Sodor Smelters, 2:55pm...

Hank and Paull quietly steammed into the rear entrance of the smelters yard. Luckily the diesels forgot about this entrance but only because the line was old and bearly supported the american engines' weight.

"Alright, we've got one shot at this, and if we mess up we will be done for," said Olivia.

"Alright, one last time through the plans again," said Peter.

As they went to through the plans time was ticking by.

"Alright we have 1 minuet, lets do this," Said Olivia.

And so the plan went into action. Olivia saw Lady transform into an engine and studied her outline and imaged herself as her. A bright light apeared and she looked exactly the same as Lady. Lady quickly transformed back into a human and desguised herself as Olivia.

"Alright Go," Olivia said as she steamed forward to the front entrance along with Mr. Conductor.

"Alright wait for the signal," said Lady quietly.

Just as the diesels were ready to biff Emily and Ella into a pit of molten iron Olivia blew her whistle.

"Ah so the Golden Puff ball decided to show herself," chuckled Diesel 10 and he turned away from the hostages.

"Alright Go," said Lady.

The engines ran quickly and quietly into the smelters.

"They are here," said December over an encrypted radio.

"They are here," said September.

"Very wise she is, Walter and Bell didn't lie about her after all," said a voice in the shadows of the controll room.

Diesel 10 advanced to see Mr. Conducter in her cab with his whistle ready to blow.

"Ah ah ah," said Diesel 10.

Diesel reversed and pushed Emily closer to the edge.

"Drop the whistle twinkle toes," growled Diesel 10.

Mr. Conductor took the whistle out of his mouth and put it on Olivia's steam dome.

"Now get out of the cab slowly and back out of the shed." said Diesel 10 grinning slyly.

As this was going on, the human engines got Ella down from Emily's Cab, When Diesel Biffed Emily they thought they were discovered. Fortunatly they were not. Mr. Conductor backed out of the shed and just as Diesel 10 was about to snap at Olivia with his claw, Emily was turned into a human and she ran for cover.

"DIESEL 10, THEIR MAKING A BREAK FOR IT!!!" Shouted Diesel. Trying to stop them

At this time Oliva reverted back to human with the whistle around her neck.

"Who are you?!" said Diesel 10 suprised.

"Im the little girl's aunt and now your worst nightmare," replied Olivia with a smirk on her face.

Diesel 10 reached for Olivia with his claw but she was quicker on the draw, blowing the whistle causing the claw to stop right were it was and Diesel 10 in his tracks. Diesel, Arry, and Burt attempted to make a run for it but were stopped by Hank, Paul, and Murdoch who were waiting for them.

"Going some where?" chuckled Paul.

"Wait till Sir Toppham Hatt hears about these three being involved," added Murdoch.

"He is going to torch your sheetmetal when he gets to you three," Finished Hank.

Diesel 10 just stood frozen and compleatly spellbound by his failure.

"How could this have happened?" stammered Diesel 10.

"You left an oil patch behind which blew your cover," said Emily holding onto Thomas.

"WHEN I GET MY CLAW ON YOU THREE ILL TEAR YOUR ENGINES RIGHT OFF YOUR FRAME!!!" Shouted an enragged Diesel 10.

"BUT WE DIDN'T LEAK ANY OIL!!!" whined Arry, Burt, and Diesel.

"THEN WHO DID?" asked Diesel 10, his face being as red as James' Paint.

The other Diesels on the Island went around asking eachother and came to the conclusion that none of them were around the area and that it was clean before the crash.

"That is a good question, who did put the diesel oil there," said Thomas.

"I think we should own up to our deeds September," said the voice in the shadowes of the controll room.

As the Human engines went about descussing it an alarm horn went off in the control room. The engines looked to see September on the balcony.

Olivia saw him and it was her turn to be angry.

"Agent Dunham, You have preformed... admirably," said September into a microphone.

"This reality couldn't have followed its natural course of events without your expertise in the department of... shock tactics," continued August.

"Unfortunatly there was but one link that was missing that we had to... Intervein with," said July.

"The Diesel Oil was planted by us, but we had no choice in order to allow the coruse of events to correct itself," Finished December.

"And Walter and Bell didn't lie about your expertice." said a voice inside the controll room.

"Who are they?" asked Percy.

"I have no clue," said Toby, "I havn't seen any of them before."

"That voice," said Peter as he pointed to the controll room.

There was a red ember from a cigar inside the controll room as the mysterious figure walked out of the controll room bathed in the red light of the smelters.

"MADRAILMAN?!?!" both Olivia and Peter said in suprize.

"Yes, I was approached by the Observers to aid them in finding a way to help this reality get back on the natural course of events that walter interfered with by alowing Ella to come through. That was also the main reason why I aided her in coming through as well," said madrailman.

Everyone looked extremely confused.

"In order to save this reality from an otherwise untimely end due to the loss of Lady, I had to introduce a variable to help. Unfortunatly had Ella Recognised Arry and Burt there would have been no intervention needed on the part of the observers. But so this stands, How do you save a reality by letting a child go through and have time to do so." Continued madrailman.

Everyone was still confused.

"I had to sabatoge Walter's Portal in order for Ella to have enough time to have an effect exposing the diesels plot. I appologise to you all for creating such confusion, but it was for everyones best intrest that it happen this way." Finished madrailman.

Everyone looked at eachother and descused amongst them selfs.

"I must be off now, I have a meeting in a few minuets," Said madrailman, flicking his cigar off into a trashcan.

With that madrailman and the observers walked and disappeared from view. When the engines went up to look for them, they were nowhere to be found.

"What was that all about?" the engines said amongst themselves.

But only 4 people in the room understood what was going on, Olivia, Peter, Lady, and Mr. Conductor.

"That was quite clever of him to go about it that way," said Mr. Conductor.

"Yes but now we have some explaining to do with the engines," added Lady.

"we have Time to kill," Said Olivia looking at Peter.

"yeah its only 4:00, we have about 2 hours untill we need to get back around Haultraugh," said Peter.

So they went about explaining what they knew about the Pattern and how this was significant and why it had to happen, but the engines still had many questions as they were transformed back to engines.

Outside Haultraugh, 5:55pm...

Olivia and Peter headed back to the beach waving to the engines good by and Mr. Conductor Joined them at the beach.

"Thank you for helping us out," said Mr. Conductor.

"Aunt Liv, what about take your child to work day?" asked Ella

"Ella, This is my job," Olivia replied.

Mr. Concuctor pulled out a map and handed it to Olivia.

"What is this?" Olivia asked.

"Its a map to Shining Time Station, if Ella want's to come back I can get her here a different way than by a portal," replied Mr. Conductor.

"Thank You Mr. Conductor," Said Ella as she hugged his leg.

"Your very welcome, its the least I can do to Thank you for helping us out here," replied Mr. Conductor.

And with that he left in a shower of gold dust at the time the portal opened.

"ELLA!" Rachel cried and went to hug her daughter.

"What was it like over there?" asked Walter.

"You wouldn't believe us if we told you," said Olivia and Peter.