"The Great Hover-Train Robbery" Test Drive Meme

[letsgolegion]

"THE GREAT HOVER-TRAIN ROBBERY" TEST DRIVE MEME

The Time Trapper, the being responsible for bringing people into the Legion's universe, is up to some strange tricks! It's now creating illusions of alternate universes and dumping the Legionnaires into them to try to test them as Legionnaires. Each time this happens, the captives -- er, participants have knowledge of the scenario, their role, and what they're supposed to accomplish planted into their heads, but still remember who they once were. To complicate things, the Legionnaires from the 31st century aren't the only ones pulled into this adventure. Strange people from many worlds are being yanked in and finding themselves thrust right into the heart of these conflicts. These universes technically are just illusions (probably!) and all the participants have an inherent knowledge of this placed in their heads, but it's up to them if they believe it -- and the danger is real. If you die in one of these scenarios you stay dead. This time everyone is being dumped into a scenario where they're dealing with... THE WILD WEST (SORT OF)THE SETTING The planet Osiris is a frontier world, on the very edges of UP space. Originally colonized by Earthers of many species, Osiris has a diverse makeup just like Earth, with many different species living together. Due to being surrounded by a particular configuration of stars, star weights crush and twist spacetime near the planet, making both threshold travel and conventional FTL possible only every few months. This has led to the Osirans leading a very self-sufficient lifestyle. This also means that the Osirans have a mix of advanced technology and simpler, more reliable machines that can easily be repaired without outside supplies. The end result is a frontier planet that has a mix of advanced technology and simpler living, resembling a slightly more technologically advanced Wild West. While some ships are used for travel across the planet, there is an impressive hover-train network that allows for long-range and short-range travel over the planet's surface. The characters will find themselves on a hover-train passing through the rugged, dusty wilderness. Due to occasional rockslides, and dust and electrical storms in the area, the train is a low speed local train... One that's under attack by bandits! The bandits are riding on hover-bikes and armed with blasters. While this is possibly one of the Time Trapper's strange pocket dimensions, this dimension is very similar to the game universe, and whether or not the sentient beings in need of saving are real or not is impossible to tell. It's a bad idea to risk not helping them in case real lives are on the line. Based on player preference, for the purposes of the meme, characters can either lose powers, retain their canon powers, or find themselves with new powers. It's up to you. Characters may also find themselves in Wild West style clothing and in possession of stun blasters, but this is also player preference. For any scenario that would typically be done only once, like stopping the train, multiple players can still play the same scenario out because of the Time Trapper creating multiple timelines of the setting. SCENARIO A: TRAINTOP BATTLE With bandits jumping on the train, characters have a chance to participate in a classic traintop battle, either in dangerous blaster/stun weapon shootouts, or in hand to hand combat. This is the best place to keep the bandits from getting on board, but watch out! Occasional overhead obstacles and tunnels mean certain death for anyone that doesn't duck in time. SCENARIO B: HOSTAGES Trouble's brewing inside! With so many bandits jumping onboard, a few are sure to make it inside unscathed. One of the passenger compartments is now occupied, with bandits guarding each exit and holding the civilians inside as hostages. A frontal assault will be tricky, with the passengers in such a risky position, but maybe there's another way to get inside? Like those handy vents on top of the train, or perhaps through the maintenance hatches accessible via a dangerous climb through the undercarriage of the train. SCENARIO C: DIVERTING THE TRAIN Oh no, it seems the bandits have diverted the train, planning on making it crash after their robbery to kill any witnesses. The only chance of saving it is knocking some of the bandits off their hover-cycles and stealing them so the characters can ride ahead and hit the railroad switch to divert the train back to a safe track. The only problem with this is that anyone stealing a hover-cycle can't do it alone. One person needs to steer and they need another to help shield their driver with their powers, or give their driver covering fire. or they'll never survive the drive to the rail switch. SCENARIO D: STOPPING THE TRAIN All other efforts have failed and the train is careening out of control towards a downed bridge that was taken out by the bandits with explosives. The characters have to make their way to the locomotive at the front of the train and work together to figure out what levers to pull to stop the train in time -- without the help of the currently unconscious engineer and with only minutes to spare. There's a paper manual in the engine car that can potentially help them...but it's 1000 pages long with a very badly organized index. Good luck! SCENARIO E: WILD CARD! Perhaps the characters find themselves on the side of the bandits and have to decide if they want to switch sides or follow through with the robbery. Or instead of a cowboy adventurer already poised to fight the bandits, maybe your character starts as a passenger on the train, and has to act from the inside of a hostage situation. Maybe some bandits fly in on buggalos and the characters have to steal one to fight them in an aerial battle. Or perhaps the characters have to race to the last train car and work together to unhinge it before the fire on board it ignites several tons of explosives. The choice is yours! OOC INFO ✦ Current players in game can jump into this and do starters if they like so they can play with new players and each other. This meme will count as part of the game canon for those that opt in, though they'll find their memories somewhat fuzzy afterward. These threads can count toward your AC, however the "new CR" credit cannot be applied since not every character joining in is guaranteed to join the game. This takes place after "Tinker, Tailor, Hero, Spy," but before "Welcome to Murderworld." ✦ Potential players can use this as a standard test drive and may use these threads as their log samples. However, at least one post in their thread must fit the requirements for apps, both in length (200 words) and in quality. If you do plan on using a thread as a sample, please make sure the writing throughout your threads is a good example of your writing skills and has some solid examples of the character's voice. ✦ Potential players can also opt to keep these threads as game canon when they app in, so that their character remembers the scenario and then suddenly finds themselves in the game universe. However, this is opt in and players can choose to introduce their characters fresh if they'd prefer that and no other characters will remember they were there. Please just note which you'd like in the additional info field on your app. ✦ If you are considering apping to the game, currently 7 of 40 player slots are available. (Note: Recently, the player cap decreased from 50 to 40, which means the game is now closer to cap.) The character limit is 4 characters per player. You can also scope out some of the game's upcoming plots here to get an idea of what kind of plots are in the game and what's to come. ✦ Non-players who like the meme but aren't really considering apping to the game are free to jump in. The more the merrier! The Time Trapper wants a confusing situation and will enjoy the chaos of lots of strange people trying to figure out what's going on.

