A Rock and a Hard Place

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"Is everybody ready for the second part of the trilogy to begin?" Theo asked the audience.

"I know I am." Ruby immediately answered.

"You just want to see a grown up handsome Oscar again." Yang teased her little sister.

"Yang!"

Lucy giggled and started the chapter

"I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed."

-Marco Polo, on his deathbed, 1324.

"Who's Marco Polo?" Blake asked, curious. "Another explorer?"

"Yeas, but he's exploration is different from Sir Francis Drake's." Lucy answered.

"How different?" Weiss questioned, confused.

"You'll see."

A dim light flickers in a slightly dark passenger train car. A cold breeze flows through the open windows. The car is uninhabited except for one unconscious person sitting in one of the seats. It is a young man wearing a dark-grey shirt, blue jeans, empty brown gun holsters and a necklace with a silver ring on it. He is the modern-day treasure hunter, Oscar Drake. There are a few small cuts and bruises on his face. 

"Woah, what happened??" Nora questioned with a worried expression.

"An adventure gone bad. Again." Ren answered concerned.

Oscar groans and slowly opens his eyes. "Wha-What's going on...?" He asked, wearily. He tries to sit up but feels a great pain in his side. He winces and looks down and sees a nasty bullet wound in his abdomen. Blood had stained his clothes and hands. "That's my blood... That's my blood. That's a lot of my blood..."

"That looks like a gunshot wound." Pyrrha analysed. 

"Oh my god, what happened??" Jaune questioned, worried.

Oscar feels the cold breeze and looks out the window next to him. He sees a large mountain cliff covered in snow that appears to be on its side. "What...?"

Ruby tilted her head. "Why is-"

Suddenly, a wooden box came flying from the front of the car and smashed into the seat next to him. 

"Woah! What the-?!" Yang exclaimed, surprised.

A barrel came flying by next and zoomed past Oscar. It crashed into the back doors and opened them up. He then felt his seat being pulled back.

"Oh, God." He muttered in shock.

"Grab something, Oscar!!" Jaune yelled with a concerned expression.

Oscar musters up his strength and tries to stand up. He grabs on to the seat in front of him as the seat he's on bends back and snaps loose. It flies towards the back and out of the train car. Oscar holds on to the seat as best he can until it too bends back causing him to let go. He too flies back down the car and out the doors. He hits the railing on the back of the car starts to tumble off before grabbing it. Then he sees the situation he's in. The train car is dangling off the cliff above a misty gorge thousands of feet below.

"Oh, crap..." Oscar said, nervously.

"Jeez, kid what did you do this time?!" Qrow questioned, shocked.

"I have no idea." Oscar replied, shocked as well.

As Oscar hangs there, he slowly pulls himself over to the side of the railing. He grabs on the bottom of the train car as the railing comes loose and falls. He then struggles to pull himself up the train car, climbing the gears on the bottom. Then a large rock came tumbling from the cliff and hit a spot on the train car next to him, sending a set of wheels down. He nearly looses his grip but keeps climbing.

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