Jade, Chen, Eric, Marcus, Manny, and Frida boarded a cargo train, making sure to be quiet. Jade had helped them sneak into the train car. The plan was to ride the train until they were close to the destination, then hop off and travel through the jungle the rest of the way. Jade and Eric were keeping watch, while Chen was polishing a gun of sorts. Marcus sat down next to her.

"Semi-automatic?" He asked, leaning over to look at it.

"Yeah, filled with specially made bullets that contain long lasting slow releasing tranquilizers. One dart will knock the average man out for half a day." Chen smiled, holding up a transparent bullet filled with a purple liquid.

"Neat!"

There was a moment of silence as she polished and loaded the gun.

"So….what are your parents like?" Marcus asked a little awkwardly, trying to start a conversation.

"I don't really remember much about them, they died in a car wreck when I was pretty young."

"Oh, I'm sorry…"

She was silent for a moment before responding in a sad tone;

"It's ok, it was a long time ago."

"Well…If it's any consolation, I know how you feel." Mark held her shoulder in a comforting manner.

"I guess your parents are 6 feet under too?" Chen looked up from her gun.

Marcus looked down at the floor sadly; "Yeah…"

"Sorry, what happened?" She leaned back onto the train car wall.

"It's not important…" He leaned on a crate.

"I guess you don't want to talk about it?"

"No…" The fire powered boy shook his head slightly.

"Fair enough." Chen responded.

There was another long moment of verbal silence, the sound of the wheels running over the tracks in the background.

"Leave it to me to make it sad." The boy chuckled a little sadly.

"It's ok." She smiled a bit.

It went silent again.

"Well…I guess I'm gonna go and check on Eric and Jade." Marcus heaved himself off the floor and gave a faint goodbye smile to Chen, who went back to loading her gun.

Frida and Manny were sitting on a crate in another train car, watching the jungle roll by.

"You've been pretty quiet, are you ok?" Frida poked his shoulder affectionately

"Yeah...I've just been thinking." Manny responded quietly.

"Is it about the thing with the tiger the other day?" Frida tilted her head.

Manny fell back and laid on the crate with a soft thump.

"Yeah, and the nightmares… every time I try to get some sleep, I get jolted awake by them! And then I'm left shaky and alert for at least 30 minutes! I'm exhausted!" The curly haired boy ranted before abruptly getting to his feet to pace in annoyance.

"I am a Rivera damn it! And Rivera's are no cowards! We look danger in the face and laugh!" Manny stomped on the ground and pointed at the ceiling for some emphasis

"Come on dude, you're not being cowardly." Frida grabbed his hand and pulled him down next to her.

"Nightmares are freaky man, they don't just get inside your head, they are your head. Remember when we watched Poltergeist and feared TV's for like 2 weeks?" Frida responded, leaning into her friends side a bit.

"We were like 10."

"Still, it gave us nightmares for weeks." Frida chuckled.

"It didn't help that when we finally started to get over it, Gramps broke the satellite dish with his mech suit. I still remember how we scared the living hell out of my dad when we screamed and ran away." Manny laughed, and then blushed a little bit as Frida leaned on him some more.

"These days if any of us get sucked into a tv by ghosts, all we gotta do is call that Danny Phantom kid." Frida responded.

"Hey! I'm a better ghost hunter than that white-haired punk any day!" Marcus jokingly snapped from the doorway, making the snap their attention to him.

Marcus saw how close the two were sitting together and smirked; "I'm sorry, am I interrupting something?"

Manny's face went red and he scrambled to make distance between him and his flirty blue haired friend; "Nope, nothing at all! Come on in!" Manny chuckled nervously.

Frida scowled daggers at Marcus, who mouthed the word 'sorry' to her.

"You know, I would figure that a skilled thief would be better at lying than that." Mark crossed his arms and chuckled.

"What?! I'm not lying! THIS I SWE-" Manny was cut off by an explosion in the distance that knocked him off the crate.

"What was that?" Marcus looked in the direction of the sound and then at Frida and Manny.

The three quickly ran towards the sound, Manny activating his belt on the way. A few train cars later and they opened the door to find a huge chunk of the wall missing, Jade laying under a pile of rubble and Eric getting her out. There was an armored helicopter outside the train car, following to the best of its ability.