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Tsunami | Wings of Fire

[waterfight]

B.

Tsunami wasn't really a fan of this whole 'desert' thing to start with. Comes with being a SeaWing. The lack of water and the heat weren't critical yet, but it was enough to make the already snappy dragon a little snappier than normal. Hunched on top of one of the rapidly moving train cars, she has her long tail tucked around herself to make sure that it doesn't get caught on some passing terrain or the train itself. Why did scavengers (no, here they call themselves humans apparently) build everything so tiny--she was never going to get inside without drastic measure. Glumly, she reaches out to prod a talon against one of the vents--big enough for a human to get through and maybe her head and neck but no way was she getting inside unless they ripped the roof off.

Hey. That's an idea. She reaches down to where the roof meets the wall of the train car and begins poking at it experimentally, just to see if she can get a talon through. Someone might want to say something--but then again, she is a dragon...

Re: Tsunami | Wings of Fire

[whyarewehere]

"Whaaaaaat are you thinking of doing?" Grif sounds apprehensive. He's ducked down on the roof of the train, having found a handhold, and has to yell a bit because the wind makes it a little difficult up here. Mostly, though? Apprehensive.

Apparently, they're working together. There's something in the dream-logic of the scenario that makes this make sense, even though it doesn't.

He's hoping nobody inside the train has noticed them thumping around on the roof, but he also knows his luck is usually not that good.

Gaige (The Mechromancer) | Borderlands 2

[fuckaccuracy]

[Traintop Battle]
Honestly? This wasn't all that different from Pandora. You had a planet that actually seemed kind of similar to it, right down to the hover-train network and bandits looking to make an easy score while also wanting to get their murder on. Once the bandits actually showed up Gaige was all like "Yeah, okay." Seriously, you'd think people on this world hadn't actually dealt with bandits before.

At least these guys weren't shouting about meat and wanting to rip off your face and floss their teeth with your skin.

So, you know, that was cool.

But anyways, you had one tiny redhead packing an awful lot of firepower and she was mostly just shooting away at the bandits.

"Come on you bunch of jokers. I'll take you all on!"

And she would, too.

No, really, please provide some backup. She's woefully outnumbered.


[Post-fight looting]
Alright, the bandits in this train car had all been taken care of. And by "taken care of" she meant that they had all been indiscriminately murdered because that was kind of what Gaige did. Pandora did a lot of things to you if you actually managed to survive. One of those things was heavily emphasizing the importance of human life. Kill them and take their stuff before the bandits did the same to you. And as a vault hunter, Gaige was all about that sweet loot.

