Fox of Spades

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Before he could protest, Aiden and Lizbeth were gone and a barrage of bullets struck the rock he had positioned himself behind.

He waited for the barrage of paint bullets to cease, then crept towards where Lesley and Leila were standing. "I guess it's up to us to find Jasper and Inadi," he laughed a little but froze when the sound of gunfire echoed across the forest. Judging from where the bullets came, Jasper and Inadi were somewhere closer to the swamp. He couldn't see Est or Breeze, though Harper doubted they were far away.

"Leila, Lesley," he gave them both a salute. "If we circle around them we might be able to get some shots in." He tapped them both on the shoulders and laughed. "Leila's an archer and you're a paint master, so let's go win this game!" He wasn't one for confrontation, but this was all in good fun and after spending who knows how long at the Queen's castle, being out and about felt good. He nodded his head and ducked made his way towards a rotting tree. "Don't stick your head out and be careful for robots."



Unlike the humans who were being all strategic, Aiden was hopping from rock to rock, chirping gleefully like some ecstatic rooster. "Est! Hey, hey, Est? Are you here? No?" He circled around a tree and peered at some of the bushes. "How about here?"

Silence greeted him and the Nobody puffed out his cheeks in disappointed.

"Lizzie?" No one answered. "Oh c'mon, this is getting boring. We're here to have fun!" He heard the rustling of leaves a devious grin lit up his face. "Est?" There was no answer, so he began tiptoeing towards the bush, grinning like a cheshire cat as he did so.

There was more rustling and soon a squirrel leaped out of the bush, attaching itself to the Nobody's visor.

Aiden shrieked like a banshee and all the birds in the vicinity flew off.



That...idiot? Cheese for brains? She couldn't even come up with the appropriate word to describe her partner.

She wondered what had happened, had Est and Breeze found him or had he fallen into one of the traps set by the other players? Lizbeth let out a sigh, whatever he was doing, he had better shut his mouth. If he kept this up, all the enemies in the area would be alerted.

She shook her head right and left then made her way back towards the edge of the forest. Neither Aiden nor the humans were there and it was absolutely empty. She wondered where they had ran off to and had prepared to turn around, but gray smoke caught her eyes.

And then the trees began to shake and the beeper on her shoulder began flashing red. Something was coming...

Meanwhile, Lesley, Leila, and Harper had finally managed to locate the couple. The duo were hiding behind a log and now would be their chance to strike. Harper took a step towards Inadi and Jasper but as he did so, the trees behind the duo began to bend and heavy footsteps resounded throughout the arena. "OH..." he gasped and clamped both hands over his mouth. If Jasper and Inadi hadn't noticed him yet, then there was no way they wouldn't notice that.

"Source of noise, detected!" Apparently, one of the robots had heard Aiden's screaming, but instead of finding the soldiers he had run into the humans. The giant creature had to be at least nine feet tall and it had two paint cannons where its arms should have been.

Dun Dun Dun

Harper's eyes went wide and he backed up into Lesley, apologizing when he stepped on his friend's toes. "J-J-Jasper...Inadi," he gestured around awkwardly with his hands, his mouth hanging agape. "I think you should walk away slowly..."

A burst of steam shot out of the creature's back and two bright red laser dots landed on Inadi's and Jasper's visors. Three more dots shot out of the robot's own visor, positioning themselves over Lesley's, Leila's, and Harper's chests. "Or run, we can all just run!"

The creature opened fire and he tackled both Lesley and Leila to the ground. "Guys, guys, guys! The forest," he scrambled to his feet and motioned wildly for Inadi and Jasper to join them. "Let's go—oh my God." The robot fired another shot, snapping a tree in half.

Harper's eyes grew the size of saucers, and soon each of the humans had a bright red laser positioned between their eyes.

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Collab Between Ryver and Fox

It was the last key, and it was so high up. Really, there had to be a dozen other competitors zipping towards it, and to top it all off, Toby had left them again. Dagnabbit! She and Ran would need all the help they could get. "Ran, we're going up, this is our last chance!" Riley doubted they'd be able to steal the key if a more experienced competitor got to it first.

"I think we'll have to... oh... you got it." Ran watched as his partner zipped off. The man kicked the back of his heels and headed for the nearest platform. The cloud poofed right underneath him, and Niran plunged through several clouds. Just as he thought he was about to hit the ground, he landed on a particularly bouncy cloud and was catapulted out of the dome.

