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Maximum Fallout: 3
"Lets get INSIDE!" Bianca screamed across the stinging winds, trying to convey her message to the people in front for the third time.
Finally everyone seemed to understand and slowly begun to look into the carriages below as best they could.
"Ours is empty!" Zenia yelled to Bianca.
"Come to me my pretties!" Bianca yelled back to the others in a deep evil tone. The other's slowly turned around.
Zenia flipped off the roof and Bianca held her legs, wrapping her own around a handle to keep from falling. She wondered silently why people put so many things that could be used as a grip onto the roofs of trains, but tried not to dwell on it.
It was midnight, but the darkness bothered none of them. Zenia shoved the large window that seemed to lead to a storage area, it fell in easily in one piece, as it was made from plastic.
She clung onto the top of the window.
"Alright!" She yelled and Bianca released her legs. Zenia swung effortlessly through the open space, landing on the plastic pane below. She moved back as Jason's legs appeared in the window as he swung through.
They didn't exchange any words, as they were more mutual with each other then friendly.
The two watched as Kuro, Ant and Taco swung through, followed by Neon, who looked decidedly worse for wear, As Bianca swung in they fitted the pane back in the window.
Kuro and Bianca joined Ant and Taco exploring the cabin. Neon sat on the floor looking miserable. He seemed to not be able to make up his mind over whether to attempt to fix his hair or his wings first, both of which were a mess.
As the two knelt by him they exchanged a short glance. The two sort of fought over looking after the hapless bird, he had an innocence that they both needed to be with, and that both wanted to protect on their own sometimes.
In a fight he didn't need looking after at all, he was an instinctual fighter, just like Jason had strength and Zenia had speed. But when he got messed around his brain didn't quite seem to be able to handle it. Everyone needs to be needed, and Neon let people help him with ease.
Right now the rushing air of the train had messed up his feathers, they stuck up all over the place in a painful looking way as Neon let them rest on the floor.
"Come on buddy, let's get you straightened out." Jason soothed brotherly as the dejected figure curled up. At the words though he dragged one of his wings across the floor and begun straightening feathers.
Zenia frowned at the messed up limbs, knowing it was best to let the expert sort them out, as the rest knew next to nothing about wings. 'Good thing he can sort his own wings out then.' She thought, and instead ran a hand through the previously gorgeous hair, straightening it out too.
Jason watched Neon's face as he worked. His thoughts were always strangely methodical when he was doing this sort of task, when usually they were an erratic mess. He found the flamingo fascinating; even if frustratingly dim at times.
He didn't dare read Zenia's emotions when he could help it, the two weren't as close as the others, and he knew she tried to avoid catching his thoughts whenever she could.
Their abilities were probably why they were both drawn to the feathered creature. He worked differently from all the mundane people who passed them down streets; they both appreciated the break in tension that the use of their powers caused.
Even within the group, you could catch snippets of one of the other's deepest feelings or secrets, and then there would be a whole lot of trouble. Neon seemed to be happy when someone could tell what he was really feeling, or really trying to say. And he gave Zenia and Jason a freedom with their powers that made them useful for something other then catching bad guys.
"Where do you reckon were headed?" Zenia questioned.
"Away, other then that I have no idea." Jason replied. Zenia let out a strange smile.
"Away from what." Jason didn't know how to answer that, so he didn't. Neon shifted to the other wing, the other folded behind him, no one would notice if he was wearing a coat.
"Away from us." He said, the other two stared at him, but his thoughts were colliding with each other, and his emotions became erratic again.
Neon stood up as he finished and lent against the crate behind him, looking as calm and soft as ever.
"What?" He questioned at their glances, and then mumbled as he lifted a leg off the floor and picked at his sleeve.
"Everything okay guys?" Bianca questioned.
"Nothing, anything useful here?" Jason asked.
"Surprisingly yes!" She grinned and gestured to the other three. "People we now have capes!" The two turned to see Kuro, Taco and Ant sporting long black, hooded coats.