Some people would likely frown on the fact that Gaige was scavenging through the newly deceased for anything she could take. Gaige would kindly refer to these people "losers" before going back to her looking for more cash or other sweet loot.

"Come on, there's gotta be something here worth taking! I do not want to know that I just wasted all those bullets."

Keith | Voltron: Legendary Defenders

[redpaladin]

[ A ]

Keith wasn't really sure what to expect from falling into that corrupted wormhole, giant robot lion and all. Suddenly being on a train in Space Wild West was not even close to the scenarios he might have entertained.

He spares his strangely setting appropriate clothing a withering stare, tosses off the hat, and then curses the fact that his bayard's been traded for a bunch of weird looking guns. Guns. He wasn't the gunner of their outfit. That was Lance or Hunk, wherever they ended up. Looks like he would have to make due on his own. The thought leaves a sour taste in his mouth but he presses on before he can dwell on it.

After the bandits make their appearance he doesn't waste time making his way to the top of the train. Whatever was going on here, these guys were obviously bad news and he wasn't about to let them take over. Not to mention he needed to let off some steam.

The stun blasters last about half a minute before he throws them at the nearest bandit in frustration and opts to go for a more direct approach. His fast and light on his feet and all but wails on the bandits pushing them back off the train.

"You're not getting any farther than this!"

He's doing okay, but they're probably about to overwhelm him. Assist?

[ C ]

Well, this whole operation sure went to shit pretty fast. The bandits nearly took the train over and managed to divert it towards an unfinished line with a conveniently unfinished bridge. Keith was half way to figuring out how to safely get two hundred people to jump off a train when someone helpfully pointed out that there was a railroad switch up ahead and the train could be set back on a safe path if someone could get to it.

He eyes one of the approaching bandits and fucking leaps off the roof of the train and shoves the bandit off his own damn hover bike. Whoever he was working with up to this point had better be paying attention, because he's calling after you.

"Hurry up, We don't have any time! Cover me!"

A

[isthisapidge]

Pidge kind of thinks the cowgirl duds she's got on are kind of cute. She can't say the same for Keith, but watching him wail on the bandit while a giant hanging sign arm is about to sweep them all off the train and onto the dirt.

She's still got two blasters and ammo to spare, but it's probably quicker to forgo the whole thing and just scream "Kieth, DUCK!"

Cayde-6 | Destiny

[lostthebet]

Hostages

See, what you need for something like this to be successful is someone who is both able and willing to climb in through a window on a moving train, and someone who is capable of invisibility. Cayde's got plenty of all of that in spades.

So if you're a hostage, you might get the benefit of a slight shift of light, a little shiver like a heatwave, before the window slides open and a moment later there's a cloaked Exo looking around with what can only be described as a smug smile. He holds his arms out wide.

"Anybody call for a rescue?"

Diverting the Train

This was absolutely Cayde's jam. This is what he missed, cooped up in the Tower, sending other Guardians out to do all the fun stuff. It's with a whoop of excitement that he leaps from the train onto one of the hover-cycles. He perches on the back, one hand grabbing the edge of the seat for balance, and then grabs the driver by the shirt collar, and yanks him off the bike before he has a chance to react.

He slips smoothly into the driver's seat, the hover-cycle fishtailing slightly before he's able to get it back under control. Now it's just a matter of --

"Shit." A shot fizzes by his head, and he jerks the bike to the side, then curls his head to the side to check his six, just narrowly missing another hit. "Yeah hey, anybody wanna ride bitch? I could use some coverfire."

Diverting the Train

[notthatjason]

Jason isn't nervous atop the train at all. The wind can blow around him and try to push him off all it wants, but he's in his element -- quite literally. Which is good since they have to somehow get the train back on course and take out the bandits. Unfortunately, Jason hadn't thought of trying to steal one of the hover-cycles. Well, he had, but he hadn't attempted it because he wasn't sure he'd even know how to operate the darn thing. So he isn't overly surprised when one of the others atop the train takes a leap for the cycle and discards its driver.

What Jason didn't account for was the difficulty the person would then have fending off attackers. Jason frowns, looking for support and seeing no one step up. Right. Looks like he's going to have to assist in this part too.

You know what's helpful for jumping off of trains? Being able to fly. Jason starts by summoning a distraction -- a large gust of wind to kick up dust and blow the pursuing hover-cycles off course. At the same time, Jason jumps from the train and alights on the bike alongside the humanoid that had made the request. "You got it...as long as you can fly this thing," Jason said, twisting in his seat so he can keep an eye on the swirling vortex of dust he'd created.

