Replay

Upon finding Carrie's body splattered all over the road, not to mention the truck driver who had his neck broken against the stop sign, Flippy realized that Death was indeed coming for them. They needed to find the next survivor and they needed to find him or her fast.

"Uh, let me get this straight: You guys are saying—"

Fally yelped and fell on his stomach after he stepped on gravel and wound up tripping over his own feet. Flippy and Eloise gladly helped him back up and continued walking.

"You guys are saying that this guy Death—"

"It's not really a guy. It's more like an entity." said Flippy.

"Okay, so this entity called 'Death' is hunting for us and in order to find a way to beat it, we have to figure out the order of the people who died on the bridge."

"Basically."

"So what do we do now?"

"We gotta get back to the police station by the bridge and find out who was the next person to die."

"Why don't you just have another freaky vision like you did with Fally?" asked Eli.

"You don't understand Eli. I can't just have a vision right off the bat. If it were that easy, I would've known that Carrie would've been the next person to die."

"Right."

"Why are we heading to the train station? Can't we just drive—"

"We cannot waste any time Fally! Every second wasted means more time for Death to claim its next victim!"

"If you wanna be frank, people die every 8 seconds due to second-hand smoking."

"What the fuck does that have to do with what we're dealing with?" asked Eloise.

"I'm just saying Flippy, this might be in your head. It's not like you'll be able to save every single survivor from Death. Look at what happened to Sherry and Carrie!"

"Are you still pissed about that?!" screamed Flippy.

"I got over Sherry, but the fact that my ex is dead now is really starting to irritate me."

"Why?"

"CAUSE EVERY GIRL I'VE FUCKED SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IS DEAD!!"

The war veterans grumbled and ignored the whiny rhino, as they had no time to grieve for him over his ex's death. The trio finally arrived to a train station that was located in the city. However, unlike normal train stations, this one was built all throughout town on elevated platforms, as opposed towards being underground. Several pedestrians were waiting at the station and underneath the tracks, checking the time or waiting for the train to arrive or stop at their destination. Flippy, Eloise and Fally walked up the steps, with Fally tripping over a few steps, and stood on the platform along with a set of other civilians. Flippy looked all around and took note of some of the characters he saw, many of whom were pirates. But Flippy also noticed a gray bunny standing on the platform, listening to music on her iPod. Flippy was impatient, fearful that Death would strike at any second. Occasionally, he'd look up in the sky to see if something would fall down out of nowhere and impale him in the head, like the air conditioning unit did to Eiden.

"Bro, once we find all of the survivors, what do we do with them?"

"I haven't thought that far ahead. We're just gonna have to keep 'em safe till this whole thing blows over."

"What if it doesn't blow over?" asked Fally.

"Death is like an obnoxious teenager. Once he realizes his prey isn't fearful or in danger of him anymore, he's gonna back off."

"You sure about that?"

"Yeah, I'm sure."

Flippy looked at his surrounding and realized he was quite familiar with several of the passengers waiting for the train to come by.

"Dad you know I don't want to go with you to the barbecue!"

"Yes you do."

"But your friend K-Zar's gonna be there!"

"So?"

"Dad you know what that means. He's gonna challenge you to a massive fart-off and you're gonna get all gassy and then you're gonna start lighting matches and so on and so forth like you always do!"

"That is not true! I don't do that all the time!"

"Dad if you're not passing gas, you're watching a movie with toilet humor in it or getting drunk."

"Only when you're not around honey. But if you go along with me, there's a chance of me staying sober!" said Spiky, smiling widely.

Flaky sighed.

"Oi! Why the 'ell are we riding in one o' these bloomin' locomotives?!" asked Jerry.

"Russell still hasn't gotten the new pirate ship mate." said Salty.

"Then how come the cap'n ain't ridin' the train along wit us?!" asked Bladz.

"Just deal wit it gator! Ya don't see me blubberin' about now do ya?!"

"I'm not a big fan of these fuckin' trains mate!"

Jerry looked over at his arm and noticed he didn't have a watch on so he decided to ask someone else for the time.

"Hey buddy, ya know what time it be?"

