The Ludicrous Escapade Pt.3

The Burden of Misfortune

"I was told if I let go of this handle and go inside the mirror, I'll die." The engineer took a shaky breath. "Help me! I screwed up before and I lost one of my legs!"

"Inside the mirror?" Gyro still hadn't yet fully grasped the President's ability. "That man collapsed in there is the you from another world? With both his arms and legs cut off...?" He turned away, whispering to you. "Seriously, this is insane. That world with the same person. I can't believe it's really there."

"Why's this have to happen to me?" The man continued crying out. "I'm just a train engineer who makes twenty dollars a week. Please pull me over there!"

Gyro leaned forward, "Well, I'm sorry about your salary, but it doesn't look like there's anything we can do. The moment you get brought to this side of the mirror, the arms tied to you will cross over, too. If your same arms and legs meet, you'll be killed instantly."

You put a hand on the mirror. It didn't seem like you could enter the other universe. "And there's no way for us to untie the rope like this. And if we break the mirror he'll pretty much shatter, too. I guess it's a pretty good plan on Valentine's part to make sure the train keeps moving." Well, as long as you all decided not to kill the engineer yourselves.

"What the hell are you sounding so impressed about?!" Trails of snot and tears caked the engineer's face. "You gotta do something!"

Gyro tilted the brim of his hat down. "I don't mind if you cry, but if you don't let go of that handle, you'll keep living. So just pray for good luck. If we defeat the President, you definitely be saved."

You didn't agree with Gyro's claim, but you didn't see much point in doing so vocally. You didn't particularly care about the train engineer. "I think we're done here for now, then." You hopped onto Moxy, back to riding alongside Johnny.

"He'll probably die when Valentine does, won't he?" Asked the Joestar.

"Yeah, probably..." Speaking of, you could once again see the President chilling by the window. He was picking up Lucy, who's body appeared to have become even more doll-like.

The Joestar wasted no time and shot at Valentine. His nails first hit Lucy in the back, but they did their usual tracking thing and honed in after the President. The girl was left unharmed.

Realizing the moving holes were probably bad news, Valentine attempted to avoid them by hopping onto a chair. When that didn't work, he picked up a newspaper and folded it around the hole. "Dojya~n!" He opened the paper back up, revealing that the hole seemed to have vanished. "To force them between something, honestly... hm?"

As he turned his hands, he saw that the holes and just moved back onto him. "Holes that... themselves are... Even if I force them between something, D4C can't send them to another world?"

Johnny shot a few more times and Valentine was beginning to feel slightly alarmed. That is, until the line of light flowed past him. He was now unscathed, but two guys raking the fields on the opposite side of the train fell down, dead.

"What the...?" Johnny wasn't sure what had happened, but he was wondering if he had somehow killed the two farmers. "I shot six times and... Just what is going on inside that train?"

"I'm not sure..." You could see Valentine seemed pretty ecstatic. "He's saying something about napkins, I think. But whatever the new ability is, I don't think it bodes well for us."

Dio, being a vampire, had slightly better hearing than the rest of you. "I think he's saying harmful or bad things get forced to move elsewhere. So only good things will happen around him." He shrugged. "That's the gist of it, at least."