Diverting the train

[rushing_by]

"If you give me a second, I can probably take him out." As it happened, the voice coming from next to Cayde wasn't on a hover bike, but was actually running alongside him.

Barry wasn't really considering just how weird the current situation was. He'd dealt in the strange all the time, he could save trying to figure out exactly what was happening here for after the train was rescued.

Lal Soong - Star Trek TNG Novel Canon

[usescontractions]

[ Traintop Battle ]

Suddenly appearing on top of a speeding train might be shocking, and likely upsetting, to most. To Lal however, it's more of an annoyance. This isn't the first time she's been suddenly whisked away against her will. This time though? She's not dressed for the setting. She's trying to work out exactly what's happened and where she is with her hair and skirt whipping around in the wind. It rather aggravating.

Plus there are a bunch of thugs advancing menacingly. She doesn't appear to be giving them much thought though.

"Computer, please decrease the train's speed by 86%!" She commands loudly into the air. Of course, nothing happens. The probability of being inside of a working holosuite was abysmally low, but she had to check anyway. She's still pretty sure it must be a simulation though, and that following through with the story will likely be the way to exit.

So she allows the bandits to come at her. The first takes a swing and she grabs his fist, stopping it instantly. He tries with his other hand, and she stops it too before lifting him easily and tossing him overboard without a backward glance.

That's when the rest of the gang ready their blasters.


[ Stopping the train ]

Lal knows that so many simulations tend to be cliches, but this one is really taking the cake. Stopping the train before it plummets off a bridge?

"I can't believe a hovering train can be derailed by a blown up bridge." She states with a sigh and the most dramatic eye roll she can manage. Still though, she's not wasting any time knocking bandits aside to help clear the way to the front of the train.

[paladinprincess]

[D]

Sometimes, distraction was the best thing to use to her advantage. Allura used the attacks from the other heroes to force her way into the train and to the locomotive. She piloted a castle that was also a spaceship, she could figure out how to stop a train, right?

Staring at the control panel, and all the levers, she realized this might be harder than originally thought... and reached for the firestarter passing as a manual.

... This was going to be much more complicated than she thought ...

[E]

[Ok, I suck at starters and haven't had enough coffee this morning. Feel free to drag her into something!]

d

[redpaladin]

With some muffled (probably familiar) yelling on the other side of the locomotive where the car meets the rest of the train and a volley of blaster shots, Keith bursts into the engine room.

"How's it looking?"

He doesn't really want to rush her but, uh. They might all die in the next few minutes if this stupid train isn't stopped. He stares at the manual with increasingly wide eyes.

"Oh."

Hunk | Voltron: Legendary Defenders

[iseveryonenodding]

B

Hunk stares at the ventilation shaft opening, deeply doubtful of this whole plan. At first, saving people sounded way more up his alley than fighting on flying bikes or on a train or whatever, but now he's staring down this tiny opening and imagining how embarrassing it's gonna be if he ends up needing to get rescued.

"Are we super sure there's no one on this train who can like... walk through doors? Is that a thing? That's probably... probably the best way to get in, right?"

D

"Now this is just--who thought of this?" He gestures to the manual, feeling vaguely insulted by the complete lack of organization. With a huff, Hunk tosses the book aside, and starts glowering down the controls himself.

"Like, okay, I'm not the neatest guy around, and my notes aren't the easiest--I don't even really take notes too often, so..."

He taps at each of the levers, trying to parse out the logic behind them based straight out of intuition. Maybe one makes the train fly. "But even I can put a halfway decent instruction manual together, probably, that's the whole point of it."

D

[notthatjason]

Jason looks up from checking on the engineer -- he appears to only be knocked out and not dead. It's certainly a relief to the former Praetor, although if they can't figure out how to stop the train it might not be for long. He steps forward, peering over the larger teen's shoulder, to see if he can help. The answer is probably no -- Leo was the mechanic and machine expert of his group of friends -- but it doesn't hurt to try. Maybe something rubbed off.

But, no, it hadn't. That or the book is really that confusing. Jason shakes his head, "Maybe the person who wrote the manual is actually one of those people who hate reading them." He's pretty sure that counts as irony. Jason doesn't bat an eye when Hunk chunks the manual and, instead, peers out the window to gauge how much time they have until it will likely be too late.

