Along the railways lading from Miyabigaoka into its neighboring cities, lies a train that was put out of commission not long after that which became the Glum Slum. It seems to not be in working order, and sits along the same unused railway as the Glum Slum itself, but it has been used over the years by many Storm Rider teams, and all of its cars retain good condition because of this.
On a well kept seemingly abandoned train car a girl with scarlet hair sat in one of the more furnished areas. This whole place was technically the hideout of her team and was situated on an unused section of railway which used to house the Glum Slum. As such her team was considered to be one of the higher up the charts. It was known as the Orient Express and this A-class team was one which didn't take many challenges because people often saw it as too much trouble. As she sat she looked out of the window her blue eyes catching the light as she leaned up against a large fan closed and propped up. "I think... we'll find less resistance on the way to the top this time." she said aloud to no one in particular. She crossed her legs at the ankle and simply waited, she had nothing else to do this day, so she was relaxing.
"That'd be fuckin' boring as shit!" spoke the guttural voice of a blue-haired man who sat beside the redhead. "I came back for this one to slice up some fucker's fuckin' guts!" he continued. In the meantime, a maroon-haired, shirtless male entered the car these two occupied, coming with a message for the young woman present. "Suzu! Kae says there's a group coming down the rails toward here. We might have a challenge coming."
True enough, the Sky King Shoichi was presently leading his newly-registered team, White Spell, down the train tracks. His ATs carried him along the power line above, and from where he was at present, he could see the full-length train ahead. "That's the stuff, Hana-chan! Let your ATs do the work, and you just keep balancing! Sawa-chan, strut that shit!" he said, providing a bit of encouragement to his teammates who were riding for the first time in what had to be ages. "This is gonna be a really sweet spot to make a base. I found it on R.E.A.D. while we were registering."
The young woman in her traditional style dress flickered her eyes towards the blue haired young man who seemed to express a great deal of interest in slicing up someone. While she wasn't for that sort of violence herself, his usefulness on her team could not be understated. Even so, she felt the need to speak on this matter, particularly how he worded his grievance. "That's a bit violent, Hisashi. Also fucker's fuckin'? Did you really need to say those two words back to back? No one will ever...." she started to tell him about how his general violence discouraged challengers which was sort of a double edged sword, but apparently that wouldn't be necessary. A red haired young man instead told her of a message which meant that they would soon have visitors. "Oh, never mind then." she said given the information that someone was approaching. "It seems you might get your chance Hisashi. Tell everyone to get into formation. We have to greet our challengers properly." she said reaching back to pull the large fan into her lap a bit of a smile on her face. She did like a challenge every now and again.
Meanwhile, the team presently riding with Shoichi towards this place was made up of a bunch of young women. Hanako a girl who seemed to have no hope of riding ATs ever again was rolling along steadily. "Hai!~" she chimed to the Sky King's encouragement as she allowed her ATs to carry the brunt of her run while she only concentrated on the balancing aspect. Meanwhile a brown haired girl with a sporty pony tail dressed in all green seemed to be having a much better time of this than her lack of riding would have let one to believe her capable of. "YOSH!~" she said performing a spin and riding the rails, adding extra speed and friction to the run which would look pretty solid to those who didn't know she'd been out of commission for a while before this point. There were two more young women in this group as well. One with purple hair was rolling along between the groups apparently getting used to the feel of them, she'd taken to conversing with another girl, wearing a utility belt with short cut black hair. Both of them seemed fairly good all on their own and seemed to simply be watching antics of the others from a safe distance. "You know it worried me for the first few moments that his team only had girls on it because of what happened with the last team I was on. I think... I may have been worried for no reason." she mentioned to the purple haired girl who nodded. "I have been a member of the Black Order since it started... Shoichi-san is strange... but he's not a bad person like your last leader was mentioned being. He feels right to me, if that helps you at all... Kaori-nee." she said as she rode along seemingly without resistance to anything but those around her.
"Fuckers fuckin' fuck while they fuck around like a fuckin' pair o' fuckin' fuckboys!" chanted the man called Hisashi in a loud, seemingly obnoxious manner. Even while making such a retort, though, he seemed moderately respectful toward the red-haired woman enough to immediately follow her order to rally the others. In a matter of moments, the top of the train housed the clawed male, the maroon-haired male who now wore an open shirt, a girl with thigh-high ATs and a school uniform, and a very peculiar-looking white-haired girl with a beanie and an array of tattoos from wrist to neck. The white-haired girl would be the first to speak once the group was assembled. "This ain't gonna be too fun. There are six of 'em, and only two of 'em makes my skin crawl. Short... definitely a girl. So's the other one. Only other good one is a Link Tuner with a lot of tech on her. She's one of them Kings, but only one of the others has a Subregalia."
"Of course, I say something about it, you use the word maliciously in a sentence. You know what... I respect that. Not many people can make a cogent sentence out of swear words." mentioned the scarlet haired woman as she herself went to claim her place which was surprisingly enough leaning out of the window of one of the train cars propped up rather nicely against the bottom of the opening with her sub-regalia under the front wheel of her left AT. When they were all gathered it seemed that their own Tuner had something to say about the group travelling towards them. "That doesn't seem right... a whole team with only three people on it worth any salt, and one of those is a Link Tuner?" she said thinking about it for a second she looked at the girl covered in her tattoos and offered a very sincere apology. "No offense, Kae~ But most tuners aren't as special as you." she said offering the girl a smile before going back to her thoughts. "How would they expect to win an A-class parts war that way?" Suzu said apparently not understanding how or why anyone without much more to offer would approach them in such a way. Regardless it would be amusing to see what kind of simpletons would attempt such a thing. Either way her entire group was now in place and looking the right level of menacing to accept any challenges that came their way.
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