It was night time at Tidimouth Sheds, all the engines were tired and wanted to go to sleep, but Gordon was preventing them, because when its night time Gordon's firebox makes a rattle noise whenever it cools down. That night, Gordon's firebox went "click clunk, click clunk", soon Thomas and Percy started to chuckle.

"Rattler Gordon is keeping us all awake!" peeped Percy.

"The only engines keeping other engines awake." huffed Gordon crossly "Are little engines with very bad manners." But secretly, he felt rather embarrassed. Emily started to get an idea, she knew Timothy might take drastic measures in having confusion and delay occur, so she has to do something to prevent Timothy from hurting Gordon. Soon, Emily felt like going for a late night walk.

"Well, I wanna go outside and walk around a bit." said Emily.

"Hey Emily..." puffed Thomas slightly shy "Can I accompany you?"

"I would love some company, thanks Thomas." peeped Emily, as the two engines puffed away. Thomas and Emily were puffing along the line a little, appreciating the moon, checked out some of the viewings as well, and star gazed a little sometimes "I love coming out at night." said Emily "Its so peaceful and quiet. All these stars, you could honestly make an entire picture with them."

"You like paintings Emily?" Thomas asked.

"Of course I do! I don't get to see them often, but when I do, they are always amazing to see!" said Emily excitedly, she didn't know why she loves anything related to drawings, but her driver knew why.

"I love them too. I know people who to the windmill just to paint it and I love seeing the process." said Thomas happily "I wish I could just stay at a siding and see the process."

"Oh how I wish for that too!" Emily agreed as they puffed along.

"What else do you like Emily?"

"Hm something I like?" Emily was now in deep thought "I suppose a surprise."

"Me too coincidentally, but I think you knew that already."

"There are many types of surprises in this world. Surprises that comes from Mother Nature. Internal surprises that you only figure out as time goes on. And surprises that just keep on coming. THOSE surprises are the most peculiar to me... you would assume superficially there is nothing more to it, but when you do it again, there is more to experience... its something that keeps you in wonder and excitement... makes you curious about them and makes you wish you could experience it... and they give you different sensations, like love... that's one of the things I love about a art and about an engine." said Emily.

Next day

In the morning, Percy teased Gordon again.

"Rattle-box is awake at last!" He puffed out loud. Gordon ignored Percy. He did not like being called names. Emily soon puffed out as well. She went to the coach sheds to pick up her coaches when Timothy appeared.

"Hey Emily..." puffed Timothy.

"Hi..." said Emily defensively, she didn't want Timothy to catch her off guard this time.

"Now, I think I have a plan for you today." said Timothy.

"Well, I got a plan here that I think you will like." peeped Emily. Timothy was curious.

"Alright, bite me." said Timothy.

"So Gordon has this rattle problem whenever his firebox cools down at night. All the engines tease him about it and as you know Gordon, he boasts a lot." said Emily "So, what if we tease him enough so that he will a cause a random accident when he is distracted, not whilst he is pulling the Express obviously, but some other time when he is alone." Timothy thought about it, so he decided to play along a little.

"Alright, since it is your plan, you take the lead." said Timothy, and soon she steamed away to Knapford Station. Around the same time, Gordon pulled into the station.

"Oh, look." laughed Emily "Rattler Gordon's here! He's pulling the click clunk Express." This made Gordon very cross indeed... especially since Diesel overheard.

"I hope your click-clunk gets better." oiled Diesel "See you later rattler." Emily would have normally just taught Diesel a lesson, maybe shunt him or anything, just to teach him a lesson about how he should not make fun of Engines for things they have no control over, like what she did to Thomas and Percy about Salty's accent, but she can't let her "bossy buffers" persona down just yet.

'If I drop my current personality and act, Timothy might damage Gordon beyond repair.' said Emily to herself. Gordon was very cross indeed. He decided it was time the other engines treat him properly. So later, at a Water Tank, he pulled up ahead of James. James was surprised. At Knapford, Percy had brought Gordon's coaches into number one platform.

"Off you go now, Percy." said Gordon "Number one is my platform. Little engines shouldn't hang around."

"You're a boastful, bossy big blue boiler!" Percy muttered to himself crossly. Later, Gordon told his friends to give him a polite "toot-toot" whenever they saw him.

"But why?" asked Thomas. He was very puzzled.

"Because..." huffed Gordon grandly "I'm the strongest and the best." and he steamed away.

"You can toot at him if you like." wheeshed Emily "But I'm not going to." as she steamed away.

