The next day had arrived, and Tucker was prepared for his tests. He had figured out everything on his second period test as his first period of the day was just art which there was no required test on. The test he ended up taking was a breeze and he managed to pass it quite easily. After the test, he decided to make his way down the hallway. He didn't know what would be around the corner with summer vacation coming up, but he hoped he could follow Rin's advice and try to repair the relationship with Eleanor and figure out what was eating away at her. He made his way to the art room to find Shinichi and ask him about Eleanor's situation. He made his way to the art room and spotted the door. He walked over and grabbed the handle. He shook it. It was locked. He peeked his head into the window to see who was inside and there was no one, the room was completely deserted. He didn't know who was there. No Shinichi to talk to.

Katawa Shoujo- Stride

"Where is he?" Tucker asked himself. He was hoping he'd show up so he could ask how he could try to mend the relationship with Eleanor. After waiting for a few minutes, he realized he wasn't going to show up. Tucker got up and left. There was no use in talking to him for now. Tucker began to wander down the hallway in the hope of finding Eleanor so he could talk to her. So far, nothing. He continued to walk down the hallway to see who he was going to bump into, the hallway was mostly empty, however. Tucker concluded that many of the students were still in their classes, taking their exams.

Tucker would eventually make his way to the school grounds before he bumped into someone, he was trying his best to find. It was Eleanor.

"Oh Eleanor, have you come to speak to me about something?" Tucker asked, he wanted to seem to be nice to his sister as he was praying that she would make up her mind and apologize for her behavior. Eleanor's expression was unamused.

"For what?" Eleanor groaned. Tucker knew he had to be careful of what he said to her in the hope that she would be played into what he needed her to do.

"I just want to check up on you to see how you are doing." Tucker told Eleanor that he wanted to check up on her. Eleanor looked at her brother, still unamused.

"Well… that's good. Art gallery isn't going to be ready for another week or so. I'm taking a bit of a break before I go back there. Mr. Nomiya was chatting with Yuuko before he went to get some of the art supplies." Eleanor explained to Tucker. Tucker finally figured out why Shinichi was unavailable.

"So, you're still needed there? At least I got the chance to speak to you." Tucker admitted that he hadn't seen his little sister in a week and wanted to see how she was holding up.

"Yes, I am, I have yet to get another twenty-five paintings done for the event." Eleanor told Tucker as she was rather annoyed, why was Tucker trying to bring this up? Tucker gulped, trying to figure out what Eleanor needed from him, and he wanted to see how he could try to ease her a bit.

"Twenty-five? Don't you need a break?" Tucker asked Eleanor if she needed to get some rest from her painting to get some new ideas of what she wanted to make. Eleanor immediately went defensive when her brother was suggesting she needed a break, a long break.

"I don't need a break!" Eleanor began. Her words were cold as ice as her eyes widened. She got really annoyed.

Katawa Shoujo- Caged Heart

"You're always like my mother and father. Eleanor don't do this, do this, you should be in bed at this time, you should be getting up at this time. I know what I am doing, and I worked hard for my dreams, and I don't want them to be taken away from me and if you try taking them away then I won't be able to do what I want to do. Why do you always listen to your parents anyway, you don't have any spirit inside of you regarding what you want to do, people like you are an empty husk who have no personality. If you did, it would be the one your parents shaped you to be. I want to pursue my dreams and you shouldn't stand in my way. I also think your little club of yours needs to go. I want to take out my ire on the girl who started all of this. Good day!" Eleanor's voice sounded like she was going to shatter the glass in her anger. She got up and walked off. Tucker was shocked. Eleanor's reaction was the opposite. He knew he couldn't let this continue any longer and, in his ire, he stood up and tried to remind Eleanor of something she had lost previously.

"I hope Hisao was right for walking away from you as you devote all of your time to art!" Tucker shouted to Eleanor. Eleanor had taken a few steps when he heard the shouting from Tucker. She turned to face her brother who was pretty angry at her. A reasonable person like Tucker rarely got angry but with Eleanor's persistence to not follow what her parents wanted to make her what they wanted her to be in order to be successful, he was at a boiling point.

