The Previous Evening in Henry's Forest...
A man in a nineteen-sixties style suit and fadora watched as Ella climbed into Burt's cab, he wrote several things down and saw that they left while looking at his watch. He walked off and into the forest in the direction towards Knapford.
Around the same time at the smelters...
A man dressed in a similar fasion but with slightly different in physical apearance watched Diesel 10 talk to himself. He looked at his watch, quickly and quietly he exited the smelters and walked off towards Knapford.
Around the same time at Brendam Docks...
A man dressed as the other two but again slightly different in physical appearance to the other two watched Paul enter his stall in the shed with Murdoch, Salty, and Harvey. He looked at his watch and and walked off towards Knapford.
A little later at Knapford sheds...
A man dressed in a similar fation to the others but also different in physical Appearance from the others watched as Hank entered his shed. The man looked at his watch and headed off towards the town.
Later that night at a pub in Knapford...
A man headed from the direction of Knapford sheds entered the pub and sat down in a both. A waitress came to get his order.
"What will we be having tonight?" the waitress asked.
"Fish and chips, raw fish and raw potatoes, a bottle of hotsauce," said the man who had now taken his Fadora off to reveal his head to be compleatly bald,
The waitress wrote down the order with extreme bewilderment as to the order.
"Do you want Habanero Peppers with that?" said the waitress chuckled sarcasticaly.
The man tilted his head slightly.
"Do you have Habenero Peppers here?" asked the man.
The Waitress was shocked by this.
"Y- Yes we do," she answered sheepishly.
"I will have 2 of those with my meal and I would also like a glass of water at room temperature," said the man still staring at the waitress.
The waitress was speechless from the order of food.
"Could I also have 3 more pepper shakers and have the order I described made for 4 people." asked the man.
The waitress held up the order pad to hide her jaw dropping.
"Is there a problem?" asked the man.
"Nnno, there isn't," replied the waitress still in a state of confusion and bewilderment. "It will be out as soon as possilbe," she replied and ran off.
The man pulled out his breif case and started to gather his notes and a file folder. A little later a man came inside dresed in a similar fasion followed by another two dressed the same way. They all sat down at the table to see each other.
"December, August, July." said the man at the table.
Each man sat down in the order they were called by the man who arived first.
"September, have you found out enough information about him." asked December as he pulled out a photograph showing Hank pulling a train.
"Yes, I have," answered the first man at the table.
At that time thier food was out to them and they began to prepare thier food as they talked, all the while people in the kitchen peaked out of the door to see the men at the table who ordered the strange food.
"And we do have a problem. These four engines are covering their tracks too well, it is bound to cause a rift." said August as he poured out his peper shaker onto his fish.
"This is a problem," agreed July and December as they both put their habenero peppers on thier fish and chips.
"I have a way to ensure this problem is taken care of," replied September.
The next afternoon before the crash...
September appeared at the site of the crash before the fact, he had with him a can of diesel oil which he pored inbetween the rails so that it left an oily smudge.
"This should be more than sufficant evidence for them to be exposed," said September to himself.
Then whistling was heard coming towards the knapford yards was heard. The man walked calmly away into the nearby countryside to avoid the colision.
35 minuets later...
"What is this?" Emily thought to herself.
Emily saw the patch of diesel oil left by the Observer named September and instantly knew what was going on.
"THOMAS NO ITS A.." she didn't get much farther becase she felt a claw on her boiler.
"AH ah ah," oiled Diesel 10, "Say another word and Ill crush your boiler," he snarled
Emily knew now exactly what was going on but couln't tell anything, but she could do one thing, she let out a small stream of oil off allong the way from where the major patch of oil at the crash was to where Diesel 10 was taking her.
Later at the crash scene...
Lady, Olivia, and Mr Conductor arived at the scene on Thomas.
"Emily?" Thomas peeped, "Where are you?"
"OH NO!" cried Thomas as he spoted the oil patch at the crash scene and a small trail of oil leading away.
"What is wrong?" asked Olivia.
"I think we know who has your neice," said Mr. Conductor Grimmly.
"Isn't that a good thing though?" replied Olivia.
"Not in this case, because they now have Emily," said Mr. Conductor.
"And I have a feeling they will be after me next," added Lady.
"Who are you Talking about?" asked Olivia.
"The Diesels," Replied Lady.
"You mean trains that are like the ones back where I come from?" asked Olivia.
"Im not sure about that, but there are four Diesels in particular who would do this." replied Lady.
"Diesel, Diesel 10, Arry, and Burt." Added Thomas
"We should warn the other engines about this, because They are now in grave danger as well." said Mr. Conductor. "I will go warn them."
So Mr. Conductor blew his whistle and surrounded by gold dust. After the dust had settled he wasn't there anymore.
"I need to help getting Hank and paul back to health, and I don't know how much time we have left," said Lady.
"I can do what I can to help get them back on the line," weeshed Thomas.
"I will help," said Olivia.
"Your being silly," said Thomas, "You don't have the strength of an engine to help pull these engines back to onto the line."
"Your right Thomas, But I think I can help with that," said Lady as she put the whistle around her neck to her lips.
"What are you doing?" asked Olivia.
Lady gave the Whistle a long blow and Gold dust flew out of it. The gold dust then surrounded Olivia and swirled around her. When the gold dust settled she was a grey switching engine with six small driving wheels and a small sloped tender.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!?!" gasped Olivia.
"She made you into an engine like me," Peeped Thomas.
"And now you are strong enough to help Thomas with Hank and Paul," said Lady.
It took a while for Olivia to get used to the fact of using pistons and wheels instead of feet and legs to move.
"Alright, I will see what I can do to help these engines but I will need both of you to help me with this," said Lady.
"I'll do what I can," said Olivia.
"As will I," added Thomas.
Lady blew her whistle and both Hank and Paul lifted into the air and were placed on the tracks
"I need you two to buffer up to them," said Lady
Both Thomas and Olivia buffered up to them Olivia buffered up to Paul, and Thomas Buffered up to Hank.
"Now the tricky part," said Lady.
Lady proceded to pour out a bit of her gold dust out of her whistle and put it over Hank. She then put he hands touching Thomas and Hank. She also began to mutter a few things In sudarian. Then it happened, a bright light enveloped Lady, Thomas, and Hank. When the light went out Thomas looked rather pale but Hank was back to himself again no longer looking like a wreck. Lady Repeated the process with Olivia and Paul.
"What Happened?" asked Hank sleepily.
"Ohh my head," whined Paul.
"First of all, you two were childish in the way you acted," said Lady, "You two are lucky to be alive, and that I was here to get you two back on your wheels."
Lady then went about informing the engines about what was going on.
"We will need quite a bit of power on our side to get these four, than what we have now," said Lady.
"To Tidmoth and the sheds," peeped Thomas.
