Unstoppable

The next day comes by. Seven o’clock in the morning as Twilight’s alarm goes off. She slowly begins to sit up, and snoozes the alarm clock. She takes herself a quick shower, eat breakfast, and brushes her teeth.

Before putting on her A.N.E.R. railroad company jacket, and grabs her keys.

“Okay, I gotta go. I’ll see you guys this afternoon.” Twilight said, waving goodbye to her sister in law, and her brother.

“By, Twily. Have a great day.” Shining Armor said, hugging his younger sister.

“Thanks, big brother.” Twilight replied, hugging him back.

“Bye, Twilight.” Said Cadence, waving goodbye to her too.

“See ya.” Twilight then heads out the door to her car, as she sits in there for only a second. Before cranking it up, and heads to the northern Equestrian area.

***

After a good thirty minute long drive, she finally arrives there. She begins to look through the papers to see who she’s working with today.

It looks like she’s working with...Sunset Shimmer?

“Huh, who’s Sunset Shimmer?” She thinks to herself. When a man next to her is close by. Maybe he knows who Sunset Shimmer is.

“Excuse me, do you know where I can find Sunset Shimmer?” Twilight asked the man.

“Oh Sunset Shimmer? She’s right over there.” The man said, pointing at a girl with hair that has a mixture of orange, red, and yellow. “She’s the girl with in the black jacket.”

“Okay, thank you.” Twilight said, as she begins to walk to the girl. She’s talking to some of her friends at a table as Twilight approaches. “Excuse me, I’m looking for Sunset Shimmer.”

The orange and yellow mixed hair girl raises her hand.

“You found her. How can I help you?” Sunset Shimmer asked her.

“I’m Twilight Sparkle. We’re working together today, at training 1802.” Twilight said, placing a hand in front of hers for Sunset Shimmer to shake hands.

“1802?” Sunset Shimmer asked.

“Yup, that’s the one.” Twilight said, as she hands her the profile papers. Sunset Shimmer reads through them as she nods her head in agreement.

“Alright, let me finish my coffee, and I’ll meet you up front by the van.” Sunset Shimmer instructs.

“Sounds good, see you then.” Twilight said as she walks away, putting the papers back where she found them.

“Well, that went pretty well.” She thinks to herself, as she walks to the front door, waiting outside next to the A.N.E.R. van for Sunset Shimmer.

She takes a deep breath, as she is a little nervous.

“Okay, just stay calm, and you’ll be fine. I don’t know how long she’s been railroading, but I think I can ask her for some help...if she knows what the heck she’s doing.” Twilight thinks to herself.

Until it wasn’t long until Sunset Shimmer arrives at the front door.

“Ready to your train, hot shot?” Sunset Shimmer asked her.

“Let’s go.” Twilight replied as they both get in the back seat of the van. While a male employee is behind a steering wheel, as two more male employees come in, as well as two more female employees.

The trip to the A.N.E.R. train yard in southern Equestria is a thirty minute drive as Sunset Shimmer begins to ask Twilight.

“So what’s our cargo for today, Twilight?”

“Well…” Twilight begins to pull out a chart. “Let’s see. We’re suppose to pick up twenty cars from the Equestrian power plant, that’s just outside of Canterlot.” Twilight explained.

“No slow waters?” Sunset Shimmer asked, as Twilight looked at the chart again, and replied.

“Nope, nothing.”

“You sure? It should be highlighted in red.” Sunset Shimmer asked again, as Twilight double checks.

“No, no slow waters.”

“Alright.” That gave Sunset Shimmer a smile. Twilight looks out the window into the outside world. For what felt like several minutes for Twilight as the van makes it’s stop to a train yard.

Twilight and Sunset Shimmer gets out of the van along with everyone else. As Twilight sees the sign that reads “Rockfard Yard.” Located in southern Equestria. Twilight and Sunset Shimmer begin to walk to Twilight’s train.

“I got one rule, and one rule only.” Sunset Shimmer speaks up as they pass by some Locomotives in their sightings. “If you don’t know how to do anything, you better ask me. Likewise, this is your train, you’re the conductor, and I’m just the one driving.”

“Got it.” Twilight said once they stopped in front of the locomotive number 1802. An EMD SD40-2 diesel locomotive. This train has a black body, along with a red roof, not like the rest of the engines.

