Thomas and Friends
The island of Sodor adventures

Twins in trouble

Bill and Ben the china clay twins work side by side at the china clay quarry near Brendam Docks but they aren't the only engines that work there.
Mavis is a diesel engine with cowcathers and sideplates just like Toby she is seen as a motherly figure to the twins, Oscar is a small purple tank engine
who work in the miens at the quarry, BoCo is a large green diesel finally there's Derek a paxman diesel who used to have teething troubles.

One cold day the twins were up to mischief, they decided to have a skidding competition the winner was the one who skidded furthest along the icy tracks.
They lined up and counted down from three.

"Three" said Ben
"Two" said Bill
"One" shouted the twins as they set off

The twin breached but just as Bill got in front of Ben the points switched sending Bill right into Ben derailing them both, the foreman came out of the office
very angry.

"How many times have you been warned" said the foreman
"I don't know do you know Ben" said Bill
"No can't remember Bill" said Ben
"I've had enough of this BoCo go and collect the breakdown train" shouted the foreman
"Yes boss" said BoCo
"As for you two Miss Hatt will be here to deal with this" said the foreman walking away

BoCo returned with the Breakdown Train and Emily Hatt on board not looking at all pleased.

"I've had about just enough of this silly behavior" said Emily as the crane was helping Ben back onto the track
"Sorry Miss Hatt" said Ben
"Yes sorry" said Bill
"Sorry won't cut it this time I'm splitting you up for a while" said Emily as she walked off

later that day Percy arrived he was going to take Ben's place while Ben went to stay on Thomas's branch line to take Percy's place.
The arrangement went well for two hours until Bill had to take a train of china clay to Brendam Dock he normally would double head it with Ben.

"Ben it's my turn to be in front" said Bill forgetting that his twin wasn't around
"I'm not Ben but you can go in front if you'd like" said Percy
"Sorry Percy we normally take it in turns" said Bill

Over with Ben he was struggling to pull the coal trucks so Thomas helped out.

"Here you go Ben" said Thomas
"Thank you Bill" said Ben
"Im not Bill silly its me Thomas" said Thomas
"Oh yeah" said Ben

The next day Mavis was bringing some loaded trucks to the Ffarquhar quarry, Bill wanted to go after talking the foreman he was aloud.
Ben was already working at the quarry with Thomas.
At the station Bill was asked to shunt some odd trucks after hearing that his twins was so close Ben snuck off to find him, Bill and Ben found each other and begun
pushing the trucks.
A while later the emergency alarm rung out.

"Bill and Ben there are workers trapped and the Ffarquhar quarry so are Thomas, Mavis and Toby" said a workman running up
"Leave it us" said Ben
"Oh right yes sure" said Bill

Bill and Ben went to find help, soon they found BoCo and Derek already on the way down to the Ffarquhar quarry with the rock crushing machine.

"There you two are come along" said Derek
"We will meet you there" said Ben

At the quarry, the rubble blocking the line was cleared away but some workmen had been missing further back into the quarry.
Bill and Ben volunteered to look for the workmen, soon the workmen were found and climbed into some trucks brought by Bill and Ben, just as they were leaving more
rocks started to fall the twins were blocked in just then more rocks fell on top of the twin pretty soon they were covered up under a huge pile of rocks an boulders.
It took a while to uncover the twins and the workers but they were fine apart from the twins who were covered in dents and scratches.
Later that night at the china clay quarry Emily arrived to see Mavis, Oscar, Derek and BoCo.

"Bill and Ben saved many lives today but at a cost they will be having a overhaul because of the dents over the body" said Emily
"Oh will they be looking much different" asked Oscar
"No no just a few parts replacing and a new boiler" said Emily

The engines were relieved as the twins returned two days later, Bill and Ben may still be trouble but that's how the railway likes it.