*chapter 1*
it was a fine sunny morning on the island of sodor. at the sodor search and rescue centre flynn and belle were talking. rocky the steam crane was having a morning snooze on the turntable. butch was occupied with his tow truck excises. harold the helicopter was sitting on his helipad having his engine looked at for the third time. captain the lifeboat was sitting at his dock watching the seagulls flying by and looking at the ships in the distance no doubt dropping off holiday makers at brendam docks. flynn sighed deeply.
'belle do you think i'm a good fire engine' said flynn.
'of course i do flynn what makes you think that' said belle.
'well for starters sometimes i feel like i don't do a very good job during an emergency' said flynn.
'don't say that flynn your great at your job anyway yesterday you helped me put out that fire on that shed and saved stanley when he was near it' said belle.
'i know that belle but what if one day i mess up big time the team would hate me for life if that happened' said flynn.
belle smiled.
'look flynn you can't mess up big time i know that because your fiery flynn the bravest fire engine ever' said belle.
just then harold spoke up.
'belle is right flynn chap you are a valuable member to the team in fact your even better than me and that's saying something' said harold.
'you can get to fires much faster than me and that's coming from a lifeboat' said captain.
'yeah and when you use your road wheels i can't even keep up with you because of how you roar down the roads' said butch.
just then rocky woke up.
'what the hook are you lot on about' said rocky.
'rocky do you think flynn is the best fire engine ever' said belle.
rocky was baffled.
'belle why are you asking me that of course flynn is the best fire engine ever i mean every time there's an emergency he drives off like a rocket to the rescue' said rocky.
'see flynn the how team thinks your great and so do i' said belle.
flynn smiled.
'thanks guys i think you have all made me feel much better now' said flynn.
'that's right chap whenever you feel down we can get your hopes right back up' said harold.
flynn decided to change the subject.
'you know belle i have always thought about having my own team of fire engines' said flynn.
belle chuckled.
'well maybe one day the fat controller might approve of that idea flynn' said belle.
'that would be fantastic' said flynn.
just then the alarms went off.
'good god that gave me a shock alright darn that stupid alarm!' cried captain.
'it's high time we had a new quieter one if you ask me!' cried butch.
'that's enough boys this is serious!' cried belle.
flynn called out to rocky.
'what's the situation rocky!' called flynn.
'this is a big one guys the top of the tower at great waterton is on fire we need to put it out before it falls down' said rocky.
'goodness gracious that does sound serious' said belle.
'you can say that again chap' said harold.
'time to race to the rescue belle you two harold we could do with that water bucket of yours' said flynn.
'right away flynn chap i'm all checked up now anyway' said harold.
'let's race to the rescue flynn' said belle.
'right behind you belle' said flynn.
with that said harold took off to the air and flynn and belle raced off.
'good luck you two' called rocky.
'show that fire what your made of' said butch.
'do it for the team flynn' called captain.
soon flynn, belle and harold arrived on the scene.
rocky was not joking when he said that the top of the tower was on fire because it had angry orange flames bursting out of the top like an overheating kettle. the people of great waterton were running around like mad some of them came out of their homes to see what all the commotion was about. flora, stanley and thomas were at the station looking up in horror at the tower. on the platform the stationmaster was having a proper raging fit with a man no doubt the person behind the disaster because he was carrying a box of fireworks.
'flying rotor blades what a fire chaps' said harold.
'rocky was not kidding when he said this was a big one flynn' said belle.
'do any of you three know anything about how this happened' said flynn looking at the three engines.
'don't ask us flynn it's that nutter of a bloke with the fireworks you should be asking' said stanley.
'selling fireworks on a station the nerve of some people on this island!' said flora.
then thomas spoke up.
'the thing is flynn is that man was selling fireworks on the station but no customers was coming to him so he got very mad about it so mad in fact that he thought it would be a good idea to launch one to attract people but he was in so much of a hurry that he didn't bother to check the angle of it so when he launched it, it ended up crashing into the tower just like that' said thomas.
'this is exactly why they need to stop selling fireworks on this railway' said belle.
'you know chaps i remember the time when i had to dodge those fireworks at brendam docks' said harold.
thomas blushed remembering the time on sodor surprise day when he accidently caused havoc at the docks.
'HAROLD!' cried the fire engines.
'right sorry chaps got to keep my mind on the danger sorry about that' said harold.
just then they could all hear the stationmaster and the man raging their heads off.
'WHY YOU STUPID MAD HEADED NUTTER HAVE YOU GOT ANY IDEA ON HOW MUCH DAMAGE YOU HAVE CAUSED ILL BE LUCKY IF I DONT GET SACKED FOR THIS YOU CRAZY LUNATIC!' thundered the stationmaster.
