Stephanie's curiosity continued buzzing in her head, wondering to herself about the Misty Island she had previously heard of before.

It sounds like it came from a mysterious story or a never heard island that has been forgotten a long time ago.

So, Stephanie decided to ask someone a question about where she could see the island from a distance from where she could see the island itself.

Remembering the crew at Brendam Docks, Stephanie walked to the docks, seeing O.J there, getting his barge unloaded from Cranky.

"Hello!" Stephanie called the crew the best she could.

She hopes that she would someday get a whistle for herself, so she would be known without having to be ignored.

Luckily, one of the crew members heard Stephanie's call, honking in response.

"Ahoy, Stephanie!" Salty greeted. "Wha' brought ye here?"

"I came here to ask a question, Salty," Stephanie explained, turning as Salty moved some flatbeds around as Porter had his loaded with the cargo O.J had.

"What's the question?" Porter curiously asked.

"An island called 'Misty Island.'" Stephanie answered as Salty moved back to where Stephanie was standing. "Does any of you know what the island is about?"

"You've heard about it?" Cranky asked during his unloading.

"From Sir Topham Hatt while in his office at Knapford." Stephanie nodded. "I haven't been there yet either."

Salty thought to himself for a moment after Stephanie asked, understanding that she was curious about the strange island herself.

Glancing away, he looked out into the open sea, watching as the mist lifted from around an unknown woodland island.

"Look out in th' open sea, Stephanie." Salty nodded as Stephanie glanced over to where he nodded to.

From out in the distance, a woodland island appeared from the mist as it faded away.

It surprised Stephanie as she watched with curiosity and awe, standing on her tippy-toes.

"Is that island Misty Island?" Stephanie curiously asked, pointing to the island.

"Yes, that's the island," Porter nodded. "Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand work there."

Stephanie's head cock to the side curiously after hearing the names, feeling more perplexed about the mysterious island.

"Stephanie!" Stephanie turned around after hearing her name being called and saw Sir Topham Hatt standing from the dock. "Where are you?"

Stephanie giggled after Sir Topham Hatt called her when she noticed him in the docks before hiding behind a truck, to the truck's confusion.

Salty watched with confusion as Stephanie snuck around Sir Topham Hatt, turning around with him as he glanced around.

"Where are you?" Sir Topham Hatt spoke as Stephanie placed a finger against her lips to Salty.

Just as Sir Topham Hatt turned around to look for her, Stephanie gave out a 'Boo!' as she jumpscare him.

He gave out a yelp after being startled by Stephanie, jumping a few inches back.

His helpers jolted from the jumpscare Stephanie did, on the verge of going in front to protect him from the sudden 'attack.'

Stephanie laughed along with the truck she was hiding behind.

Salty even chuckled along with Porter, watching as Sir Topham Hatt sighed after noticing that it was only Stephanie.

"Don't scare me like that!" Sir Topham Hatt sighed. "How on earth did you sneak all the way here?"

Stephanie winked cheekily and said, "That's a little secret of mine I have."

Sir Topham Hatt rolled his eyes with slight amusement after Stephanie cheekily winked at him before heading back to Knapford to his office.

Stephanie decided to stay out of Sir Topham Hatt's office instead of being with him, looking around the station to get her curiosity down a little.

But the curiosity about Misty Island seemed to be stuck in her mind.

Stephanie stopped walking with a gentle groan, still annoyed that she could not get the thought of Misty Island out of her mind.

As much as she wanted to learn more about Misty Island, she did not want to take Sir Topham Hatt or any of the engines around to satisfy her curiosity, only to be annoyed with her.

A hand suddenly touched her shoulder, which was a little rough as Stephanie yelped, turning around to see Mason and his crew.

"Mason?" Stephanie spoke with confusion, even stiffening a little with worry. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, nothing," Manson smirked, which made Stephanie shudder slightly from the way he smiled. "Just saying hello to you."

Stephanie's nerves died down a little after Mason smirked, before feeling her waist grabbed.

"But, you sure would like a little ride, huh?" Without warning, Stephanie was lifted from the ground, causing her to yelp out of startlement.

