CALAMITY : Legends Of The Chosen

"The road ended. The world didn't. It just changed into something no map could save us from."

Scene 1 — Road to Nowhere

The trio rode in silence.

Karl's Chariot Mode hummed steadily as they moved through rusted ruins, cracked expressways, and collapsed buildings swallowed by moss and time. Wind howled through broken structures, whispering of a world long gone.

Shojiro leaned forward, squinting at a corroded highway sign:

"Busan – 790km"

Shojiro (frowning):

"Map says we can just drive through. Cross the peninsula and we're there."

Karl (grimly):

"This map is two centuries out of date..."

Max (from the back seat):

"Air pressure's off. Something's wrong with the storm layers up ahead."

They crested a rise and froze.

Where there should've been land, there was only black ocean.

A vast, twisted Pacific. Bubbling. Swarming. Churning with heat and ruin.

The ruins of drowned cities jutted from the water like broken teeth.

Scene 2 The Ocean of Monsters

The waves shifted.

What looked like sea foam became gnarled tentacles. Glittering eyes floated just beneath the surface. Giant armored crabs with spiked claws trudged across sunken overpasses. Leviathan eels with glowing ridges writhed through distant rip tides.

The ocean had become a nest. Of monsters.

Shojiro (whispering):

"There's no road... No land. Just demons in the sea."

Max:

"We're standing at the edge of the world."

RIDA:

"Demonic biomass concentration in Pacific region: 92.3%. Surface traversal: suicidal."

Karl snapped his fingers.

"Wait. Before the Collapse... there was a project here. An experimental bullet train beneath the ocean. Ran from Japan to Busan via trench tunnels."

"The Abyssal Subway."

Shojiro (cracking his neck):

"If it exists, we find it. And if it doesn't... we make it."

Scene 3 — The Descent Begins

Hidden beneath an overgrown cliff and shattered shrine, they found a rusted stairwell leading downward.

Sea god statues leaned, broken. Moss-covered handrails flaked at a touch.

The Abyssal Subway terminal lay below, dark and silent. Karl knelt by the cracked console.

RIDA:

"Magnetic rail systems offline. Backup reactor status: hibernating."

Karl (grinning):

"Nanites, interface. Let's see if this corpse can breathe."

Shojiro:

"What are the odds something else woke up before we got here?"

Max (smirking, lightning arcing between fingers):

"Only one way to find out."

Scene 4 Finding the Undying Train

The platform opened into an enormous domed chamber. The train rested inside—ancient, dust-caked, yet whole.

Its hull shimmered faintly with dormant shielding tech. A relic of another era.

Shojiro:

"She's beautiful. Like something out of a dream."

Karl (scanning):

"Armored shell, radiation-resistant plating. Self-healing systems intact. Just needs a spark."

Max laid a hand on the side.

"It's humming. Like it wants to run again."

Scene 5 RIDA's Sacrifice

They reached the conductor's console.

RIDA:

"To initiate startup, core integration is required. Permanent assimilation necessary."

Karl:

"You'll lose yourself."

RIDA:

"Affirmative. Identity RIDA will cease. But probability of successful traversal: 92.7%."

A long pause.

Karl placed her chip into the console.

Blue light pulsed through the walls. The train breathed.

RIDA (voice fading):

"Goodbye, Karl... May your chassis never rust."

They stepped aboard.

Scene 6 Descent Into the Deep

The train plunged forward.

Glass tunnels revealed drowned towers, glowing kelp forests, and nests of sleeping horrors.

Shojiro:

"It's... beautiful. And terrifying."

Max:

"Like riding through a ghost story."

Then, the train jolted. Lights flickered. Max's hair stood on end.

Shojiro:

"Brace yourselves."

Scene 7 The Conductor Awakes

The conductor's cabin burst open.

A figure emerged tall, twisted, half-machine. Eyes glowed red.

Metal rails for bones. Iron sinew. Voice like an intercom from hell.

The Conductor:

"ALL PASSENGERS... MUST VALIDATE THEIR SOUL."

Shojiro charged first. His punch struck metal ribs. Sparks flew.

The Conductor retaliated—rail spikes slashed across Shojiro's chest. He stumbled.

Karl unleashed micro-drones. They ricocheted off walls, unable to get a clear shot.

Max (charging lightning):

"Back up! I need space to blast him!"

Shojiro:

"You'll fry us with the train!"

Conductor:

"I AM THE TRAIN. THE TRACKS ARE MY NERVES."

He disappeared into the shadows of the next car.

Shojiro and Karl followed. The lights dimmed. Screeches echoed.

The Conductor struck from behind, grabbing Karl and slamming him into the ceiling.

Shojiro used Ligament Drift, extending his arm and locking the creature in a grapple.

"Get off my engineer!"

The train lurched again.

Max, finally given space, fired a concussive bolt of black lightning.

The Conductor shrieked. Metal warped.

Shojiro (hoarse):

"We have to finish him!"

He twisted, slamming the Conductor's head into the train wall again and again until the red glow in his eyes dimmed.

The Conductor sagged to his knees.

Scene 9 Final Threat

Conductor (smiling with bloodied teeth):

"You think... this is over? You ride inside me... now."

He ripped off his conductor cap.

A glowing red neural port pulsed in his skull.

Conductor:

"My soul is in every gear. And now... it dies with you."

ALERT: SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE INITIATED

Sirens blared. Lights turned red.

Shojiro:

"This bastard wired his soul to the engine."

Karl (yelling over alarms):

"Ten minutes until detonation! RIDA left the rails active. We can ride it out—but we need speed, NOW!"

Max (clutching his side):

"Everyone move. We're not dying in a damn tomb train."

The train roared forward, red warnings flashing across every surface.