Chapter VIII: Runaway Train

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The warp pad sent him on a freight train filled with boxes of cargo. Robert was half expecting something of a construction paper town with sailor mouth fourth-graders. After going through a maze of boxes and finding a few sacs of gold coins along the way, he saw what seemed to be a strong regal orange woman. The train suddenly stopped. She turned around angrily and immediately recognized him. "I've been expecting you sooner or later, Robert Tyler Jones! Unfortunately, there's a large price for your head, and I, Hessonite, intend to take the bounty!" she declared as she drew her sword. 

Robert drew his sword, shimmering in the same light he expected. Hessonite attempted a downward slice, Robert parried the attack and caught her off guard and seized the moment to leap over her and run to a different train car to gather more items. Hessonite leaped through the opening in the ceiling of the room they were in and gave chase. Robert's efforts turned up fruitless for the first three cars until he found a Zapper. He thought it would do absolutely nothing as it was a plastic gray pistol. In vain, he pulled the trigger at the roof, and it actually shot a laser, which pierced the roof like a lightsaber through butter.

Hessonite dropped through the hole and attempted to impale Robert with a downward drop. Only for Robert to shoot the sword, having it fly out of her hands. She then reached for it, and cut Robert's abdomen, making him bleed a lot. The blood was going through his clothes, but Robert took the last chance to shoot Hessonite point blank between the eyes, shattering and ending Hessonite without a chance to speak.

The train slowly stopped and the door opened. Robert saw a small cactus that appeared to have a face. He walked toward it to marvel at the unnaturally natural face formation in the cactus. When he got to eye level with it, it opened the mouth, holding some special badge, and a music box.

Robert wound up the music box, and it played another melody, this one seemed to be a continuation of the previous melody he heard in the underwater labyrinth. 

Give it some words, and

Sweet harmony!

While he heard this melody, Robert felt a new power flow through him. This ability let him ignite his hands and throw fireballs.

As soon as the melody finished, the music box sent him home, and things were not as expected

To be continued...

Sorry for the slow updates, I was really deciding on whether or not to kill Hessonite, and my birthday is coming up soon, so I have that to plan for

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