Tickets Please

[voidtreckermods]

"Good Morning Passengers, today is day twenty five of the month of Bassoon." Waking up in their beds as always to the announcement passengers will feel a little strange. The hairs on the back of their necks are standing up. If they have any kind of danger sense it is going haywire. They have a moment before a second announcement shines some light on the strange feeling.

"Attention passengers, we have been boarded by inspectors. Please may all passengers have tickets and passes ready for inspection. Please try and stay calm." Calm may be harder for some than others. The feeling can be rationalised, it is similar to the air of expectation at the start of a horror film, or a scary ride. However rationalisation might not last that long as when characters try to leave their cabins they will find the doors are locked. They are trapped.

If anyone has lingered in the gaps between carriages for any length of time they will have no doubt heard the strange sound that can be heard sometimes, almost like faint choral singing. Now it can be heard in the carriages itself. Still faint, but if they are quiet they can hear it in the distance. Almost a cross between singing and crying. Sometimes loud, sometimes barely a murmur but ever present.

The feeling of danger intensifies, heavy footsteps sound outside in the corridors and a heavy breathing, as if coming from a mask. The footsteps move towards the first cabin of the first sleeper carriage and the door slides open...

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Cabin 2:D

[voidtreckermods]

Footsteps sound outside, heavy and foreboding. The door is locked, it seems for now you only have each other for company.

[myblueskies]

Romeo usually got up when the voice announced morning time but today as he woke he felt scared and like he wanted to close his eyes and crawl back into his sleep bag.

It was a bad feeling, a bit like being near an ayakashi that wanted to make you feel bad and ruin your day. But also a bit different. He shuffled to the edge of the bed. "What's going on?"

The voice had said to have tickets ready so he found his, it was in his hoodie pocket from before he had changed into his pyjamas. The voice had also said to stay calm so he did his best to keep his spirits up! He was sure it would be alright!

Existential dread is my preferred alarm clock.

[filmnotyetrated]

Wade startled awake with a deep sense of existential dread. What the hell, he was sleeping you creepy ass train!

"What was that, Sunshine?" He rolled over to look at the kid, pulling his mask from under his pillow to pull it on. "What'd the announcement just say?" Something something try to stay calm? That was a good way to make people really remain not calm.

[myblueskies]

"Yes! It said we have been boarded by ticket inspectors so we got to stay calm"

It was tricky to stay calm when it felt so scary, but Romeo was doing his best and he was sure mister Wade would too! "I don't know what a ticket inspector is though? Why do we need to stay calm?"

Staying calm was good, but why would the train voice think they wouldn't.

[filmnotyetrated]

"Usually when someone tells you to stay calm, something less than great is gonna happen, but I'm sure it will be fine. We all have our tickets right?" Wade said, arms folded behind his head as he laid back. He had his ticket... somewhere probably. He had come back to the room alone the last time so it was probably in the cabin.

"They're just gonna look at our tickets and then ff- leave. I'm sure it will be just fine."

[myblueskies]

"Well that just means we got to keep our spirits up! No matter how bad it is!" They could stay calm, they had tickets and as long as they showed them to the inspectors it would all be alright.

[filmnotyetrated]

"Yeah, deffo, sunshine. Keep the pep up, you're never fully dressed without a smile and all that." Wade said distractedly. When was the last time he saw his ticket? Did he use it before going to bed or did he follow someone in? It was probably fine. They had time.

"Hopefully they don't keep us waiting for too long. I got plans to sleep until noon after this."

[myblueskies]

"You're not?" He didn't know that! But he liked that idea. That a smile was a something you wore just like clothes!

He had his ticket now so he started tidying up his things and folding them to put them back in the cubby.

"Are you still really tired mister Wade?" It was morning time, Romeo was wide awake!

[filmnotyetrated]

"That's right, sunshine, never forget the smile when you're getting ready." Wade stretched a bit, rolling over and fully intending to continue to lounge until whoever it was turned up for their tickets or whatever.

"Part of growing up is getting to sleep alot, the best part, some would say. The boring ones."

[myblueskies]

"I won't mister Wade!"

He grins and brings his knees up to his chest as he watched Wade. Sleep was nice when you were very tired but he wouldn't want to do it all the time!

"I think it would be boring to sleep all the time. So it's good that I'll be a kid forever!"

[filmnotyetrated]

Well that was enough to give him pause. Did he know about that already? Wade didn't think so.

"You're going to be a kid forever? Like the creepy old ginger kid?" At least Sunshine wasn't hella creepy like the other one who sounded like Charles Dickens may have thrown up on him.

"Lucky you though, endless energy and kid powers."

[myblueskies]

"Yeah." He grinned and nodded, having lots of energy was good and grown ups often didn't and got confused about things like friendship. Being a grown up seemed like a lot of hard work. It had been hard work!

"I was a grown up once! For one day. It was really strange. I just grew and was big and grown up and I was like that for a whole day and then I shrunk back to me size again!"

[filmnotyetrated]

"That's wild, Sunshine. Too bad you can't reach top shelves though. Everything else is a bonus." Nevermind all the fun adults only stuff like gambling and rollercoasters. No need to rain on the kid's adorable parade.