“So how long have you been out of training?” Sunset Shimmer asked her as she leans on one of the railings.

“About six months.” Was Twilight’s response.

“Wow. Six months? Geez. What you do before that?”

“Eh, a bunch of different jobs. I got a friend who works at a train yard up north, and she told me that I thought I might give trains a shot.” Twilight said as the girls laughed at her response. “So how long have you’ve been railroading?”

“I’ve been railroading for two years, my friend.” Sunset Shimmer said, climbing on the train. “How about you uncouple those trucks back there while I get the engine started?” She gets in the front door on the left side of the diesel engine, as Twilight puts on her safety glasses, as she begins to walk to the rear of the engine.

Sunset Shimmer starts up the train as Twilight begins to uncouple the two hopper cars, and disconnecting the air brakes. As she begins to get a phone call. It’s Shining Armor.

“Hello?”

“Hey, Twily.” Shining Armor said through the phone.

“Oh, hey, Shining Armor.”

“Hey, listen, you got a minute?”

“Yeah, but make it fast, Shining Armor, I’m working right now.”

“I know, I know. Listen, Twily, I’m a little worried.”

“About what? Mom and dad? Shining, don’t talk about this, please. We’ve been over this.” Twilight rolled her eyes.

“I’m sorry, Twi. I said this before, and I’ll say it again. Can you please just give them a call when you can? They’re worried about you.”

Twilight begins to pinch the bridge of her nose, as she takes a deep breath, and shakes her head.

“Listen, Shining Armor. I can’t talk right now, I gotta go. I’ll see you when I get home.” Twilight said as she hangs up the phone, with Sunset Shimmer coming through her talkie.

“We ready to pull out, or what?”

“Coming.” Twilight responded, as she quickly climbs on the train, and gets into the cab to get into her conductor seat. Sunset Shimmer begins to move one of the levers as it made the train move, as she blows the train horn too.

“Alright, what’s our fuel gauge?” Sunset Shimmer asked.

“Uh...twenty nine hu-”

“Twenty nine hundred?!?” Sunset Shimmer interrupts as if to mess with her a little bit.

“Uh, yeah, fuel’s twenty nine hundred, air brakes knocked off. Time tables sorted in, pick up those twenty cars from that power plant, we’re good to go.” Twilight explained, as it put a smile to Sunset Shimmer’s face. The sign that reads she knows what she’s doing.

“Good, alright.”

The train begins to leave the yard, and onto the line that take them to another yard that leads to the turn table. Which is where they need to go first.

***

A.N.E.R. Crystal Train Yard. Northern Equestria.

Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust are sitting in a cart that’s right next to Lightning Dust’s train, a double header, which is the A.N.E.R. locomotive number 115. A blue, and black AC4400CW diesel engine that is the leader of the massive freight train that’s in the sighting. Along with A.N.E.R. locomotive number 114. Also a AC4400CW diesel engine that’s coupled up behind 115 to help haul this massive train. It has a blue color all over the body, except it has red right on the roof.

Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust are enjoying some chicken biscuits while they sit in the cart. Until they get a call from Fleetfoot on their walkie talkies as one train passes by out of it’s sighting.

“Rainbow Dash, Lightning Dust. What the hell’s one, one, five still doing on D16? I told you I need that track clear.”

“Relax, Fleetfoot. We’re just about to move it.” Said Lightning Dust to Fleetfoot as she rolled her eyes.

“Told you we need to move it.” Rainbow Dash said to her as best she can when the train ‘s freight cars makes the clickity clack noise while coming out of the sighting.

“Shut up, Dash.” Lightning Dust said, getting back at her.

“Like hell you are. I got a small passenger train from Appleloosa coming in on D16, I need that track clear. D10’s clear, you can set it there.”

“Ugh! Fine.” Lightning Dust said as she begins to climb onto her train. While Rainbow Dash goes to see if everything’s okay before the train makes its journey down the main line in just a few hours.

Rainbow Dash begins to walk beside the locomotives as she sees they are coupled up good. When Fleetfoot begins to talk to Lightning Dust.

“Lightning Dust, what the hell’s taking you so long?”

“It’s a forty five car train, Fleetfoot, the thing’s a half a mile long for crying out loud.” Lightning Dust said as she starts the engine, as the train starts to hum. “Rainbow Dash, can you check to see if everything’s good?”