She was soon pushed into an empty truck, causing her to collide into the bottom of it, getting into a position that made her feel stuck in it.

Mason and his group laughed as they ran away from the truck, causing Stephanie to mumble something in a different language.

As they walked away from the truck, Stephanie groaned a little in irritation as she mumbled underneath her breath, squirming in the cart a little to get some room inside.

But no matter how much she squirmed, Stephanie could not get herself out of the truck, nor rocking it either.

So Stephanie stopped after failing to get out of the truck, huffing with irritation as she crossed her arms over her chest, feeling a little annoyed and trapped.

Suddenly, two whistles went into the air, perking Stephanie's attention up a little, not remembering those two whistles.

Where do they come from?

"Hey Bill." a voice spoke as Stephanie went silent, worried about meeting another bully. "What's this random truck doing here?"

"I don't know, Ben." a second voice answered, as Stephanie felt worried. "But let's play a game called 'Hide the Truck!'"

Stephanie felt confused about what would 'Hide the Truck' is about until she felt a gentle bump from the other side of the truck before starting to feel the whole thing move.

'Oh, crap!' Stephanie winced worriedly.

She tried squirming around to make the truck look unusually moveable, but it was difficult for her to move since the cart was narrower than the last one she was inside.

The adventure lasted until she heard the ocean, feeling confused about where she is now?

"Hey, what are you two doing with that truck?" a different voice asked, sounding different from the previous two she had heard.

A sudden and rough bump came from the back of the truck as Stephanie gave out a yelp in pain and startlement, softly wincing as she covered her head with her hands.

She hit her head against the wall after it was bashed into by something, causing it to move again.

This time, at a faster pace than slow and easy-going.

After the bump, Stephanie noticed that she could move after making herself small to get herself out of a tight situation before seeing that she had entered a dark tunnel.

Stephanie instantly bolted upward after noticing that she had entered a tunnel before exiting the tunnel and into a mist-covered forest, disappearing into the fog.

Her nerves went back up as she went deeper and deeper into the mist before the truck bashed into a rock on the line.

The truck jolted after hitting the rock as Stephanie hit her head again and started to become derailed, causing her to cry out as she was launched out of the cart.

Stephanie went into a barrel roll as she went down the line for a short moment before finally coming to a stop.

The truck disappeared over the side of the hill, crashing into splinters onto the steep ground.

Stephanie groaned with pain as she felt her entire body in pain, rubbing her back with a hand to ease one of the bruises.

The air was slightly muggy and cold, causing her to shiver a little, moving her hands up to her forearms and rubbing them.

She looked around at her surroundings to see where she was now, only to discover that she was, in fact, on Misty Island!

"How did I get here from Sodor?!" Stephanie softly exclaimed, standing up to her feet quickly. "Wait, where the tunnel?!"

Stephanie turned around towards where she had come from but only whimpered when she noticed it was covered in mist.

No matter which direction Stephanie turned, each area was covered in mist and difficult for her to see.

Stephanie hissed softly at herself with fear, reaching over to her arm to scratch to calm her nerves down, but stopped herself from doing it, reminding herself that it would open one of the scars on it.

So, she instead headed into the mist, thinking it was the way to the tunnel to go back to Sodor.


Thomas entered the station after dropping off passengers and picking them up from the previous one.

Then, he noticed an anxious Sir Topham Hatt at the station, looking around like a bumblebee as if he had lost something.

"What's wrong, Sir?" Thomas asked, cocking his body to the side a little. "Did you lose something?"

"No, I lost someone, Thomas," Sir Topham Hatt answered. "Have you seen Stephanie?"

"No, I haven't," Thomas answered. "I thought she was in the office with you, sir."

"She wasn't!" Sir Topham Hatt responded. "She excused herself out of my office, and I specifically told her to wait here until I was done."

"Where is exactly 'here?'" Thomas asked. "You didn't tell her to sit on a bench or stand by your door, Sir."

Sir Topham Hatt facepalmed himself after Thomas asked as Gordon came into the station, hearing parts of the conversation they were talking about.

"What is going on, Thomas?" Gordon asked.

"Sir Topham Hatt lost Stephanie again." Thomas sighed. "Have you seen her, though?"