"Well, we could start pulling at random...but we might not have the time," he says in a voice that is surprisingly calm. He adjusts the thin, golden framed glasses on his face, "I could try my luck flipping to random pages while you're looking over the levers. Not really sure what other options we may have...unless you know someone more powerful than a locomotive." Jason was pretty sure now wasn't the time to be making jokes, but when you faced life or death situations on a regular basis you started to become immune to it. Maybe Leo had rubbed off on him after all.

b just slams into every voltron here

[redpaladin]

Luckily Keith was coming up right behind him. He looks at the vent and then side glances at Hunk. He could probably fit in those vents but that still left Hunk on the outside and as confident as he was in his ability to punch people, there were probably a few too many for even him.

"I heard someone mention maintenance hatches," Keith offers helpfully. Though, yeah those WERE under the damn train. Hm.

[spideyfanone]

A

It seems extremely unfair that last time he landed in a cowboy universe he didn't get to do this. It's definitely the coolest part. The fact that he's not actually great at the combat side of things doesn't bother him at the moment. It's too much fun to enjoy the massive advantage of agility and teleportation on an angrily rattling, speedying platform with uncertain footing and an engine blowing undoubtedly carcinogenic smog back at everyone.

(Look, his home universe solved energy and emissions sixty years before he was born. He's not very forgiving of primitive technologies. Except when they're entertaining.)

Are midair somersaults and backflips necessary in this fight? They are not. But it is arguably a tactic, since it tends to confuse and enrage anybody he's fighting, make him a bit harder to hit, and he maintains looking cool is kind of a big deal when you're four-foot-eleven and look like a prototype from Satan's most adorable plushie line. He doesn't have much of a chance at being intimidating (in daylight, anyway; the cover of darkness gives him the spooky option), so he has to be at least a little bit impressive.

And as dumb as it sometimes looks, he's pretty effective, in his limited way. He's not a hitter; a small frame and light bones make for a glass ninja at best. But bad guys can't be nearly as bad with a teleporter appearing overhead and pulling coats over their eyes, pushing them down, and poofing away before anyone can get a bead on them. Disarming works, too, if his aim is good. And anyone in trouble is a moment from rescue. As long as they don't mind being briefly suffused in disorienting, hot blackness, weird, dizzying pressure shifts, and a cloud of pink smoke to wave away when they land on the other side.

Bamf.

Agent North Dakota | Red vs Blue

[brodakota]

[Scenario B]

Well, this isn't exactly the situation North ever expected to find himself in, but here he was so might as well make the best of it, right? Not that he really had a clue why, but there were people in trouble and he wasn't about to abandon them. He'd learned, after all, that sometimes you just had to go with a situation and figure things out later. He's sitting in the opposite car, leaning out every so often to study the location.

"So, it looks like we can go over, under, or through. Which one seems best?"

[Scenario D]

North flips through the manual before tossing it to the ground in a suggestion that it's useless. He's surprisingly calm given the situation, or at least, giving off the impression that he is. Mostly he's just racking his brain for ideas, but all he really has reference for is old movies where the hero manages to save everyone at the last minute. Or they pull the brake lever and it snaps off in a comical fashion. The helmet thankfully hides the fact that he's rather out of his depth here.

"So, how lucky are you feeling right now?"

B

[turntex]

While North is taking stock of the situation, Dave distracts himself by toying with the stun blaster he'd found himself armed with. He's definitely not the guns guy -- hell, he didn't even have any kind of gunkind or whatever in his strife specibus, but that doesn't seem to matter here, and that's probably one of the weirdest things about this whole situation. But it's cool. He's adaptable.

"Well. Seeing as through might result in some random people getting their heads blow in --which would really wreck anyone's whole day -- and under runs the risk of us getting uncomfortably intimate with whatever kinda hover-tracks this thing's running on..." He jerks a thumb up at the train car ceiling, expression flat and unreadable behind his shades. "My vote's on over. 'Course, the democracy method ain't good for shit if there's only two people picking two different options, so hopefully you just agree and we don't have to go full debate team here."

Not that he wouldn't be great on a debate team, if only through sheer bullshit. But that's not the point.

Agent York | Red Vs Blue

[goddamngrenades]

A.

Ok, runaway train, bandits, cowboy gear, one blurry eye and a very real threat. This is either the best goddamn post-mortem hallucination ever, a dream, or some kind of heaven.

