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− | Meanwhile, Rick’s still slipping along on the roof, trying to get to Nika. And Nika is swinging her improvised club to keep Cole at bay. Arden has been following the commotion over the earcomms and now he leaves the passenger car to join the fight. If nothing else, he can distract Cole so the others can get a drop on him. . Rick is in position above Nika and he yells at her to run. Nika turns to get out of the way and Cole manages to land a blow on her. She staggers but manages to get away and out of Rick’s line of fire. Rick lines up a shot and shoots. He hits and Cole is still up. Cole in turn manages another hit on Nika. She’s wobbly from the cold and the blunt trauma from Cole’s blows but she’s still up. She claws through the snow to get out of Rick’s way. | + | Meanwhile, Rick’s still slipping along on the roof, trying to get to Nika. And Nika is swinging her improvised club to keep Cole at bay. Arden has been following the commotion over the earcomms and now he leaves the passenger car to join the fight. If nothing else, he can distract Cole so the others can get a drop on him |
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− | Meanwhile, Rina is still inside the middle car trying to get past the door to gain the forward compartment. She can hear her friends taking damage outside and works harder on the locks—if there are weapons beyond the door, she can grab them and help.
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− | Rick fires and hits Cole. Cole staggers but is still up. And now Arden’s close enough for Cole to grab. Cole deals Arden a glancing blow. Arden ducks out of Rick’s way and Rick shoots again. Cole stumbles and it looks like he’ll go down….but he manages to stay up, despite his wounds and the punishing cold.
| + | <span style="color:#800000">''' ''(More to come. Stay tuned!--Maer)'' '''</span> |
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− | Rina calls over the earcomms, asking if they need her in the fight. The others tell her to keep working. And outside Cole keeps swinging, and hits Arden. We’re all starting to feel the effects from the cold and it’s making us slow. Cole doesn’t seem to feel it at all. The cold finally gets too much for Nika and she falls unconscious to the snow. The rest manage to hit Cole and this time, THIS time, Cole goes down and stays down.
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− | Dead as a doornail.
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− | Apparently, Reavers are either alive or dead, and there’s no lessening of their ferocity in between.
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− | Rick ditches the shotgun, its job done, and extracts Jake from the hole. Rina calls out for an update. Arden renders first aid to Nika to revive her. Arden drags her inside the middle car to shelter her from the weather.
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− | Rina gets that door on the train open. She goes inside, looks for weapons. Finds none. Goes to the doors to the engine car and for once doesn’t have to do anything to get them open. Inside the engine car is the engineer, the woman dead from her injuries. Frank is there and he’s unconscious but alive. Crossing her fingers, Rina starts the engines and they start right up. There’s only power to the front two cars and we quickly move everyone into the car behind the engine. Rina cannot find the locker where they’ve stashed our weapons and quite frankly there’s no time to look for them. We drag the body of Cole into the rear car with the old woman’s corpse, decouple the engine and the tender car from the rest of the train, and we power our way out of there.
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− | We make our way through the snow and the weather to the Lodge, there to inform the proper parties what has happened so they can go back and claim what is theirs.
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