Suxenus Train Rade and Runaway

The **Suxenus Train Rade and Runaway** was an event that took place during the Quest for the Lost Changeling Princess. Where the main team's train ended up getting raided by Raiders trying to stop the CO Changeling Trooper transport, and made the train end up as a runaway.

## Background

Sometime after landing on Suxenus and meeting up with some Rogue Changeling Soldiers, a blonde Zebra, and a young Changeling Mare, the main team managed to get themselves on a train bound for their destination with help from the new allies they gained. Managing to slip past the CO Changeling Troopers on the back of the train. Utilizing huge crates to smuggle them onboard the train in the civilian portion of the train.

## Suxenus Train Rade and Runaway

On the train, the Changeling Soldiers explained their main tasks, as they and Atticus were transporting several Changelings looking to avoid getting forced into The Changeling Order or Chrysalis' Army. Where Atticus would make some fake traveling papers with new identities, then use the train to transport to the next check point. Meanwhile, Ocellus converses with ????, slowly becoming fast friends. But as the train travels through the snowy landscapes, several speeder skiffs come flying out from behind several trees and began to pursue the train.

Meanwhile, on board the train, Atticus was making his way to snack car to get some of the group some drinks when he overheard 2 passengers talking about the traveling papers, only to learn that Marge had all traveling papers writing changed from blue to green. He then rushed back to the team where he shared his findings. As ???? suggested they move to the combine car before the Guards came to their portion. But as they made their way to the combine car, it was then Zipp noticed several shadows on the top of the train from the window she was standing next to. When blaster fire starting ringing out. Which ???? immediately knew what was going on, sharing that in the past weeks, several raiders would hop on any train to take down any CO Trooper transports and right now, one was going on. Leading Edd to ask about civilians, where ???? explained the raiders would move them all to one car and lock them inside so they wouldn't get caught in the crossfire, before ordering the group to get a move on. just as 2 Qilin jumped into the coach they were leaving as they ordered all passengers to move out of the car. Which they all complied. While the main team rushed out the other door, getting into the next coach. But then one of the CO Troopers activated a lockdown on the train, causing all doors in all civilian cars to shut and lock up. Leaving the team trapped in the coach before the combine and baggage car. As Ralphie struggled to open the door but to no avail. While he struggled with the rear door, Clawout quickly began to cut the lock on the other door. The fight between the raiders and troopers continued on, with the doors locked it left them with some difficulty, but their leader radioed to the outside raiders to move to plan B. Where instead of taking out the troopers onboard the train, they'd uncouple the cars from the first 3 coaches on the train. In which 2 ice drakes flew in-between the cars that the team were trapped in and the rest of the train. Where one of them shut the air valve to the brake line to avoid the train from hitting its brakes on from the disconnection, while the other used his ice breath to weaken the coupling. However, some new recruits the raiders hadn't received the radio transmission and had went ahead and threw a switch on the line ahead. While some other ones boarded the locomotive and then suddenly, the train started to accelerate slowly but surely. Back to the ice drakes, they had managed to get the coupling so frozen it creaked at the strain between the cars, as a lava dragon then jumped in and then slammed his foot into the coupling, causing it to break apart. While inside, another dragon began to screw on the hand brakes, causing the rest of the train to slow down while the engine and first 3 cars with the team onboard continued to speed along. By now, the leader noticed what the new recruits did, and berated them telling them that by causing the train to wreak, the Changeling Order would send a garrison after them. As his second-in-command asked if they should try to stop it, but the leader stated it was too late as with the train increasing speed, they'd never catch up to it on their skiffs.

