Metro Train
"Hey! That was my stop!" A young women yelled out as the train sped through a station.
"This isn't the express though." Lan said quietly. "Megaman, can you take a look around the train's computer?"
"Sure, but you can only jack in at the front of the train it seems." Megaman answered.
"Come on Dingo, let's go check this out." Lan said to Dingo who was staring at a map. "What are you looking at?"
"Trying to see where this train's last stop is." Dingo said quietly.
"Why, what's there?" Tomahawkman asked his netop.
"A solid wall. There, eight stops away is where this train will crash." Dingo answered quietly so that only Lan could hear.
"Not good. We have to go to the front now." Lan said.
Both boys made their way through the train cars until they finally reached the end of the head car.
"We just went through another stop, seven left." Dingo pointed out.
"There's the terminal. Jack in Megaman power up!" Lan cried as an inferred beam shot out of his PET and into a port.
"Jack in Tomahawkman power up!" Dingo cried as well.
Megaman and Tomahawkman appeared in the metro train's cyberworld. They were surprised to see that there were no viruses or other netnavis in the area.
"How does it look?" Lan asked Megaman.
"Normal." Tomahawkman replied confused.
"But that's impossible...Megaman, can you override the system?" Lan asked equally confused.
"No, the system's not responding, there's nothing I can do." Megaman answered.
"Six stops to go!" Dingo yelled, "Lan we have to stop this train!"
"I know that, but there's nothing we can do in here." Lan replied trying desperately to pull together a plan. "I've got it! Megaman jack out."
"What's the plan?" Dingo asked.
"I need you to cross fuse and stop the train yourself." Lan explained.
"What will you be doing?" Dingo asked, accepting Lan's plan.
"I'm going to get all the passengers to go to the back cars, go and get ready; I'll call up Mr. Famous." Lan said going through his contacts. He remembered what his dad had said earlier, and prayed that he would pick up.
The line ran a few times, Lan started to panic wondering what he would do if Famous didn't pick up. After a few seconds Famous picked up, not enabling the video chat.
"What?" He asked, his voice hoarse with sleep.
"Mr. Famous, we need a dimensional area now! The metro train is out of control, and we need to stop it." Lan said quickly.
"Alright, give me a few seconds to get to the control room." Famous said, suddenly alert, before he hung up.
"Please hurry." Lan said quietly as the train went through another station; leaving five left before the crash. Lan took a quick look at all the buttons on the train's control panel. He found the PA button and pushed it in.
"Attention all passengers, there has been a computer malfunction. Please remain calm and move to the rear cars." Lan said into the PA mic. He repeated what he had said once more just to be sure. A few moments after Lan had finished, The dimensional area arrived, and at the same time, the train passed through another stop.
"Four more." Dingo said under his breath as he climbed up to the top of the train.
"What chips are you going to use Dingo?" Tomahawkman asked his netop.
"I was thinking that since the train is metal, Magnet panel might be able to hold the train in place." Dingo said as crawled toward the edge of the first car; he couldn't cross-fuse at the moment because the space between the top of the train and the ceiling was too restricting. He reached the end of the car as they passed through another station. Dingo swung himself over the ledge so that he could stand on the front lip of the train. "Ready Tomahawkman?"
"Ready Dingo."
"Alright," Dingo jumped forward off the train, "CROSS FUSION!" Dingo and Tomahawkman called out in unison as Dingo was suspended in midair.
Before Dingo hit the ground, he had taken on Tomahawkman's image. He activated the rockets on the bottom of his shoes and shot ahead of the train. He flew about 200 feet before he landed on the tracks. He had given himself five magnet panels, the max number of chips that he could use.
A moment after he landed, he raised his hand as the train started to close the distance between them.
"MAGNET PANEL!" Dingo called out. A large metallic panel appeared in front of him and he jumped up and flew back 50 feet. He took a second to look to the side to see that he had reached the next station. If the train went passed this one, then there would be only two stations left.
Dingo saw the train go straight over the magnet panel, unaffected.
"Damn." Dingo said as he saw that the panel wasn't strong enough.
"Try to set more than one." Tomahawkman said.
"I'm going to set all four here." Dingo said. He activated his jets and and flew over the tracks, setting down his four remaining Magnet panels, before going back another 50 feet after the last one to wait for the train.
"What will you do if it doesn't work?" Tomahawkman asked his netop.
"Not too sure." Dingo said quietly, watching as the train started to go over the panels. It went over the first two with little difficulty, but when it reached the third and fourth panels, it slowed down significantly.
"Yes!" Dingo cheered seeing his plan work. Then, "shit, shit, shit!"
The first car had gone over the last panel. The second that the wheels touched the unaffected rails, the train started to pick up speed again.
"Dingo I hope that you thought of that plan B!" Tomahawkman shouted, seeing that the panels had failed.
Without a word, Dingo started to run toward the train. He stopped 10 feet away from the train, planting his feet firmly into the ground. The second that the train collided into him, Dingo activated his jets and had them going at full power. He went through the wooden rail ribs as if they were paper. After a few seconds of struggling, Dingo noticed that the train's speed was slowly decreasing. They then went through the next station; he knew that the last one was not far away.
'If only we could have gained some kind of control, we would have been able to at least separate this car from the rest of the train.' Dingo thought to himself.
They passed through the last station, and the wall was in sight.
"Dingo this isn't going to work! Get out of the way!" Tomahawkman shouted, fearing for his friend's life.
"No...Not yet!" Dingo grunted. He knew what to do. It was a risky move that would leave him unconscious, if not dead. He took what was left of his strength and focused it all on the jets. They flared up with the new power and the train started to screech as the wheels started to fail in moving forward. The train finally screeched to a halt 4 feet away from the wall.
"That was close..." Dingo breathed before cross fusion released. Dingo's PET fell to the ground seconds before he himself collapsed.