"Lilly is a nobody, Hisao should have figured that out by now." Eleanor shouted back. Eleanor turned and stormed away; she was going to head back to the art gallery to continue her work. Tucker felt his anger subsided. He felt bad that he yelled at Eleanor, but she was pushing him in the direction that went against his good nature. He didn't know how he would react if he yelled at Rin. He didn't know how he felt now. Shinichi then appeared to see Tucker; it looked like he had gotten himself angry.

"Tucker, is something bothering you?" Shinichi asked Tucker. Tucker looked at his art teacher who decided to stand next to him.

"Yeah, I was looking for you and I wanted to ask you how to handle the situation with Eleanor. You weren't there and… it's too late now to fix things." Tucker explained to Shinichi. Shinichi felt saddened that his student wasn't able to patch things together with his little sister and Eleanor was still very angry with him.

"Tucker, Eleanor's…." Shinichi began while trying to figure out what to think about what he should say to Tucker regarding how to move forward. "Eleanor's right, I was hearing the conversation from afar and it sounded like siblings fighting each other. I think I understand what your parents want from me and Eleanor's proving to be more of a mule when it comes to this."

"She was, I don't know what she wanted that we were trying to figure out about it? Everything I worked with, you, her, Rin… I don't want to seem like all of my time went to waste for nothing." Tucker did his best to speak to Shinichi about it.

"Well…" Shinichi began, he adjusted the tiny shades of his glasses further up his nose. "Remember yesterday when I asked you about that meeting?"

"Not really, I think I spent more time with Rin than I did about the meeting." Tucker explained to Shinichi about it.

"Well Tucker, the reason why we had that meeting is that the parents are putting pressure on me to get Eleanor out of the art gallery, and you've said she's proving to be more stubborn than you had ever seen. I think the decision we've made was final and… I don't know how well Rin will take the news but we're disbanding the club after this weekend." Shinichi explained to Tucker that the club they had proposed was being disbanded. Tucker was shocked, the club he had worked to create was being taken away from him. There had to be a reason why.

"I guess you have your reasons then." Tucker told Shinichi he felt defeated, unable to continue the fight. He didn't know how he would be able to fix two broken relationships. "I don't know what we'll be able to do with Rin. I don't know if she would want to get into painting again." Tucker explained.

"I would tell her about the news I've given you. I must go now. See you later Mr. Kagami." Shinichi told Tucker that he needed to go. He looked at Tucker before he began to walk away.

"See you. Mr. Nomiya." Tucker told Shinichi that he would be seeing him later. His mind began to race with the information he had received. He knew he needed to tell the bad news to Rin. News he was finding hard to swallow. He didn't know how Rin would react to this.

Rin was watching something on her phone while sitting under a tree. It looked like some kind of video.

"Hey, I only hear… did something feel… off?" The video would begin to blurt out. Almost if Rin was watching something supernatural.

"Yeah, like we were being followed." The second character of the video would tell the first one.

"I don't know, I felt something really strange. I don't have a clue with what we are dealing with here." The first character would tell his friend. Suddenly the boss of the two, bigger than the others appeared as Rin continued to watch the video on the phone.

"Ahh you're already here, good. Is your back up coming?" The boss would ask the two if help was on the way. The first character wanted to say something, but something was off, and he needed to say it to the boss.

Katawa Shoujo- Moment of Decision

"Yes but… something doesn't feel right. I think our trip here almost didn't get completed." The first one will tell the boss. The boss knew there was no need to give up especially when they were so close to accomplishing their goal.

"We can't stop now; this is our best chance. That thing seems to come around this area a lot. We got a good shot to get it here. When your backup arrives, we'll be able to set it up." The boss would explain that there wasn't a reason to give in despite the risk. They needed to finish the job and the time to catch it was closing in on them. Tucker appeared as he spotted Rin alone. He decided to talk to her.

"Rin?" Tucker asked to get her attention. Rin looked up from her phone. She placed her phone in her pocket, still listening to what the video was blurting out. She got up and walked over to Tucker while looking at him.

"Tucker, is there something you wish to talk to me about?" Rin asked, the ghostly whistle was heard from her phone pocket. They both heard it, but the thought was secondary.

