"Ok, now that you all have met Thomas and he is trying to shake all the chocolate out of Topham, there is a real reason of why I have called y'all here...Thomas, put him down!" Yelled Jocelyn, and Thomas let go of Topham, who he had grabbed by the shirt with his teeth and shook him about, trying to get more chocolate out of him.

"The real reason is because, these giant monstrosities you think they are, were once abused slaves that worked for these horrible engineers that whipped them and abused them without stop, until this one tank engine, saved them all from their oppression and became their leader. But now if the rest of the world finds out that they are carnivorous engines who feed off of anything they can find, then they will surely come here and exterminate every single one of them." Thomas lied down sadly, and everyone that was there could not help but feel pity for him.

"So I want you all to help me to put him and his friends to work, that way people can come and see that even though they are live engines with emotions, they can work like regular trains and never cause a threat to anyone ever again." Jocelyn's family thought for a moment, then they said, "Yes, we'll help you Jocelyn and...Thomas was it? We will make sure you and your kind never go extinct." Thomas smiled brightly and stood up and licked every single family member.

"Ok Thomas, now that that's settled, where are the coaches you were talking about?" Jocelyn asked.

Everyone jumped into Thomas's cab as he ordered and drove everyone to a yard where there were the coaches that the engineers had used before to make them pull illegal things across the country, and Thomas looked around to see if he could find any live coaches, and sure enough, he found some light brown female coaches that were snoring, asleep.

Thomas went straight for them, and poked one of them with his nose to see if they would respond, the coach opened one eye slowly, but once it saw Thomas, she hissed loudly, Thomas backed up quickly and hissed back, and soon it looked like there would be an impossible fight (since you know coaches can't really do anything.)

"Wait! Thomas!" Jocelyn shouted, Thomas looked back at her, "we're trying to get these coaches to LIKE us, not be scared or angry at us."

Jocelyn jumped out of Thomas's cab and walked slowly towards the coaches, stretching out her hand, "hey girl, we aren't here to hurt you," she whispered as she approached the coaches, who were snarling at her. "Shhh...please don't be afraid," Jocelyn said as she held her hand still to let the coach sniff it.

The coach still didn't trust her so she lunged a bite towards Jocelyn's hand, but since Jocelyn had learned to dodge all of Thomas's bites, she dodged this one too. The coach was surprised, but then grunted at Jocelyn. "She says she don't like you," stated Thomas, looking angrily at the coach, then Jocelyn's mom raced down from Thomas's cab and examined her daughter's hand, looking horrified.

"Mom, I'm fine," she said as the mother still franctically searched for any wounds, all Jocelyn could do was wait.

When her mother was FINALLY done, Jocelyn walked up to Thomas's face and said, "lick my hand." Thomas was confused; "What?" Jocelyn repeated; "lick my hand, they might notice the scent and not attack." So Thomas did as he was told, with his giant slobbery tongue he licked her hand and then she approached the coaches one more time.

The coaches started growling again once she got closer, but when she put her hand close enough for them to smell, they recognized the scent and lowered their guard, everyone in Thomas's cab (and even Thomas himself) was amazed by Jocelyn's smart thinking.

"Perfect, now, can you coaches speak?" Jocelyn asked, the coaches looked back at each other and mumbled; "maybe." Thomas burst out in laughter at their silly response, but they growled back at him quieting him down.

"Ok, then please listen; your kind is in danger of going extinct along with these precious engines, because people can hunt you down by seeing that you are alive. BUT if you act like regular coaches and regular engines, then no one will think of harming you." The coaches listened to Jocelyn but with not much interest. They didn't care what happened to the steamies as long as it didn't happen to them, but they still considered the thought.

"Eh, well...fine we'll help you, just as long as we get our naps and rests every once in a while." They responded in sync. Jocelyn was shaking with excitement and then told Thomas to get onto the turntable, Topham had experience with engines so he knew how to operate a turntable. Thomas however, didn't exactly like turntables, not even the one at Tidmouth Sheds (which was broken off so a few slave diesels had to fix it, somehow.)

Thomas wasn't so bright with the idea of a turntable, and once he got on everyone understood why; he shook while he was on it, never moved in sync with it, and it felt like it would be destroyed under his weight since it wasn't used in years. But finally, he turned around safely and backed up to the coaches; "Ok, now what do I do? I haven't done this in years!" He shouted. Topham connected his coupling rod to the coaches, and as Thomas started to move slowly he asked the coaches some questions.

"So... what's your names?" He asked meekly, the coaches responded, "I'm Annie, and the other behind me is my sister Clarabelle, and you are going too fast." "Yeah, ok...wait What??" Thomas stopped suddenly and was held back somehow. He looked back at the coaches and found that they had put their brakes on, even though he wasn't going very fast.

"Oh come on!! I wasn't even going very fast!" He shouted at them, but it came out in vain because the coaches still refused to remove their brakes. Thomas got angry and started to pull against their brakes, then the coaches started getting angry at him and kept holding back.

From a far away distance the family could see Thomas roaring and struggling and yelling at the coaches, and Jocelyn said; "This is going to be harder than I thought."