Chapter 1: "I sold Thomas to a different railway"
Thomas is a tank engine who works really hard on an island called "Sodor". He can be a cheeky engine sometimes, but he has been the number one engine the fat controller ever had. But one day, Sir Topham Hatt came to the shed where Thomas, Percy, Toby, Gordon, and James is at.
"Thomas, you've been one of the best engines of mine and always been my number one engine the island ever had."
"Uh sir, what are talking about?" Asked Toby
"I don't know how to say this, but…" The Fat Controller took a deep breath before he said the news. "I sold Thomas to a different railway." "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Screamed all the engines.
"I know this is really hard for everyone, but I decided to have him work on a different railway for a different controller."
"But sir, I love my job here on the island." Said Thomas, but all The Fat Controller did was chuckled. "Of course you do, but you might love working on the other railway." "Sir if Thomas is leaving, than who's going to take his job?" Asked Percy.
"Oh don't worry about that Percy," The Fat Controller said answering the green engine "I already ordered a brand new engine to take his place and do his work. Her name is Lady, and here she comes now."
As soon as he said that, a small pinkish-purple engine with a shiny funnel and a shiny dome showed up at the front of the sheds, and she had her name written on her sides, she was even smaller than any other small engine on the island.
"This is Lady, she'll be doing Thomas' work after he moves to the other railway." "Wow she seems like a nice engine," Said Gordon in amazement "She might even be better than Thomas." Thomas looked at him with anger in his eyes and snapped at him quietly so The Fat Controller can't hear him "Shut up Gordon."
"Now Thomas, I want you to show Lady around the island and teach her how to do your work." "Yes sir." Said Thomas in a upsetting voice.
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Later that day, both Thomas and Lady was at the coal mine and Thomas was showing Lady how to shunt trucks. While she was practicing on pulling and pushing the trucks around, Thomas was thinking why hes going to a different railway, it reminded him the time when Sir Topham Hatt send Boco away and replaced him with Hugo. Just than he came up with an idea, he was thinking that if Lady got into an accident than maybe The Fat Controller won't send him away.
While Lady was still shunting, Thomas went up to some trucks and asked them a question.
"Will you push that purple engine over there and cause an accident?" "YES! YES!" Answered the trucks getting hyped. "Excellent." Thomas said in a kind of voice.
When Lady came back to shunt the trucks who Thomas was talking to, the truck's chance had come. "GO ON! GO ON!" They screamed, Lady tried to put on her breaks on but it was no good. Then there was trouble, the trucks didn't know they were heading twards a coaling plant, and they crashed right into it. Coal dust spill everywhere and was covering all over Lady and Thomas.
"Oh no!" cried Lady "My beautiful paint!" "That's not what I had in mind." Mumbled Thomas.
"THOMAS AND LADY!" Yelled the coal manager "YOU HAVE CAUSED CONFUSION AND DELAY!" He took a deep breath before he continued speaking "I'll have to report this to Sir Topham Hatt." "Oh bother!" Said Thomas in a mad kind of voice.
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Later that night, Sir Topham Hatt came to the sheds looking very disappointed "Thomas, I am not pleased with what you did to both Lady and the coaling mine. I was going to have you leave tomorrow afternoon so you can get a chance to say goodbye. But as punishment, you will leave first thing in the morning before anyone else wakes up."
"But sir, that means I won't have a chance to take Annie and Claribel with me." "Your not taking Annie and Claribel to the other railway." "WHAT! WHY?" Thomas asked with a shoked tone of voice and a surprised look on his face. "Due to not able to have enough money to send them away to the other railway with you, I decided to give them to Toby."
Toby was surprised to hear this, he rang his bell with joy and excitement "WOOHOO! TWO NEW COACHES!" Thomas slowly looked at Toby with anger in his eyes "I hate you." He said through his teeth. "Don't worry Thomas," Said Toby looking at him "I'll take good care of your coaches, I promise."
Then Sir Topham Hatt looked at Lady but he was calm with her, "As for Lady," He started "You will go to the Sodor Steamworks to get a new coat of paint and be clean." "Thank you sir." Said Lady while being excited after hearing that.
As soon The Fatt Controller left, all the engines fell asleep. Except Thomas, he wasn't tired at all, he stayed up looking down. He looked at Lady who was happy in her sleep, Thomas just couldn't stop asking himself the same question: "Why does Sir Topham Hatt wants to send me away?"