Dovewing and Molewhisker thundered through the leader's car frightened for their lives as they knew they had their paws in hot water and it was only a matter of time before something would kill them from either the inside or the outside. They knew if they didn't do something fast, their next stop will be: Hell.
Dovewing and Molewhisker entered the dining car to see a horrifying sight unfolding before their very eyes. The guards that Hollyleaf had killed earlier were coming back to life but how. All Molewhisker knew that they were minions of Hollyleaf. Dovewing stood there completely scared for her life as Molewhisker tensed up keeping the Nagant Revolver in his paws. The minion guards drew their sabers as they prepared to attack. A guard cat attacked as he swung his saber at the two of them but he missed. Molewhisker puts Dovewing behind him as he fired the revolver. Bang! The bullet hitting the guard in the forehead; that was one down as more undead guards began to surround them. Dovewing became scared as she attempted to flee deeper into the car. One of the undead guards grabbed Dovewing by her paw as she tried to kick it off fiercely as she could to get this guard to go away. Dovewing sobbed as the guard was getting closer.
"Let me go!" Dovewing shouted as she didn't want to be choked then suddenly, bang! Molewhisker fired another bullet hitting the guard in the back of the head as Dovewing kicked him off. Molewhisker ran forth to protect Dovewing from the guards.
The train was picking up speed as it was slowly getting faster and faster, the train rattled on the rails that weren't designed for it at those speeds. Molewhisker soon kicked another guard as he pointed the revolver at it and, bang! The shot landed into the forehead of the guard as another one prepared to ambush Dovewing. Molewhisker soon quickly turned and bang! Molewhisker fired into the throat of the guard as it soon collapsed. Dovewing felt a chill as most of the windows on the car were broken. Molewhisker tackled a guard as he began choking it with one paw as he slowly pointed the revolver at the other. Soon He fired into the guard. Bang! The guard soon collapsed after being fired in the head. A scream came across the car as a guard armed with a saber soon came charging at Molewhisker. Molewhisker looked down as he saw another saber on the ground. He picked it up as he blocked the attacker's charge. Dovewing decided to make a run for it. Molewhisker soon fired at the guard killing him off when he heard Dovewing's scream. He turned to see Dovewing get choked by one of the guards as it wanted to follow Hollyleaf's commands. Molewhisker ran up to it as he stabbed the guard with the saber. He soon grabbed Dovewing as they fled. Dovewing stumbled around as she tripped, falling down as she was right by another one of Hollyleaf's minions. It soon went up to her and began to choke her. Molewhisker ran to her as he fired the last bullet into the guard's head as he wanted to finish it off. He soon picked up Dovewing as they began to run again. They needed to get out of there as fast as possible.
The train was going much faster than needed as the whistle blew a ghost like sound as it was traveling through the forest. However it wasn't like any other sound. In the cab, the two toms controlling the train were dead as the emergency axe was embedded in one of their backs and controlling the train from that moment onward was Hollyleaf. She soon blew the whistle as her red eyes gave an ominous look. Molewhisker and Dovewing continued to run down the train cars one by one as they needed to reach the back of the train and figure out what to do from there. The train passed the signal as it was going very fast now and it was clear something terrible was going to happen to it if they didn't act quickly. Hollyleaf leaned out of the train cab as she snickered about it.
Her minions slowly stumbled along the train cars one by one as they were in pursuit of the two cats as they continued to run. Dovewing kept running as Molewhisker turned occasionally checking their backs as he continued to run. The guards slowly moved down the cars.
Tigerstar looked back as he had a brilliant idea in mind. The passengers were huddled together frightened as Tigerstar had a plan to rescue them. He soon grabbed one of the walkway's connecting the two cars together as he opened it up. Beneath him were the couplers and the draw bar. He knew he needed to uncouple the car to the train. Soon a loud thumping was heard as two cats rounded the corner of the lounge car to the car where everyone was situated in. Tigerstar looked up as he was relieved.