Her eyebrows furrowed in concentration and soon she was propelled up, the girl wobbled for a moment or two then steadied herself. The key wasn't so far away, but a few others were getting quite close. "It's just skating," she said to no one in particular. "Just skating, but a 100 feet above ground...yeah." Her jet shoes propelled her towards the key at what felt like mach speed, and she yelled the whole way, distracting the riders who were battling for the silver key. Bam! She crashed into a young man in a suit, throwing him off his board and onto the safety net. And then she kept flying and crashed into the key, arms flailing and hair obscuring her vision.

"What the cellery? The Key!" The nobody scowled then turned to his fellow competitors. "Right from under our noses too!"

"What key?" Riley looked down to see the key clinging to her coat and she grabbed it between both hands and stared. Well, wasn't this a lovely surprise. The girl grinned and rather impulsively, she raised the coveted key above her head. "Ran—whoa, Ran! I got the key!"

Every competitor within shouting distance turned to look at her and their eyes landed on the key. Soon, they were zipping towards her. Riley looked confused for a few moments, but then she realized what was happening—she crashed into one of the platforms.

"Riley! Watch out!"

Ran felt the air leave his lungs for a second time this race. He immediately wrapped his arms round Riley as both of them plunged downwards. Uh-oh! This felt awfully familiar! He braced himself as the both of them hit the last cloud. They sank into and stayed there. He held his breath as he watched the other competitors hover overhead in a vulture like fashion. He felt the cloud compress and little more before it sprung back. The force of the launch sent them flying straight at several off those vultures. several of them were knocked off their boards and into the springy clouds.

"Sorry!" Ran yelled as they flew pass.

The two of them were hurled out of the dome, and passed a camera crew riding on a blimp. Ran smmiled nervously as he waved to the startled crew. That was when he felt himself begining to descend.

"Note to self, not all clouds are soft and, ugh...don't eat anything before a hoverboard race." Riley let out a groan, still partially dazed from tumbling through the air and falling into clouds. She had a hand a clamped around Ran's own, and if not for him, she would have crashed into another rider. "I feel sick." the girl was a little green in the face but as soon as the gang of riders began to surround them, she snapped out and if and frowned. "Hey Ran, we should probably..."

Several Nobodies in hoverboards began speeding towards them.

"RUN! I mean, FLY AND FLY FAST!" Once again the boots did as told and with Ran in tow she was sent tumbling through the air and towards the maze. Was that Toby? "Toby! We have a keyAGHG!" One of the nobodies nearly hit her in the face with a dodge ball and it barely missed her head. "To the maze!" Some of the nobodies had even turned on Namine and Toby. It was the last key and they were getting desperate.

A fog horn sounded! It blared repeatedly several times. All the item roulettes changed into balloons that flew off into the sky. All over the city center competitors groaned as their weapons changed to confetti. The only thing that remained were the shackles round Nympha and Ellie's hands. "I swear the game makers have it in for us!" Nympha yelled angrily as she stuck out her tongue at a nearby camera.

Ellie chuckled wryly. "They do things to please the sponsors. Heck I heard those rich [censored] get to choose the items we get from each roulette."

Goomba said "There goes the signal! The gates to this year's Thunder Dome are now open. Competitors have to team out or get out."

Across the screen several competitors were shown blown away from the gates when they tried to enter without a key. Many were now crowding round tue enterance begging those with keys to let them in.



"Hmm, it looks like the gates have opened." He gave Ace a polite nod, "once again, thank you for the save. It's quite odd, I thought more people would be after us..." Several Nobodies on hoverboards zipped past them, ignoring them completely.

The gentleman arched an eyebrow then noticed a handful of familiar faces. "My, my, it looks like your friends kept them occupied. You humans can be quite troublesome, can't you? I think I'd like to see earth for myself, you're all a rather interesting bunch." Lavi grinned as they slowly made their way towards the gates. Ace's friends were making quite a ruckus and the girl with orange-ish hair was dragging a poor blond boy by the sleeve of his shirt.

"Ran, Toby, we're almost there—hell yeah!" A red light scanned the key in their hands and instead of crashing into the barrier they slipped past it, as if it were air. The trio crashed into the thunder dome, but their pursuers could not get inside.

Lavi laughed at the heap of Nobodies and one even had his face smooshed against the barrier. "Let's fly in while they're distracted. I think Ri's already inside, we best catch up to them." And with that he leaned forward and sailed past the barrier with ease.