"You know, that sounds like the plot of a movie. Did you play on a giant piano?"

Inspector (All cabin mates respond as one thread please)

[voidtreckernpcs]

After over two hours of growing dread and fear there is a click and the door to Cabin D slides open. Filling the doorway are two huge figures, around seven foot tall and bulky. The are in large metal suits, almost like power armour. Black with highlights of gold. They wear a mask that covers their whole face. It is impossible to see the figure inside at all. Their breathing comes through heavy and raspy, footsteps heavy.

They step in. Their presence makes the room feel smaller. The door begins to slide shut.

[myblueskies]

When the door began to open Romeo stared at it with wide eyes. But it would be alright! Ticket inspectors couldn't be bad people! They just wanted to check their tickets.

So it would be fine. He sat watching, the figures were scary as they stepped in but he just sat still. As long as he was good they wouldn't hurt him, right?

[filmnotyetrated]

God he was bored. Two hours in a confined space really made for a good does of stir-crazy. When the door slid open, Wade leaned to practically hang his upper half off his bunk. Stay calm, his ass. How are people keeping calm with the creepiest looking motherfuckers in the universe?

"Hey there tall, dark, and Vader-y. How's it hangin'? What's with the masks? We don't have the plague do we? Or is that just your face? Are you my mummy?" He dragged himself back into his bunk properly to laugh at his own joke.

[voidtreckernpcs]

Dead silence met Wade's words as the inspectors looked around the cabin. The door clocked shut behind them and they moved further into the room, making it seem smaller just by their very presence. "Please produce your tickets and passes for inspection."

One had their eyes trained on Wade, as if deciding that if there were to be trouble in this room it was coming from that direction.

[myblueskies]

Two hours was a long time. Especially when he was feeling so scared! But he had done his best to keep his spirits up and spent the time drawing and watching Wade.

He didn't understand anything that Wade said when the inspectors came in but he hopped off his bed, ticket in hand.

These inspectors were scary but they just wanted to check their tickets. He walked up to one with a polite, if scared, smile. "Here you go, inspector." He held out his ticket.

[filmnotyetrated]

Wade whistled, patting himself down even though there were no pockets on his pajamas that his ticket night be hiding in.

“Oh man, where did I put that? You know I usually just follow someone in. Can’t remember the last time I saw that thing.” He started, leaning over the edge of his bunk to contort around and start digging in the pile of his things on the only empty bunk below. There was a slight tension across his shoulders as Romeo approached the creeps, ready to strike, just in case anything happened.

“I mean, we were snatched up by this train, right? So how would we be here without a ticket? Why bother inspecting, not like someone could stow away here or something, right?” he continued rambling still rooting around in his things. That damn lanyard he stuffed the ticket in had to be in there somewhere.

[voidtreckernpcs]

They took the ticket off the child and brought a hand over him bathing him in a green light. "Romeo. Eleven years of age. Correct cabin. Began service twenty five void days ago. Time in void has been eighteen days with seven days on world 25768. Is this information correct?"

The second inspector had moved over to Wade. "Those without tickets must step off the train with us." They warned as they watched him scramble around for his ticket.

[myblueskies]

"No! I mean yes that information is correct inspector! But mister Wade has a ticket I promise!"

He scrambled over to Wade's bed, to help look. That ticket had to be somewhere! Mister Wade's things were all a mess but Romeo had thought it would be rude to tidy them and now he was wishing he had because then they would know where the ticket was!

"Don't worry! We will find it!" And in a quieter voice. "I won't let them take you away sir!"

[filmnotyetrated]

Wade groaned and flopped face first into the bottom bunk he had been rooting around. Sunshine killed him, he was dead. His heart grew three sizes that day, da-hoo-do-res and all that.

"Thanks, Sunshine, but if we can't find it, don't get between them and me, yeah?" He tried, hoping he wouldn't be responsible for the kid getting hurt.

He looked back at the inspectors. "So, while we're all here and you studs are waiting so patiently and all up in my bidness, what's going on? You got names? I can make some up for you, if you want?"

[voidtreckernpcs]

"All passengers must produce tickets. It is illegal to travel without them and to not produce it on request." The inspector told the child as he helped Wade search for the ticket. The inspectors stood still, watching them in silence.

"This is an inspection of the void transport known as the Voidtrecker Express. All transport moving through void space are subject to inspections under inter dimensional law, notably sections seventy two and six hundred and three. You should be searching for your ticket."

[myblueskies]

"I won't let them take you sir! Not never!" So no promises on not getting in the way. He would get in the way as much as he could if it would stop them taking Wade away!

But hopefully that wouldn't happen. Hopefully they would find that ticket. He continued searching through Wade's things, checking all the pockets.

[filmnotyetrated]

"Real ride or die of you, sunshine, I appreciate it." Wade raised a hand to wipe a fictitious tear from his eye over the mask. He shot a look over at the man-droids. "I'm lookin', I'm lookin. It's here some-" Wade paused as he slipped a hand into the pocket of the hoodie he had been sleeping in.

Oh.

Whoops.

Sheepishly he pulled his ticket from where it was stuffed in his pocket. "This what you're after, then?" He asked, handing it over.