"Dovewing, Molewhisker. Thank Starclan." Tigerstar mewed as he lowered the metal walkway so he can let the two of them get access to the car. Dovewing soon cross the car first as she entered into it alongside Molewhisker as Tigerstar turned to the other passengers as they were crammed into the one baggage car. "Stand back please, make room." Molewhisker joined Tigerstar as they lifted up the metal walkway to the car. The guards were slowly getting closer to them as they were crossing into the next car. Molewhisker and Tigerstar looked down to see the coupling system as Molewhisker leaned down.
"What's your plan in mind?" Molewhisker asked Tigerstar. Tigerstar soon turned to Molehwhisker who was looking for a way to free themselves.
"We're going to uncouple this car from the rest of the train as we're going very fast now. We need to apply the brakes to come to a stop. None of us want to die." Tigerstar explained his plan as the car was rattling along at a high speed. Hollyleaf doesn't care what happens to everyone but all she knew is that they were helpless under her spell. However something unknown to her would bring her downfall.
Molehwisker grabbed the drawbar as he began to pull it. He was having a hard time getting it to budge as he pulled harder and harder, the cars wouldn't uncouple. Molewhisker turned to Tigerstar.
"The bar is stuck! It won't budge!" Molewhisker turned to Tigerstar. Tigerstar faced him as he soon prepared to grab the bar.
"Here let me help." Tigerstar offered Molewhisker. He soon grabbed onto the drawbar as he began to pull it along with him. The train was still speeding as it was speeding to its doom.
At another outpost by a switch, a message was getting through to two toms working the telegram as it was a direct order from the station so far west they needed to read it in order to figure out what the plan was. One of the toms was peeling away some eggs as he wanted to find out what it was. The message was being typed on the telegram as it was clear that they needed to figure out what was going on. The ends were snipped as the tom began to read them out loud what their orders were.
"Moscow has ordered us to stop the train when it gets to the switching point." The tom told his friend bluntly as he wanted to be able to get the train to be switched. He nodded but he began thinking about it.
"What? The train will go over the cliff and derail resulting in killing everybody on board." His friend expressed his concern, He soon bit into the egg as his friend turned back putting the message down as he soon explained.
"That's what it says, maybe there's a war? Maybe it's war!" He responded leaving a sinister smile across his muzzle. They were going to derail the train by letting it roll of a cliff.
Tigerstar and Molewhisker were desperately pulling on the draw bar wondering when the car would uncouple. The others were looking for the guards as Tigerstar looked at Molewhisker.
"We count to three before we pull ourselves free." Tigerstar began. Molewhisker nodded as he kept his paws firmly on the draw bar. Tigerstar prepared to count. "One. Two. Three!" They soon pulled on the draw bar as hard as they could. Soon there was a loud snap sound as the two of them looked up, they saw the passenger cars were slowly getting farther and farther from them, they had uncoupled themselves from the train. Dovewing looked at them.
"We're free!" Dovewing shouted. The others cheered as they were gradually beginning to slow down. Molewhisker looked at her.
"Don't quit praying yet, we need to find a way to stop ourselves." Molewhisker told Dovewing to hang in there a bit longer. Molewhisker began to scramble himself alongside the front end of the car climbing up a small ladder. He soon reached the top. Right next to him was the brake wheel. Molewhisker decided to look at it briefly before figuring out how it worked. "Let's hope this works." Molewhisker prayed to himself. He soon began turning the brake wheel in the direction to apply.
The brake shoes on the car soon came together as sparks began to fly. Molewhisker had applied the brakes but would it be enough to completely stop them.
The tom at the outpost soon went to the switch as he knew he had to stop the train. He went over as he pushed one paw down on the switch unlocking it before setting the switch to the dead end track. The switch clanked as it was soon locked. Hollyleaf didn't know she was heading for disaster.