"I am not going to either!" puffed Thomas "This is so uncalled for!" Emily was puffing along the island doing her passenger run.

'The plan must be going perfectly.' she said to herself. Soon enough, she saw Gordon puffing along the line with the Express, but she didn't toot at him like he told her to, she knew it would make Gordon cross 'Now its time to expand on the plan. What would Thomas do now?' she wondered to herself when she suddenly heard a loud crash, she couldn't tell what happened based on the sounds but it can't be good. Soon when she arrived at the station, Edward was seen pulling the Breakdown Tain, Judy and Jerome.

"Edward!" Emily called out to the blue engine "What happened?!"

"Gordon crashed to a goods train! I think there might even be passengers hurt!" replied Edward as he hurried along "No time to talk Emily! We need to treat the wounded!" Emily was feeling despair, this wasn't meant to happen! Who would put a goods train in the middle of the line?! Donald and Douglas would usually check if everything was in order. But then Emily realized.

'Why that lousy son...' her guard blew the whistle and she had to steam off 'Timothy... he acted on his own accord!'. Soon Emily puffed up to Timothy.

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" Emily yelled at him, she knew they were alone.

"What you mean?" Timothy asked sarcastically "I was just following the plan. Wasn't Gordon meant to get into an accident?"

"I TOLD YOU EXPLICITLY NOT WHILST HE IS PULLING THE EXPRESS! PASSENGERS ARE INJURED BECAUSE OF YOUR ACTIONS! WHY DO YOU DO ALL OF THIS?!" there was a dramatic, the atmosphere now was dense.

"You ask me why I am doing all of this... but even if I told you why, I highly doubt that the knowledge will matter anyway. But lets say I take my time to explain my vision as a whole. My vision is to create the ultimate railway, filled with peace and bring about justice." Emily just chuckled.

"That's the funniest joke ever!" she huffed crossly "Because you hurt Thomas! Hurt my friends! You planned to let Thomas purposely get frozen in the Winter! You used Salty's tales to cause confusion and delay! HOW CAN YOU DO ALL OF THIS AND CLAIM YOU ARE DOING IT FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE?!"

"So what do you want Emily?"

"I AM GOING TO EXPOSE YOU AND BRING EVERYTHING BACK TO NORMAL!"

"Oh I see, considering everything I have done so far, that WOULD be justice. HOWEVER, what about MY railway? MY friends? They suffered a terrible fate by the hands of the selfish hands of the big controllers! How is it fair to only let YOU talk about peace and justice?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I hope you like history, my dear Emily. Once, there was a small railway, not a very known one, but it was beautiful, ambitious and it was like a family, just like this railway. The controller one day had one of the greatest ideas of all time, he treated us all just like how your controller treats you, there going to be more holiday makers and it will put the railway on the map. But one of the bigger railways came up with an average idea in comparison, then after sometime, a malfunctioning engine from the bigger railways came over and made things even worse, then our small railway went bankrupt and we lost everything. The controller had nowhere else to go, he lost his home, his family, it meant his life. You, Thomas, me, we are all one in the same, we want to do our best for our railways, no confusion and delay, we want to please our controllers, and we have friends as well... and some special friends as well... the justice I gave to your railway is no different from what you want to do to me and what I had to go through many years ago, and inevitably, what Thomas will bring upon me will be the same justice as well. Everyone feels a pain when losing something dear to them, you, me, Thomas, Edward, James, Percy, all the engines on Sodor are right now feeling the pain of passengers getting hurt, losing money because of several upon dozens of confusion and delays, a fellow engine getting hurt is almost like seeing a family member getting hurt, and I understand what you feel deep inside you... I bet not even Thomas can be cheeky upon seeing what happened to Gordon, or even James for that matter, the same selfish idiot, even he can't make fun of Gordon after that accident... So let me ask you this Emily, how do you plan to take me down and bring about justice?" there was a long pause, Emily was thinking to herself, there has to be an answer to all of this, there just had to be, right? But...

"...I don't know..." said Emily as the wind blew through her funnel. Timothy then puffed away.

Meanwhile, the Fat Controller was on the telephone, getting numerous angry phone calls, it was the families and friends of the passengers in the Express.

'At this rate... I might need a miracle to save the Railway...' said the Fat Controller to himself as he looked at all the lawsuits on his railway.

A few days later

Emily was dropping visitors at Ruin's Castle. Once upon a time, a queen had lived there.

'I'd like to be queen.' thought Emily 'Queens are in charge and tell everybody what to do. I would honestly prefer to be an artist though.'. Down the hill from the castle, Toby and Percy arrived. They were to shunt freight cars. Percy had never worked there before.

