Xaviers!

"What?" Nailah blinks and stumbles right past Domino and leaving her wide open. But on the other hand, the throwing knife she'd tossed into the air was coming down again right where the white-skinned woman had moved to.

The knife tumbled and hit Domino in the shoulder, causing her to drop her gun and cry out in pain.

Kenneth Hale wrote:Bruce and the Gorilla slammed into the wall at one end of the carriage, smashing into the door and opening it, letting them feel the wind in their...I'm going to say hair...as the train rolled along.

Bruce used his momentum to deliver an electric, arcing punch to the Gorilla, who howled as the electricity arced through his body.

Gritting his teeth, he grabbed at the shark-boy with his feet, and tried to throw him into the next car.

Bruce slammed hard into a stack of money in the next car. He scrambled to his feet and stared at the Gorilla through the bills fluttering in the wind. Shit, are those Will? Bruce was too lost in the fight to notice. He hefted the damaged stack and launched it at the GM.

(>_>)

"Just get in!" Sam says, closing the doors and shifting down to head for the driver's seat.

Toshiro Narumi wrote:Bruce slammed hard into a stack of money in the next car. He scrambled to his feet and stared at the Gorilla through the bills fluttering in the wind. Shit, are those Will? Bruce was too lost in the fight to notice. He hefted the damaged stack and launched it at the GM.

(>_>)

Some of the bills probably were Will, but the stacks were large, and Bruce couldn't worry about that right now. Now was the time for punching! Or, uh, throwing large stacks of things at gorillas. Which worked, too, as the Gorilla-Man was forced to take cover behind another stack of bills.

"This isn't going to end well for you! Give up while you can!"

"I can't do that. There's a life at stake," he answered, breathing heavily.

"Just go!" Nailah shouts. With Domino between her and the ambulance. "After the train!" she adds as she breaks into a sprint, away from Domino and the ambulance and towards the train. Once she gets to the edge of the platform her wings snap open and carry her into the air, beating quickly to try and pick up speed.

Shaking her head, Sam slams the driver's side door shut and guns it after the train, aiming to run alongside.

Domino swore, and ran out around back.


Shortly thereafter, there was a convoy.

A train, going along the tracks, with a shark and monkey inside.

A sphinx, attempting to keep up airborne, creeping towards the back of the train.

A war goddess, driving her ambulance chariot of war at reckless speeds.

A mercenary with a rifle, on a motorbike, attempting to run them all down.

Toshiro Narumi wrote:"I can't do that. There's a life at stake," he answered, breathing heavily.

"Yeah, kid. Yours".

The gorilla-man produced a pistol from his suitcoat pocket. "End of the line. You're not getting off this train a free shark."

"Now that's just rude, bro. I was trying reason," he said as he raised his hands.

Failing to catch up to the train by sheer brute force Nailah instead gains some height. Taking aim at the train once more she goes into a dive to pick up more speed. It's not quite enough to stick a proper landing, but she just about manages to get her fingers on a handhold, for a moment just hanging in the air behind the train as she tries to pull herself in enough to climb on top of the train cart.

Toshiro Narumi wrote:"Now that's just rude, bro. I was trying reason," he said as he raised his hands.

"Reasonable people don't concoct wild stories and invade trains. Hands behind your head please," he said, gesturing with the gun.

Nailah Weaver wrote:Failing to catch up to the train by sheer brute force Nailah instead gains some height. Taking aim at the train once more she goes into a dive to pick up more speed. It's not quite enough to stick a proper landing, but she just about manages to get her fingers on a handhold, for a moment just hanging in the air behind the train as she tries to pull herself in enough to climb on top of the train cart.

Nailah missed once, twice...and managed to cling on to the edge of the train on her third attempt. It helped this was a heavy freight train, and not a high-speed train of some subscription, but Nailah could cross off "caught up to a moving train" on her bucket list.

Sam meanwhile is trying to lose Domino, swerving a few times and suddenly braking at least once.

Kenneth Hale wrote:"Reasonable people don't concoct wild stories and invade trains. Hands behind your head please," he said, gesturing with the gun.

"I'm not concocting anything. Just..." he said as he did as told, struggling for the right words in his diminished mental state. "If we were here to get rich quick, why would I risk the train with all that cash sitting on the loading dock?"

"I'm guessing either you have accomplices, or you're an idiot. Maybe both. Not my place to judge."

Nailah carefully pulls herself onto the train proper, getting up into a low crouch and making her way along the top of the train cart, her claws scraping on the metal as she looks for a way in.

"Tosh, I'm on top of the train! Did you get the rest of Will?"

Tosh/Bruce didn't answer.

"It can be three things. Just... oh! Smell the money I was after."

"...Smell. The money. What on earth are you talking about."

Domino rammed her motorcycle into the back of Sam's ambulance, discarding it and leaping onto the roof with a shuddering thud.

"Soylent green is people."

