Chapter 27: The Crazy Train

Location: Underground City Ruins, Southeast of Vale Year: Unknown

As Ralphie and I landed in an underground city, we immediately went to search for Ruby. I draw out my Lincoln's Repeater and holstered it, just in case of an emergency. As we turned around the corner, we saw two White Fang members keeping watch.

'Ah, shit. The White Fang ARE here.' I thought to myself, then I quietly walked up behind them. Though they do have increase hearing, neither of them noticed me. I stopped as I heard them talking...

"Hey, John?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you ever wonder why we're here?"

"It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some... cosmic coincidence? Or is there really a god, watching everything, you know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night."

Awkward silence came before them as I thought to myself, 'What? I don't think that's what he meant.'

Then the guy responded, "What? I mean why are we in here, underground?

Then John replied, "Oh, uhhhhh, yeah..."

'Okay, that's it.' I finally thought as I knocked both of them out by bashing both their heads together.

Then I quietly said, "Come on, Ralphie."

Ralphie beeped quietly as he followed me.

As we reached the ground floor, after knocking out some guards, we finally found Ruby, but being held captive by Torchwick. As I saw Ruby trying to escape, Torchwick started to fire at her. I immediately grabbed her out of the way when she neared.

Ruby thought I was one of them, so she tried to kick me. I said to her, "Ruby! It's me!"

Ruby stopped and glanced at me, then sighed in relief. I then handed her scythe back and I pulled out my gun. Then we saw that the Blake, Yang, and Weiss, along with Oobleck and Zwei, running up to us.

"Oh, Ruby! You're alright!" Yang said as she hugged Ruby.

Of course, Ruby said, as she can hardly breathe, "Please, stop..."

I then cocked my gun, then said to them, "Let's show them what for, shall we?"

All of them nodded and we heard Torchwick shouting, "Come out, Red! No one is going to save you, this time."

I jumped around the corner and yelled, "Surprise, bitch!" as I fired a round at him.

"Oh shit!" Torchwick shouted as he ran off. Then I heard him yelled out to the White Fang, "Get this train started, NOW!"

Then Ruby said, "We have to stop him! Torchwick's got all sorts of weapons and robots down there.

Blake commented, "What!?"

"Androids, mechs- they're all loaded up on the train cars." Ruby said.

Then Oobleck responded, "Ah, that's ridiculous! These tunnels are sealed. The tracks lead to a dead end."

Then Torchwick yelled into the mics, "Get to your places, we are leaving now!"

Then the train started to leave, and then I stated, "Oh, really? I think they're going anyway!"

Then Ruby said, "We need backup!"

I yelled, "We ARE the backup, Rubes! We're on our own this time!"

Then Weiss asked, "So, what do we do?"

Oobleck replied, "I believe we only have one option."

Then Ruby followed up, "We're stopping that train!"

We then ran towards the train and boarded it. Oobleck knocked out one of the White Fang members, then we climbed on top of one of the train cars.

I then commented, "Well, we're on the crazy train, now what?"

Then Oobleck stated, "We must hurry to the front of this train!"

Then Weiss said, "Uuh, Professor?"

Oobleck corrected, "Doctor."

Then Weiss asked, while pointing at a device, "What's that?"

Then Oobleck answered, "That, my dear, appears to be a bomb."

Then Ruby shouted as she pointed forwards, "We've got baddies!"

I then switched to my power armor and switch from my Lincoln's Repeater to my 'Q-35 Modulator' and began firing at them, making them scatter.

Then we heard Oobleck stating, "Well, I didn't expect them to go-"

But then Oobleck was interrupted by the sound of the bomb being armed, then Oobleck finished, "-easy on us."

I then yelled out, "Lucky for you guys, I can easily disarm it."

Then Weiss asked, "What?! You can disarm them?!"

"Yeah, I disarmed an Atomic Bomb once. It's not that hard, at least for me, though." I answered.

Then Oobleck stated, "There's no time! We have to move up!"

Then he yelled, "Blake! Detach the caboose! It will kill us all!"

"On it!" Blake replied.

As we jumped onto the next car, Blake jumped down to cut off from the caboose, but it detached itself.

Then Blake yelled out to us, "It decoupled itself!"

"What!?" Oobleck asked.

"I guess he really doesn't want us on his train." Yang stated.

I then joked, "Well, I bet it's because we forgot to pay for our train tickets!"

Then Yang giggled and commented, "Okay, that's a good one, Eddie!"

Then the train car exploded, making the ceiling collapse on itself. Oobleck commented, "Oh, that's not good."

Then Ruby shouted, "Uh, neither is this!"

It showed that there was, indeed, another bomb on the train car.

"Oh, come on! What's this guy's problem!?" I shouted out.

Then Oobleck ran forward and checked all the others, then yelled out to us, "They ALL have bombs!"

Then the next bomb armed itself and we immediately ran forward. Then Yang stated, "This doesn't make sense!"

Then we saw that the creatures of Grimm were following us, coming in through the holes, and then I realized...

"Oh shit! He's making entryways for the Grimm! He's planning to have the Grimm to invade Vale!"

Oobleck followed up, "He's right! It appears that it's his plan. Which means that we have to stop this train!"

Then we noticed that more members of the White Fang coming towards us. I overheard one of them, yelling, "Get the humans!"

We then armed ourselves for a fight... on a bomb train... FUCK IT!

After we fought, Oobleck then stated towards Yang, Blake, and Weiss, "You three, go below and try and stop those bombs!"

Then Ruby asked, "What about us?"

Then Oobleck answered, "We're going to stop this train."

Ruby deadpanned, "Yeah, we know. I said that earlier."

Then we ran forward and continued to the front of the train, then noticed more Atlesian Paladins coming our way. I yelled out, "Let me handle this!"

Then, all of the sudden, Zwei jumped up and Oobleck battered up and send Zwei, who's on fire, towards the Paladin, destoying it as it fell off the train. Then another Paladin came up and Oobleck beat the shit out of it. I simply stated, "Uh, nevermind."

I then turned to Ruby and stated, "Your Zwei is a super dog."

Then I groaned as Ralphie beeped in confusion.

After a few minutes of fighting, I decided to check up on the rest and told Ruby, "I'm going to check up on the others."

Ruby nodded and stated, "Alright."

I, along with Ralphie, then went back to one of the carts, switched to my Desert Ranger Combat Armor, and went in. Then I saw Neo about to stab Yang, who was unconscience, and immediately pulled out 'Lucky' and fired a round to knock Neo's sword out of her hand, catching her off-guard.

I then stated, "You may be cute, but you are a cocky bitch!"

But then, a red portal opened up and a woman wearing a mask, similar to the ones like the White Fang, but different, somewhat spikey, long, black hair, and weilding a red, katana-like blade.

I then noticed that Neo had fear in her face and teleported out. Leaving me, Ralphie, Yang, and the mysterious woman.

I asked out, "Who are you?"

She didn't answered, as she teleported out, not without Yang waking up to see her leaving.

As the mysterious woman disappeared, Yang looked at me and asked, "Who was she, Eddie?"

"I... don't know, Yang. But something tells me that we might, later on." I answered.

Yang nodded and we proceeded towards the front of the train, came up to the top, and met up with the rest.

Then Blake asked us, "Did something happen?"

Yang and I looked at each other, then I looked back and concluded, "We'll tell you later, but right now, we need to stop this train, like Ruby said, and prepare for our fight."

To be Continued...