"Well… I have some really bad news I have to tell you about." Tucker told Rin. Rin looked at him as she seemed curious about it.

"What is it then?" Rin asked Tucker if she had any news about it.

"Well… I just got the news from Mr. Nomiya and well… the Trainz club is being disbanded." Tucker told Rin that this was going to be a hard pill to swallow. Rin looked at Tucker as she seemed to be scared of the news. Almost as if Shinichi was trying to grasp his hands onto her.

"W…Why?" Rin asked. She looked away as if she had been hurt by what happened. "This club meant everything to us, especially me. Why would he be taking that away from us?"

"It's about Eleanor, and my parents. Mr. Nomiya is giving into their demands and disbanding what has made us happy. I feel like I'm also hurt by this." Tucker told Rin who was driving this decision. Rin looked away almost as if she had tears in her eyes.

"He's trying to destroy me. I don't want to be painting without purpose, inspiration or having no ideas on what to paint, I think giving Eleanor up was a good idea, for my sake but now that people are trying to take that away, it's only proving how sinister people can be sometimes." Rin did her best to explain to Tucker that everything they had worked for, was being snatched away from them. Tucker didn't know what he was going to do.

"Rin, this is hard for the both of us as you still love me, everything I had said you liked but I'm just as crushed as you are. I don't know if we should spend these final days together, but I don't know where to go after this." Tucker did his best to tell Rin about it. Rin looked back up at Tucker.

"I'm asking the same question too. I don't want to get back into painting. Even a talented person such as myself will say having to do something without any form of breaks and everyone tells me to paint something when I just want to be looking at the clouds to gather my thoughts or even playing a game. I don't want to be stuck." Rin did her best to say to Tucker that there had to be more to her than just art. Tucker looked on as Rin began to think. She heard a voice on her phone, closing her eyes, imagining it was Shinichi trying to pin her into place.

"No. I won't have you get away again." The voice called from her pocket. Tucker knew he needed to ask Rin one more thing.

"What do you think would be better for the both of us? Painting or Trainz?" Tucker asked. That was the cannon shot that went off in Rin's phone. Rin closed her eyes and began to think about what Tucker had just asked.

Rin seemed to be lost in her maze of thoughts, what was better for her, her painting skills or just playing her game. She began to imagine a bunch of things, driving her favorite locomotives along ribbons of steel held together by large nails and wooden tiles under the gravel. Another memory of her favorite locomotive, driving along the empty expanse of the countryside. Shoving freight cars into her favorite spot almost as if she was playing a trick on them. Then another much more terrifying memory came to her mind. A claw in the shape of Shinichi's hand, coming down and ripping apart the cab of a locomotive. Rin tried her best not to think about it.

Rin continued to think more of her favorite memories: Driving along with friends, checking up on her own creation, chatting away with friends. The memory of it getting ripped out by Shinichi popped into her head again, trying to influence her into thinking it was all over and there was nothing she could do to save it. Shinichi's hand slamming down onto the locomotive and trying to tear the cab apart. Rin continued to try to think of what was going to be disappearing from her. Passenger runs, freight runs, hiding freight cars away, hanging out idly at stations with friends. Rin tried to remember it all. The thought of the art teacher's hand slamming down and ripping the cab of the locomotive apart continued to plague her mind when Tucker told her the news. She didn't know what she was going to keep thinking about.

"Rin?" Tucker asked. Rin opened her eyes to see where she was. She didn't know how she was going to respond. She loved her passion for art but at the same time, this was her favorite game and the risk of losing it all had begun to haunt her memories. Rin knew she needed some time away to think about this.

"I… I would like some time alone." Rin told Tucker. Tucker nodded as he stood idly. She walked over to the tree where she was sitting previously and sat back into her spot. She decided to get her phone out to see where she was in the video. It almost felt like the conversation was a wreck in itself and it had ended badly. She decided to begin listening in.

"Sir. This has gotten out of hand. What are we supposed to do about it now?" One of the characters asked the boss. The boss knew this couldn't go on long enough and he knew he needed to make a decision.

