Chapter 1 - The Cable Car Station
There was an empty road covered by snow. The area had a large road, a hill on the right side of the road which was also covered by snow and a fence on the right side because there was a dangerous drop on the other side of it. In the air, there were snow particles which made the air look white. Then breaking the silence, a Black Sedans car whizzed down the road. The Car had it's headlights turned on which illuminated the front of it and the road it was driving down. Inside this car were three people and they were listening to the radio. In the drivers seat, steering the vehicle was a young man, at least 27 years old. The man was white skinned, has blue eyes, long black hair and was wearing a green shirt, black jeans and brown walking boots. In the passenger seat next to him was another young man, he looked around 25, who was looking out of his window. This man was black skinned, has brown eyes, short black hair and was wearing a blue hoodie, black track pants and black Adidas trainers. Finally, in the back of the car, behind the drivers seat was a young woman, who looked around 26 and she was just staring at the car's floor. This woman was white skinned, has green eyes, long blonde hair and was wearing a blue jacket which had a brown fur collar, blue jeans and black boots. The three of them were just driving along until the radio started to have static come from it. "Ah come on, it was just getting good" The Driver muttered and started to try and find a signal on the radio. The other two then started to look at him. "Hey, I will do it Brandon, you need to keep your eyes on the road" The man in the passenger seat stated. The Driver, now known as Brandon, nodded and looked back at the road and drove carefully. The man in the passenger seat then leaned down and started to try and get a signal on the radio. "This is why, I always travel by foot, can't have distractions" The woman in the back chuckled. "This doesn't count as a distraction Alex, well I don't think so" The man in passenger seat replied. The Woman in the back, now known as Alex rolled her eyes. "And why is that Matt?" Alex asked. The man in the passenger seat, now known as Matt, stopped fixing the radio and looked at her. "Well, it's not really a distraction is it?" Brandon is still driving so we haven't stopped and the car hasn't slowed down" Matt replied. Alex only shrugged. Matt then turned back around and started to try and find a signal on the radio again. While he was doing this, Brandon noticed that the lights had got a bit duller. He shrugged it off, but then that is when it happened. The Car's lights suddenly shut off and Brandon couldn't accelerate the car anymore. "Guys, hold on to something!" Brandon shouted. His two friends quickly held onto their door handles when Brandon suddenly slowed down the car. Their Car stopped in the middle of the road. "What happened?" Alex asked. "I don't know. I'm gonna check" Brandon replied and stepped out of the car. He then opens the hood of the car to check the damage. Meanwhile, inside the car, Matt and Alex were looking at the open hood of the car. "He will be able to fix it, right?" Alex asked, a bit fearful that they could be lost in a snowstorm. "I hope so. Maybe it's no that bad" Matt replied. Just as he said this, Brandon slammed the Hood of the car down and started swearing which was inaudible because of the glass of the car. Matt and Alex decided to also get out of the car. When they did, it was freezing but because of their clothes, it kept most of their body warm. Snowflakes were now getting caught in all of their hair. "What is it, Brandon?" Matt asked when he and Alex had finally walked up to Brandon. Brandon opened the Hood of the car again to show the damage. "The battery's dead, for some reason, the engine has lost some of it's screws so it's not attached to the car properly and we have run out of gas" Brandon stated. "What are we gonna Do now?!" Alex exclaimed; putting her hands on her head and started to pace. Luckily, Matt noticed a sign on the other side of the road. It had black writing, had a blue background and some of it was dusted with snow but you could still make out the words. Matt then walked over to it and started to examine it. "Hey guys, check this out!" Matt shouted. Brandon and Alex stopped talking to each other and turned to look at him. Matt then pointed at the sign which made the other two walk over to him. "Ski centre and Cable Car station in 50 yards: West; Massy's woods in 2 miles: North" Brandon read out. "You think we could get help at the Cable Cart station?" Alex asked. "It's worth a shot, or we could just freeze our butts off out here" Brandon replied. "So, should we go?" Matt asked which caused Brandon and Alex to stare at him. "Yep, let's go" Brandon said and started to walk in the direction of the cable cart station. The other two friends started to follow Brandon down the snowy road. Down the road; the road split off into two ways. One way went North and the other went West. "We need to go West, that's where it said the cable car station is" Matt stated. So the three friends went West and eventually came to a clearing. They managed to see a metal building in front of them but it was a little hard to see because of the snow in the air. "There it is, come on, let's go" Brandon said and lead the others towards it. When they got closer to it they realised that the station had a door to the right side of it, there was a waiting area outside with benches next to the walls of the station and there was a fence to the side to stop anyone from falling off a ledge. Also, the station was made mostly out of metal and there were a few windows on it. Brandon opens the door to the station which was made out of wood and signalled for Matt and Alex to go in. After they went in, he went into the station himself. It was surprisingly small on the inside of the station. There was a metal floor, to the right was another door with a sign on it, there was a tinted window next to the door so you could see the room on the other side, there was also posters on the right wall and there was equipment like snowboards and skis and to the left was a metal fence to stop you from falling off of a cliff and there was also two strong cables which were connected to part of the station and went into the mountain on the other side of the large drop. "You think we can last here till morning?" Matt asked. "I don't know, we could still catch hypothermia from the breeze coming from outside" Alex replied and gestured to the left side of the building because there was not a wall there. "Maybe I could get the cable car running and we could find more shelter on the mountain" Brandon suggested. "Really Brandon, Do you even know how to work a Cable Car?" Alex asked. Brandon looked a bit sheepish. "No, no, but how hard can it be?" Brandon replied with a smile. Alex rolled her eyes and her and Matt leant onto the metal fence and looked out into the misty horizon, towards the mountains which were also covered in trees and snow. Brandon then decided to open the door to his right. He walked over to the wooden door and tried to pull it open but it would not budge. So he tried to push it open but the same result happened.