"Uh, yeah…it's time for you to take a bath!" said the person standing next to him.

Jerry snorted. "What, ye got a problem wit your inner odor levels?"

"What does that mean?"

"Somethin' wrong with a li'l bit a B.O. mate?"

"It's very distasteful towards other animals in this city to walk around smelling your dirty armpits!"

"OI BLADZ!!"

The green gator crept behind the animal like a snake and smiled widely before chuckling under his breath.

"You got a problem wit us bunny?"

"…Well, it'd really help if you actually brushed your teeth every once in a while—"

"Aw, c'mon! It doesn't smell that rank!"

Bladz bent over to the bunny and belched loudly in his face, fanning his malodorous breath into his nostrils and turning the bunny's face green. The gator began to laugh raucously as the bunny began to retch and cover his mouth to prevent himself from vomiting.

"And if that ain't ripe, take a gander at this!"

Jerry grabbed the bunny by the ears and began to use him as deodorant, slowly stroking his body up and down his armpit and rubbing his putrid musk onto his face. Bladz and Jerry were busy laughing their asses off as the bunny was covered in musk, which eventually lead to him vomiting all over the platform.

"Cuddles never gets a break, does he?" asked Eloise.

"Nope."

"Hey Spice, are you ever gonna get back to dating?"

"Doubtful. I haven't seen to many quality guys worth dating yet."

"What about Nutty?"

Spice and her ferret sister looked over on the train tracks and saw Nutty hopping up and down like a kangaroo as he was pouring pixy stick after pixy stick in his mouth, entering his overzealous sugar rushes.

"I dunno. Somewhere along the line I'm gonna die if I date Nutty."

"Why do you say that?"

"You ever have sex with a jackhammer?"

"EW, NO!!"

"That's basically what it'll be like with Nutty."

Shuger looked back over at Nutty, who was busy hopping up and down like he was on a jackhammer and giggling hysterically and began to understand what her sister was talking about.

"I see your point."

"…Hey Flippy, you said that Death could show you signs of accidents before they happened right?" asked Eloise.

"Yeah."

"Then what is that?"

Flippy and his sister looked forward and saw a train on the other side of the tracks. Normally, they'd think nothing of it, except for the fact that it read TERMINAL EXPRESS. After the train stopped and let off its passengers, it continued to rumble along the tracks.

"Huh. That's a weird name for a train company." said Fally.

"Please tell me we're not the only ones who saw that!!" shouted Flippy.

"Saw what? The sign?"

"YEAH! TERMINAL EXPRESS doesn't sound even a little weird to you?"

"Why would it?"

"Do you know what terminal means?"

Fally shrugged. "Like an airport terminal?"

"Oh, forget it."

After Flippy was done talking, the platform rumbled just as a train began to roll down the tracks. The red train with yellow stripes on the front stopped at the station, setting on its brakes and slowing down to a halt. The train's doors opened up with a loud hiss and several animals stepped off the train. Simultaneously, many more began to get aboard the train, including A.J.A.X., Jerry, Spiky, Flaky, Shuger, Spice, Bladz, a nauseated Cuddles, and several other animals. Flippy was about to get on the train, but he felt something chilly brush across his face. Flippy was hesitant towards getting on the train and stood on the platform while everyone else got on.

"Maybe we should walk."

"But you said that—"

"Yeah I-I know what I said, but perhaps it'll be more efficient to walk."

"And time consuming. Didn't you say we couldn't waste any time or else Death could claim its next victim?"

"Yeah, but—"

"So get on the damn train Flippy!" said Fally.

The green bear looked left and right for any other suspicious sign, fearful that something would pop out of nowhere and impale him in the face or chest or any other body part. There was nothing out of the ordinary, besides a random crow flying above the platform. Then again, the crow itself was enough to scare Flippy from getting aboard.

"Let's go Flippy!"

Fally grabbed Flippy by the arm and dragged him into the train before the doors slammed shut and left him behind. The train activated its engines and slowly began to move along the tracks, accelerating after a few seconds before it was rushing down the tracks at full speed. Flippy and Eli sat next to each other whilst Fally took another seat further down the car. Flippy was busy sweating and hyperventilating.

