Mary Bates

"They're catching up!"

- Mary when she sees enemies from behind them catching up to them.

Mary Bates is a scientist who gets rescued by a journalist named Flint Rickman from the shooting arcade game, Rail Chase 2.

Biography
The game's time takes place in 1938 A.D. In the game, Mary gets kidnapped by the evil EKKL Empire, who has been forcing her to develop weapons for he and his army so they could conquer the world with their military might. A journalist named Flint Rickman finds out that she's been kidnapped by the empire and he rescues her. But as Flint rescues Mary, the empire's weapons plant explodes. As soon as it does, the pair are forced to escape EKKL in a runaway rail car!

During many levels of the game, Mary and Flint must shoot as many of the EKKL Empire's enemy soldiers as they can and must avoid getting shot and so they could escape. And while they are at it, they have to choose several different and complex routes to determine what escape routes are best for them. In shrine stage (stage 3) EKKL contacts Caterpillar-war machine and dispatches it at the end of the stage in an attempt to intercept the escaping couple, but Mary and Flint manage to destroy the Caterpillar-war machine allowing them to get away from it.

More shooting thing up and multiple alternate routes later...

During the final level of the game, the EKKL Empire unleashes its most powerful weaponry that is a giant armored battleship-like train. Its existence had been kept in extreme secrecy and Mary was part of designing and building this behemoth. The EKKL's final arsenal tries to shoot Mary and Flint. After a long shooting battle between the pair and the EKKL Empire, Mary and Flint manage to destroy the Empire's train and get away from him and his army. Mary and Flint are then picked up by a rescue plane at the end of the game.