DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN POKEMON. ELSE LUCARIO WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO OVERRATED
Note to self. The stupidest looking enemies are almost always the most dangerous.
First Class Compartment, Nimbasa-Driftveil Border, Unova League.
Scarlet and Jolteon threw as many blows on the dragon as possible and he dodged every single one without moving away from his position.
"For a big guy, he sure is fast," the hunter panted as they jumped away from their opponents. Cocking his big head in interest, Garchomp looked at Scarlet's blood-soaked side and licked his jaws greedily. Seeing this gesture, the hunter tensed.
"Normally, he's very docile when it comes to fighting…" Terra explained as the stupid look on his pokemon changed to an even stupider look of want. "…but when he sees blood, he tends to go a little wild."
"Thanks for the info," Scarlet snapped and crouched beside Jolteon. "I'll distract the derp. When you see an opening, go for an Iron Tail to his neck," he whispered and charged at Garchomp. Seeing his meal ticket coming straight to him, the Mach pokemon simply stood where he was began his skilful dodge of Scarlet's icy blows.
"Hold still, you stupid lug," the teen hissed as he tried a kick to the chest. He hit, but couldn't even make the pokemon budge. Giving a low gurgle, the pokemon raised a larger-than-normal claw and tried a slash at Scarlet who side stepped the attack and grabbed the pokemon's bony arm. "Now Jolteon!" he cried and Jolteon spun in the air before bringing down his tail on Garchomp's head. At the same time, the hunter brought his open palms into the dragon and pumped all the ice his gloves could muster into Garchomp's chest. The pokemon froze for a second before collapsing on the ground in a heap.
Turning to Terra, Scarlet pulled a face. "Is that it?"
Sighing slowly, the knight pointed to his fallen pokemon and smiled. Looking down, Scarlet's eyes widened when the unconscious Garchomp faded from sight. In an instant, he and Jolteon jumped away from each other as a claw from above smashed down, shattering the floor boards.
"Double Team?" Scarlet remarked in slight surprise. It couldn't be. We never saw Garchomp move from his spot anyway. "Mind telling me what's going on?"
Snapping his neck, Garchomp jerked and released his claw from the floorboards. Instantly, he faded off again and Scarlet turned just in time to see him aiming a Dragon Pulse from behind. Evading the attack, the ravenette ordered Jolteon to go for a Double Kick. Hitting the still-firing pokemon, Jolteon sent him flying before getting hit in the side by a headbutt from the exact same pokemon from behind. Looking at the situation, one would have thought there were two identical monsters in the carriage. However, the Garchomp that had just been hit faded off again and Scarlet got suspicious.
"It's the same pokemon alright. That's not teleportation is it?" he remarked and Terra shook his head smugly. Gritting his teeth, Scarlet rushed at the pokemon from behind and jumped onto his scaly back. Grabbing his horns, the ravenette twisted his head sharply and made him slam his face against a wall. Unfortunately, the pokemon faded off again leaving the puzzled Scarlet in mid-air. Dropping hard on the floor, the ravenette cursed lowly and Jolteon ran up to him. "I'm okay," his master said and scrambled to his feet in search of the missing Garchomp. "That pokemon's just getting on my nerves."
"Each of our partners has their own special powers. Garchomp's is quite simple really," Terra stated and parted the hair blowing against his face due to the raging sandstorm. The train suddenly made a bend and the sandstorm blew in harshly, swamping the entire coach and slightly reducing visibility. "You'll probably figure it out before you die though."
Almost as soon as he said that, a nick appeared on Scarlet's cheek and the boy slapped a hand to the wound. "Careful Jolteon!" he called sharply. "That pokemon probably has the ability Sand Veil which boosts his evasion in a -"
At that moment, more nicks appeared across the hunter's shirt and he crouched to dodge a Dragon Claw from the Garchomp who had materialized behind him. Springing up, he brought his fist into the dragon's lower jaw only to realize his was punching thin air. Instantly, he knew what Garchomp's power was.
