A/N: I loved Thomas and Friends as a little boy, and after watching a lot of the old school episodes I decided to write this story. What would it be like if the characters were human and drove the trains themselves? Of course, others have had their own takes on this, but this is my own little spin on it. Enjoy.

Thomas Billington is a young teenager who works at a big station on the island of Sodor. He's a cheeky little boy who drives a blue tank engine with six small wheels, a short stumpy boiler, a short stumpy funnel, and a short stumpy dome.

(Thomas is a young 14-15 year old with short stubby black hair, and a blue t-shirt with a number 1 on the front. He's loved trains since he was a toddler. His parents are from the mainland, but when he was offered by Sir Topham Hatt/The Fat controller to work on his Railway on Sodor, he suddenly was thrilled with delight. When he asked his parents, they were excited too, but still really worried, but when Thomas promised to work hard and behave well, they agreed. Working with trains was a like a dream come true for him.)

(Cue Busy station theme, Season 1. Shift to Knapford station where Thomas pulls in a train for Henry Steiner, a 22 year old man with black hair with hints of green, who is taller and older than Thomas and dressed in green and drives a green tender engine with a number 3 painted on the tender.)

He's a fussy young man too. Always pulling coaches about, ready for the big engines to take on long journey's. And when the trains come in, he pulls the empty coaches away so that the big engine drivers can go and rest.

(Henry leaves with his train as Thomas pulls in empty coaches to put away)

Thomas thinks no one on Sodor works as hard as he does. He loves playing tricks on them, including Gordon Gresely, the tallest and proudest of all, who owns the biggest engine on the island and pulls the express.

(Gordon is a tall buff man at 30 with brown quiff hair and Dressed in black jeans with a blue colored Tanktop with red stripes on the side. His engine is big and blue is numbered 4 on it's tender)

Thomas likes whistling rudely at him to tease him.

(Thomas whistles loudly startling Gordon who was taking a lunch break near his engine causing Gordon to drop his sandwich and spill his tea.)

"Wake up, lazy bones. Why don't you work hard like me?"

(Thomas puffs away chuckling, while Gordon groans)

"I hate it when he does that."

This annoys Gordon to no end, but Thomas never stops. But soon that would change. One day after pulling the big express, Gordon went off to get coffee in a nearby siding. He was just getting another cup, when Thomas came up in his cheeky way.

(Thomas whistles loudly, making Gordon drop the coffee pot causing the lid to burst off and spill coffee on Gordon)

"Aaaahhhh!"

"Hey, Lazy bones! Do some hard work for a change! You can't catch me!"

And off Thomas puffed laughing as Gordon watched fuming with anger.

"Ohhhh, the indignity."

He went straight home in humiliation to dry his clothes off. Later that evening, Gordon began to think how he could get back at Thomas.

One morning Thomas wouldn't wake up.

(Cut to Thomas in his room at a shack in Tidmouth still asleep wearing only blue pajama pants.)

His alarm clock wouldn't go off. Little did Thomas know that Gordon had turned off the alarm the night before as part his plan.

(Cut to station when Gordon sits near his engine while passengers stand on the platform).

It was nearly time for the express. People were waiting, but the coaches weren't ready.

(Back to Thomas at Tidmouth, who now sees how late he slept in)

At last, Thomas got up, and rolled out of bed in shock when he saw his clock.

"Oh dear. Oh, dear," he screamed as he got dressed while rushing out to his engine. After getting it to start, he hurried to the station where Gordon was waiting.

"Where have you been, trickster?"

"Gordon, I'm sorry. I overslept. The alarm clock didn't..."

"I don't care for your excuses. Just hurry up, you!" said Gordon

"Hurry yourself, you big palooka," replied Thomas,

As Thomas backed his engine up to the platform, Gordon begin carrying out the next phase of his plan to get back at Thomas for teasing him.

"Yes, I will."

And almost before the coaches had stopped moving, Gordon reversed his engine quickly and had it coupled the train.

"Get in quickly, please!" he shouted as he whistled his engine. Thomas usually pushed behind the big trains to help them start, but his engine was always uncoupled first. This time, Gordon started so quickly they forgot to uncouple Thomas. Gordon's chance had come.

(Cue Gordon's theme, Season 1)

"Wait, Gordon. No! I haven't been uncoupled!"

(Cut to the countryside after leaving the station)

"Come on, Come on," puffed Gordon.

The train was going faster and faster. Too fast for Thomas, he wanted to stop his engine, but he couldn't.

"Hey! Hey! STOP! STOP!"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry," laughed Gordon. "You can't get away, you can't get away," laughed the stewardess of the front coach.

Thomas then screamed, "I'm gonna HURL!"

And he did. All over his engine's cab.

Poor Thomas was going faster than he had ever gone before. He was out of breath, he felt nauseous and his legs hurt him but there was nothing he could do.

"I shall never be the same again," he thought sadly. "My legs will be quite worn out."

At last they stopped at a station. Thomas's engine was uncoupled and move onto a siding for cleaning, and he felt very silly and exhausted as he climbed down from his cab, thinking of everyone laughing at him. Then he went to use a restroom, because he couldn't hold it anymore. After 5 minutes of relieving himself, he came out.

"Well, little Thomas", chuckled Gordon. "Now you know what hard work means, don't you?"

Poor Thomas couldn't answer. he had no breath, he just limped slowly away to rest and had a long long drink at the nearby refreshment stand while his engines was being cleaned and refilled with water.

"Maybe I don't have to tease Gordon to feel important," Thomas thought to himself. And he puffed slowly away. He was still careful after wards never to be cheeky to Gordon again, but as he puffed home, he also said to himself, "Mom and Dad will never let me hear the end of this."

That night, he spoke on the phone to his parents about the incident. His Father, Christopher Billington was very stern on him.

"Thomas," his father said in a stressed tone. "I told you about doing that. I know you're young and like fooling around with people for, but it always gets you into trouble. You have got to stop being so cheeky and mischievous."

"I know," he huffed.

"But we are proud of the hard work, you've been doing in general, his father said less severly. "Keep it up, son. Don't disappoint us. Sir Topham Hatt says you're doing well. And stay safe, okay? Your mother worries."

"I will," replied Thomas.

His father then handed the phone to his wife, Lizzie and went off.

"Sweetheart, we're glad you learned a lesson today, she said in a sweet voice, but please no more teasing Gordon. You know how frustrated I get when you cause trouble like that."

"Okay, Mom," he said. "I will. And I won't forget to be responsible, reliable or really useful."

"Thank you," Lizzie said. "I know you'll do something great, one day, sweetheart".

"Bye, Mom."

"Bye, Thomas, I love you."

"I love you too."

At last Thomas put the phone aside and went to sleep.