"Calm down Flippy."

"I-I-I can't. There's just something really wrong with this situation Eli. The train, the crow, the wind brushing across my face."

"I'll admit the train was weird, but as far as I know, we should be fine."

"You just need to chill Flipster."

"I am chill! I'm so fuckin' calm my ass is sweating. That's how chill I am Fally!"

Elsewhere, the pirate Bladz was sitting next to Cuddles and A.J.A.X., feeling extremely uneasy about himself and shifting around uncontrollably.

"Somethin' wrong mate?" asked the wolf.

"I told ya, I don't like these bloomin' trains!"

"Why not?"

"Because—"

The gator gagged and held his mouth shut. "I get all queasy and motion sickness."

"You can stand my B.O., you can stand the foul stench of your own breath, you can stand the smell of dead sea animals on the poop deck, but you can't handle ridin' a train?!"

Bladz gagged again. "No!"

Bladz began to shift and gag a few more times as he rode the train, trying not to lose his lunch all over himself. The gator was a little sick after eating a beefy meal the other night, and it was busy soaring through his stomach and up his neck. Bladz thought about getting up, but saw the yellow bunny Cuddles sitting next to him and decided to relieve himself and have some fun at the same time. Bladz nudged the bunny on the shoulder and he turned towards the gator to look at him.

"What do you want Stink Breath—AAHH!!"

Cuddles yelped once he saw Bladz's green (well, sickly green) face. He had a hand over his mouth and his cheeks were bulging more and more each second, gradually increasing in diameter with puke. His nostrils were flaring to the point where Cuddles could see inside his nose, almost spotting a nose hair or two. The bunny gasped once he knew Bladz was about to vomit and tried to get out of his seat, but Bladz held him back so he couldn't move. And with that, the gator proceeded to vomit all over the yellow bunny, dousing his fur with rancid, putrid stomach acid full of digested chunks of food. A.J.A.X. scooted away from Bladz with his nose plugged while Cuddles simply sat down, groaning loudly as the vomit spewed all over his body. Once Bladz was done vomiting, he belched again and Cuddles caught wind of his smelly, now vomit-reeking breath. Cuddles began to get sick and his cheeks bulged a little too, inevitably causing him to puke all over the floor. Jerry and Bladz couldn't help but laugh their hides off at the bunny's misfortune.

"And you say my sense of humor's vulgar." said Spiky, who saw the vomiting.

"I stand corrected."

"Hey, Flaky?"

"What?"

Spiky giggled and extended his finger, slowly placing it right in front of his daughter's face.

"Eh? Eh?" he asked, nudging her.

"No Dad, I'm not going to pull your finger."

"Ah, c'mon! Just one little yank."

"No."

"C'mon."

"NO!"

"C'mon, Flaky, you know you wanna!"

Flaky sighed flatly and got out of her seat, walking into another car to get away from her obnoxious father.

"How much longer till we get there?" asked an anxious Flippy.

"'Bout another half-hour." said Fally.

"How much longer till the next stop?"

"Five, maybe ten minutes."

"Good. We'll get off there and then go on foot."

"For the last time, there is nothing wrong—"

Suddenly, as the gang was sitting down in their seats, the train began to rumble viciously, almost to the point where Flippy, his sister, and Fally fell to the ground. After a loud bump, Eli yelled and fell over.

"You alright?" asked Spice, helping the green bear up.

"Yeah, yeah I'm okay."

"Pictures in my head of the final destination…"

Flippy's eyes grew wide and he turned to look down the train, witnessing a badger listening to Into The Void by Nine Inch Nails.

"…Eli…"

"All lined up, all the one's that aren't allowed to stay,

Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away…"

"Did you he—"

"Yes."

"We gotta get off the train!"

Flippy rushed over to the emergency brake and yanked on it, but the train didn't want to stop. In fact it only seemed to go faster.

"DAMNIT, THIS ISN'T WORKING!!"