"I haven't." Gordon shook. "She wasn't at any of the stations while I was doing the express."

"Nor walking down the sidewalks," Bertie added, coming to the station. "I think something did happen to her."

From different stations, Thomas and any of the engines would ask anyone if they had seen Stephanie, giving them a description of her.

But they only receive either an 'I don't remember seeing her,' and a shrug.

News of the missing Stephanie seemed to worry Smudger when Duncan asked one of the passengers, only to get a shrug in response.

So, almost all engines went all around Sodor to search for Stephanie after receiving the news.

They were worried about the state she was in and what her foster-father would think.

But all they did not know was that Stephanie was on an island hidden out of sight.


Meanwhile, Stephanie continued walking down the railway, feeling more and more nervous about being lost on Misty Island, knowing that the island is always hidden.

After a few hours of walking, Stephanie stopped as she panted, moving her head down and coughed a little, placing a hand against her flat chest, feeling one of her lungs hurting a little.

She had been walking for a long time, and there was still no sign of a brick tunnel, nor any engines either.

Stephanie moved back up after bending down to get a small break, looking up into the sky.

She noticed that the sky was in a bright blue color and had a few clouds in it, too.

She had been missing for at least two or three hours.

That thought seemed to worry Stephanie as she bit the bottom of her lip with her front teeth, feeling worried about getting herself missing for years instead of hours or minutes.

Stephanie gently scratched at her wrist from the thought in her mind before shaking it out of her mind and went back to the subject of finding the tunnel, determined to go back to Sodor.

So Stephanie continued with her walk, heading deeper and deeper into the mist and the forest.

As she walked through the forest, Stephanie was interested in how beautifully red the wood was, including the grass growing and the gentle sounds of birds tweeting.

Stephanie stopped as she appeared in front of a fork in the railway, feeling more stressed as she looked at one of them, then the second in worry.

She does not know which one to take to go to the tunnel.

Stephanie scratched the back of her head worriedly, continuing to try to pick which line to take when she stopped thinking to herself.

From the soles to her feet, Stephanie could gently feel slight tremors coming from the railway.

It was indicating there was a locomotive heading towards where she was.

Was it Thomas, Gordon, or Winston?

Stephanie wanted to take a step forward and meet them to be back in comfort's arms again, but only to stop when two unfamiliar pairs of eyes appeared from the mist.

This seemed to scare Stephanie when she saw the two pairs of eyes staring back at her from within the mist, causing her to scream in fear.


Meanwhile, at a logging site, a single locomotive was working there, pushing flatbeds of red wood into different sections, as there were two cranes.

One of them has the basis of an American Hoist and Derrick Steam Log Loader.

The second has the base of the Swansboro Land and Lumber Railroad's steam donkey.

The locomotive working there was a Climax Class C logging locomotive and was painted teal with blue-gray lining.

He has a semi-circular symbol depicting three yellow trees with two brown axes crossing each other on both sides of his cab and tender.

As he was working with the flatbeds of wood, he noticed that everything seemed a little too quiet around, not like the ones he is used to.

As the mist lifted a little, two miniature locomotives came into view after he stopped moving the flatbeds around, seeing the two.

Their base was based on a Bear Harbor Lumber Company No. 1, and one of them has their boiler, wheels, and lining painted slate gray, and his cab and dome are painted amber.

The second's boiler, wheels, and lining are painted amber, and his cab and dome are painted slate gray.

But they both have a semi-circular symbol depicting three yellow trees with two brown axes crossing each other on the right side of their cabs, almost like the other one.

"Where were you two?" he asked, as his voice has a southern accent. "I was workin' all day here!"

The two engines glanced at each other after he asked before one of their drivers stepped out of their cab as he was wearing a red plaid shirt covered in soot, a pair of blue jeans, and black boots with gloves.

In his arms, he is carrying Stephanie!

She looked confused about the human holding her and looked like a scared little kitten discovered by a dog.

"Can we keep her?" they both asked as he looked confused.

At first, she did look cute from his perspective, but she looked terrified and confused, which seemed to make him feel worried.

"Where on earth did you two find her?" he asked, glancing at the twins.

"Just standing at the fork," one of the twins answered.