Back on the remaining part of the train, Ralphie continued to try and open the door when he looked out the window, now noticing the widening gap between the cars. He quickly rushed over to the rest of the gang as he quickly guided Sharon back to the other side of the car to show her what had happened. Now realizing the train was now going faster, they rushed to get the other doors unlocked so they could get to the engine. But when they reached the baggage car, the train suddenly swerved off the mainline, the action sending most of the team tumbling to the floor. While Izzy had managed to catch herself and walked over to the door behind the tender and looked through the window now noticing the engine is speeding out of control in which she puts in her own words: "I think someone has made the locomotive go on a massive sugar rush!" Upon opening the door, Hawker quickly leaps onto the tender telling everyone to stay in the baggage car while he investigates. Making his way over the tender, he scrambles into the cab finding the driver and fireman are both dead while the regulator is jammed at maximum power. And the fire is roaring hot, when he checks the speedometer, it climbs rapidly and the glass breaks from the high speed, then the firebox doors burst open and flames shoot out onto the cab floor. Back in the baggage car, Pipp proclaims the train is moving much too fast, just as Hawker jumps straight into the baggage car and tells the group that no one is driving the train. Now realizing the train is a runaway, the team now have to try and figure out a way to get off it, which Hitch suggests they jump off, as he opens the side door, but Scy stops him in his tracks telling them at the speed the train is going, jumping off would be suicide. With there being 2 results; 1 - The impact on the ground would be increased in force due to the speed and momentum the train has. 2 - There's a chance they would slam into a rock or tree alongside the line and get killed upon impact as soon as they jump out. Which Sunny asks if they can just pull an emergency brake cord, but Atticus explains that the trains on Suxenus don't *have* any emergency cords in order to prevent forgieners from pulling them when mistaking them for a service cord. And all emergency brakes on are only operated by the Conductor in the end coach. Leading Fishlegs to suggest they just uncouple the cars from the tender. Gallus quickly takes action rushes to the coupling between the tender and baggage car and lifts up the screw lever to the screw on the coupling but try as he might, he cannot get it to budge. Due to the tension between the cars, unscrewing the coupling is futile. Zipp then states they'll have to break the coupling instead as she jumps onto the tender and starts kicking the coupling with her hoof, but this does no effect. She then demands a tool of some kind to use. Which Carlos opens a toolbox in the car, and hands her a ballpeen hammer. Which she hits the coupling multiple times with, however it doesn't work not before the hammer head breaks off. Peppermint then quickly pulls off 2 thermal detonators from her bandoleer and activates them as she places them onto the couple and the group ducks behind some baggage as they explode, separating the baggage car from the flaming engine, while also taking out the front of the baggage car and damaging the back of the tender. Unfortunately, this ends up working as a double edged sword, for when Wanda tries to apply the hand brake, the handle breaks off, as it was rendered useless from the explosion. ????? then says that they have plenty of track ahead so they could just eventually coast to a stop, however, Gabby looks ahead and points out something ahead in horror. Leading everyone else to look, now noticing that the train has been diverted onto another track, heading straight for incomplete bridge on the edge of a ravine!

But then Figge has an idea of his own, as he grabbed a length of chain with a hook attached at the end then raced to the last car where he wrapped the chain around the back boogey. Figge is nearly killed when some metal debris break from underneath the baggage car and almost hit him, but luckily ????? pulls him up in time before he gets hit. Then both push the chain off where it bounces along the timber sleepers before catching onto one of them but as soon as the chain tightens it yanks the rear boogey off the car, as the jolt causes the other cars to thud off the rails and land on the timber sleepers, as the wheels thump along the ties while the rear car skidding on the ground starts to slow down the cars. allowing the team to jump from the train, landing safely in the soft snow. After escaping the runaway train by landing, the overheated flaming engine reaches the bridge and smashes through the track barrier, continued off the incomplete bridge into the ravine below where upon landing into the swamp below it exploded, caused by either the over pressured overheated engine's boiler or the sudden coldness of the swamp water hitting the hot metal. Just then the rest of the cars, went flying off the bridge next, splashing into the swampy water next. Everyone watching from the safe distance away, with Scootaloo claiming that must've what the engine that fell from the Old Iron Bridge on the Skarloey Railway looked like when it fell into the swamp below. Leading Izzy to ask about it, but Apple Bloom told her, it was better if she didn't know.

## Aftermath

After that, the team used the dragons to fly the rest of the way, soon meeting up with some other Rogue Changelings where they would take them onward. Bringing them to the secret base which turned out not to be a Soldier Base, but a Refugee Changeling Sanctuary!