Part 2 (2)
The emergency brakes slammed hard onto the track making the entire vehicle lurch violently, throwing Jet from his hammock and smashing his chin on a chest of draws as he fell to the floor'….owy' he exclaimed as he picked himself up of the floor gratings
He heard the familiar footsteps of his female appomplice as she came racing from her own cabin to investigate the sudden pit stop 'Jet are you ok? what in the hell happened?'
'Search me, I was having the most beautiful dream until I got woke up an head butted the drawers' Jet replied groggily
'Did it involve you covered in honey and 10 horny scantly clad women by any chance' she asked with a tone of disapproval in her voice
'heh heh…yeah' Jet said with a grin on his face.
'Yeah well hurry up and wake up we need to see what happened' she said hurriedly
'Oh and Jet' she added
'Yeah?'
'Put some cloths on' she said with obvious amusement
Jet looked down at his butt nakedness 'this coming from the 16 year old girl who has unicorns on her PJ's and night cap' he replied
'So what? I like unicorns, now hurry up ill wait for you under the hatch' she said as she sprinted out of the room
'Why didn't they put any bloody doors on this train, why only hatches to the fekin roof?' he muttered to himself as he quickly threw on some cloths and his armour, not forgetting to pick up his weapons of the shelf, he hurriedly went to meet Rei.
'bbrrr its bloomin freezing' Jet said as he hugged himself to warm up his aching arms
, he looked over at Rei who had drawn a thermal coat over herself 'I know yeah we've reached the mountains on the northern continent, come on there's only 4 hours worth of travel left and then you'll be able to sit in a nice hot bath and continue dreaming where you left of' she said as she hit the rune to open the hatch leading to the cold harsh outside world ,she brandished her auto rifle, flicking the safety catch of and climbed the ladder to the roof of the steel behemoth' am right behind you muttered Jet as he drew his bolt pistol from its holster, also flicking of the safety catch and making sure he had a full clip inserted into it, he climbed up the ladder after Rei.
They both clambered on top of the huge curved steel roof of the train, taking care not to slip on the frost that had caked the top of the locomotive, the air was cold and bitter, the dark starless sky casting down a torrent of icy petals who's frozen touch stung straight through the skin, Rei checked the chrono meter on her wrist 'wow still only 3am, I only went to bed at 2:30' she stopped abruptly as she stared down at the end of track, trying to decipher what she was seeing 'Jet, where the rest of the train' she said in a non believing tone
Jet turned round puzzled what do you mean where's the rest of the……holy crap' he exclaimed as he was looking at where the last eight carriages should have been 'well Rodger me' he said as he scratched his head in confusion
'Ide rather not Rei said as she warily approached the end of the caravan that should have been attached to a further eight more metal giants, she slowly brought her hand to her ear and flicked the switch on her vox bead, she twisted the dial until she tuned into the servitor pilot's frequency at the head of the train 'Dumbledor?' (As she had proudly named there robotic companion) yes mam the servitor responded in its dry, metal monotonous voice 'would you care to explain how we managed to loose over 8 million credit's worth of our chemical gas?' she asked it annoyingly precisely 2 minutes and 4.547 seconds ago our sensors picked up some minor vibrations seeming to resonate from the tracks, these continued to increase in volume and tipped over carriages 3 through 8, the remaining automated defences were activated but picked up no reading of hostiles within 100 meters of our present location