'YOU KNOW WHAT MATE THATS RICH COMING FROM A LAZY GIT OF A STATIONMASTER LIKE YOU YOUR THE FLIPPIN ONE WHO LETTED ME DO THIS SO DONT YOU EVEN DARE BLAME ME FOR SOMETHING YOU SHOULD OF STOPPED YOU STUPID LAZY SHOUTING MORONIC STATIONMASTER GIT!' cried the man.
'HOW DARE YOU I WILL SUE YOUR LITTLE FIREWORK SELLING BUSINESS FOR TALKING TO ME LIKE THAT YOU CHEEK OF A MAN!' cried the stationmaster.
'OH YEAH WELL HERE'S A NEWS FLASH FOR YOU I'M GOING TO TELL YOUR CONTROLLER JUST WHAT I THINK OF STUPID LAZY GITTY STATIONMASTERS LIKE YOU!' cried the man.
'I AM GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!' cried the stationmaster.
'OH SHUT YOUR FACE AND GET A LIFE WILL YA!' bellowed the man.
the engines all looked at each other in utter shock.
'well that was a pleasant conversation wasn't it' said thomas.
'you know what i'm going to pretend i never heard that' said stanley.
'this railway is utterly insane' said flora.
'come on belle let's put out this fire' said flynn.
'let's show it who's boss' said belle.
'sounds like a plan to me chaps' said harold.
with that said the three rescue vehicles got to work fighting the fire. belle and flynn blasted water out of their magnificent water cannons. harold the good helicopter he was flew around the top spraying big spouts of water from his bucket. the people of great waterton watched in awe at the rescue operation. thomas, stanley and flora blew their whistles and bell cheering them on. the stationmaster and the man however were too busy yelling at each other to care. at long last the fire was finally put out. luckily the tower was not badly damaged it just needed a good repaint that's all. everyone clapped and cheered for the rescue team.
'hurray for flynn and belle the best fire fighting engines in the world!' cried a man.
'don't forget harold the best helicopter on sodor!' cried a woman.
'why thank you madam' said harold.
as for the man with the fireworks he was taken away by the police.
'and good riddance mr. loony' said the stationmaster.
'oh don't worry about me i'll be selling fireworks again in no time' said the man.
'yeah right mate right after you tell the judge' said one of the men.
'and spent some time in community service' said the other.
'oh drat' said the man.
thomas, stanley and flora were very grateful.
'well done you three that was brilliant fire fighting' said thomas.
'for a moment then i thought we would have to rebuild the tower again if it came down' said stanley.
'oh what a disaster that would be act your age will you stanley' said flora.
'you can talk you were screaming like mad when that firework went off' said stanley.
'i wasn't screaming i'll have you know that that was just a yelp' said flora.
'sure it was' said stanley sarcastically.
'happy to help chaps' said harold.
'just doing our jobs to protect the island' said belle.
'well we better be off now' said flynn.
just then flynn got a call on his radio.
'oh great now what i hope butch didn't set fire to HQ again like he did the last time we were called out hold on i better take this' said flynn.
flynn answered.
'this is flynn to HQ over' said flynn.
'hello flynn it's me butch now don't worry i haven't set fire to anything... yet anyway but there are some visitors here for you' said butch.
'visitors what visitors butch?' said flynn.
'well there are four fire engines here and they say that your their leader' said butch.
flynn cut off the call and made a face of pure shock.
'what's the matter flynn what did butch say' said belle.
'WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!' cried flynn.
harold was so surprised that a nearly fell out of the sky.
'goodness me flynn chap what was that all about' said harold.
'flynn what did he say' said belle.
flynn was completely ecstatic.
'i am the leader of my own team... oh boy' said flynn.
thomas was baffled. 'awk-ward' said thomas.
soon flynn belle and harold arrived back at the rescue centre. when they did they got a big surprise. there right in front of them were four fire engines that looked just like flynn. there were three boys and one girl. flynn could not believe his eyes.
'here they are the good bunch themselves' said butch.
'hello there buddy your must be flynn the fire engine correct' said one of the fire engines.
flynn was baffled.
'that's me and you lot are' said flynn.
'oh right sorry about that my name is heatwave and these are my friends' said heatwave.
'hello there flynn mate my name is blaze' said the second fire engine.
'nice to meet you flynn my name is inferno' said the third.
'and my name is ariel charming' said the girl fire engine.
'well i'm flynn as you all know for some reason and this is belle my partner' said flynn.