"I want you to take a message to dispatch and have it relayed to everywhere." The boss began as he began to make his message to the others that he had in his control: "All Union Pacific locomotives. Abandon your current directive. Find the monster, hunt it down, bring it to me." The boss would tell the message out to his followers.

Nightwish- Taikatalvi

Rin felt like everyone in the school was out to get her, especially her club that she and Tucker had prized so much, the calm music drifting through her head, calmer than Lilly's voice had ever spoken to her. Tucker looked on curiously, he didn't want to bother Rin while she was thinking about what her decision was going to be. He wanted her to be happy, but he didn't know if it was going to be the best decision. He turned his head as two students began to approach Rin, Tucker continued to look as they were designed to hunt her down. He didn't know what Rin was still being chased for. Rin had put her phone away when she realized that there were still people after her, but she knew she didn't want to be running away. She decided to charge after them. The two students realized what was happening and who was after them. They turned and began to run in the opposite direction. Tucker knew he couldn't leave Rin alone and decided to run after her. The two students began blazing away while Rin charged after them. Tucker knew he couldn't let Rin get away but at the same time, not have Rin rounded up and taken by these students.

The two students were running ahead as Rin was the chaser instead of being the chased. She was quite fast for someone with no arms. Tucker knew that losing Rin meant losing another part of his life and the risk of it was too great. Rin's feet pounded the pavement as it was now in a rhythm of its own, drums beating quick pulses while running after the students. The chase was now on.

Nightwish- Storytime

The three students began running around the school grounds as Rin wasn't being chased. The two students tried their best to run as far away as they could from her. Rin was catching up quickly while they were trying to find a way to shake her off of their tail. Tucker had managed to get ahead of the people Rin was chasing as a means of trying to catch Rin and see where she was off to and find out her motive. He spotted the two students and held his arms out, in an attempt to slow them down. He began pushing on the two students before they came to a stop. They were wondering what had stopped them before they turned away to see Rin barrel her way through one of them. One of them had been knocked to the ground while the other one stood there confused. Tucker walked over as if he was in control of everything. Rin had escaped the first obstacle. More lay in her path.

Molly and one of her friends had set up a roadblock to try to catch Rin. They were waiting patiently for their two friends to come back and by the looks of things, they weren't coming back. Rin continued to run around the school grounds, still thinking of who might still be after her. Molly and her friend continued to wait around as Rin made her appearance, Rin wasn't going to bother slowing down. She knew these students were out to get her and there would be nothing that will stop barreled her way through the obstacle as if nothing was stopping her. She continued onward as Molly and her friend had joined the chase. Now Rin was the one being chased this time around. Rin continued to try to move to her own rhythm of the music while it was blasting in her head. She knew she had to lose them in any way she could. Hopefully Tucker would be there to help her.

Natsume and Naomi were heading down the same path Rin was running on in the opposite direction. They were oblivious to all the drama that was occurring, and they were just having a nice walk by themselves. Tucker was desperately running to try to catch Rin and figure out what she was running from. Rin continued to run down the path with Molly and another student behind her. Natsume and Naomi spotted Rin while they were rounding the bend. Rin quickly sipped past them, not bothering to say hello or anything. She just ran along. Natsume and Naomi spotted Tucker, trying to catch up. Tucker looked for a way to get around it. It was too late however, Tucker crashed into Natsume and Naomi, knocking them over.

"Tucker, watch where you're going." Natsume explained before helping him up. Tucker was lucky but his luck would quickly run out, Molly and her friend ran up behind them and Molly crashed into Tucker, knocking him to the pavement. There was a crunch in Tucker's left arm. Rin meanwhile kept running as there was no looking back, she had managed to shake Molly off of her tail but one more foe awaited her.

"There she is, get her!" Eleanor shouted as she and another student came racing after her. Rin knew she needed to shake her off of her tail, Rin continued to run in the rain which was starting to come down in sheets. She needed to lose Eleanor and her friend. Rin was wondering how she was going to be able to get them off of her. She knew there was an old bridge she had run across many times over. She knew the only way to bring it down was to have it shake but this meant getting another person to help her. However, she was going to get help from an unexpected source.