"That is so not becoming our uniform." Zenia announced, crossing her arms.
"I think they're awesome! It's so 'Phantom of the Opera'!" Taco said gleefully, and she and Kuro quickly begun a rendition of the main song.
"Unbelievable." The puma muttered, but donned one of the cloaks as it was thrown at her.
Once everyone had his or her hoods up, Bianca smiled.
"Well now we really look like fugitives."
"It makes no sense, we don't even know where we'll end up, and were dressing like bloomin' death eaters!" Zenia snorted mildly.
"Well I say we get off at the first stop, its too easy to just track one train." Kuro suggested, nods of agreement showed all round.
"Death eaters it is then!" Taco sang merrily, and that truly broke the tension.
"As soon as possible, we really need to grab some new clothes." There were more nods of agreement at this, and the herd settled down for the journey.
"We need to be more careful." Bianca mentioned to Kuro and Jason as they sat around. "That was too close."
"We will be, we learn from everything remember?" Bianca smiled at Jason, moral support was totally his scene.
"Yeah, and then we'll just beat those erasers even harder then last time." Kuro added, wining a small chuckle from the other two.
Taco talked animatedly to the other four, making wild gestures and pulling funny voices, even succeeding in making Zenia laugh.
"OH! I know what we should do!" She announced excitedly. At the questioning looks she stood up onto one leg, beginning to flex in increasingly agile positions and then holding them.
"This will increase our balance." She explained, and then swiftly flipped onto the crate behind her. "It's like a juddering obstacle course!" She said as she leapt around the compartment.
Neon stood expertly on one leg for a few seconds before stretching his arms out and twirling on top of a stack of boxes. The two leapt around, pulling ever more elaborate jumps and balancing on ever more impossible surfaces.
Zenia stood and stretched as well.
"Might as well." She shrugged before moving lightning fast up a mound of stacked items. Soon everyone was whizzing around without a sound, each concentrating too much to talk.
'Every opportunity.' Bianca thought as she twisted over Taco in the air.
Eventually the train slowed to a halt. The sky was lightening outside as they pushed the widow out slowly. Ant peaked out the window, a calculating look on his face.
The kid could latch on to sights further away then the others and see it clearly when he wanted to.
"If we hop across the train tracks there's a way into the city by an alley." He announced.
"Well I say we get going and get good then people." Bianca said, and the hybrids swiftly filed out of the window, silent as a ghost.
The subtle morning light broke through the clouds, highlighting the cloaked figures darting across tracks and around the stationary trains.
Surely enough at the back of the lines of trains was a short alley that lead to a busy street full of shops.
"Alright, Jason, Kuro, go find us the basics of disguising ourselves." The two were the ones able to disguise themselves the easiest. Kuro nodded and lost the cloak, donning his hood, Jason also dropped the cloak, his stick hid under his clothes just fine.
The remaining people stayed put, gazing in wonder out at the colorful world they could see.
"Do you reckon that girl knows that her skirt is that short, or do you think its coincidence?" Zenia questioned blandly with a slightly disgusted look on her face.
"Oh she totally knows it, look at her bend over in front of that guy." Bianca answered, snickering.
"Well the guy certainly ain't too bothered, look at him checking her out!" Taco exclaimed gleefully, having a whale of a time. Bianca thought Taco would make excellent paparazzi.
"Yeah and the girls loving it." Neon added in mirth as they watched the girl bat her eyelashes seductively.
"Do people really do that?" Ant asked, also looking disgusted. "I thought it was exaggerated in the movies."
"We may have been to towns before, but our cultural learning seems to be sorely, sorely mistaken." Bianca concluded as the girl squealed and threw her arms around the guy's neck before they engaged in a vicious tongue battle.
"Eww, what are they doing that for?" Ant muttered, squirming slightly. Bianca grabbed him into a hug.
"Oh Ant, never change." She laughed as she ruffled his hair; Ant offered a brilliant smile in return.
