ROTWOTA: Book 1 - The Beginning of Extinction

The Sad Stories of the Number 1 and 5 (2/2)

Sidney was then taken out of the waterpark and continued walking until reaching a small train station.

Sitting at the platform was some military weaponry and two steam locomotives, one of them was a large dark green 4F tender engine and the other was a brown 3F tank engine along with 5 small red coaches.

The armed soldiers then brought her into the coaches along with the other passengers.

Sidney felt relieved and thought she was safe, but after a while when she and the others that she was with were sitting in the 3F's Coaches, gunshots were heard and everyone ducked for cover underneath the seats.

Some bullets shot through the window glass and the glass that fell injured some of the people hiding.

Everyone's lives began flashing before their eyes, some were praying to God to be spared, while others curled up in a ball and seemed to slowly go insane.

But after a few minutes of nonstop shouting and gunfire, everything went silent. The passengers were confused at what had just happened or what even attacked the little station in the first place.

Sidney was one of the first to climb out of the coaches and to see that the attack wasn't over.

Screaming could be heard from one of the station ends as the 3F was being dragged away by a large heavy goods diesel with a chain attached to the front couplings.

Just then, gunfire continued to be shot from multiple directions straight at the soldiers, leaving Sidney and the passengers no other choice than to duck inside the station for cover.

However, some of the passengers could see through the windows of the station of a figure dressed in black climbing out of the diesel.

Some of the soldiers then came rushing in and supplied some of the passengers with guns. Everyone then began shooting randomly in the direction of the firing coming from the forest.

All of a sudden, the 4F began screaming intensely as if it were out of a horror movie.

Some of the other people tried running over to the engine to try and help him as his face was turning red, but it was too late.

A massive BOOM was heard outside the station as metal sheet and boiler tubes flew everywhere. Some of them were shot into the station and killed 3 of the passengers and injured a good amount of other people at the station.

The most gruesome sight was the outcome of the engine. The inside of the engine's boiler, having nearly been melted from the inside was exposed. Dozens of tubes bad burst out of his face and blood had also been blown everywhere while most of the soldier's clothing were stained with it. The strangest part was that a body was laying right next to the engine's remains, but it hadn't been killed by the explosion or the flying debris, but rather had a bullet hole in his head.

Suddenly, the 3F screamed insanely loud as if he was yelling at the top of his nonexistent lungs. Sidney managed to get a good look at the diesel's face which had a wide smirk spread across it. The engine's crew then ran out from the station along with some of the other remaining survivors including Sidney.

They had grabbed things like crowbars and hatchets to try and break the little tank engine free from the diesel's grasp.

After several bashes, the chain snapped in two which set the engine free, but it wasn't finished with the diesel. Sidney could clearly see fire in his eyes and it was ready to avenge the 4F.

The entire group backed away from the tracks as the little tank engine charged back at the diesel, ramming it around a sharp turn which sent the diesel flying off the tracks into a ditch.