"Speed!" he cried and Terra raised an eyebrow. "Garchomp's so fast; he leaves after-images of himself which can actually take hi-"
BAM!
Scarlet stumbled backwards and fell against a chair as Garchomp had gotten in front of him and hammered a Rock Smash into his chest. Fading again, six more copies of the pokemon appeared before Scarlet before he felt a claw drag across his back. Looking back, he felt a sudden blow to the chest which knocked the wind out of him. On cue, six more blows knocked him left and right before one swift invisible cut ripped across his shoulder.
"Dammit," he hissed as Jolteon tackled the Garchomp away from his owner and rushed up to him in worry. "We can't hit that pokemon's attacks until this sandstorm lets up."
"You're quite wrong there, boy," Terra called from within the storm. "Garchomp has been on Dragon Rush since he got into this carriage."
"What?" Scarlet cried and another invisible strike knocked both he and Jolteon to the ground. So the Garchomp they had been seeing from earlier was just a copy? Before he even had time to register how this was possible, two Garchomp appeared on either side of the duo and charged up Dragon Pulses. Rolling away from the attacks, Jolteon executed a powerful discharge which blew the copies away. It's good we found a way to get rid of the copies, but what'll we do about his speed?
"If you're the boy who defeated Alphinia then I am sorely disappointed," Terra stated with a yawn. "I think I should kill you now."
Despite his injuries, Scarlet put up a defiant smirk. "Sorry. I was quite the heartbreaker back in Trainer School, I.N.J.U.N." And as he said that, seven horrid gashes ripped across his chest and sent him flying into a wall. Jolteon yelped in concern and was about running up to him when a purple foot flew out from nowhere and sent him flying in the opposite direction right through six seats. Before he could get up, Garchomp's real shape loomed above him and sat down heavily on his small frame. Scarlet took shallow breaths as Terra walked up to him.
"One…question…" he muttered. Terra put a hand to his neck and dragged him off his feet roughly. "You won't hurt Jolteon…right?"
Terra smirked and squeezed hard on his throat. "Team Plasma exists to free innocent pokemon from foolish humans like you. Your Jolteon won't be harmed if he doesn't give us any trouble."
Jolteon, who up till then had been trying to get the heavy Garchomp off him, looked up to see his master being slowly strangled by the brown-skinned knight and started to panic. He couldn't bear to lose Scarlet even if he was a complete dick at times. Firing the highest Discharge he could muster, Jolteon managed to stun Garchomp long enough to shift his weight and burst out from under him in a devastating Volt Tackle aimed straight at Terra. Slamming hard into the knight, he got him to release Scarlet before sinking his small fangs into the man's arms and shocking the hell out of him. Letting go, the lightning pokemon ran up to his coughing master and licked off the blood dripping from his cheek.
"Good boy…" Scarlet muttered with a smile and patted Jolteon's furry head. "Took you long enough…"
Relieved, Jolteon eyed the slash wounds on his master and whined. There was no way Scarlet could move in his condition. How he wished that White was here right now.
"Scrap what I said earlier," a gruff voice tinged with malice cut through his thoughts. Red had replaced Terra's eyes as Jolteon observed through the intensifying sandstorm. Getting up shakily, the enraged knight pointed at duo. "Your pokemon has been corrupted by human foolishness and as such it is not fit for living. Garchomp, feed!"
A roar of joy filled the air and through the sandstorm, Jolteon saw a large set of teeth burst through and pull apart, ready to eat him. Too close to dodge, the teeth came to a rapid close and Jolteon shut his eyes, steeling himself for the teeth about to dig into him.
Two things were heard through the sandstorm. Jolteon's yelp of pain and a sickening, wet CRUNCH.