The fact that York even considers the last to have any weight to it probably says something about his idea of heaven. Now all he needs is a certain red-head and two working eyes- that's the one part of this that has him thinking it might not be complete bullshit. He always dreams with both eyes, always figured if he died and there was something after he'd be able to see properly again. Still. That means thinking about it and that'll take more time than he can afford to give when there are punks with guns climbing to the roof and he's pretty sure he ought to stop them.

Since he's kitted out like a old west sheriff and stuff. The details are also things he's not thinking about. Badguys need their asses kicked- York? Is able to breathe, able to move, able to haul himself right on up after them and start firing. The stun guns are a little clumsy compared to the military elegance of a solid sidearm-

But it only takes a few shots for him to get the hang of it.


C

"Aw fuckberries." That sure is a track switch that'll send the whole train careening off into a canyon or into a mine or- something. One branch looks good! One (the one they're heading for way too quick for York's piece of mind) looks like fiery death waiting to happen if they don't find a way to swap it back. There are bikes, there are more guns, more bandits, and hey- jumping from a train onto one of them to go save the day in a less ambiguous way isn't the most difficult thing York's done in his life. Hell it's not even in the top three.

Jumping with someone else to cover him? That's the tricky bit. "So- how far can you jump, how's your timing, and are you a good distance shot?"

Things he needs to know as he starts gauging the distance, one heel braced on the wall behind him.

A

[frickingguardian]

"Hey! You actually aren't crap at that!" Rocket sounds pleased, or at least as pleased as he can get while decked out in a very small hat and poncho. If he's going to be caught in some kind of idiotic gunfight, he might as well be caught in one with somebody who knows what he's doing.

He ducks as shot skims past his head, then fires back towards the offending bandit. "So, should we start keeping count or what?"

Somebody's in a competitive mood today, apparently.

Kishibe Rohan | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable

[lookatmyoc]

A

This is... Definitely something incredibly outside of Rohan's comfort level, but it's also so exciting! Were he not in fear for his life at the moment, he'd be taking notes and drawing from the situation. However, he needs to make sure he doesn't get shot to death, so he's approached one lone bandit, and with a somewhat inhuman flourish of his pen, he seems to draw into the air. Those who are sensitive to psychic powers and the supernatural in general will see a child-sized white and gold humanoid spring out of nothing. It dashes forward, slapping its hand onto the bandit's face, knocking him onto the roof of the train, and making his face open up like a book.

Rohan quickly ducks down, finding a blank area on a page, and writing into it "I cannot harm Kishibe Rohan, and will fight to protect him". The 'book' is slammed shut, and Rohan takes a movement back with a calm pose. "That should buy some time," he says to whoever has tagged along with him. "I don't suppose you would happen to have a high-quality camera available, would you?"

I'm cracking up, what a beautiful username—

[spacesharks]

"Nope, sorry. I seem to have left mine at home."

He teases, which may not be the most appropriate response to the current situation, but... Well, the truth is, this is kind of exciting for Kyle, too. Sure, he's been to space, but it's not everyday that he gets to take part in a rooftop battle on a train, old west-style. It's kind of really cool.

"What did you just do?"

He hadn't seen the man's ability—he wasn't sure what he saw, honestly—but somehow, he wasn't sure that seeing it would have really explained what happened just now, either.

Dave Strider | Homestuck

[turntex]

[B]

Well. What the fuck.

Dave is plenty used to strange shit by now. But in finally having beaten all the final bosses and all that other endgame shit, he'd kinda thought he was gonna get a break from all that. Instead, he stepped through a door not into the lush world they'd just finished terraforming, but into a vaguely sci-fi/Western train car traveling through a barren as hell wasteland. And he's dressed like a cowboy. Again, what the fuck.

Conveniently, there's some pre-installed knowledge at the back of his head about the general scenario and the ultimate goal here. Bandits, train robbery, hostages in the next car over, etc. Nothing too new and exciting, except for the fact that it'd been dumped in his lap right when he thought he was done with all this nonsense.

Whatever, now is not the time for questions and rebellion against the situation. Game-breaking is more Rose's deal. anyway. For now, he's down with jumping right into things.

"Well, shit. Welcome to alt-universe space Texas, I guess. Home of the free, land of really fucking cliched spagehetti Western scenarios." It's hard to say if he's actually addressing whoever happens to be nearby or if he's just talking to himself, especially half-mumbled as it all is. "The hover train's a decent attempt at originality, at least. Solid C+ for effort. Do a bit of extra credit and you might bump that shit up to a B, kiddo."

