A/N The basis of this story's a Percy episode so he tells it.

Hey, it's me, Percy. I'm about to tell you about how I fell in water.

One day Henry wanted to rest, but I was talking to some engines. I was telling them about the time he had braved bad weather to help Thomas.

"It was raining hard. Water swirled under my boiler. I couldn't see where I was going, but I struggled on."

"Oooh, Percy, you are brave."

"Well, it wasn't anything really. Water's nothing to an engine with determination.

"Tell us more, Percy."

"What are you engines doing here?" hissed Henry. "This shed is for Sir Topham Hatt's engines. Go away! Silly things," Henry snorted.

"They're not silly." I had been enjoying myself.

"They are silly, and so are you. 'Water's nothing to an engine with determination.' Huh!"

"Anyway," said cheeky Percy, "I'm not afraid of water. I like it." I ran off to the harbor singing: "Once an engine attached to a train was afraid of a few drops of rain."

"No one ever lets me forget the time I wouldn't come out of the tunnel in case the rain spoiled my paint," huffed Henry. I heard him as I headed to the harbor. Thomas was there when I arrived at it.

Thomas was looking at a board on the quay. DANGER!

"We mustn't go past it, he said. "That's orders."

"Why?"

"'DANGER' means falling down something," said Thomas. "I went past 'DANGER' once and fell down a mine."

"I can't see a mine," I said. I didn't know that the foundation of the quay had sunk. The rails now sloped downward to the sea. However, I did after pasing the board with my Troublesome Trucks.

"Stupid board!" I said.

I made a plan.

One day I whispered to the cars, "Will you give me a bump when we get to the quay?"

The cars had never been asked to bump an engine before. They giggled and chattered about it. That's how I found out no engine before me wanted to be bumped by them.

"Driver doesn't know my plan," I chuckled.

"On! On! On!" laughed the cars.

I thought they were helping. "I'll pretend to stop at the station, but the cars will push me past the board. Then I'll make them stop. I can do that whenever I like."

Every wise engine knows that you cannot trust freight cars. I soon learned that.

"Go on! Go on!" they yelled, and bumped Driver and my fireman off the footplate.

"Ow!" I said sliding past the board.

I was frantic. "That's enough!"

I was sunk.

"You are a very disobedient engine."

I knew that voice. "Please, sir, get me out, sir. "I'm truly sorry, sir."

"No, Percy, we cannot do that till high tide. I hope it will teach you to take care of yourself."

"Yes, sir." I knew about Sir Topham Hatt's love for us, his steam engines, but I also felt very unhappy about being so naughty.

It was dark when they brought floating cranes to rescue me. I was too cold and stiff to move by myself. They had me taken to my shed for the night.

Next day I was sent to the Works on Henry's freight train.

"Well! Well! Well" chuckled Henry. "Did you like the water?"

"No!" I could handle rain, but not being right in the sea.

"I am surprised. You need more determination, Percy. 'Water's nothing to an engine with determination,' you know. Perhaps you will like it better next time."

I was quite determined that there wouldn't be a next time! I still am, because I don't want to be too cold, wet and stiff to be a Really Useful Engine.

A/N I'm not British, they are. I use their English as best I can, but sometimes use my English where my country's TTTE dub of this episode did.