"Ooh, look at the castle." peeped Percy excitedly "I wonder who used to live there!".

"A king and a queen." said Toby "They ruled the island and told everyone what to do." and he chuffed towards the freight cars. Percy stared at the castle. He was dreaming of kings and queens "Percy!" called Toby "We've got lot to do today." and Percy followed so they can start working. Emily meanwhile was getting bored.

'Waiting for passengers is boring.' she huffed to herself 'If Thomas was here, he would make things more exciting.' then she saw Timothy with a line of freight cars. Heavy freight cars filled with stones. Emily was shocked, knowing Timothy by now, she was able to tell what Timothy was thinking, he will most likely shunt them at Toby and Percy, a huge crash could occur! So she immediately uncuppled to her coaches and puffed towards Toby and Percy, she had to act immediately! Toby and Percy were waiting to be coupled up when Emily chuffed in.

"Percy." she whistled "I've had an idea. Let's play a game." Percy looked pleased. In the background, as Emily proceeded to tell Percy that she will be queen and tell him what to do then Toby teases her that 'queens need to be clever' and laughed at her, she even pretended to be cross but nobody noticed the difference, Timothy stopped shunting the trucks.

'Go on Emily, let's play the game.' said Timothy to himself as Toby puffed away.

'I'm sorry Percy, Toby, please forgive me.' she puffed sadly to herself and about the same time, Percy was having trouble with the troublesome trucks.

"No you don't!" they laughed, they clattered and chattered. Emily was thinking to herself fast.

'Maybe this will work... PLEASE, forgive me Percy and Toby.' said Emily to herself. So she puffed towards Percy.

"Percy!" she whistled loudly and Percy stopped "I am queen today. I will tell you what to do." Percy was worried. Toby usually knew best "Take these troublesome trucks along my track." said Emily "Its faster and they won't complain. Toby will be pleased when he sees how quick you are."

"But, but Toby said if I can't manage these cars, I'll..."

"Never mind, just do what I say." Percy wanted Toby to be pleased.

"I'll do as you say, Queen Emily." he tooted. Emily watched as Percy blew a big wheesh of steam. Percy puffed and he chuffed, and the troublesome trucks sped of onto Emily's line. Emily tried to look pleased with herself like a queen, but in reality she wasn't. Soon enough, there was a terrible crash!

'I'm sorry you two... I didn't mean to... I needed to protect you...' said Emily as she steamed of to see the results, and she also dropped a tear 'I can't cry now.' she tried holding back her tears. Timothy saw everything unfold.

'Hm, ha ha ha ha ha ha!' Timothy laughed in his head 'Now I am even more out of the question! So much confusion and delay, and I am not even one to blame! Emily left behind her passengers, they must almost be finished with their tour, Toby, Mavis and Percy crashed into each other, and the telephone pole broke! I WIN!' meanwhile with Emily, as she went to the nearest station to call for help like what Toby told her to do, she couldn't help but feel guilty. Was she doing it for the greater good or was she doing it for the worse? She left behind her passengers even, most likely done with their tour already.

'What am I?' Emily asked to herself.

At night

Percy was in a bad mood, Emily was acting so egotistical and selfish that she caused him to crash into Mavis and got Toby damaged. Thomas on the hand was worried for her, he just wants to talk to Emily to get what's happening. It soon started to rain.

"Oh dear." said Henry "It started raining and Emily still didn't return." the weather forecast said that there was going to be a terrible storm.

"Good! I don't want to see that silly bossy boiler!" said Percy angrily. He was still in a bad mood over what Emily did today, she caused him, Mavis and Toby to crash AND broke Toby's cow catchers.

"Well I will go and find her myself." said Thomas as he puffed away. Thomas was going up and down the main line, the rain was slowly getting worse and worse, but it didn't take long until he found Emily. She was next to a signal box alone and she wasn't moving. Thomas then puffed up in front of her, face to face.

"Hey Emily... its not good to be here..." said Thomas.

"Thomas..." Emily started to speak, she sounded really broken and sad "Am I a really useful engine?"

"Well yes you are..." replied Thomas. Emily soon started to cry which started to make Thomas worried.

"Than... why did I make such a lousy decision?!" Emily yelled, tears pouring down her eyes "I got my friends hurt... WHY?!" as she buffered up to Thomas and just kept on crying. Thomas stayed as close to her as possible, just trying to find a way to calm her down.

'Where are you Emily? What's happening to you?' Thomas thought to himself.

To be continued