Hanako was at the bottom of the bridge, taking shelter from the rain, she looked out ahead and spotted Rin using her phone, luring Eleanor and another girl. She knew she needed to bring the bridge down. She grabbed a thick pillar and began to shake it around, this caused the entire bridge to sway as Hanako moved it around, pieces of wood began to fall off of the bridge as it was clear it was going to collapse at any moment now. She hoped Rin was going to be able to make it across. Rin spotted the bridge, and it was already shaking, good. She darted to the bridge in the hope of crossing it before Eleanor was able to. She ran onto the bridge and quickly darted across. The bridge continued to sway uncontrollably as the bridge was starting to come down now. Hanako darted from beneath the bridge and ran along the riverbed to see if she could catch up to Rin and see how she was doing. Finally, the bridge came down as all the wood landed in the river itself as the entire middle of it had fallen apart. Eleanor and her friend spotted this and tried their best to stop. Rin had disappeared from their line of sight and now they were slipping in the rain. Eleanor and her friend couldn't stop themselves in time and fell off the bridge and into the river. Everything went black for Eleanor followed by a terrifying crunch in her left hand.

Rin looked back to see Hanako joining up with her. Fortunately, Hanako was in no mood to chase her.

"Thanks what you did back there, I don't know how I would be able to owe you." Rin explained to Hanako that she was thankful of what she did back there.

"Much appreciated but what's the reason why?" Hanako asked Rin why she was thankful for her help on taking the bridge down.

"Several students were chasing me down and I just needed to shake them off of my tail. And looks like I was able to be able to. Now I wanted to see if Tucker was able to get through." Rin told Hanako that she was thankful for what she had done. Hanako nodded before Rin began to speak. "Where is Tucker?" Rin asked. Tucker was nowhere to be seen. Hanako decided to give a text to see if they were able to contact Tucker. They waited around for a minute before they got a text back from Natsume who said she was okay though the news was starting to become worrying.

"Natsume and Naomi are okay but… Tucker isn't." Hanako began. Rin stood there frozen with fear. What did she do to hurt him.

"What's going on?" Rin asked Hanako if she could give more details on what happened. Hanako began to speak next.

"Molly ran into him and knocked him to the ground, there was a crunch and now the ground has splotches of blood all over it." Hanako did her best to describe it. Rin was horrified. Tucker got himself into a horrible crash.

"Where are they taking him?" Rin asked Hanako where they were going to be taking Tucker.

"He's in an ambulance and the situation isn't looking good. I think Natsume said she's retrieving his cat to be placed with him." Hanako explained to Rin what was going on.

"I… I can't believe what happened. I am so sorry for what happened!" Rin began to cry out. She hugged Hanako, unaware of what was going on, unable to control herself. Hanako knew Rin was in a state of despair. Tucker did protect her but at the potential cost of his own life. She knew if he did manage to hang on, it wasn't going to end well.

Tucker woke up in what seemed to be a strange place, it certainly wasn't his bed. He looked around to see that he had managed to pull through the accident, but this came at a heavy price. He looked to his right to see his arm was attached to some plastic bag feeding fluid through a needle. He wasn't able to sit up but lying next to him was the cat he won at the festival, how did that get here? He thought the calico was pure luck after all. He turned his head to the left to see his left arm, but his left arm was terminating at the elbow. Where was the rest of the arm? He needed answers, answers he didn't know about. The doctor came into the room followed by Lilly and Hanako.

"Ahh Mr. Kagami you're awake." The doctor began. Tucker tried his best to sit up, but he needed help from the doctor and Lilly who sat him up.

"Morning, how long was I out for?" Tucker asked. It seemed to be like he was involved in a car accident or something.

"You were out from yesterday afternoon until today. Your parents came to visit but you were asleep, I can call them up if you wish." The doctor explained to Tucker that his parents came but they weren't able to visit. "Rin did much the same thing."

"Call them up if you wish. I… I think I have to regret saying something I wish I shouldn't, but I need to tell my dad." Tucker told the Doctor. He looked down to his left arm. "Where is half of my left arm?"