Elsewhere, a fairly young black and brown scaled snake was busy leaning against the streetlight whistling to himself. The snake looked down at his watch and sighed after realizing what time it was. He looked left and right to see if anyone was watching him, then slowly took out what looked like a remote. He hissed loudly and pulled out the antenna on the remote, moving his thumb over a red button.

"Larko better be paying me a lot of money for thisss." he muttered.

The snake pressed down on the button and waited until a small explosion formed on one of the support beams for the track. After the explosion occurred, the snake quickly disappeared into an alley and began to walk up a set of stairs to watch the chaos ensue. What many HTF pedestrians didn't know was that this animal was a hitsnake named Klatinavoka…and he just planted a bomb that would inevitably cause the crash of the train Flippy was riding.

As the conductor was busy traveling along the tracks, ready to stop at another station, the tracks underneath him collapsed and the train plummeted to the ground with a loud groan, killing everyone standing at the station. Klatinavoka continued to survey the crash, watching as the train began to detach and break away into several pieces. Flippy was busy holding his sister's hand and Fally was busy holding onto the silver pole for dear life as everyone around him began to scream or fall down. As the train ran along the ground collecting concrete and scratching up the road, it tipped over on its left side and started to skid along the ground. Fally fell on his back whilst Eli shrieked and fell forward with Flippy. A bus screeched out of nowhere and slammed into the caboose at full force, bending it like a twig with a loud crunch and forcing the bus to catch on fire and explode. Soon enough, more cars began to plow into the train cars, killing everyone inside or mangling their vehicles. Flaky was busy trying to keep her balance when she looked behind her and gasped loudly, watching as several passengers died when part of the tracks collapsed on top of the car, squishing all of the passengers. Flaky began to run down the car she was in, hopping over any and all obstructions that got in her way. The hedgehog actually had to duck twice: once when a car crashed and its hood slammed through the car and again when the car projected a metal pole at her head. Flaky scampered through the car and reunited with her father, who was busy hanging on to the side of the train.

"THIS IS WHY I DON'T WANNA RIDE THESE FUCKIN' TRAINS!!" screamed Bladz.

The train snapped in half and Bladz yelped once he looked behind himself and noticed that the road was speeding right past him and if he placed his foot down on the road, his foot would be filed off. The alligator began to crawl down the train (running would be impossible; he'd get sucked outside) and managed to get into the other car along with Flippy and the gang. As Bladz extended a hand towards a passenger to help him, two other larger passengers fell down and pushed him outside the train. Immediately afterwards, a truck came and splattered the alligator all over the highway, leaving nothing recognizable besides one of his hands and gallons of green blood.

"SHIT!!"

"Leave the scale-face; he's dead!" shouted A.J.A.X.

Jerry tried to get out of the train by punching through a window on the right side of the car (which was now the top) and hopped through the opening, grunting and making his way to the outside. As he got on the outside of the train, the wind was rushing through his fur and all the buildings and cars were rushing at the speed of light. It was a miracle that the trains was still crashing and gliding along the road on its side. Jerry edged his way out of the train some more until he shouted loudly and looked down, noticing he got his skin caught on pieces of the glass still stuck in the frame.

"FUCK!!!"

Jerry turned around and realized that a metal sign sticking out of a building was right in front of him and getting closer by the second. The pirate tried to move back into the train, but he was stuck and couldn't move. Jerry shrieked and waited as the sign whizzed past his body, cutting through his torso like a machete and severing his body in half, spilling his organs and stomach acid all over the train. Back inside the train, Eli, Fally and Flippy were busy trying to survive the hellacious event, hanging on for dear life and praying that the car they were in wouldn't come apart or split in half. However their fears were finally confirmed once the car carrying Shuger and Spice broke away and drifted down the street diagonally. The ferrets and remaining passengers screamed as their tipped-over car headed for a gas station. The second the car knocked over the gas tanks, a spark flew and a tremendous explosion was created, incinerating the ferrets and everyone inside the train car.

"C'MON MOVE!!" shouted Flippy.

