Glad everyone enjoyed the last chapter! Here's chapter 6!
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Everyone stood at the window trying to figure out what to do for their teammate.
"Ace, go get him." Lexi said.
"Yes, go get him.' Tech agreed.
"What? Why do I have to get him? It's cold out there!" Ace snapped.
"Because you're the only one that brought a jet pack." Lexi retorted.
Ace and her stood having a staring contest with one another for about 5 minutes until Ace gave in. Muttering to himself he grabbed the jetpack, climbed out one of the exits, and flew towards their abandoned teammate who had disappeared a few miles back.
"Jeez, I didn't know it was snowing." Ace said to himself as the harsh winds hit him, making it hard to see.
Ace circled around for a while until he saw an orange and black figure lying on the ground.
"Oh crap…DUCK!" Ace yelled swooping down to grab him.
He landed beside his fallen teammate and grabbed him by the arm pulling him up onto his feet.
Danger was half frozen; he had probably been out there for about a half an hour at the least. Ace lifted him and flew back to the train. (Of course he nearly careened into it, that's how bad the snow was getting.)
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It was about and hour later after Ace had rescued Danger. When he had arrived back Lexi forgot all her anger towards him, and started to show concern.
Tech was lucky enough to be able to get him at least half unfrozen. He had been unconscious for about a half an hour before waking up again. Now all he was doing was complaining.
"I still don't see why we get such crappy service. I mean look at this food! It's looks like rubber!" Danger whined.
"You should be lucky you got anything at all." Tech said simply.
Yeah, well I'm going to have some words as soon as we get off this stupid---AAAA!" Danger yelled as everyone was jerked forward.
"What was that?" Lexi said nervously getting off the floor.
"It appears the train has stopped." Tech said.
"Great! Just what we need! Now what?" Danger exclaimed as the lights went out.
"Did you really have to ask?" Ace said glaring at him.
Rev watched as people started coming out of their cars and looking around confused. Soon, the train lurched forward and started moving again. Everyone seemed satisfied and returned to their cars.
To Rev something didn't feel right. The electricity was back on, and the train was moving again, how could it stop and start so suddenly? Then he realized what was wrong.
"Hey-guys?-Why-is-the-train-moving-so-fast?-and-why-is-it-so-hot-all-of-a-sudden?" Rev said turning back to his teammates.
Tech looked up. "You're right, the train is moving too fast, I'll go check it out."
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Tech moved to the first car and flung it open.
"Hello? Is anybody here?" Tech asked. He found the car completely empty. He glanced at the meter that showed the amount of pressure of heat being put on the train. It had gone way over the limit. The meter cracked, the controls sparked, and flames shot out everywhere. Tech backed out and raced back to his friends.
"Nobody's driving the train!" Tech yelled flinging open the door.
"WHAT?" Everyone yelled.
"Come on, we have to move to the last car, the train can't be stopped, the controls caught on fire." Tech said. Everyone raced out and moved to the end of the car.
"Shouldn't we alert other people?" Lexi asked turning around.
"There's no time right now." Tech said shoving Lexi in and slamming the door.
"Maybe we can break away from the other cars?" Tech asked.
"We all ready tried that, it looks like it was fused together." Ace said.
Everyone exchanged glances.
"Look! We'll use these chains! It has a hook at the end, we can latch it on to one of the tracks." Tech said.
"That's a great idea!" Lexi said.
"Duck, you go down under and attach the end with the hook onto the train, I'll hold the other end." Ace said.
Danger nodded before teleporting out of the car with the chain. There was a sudden lurch as Ace was thrown backward. Lexi grabbed the chain and walked over to the end of the car.
"Hand me the chain.' Danger croaked.
Lexi peered over the edge and started handing it to him.
"Not you!"
"Ace is busy at the moment." Lexi said. Danger rolled his eyes before grabbing the chain. He gasped as neon green demon whizzed past him. It looked like it was part bat part vampire.
"Someone caused the train to explode! We're separated from the rest of the cars!" Tech yelled.
'I thought we wanted that!" Ace snapped.
"The chain didn't work, it's only dragging the tracks along, not stopping it!" Lexi called. Danger slipped and Lexi grabbed him pulling him onto the train.
"And yet another screw up from our little ducky." Lexi said sarcastically.
"If we live through this, remind me to thank you." Danger snapped as he shot her a death glare.
"Well look at the bright side, at least we still have plenty of track." Ace said.