Jade was knocked out cold from the blast, but Eric saw the three and yelled "Were under attack!" over his shoulder.

"I'll help Eric move Jade, Manny, you and Marcus take down the Helicopter!"

The two boys didn't even bother nodding, they quickly ran towards the rather large hole in the wall, Manny grabbed Marks arm and jumped out. Tigre shot his grappling hook at the landing gear of the copter and pulled the two of them up. Manny swung his friend up and into the glass window, shattering it and landing Marcus inside.

The panicked pilot reached for a gun, Marcus pulled out his sword and swung it at the semi-automatic. There was a very quick high-pitched metallic twang, it felt like time slowed down as his sword broke in front of his very eyes. The pilot aimed his gun at Marcus again, but Manny's grappling hook punched it out of the man's hand. Marcus knocked out the pilot and grabbed the steering wheel.

"Uhhh, Manny, do you know how to fly a helicopter?!" Marcus shouted as Manny scrambled into the vehicle.

"I know how to fly a mech suit, how different can it be!?" Manny chuckled extremely nervously.

"Could we land it on top of one the train cars?!" Mark asked in a panic.

"I can't do that!"

"I thought you said you could fly a mech suit!?" Marcus snapped.

"I never said I was good at it!" Manny snapped back.

"What else are we supposed to do? if we just jump out it could crash into the train!"

"Uhhhhhhh…ummmmm….Were going to have to aim it at the ground and jump out!" El Tigre responded.

"Were gonna what?!" Marcus snapped at his friend with intense concern.

"You got a better plan?!" Manny snapped.

"…Not really, no!"

"Ok, lets DO THIS THEN!" Manny shouted, and Marcus pulled the handle a hard right and flew towards the ground.

Manny grabbed Marcus, who in turn grabbed the passed-out man and they jumped out the helicopter. Manny launched his grappling hook at the moving train and grabbed on, they smacked into the side of the train and hopped in through a window.

Manny left the pilot on the floor and the two hero's ran back to where they last saw the others. The two found their friends fighting on a flat-car. Jade, and Eric were fighting some heavily armed goons. Frida would sneak up behind a goon and taze them. Jade was absolutely plowing through them, and with the addition of Marcus and Manny it seemed like the fight was won.

Frida looked at Marcus for a moment before asking; "what happened to your sword?"

"Somebody stole it and replaced it with a brittle copy!" Marcus snapped.

Marcus looked around for a moment at all who were there;

"Wait, where's Chen?"

"She hasn't shown up once during the fight, do you think something bad happened to her? Frida asked with concern.

"I really hope no-" Eric made an abrupt gag noise and the others looked in horror as a sword pierced through his chest from the back.

The others looked in horror as they saw who was holding the blade; Chen. She smiled evilly and pulled the sword out before punching the blond boy over the edge of the flat car, sending him into the river below.

"ERIC!" Jade screamed, but before she could run after him Chen shot one of her tranquilizer bullets at her, sending the woman to her knees. It was like goons started crawling out of the wood work, they were suddenly surrounded. Everything was happening fast.

Marcus realized he was closest to the edge where Eric fell, in that quick moment he had to make a tough decision; leave his friends to get captured and save Eric's life, or stay with his friends and let Eric die. Marcus jumped of the flat car and into the river.

The train whizzed past him as he fell, the water quickly coming up to meet him, he hit the water with a large splash. It was cold and rough, he had a hard time keeping his head above water, but he had to find Eric. The kid would never survive in this water passed out and bleeding. Marcus caught a glimpse of a pale arm through the waves of water, he choked out some water and fought his way towards Eric. The arm disappeared into the green murky water and Marcus dove in after him. He couldn't see a thing, it was dark and foggy. He was worried he might have lost the kid, but he caught the glimpse of black a boot and quickly swam towards him. Mark grabbed Eric and swam to the surface, nearly drowning in the process.

"Come on Eric, wake up!" Marcus struggled to stay afloat in the wild water as he hoped Eric hadn't drowned.

After a moment of Mark shaking him, the cheetah themed hero coughed up water and breathed before passing out again. All Mark could do was hold on tight and let the river take them where it wanted to...

As you can all tell, I love fights on top of moving things XD And flat-cars are those train cars without walls and such, like used for carrying pipes and stuff.