Golden eyes widened slowly as White took in the scene before her. Minutes ago, she had ascertained that the passengers would be safe after one of them suddenly remembered that he was an Ace trainer with a Vanilluxe (fear has this funny way of making people forget who they were) and had therefore left them in his care to help Scarlet. Gathering up her courage, she had climbed back onto the roof and had scrambled against the howling sandstorm with Beartic's help only to get into the wrong car with sleeping Garchomp which she had to fight off. Now, as nausea clouded her horrified senses, the snow-haired trainer cursed her wonderful of timing and one word escaped her quivering lips.
"Scarlet..."
Jolteon found himself against a wall and got up painfully. Inches away from death, he had been grabbed and slammed against a wall by...by...
A cough caused him to look up and what he made his head swim and legs buckle in despair and fright. Sides clamped tightly in-between the grinning Garchomp's blocks of bloodied teeth, Scarlet gazed at Jolteon and smiled despite his other-worldly pain.
"H-Honestly..." he stuttered weakly and coughed out a huge stream of ruby-red, "...I'm not paid enough for this..."
And both Jolteon and White screamed as the Garchomp bit deeper into his target and more blood sprayed out. Luckily, Beartic came through and bashed the dragon's back with a bone-busting Ice Punch making him drop his target and engage the intruder in battle. Running up to the unmoving teen, White dropped to her knees and tore open his ripped shirt to inspect the wound. Blood gushed from his sides making her feel slightly faint but she pushed the feeling away to look for something to stop the bleeding.
Terra, on the other hand had watched with interest as the previous event had unfolded and was genuinely stunned. This lowly human had sacrificed himself for his pokemon despite having those multiple injuries and knowing that he might die in the process. "Why...?"
"What should I do...?" White sobbed as the bleeding continued unabatedly even through the cloth she had tied around Scarlet's waist. Jolteon nuzzled him sadly and shivered at how cold he was getting. Placing her head to his chest, the trainer gasped at his slow heartbeat and began to shake as it dawned on her that her companion might just die.
"You always seem to know what to do. Tell me..." she whispered at his still face. Dead eyes stared back at her and it was all she could do not to burst out crying like a baby. "...Please..."
"His mouth was foul," came a deep voice from behind and a two brown hands gripped her neck, "...but his intentions were true and that's the highest I can think of for any human."
Jolteon, enraged, leapt up to rip Terra into shreds but was caught in the air by three Gabite's Dragon Pulse. Before he could retaliate, the Terra's Garchomp sent him crashing down with a Giga Impact which also collided with Beartic. Keeping them busy, the four dragon pokemon continued their assault while Terra's grip on White tightened.
"Do not worry," he stated solemnly as she struggled for air. "You'll be joining him soon."
LP launched launched another Garchomp out of the room and stood back to back with Rain. Earlier on he had busted in to find a ranger fighting off an army of dragon pokemon and was just about sneaking off when the bluenette had called out to him for assistance. Recognizing the blue hair, he cursed lowly upon remembering a recent description of the ranger from Luca.
"Just my fucking luck," he swore, "I hope for a nice, peaceful ride and what do I get? A shitload of never-ending Garchomp and the Ranger Rain to boot. Why is life such. a. bitch?"
Rain ducked a flying Gabite and circled it with his capture styler. "I'd appreciate it if you didn't swear LP. It's bad for your health."
"Fuck You! How tha fuck d'you know my name?" the pompadour retorted and ran over to the door labelled BUSINESS CLASS A-SECTION. "You and your imaginary friend look like you can handle this shit so don't mind me." Slamming the door and locking it behind him, LP took in the contents of the battered carriage in slight awe.
To the far end were a Jolteon and a Beartic fighting off three Gabite and one...thing that looked like a cross between a Garchomp and Gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist. Okay...weird.
To the right was a girl kneeling on the floorboards with a large man strangling her from behind and a dead boy on the floor. Not that he cared anyway but-
"What the fuck?" he cried and stamped over to his rival. Bashing Terra out of the way, he dropped on one knee and inspected the seemingly dead Scarlet. "Nuh uh! You ain't dying on me you shitty brat!" he cried and ripped off his leather jacket to wrap around the boy's wounds. "How am I supposed to prove to Boss that I'm the greatest if my rival drops out by dying? I'd feel like a loser!"