Brandon looked around and just noticed the snowboards and skis next to the right wall. He began walking over to them but the posters caught his eye. Brandon looked at a certain poster. The poster was a Wanted poster. It talked about a killer who was last seen on this mountain and he was dangerous and the police wanted him found as soon as possible.
"What the fuck?" Brandon muttered and backed away from the poster but relaxed a little when he saw that the poster had been put up exactly a year ago. "Hey guys, check this out" Brandon exclaimed. Matt and Alex walked over to him and noticed the Wanted poster, Brandon was staring out. "Nice. You think we'll get a visit from America's most wanted?" Matt asked, being sarcastic. "Oh My God, totally" Alex replied with the same amount of Sarcasm and used a giddy voice. The three of them shrugged it off for now, so Matt and Alex went back to the metal fence while Brandon picked up a Snowboard. Brandon then walked to the tinted window with the snow board and smashed the window, causing a loud noice to echo through the station. "What do you think your doing?" Alex asked when she and Matt had jumped from the noice. Mike looked at them and dropped the Snowboard. "Well, I can't really open the door so it's either breaking into the cable car station or it's stay out in the cold here" Brandon replied. "I just hope that we aren't caught" Matt muttered. Matt and Alex then watched Brandon climb through the window. Brandon fell through onto a control table and onto a wooden floor. He got up and looked around. The room he was in had two lockers, a desk with laptops and a computer on his right, a picture of a map showing locations of a mountain on the left and in front of him was a desk which connected with the desk on the right side of the room. "Are you alright?" Alex shouted through the smashed window. "Yep, I'm okay!" Brandon replied. Brandon then turned toward the window and looked at the control table. It was strange to see that the control table had already been tinkered with. The controls showed that the cable car had already left the station and was already at the mountain. "Strange" Brandon muttered. All Brandon had to do was call the cable car back, so after a minute, the cable car started to come back to the station. "Oh, I thought the Car was closer" Brandon heard Matt say outside. "Guess we'll just have to wait" Brandon shouted back. Brandon looked around and noticed some keys next to the computer on the desk. He walked over to it and picked them up but noticed that the computer next to it was glitching slightly. Shrugging it off; Brandon then walked back over to the door and put the keys into the keyhole. Luckily they fit and Brandon could now open the door. "Open Sesame" Brandon said and opened the door. Brandon walked outside and to Matt and Alex who were still next to the metal fence. They looked up to see the cable car coming back but it was still quite a while away. "Hey guys, I'm going to just look around a bit more" Brandon announced. "Why?" Matt asked. Brandon looked behind him at the door to the control room and turned back to his friends. "Well, isn't it a little weird for a the cable car to already be on the mountain isn't it, maybe someone's there, I just want to see if that's the case" Brandon replied. "Ok then, go search the place" Alex said. Matt then turned to Alex. "Really?" Matt asked. "Well yeah, what's the bid deal" Alex said and turned to Matt. Matt only sighed and continued to watch the cable car coming closer and closer. "We'll be waiting for you, here" Alex stated and turned her back to Brandon to watch the cable car. Brandon then walked right back into the control room. He first went over to the big map on the wall. It showed all the locations of where you could go on the mountain. On the mountain, there would be a mine, a cabin, a radio tower and a ski lodge. "Maybe we could get some supplies for the car in the ski lodge?" Brandon muttered to himself. Brandon then walked over to the computer and switched it on. On the screen, it showed a flickering camera of the outside. In the frame were Matt and Alex. Brandon just shook his head, knowing that this would not help.
He then turned on some of the laptops and made a startling discovery. On the screen it showed a picture of another map. This map was a map of locations in the mines. However, it had loads of danger areas marked in red and it even said that some parts had to be held up with rusty objects and some parts had even collapsed. Brandon quickly shook off the uneasy feeling turned off the laptops. "Brandon, the cable car is here!" Matt shouted from outside. "Coming!" Brandon shouted back. Brandon then left the control room and met up with the others next to the cable car. They all got into the cable car. Matt and Alex sat on one side while Brandon sat on the other. The door to the cable car then automatically shut and the cable car slowly started to move across the large drop between the mainland and the mountain and started to go up to the mountains. "Hey, guys, when I was in that control room, I found out that there was a ski lodge on this mountain, I'm guessing that there could be supplies so that we could fix my car" Brandon announced. "Won't it be locked though?" Alex asked. Brandon just took out the set of keys had put in his pocket earlier and showed it to the two. "My guess is that one of these keys will unlock the door to the lodge" Brandon replied. "That actually sounds like a good plan" Matt admitted. Brandon then put the keys back into his pocket. Slowly, the cable car stopped on part of the mountain.
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