it was 4 weeks till the End of the line, Trollence was messing up her shots on the shooting range, Bunny noticed and stopped practicing with the other scouts.

"Mr. Marsupial Man?" the sniper turned to look at Bunny, "what is it, Bun?"

she points to Trollence, "can she take off? she's exhausted...can't you tell?"

Marsupial man looked back at trollence, her arms were shaking, he sighed, "right, erm...take her back to the dorms I guess..."

Bunny ran up to trollence and hugged her from behind, "babe...you can put the bow down, boss says you can rest."

Trollence goes limp and falls back into Bunny's arms, the fortified compound dragging as she limps to her dorm with Bunny's help.

once at the door, she kissed Bunny deeply and snuggled into her neck, taking in her smell, "help me with my clothes..."

Bunny giggled as she began to unzip Trollence's jacket, the fabric kept a lot hidden, as proof her G cup breasts fell out once the zipper was down enough, Trollence groaned as Bunny erotically worked the vest off her, her sweat stained undershirt unable to contain her bust, her bra nonexistent as Bunny ran her hands down Trollence's toned stomach towards her pants, which she quickly unfastened and pushed her into bed, working the cargo pants off her, crawling on top of her.

"mmm...nothing yet...I'm sick remember?" groaned trollence as Bunny snuggled up to her, "yea, yea babe, I know...I just can't get enough of that smell...or these." she squeezed one of trollence's massive breasts, earning her an affectionate squeal from the sniper as she kissed her again, "you sure you don't wanna...exchange fluids?"

"OH MY GOD JUST FUCK ALREADY!"

they jump and look around, looking into the corner they saw an outline, Bunny pointed her pistol, "un-cloak."

Klaas uncloaked and blushed, "sorry...?"

Trollence threw her kukri and it stuck in the wall next to Klaas's head, "oh shit!" he cloaked and ran again, "don't fucking kill me!"

Bunny kissed her again and then locked the door, lying next to her again and fell asleep next to her.

outside the training only intensified as Marsupial man gave them information from Blutarch's ghost that Redmund's students had become cursed, something they hadn't accounted for.

so Marsupial Man gave them spell books and began teaching magic, because why not give his students an advantage?

3 weeks til the End of the line

Klaas was practicing backstabbing when Pith, a sniper in a suave blue and green suit walks up behind him, "Klaas, I need to speak to you."

"about?"

"the girls..."

"don't tell me they told you.."

"if you attempt something like that again I will have to report you."

Klaas twirls his black rose, "how about we go, just you and me."

"mmmmnope." Pith pulls his sax out of his bag and plays a long note, "I'd rather just play this."

Klaas slaps Pith, "listen you dimwit, it's people like you that the rest of us have to carry in class, I refuse to carry you during end of the line, so pardon me if you're the first to die, I'll be sure to put a gibus on your corpse afterwards."

putting up his sax, Pith pulled out a bow covered in christmas lights that Klaas had never seen before, pointing it at the target on the other side of the courtyard without looking and fired, bullseye, "I'm a year your senior, Klaas, so I'll only say this once, don't judge me till you see me in action...stay away from Trollence and her girlfriend."

Klaas nodded, shocked as pith stowed his bow and walked away

Elsewhere

Joey was practicing headshots on squirrels with his heatmaker when he heard crying

"YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO PYROS!"

Joey turned to see Bill 8 the pyro kicking Shi while he was down, the poor timid boy curled up in the fetal position, "HEY!" shouts Joey

"you broke the formation! we were supposed to do the flame wall! not do that STUPID flame magic trick! I aught to kill you! we're fighting a war here!"

a bulllet knocked Bill's detonator out of his hand, "I SAID HEY!"

Joey runs to Shi and helps him up

"what the fuck got into you Bill, we're all on the same team, some people aren't as experienced as you, calm your shit, look at him, he's crying."

a faint shout of "keep crying baby!" in the background made Shi go from crying to bawling

"it's people like him that get the entire class axed, pyros like him that make it hard for others, people like me have to carry people like him."

Joey scoffs, "are you telling me you don't lift, 8?"

the Pyro looked taken aback, "wh...what do you mean? of course I lift!"

Joey narrows his eyes, "then appologize."

"I'm not appologizing."

Joey turned to the populated courtyard, "yo! Bill here doesn't even lift!"

this was greeted with geers and laughs and repeated, "do you even lift" jokes

Bill growled, "FINE! I'M SORRY!"

Shi turned around and looked the other way, "on one condition..."

Bill growled, "what?"

"I want two refined."

"why?!"

"I wanna make a hat."

"fine..."

the two leave as the other students boo and geer Bill out of the courtyard.

2 weeks till end of the line

Dave sips his coffee on the summit of the tallest mountain, his rocket jumper secured under his arm, propping him up in the snow while Frost surveyed the tracks that were to carry the train he and his school would be guarding, a glaring squint in his eyes.

Dave sips his coffee, "why so glum chum?" Frost answers without even looking at him, "two years..."

"what?"

"two years since I Failed..."

"what do you mean?"

Frost pulls out a bloodstained gibus, "this is from two years ago...during the last end of the line...I failed to protect my friends, I failed to protect the train...I'm the only one who survived of the entire senior class because I ran and hid..."

Dave blinks, "wait...what?"

Frost clenches the gibus in his hands, "I returned to the school...a faliure...mocked...reviled...no more." he stands up, "this time I've got an axe to grind."

he pulls out a bloody pickaxe, "a pickaxe."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" a spy hit the snow next to Frost face first, holding up a file from the snowdrift, Frost takes it and smiles, "good...good...you did it right this time Tiz."

a Le Phantom mask half covered by a fedora poked out of the snow, "really?"

"yes Tiz, believe it or not you actually brought me the right file."

Dave walks up, offering Tiz his coffee, which Tiz guzzles

"what is it?"

"it's a list of what students were cursed with what."

the three looked intently at the files as the sun set.