As soon as all seven keys had passed, the gates to the thunder dome snapped shut.

Announcer Goomba said Folks, it looks like we're reaching the end! We're are now inside the thunder dome! Mazes, obstacles, and traps, which of our competitors will make it to the end without wiping out! Let me hear a cheer!"

The crowd went absolutely wild.



Somewhere in the crowd Japhet groaned. If this kept up, he was going to go deaf. Still, he was pretty amazed with the humans. To be honest, he was expecting them to fall flat on their faces as soon as the race began, this was an absolute miracle.

He felt communication device by his hip vibrate and he pulled it out to look at the screen.

One message from Sgt. Keyes said Suspicious figures have once again been spotted outside the city walls. All personnel keep your eyes peeled.

Japhet frowned and wondered if was them. They'd need to get back to base soon, he didn't want the humans to fall into any danger...

Pirate Age

Twoooo exams were moved to next week <3!

I will have time to post tomorrow ^^

Have some music box stuff, fellow pirates! And Borderlands looks like a lot of fun xD

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Good mornight everyone!

One of our profs had to go somewhere, sooo we dismissed early. Haha, two exams were also moved to next week, so I'm going to get started on a post! The internet is too slow for videos atm, but I shall check those songs out when it speeds up.

Thunder, that cake looks so delicious ;A;!

I hope the duskdawn has been kind to everyone. Hooow are things going for you guys~?

Edit: Decided to do a collab with Ryver for the first post, now working on the second one!

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

*Pops in* Heyooo guys, I might be able to post tomorrow night. Maybe...hopefully, but I'm not so sure.

Kimchi, awesome post. I really loved how you handled Aiden and Lizbeth, thanks a ton for the help!

Aki, v.v you are evil. Haha, maybe I should just kill everyone, that way they can go down together and it's less sad cause no one will be left behind. Ace can go down in a blaze instead of being executed and no one will get their heart broken.

True End

+ Humans have finally completed the list, they head towards the train station and try to open the portal.

Choo choo! The midnight train rolls in and runs over them all :3

the end <3

Annnd loved the fic! How are you guys doing? I hope the mornight has been treating you people well.

Once again, sorry for the delay v.v *scurries off*

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

No worries, MUG, best of luck with all your work!

Also, something came up v.v papers that were supposed to be due on Thursday are now due on Monday, so I won't be able to post tonight and will be disappearing. I'll get to the challenge and to posting when it blows over, but since midterms are happening as well, my next post might not be until Friday night. I am really, really sorry about this delay.

You guys are free to head onto the maze without me and as for Harper, let's just pretend he's taking cover somewhere, OTL.

I hope you're all having a good mornight v.v once again, sorry.

Pirate Age

Looking forward to it! ^^

v.v Also something came up. Papers that were supposed to be due on Thursday are now due on Monday, so I'm just going to disappear now and sob. Gonna end up missing this cycle, sorry.

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Good mornight, guys! It's Friiiiiiday.

Nice post, Anon, loved what you did with the groups and those stats are pretty useful, thanks :D! Oooh, looks like the blue team is at an advantage, c'mon red team, let's make this a fight to remember! *Shot*

Loving the video captain <3 and the later ones are pretty awesome too, though I'm not sure if they were made by the same person.

I'll prolly post after Ryver and Four, but I might post tomorrow instead. It turns out we have a Saturday poetry class tomorrow v.v , so I might work on some poetry tonight and just post tomorrow night. Haha, depends on how things go, I guess.

Have fun with your aunt, Ryver, and best of luck to everyone with everything :)!

Also, MUG, you doing okay? You've been kind of quiet lately.

*Drops some music*

Pirate Age

Yep, Zerochan is a pretty good place and loving the animator vs animation vid <3

Those things are always cool~

Aye, aye, captain. I shall have Nolan stick with you people :)! I should have a post up by Sat or Sun but after that v.v gun be busy. I'll be able to drop in the OOC and stuff, just won't be able to post.

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

Good mornight people, and nice posts :)!

I'll be throwing some NPC's at Est's and Breeze's group tomorrow, then I'll probably move the red team someplace nearby. As for the Hoverboard people, gonna send you guys into the maze for the second leg of the competition.

Best of luck with all the work, Kimchi *hugs* best of luck with the tests as well! Don't worry and thanks for the heads up.

As for ruined friendships, it'd be even better if we all got into bumper cars...EHEHE.

I hope you guys are having a sweet day! Best of luck to everyone with work and school!