"Who are you?" Terra snapped angrily as he picked himself up to face the intruder. Getting up sharply, LP sank his boot into the knight's face and sent him sprawling down the coach.
"You the asshole who started this shit?" he asked, putting on his gangster-face as he cocked a gun at him. Putting out a hand, the older hunter stopped a claw aiming for his head and flipped the herp derp Garchomp over him. "Well?"
"You have no part in this fight. If you want to live, I suggest you-"
"Who gives a flying fuck?" LP cut in sending a steel ball at the startled knight's side. Dodging it, Terra got up shakily and wiped the blood off his nose.
"You injured me..." he muttered and LP cocked an eyebrow.
"No shit Sherlock."
"A HUMAN INJURED ME!" the brown skinned man yelled and began to laugh maniacally. White felt that familiar dangerous rise in bloodlust from the knight and whimpered. She was scared. Totally scared. Scared for her life, scared for her pokemon but most of all scared for Scarlet and the other passengers n the train.
"Garchomp!" the knight cried and the pokemon appeared beside him. LP looked to see the pokemon's after-image fading off and clicked his tongue in surprise.
"Neat power, wanna trade?" he asked.
"DRACO METEOR!"
"NO DON'T!" Rain yelled, busting in suddenly. Too late. Garchomp trembled violently as an orange-red rock coated in energy formed at his mouth. Launching it, the ball whizzed through the air and Rain's friend set up a psychic barrier around him just in time as the glowing ball shined brightly. White called back Beartic and threw herself over Scarlet to shield him from the impending blast while LP jumped behind a seat. On cue, the shining ball exploded loudly and all went dark as smoke and wind blew through the carriage, rocking the entire train.
1 minute later...
Terra hacked and coughed out the smoke that had invaded his lungs. LP woke up from his daze and found he couldn't move as a portion of the roof had fallen on his torso, wedging him between the seat and the floor. Rain had been knocked clean out of the carriage and back to Economy while White's stunned body shook as she painfully rose from the floor and took in the war-torn scenery before realizing something. Where was Scarlet?
"Geez," a voice sneered and everyone looked up to see...Scarlet standing in front of White. In his gloved hands, he held a fragment of the deadly meteor. "Why am I always the one saving your ass Whitey?"
"Impossible!" Terra blurted, frightened. Garchomp had practically chewed on this boy and yet here he was standing tall and spinning the meteor on his fingertip like a basketball. What was more, his injuries had closed up totally.
In an instant, the ball shrunk and fell into Scarlet's now-purple gloved palms.
"True intentions? I feel insulted," he smirked and crushed the ball into ash. "People normally say my heart is as pure as gold." And with that, his hair developed split ends, signifying a change in boosts. "Oh yeah, if you're that creeped out by a nosebleed then I wonder what face you'll get when I bust your nuts, Injun."
"Kill Him!" Terra cried frantically and Garchomp's after-image beside him faded as the original Garchomp appeared beside the ravenette and opened wide to swallow him whole. His mouth was clamped shut however as Scarlet crashed a purple fist into his lower jaw, knocking out teeth and sending him flying. Looking at the now frightened Terra, the boy smirked revealing his sharpened white canines.
"You were saying?" he scoffed and sweat broke out across the knight's forehead. Seconds later, six more after-copies of Garchomp materialized and slashed at Scarlet who dodged all of them and side stepped the real claw coming from behind. Grabbing the dragon's arm, he flung the pokemon into the roof before jumping after it. In an impressive display of speed and strength, he punched the pokemon before spinning and bringing his leg down on his flat head, sending him back into the train. Not stopping there, Scarlet rocketed himself at the pokemon and brought his knee into Garchomp's red chest. Grabbing his tail, he threw the dragon into a wall before using an elbow to hit the incoming original in the snout. By this time, White knew that the battle was over as Garchomp roared in pain and staggered to his feet. He opened his bruised mouth one more time to fire off another Draco Meteor only to have the ball forcefully stuffed back into his throat. Snapping the dragon's jaws shut, Scarlet only had to wait as the big derp's belly swelled in size and energy streamed out his nostrils. In no time at all, Garchomp's crossed eyes bulged before rolling back as his body trembled violently from the small explosion within.
