#emmet loves his eels. proud eel dad.

[fourphoenixfeathers]

I am Emmet. Ingo is having a verrry hard time speaking. That is alright. I will do so for him. I don't mind returning the favor for all the times he spoke for me.

He has been here since he went missing. He doesn't remember anything before. The only thing he remembered was my name. And he named a weird jellyfish Freight. I can't believe that's one of the few things he remembers. When we get home, I am going to show him the trains again.

?Fr??eight?

Sorry Ingo. I didn't mean anything bad by it. It's a wonderful name. I named my eels similar things. This is Maglev, Bullet, Metro, Boxcar…

…

I am Emmet. Whoever put us here made a big mistake, yup! There are now two of those drones that start the waves on this island.

We are going to break one and see what happens.

…

Well that was anticlimactic.

I am Emmet. It was verrry difficult to break the drone. Whatever it is made of is sturdy. We managed, though. It freaked out and opened a portal. Maybe it went to go get repairs. We followed it here.

It doesn't look like the simulated island. And it doesn't look like Petrichor V. We are standing- I am standing on a floating chunk of rock. Ingo is… also floating. Since when could you do that…?

???

Nevermind. It is not important, nope! What is important is that we figure out where we are now. And what we do. We are still not in range of the Safe Travels.

S?afe?

Yup! That is the ship I took to come find you. It is a rescue ship. You were on the Contact Light, a bulk freighter.

Frei??ght?

Ah. No. A freighter is a ship designed to carry cargo. Freight is what we call that cargo.

Im??porta?nt.

…Is it safe for you to touch…? Nevermind. I am Emmet. I am glad you had someone.

…

I am Emmet. I am tired of this stupid poison air. It is dumb and annoying and everywhere. My suit! Should protect me! From environmental hazards! But whatever this is does not care about things like airtight space suits.

?Voi?d hu??rts.

Yup. But at least it only happens when we activate these odd beacons. They are sending some kind of signal. I know that sounds verrry dumb and reckless. But nothing else here does anything.

There are these weird round containers, but opening them feels like getting hit by a train. What kind of box hurts you to open it? All that for a weird bug that infected one of my eelektross, and an alien device. Ingo tried to grab it, but I stopped him. Something about it felt malicious. Touching unknown tech does not pass safety checks. I did not open any more after the first one. I don't want to lose any more eels.

That just left these beacons. I activated one and the fog came back and we were attacked again. They were more crab-like creatures like the one I saw on Petrichor V. They are verrry dangerous. They almost killed Ingo.

I don't think they want us to activate the signals. But I am confused as to why they stop coming when the signal stabilizes. From my scouting earlier, there are four in total. They have plenty of time to kill us. Why stop when we finish one? What are the signals even doing? Something is not right here.

Fish?y.

Was that a pun? Ingo???

…

I am Emmet. We activated all of the signals. Another portal appeared.

We have been sitting here for a while. I don't like the portal. I have gone through two already. It doesn't go well. Not that finding Ingo was bad. But I highly doubt this goes home.

Tr?ack??s.

You're right. There is nothing else to do. Nowhere else to go. These are our only tracks forward. I still don't like it.

…

It's another floating wasteland. This island looks like a donut. It seems purposeful. Not random.

Lik?e an aren??a.

That's not ominous. Nope. Not at all.

…

Oh dragons. Sweet swords of justice, what is that.

RU??N

Where's the shield generator. I'm out of mines. Everyone, fire at will- CROSSTIE!

Dammit. Crosstie is down. Maglev and Boxcar are damaged. Dammit dammit dammit.

I am Emmet. I need to- I need to get them. I need to fix them. I can't let them-

EMMET

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