Steam engines, Skullgirls, and Universes

Chapter 6: A part of Canopy

The crews arrived at Canopy's prison. It had taken about an hour to get to there, anytime they'd tried to get some answers out of the guards, they'd always shut them down. They stopped outside the entrance where more guards lined up were waiting for them. The one in the front passenger seat got out and opened the back seat door.

"Alright prisoners, get out!" ordered the guard. He grabbed Thomas' driver's shoulder and flung him out onto the ground.

"Gosh, why don't you fling me harder next time." the driver thought to himself. He grabbed his hat and got back up on his feet.

"C'mon, move it along." the same guard ordered again, poking the driver's back with the stock of his gun.

"Alright, alright keep your helmet on." the driver said moving along like he asked. Soon the fireman walked behind him with a guard separating them. The prison there was massive, long hallways more than likely made up half of the place. The other half was the food court, and the cells. The prison cells were all lined up in rows along the wall, they were small but could fit 2 or more inside them. They arrived at an empty cell, the guard fiddled in his pocket and pull out a key. He unlocked the cell and Thomas' crew were thrown in.

"You two and those other phony officers will wait here for the princess to come and talk to the both of ya's. So sit tight." he said locking the gate back up. It wasn't long before Toby's crew shown up and got thrown in there with them. While in their they asked what happened.

"Well one minute we were taking some empty trucks back to Ffarquhar quarry, then the world had a fit, then we nearly ran into a seaside town's quay." Toby's fireman explained.

"That's what happened to us!" said Thomas' fireman. "It seems whatever is going on is not just affecting us, but others." he said to Thomas' driver who now looked concerned.

"Let's just hope it's just us and not the rest of the railway." he said. A guard came in and interrupted their conversation.

"Sorry convicts, looks like the princess has to put off your talk until morning I'm afraid." he said. "Get some shut eye, you'll need it if she's the one interrogating you tomorrow." he said ominously. He made sound like talking to the princess was a nightmare, but really there was little they could do. They listened to his advice and got some rest. The crews didn't sleep easy that night, they kept thinking about their engines. They had no idea if the men left to examine them were capable of doing it right, or if they even knew how to check a steam engine. They had to just try to sleep, if only for a little bit.

If morning felt like it came quick last time, then this time it took ages. The crew got up and tried to wake up, but it was rather hard to compared to their usual 8 hours of sleep and coffee in the morning routine they were so used to. After about a hour of just walking around the cell, thinking, or trying to get some extra sleep, all the cell doors opened, except for theirs.

"Alright prisoners, get to the dining hall." the person on the intercom instructed. All the prisoners made their way to the dining hall, with guards making sure they wouldn't try anything funny. One of them was near their cell. Toby's driver decided to try to get an answer out of him.

"Excuse me, aren't we going to be let out too?" he asked. The guard didn't turn to face them as he walked by, but did decided to answer his question.

"Orders to keep you here, breakfast will be brought to your cell." he answered. Before any of them could try to get more information out of him, he was already gone. He did however tell the truth, breakfast was delivered to their cell, but it wasn't anything amazing. Best way one could describe it as a mush of what was supposed to be different types of food. They all could only stomach half of it. After breakfast was more waiting around until what felt like noon. Then the cell door opened with guards surrounding it.