"And with no one else with her!" the second finished.

A surprised expression appeared on his face after they answered, asking, "No adult?"

Slight confusion replaced their excitement, saying, "No."

"We didn't see an adult there." the second added.

Instantly, a worried expression appeared on his face after they answered, saying, "Bash, Dash… She is a child."

Bash and Dash, the twin locomotives, glanced at the driver holding Stephanie.

She was shaking like a leaf, her hands on her forearms as she was slightly curled.

"Oops." they both blushed after he explained, glancing away as they gently rocked back and forth.

Did they take her away from her parents after discovering her near the fork in the tracks?

"Hey, kiddo?" he spoke, inching a little closer to Stephanie as she glanced over at him. "Sorry about Bash and Dash scarin' ya. They were being a little rowdy for ya."

"I-It's fine." Stephanie shivered, getting out of the driver's arms as she stood, still shaking like a leaf and having her hands on her forearms. "They just startled me, that's all."

He smiled a little after Stephanie assured him, before she asked, "Although, I'm a little lost, do you know where the Misty Island's Tunnel is?"

He blinked after she asked, as Bash asked, "Don't you live here?"

"With your parents?" Dash finished, sounding as confused as Bash.

Stephanie turned around to them and answered, "No, I have no parents. Only a foster-father."

That answer seemed to make the bigger engine's smokebox drop to his wheels after hearing it, as the twins looked surprised too.

"'No parents?'" he asked. "Then, where is your foster-father?"

"He-He's back in America," Stephanie shivered. "But, Sir Topham Hatt called him to let him know that I am here and is coming back to pick me up."

A relieved sigh came from all three engines after she explained to them before Bash said, inching a little closer to her after his driver climbed back into his cab, "What is your name? I'm Bash."

"I'm Dash," Dash smiled.

"And I'm Ferdinand!" Ferdinand smiled at Stephanie as Stephanie seemed to warm up to him after being a little startled. "We're the Logging Locos!"

With that, they whistled their whistles after introducing themselves, as Stephanie smiled warmly.

"Pl-Pleased to meet you," Stephanie shuddered. "My na-name is Stephanie, Stephanie Allen."

She paused after speaking, lifting her hands up and blowing into them as they were cupped, shivering.

"Are you," Bash spoke, as Dash finished, "Cold?"

Stephanie nodded her head after they asked, hugging herself to keep some warmth to herself.

Ferdinand paused a little after she nodded her head before saying, "Why don't you stay with me? My cab is warm enough and has enough room inside for two."

Stephanie smiled and nodded her head as Ferdinand's driver hopped out of his cab, picking her up in his arms.

"What should," Dash spoke, as Bash finished, "Do with her Ferdinand?"

"Simple," Ferdinand answered after they entered back into his cab. "Go to Misty Island's Tunnel and find Sir Topham Hatt. He must be so agitated 'bout her missin', he's eatin' his hat."


And sure enough, Sir Topham Hatt was eating, but it was not his hat, but some chocolate that he stashed for snacking on later.

He was rapidly chewing as he thought to himself about Stephanie, worried about what situation she was in now, and what would her foster-father think about his missing daughter?

Dowager Hatt entered his office and noticed Sir Topham Hatt and his unusually piled wrappers of chocolate next to him.

"Topham?" He nearly choked on a piece of chocolate after hearing Dowager Hatt's voice, turning around to see her standing at the door, looking confused. "What on earth is going on and…"

Her voice drifted off when she noticed the pile of wrappers next to him, asking, "What are you stressed about?"

Sir Topham Hatt ducked his head down slightly after Dowager Hatt asked, mentioning to his pile of wrappers of chocolate, answering, "I lost Stephanie, Mum."

"How on earth did you lose her?!" Dowager Hatt snapped, surprising and startling Sir Topham Hatt.

"I was distracted by my work!" Sir Topham Hatt exclaimed. "I didn't specify where Stephanie could wait for me outside my office, and… well, she wandered off."

Dowager Hatt groaned as she facepalmed herself before saying, with a hiss in her tone of voice, "You will be in so much trouble if we do not find her."