The train soon appeared on the horizon as Hollyleaf was still speeding along as the entire train was rattling. She soon kicked the dead bodies off of the train as she looked ahead. The train soon hits the switch as it thundered along. Hollyleaf stared down at the line as she realized she was in the dead end track. She soon applied the train's brakes as she furiously blew the train's whistle. She tried everything to even shutting off the steam but it was no use; the train was going too fast for her to fully stopped so she needed to brace for impact. The train's brakes squealed as they were trying to stop but Hollyleaf soon felt something crash underneath her. It was a wood barricade made to stopping a train but seeing how fast she was going, there would be no stopping her. The train soon faced nose down as it began to crumble and fall off the cliff. Hollyleaf screamed as she was falling from the cliff to the gorge below. The train's couplers were also snapping apart with whatever impact they were hitting. Soon the train hits the bottom as the steam inside exploded sending the boiler up and down. Hollyleaf managed to jump free but she was doomed. The first baggage car landed on her as it shattered like glass hitting a hard surface. The leader car soon came down also shattering apart into pieces; metal and wood being flung in any direction possible. The dining car soon came down afterward which also shattered into pieces but due to the fuel inside the car, it exploded catching the rubble on fire. One by one, the passenger cars rained down onto the wreck, shattering into pieces as they were raining down on them. The rubble inside them also catching fire and burning away the wood being kindling for the flames. The lounge car soon landed as it exploded into a ball of fire with all the alcohol being stored inside.
The rear baggage car still had the brakes squealing but they were slowing down much faster than the rest of the train. It soon went into the dead end siding but stopping far from the cliff but leaving room for trains to pass through. Molewhisker, Dovewing and Tigerstar got out of the rear baggage car as they ran to the cliff to see that the rest of the train was in a brutal mess. The door to the car opened as all the cats were relieved that they were still alive. Poppyfrost walked over to them as she sighed with relief.
"I'm glad that's over; I thought we were dead for sure. We're lucky that we're not those passenger cars down there." She looked down to see the passenger cars had burned down to their frames due to being made of wood. If Hollyleaf was down there, it was unlikely that she would have survived such a catastrophe. Dovewing turned her head to them as she had a change of mind.
"You know what, forget about taking the train, I think me and Ivypool would take the bus for now on seeing how we were able to survive all of that." Dovewing told them as she needed another form of transportation to get from place to place. Tigerstar laughed.
"With few roads out here, you wouldn't expect to get there in a matter of hours. I think it's best to hopefully radio for help." Tigerstar soon began walking back to the car as Brackenfur was radioing in some assistance. They all turned back as Molewhisker was the last to turn back.
"It was a smart idea to gut the entire train or all of our belongings could have been lost." Molewhisker told them. They knew they were huddling around when hope would come to them.
Hope did come an hour later as several huge machines came along as they were ready to tow them to the next outpost. Several toms got out as they had warm carriages for the cats as well extras for their luggage. They were being towed away a few at a time as the next outpost wasn't for another 10 miles. Molewhisker was riding along with Dovewing.
"So when we do get there after the loan is paid off, want to explore the city?" Molewhisker asked her as he was wondering what she wanted to do after this. Dovewing turned to him.
"Dunno, why not explore it with you." She purred. Molewhisker laughed as they were transported to the next outpost.
Once rounded up, they were soon waiting for the plane the cats at the next outpost had called in. One of them turned to Molewhisker.
"Stranded?" He asked them. Molewhisker turned as he responded.
"Our train ended up crashing as we're now stuck in the wilderness but we're getting help." Molewhisker responded as the plane soon arrived. He soon turned to them as they were getting ready to fly.
"Hope you enjoy the rest of your trip, even if you didn't get to see the sights but you will next time." Molewhisker nodded as they all got on the aircraft which would take them straight to their final destination. Molewhisker waved goodbye as this trip he was on went from a week to a few days. He couldn't be happier.
[A/N]: Well that's the end of this story since I completed it in 23-25 days. I am impressed on how well we did and I would want to keep it up. So thank you to all that read and reviewed as I definitely want to see more of these in the future.
If you want to do a train ride AU, feel free to get creative. Choose any route from what location to where, use any era of travel that you want so past, modern, futuristic make this story as crazy as you want it. It's all up to you.
Also what should I do next since this took me less than a month to complete? Should I redo one of my older stories, do something completely new or do something crazy. Review on what I should do next since I am dry on ideas. Thank you all.