Everyone gasped as a gigantic version of the demons that Danger saw ripped the tracks apart that went over a long drop.
"You were saying?" Lexi said.
"We're going to have to jump!" Tech yelled moving to the edge of the train.
"Did you say jump?" Danger exclaimed moving with everyone else.
"After you." Lexi said sarcastically as the snow covered ground whizzed under them.
"On the count of three, 1…2…3!" Ace yelled as everyone jumped. Everyone screamed as they hit the snow and watched as the cars went over the edge and exploded.
"I hate trains! Remind me never to go on a train again!" Danger yelled.
"Those were the last people of Acmetropolis! Now what do we do? We can't stay out here, and we can't walk to where we're going either! And those stupid creatures will just come after us again seeing that they found out about the train!" Lexi yelled pacing back and forth.
"We need a plan…" Ace trailed off as everyone started to get the sinking feeling they were doomed.
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"I'm cold." Danger said angrily as they trudged through the woods.
"This is a stupid plan." Lexi grumbled.
"We're not going to find shelter in these woods." Tech said.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Ace said whirling around exasperated.
"…"
"I rest my case!" Ace said as he continued walking.
"Boy, what a grouch." Danger muttered.
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"WE'RE SAVED!" Danger exclaimed as Ace stood in front of an old cottage that looked abandoned.
"We'll have to stay here tonight." Ace said walking in.
"It's a little musty, but I think it will be fine." Tech said inspecting it.
"If there are any more of those dead people like that girl back at the other house, I'm leaving without you guys." Lexi said.
"I think this place is pretty much deserted. Besides, you wouldn't get far from here without any needs of transportation, seeing that the ship is way back at the train station…" Tech trailed off as he began mourning over his creation.
'We'll turn in tonight and start off fresh in the morning." Ace said.
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Lexi woke up around 4:00 in the morning. She heard someone downstairs pacing. Standing up from the bed she went downstairs and into the kitchen to find a disheveled Ace staring off into space.
"You don't look like you're starting off fresh." Lexi said trying to make a small joke.
Ace jumped and looked at her before sighing.
"What's wrong?" Lexi asked taking a seat next to him.
"This whole thing about the Haunting is just bugging me. We can't defeat these guys no matter what. I hate running away like a coward." Ace said keeping his eyes low.
"Ace this is a meaning of survival, not some heroic deed of saving the day, I know it's hard to accept, but we can't beat them. We have to play this out." Lexi said seriously.
"I can't. I can't just sit here and do nothing. Tomorrow morning I'm going to go back to Acmetropolis and fight them." Ace said standing up from the table and going to stand by the window.
"By yourself? Are you nuts? If you go…I'm going too." Lexi said standing beside her.
He gave a small smile at her act of bravery. "It's too dangerous for you."
"But yet it's not dangerous for you?" Lexi said.
Ace hesitated. "Lexi…" He trailed off.
"What?" She said turning to face him. They're eyes locked.
"I…I…I just wanted youto know that….No matter what happens I…" Ace trailed off again.
""Yes?" Lexi asked.
Ace hesitated for a moment before grabbing her and kissing her. Lexi stood there shocked for a moment before sinking into the kiss. Surprisingly, Ace was unusually gentle.
He quickly pulled away blushing a bright crimson.
"Um, look what I'm trying to say is no mater what happens I'll…" Lexi put a finger to his lips.
"I love you too." She whispered before walking out of the room.
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"Crap. Crap. Crap." Ace mumbled pounding his head onto the table.
What was he stupid? He kissed Lexi after he just said he was going to go defeat the demons. Worse, Lexi had told everyone his plan to defeat the demons and now they all wanted to go. Danger kept on teasing him for kissing Lexi, because she just happened to slip out that they were a couple, and he had no idea where to start looking.
Things just couldn't get any worse than they all ready were.
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"Ace, we're in Acmetropolis now, are you sure you want to do this?" Tech said nervously.
Ace gulped. Monsters and demons were around every corner, mangled bodies lay half rotten on some of the streets, the whole place wreaked of pain and death, and blood. Not only that, but their tower had been taken over by these demons. For the blood red clouds circled around that particular area. If they went in, they would risk their home.
Ace took a deep breath as fear started to take over.
"Let's do it."
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Hee hee, I guess I should have mentioned there would be some Ace and Lexi fluff. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I hope I'm keeping you in suspense!