Shadow slide down the coal and in one piece. He looked at his robe to see that there was spots of black.
"I just bought this." Shadow got up to see he was in the engine room and then saw a familiar girl on a chair.
"You!" Shadow shouted.
"Oh hi mister Shadow." Cream greeted with a smile.
"You're driving this train?" The black hedgehog asked.
"No. The two men is fixing the light while I'll watch." Cream explained. "And that rope is the whistle." Cream pointed to a hanging rope with a handle.
"The whistle?" Shadow asked.
"You can pull it." The rabbit said with a smile. Shadow pulled the whistle
"I always wanted to do that." He commented then pull it again.
Outside, two Italian human men were fixing the light on the front. One was small and plumped wearing red and had a brown mustache while the other was tall and and lean wearing green and have a longer mustache than his brother.
"I'm slipping!" The red one hold on to the green one's mustache as the green one howl in pain. The red man put the fixed light on but
"Look!" The green one pointed. The brother looked ahead to see a light in the distance. The red one got back on his feet and tries to get the hedgehog and rabbit's attention.
"Stop the train! Stop the train!" The red one shouted.
"He wants us to stop the train!" Cream shouted.
"Which one is the brakes?" Shadow asked trying to not freak out.
"That is the brakes." Cream pointed to a golden lever
"What about this?" Shadow pointed to a red lever.
Outside, another light appeared. Both the human brothers shouting in Italian, praying for the two to stop the train in time.
"No that's the lever! They told me!" The rabbit shouted.
"Are you sure?" Cream froze
"Are you sure?!" Cream only covered her eyes with her hands waiting for Shadow to pull the red lever. But a hand appeared holding the handle. Shadow turned to see a brown fox shaking his head. Then the black hedgehog pulled the golden lever, making the train stop. The red man slipped and hold on to his brother's mustache once again with his brother howling in pain. The came to a stop to see
"Caribou?!" There was a herd of Caribous on the train tracks. Both hedgehog and rabbit was groaning with them being on the ground. Shadow helped Cream get up but then
"Why are you here?" They turned to see the polar bear
"Wait, how did you," Shadow's question got cut off.
"Why do you have of an obsession with pulling brakes?!" The bear asked.
"Sorry sir but you need to look at this." The green human called out. The polar bear looked out of the window
"Caribou?!"
"Yep tons maybe thousands. It'll take hours until all of them get off the tracks." The red one explained.
"How about we ran over them? Sure there will be blood and flesh on the train but at least we're going." Shadow explained. The polar bear covered the little rabbit's ears.
"You do know there are kids in this train, right?" The bear asked as they were going to the front of the train.
"What should we do?" The green human asked. Shadow slipped and landed on the green human but had his quills poking on the man. The green man howled in pain when the spikes was on his side. But stopped when one of the caribou copied the man's howl. The red man pull out one his Shadow's small quills
"Ow!" Shadow shouted rubbing his head. The red brother poked his taller brother making him once again howl in pain. A few times of howling in pain, the caribou copied then lead all of the caribous out of the train tracks.
"Brother, I didn't know you were raised by caribous." The red brother said to his brother.
"Ha ha." The green man said rubbing his sides where he was poked at. The two humans were back at the engine room, starting the train once again while the three mobians were still on the front. The red human pulled a lever above him but doesn't work. He pulls more.
"We're going fast." Cream commented.
"Okay tell the humans to slow down." The polar bear said. Cream waved her arms to get the humans' attention
"Slow down!" She shouted. The red man accidentally pull the lever too hard that it came off. The pin that puts it together fell through the vents under them.
"Ah oh!" The human brothers shouted together.
"They can't hear me." The rabbit informed as they were going faster and going up with sighs saying "Use low gear". The polar bear tied him, Cream and Shadow together with Shadow's robe ropes to the railing.
"Okay is anyone of you are afraid of heights?" The polar bear asked but the two didn't raise their hands.
"Alright, is anyone are afraid of falling?" The polar bear raised his hand and Shadow raises his hand a bit.
"Well it just like a roller coaster."
"I never been into one!" Shadow shouted while holding on the bars as they were up almost to the top.
"I suggest we hold on," Going down "TIGHTLY!" They went down the slope very fast that the winds were pushing them back. Both Shadow and the polar bear screamed very loud while Cream had a smile, having fun with this.
"Mister Shadow, are you covered in snow?" The rabbit asked. Shadow's fur even the red stripes were pure white with his face in fear while screaming. Soon, they were in a lake that was frozen and the train was slipping. Cream was falling out the train
"I got you!" The polar bear catches her but was about to slip. Shadow caught the polar bear's shirt but can't hold on until another person helped them back on the train. Shadow looked back to see the hobo Auk winking at him then disappears in the wind.
"Good job." The polar bear said thanking him.
In the train, the two humans were shouting in Italian. The green one thought up an idea. He took off his hat then took out a hair pin that holds his long hair. The red one fix the low gear then pull it making the train stop again. The three mobians breathed in and out.
"Never," Breath as his fur returns to the normal color "Do that again please!" Shadow said. Cream gasped when she saw her plushie inside of Shadow's pockets.
"Cheese!" Grabs it and hugs it. "I thought I lost him. Where did you found him?" Cream asked the hedgehog.
"It was sitting on the snow on the roof." Shadow explained. He flinched a bit when the rabbit hugs him around his waist.
"Thank you, Mister Shadow." Cream thanked with a smile. Shadow only patted her on the head. He never got hugged for a long, long time. It feels weird to him. The polar bear shouted to the humans
"What in the blazes?!" Both the hedgehog and rabbit turned back to hearing cracking and saw the frozen lake cracking.
"Look!" Cream shouted. The polar bear saw it then gasped
"Get us the blazes out of here!" The red human pulled the lever that makes the train going again.
"Make this sled straight again!" The human nodded then make the train straight again and going.
"Over there!" The bear looked to see two cliffs and in the middle was train tracks.
"Tracks! Straight ahead!" The polar bear says right and left to get to the tracks. But Shadow felt the ticket was coming off his quills until it was blowing away in the wind.
"Grab your ticket!" Cream shouted.
"That's not mine, that's yours!" Shadow shouted trying to grab the ticket.
"My ticket?!" Both Shadow and Cream caught it but saw the half of the train was under water.
"Oh no!" Both of the hedgehog and rabbit shouted.
"Brace yourselves!" The polar bear hugged both of them to protect them but the train made it to the tracks just in time.
"That's more like it." The bear then jumped down in the engine room.
"Thank you for getting my ticket back." Cream thanked.
"Did somebody say ticket?" The bear asked. Cream gave him the ticket then gave back now punched in.
"L.E?"
"That's what the bee had."
Sorry for this being late. I was busy but I won't let this be late! Have a good day ^3^