"Hey Injun!" Scarlet called suddenly and hurled the limp beast towards his owner. "Catch!"
With a loud crash, Garchomp landed on the bewildered knight and groaned painfully. Shifting his weight off him, Terra got up and stared at the smirking teen. Even through the contacts, Scarlet's eyes were shining beastly red with slitted pupils.
"Is this what Alphinia was talking about...?" he whispered as Garchomp painfully got up again and went in for a mad rush at his opponent. Scarlet put his hands on his hips and rolled on the back of his boots.
"And the pitcher winds his last shot..." he murmured as the maddened dragon stormed towards him. Jamming his fists into the ground, the ravenette dodged a fast swing of Garchomp's claws, made a quick handspring and got his legs round the dragon's neck. "He throws!" he called and back-flipped with all his might, jerking the beast still between his legs forward.
Garchomp was forced to bend forward as Scarlet's hand touched the ground. Terra realized in horror that the upside down teen was facing his direction and grinning madly. Before he could move out of the way, Scarlet pulled his legs forward sharply and sent the unsuspecting dragon flying into the now-screaming knight. With a loud thud, both Terra and Garchomp flew past the doors , out of business-class, into the food stall, out the food stall and finally into the bloodied first-class coach.
"It's a strike and the crowd goes wild!" the young hunter cheered as he got up and walked over to White and Jolteon. " Are you guys okay?"
"Hey! What about me?" the pompadour whined obnoxiously. Scarlet regarded him with an expression of wonder and tilted his head. "Do I know you?"
Flabbergasted, LP turned shock-white and shattered to pieces. Ignoring him, Scarlet pulled White up before picking Jolteon who licked his face in joy and relief. Squealing, White jumped on the duo and crushed Scarlet's neck in a hug.
"Jerk!" she blubbered as she cried into his shoulder. "What happened to your wounds?"
"Okay, you can stop choking me now!" the ravenette gasped. That makes twice now that I've been strangled. "I guess the injuries closed up temporarily since Dragon-boost pushes my entire system to its limit in one go including regeneration." Loosening her hold on him, she cried softly into his shoulder making him arch an eyebrow. Was she that attached to him already or did she do this for everybody?
Their moment of relief was short-lived however as a cackle was heard from the doorway. The group turned to face a dishevelled Terra leaning on the door and looking absolutely mad.
"Human trash must be eliminated for our lord Ghetsis' plans!" he chanted before pointing a shaky finger at them. "I cannot fail my king so I will destroy you all even if it kills me!"
"Don't kid yourself," Scarlet sneered and started walking towards him. "You're out of pawns, you just got hit by a herp derp Garchomp-"
Stretching out a fist, he knocked the said pokemon who had just busted through the window into oblivion and held his horn. Dragging the unconscious beast along, he stopped inches away from Terra and dropped Garchomp on the floor.
"-and I just did the world a fucking favor," he declared and dusted his palms. "What makes you think you can kill me?"
Teeth chattering at the scarred devil in front of him, Terra swallowed and put up a confident grin. "This train will pass through Charizard Bridge."
"Yeah. So?" the boy answered. Driftveil's famous bridge nicknamed the Charizard Bridge for its beauty and elegance was the pride of the city and connected it to Route 5. If one was going by train to that city, there was a rail-line built at the sides of the bridge for trains to pass through.
"In case I fail to kill you here, I had bombs planted into the bridge," the knight grinned menacingly and cackled again. "As soon as the train reaches it, we all will be blown sky high! All hail Team Plas-"
BAM!
