When Harvey opened his eyes, he saw that they were now at another set of buffers, only there was no forest and the countryside looked more English. "Where are we?" he asked no one in particular. "I don't know," said Foo, "but I think I left the oven on at home!" "We don't have an oven." informed Fee. "Oh yeah."
Just then, Harvey noticed a sign next to the buffers that said, 'Welcome Magic Railroad travelers to the Island of Sodor!' "Looks like we're in a place called Sodor." he said. Fee chuckled a little. "Sounds like the name of a retirement home for 'Lord of the Rings' villains." she joked.
Before long, they were walking along the railway line. As they walked, Harvey noticed that the rails weren't as rusty and the track wasn't overgrown. "Guys," he said. "are you sure it's safe to walk along the track like this? What if a train comes down here?"
"Oh, relax Harvey," said Fee. "If a train comes down this line, it'll just stop when it sees us." Harvey knew that wasn't how trains work, but he knew that he could just roll off the line at any time so he just kept walking along.
A little further up the line, Thomas the Tank Engine was chuffing along his branchline with his two coaches, Annie and Clarabel. They were on their way to Ffarquar (the top station on the branchline). It seemed like it was going to be a normal day.
Suddenly, Foo starting sniffing the air. "You guys smell smoke?" he asked. But it wasn't smoke, it was steam. Thomas was coming around the bend. As soon as he saw the three children, he slammed his brakes hard on. It was a slow scenic passenger train so he was able to stop a good three feet from them. Harvey had rolled off the line as soon as he had seen Thomas approaching and landed in a small blackberry bush, his life still flashing before his eyes. Foo just sat on the track, eating the bugs between the rails as if nothing had happened and Fee was just stared directly at Thomas.
"Fizzling Fireboxes, what do you think you're doing?" said a quite startled Thomas. "Don't you know how dangerous it is to walk along the railway line like that? You're lucky I was slow enough to stop in time, you could have seriously hurt yourselves or even worse!"
Fee just looked as if she didn't really care, This made Thomas slightly annoyed. "Are you even listening? You could have died and I'd have to carry the guilt for a very long time!" Fee then looked directly at Thomas and said, "Well, it's not my fault, they should have put up a sign." "They did!" huffed Thomas, letting off steam towards the direction of a sign with the Ffarquar timetable and 'FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE KEEP OFF THE TRACK!' written in bold letters. "Well, I can't read, so there!" said Fee and she blew a raspberry right in Thomas's face.
After that, there was some yelling, arguing, a little name calling and after ten minutes, Thomas's friend Percy puffed past on the other line. "What's going on here, Thomas?" he asked, "You should have been at Ffarquar ten minutes ago. Also, what are these kids doing on the track? Don't they know how dangerous that is?"
"Percy," Replied Thomas, ",just get that milk to Knapford, I'll deal with these guys." upon realising what he had just said, he then added, "Uhhh, in a non violent way." And with that, Percy continued with his milk train.
Thomas looked at the bird and two imps. Harvey was still sitting next to the line worried about both his friend arguing with the talking train in front of them and the blackberry stain on his shirt. Foo was playing with the ON/OFF switch on Thomas's lamp (which apparently has an ON/OFF switch now) and Fee was looking Thomas directly in the eye with an icy scowl. Thomas let off a little steam and said, "Get off the Bloody Railway line." Fee replied with a firm, "No".
Thomas blew steam at Fee who then tripped over a pebble, knocking over Foo and just as Harvey was getting over the stain on his shirt, the two imps fell of him, knocking them all into the blackberry bush. Thomas then whistled at the three and continued on his way.
Fee got herself up and watched as Thomas, Annie and Clarabel disappeared round the corner. "Of course you realize this means war!" she said as Harvey started freaking out over the blackberry stain that was now as big as his head.
Maybe I'll write more, maybe I won't. Depends on how motivated I feel.