He suddenly shifted back into Tosh.

"There's a polymorphic shapeshifter in the money. There's no way his abductor got all the smell of his paralytic compound out."

Toshiro Narumi wrote:"Soylent green is people."

He suddenly shifted back into Tosh.

"There's a polymorphic shapeshifter in the money. There's no way his abductor got all the smell of his paralytic compound out."

"That's all well and interesting, and I'm sure the proper authorities will love to hear all about your little fairy tale. You are mistaking me, however, for someone who cares."

"Everybody's a bloody action star..." Sam mutters while swerving wildly to try to shake Domino off the roof.

"Dangit..." Nailah mutters as she makes her way to the front of the cart and slides down between it and the next one to find a way inside.

Samantha McManus wrote:"Everybody's a bloody action star..." Sam mutters while swerving wildly to try to shake Domino off the roof.

Domino clung on for dear life as Sam explored the outer limits of "staying on the road". Ambulances aren't really designed for rooftop passengers, though, and she ended up tumbling forward onto the hood of the car, momentarily stunned.

Sam then slams on the brakes again, trying to send Domino tumbling off the hood.

If successful, she'll swerve around the woman and continue chasing the train.

Nailah Weaver wrote:"Dangit..." Nailah mutters as she makes her way to the front of the cart and slides down between it and the next one to find a way inside.

The best way inside was, well, the door -- and from her place two cars down, she could see the back of a large gorilla man, pointing a gun at Tosh!

"Oh no..." Nailah whispers to herself as she tries to open the door as quietly as possible to try and sneak up on the giant gorilla.

Samantha McManus wrote:Sam then slams on the brakes again, trying to send Domino tumbling off the hood.

If successful, she'll swerve around the woman and continue chasing the train.

Domino tried to hold onto the gap where the hood attached to the car---but her luck finally, it seemed, ran out, and she went tumbling to the road.

Sam was able to swerve around and continue chasing the train, keeping pretty good pace alongside it.

Nailah Weaver wrote:"Oh no..." Nailah whispers to herself as she tries to open the door as quietly as possible to try and sneak up on the giant gorilla.

She could open the door, but it's almost assured that the Gorilla would hear her. She would need a distraction...

Kenneth Hale wrote:"That's all well and interesting, and I'm sure the proper authorities will love to hear all about your little fairy tale. You are mistaking me, however, for someone who cares."

"This is exactly why we resorted this. By the time anyone in a position to help believed us it'd be too late."

Narrator wrote:She could open the door, but it's almost assured that the Gorilla would hear her. She would need a distraction...

Catching sight of Nailah, he sighed, "Just cuff me or whatever already Monkey Brain."

Sam does what any sensible war goddess hurtling at unhealthy speeds in an ambulance would.

She flips the switch to turn on the siren.

Cars began getting out of the way of Sam's ambulance -- well, mostly. Some people are jerks, but less than you might think. A more pressing issue might be the fact that, not too far down the road, the train tracks curved more inland, away from the street Sam was boogying down. They'd either have to hurry on the train, or Sam would have to see what off-road capabilities this baby had.

Toshiro Narumi wrote:

Kenneth Hale wrote:"That's all well and interesting, and I'm sure the proper authorities will love to hear all about your little fairy tale. You are mistaking me, however, for someone who cares."

"This is exactly why we resorted this. By the time anyone in a position to help believed us it'd be too late."

Narrator wrote:She could open the door, but it's almost assured that the Gorilla would hear her. She would need a distraction...

Catching sight of Nailah, he sighed, "Just cuff me or whatever already Monkey Brain."

"Good lad. Maybe you can tell your crazy story to a judge and they'll show leniency," he said, putting away his pistol and walking towards Tosh...

That's when Nailah starts sprinting down the cabin, lion's paws making very little sound as she sprints as hard as she can. At the last moment she jumps and tries to kick the giant Gorilla between the shoulders with both feet and all the momentum of her sprint, hopefully pushing him right into a punch from Bruce. "Bruce, now!"

Tosh sprung into action, lunging for the Gorilla with a rapidly growing Bruce fist.

The Gorilla-Man was trained by top military agents to be a great unarmed combatant. The Gorilla-Man had superhuman durability to fight for an extended period of time, and to withstand massive blows from even the strongest of foes.

The Gorilla-Man had also been wailed on by Bruce beforehand, which is why he had resorted to pulling out a gun. That accounted for him being distracted by the onrushing Nailah -- and that distraction was enough to put him well off his guard for a massive, meaty fishy punch from a sharkboy.

Team Fish and Fowl showed that being a primate? Highly overrated, as the Gorilla-Man slumped to the floor.

"Alright!" Nailah cheers and goes for a high-five with the giant shark-man, using the unconscious gorilla as a stepping stool to get the required height.

"Guys, I need you off the train," she says into the comms.

"I'm about to run out of road, here."