Chapter 4 - Salar

Nix
As you climb up to the door and attempt to wrench it open the door gives some resistance. After a few tugs the door opens suddenly with a clang. The bright sunlight illuminates the inside of the car slightly. Inside is an utter disaster. Everything is everywhere.

As you try to look about you suddenly hear a sound coming from the rear of the car. A sort of whirring noise accompanied by a rhythmic thumping. It grows louder and more regular and suddenly you hear another noise as something big tears its way out through what was before the roof of the train car. It leaves a large hole that spills more sunlight into the interior of the car.

As you look over to see what emerged you see a strange sort of creature. It's a hulking wood and metal construct. It's abdomen is a large orb-shaped section. It has two large metalic arms connected by some sort of strange series of wires and iron brackets. It stands firmly on two large solid iron feet. At the top of the torso you see wrought iron bars that come up around the top to form a small sort of protective cage, and inside this cage you see the familiar shock of pink hair of Phina. She seems to be piloting whatever this thing is with a series of levers.

On the outside of one of the arms of this construct you see the lancer that she had been given by the Daggers. It looks almost like a large pronged sword attached to the forearm of this thing.

Utes
As you scan the scene you see three distinct areas of wreckage. The first is the engine and soldier car, or what is left of them. The two have been almost completely blown to pieces and are engulfed in flames. To a soldier such as yourself it's clear to see that there are probably not going to be survivors from that.

The second is the portion of the hero car that you were inside. Structurally it's intact, except that it's been split in two.

The third is the other portion of the hero car that is still attached to the lab car. That's on its side, but still intact, save for one large hole that is now in the roof of the car, you also see Phina in this strange monstrosity.

Xadira
Fawkes comes swooping down to rest on your shoulder. He managed to take flight through the opening in the tunnel that was created and avoided the wreck.