Chapter 71 - No Brakes (2)

Shallot was walking through the train looking for how someone could have gotten so many synths into this place with no one noticing. Shallot walked over and leaned down in front of a body and felt what he thought would be fake skin. What he felt just like any other skin he had come across.

Shallot: "This is real skin?"

Shallot lifted the close slightly to see stitch lines running across the body at the body as if you can just open it and enter it.

Shallot: "This is some Five Nights At Freddy type of shit."

Shallot was checking the body when he was hearing a very low ticking sound from the inside and shoved his hand inside of the body a quickly pulled it back out. It was covered in a black liquid. He leaned his head closer and smelled slightly.

Shallot: "Smells like the sludge that's inside of Grimm mixed with an iron type of smell. There is also metal on the inside. Did he use live humans to make these? I don't even think all of these people were Faunus."

Shallot turned the body overseeing that the tail on the back was an extra appendage added on connected to a metal endoskeleton.

[With Roman]

A Faunus ran into the room a Roman was ready to attack him when he noticed that it was Tim.

Tim: "We are doing as you said and started the train."

Roman: "That wasn't me dimwit. Someone used my voice and we were attacked."

Roman points around at the frozen and broken synths in the room.

Tim looked at everything and then was getting ready to wait for what to do.

Roman: "Well, go and stop the train."

Tim: "We can't."

Roman: "What do you mean you can't?"

Roman was about ready to beat him with his Melodic Cudgel when he calmed down and started cleaning the residual dust from his cane so he can use it again.

Tim: "Someone broke the emergency brake lever while also smashing the computer mainframe."

Roman: "How is it still running then."

Tim: "They put it in full drive and then only kept the parts needed running while placing explosives around the other circuits connected to a rigged timer with a speedometer. The mechanic said that if it drops below a certain speed it'll blow."

Roman: "Go find someone to defuse it then!!!"

Roman yelled at him making him run out of the room.

Roman: "Man, animals, every one of them."

[With Team RWBYS and Oobleck standing on top of the train]

Oobleck: "Hurry, children! We must get to the front and stop this train!"

Weiss: "Err... Professor?"

Oobleck: "Doctor..."

Weiss pointing down a hatch into the train

Weiss: "What is that."

Dr. Oobleck kneels down looking at it.

Oobleck: "That my dear... appears to be a bomb."

Team RWBYS all back away from the hatch.

Ruby points to the front of the train.

Ruby: "We have baddies!"

Dozens of White Fang members can be seen climbing onto the top of the train.

Oobleck: "Well, I didn't expect them to go—"

The bomb underneath them charges up and starts beeping.

Oobleck: —easy on us.

Dr. Oobleck looks at the bomb then turns back to the girls.

Oobleck: "Time to go."

As Team RWBY starts running away, Oobleck stops Blake.

Oobleck: "Blake! Detach the caboose! It will kill us all!"

From behind them, they could hear loud footsteps coming through charging in their direction and Ruby could see the masked person rushing towards them.

[With Shallot]

While he was inspecting the bodies he shaped his ki into that of a knife and traced the pre-cut lines and dissected the body. When he finished cutting it open he could see that the spine and skeleton should have been human. It had been replaced with a thick exoskeleton while the sludge on the inside seemed to act as a fluid for the body to make it function.

Shallot: "What the hell did they create? This looks closer to the TI series from terminator but still not as efficient as them."

Shallot started thinking that he should finish up and reached further in with his aura and ki on his body acting as a thin film to protect his skin incase it's parasitic. He pulls out some wiring and pulls out a circular orb device from the center.

It had holes in the side of it with what looked like a small Grimm in the middle of it. This Grimm didn't seem to be responding but it wasn't dead either since the body was still there. He looked around at it for a bit and took it back to Roman.

Shallot: "Don't touch it. It might try to infect your body but make sure you secure it so we can study it later."

Shallot left it on a table before walking back out. Then he remembers that they end up disconnecting a cart that has a bomb that causes Grimm to flood in. Shallot starts rushing towards the back bulldozing through the White Fang member that are there.

He can see Dr. Oobleck saying something to Blake and her heading over to the coupling and rushes as fast as he could.

[Ruby side]

The large individual was rushing to them and she pulled her scythe out and started firing along with Yang sending a shotgun blast towards Shallot. Blake was focusing on cutting the coupling link and separating the cart and sliced down. As soon as she had done that Shallot had speed at his top speed appearing next to Blake.

Dr. Oobleck was getting ready to attack when Shallot tried reaching for the train cart and Dr. Oobleck blasted Shallot in the back but it didn't do anything. Blake finally realized that someone was by her side and was getting ready to attack when she recognized the smell and looked at the mask.

Blake: "Shallot?"

Everyone else stopped what they were doing with Shallot trying to grab the train car but his hand slipping from the sludge still being on it.

Shallot: "Shit!"

The cart moves further away when Shallot rushes into the other train cars checking them all.

Shallot: "Shit, shit, shit. I knew I forgot something. This whole thing has bombs. We surely didn't put them which means that the synths did it before coming after us."

Shallot then turns around and yells to everyone else.

Shallot: "They all have bombs."

The cart that they were standing on also lights up with numbers counting down. Everyone from the cart got off of it while Shallot was trying to defuse it. The train cart decoupled by itself and Shallot looked toward the front of the train where Roman was. He could see Roman running towards his direction with his cane and a suitcase.

Shallot: "So it wasn't Roman that disconnected it which means that someone has control of it from a remote location."

Everyone was about to attack Roman when Shallot told them not to attack.

Shallot: "Roman is on our side."

Dr. Oobleck was confused at this since they were here to investigate him.

Oobleck: "What do you mean?"

Shallot: "Roman is a spy for me to get information on who is plotting against Vale and the other kingdoms. I was also undercover to get information along with another person."

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