“Copy.” She begins to check the couplings on the freight cars. “Good. Good.” It begins to go well, until she stops by one hopper car. She realizes something. The car’s coupled, but the air brakes are not attached. “Hold on, Lightning, you forgot to tie up the air from one of these cars.” Dash said through the talkie.

“Yeah, so?” Lightning Dust said. Dash rolls her eyes.

“SOOO, you don’t have any air brakes. They’re disconnected.”

“Hey, as soon as we get this train to D10, I’ll hook the air brakes on before I leave, I promise.” Rainbow Dash doesn't want to trust her. But she knows Lightning Dust screws up all the time. She looks at the front train, as she shakes her head. Because she knows if she tries to explain why she needs to do this now, instead of later. Lightning Dust can get very angry, and frustrated at time.

“Whatever you say.” Rainbow Dash replied as the train slowly begins to move out of the sighting along with it’s freight cars.

Rainbow Dash takes a deep breath as she watches several more cars come out of the sighting by the two diesel engines on the front, hauling this train.

“Okay, that’s twenty cars out of the sighting. Twenty-five more, you’re good to go.” Dash said to Lightning through the talkie as best she can, as the cars make the clickity clack noise.

“Hold your horses, Rainbow Dash.” Lightning Dust said, as several more cars come out of the sighting. Lightning Dust is coming up on two track switches. One is pointed at the other side of the yard, while the other’s on the main line. The other is reversed as it’s pointing at the train, and the other at the other sidings. Rainbow Dash replied back.

“What’s wrong?”

“The damn tracks are switched differently. It’s pointed to the other sightings.” Lightning Dust explained.

“What’s your stopping distance?” Dash asked her.

“At least twenty cars to a stop.”

“Okay, then stop the train and switch the track.” Dash doesn't get an answer from her for five seconds. Until Lightning Dust comes up with a very daring response.

“I’m hoping out.”

“What?!?” Rainbow Dash’s eyes went wide. She begins to run up to the train as fast as she can while it’s still going slower then how fast Rainbow Dash runs. “Lightning, No! Do not get out of that cab!” Rainbow Dash screams as she runs as fast as she can.

“Don’t worry, Dash, I’ll set the independent.” Lightning said to Dash.

“Lightning, NO! Don’t do it!” Dash said to her as the train begins to slow down only a little bit. As she can now see Lightning Dust, literally climbing off the engine after she gets out of the door from the train’s nose. Rainbow Dash could not believe this.

“Lightning Dust, get back on!” Rainbow Dash said to her, trying to get her attention as she walks and runs a little bit to the switch track. “Lightning Dust, get back on, you asshole!”

“I’m on it, Dash. I’m on it.” Was Lightning Dust’s reply as she begins to walk to the switch now. Until...Rainbow Dash begins to notice something. Is the train...moving faster?

As soon as Lightning Dust was about to switch the track, she soon drops it as the switch directs to engine to the main line. Lightning Dust begins to run after it before it has a chance to get away.

“You better get back on, dick head.” Rainbow Dash said to her through the talkie. Lightning soon caught up with it. She only grabs the handle to climb back on, until she then trips, and falls to the ground. Rainbow’s eyes widen as she can’t believe what she just saw, as Lightning Dust stands on her feet. “ARE YOU KIDDING ME!” Rainbow Dash screams from the top of her lungs as the train begins to wonder off by itself on the main line. Lightning Dust begins to walk back to her as the train cars pass by. “God dammit! So now what the fuck do we do?”

Lightning Dust is now right in front of Rainbow Dash, as several more cars begin to pass by. “Hey, Dash, I had to throw the switch, ok-”

“Okay?!?” Rainbow Dash cuts her off. “Are you out of your mind? The train’s moving on it’s own...WITH NO AIR BRAKES! Why the fuck do you have to get out of the cab like that?!? You could've just used the fucking brakes, you idiot!” Rainbow Dash yells at Lightning Dust for what just happened.

“Well, it wasn’t my fault.”

“Uh, yes it is!”

“No it’s not, Rainbow Dash!”

“Oh, FUCK YOU!” Rainbow Dash screamed as she pushed her, as the last train car is now out of D16...and headed out to the main line with the rest of the train as it disappears behind the building. This is not good. “Great. We got a coaster going into the main with no air brakes. We’re fucked.”