Scarlet crashed his 4200 pokedollar steel studded Galvin Klein boot into his nuts and twisted it sharply eliciting an agonised cry from the stunned man. Before he could even hold his throbbing manhood, his face tasted All Stars converse as White slammed her foot into his contorted face, sending him sprawling against the smooth floorboards.
"I always wanted to do that!" she exclaimed in a sing-song voice. "But we have to stop the train."
"Do we have to? We could just jump out..." Scarlet trailed off as White and Jolteon sent him death glares. "Hey, stop looking at me like that."
Putting a hand to his chin, the hunter thought up a plan. Turning to LP, who had long given up on trying to get attention and was now taking a nap, Scarlet lifted off the heavy pieces of metal thus freeing his legs.
"About fucking time. I really had to take a piss," the pompadour snapped as he got up painfully.
"Hold it. I need you to help me stop this train," the teen stated and pointed down the doorway. "First of all, we need to delink some carriages so as to make our jobs easier."
"What's the plan?" White asked and shifted closer.
"White, get all the living passengers into first-class. They'd better be comfortable with moving out corpses cos that's what they'll be doing inside that carriage if they need more space," the ravenette stated and White nodded.
"Hair-dude, I need you to de-link business-class and below from the train," he continued and got a bop on the head.
"LP, punk. And I'm only doing this so Boss won't have my ass if he thinks I blew up this train."
"As for the brakes-"
"U-Useless..." Terra muttered hoarsely and laughed. "I had them disabled so that this train couldn't be sto-"
BAM!
A pink bubble of energy hit the man square in the nuts and sent him reeling in pain.
"We're good with fixing stuff," Rain called from behind a door and Scarlet eyed the man before continuing.
"Bluenette will fix the brakes and have them operational in how long?"
"Give me 10 minutes."
"Twelve Minutes Till We Reach Charizard Bridge" the train's automated attendant called from the PA systems.
"When I say 10, I actually mean 5," the ranger stated calmly and the group nodded.
"What'll you do, Scarlet?" White asked as everyone spread out to do their jobs.
"I'm gonna need Pignite," Scarlet replied and tugged on his gloves. "And a dragon pokemon's scale."
Nodding, White called out her pokemon and left to get the passengers. A safe distance away, LP stopped Rain and stabbed a finger into his chest.
"How come you ain't busting us yet?" he asked. Rain looked from pompadour to finger and sighed.
"My orders were to hunt Scarlet, not you. Also, if he's got a plan on saving the civilians then we'll have to follow it through instead of arresting him there and then. I'm also quite interested in seeing how he plans to save everyone though."
Humphing, the older hunter picked a spanner out of his bag and went straight for the still-burning baggage coach while Rain dusted his shirt and headed for the control room in front. White got to Economy and with soothing words, guided everyone out of that coach and into first-class and Scarlet and Jolteon climbed onto the train's roof before hurling Pignite after them. They looked ahead just in time to see the bridge over the horizon and smoke rising from it for some reason. Looking through a hole, Scarlet sighed as he saw a remote in the unconscious Terra's hand.
"Stubborn son of a bitch..." the ravenette hissed and jerked slightly as he felt the train let go of a carriage. In the distance, a burning baggage coach lagged behind as LP twirled his spanner and headed for the next link. Thank Arceus for my previous love of mechanics, the man sighed and got to work on the wrought-iron link.
"Tch," Rain huffed as he spotted the driver's headless corpse leaning against the controls. With a small apology, he pushed the body off and stared at the gaping hole were the controls were supposed to be. Rolling up his sleeves, he hunkered down and muttered "Okay buddy, let's get to work."
"Ten Minutes Till We Reach Charizard Bridge."
"Hurry guys," Scarlet whispered as the bridge came into view. Touching Pignite, he called, "Switch Assists," and the gloves flashed as the purple colour drained and was replaced with a reddish-brown hue.