"Tucker, this might sound like it's going to break your heart but the left arm below the elbow… it had to be amputated. The crash you had yesterday had pretty much destroyed what remained of it and it was completely dead. Even though your left arm is gone now, the good news is no more Gangrene." The doctor explained to Tucker that his left arm below the elbow was completely gone. Tucker now only had one hand remaining.

"Are… are they going to replace it? I need two arms to do everything, and I can't just have that one arm." Tucker asked. He seemed to be filled with regret.

"I told your parents the news and they're looking into getting you a bionic arm as you said you would still wish to be an engineer and you need your hands?" The doctor asked. Tucker didn't know what he wanted to say. He decided to take another look at the stump of his arm to see if he could get a decision.

"I would like to speak to my parents first." Tucker told the doctor who was taking care of him.

"They'll be up shortly." The Doctor told Tucker. Within a couple of minutes, Tucker's parents along with Rin had joined him. Mr. Kagami went up to his son as he was looking rather depressed.

"Dad? How does it feel to lose everything?" Tucker asked. Mrs. Kagami takes a seat next to Lilly while Mr. Kagami and Rin gather beside him.

"I know you lost your arm son but if it hadn't been chopped off, it would have killed you later in life, might as well get rid of it now so it didn't kill you later." Mr. Kagami tried his best to explain the situation to his son. "Me and your mother are working very hard to pay for a replacement. You wouldn't be stuck with one arm for the rest of your life."

"Well… I guess I have to see what living with Rin feels like." Tucker explained to his dad that he never knew what being like his girlfriend was like. Mrs. Kagami walked over and began speaking to her son.

"I know you are pretty down based on these events, but I actually picked up the news that your father had told me that you have a girlfriend, someone who loved you. You had found friends which was something I was really excited about and your grades, you've done well in them. I'm so proud of my boy." Mrs. Kagami told her son that she was impressed. She looked around to see the cat sitting beside him. "Where did you get that?" She asked as she hadn't seen that cat before.

"Tucker won that at the festival from one of the games." Rin explained to his mother that Tucker had won a prize.

"I'm telling you that calico is lucky. It's always been with me everywhere I wake up," Tucker explained to his mother. Hanako decided to add into the conversation.

"I brought that cat from his dorm to this bed. I wanted to keep him company." Hanako expressed her words for the parents. Mrs. Kagami looked on as she seemed to be calm. She sat down next to Tucker.

"I hope the recovery is a fast one. I want to see you do well for your tests." Mrs. Kagami told Tucker. Tucker nodded. "I also met your girlfriend in the waiting room, and she was strange, but she looked cute, she wouldn't stop talking about you."

"I know, hopefully I'll be able to receive that arm. I still want to follow my dreams." Tucker told his parents. They nodded as they received a text.

"We're going to go; we need to get back to work. Take care." Mr. Kagami told Tucker, and like that, Tucker's parents were gone. Rin knew she had other news to tell Tucker about.

"Also, Tucker, I just learned from Emi who learned this from the School Nurse that Eleanor's left hand had completely shattered when she fell off the bridge and into the river. It's been bandaged up." Rin began speaking that Eleanor also received some form of injury of her own when she decided to run her down.

"I don't know if it's karma that Eleanor had received because she refused to apologize. If we do meet again, I hope this injury would have convinced her to do so." Tucker explained to his friends that hopefully Eleanor had learned her lesson and would be in the right state of mind to admit her wrongdoing. Rin decided to get her phone out and began playing some music while Lilly began to recite a quote.

Nightwish- The Greatest Show On Earth

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly, those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds, it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?" Lilly recited as Tucker drifted off to sleep. Looks like the good days of plenty were nothing more than a distant memory. It was only the plunge down the hill from there.

End of Act 3.

[A/N]: Act 3 has been finished and I'm actually sensing that this will be a pretty beefy story. I wouldn't include any neutral or bad endings in this story though the neutral ending has Tucker and Rin staying as friends while trying to recover relationships with Eleanor and the Bad ending is them breaking up as Eleanor has gotten between them and he ends up siding with Mr. Nomiya. I'll see you in Act 4 the last act of the fanfic. Goodbye.