High Speeds
Gordon was boasting in the yard about being the only engine to pull the express on the island of Sodor, "No on is as fast as me". He would always say, "If Mallard didn't set the land speed record" "Yes we heard it" James groaned impatiently "You would be the worlds fast's engine" Henry then added on. Gordon didn't know what to say, but all he did was blew steam at the engines and puffed away furiously.
"How dare them" Gordon grumbled to himself as he journeyed of to the station, "Talk to me like that" but as he was still bickering, the signal dropped. "What is this?" Gordon asked himself as he was slowing down, "It's a signal" His driver said "we have to stop". Now Gordon was waiting impatiently as the signal was still up, "Come on change" Gordon bellowed out in fury, "calm down" Said Gordon's fireman "we just stopped, it's just a matter of time before the signal changes". Gordon waited at the signal for a few minutes which to him seemed like an eternity, but then……….VOOM! A high speed diesel engine sped past Gordon "Goodness gracious, what's that?" then another High speed diesel engine flew past Gordon in a lightning flash! "Look's like two new diesel engines" his Driver said and Gordon's heart sank.
Gordon backed up to his coaches at Knapford station and saw the two diesel engines; together they were an Intercity High Speed train, Gordon just grunted at them hoping to get their attention but it was no use, the diesels continued to adore the popularity as they were photographed, talked to and touched, Gordon felt left out, he was still sad as he rolled away with the express.
Later that night he went home to his sheds seeing the two diesels sitting right next to him, "Now" Gordon started "I want to know who you are, why you are here and why are you sleeping here", the diesel on the left began to speak " I am Terry. And we are here to take the Fat Controller and his family on a long train run around the island all the way to London" Terry's voice was filled with regal. "And I'm Kenny" Said the diesel in the far right. "And we are sleeping hear because some of your old chaps let us sleep here." Gordon couldn't believe what he was seeing, two diesels showing up out of nowhere and taking the fat controller to London instead of Gordon.
Fiery Red
It had been a whole day since Terry and Kenny showed up, and Gordon had already despised the two diesels. Gordon was waiting for the Fat Controller to give him his jobs. "Gordon, I have three jobs for you" The Fat Controller announced, "First you must pull a goods train, then you must shunt freight cars in the yard and finally, you have to deliver five Tankers of fuel to the depot". Gordon was speechless not only did he have to pull trucks but he had to also shunt in the yard.
Gordon was grumbling as he pulled into a siding with the dirty freight. "Good work", said a workman "Now you must shunt trucks in the sidings" Gordon's just moaned as he banged, biff and smash the trucks in the sidings, the trucks mounded and groaned, later James rolled up to him, "Gordon your late" James said to Gordon "OF CAUSE I'M LATE!" Gordon screamed out like a siren, "I'm not good at shunting", James pondered, "I know Gordon, how about you take a rest and I'll take your fuel". Gordon just smiled at James as he rolled away to get his fuel tankers.
Gordon was getting a nice long rest until the fire siren screeched,
"What's happening?" Gordon yelled out confused about what happening "A fire", Fredrick the fire engine said "it's along the country side, if we don't hurry" Fredrick said "soon the entire forest will be engulfed with flames", Gordon asked if he can do anything to help and Fredrick Told him that he can take the other workmen.
James was derailed near a field where cattle were grazing; Terrence was trying to heard the cattle away from the flames.
Gordon and the fire engines rolled up near the inferno, "Don't worry James" Jeffery yelled out to James "We'll get you out".
Later that night James was at the repair yards getting his burned repaired when Gordon rolled up beside him. "What happened James?" Gordon whispered in Question, "I don't know all I remember is a loud bang behind me and the next thing I know I'm falling off the rails in an Explosion". Gordon didn't know what to think, but something told him it had something to do with Terry & Kenny.
Clink, Clonk, Clank
It had been day's since the fire incident, and all the engines where still shaken, James however was scarred by the event's and never felt the same way ever since.
Bill and Ben where asking him what happened but James rolled away in silence.
Even Kenny and Terry where concerned about James. They where about to comfort him until Gordon Rolled up. "You have some nerve, Setting James's trucks ablaze, you should be ashamed of" "but we didn't do anything" Terry interrupted. "If we did do anything why would we? It just not right" Kenny added "Don't think that would work with me" Gordon then wheeshed steam at them "I am a smart engine, unlike Thomas, Percy and the other tank engines I am one of the smartest engines on the island. Now if you excuse me I've got a date with some express coaches" and Gordon rolled away in a cloud of steam.
Gordon rolled up to his express coaches furiously and banged them, the coaches groaned in pain but Gordon didn't care. The guard blew her whistle and Gordon rolled away.
As Gordon was going around the hillside, Terry & Kenny zoomed past, "Hello Gordon" Terry said "Goodbye Gordon" Kenny said after and a few seconds later Terry & Kenny were out of sight.
Now Gordon was fuming, "I'll beat them at there own game", Gordon snarled with foam oozing out of his mouth and picked up speed.
He thundered past a field were some cows where grazing, Gordon's loud puffing and booming whistle startled the cattle and the chooks were so scared, that they died.
As Gordon went faster he began to feel strange.
Then with a clink smoke was billowing out of him so much, he looked like a cloud. Then with a clonk, his brakes were automatically shut on and with a loud clank his coaches banged each other so hard that his passengers spilt there tea, choked on there tea cakes and whiplashed there necks.
Gordon was stuck, he couldn't move, he had to be pulled to the next station by the works diesel.
At the repair yards, Gordon was getting examined. Until Smokey Joe rolled beside him, "What were you thinking" Smokey Joe asked "Thinking you can out run a high speed diesel? Are you nuts?" Gordon just ignored him and pretended to go to sleep.
Just in time
Soon Gordon was fixed and much better and was about to go home to tidmouth until Terry and Kenny rolled up to him. "That was some nasty accident" said Terry "your boiler could have exploded" Kenny added, Gordon wasn't taking their concern. "Listen you two diesels from Hades; you may have the other engines fooled but not me. I'm going to show you what a big engine can do" Gordon said sternly, and rolled away.
On the big day, Terry and Kenny were getting ready to set off to London with the fat controller everyone was excited, Thomas, Percy & Edward were in sidings to see the diesels drive off. The guard blew his whistle and the diesels set off.
They were making good time as well. The fat controller and Lady Hatt were enjoying their tea and biscuits; they startled horses and cows as they whooshed past, Terry and Kenny enjoyed the breeze on their faces and the coaches enjoyed rolling at over 100mph.
Soon they left the island of sodor and were in unknown territories. But they set on until "BANG" went Terry and soon they started to slow down, "OH NO" yelled Kenny, he wasn't strong enough to push two coaches and Terry to London, he had no choice but to stop.
The fat controller was concerned, "Topham dear, we need to get out of her fast" said Lady Hatt. "I'll send Gordon".
When Gordon found out about this he couldn't wait to rub it in Terry and Kenny's faces. Soon he got their and could only laugh "Ha ha ha, now theirs a pretty sight. Two fast diesels stuck in the middle of nowhere and need MY help of getting you home" "Now Gordon, you mush get us to London on one hour" said the fat controller. "I will sir".
Later Gordon puffed in to London and was surprised to a huge crowd, bigger that anything he'd ever seen before. "Good work Gordon" said the stationmaster, "you came here just in time" "I know that" said Gordon to himself. When he came back to the Island of Sodor he was even more surprised to see all of the engines waiting at the station "THREE CHEERS FOR GORDON" they yelled "hip hip hurray. Hip hip hurray" and the engines never heard of Terry and Kenny again.