Economy was divided into three classes A,B and C and LP had just finished de-linking B.
"Three more to go," he murmured and wiped sweat off his brow. All that remained was the A of Economy class and two coaches from Business. "Damn, pulling out these bolts are harder than I thought. But I'm Cool LP. Stuff like this is nothin'"
"Nine Minutes Till We Reach Charizard Bridge."
Rain touched to wire tips together praying for a spark.
"Yes!" he muttered in relief as he felt that little shock from the wires. Pulling out of the control boards, the ranger pointed at the remaining destroyed wires. "Alright buddy, Use Psychic and reconnect these wires following that format," he ordered and the wires glowed before starting to re-attach themselves to the circuit boards. "Now that I think about it, thank Arceus for Rhytmi. Who would've thought making us fix those circuit boards back in Almia's Ranger Base would come in handy years later?"
"Eight Minutes Till We Reach Charizard Bridge."
White shuffled the last person into First class and eyed the scene bitterly. As Scarlet had said earlier, bodies and dried blood were strewn across the coach and people were starting to feel uncomfortable.
"If it's possible, maybe we can pile their remains gently in a corner so they can be buried when we get to DriftVeil," she stated and called out Beartic to help her. The braver ones among the passengers also lent her their helping hands and in a minute, the bodies were piled against a corner. At least Garchomp was greedy enough to devour most of them.
"Three Minutes Till We Reach Charizard Bridg- It's done. We've fixed the brakes!"
"The passengers are all here!" White cried.
"I'm done with these fucking bolts!" LP yelled and slammed the door shut.
"Whatever you're about to do, do it now!"
"That's my cue!" Scarlet smiled and stepped up to the very front of the train. Even from there, he could see the gaping hole in the bridge, making him gulp slightly. If this didn't work then the train might plummet into the water below and the currents were tough in Unova.
Pushing his hands behind him, Scarlet ran up to the very end of the train and jumped right off. Yes, he jumped right off the entire train.
"Let's Go!" he cried and his gloves ignited like rockets sending him whizzing into the air. Shooting off ahead off the train, he got to a good distance and lowered himself onto the tracks. Seeing the bot from a distance, Rain arched an eyebrow.
"Hey buddy? He's not going to...?" he trailed off as the train sped up suddenly. Looking back, he saw Terra's arm holding on to the lever labelled ACCELERATE. "And I should pull the brakes now," he concluded as his friend knocked the Injun out again. Gripping another lever, he pulled down and a loud CLANK was heard as the brakes were engaged.
As Scarlet had anticipated, the train jerked and started its long skid down the tracks.
"Fuck Physics," LP muttered as the train screeched loudly. The sudden acceleration coupled with the train's original speed and the sudden application of the brakes were causing it to skid dangerously and he realized that it probably mightn't stop until they reached Charizard Bridge and then it would be too late. Also, it had rained earlier in Driftveil City so the tracks might still have been wet so they couldn't count on friction to help them stop the train.
"Unless we had an additional brake or something to oppose the train's direction," Rain murmured and smiled. "For a criminal, you're quite noble, Scarlet."
Stabbing his palms with the dragon fang from herp-a-derp Garchomp, Scarlet took a deep breath and stuck a gloved palm out in the direction of the train. Pointing another in the direction of Driftveil, the glove got wine-coloured and formed a small ring of heat energy round itself.
"Fire for Thrust Force, Fighting for Strength and Dragon for a boost in Reaction Force on the ground," he muttered and tensed up. "Vann tweaked these gloves so that they'd have enough power to stop a force equal to a single-carriage train. Let's see if the Lech's right."
Inches away from his arm, the train roared towards him and he tensed in anticipation and slight anxiety. "Come On!" he yelled and the glove towards Driftveil ignited in a brilliant stream of blue fire. With a SLAM, the train ran into him and he pushed with all his strength.
Author's Corner.
Scarlet: The things I do for money...
White: Yeah...