Eli, Fally and Flippy began to crawl against the side (floor) of the train with several other animals screaming and panicking and thrashing into each other. The yellow bunny Cuddles almost fell out the train but Flippy grabbed his hand and the bunny was left with his body in one car and his head and arm in the other. As Flippy grunted and pulled him forward, a car honked its horn and slammed into the train and bent it like taffy. Cuddles was in the middle of the bending train, and the metal instantly cut through his neck, decapitating him and severing his arm off. Flippy shrieked and chucked his corpse out the train, continuing his journey through the wrecked car.

"Flippy we're running out of space! Pretty soon there's not gonna be anymore cars left!!" shouted Eli.

Flippy seriously considered jumping out of the train, but everytime he looked out the open space, he saw dozens of cars zooming by and he was prepared to take the risk of one of them running over his body. They would just have to wait for the madness to stop.

"Fuck this, I'm getting out of the train!"

"No, stay in the car Fally!"

Fally broke through one of the windows and tried to get out of the train like Jerry did, getting caught in-between the windows due to his rotund body. Suddenly, Fally looked ahead and saw a car crash and the driver came spiraling through the front windshield. Although the driver was okay when he landed on the ground, all the glass came flying at Fally, impaling him in the face and eyes and killing him instantly. Flaky and Spiky decided to bolt for the conductor's car when the car they were occupied in began to fall apart and break away. As Spiky was crawling, Fally's body fell through the window frame and right on top of Spiky.

"Dad!"

Spiky grunted twice and tried to shove the massive rhino off of him, but he was too heavy for him to chuck away. And even worse, the glass underneath Spiky was beginning to give away, cracking slowly and ready to shatter.

"DAD!!!"

The glass broke and Spiky fell through, screaming wildly as his body was quickly filed into nothing but blood and organs, all of which were crushed under the train as it continued to glide along the road. Suddenly, there was a massive screeching noise followed by a crashing noise. The crash was loud and terrifying, something that would be described as chucking pounds of metal inside of a blender while working at a saw mill. The train had just crashed into a large support beam of the suspended train tracks and crumbled up like a beer can, crushing the first car and killing everyone inside instantly. A.J.A.X. and Salty were instantly thrown into the car and wound up either breaking their necks or were mangled beyond recognition as the car crashed and crunched like it was being chewed by a giant. Flaky, sadly, was impaled in the eye when one of the bars in the train came loose and flew into the air, hitting her in the face. To add on to the injury, the tracks above the train collapsed and damaged the train even more, almost killing Eli when it practically crushed her to death. Despite everything that had happened, they were all still alive and suffered several scratches and bruises. Flippy, Eli and the mysterious gray bunny listening to her iPod were the only ones still alive. The green bears groaned loudly and slowly stood up, finding a way to get outside of the train. Eli punched through the window and hopped outside, groaning as she sat on the side of the train. Flippy grabbed the bunny and slowly dragged her to safety as well.

"Flippy—"

"Shut up and keep moving before something else happens."

The wreckage from the train left a toll of at least 69 victims, half of which were animals on the road driving their cars. There was blood, glass and metal scattered all over the road and bodies were hanging here and there. Spiky's blood trail was visible on the road, Flaky's body just fell out of the train, and somewhere in the remaining car, Nutty, A.J.A.X. and Salty's body would be found. As Flippy, Eli, and the bunny were mourning, they found a truck leaking gasoline next to the train, with a small flame lighting above the engine. Flippy saw the fire and knew he was in danger.

"C'MON!!"

The truck exploded, killing Eli and the bunny and launching Flippy into one of the support beams of the tracks. Just when Flippy thought he was safe, the car hood from the truck shot his way and aimed for his head. Flippy opened his mouth to scream, just in time for the hood to slice through his head, cutting him in half from the eyes down…

Flippy gasped loudly and began to pant, looking left and right whilst sweating. He was standing back at the platform along with his sister and Fally, perfectly safe and sound.

"You alright there Flipster?" asked Fally.

"Dad you know I don't want to go with you to the barbecue!"

"Yes you do."

"But your friend K-Zar's gonna be there!"

"So?"

"Dad you know what that means. He's gonna challenge you to a massive fart-off and you're gonna get all gassy and then you're gonna start lighting matches and so on and so forth like you always do!"

"Oh my God!" squealed Flippy, rubbing his head.