A gut feeling was in his chocolate-filled stomach after hearing the hiss in Dowager Hatt's tone of voice, knowing that he was in deep hot water.


Meanwhile, on Misty Island, Stephanie was hugging Ferdinand's driver's legs while inside his cab, feeling warm, but worried about what Sir Topham Hatt and Dowager Hatt would do if found.

"Hey, you're awfully quiet," Ferdinand spoke, snapping Stephanie out of her thoughts to him. "Is there somethin' wrong?"

"Well," Stephanie spoke as she hugged his driver's legs. "I came here on accident."

"How on accident?" Ferdinand asked, sounding confused.

"I was standing near one of the trucks at Knapford while waiting for Sir Topham Hatt to come out of his office to check on how things were going with other stations and have some conversations," Stephanie explained. "But Mason and his friends came over to where I was and shoved me into a truck, which was too narrow for me to get out."

Ferdinand slowly nodded as he listened to Stephanie's words, along with Bash and Dash, as they were behind him, following him to Misty Island's Tunnel.

"Two engines I don't remember or see since I was stuck inside came over to where I was and decided to play a game called 'Hide the Truck," Stephanie continued. "Which brought the truck near where Rocky is and, well, came here and met Bash and Dash, by accident since they scared me."

Bash and Dash blushed after hearing the conversation from Stephanie, remembering how terrified Stephanie was as Bash's driver carried her into his cab.

"So that is how you came to Misty Island?" Ferdinand asked, cocking his body to the side a little.

"Yep." Stephanie nodded, blushing a little with embarrassment. "How is Ryland?"

An excited expression appeared on Bash's and Dash's faces, as they both said, "He was very hard-working!"

"That's right!" Ferdinand nodded. "He even was a quick learner after showing him how to work with He-Haw and Ol'Wheezy."

Stephanie smiled after Ferdinand nodded in agreement before asking, "Where is Ryland now?"

"He's delivering the Jobi wood to Brendam Docks," Dash answered, as Bash finished, "I hope he doesn't meet Casey Jones' ghost."

Stephanie felt confused after hearing the last line from Bash, asking, "Who's 'Casey Jones?'"

Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand paused after Stephanie asked, as Ferdinand answered, "Casey Jones is a famous locomotive driver."

Stephanie's curiosity perked as she listened to Ferdinand's story about Casey Jones, moving a little closer to the door on the other side.

"He was a brave engineer!" Bash nodded as Dash added, "He even was the driver of the first Casey Jones, which shared the same name of."

Stephanie remembered Casey Jones Jr, listening to the story about the famous engineer.

"It started on a night," Ferdinand started as they turned around the bend. "Casey Jones and his fireman, Sim Webb, were about to go to sleep when a call came from one of the stations."


The engineer who was supposed to take the train on the southbound run was sick, and without having a second thought, Casey Jones himself told him he would take the man's place.

As tired as he was, Casey Jones just got dressed in his uniform and went to the station.

Once he got there, he saw that Sim Webb was workin' on the coal for the first Casey Jones, called 'Casey Jones Sr,' to not get mixed up with the two.

Their task was to deliver mail, packages of freight, and passengers, and Stephanie, this is the sad part of the story of how both Casey Joneses have met their ends.

As Casey Jones mounted the cabin and took the throttle in his hand, someone shouted, "Casey! You're more than an hour and a half late!"

But both Caseys just smiled and thought, 'I guess that means we'll have to just go a little faster.'

Casey opened the throttle, and they plunged into the dark, wet night with Sim Webb shoveling coal with all his might, making Casey Jones Sr go faster and faster.

"Casey!" Sim yelled at Casey Jones. "We're runnin' too fast!"

But Casey Jones said, "Sim, don't you fret! Keep knockin' at the firedoor, and don't give up yet!"

And Casey Jones Sr added, "I'm gonna keep runnin' until I leave the rail or make it on time with the southbound mail!"

So they drove on, and Casey Jones Sr gained more speed until it was flyin' faster than the speed of light.

Then, Casey Jones Sr spoke, "I believe we'll make it through. For I am a-steamin' better than I ever knew!"

They got the signal that the tracks were clear up ahead, so they were 'highbailin'' down the tracks, pushing over the boundaries to make himself go fast to save time.

