirt, a black and white checkered skirt, and a necklace with a pendant of two connected eight notes. She was carrying a thick backpack ornamented with music related baubles.

Behind her was a dark grey porcupine with bright red quills. He carried with him a black cane and the reason was obvious as he had a black peg leg for his left leg. His belly was a lighter grey than his fur and his only attire was an orange tie with yellow flames.

"Behind him walked a light grey wolf with a black tail and hair. Both his tail and hair bared a long dark violet thunder sign respectively, as did the black neckerchief he wore over his mouth. His attire was about the male equivalent of Alexis's. his eyes were as violet as his unique markings and had a small amount of black eyeliner on. His hair was draped over one of his eyes. On his back was strapped an un recognizable item wrapped in cloth

"Alright!" Petunia demanded "you three, just give us your names and who you are staying with, this is Remmie, this is Lisa, and I'm Petunia."

"Hey Petunia, you haven't forgotten about me have you?" started the porcupine.

"Nope, hey Torch, c'mon, let's hurry this up" she replied.

"I'm Eme, nice to meet you Remmie" said the Chipmunk.

"Yea, hey" he said finding how she emphasized the similarities in their names to be somewhat annoying.

"Lisa then, I'm thunder, I don't plan I staying with you for long, I've got better things to do" he said coldly.

Lisa gave him a look that could kill.

From behind them five more refugees showed up, likely because they had more than enough time to gather their stuff by now.

The first and most striking of them was a yellow rabbit donned in a tattered straight jacket and brown shorts.

Behind him was someone who seemed to be keeping an eye on him. A dark brown wolf with a scar over her left eye and clad in black army attire from suit to boots.

"Good news Torch, those pills of yours are working like a charm, twitch hasn't been a problem since he took em'" assured the wolf.

"Great, thanks for keeping an eye on him Lilith" Torch said gratefully.

"Yea, sure. Ok Remmie, you're in charge of the lunatic " she said shoving the rabbit in front of Remmie and tossing him a container of pills "Lisa, I guess I'll be with you."

Remmie did not look pleased with the situation he was in but he had to shape up and get it over with.

The next was a raccoon with a fox by her side. The Raccoon had pink fur with lighter pink stripes and eye markings and was wearing a light blue backpack for transportation.

The fox had lilac fur with a paler tail tip and was wearing a spiked wristband and a backpack about the same color as the raccoon's.

"Are you Remmie" the fox asked trying to be sure.

"Yep, and you must be…" he said looking at the remaining names on the list "Twisty and Trippy, right?"

"Uh huh" said the Fox "I'm Trippy and she's Twisty."

"Hello" said the raccoon.

Remmie waved back and was relieved that his list had been met. The final one of the group showed up in front of Lisa.

"Lisa right?" he asked "I'm going to be staying at your place, just stay out of my business and I won't be a problem."

"What the hell ever!" Lisa exclaimed sick of all these attitudes she was getting but was relieved to find that her list had been checked off.

The group waited as Petunia's last refugee struggled to get out of the Train, from what they could see she was trying to carry out some disastrous mass of meral or a work of art. When she managed to finally heave it out of the train it turned out to be some overly elaborate contraption being used to transport her luggage.

The creature appeared to be a tiger with mint green fur and electric green stripes. She wore a gold and jade talisman on a silver chain around her neck and an unusual bracelet. She began to wheel the contraption to the overly obvious mass of people crowding the train station.

"Excuse me, is one of you Petunia?" She asked.

"Yes!" Petunia squealed, excited, finally everyone had arrived.

She looked at her list to find a name and all that was left was Keni.

"Keni right?" asked Petunia.

"I am" replied the Tiger.

"Alright guys, this is all of them" said Petunia excitedly.

"Damn, finally" breathed a relieved Remmie.

"Alright people listen to me!" shouted Lisa who lost patience a while ago "everyone's finally here, next up I want all of you to get with your groups, we are leaving now; right now!"

Nobody objected to that and fell in with their groups and everyone was ready to go.

"Wait" started Petunia "didn't one of your group go back to the train Remmie."

Remmie immediately remembered the obnoxious hamster.

"Umm, nope nope it's fine let's go, C'mon group we're going!" Remmie ordered and began to take off.

As everyone began to leave the Hamster emerged from the train, this time carrying three chainsaws.

"Alright guys, check it ou…!" he shouted only to notice the groups fading away in the distance.

"Awe damnit!" he shouted "Hang on, wait up!"

At that he mounted the skateboard and followed after them.

[ well hat was a workout on my dusty brain, some of you may have noticed a couple renditions and interpretations that may be somewhat different but I have my reasons for doing them or needing them. If I screwed anything up that I may not have meant to do or you have a related question just let me know. To all of you who offered me your OC's I thank you, now we can get underway. As a side note I picked the Left 4 Dead 2 tee shirt because it's the one I have, I also named this chapter after the song of the same name by Avenged Sevenfold See you around folks.]