While he rambles on, Dave at least manages to multitask a little, leaning out an open window to examine the train setup. And it is certainly bright as sin out here, shit. At least whatever bullshit mechanism is at play here let him keep his shades. He might have had a bone to pick with the universe, otherwise.

"Alright then, let's fuckin' go." Oh. Well, now he definitely seems to be talking to whoever's unlucky enough to be stuck with him. "Time's a wasting, for whatever time is actually worth in this particular instance of paradox space bullshit."

Agent 'Butch Flowers' Florida l RvB

[pleasedaspunch]

b. hostages

"Well, now doesn't this just seem like quite the pickle." It's an entirely offhand comment, more the benefit of any around than for Flowers' own benefit. Speeder bikes, tasers, and civilians in danger actually feels a little blase if he's being quite honest, and while he's still fuzzy on the details of why anyone should be caring about the current state of the occupants of the next car over. A matter of good deeds, perhaps. Or a show of good faith.

He shifts in his seat, grinning brightly at the rest of the occupants around him.

"Now I'm not one for riling things up, but I think the boys here have gotten just a little too rowdy," he laughs good-naturedly, as if the situation is simply "and I'm thinking it might be good to remind them to play nice, what do you say?"

He glances out the window towards the other car, towards the guard staked at the door, "I think it's time for a nice chat, don't you?"

d. someone stop this train

Alright, the situation isn't ideal, he's willing to admit that. Given the chance, Flowers would have much rather had time to analyze and scout ahead before everyone was hurtling towards their impending doom. It's an inconvenience that he's not entirely thrilled about, but amidst the panic he keeps his cool, drumming his fingers across a rather messy page that's currently attempting to escape the book in his arms. "So! Does anyone see a lever with a smudge of green paint?"

Junkrat | Overwatch

[youhookemicookem]

B.

Someone once said that a day where you don't learn anything is a day you wasted. Today, Junkrat learned that trains are a lot more fragile than they look and it's very easy to overshoot the amount of explosives you need to get inside! So instead of a lovely hole in the train-car roof for himself and his mates it's more like...the whole side is just gone, debris bouncing through the dust as they sped on.

"Whoops! Well, they sure weren't expectin' that, were they?!"

E. Go nuts! Junkrat already has done!

Rarity | MLP: Equestria Girls

[magnanime]

[B: Hostages.]

Now considering the whole situation here? Rarity was doing her best to keep her complaints small, especially since she did get quite a nice outfit that seemed to fit the aesthetic of this world (and she likes it), but one cannot blame her for what she's about to say the the fellow 'hero' she's with. Which is on the other side of a train car door, which leads to the one car that has hostages and in her opinion too many hoodlums as well.

"So, just allow me to get this 'plan' right here," her words are spoken at a low level and heck, she even air quotes the word plan. That is how much she is very much not in favor of this. "Is to bust into that train car and, if we are lucky, save everyone and not get ourselves killed."

Rarity leaves the briefest of pauses, as if waiting for the person she is talking to to reply before she simply continues. Her voice going higher pitched, getting as close to a screech as a girl can while also staying quiet.

"Are you crazy, darling?!"

[C: Diverting or Get on the hover bike.]

"No, nope. I am not risking this outfit just to jump from a speeding train on to some equally dangerous motorcycle!" Rarity may be complaining about it, but honestly it looks like she and the person she's with are the only not innocent locals at the moment who are actually capable of doing this.

This being trying to get out of the train, on to one of the hijackers bike-things and trying to divert the train via outside means.

But she is not going to make this easy for the poor unfortunate soul she's paired with, and she's not even doing it on purpose. It's just how she is, sadly.

B

[turntex]

Dave seems unimpressed with her complaints, standing in front of the door to the next traincar over with his hands in his pockets. At least, he probably comes across as unimpressed, between the poker face and the shades. He can be hard to read, unfortunatelu.

"There could -- and probably have been -- papers written on whatever psychoses I probably have." Rose certainly liked to both psychoanalyze him and write, and who knows what that girl got up to in her spare time. "But my theoretical insanity aside, we're supposed to be playing the heroes here, so I'm not seeing ang other options. Unless you got a better idea, darlin'?"

He may have let a bit of Texan slip into his speech there. Some things you just gotta say with that drawl.