"What's wrong bro?"

"Eli look over my shoulder and tell me there isn't a smelly wolf and an alligator with halitosis tormenting Cuddles."

"No, not as far as I can…wait a second…"

Bladz bent over to the bunny and belched loudly in his face, fanning his malodorous breath into his nostrils and turning the bunny's face green. The gator began to laugh raucously as the bunny began to retch and cover his mouth to prevent himself from vomiting.

"And if that ain't ripe, take a gander at this!"

Jerry grabbed the bunny by the ears and began to use him as deodorant, slowly stroking his body up and down his armpit and rubbing his putrid musk onto his face. Bladz and Jerry were busy laughing their asses off as the bunny was covered in musk, which eventually lead to him vomiting all over the platform.

"Never mind."

Flippy got on his knees and whined, shaking so much it looked like he was going into a seizure.

"We have to get off this platform."

"Why?" asked Fally.

"THE FUCKIN' TRAIN'S GONNA CRASH!!"

Fally sighed. "Flippy…"

"This isn't a joke or a dream or some fucked up hallucination! Someone's gonna plant a bomb on the tracks and we're all gonna die; I just saw it!!"

"Wait, what bomb?" asked Shuger.

"Flippy stop overreacting. It was just a dream." said Eli.

"Yeah, stop wit all the bollocks mate! You're givin' us an ulcer!" shouted Bladz.

Flippy covered his nose and fanned Bladz's breath away before coughing a couple of times.

"Jesus Christ, do you eat rotten corpses marinated in raw sewage for breakfast?!!"

"You got a problem wit that?"

"You guys have to listen to me! THERE'S A BOMB—"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't give gnat's sac about this 'bomb' you speak of. Just shut the fuck up before Bladz 'n' I smash ye skull in."

Flippy stared at the pirates coolly with a blank expression on his face and blinked a couple of times. No one was overreacting and no one was attempting to get off the platform. He was gonna have to make a scene. Flippy took out two humongous grenades and shouted out,

"I HAVE A BOMB BITCHES!!!"

Everyone began to scream and freak out as Flippy walked around with grenades in his hands and began to run off the platform. Some of the animals were Shuger, Nutty, Cuddles, Spice, A.J.A.X., Salty, Flaky and her father and a few others. Bladz and Jerry tackled Flippy and wound up spiraling down the stairs, inevitably getting off the tracks and on the ground below. Eli followed them to go support her brother whilst Fally was doing the same trying to keep the pirates off Flippy. It took the gang several minutes before they finally got off of each other. Unfortunately, Flippy couldn't save the animals still on the platform and they ended up getting on the train.

"LISTEN TO MEEE!!! THERE'S GONNA BE A CRASH!!"

"That's bullshit Flippy."

"NO IT'S NOT!! Watch; it about five seconds you're gonna hear loud metal crashing and several explosions in the distance."

The gang looked out into the horizon and stared at the train tracks from a distance. Exactly five seconds later, the hitsnake detonated his bomb and the tracks collapsed and the train began to crash. Everyone gasped and their eyes grew wide as they heard all the bloodcurdling screams.

"OOOOOHH…SHIT." said Salty, amazed at his prediction.

"See I fuckin' told you!!"

"Oh my God…another accident and another crazy war veteran saving my life? How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?" said Spiky.

"Flippy you've lost your goddamn mind."

Flippy stared at Fally. "What?"

"You lost your goddamn—"

Flippy yanked Fally by the horn and pulled him towards the ground just as a large piece of flaming debris was going to impale him in the head like Sherry. It was happening all over again…

"OK, that's just freaky."

"OOHH!! Is that that new kind of Laffy Taffy?!!" asked Nutty, running over to the debris.

"Nutty don't—"

Nutty bit down into the hot metal and started screaming and shouting as he scarred his tongue, which was now red and steaming. Suddenly, a sheet of glass came out of nowhere and decapitated one of the survivors where she stood. Everyone screamed and crawled away from the body…just in time for someone to get their head crushed by one of the train wheels. They all screamed again and began to breathe profusely.

"We should move now." said Spiky.

"Agreed."