They watched the goings on until the other two returned.
"We managed to get through to the stockroom, they shall never know." Kuro said, grinning. None of them approved of stealing, but mutant hybrids had to take what they needed.
There were several long coats and hats, as well as some bags that were way too fashionable for kids of their caliber. The clothes were colorful and high fashion, and would probably get them noticed. However, Kuro and Jason had insisted that these were the items the shop had the most of, and so they wouldn't be missed.
See, they did think about some things, sometimes.
Taco donned a silver gray coat over her yellow t-shirt; it covered the fluffy tail and set off her white hair nicely. Zenia's long dark coat slipped over her white t-shirt shirt, giving a stylish and intimidating look. Ant grabbed a zip up brown jacket that went past his waist just far enough to disguise the white tail wrapped around his waist, also a beanie type hat hid the large wolf ears he had. Neon claimed a dark, slightly shiny piratical looking coat that gave no hint of his tucked up wings. Bianca put on a long trench coat and a black hat with a slight lip to it, tucking up her hair and tail. Kuro utilized a fashionable looking baseball cap. Jason had scored a new jacket, although he didn't really need it.
"I think were ready to hit the town." Bianca announced.
"Yeah we're hot stuff!" Taco added in a sensual voice, striking a sexy pose with a pout. Everyone laughed until they got on the street and realized that it made them look suspicious.
They all strode calmly down the sidewalk and were pleasantly surprised that no one paid them any attention. In fact, compared to some groups of people, they were a plain cord in the weird and vulgarly dressed city.
The group trolled through the city, trying not to drool at every food stand and run into every shop. Not to mention jump at the other weirdly dressed citizens around.
"No I know that we don't really have a specific niche, but we so don't fit in here." Zenia muttered to Bianca as they passed a group of gothic clowns.
"There are so many freaks here!"
"Shh Taco! You'll anger the natives!" Kuro joked as Taco sniggered at the candyfloss pink wearing gaggle of girls coming out of a shop.
"Yeah, they're even stranger then we are." Neon added as he picked his way down the street. Ant clung tightly to Blanca's hand as a voluptuous woman waved at him.
"Jason, Jason! Is that a man in a dress?" Neon hissed at the kangaroo, grabbing his shoulder and gesturing.
"Ugh, she, I mean he, should put those away." Jason said as the man woman jiggled the large fake bosoms.
"Ah!" Came the high-pitched scream from Neon, as what everyone thought was a statue suddenly poked him. The spooked bird all but flapped and squawked as he dashed forwards.
Zenia grabbed the passing flamingo round the waist and held him steady until he calmed down, breathing heavily and hair standing on end.
"Why would somebody do that?" He questioned breathlessly, still slightly trying to jerk away from the smiling statue.
"Man you are so paranoid!" Kuro laughed as Neon placed a hand over a racing heart.
Sooner were out of here the better right?" Jason asked him in a calm voice, it seemed to work slightly as he nodded shakily before beginning to walk normally again. He stayed right next to Zenia though, grabbing her arm lightly when there were any sudden movements.
Taco who had stayed quiet during the event begun talking once more, making everyone laugh at the odd outfits of the surrounding people.
Everyone was laughing and joking so much as they moved that no one really noticed the crowds thinning out.
"Oof!" Bianca exclaimed as she collided with someone, looking behind she caught a glimpse of a balaclava-covered face with odd eyes before it turned away.
"How rude." Taco commented, before they all saw a bunch of people with multicolored Afros.
Not really noticing where they were going, they came through a last street and into an abandoned industrial area. There was one tall and rusty looking warehouse and then rubble stacked high in various places around the large otherwise open ground space.
Suddenly Zenia and Taco tensed. Bianca noticed the pinprick pupils of Taco and complete focus of Zenia. Then the smell hit her.
"Erasers." She hissed as large numbers of them gradually emerged from behind them and the rubble. "Damn, and we were having such a good day too."
And then the scene erupted, a fight easily breaking out between the rival sides.
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