'nice to meet you all and you two ariel it's nice to see another girl around here for a change' said belle.
ariel blushed.
'nice to meet you two belle love the water cannons by the way' said ariel.
belle blushed this time.
'hello there chaps i'm harold the helicopter one of the best flyers around' said harold.
'nice to meet you mate love the capitals on your name' said blaze.
then captain called out.
'ahoy there matey's i'm captain the lifeboat the best boat on the seas of sodor' said captain.
'ahoy to you too captain pleased to meet you' said inferno.
then it was rocky's turn to call out.
'hello there you four i'm rocky the steam powered crane always ready to lift and save' said rocky.
'hello over there rocky love that big crane arm of yours i bet you could left an elephant with that' said heatwave.
rocky laughed after hearing that.
'you bet i can' said rocky.
then it was butch's turn to introduce himself.
'and im butch the tow truck nothing special to say about me really i just tow broken down vehicles' said butch.
'well i think you are a very charming and really useful one' said ariel.
'that's right mate even tow trucks are great rescue vehicles' said blaze.
butch smiled after hearing that. flynn however was still baffled.
'excuse me but i still don't understand what you lot are doing here... exactly' said flynn.
'why did you not know we are going to be working with you for a week or two' said heatwave.
'wait what?' said flynn.
'oh my how exciting' said belle.
at that very moment the fat controller arrived on winston.
'ah flynn there you are i see you've met your new team mates' said the fat controller.
'team mates sir?' said flynn.
'that's right flynn i have decided that it would be nice if you could have a team of your own for two weeks for all the fantastic work you have done in the past couple of weeks' said the fat controller.
'is that right sir' said flynn.
'indeed it is flynn and i am sure that you and your new friends will do grandly now i must go back to my office at knapford now i've got a load of papers to sign this morning see you all later come on winston' said the fat controller.
winston shot off like a rocket.
'ahhhhh winston slow down!' cried the fat controller.
'sorry sir it's just early days that's all oh good god look out!' cried winston.
a distant crashing noise indicated that they had crashed into something... again.
'the fat controller really needs to practice more in winston i think' said belle.
'so what are we going to do first flynn' said heatwave.
flynn looked very worried all of a sudden.
'belle can i have a word with you private' said flynn.
'of course you can flynn um excuse us for a moment you lot' said belle.
'not at all take your time you two' said heatwave.
with that said belle and flynn rolled over to the main centre building sheds.
'flynn is everything alright?' asked belle.
'belle i can't do this' said flynn.
'don't say that flynn of course you can i mean how hard can it be to be a leader all you have to do is give them orders' said belle.
'look belle being a leader is not as easy as you think it is i mean what if i make a big mistake or something they won't like that' said flynn.
'come on flynn last week we had to put out that fire on that bridge and you managed to put out that and the week before that hiro had had an accident you told rocky just what to do to get him back up again' said belle.
'belle i appreciate that you are trying to make me feel better but this is different i have my own team mates to worry about now' said flynn.
'flynn look at me what i am trying to say to you is that all you have to do is to be yourself because you always know what to do and what to say and i know that because i'm your partner flynn so you can trust me' said belle.
'do you really think so?' said flynn.
'of course i do flynn your the best fire engine on sodor and the whole team knows it' said belle.
flynn smiled.
'thank you for telling me that belle and you know what i can do this' said flynn.
belle laughed.
'that's the flynn i know now come on let's go back out there' said belle.
'yeah let's go' said flynn.
so with that said flynn and belle went back to the group of fire engines.
'so there i was pulling bertie out of the pond when suddenly i lost control and before i knew it i was wheel deep in water' said butch.
everyone laughed out loud.
'and that's supposed to be funny chap' said harold.
'of course it is harold' said butch.
just then flynn and belle rolled up.
'there you are flynn we were wondering whether you were coming back' said heatwave.
'listen up fire team after much consideration from my friend belle i have decided that being your leader for two weeks is a great idea' said flynn.
'glad to hear it mate' said blaze.
'you will make a great team leader' said inferno.
'that sounds wonderful' said Ariel.
'so what shall we be starting on tomorrow team leader' said heatwave.
'well i thought it would be great if we started some training have you all had some already' said Flynn.
'of course we have but if that's your decision then that's fine by me' said heatwave.
'some more training would be brill to be honest' said blaze.
'then that settles it tomorrow that's what we will be doing then' said flynn.
belle winked at flynn.
'your doing great so far' she said.
'thanks partner' said Flynn.
i do not own thomas & friends it is owned by HIT.