They were going so fast that it looked like they could save time!

Just then, as they squealed around the corner through the darkness, Casey Sr sees a glow ahead of the tracks.

They knew that the light wasn't supposed to be there, not on the tracks, and at that moment, Casey Jones knew the same thing Casey Sr does.

A broken-down freight train stuck on the track just ahead, and they were speedin' straight towards it!

Casey Jones pulled the brakes as hard as he could, as Casey Sr called to his fireman, "Jump, Sim!"

But before Sim could jump, he asked Casey Jones, "Casey, you come on!"

"Jump!" Casey Jones only shouted, and Sim did, jumping to the side as Casey Jones stayed with Casey Sr.

They both knew that they needed to slow down in time before the disaster struck.

So, Casey Jones pulled on the brakes as hard as he could as Casey Sr whistled his whistle to warn everyone else.

Then, the crash happened!

Casey Sr crashed into the second locomotive in a head-on collision, coming into a tangled mess, and fire went everywhere!

When they found the body, he had one hand on the brakes and one on the whistle, as the locomotive, he was scrapped since he was beyond repair.

Both did not survive the crash but rescued many people, including one that didn't suspect the sudden collision.

They saved all the passengers during that night, including their fireman, Sim.

But, thanks to Sim Webb and the surviving locomotive, the story was told again and again.

As for Casey Jones and Casey Sr?

Well, they say if you were traveling alone at night during the week of the crash, you would encounter Casey Jones and Casey Sr's ghosts, traveling through the starry night.


Stephanie paused a little after hearing the story about Casey Jones and Casey Sr, thinking to herself about encountering the two.

But her mind was focused on the thought of how Sir Topham Hatt and Dowager Hatt react to seeing her again, thinking she was going to be in deep trouble.

Just as they entered Knapford, Ferdinand whistled his whistle at the office window as his driver stepped out of his cab, placing Stephanie down.

After whistling his whistle, the door opened, and out came some people Stephanie had not seen before.

When they noticed Stephanie, the first one tried going through the door to meet her, only to get the others struck as they struggled.

Stephanie did not laugh as she watched the group of people struggle a little before hearing something bump into each other and seeing the other engines coming into the station.

They bumped into each other and accidentally into Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand, as Casey Jr yelped and screeched to a halt, as Linus gently bumped into his back buffers without crashing.

'Well, it does seem like I am an accident magnet.' Stephanie thought to herself sadly, ducking her head slightly with embarrassment and worry.

"Young lady!" Stephanie recoiled when she heard Dowager Hatt's voice, gripping her sweater with both of her hands. "You almost gave us a heart attack! What should you say for yourself?"

Stephanie was about to speak after Dowager Hatt scolded, feeling many angry glares at her back, before Ferdinand said, "May I speak?"

Her mind stopped after hearing Ferdinand speak, feeling worried about him getting snapped at more than her.

"It was an accident," Bash spoke as Dash finished. "She was pushed into a truck,"

"And two twin engines came and took the truck into the Misty Island's Tunnel." Ferdinand nodded. "She said that it was Mason and his friends."

"Them again?" Gordon fumed. "How disgraceful!"

Stephanie perked as she heard her story told by Ferdinand to them but was still worried about being punished for a slight accident that had happened to her to cause a panic.

After the story finished, Stephanie had some bravery to ask, "A-Am I going to be punished?"

This seemed to confuse Dowager Hatt after she asked, responding with, "No, you're not. It was an accident, nothing serious happened to you, and you were in safe hands with The Misty Island Logging Company."

Stephanie sighed in relief after Dowager Hatt assured her but turned her attention to Sir Topham Hatt, "But as for you, Topham. You have to be more specific about telling Stephanie where to stay, and do not be distracted again."

"Y-yes, Mother," Sir Topham Hatt mumbled as Stephanie sighed in relief, releasing her sweater from her grip in her hands.

Moon knelt down to Stephanie's height after sighing in relief, hugging her in a way that she is relieved that she is safe.

But from the darkness of the shade, a pair of pure white eyes watched the engines at the station, relieved for Stephanie's safe return, before disappearing into thin air.