Soul Train - Model Eclipse

"CHRONIAS! Quickly! You're an artificer demon aren't you!? You MUST think of something that can get us out of this!" I feel his comforting wing membrane wrap around me, blocking out the light again. I wish it didn't take him doing this sometimes, but I know that he will be taking the bullets for me while I think. The mercenaries of Quicksparks' Crew would surround us on all sides if we weren't careful. In the shadows though, a perfect fitting escape was all I had wanted. And so, as I knew it would, it started to build itself piece by piece, as I thought of the parts.

Tracks. We needed a train... a very basic model appeared from the shadows, surrounded by the darkness. I could hear sounds of agony and pain from my partner. I knew he wouldn't spend his energy talking and would just start reeling away quickly if I let him. THINK Chronias. Needs some form of weaponry. An Ion cannon line! Suddenly both sides featured lasers which would destroy both sides of the mercenary forces. Suddenly... even before I could think of more... Eclipse's voice rang out.

"They... they stopped. What are you showing them Chronias?"

"They're outmatched."

However, what I couldn't tell him was that to power those massive cannons, incinerating through pure holy light, it would steal his soul power. It was the only thing I could think of without time to prep.

"That's ok Chronias. I'm willing to spend it for you and just..."

"Enough of your self-sacrificial bullshit ok! We can think about that when we AREN'T BEING SHOT AT!" His comforting paw reaches down from the darkness, and I grab it, closing my eyes as I was taught. I felt his lips meet mine again, feeling his magic course through me. And then, the sounds of the world reversed. I knew every second still mattered, but... I had to... linger on that for a moment before I opened my eyes to see the truth again.

He had holes blown through him this time. The pain must have been immeasurable. I couldn't even imagine. The kind of things these angels were willing to do just to give me time... I couldn't let this happen again.

"Ok fucker... that was STUPID but ok. I'll pretend like I know the reason you literally risked your life for me over a fucking train design. However, we're SAFE now. So enough with that depressing garbage. We have to hash out that train's design if it will manifest there, right?"

"R... right...." Clearly Eclipse was very tired through all the energy he expended trying to get me out of there. Why was he ALWAYS like this? I've barely known him, and now not only did he descend from the heavens for me, but he even wanted to die for me... Depressed motherfucker... he really doesn't get that I love him does he? Well, enough distractions. "What do you want for the Soul Train... Model - Eclipse? You trying to be my little nepotist now?" I ignored him this time. He'd be getting a big rant and ramble the next time I had to go backwards in time. That is if we ever get out of this particular time loop.

"I need it heavily armored Eclipse. Make it into a train where the smokestacks excrete your darkness and..."

"Excrete!? Dude, could you come up with a WORSE way to say that?"

"Don't test me right now motherfucker, or we're having this argument while your soul gets eaten alive." Knew that would shut him up. "The armor should be an alloy of Ebony and Diamond... if... that's even something you can do."

"Black Diamond Shell. Got it. Should make it bulletproof to even their angelic gunfire if we're lucky right?"

"Right. Now.... maybe we make some Black Diamond Cannons... that.... don't..."

"Everything must be powered by depleting my soul. That's how this works."

I cry a little... worried I'd lose him after just really starting to know him, but I carry on. "Lets... make those canons into something lighter then. Less intimidating but also expending less energy. Something like...a line of tommy guns firing bullets meant to incapacitate instead of kill." He nods solemnly. He didn't really want to kill them anyways. I knew that deep down.

The holy bullets that the gang was firing raced over our heads again though. DAMN IT. I thought of bullets so now they're back! Time was moving forward though so we realized we had to run more. I held him up and pushed forward. Not letting him use energy while he was in recovery mode. "Chronias... the train is here... go already and leave me..." a bullet grazed me and he pushed me forwards as soon as he felt it hit me. That Mother....

Before I could think, I turned back around to where he pushed me and right there, was a badass looking train. Pure black like his old detective agency building. Spikes protruding from every angle and forming the front grill so that the face of it looked like a black dragon's maw. To the passerby and those chasing us, it would appear as if out of nothing. And then? To my extreme relief, my darling Eclipse was fully formed in the train's conductor door. It only had one train car behind it, featuring our soul powered Tommy guns, which I could tell hadn't been spotted entirely yet, but the intimidation factor bought us more time. Scratch apparently contributed too. Inside the train was a DJ Turntable... SHE'S ALIVE! She was in the train too! The time I bought us let us all get inside and I hugged them while time seemed to stop around us.

"You did it Chronias." Scratch said lightly before letting go of a warm hug she'd gotten me in without me entirely realizing how much I'd needed it. I'm just... shocked with the speed of everything. It truly happens instantaneously around him... this is perfect. Too perfect.

"It would be perfect... if those guys weren't still firing on us Chronias." Eclipse said as I turned around at the open door and slammed it shut. Now though, we're in headspace again. Safe as can be. Time loop broken once again. Eclipse's wounds recovered and time was frozen once again. As silent as the night again, now in our little home away from home.

"You were right Chronias. It was in fact my idea to have the turntable be the power source. I got thrown into a completely different part to the city. But your quick thinking about how it would get powered brought me here again. Guess Eclipse had more of this planned out than you thought." Eclipse actually shook his head.

"This beauty is all on him. Entirely his design. He just wanted safety, so it enabled me to bring you here. Welcome to... well... all of ours. Our new home on wheels. Soul Train - Model Eclipse."