An Infinity Train AU by Addae

The Timeline of Train Chasers!

Notes

The dates are completely random except for the assumed year Amelia boarded and took over the train. The timeline will be updated as the chapters are uploaded, but keep in mind that A LOT happens on certain dates so it takes a while.

Pre-Train Chasers

September 26th, 1983

  • Ryan Akagi and Min-Gi Park are born

July 14th, 1984

  • Simon Laurent is born

December 19th, 1983

  • Grace Monroe is born

April 30th, 1986

  • Amelia Hughes boards what is colloquially named the "Infinity Train." Or, as she calls it in the fanfiction, the "Numbers Train".

July 10th, 1986

  • Amelia ursurps the conductor role from One-One after he refuses to make her a car that would allow her to live her life before her fiance Alrick Timmens presumably passed away.

September 26th, 1986

  • Blake Stone is born.

August 18th, 1987

  • Jesse Cosay is born.

June 28th, 1988

  • Mikayla King is born.

July 2nd, 1988

  • Tulip and Lake Olsen are born.

July 29th, 1995

  • Hazel emerges.

July 12th, 2001

  • Kez meets Alan Dracula and a bunch of other passengers who band together to survive and find a way to escape the train.

December 3rd, 2001

  • Jesse Cosay, Lake Olsen, Tulip Olsen, and Mikayla King go on a school field trip with Ryan Akagi and Min-Gi Park as their senior chaperones.
  • The four kids curiously board the "Infinity Train" and disappear into thin air before Ryan and Min-Gi can stop them.
  • The boys are interrogated for several hours after the trip, but the incident is eventually declared a freak accident as the police are unable to find any definete proof that the boys were responsible for the disapperance.

December 4th, 2001

  • Jesse wakes up in what appeared to be a super detailed bird house, swaddled inside a nest. Once he escapes, he comes across a bag filled with supplies and a guide. He finds out Lake is also in the house, and they leave together... only to find out that they are on a train. The next train car leads them into a supermarket. They meet two older people who are part of a group of traveling passengers. They eventually decide to go with the group.

May 30th, 2002

  • Mikayla and Tulip meet Blake while avoiding ghoms.

June 25th, 2002

  • Unable to deal with the guilt and harassment incurred because of the field trip, Ryan decides to leave town. Min-Gi refuses to go along with him and abandon his family, so Ryan goes on his own, promising to return with a way for them both to get out of town and move on from the tragedy.

September 5th, 2002

  • Not wanting to worry his parents anymore by remaining in a depressive slump, Min-Gi decides to get a job at Dumpty's Diner and start studying for his GED so he can go to a university somewhere. He eventually works his way up to Assistant Manager.

August 17th, 2003

  • One-One finds himself off of the Train, buried in dirt and unable to move. He remains there for several months.

August 18th, 2003

  • Grace Monroe comes across a notebook in the middle of the woods with some of the pages ripped out. She opts to go looking for them all before she can read it.

Train Chasers

Aka, this is where the fic picks up after the prologue.

December 2nd, 2003

  • Grace takes Simon Laurent along to check out the notebook she'd been gradually putting together. They encounter One-One, who'd been slightly unearthed with minimal recollection of what had happened. They decide to take the little robot along with them to figure out what's going on with the notebook.
  • They realize the robot, the notebook, and a mysterious "Numbers Train" are all connected. Not only that, but the four missing kids from two years ago may still be on it. The two of them resolve to figure out where this train is and possibly get closure for the kids.

December 3rd, 2003

  • Dumpty's get's a new hire ( an old classmate, Portia Lockart) and Min-Gi is responsible for showing her the ropes.
  • Min-Gi attends the 2nd annual memorial of the four Carvan Kids with his mom. Grace appears next to him and attempts to tell him about the notebook and the train. Min-Gi assumes Grace is trying to prank him and leaves in anger.
  • When he gets home, he is surprised to find Ryan at the door, back in town after a year with big news.
  • An argument with Simon's future stepmom Joanne leaves One-One in her clutches, potentially spoiling the entire plan.

December 4th, 2003

  • Grace and Simon go to Min-Gi's house to try and convince him to hear them out. After encouragement from Ryan, Min-Gi reluctantly agrees. The only problem is that One-One is missing and the only way to get him back is for Simon to be Joanne's assitant for her goddaughter's sweet 16 party
  • Min-Gi and Ryan spend the afternoon in their secret place in the woods just to play music together and make up for lost time before meeting with Grace and Simon to go to the party to infiltrate and find One-One.
  • The core quartet attend the party and find One-One. They narrowly manage to escape before Joanne can stop them.

December 5th, 2003

  • The core quartet decide to pay Kez a visit after running into her at the party. It doesn't go well and they get kicked out.
  • While trying to interrogate One-One, Simon finds out that his mother and Joanne have set a date for their wedding and is noticably upset.
  • Ryan finds out more about Grace's visions before they go to talk to Kez again
  • Later that night, they pay Kez another visit.She takes them to the warehouse where the train came for her. There, they figure out how the train shows up for people. Grace accidentally enters Kez's memories