Great Western Tussle
Tina and the Great Western Locomotives went to work but they knew that Lord Arcanon probably sent his eyes and ears to spy on them and the entire Kalos Railway which meant that they had to be very careful. Tina had met up with Edinburgh Castle at a station and were talking about the situation.
Tina: I heard of tense situations but this is ridiculous. This Arcanon stooge is nothing but a bully who needs to be beaten down. I refuse to live in fear of that jackass.
Edinburgh Castle: Tina you're beginning to sound like Monica. That's something I'd expect to come out of her mouth. But I understand what you're saying. I'm tired of watching the passengers living in fear and here's more. Duchess Corrinne is also tired of her pals who attend a high school at Barrow-In-Furness living in fear of their enemies and their relatives. Well at least that's what Hassan said so far. He mentioned that if we want the full story we'd have to ask Duchess Corrinne or the other Stanier designed LMS locomotives. They know her best and she told them everything of her situation since she's been here.
Tina: I'll go do that. But what about the other LMS Locomotives of Gervase? And more to the point would she even talk to any of us for that matter?
Edinburgh Castle: Well I can safely say that the first BR Standard Class Steam Locomotives she'll talk to are Abigail and Gabriella. As for the LNER Locomotives I'm not too sure about that and same with the Southern Railway Locomotives.
Tina: What about you and the Great Western Railway Locomotives?
Edinburgh Castle: Good news is that Hassan says that due to Stanier having been trained at Swindon by Churchwood she'll gladly talk to any of the Great Western Locomotives. All we have to do is ask. Though I'm not sure she'll feel too comfortable around the locomotives that weren't designed by the locomotive companies.
Tina: I understand and I'll see if I can talk to her but for now we better get going.
Edinburgh Castle understood and left as soon as the passengers were on board and the guard was ready. Tina left with her own stopping service along one of the Kalos Railway's secondary routes located in the area the Great Western Railway locomotives worked. As the BR Standard Class 4 Ten Wheeler traveled and stopped at the right stations she was already considering asking the Kalos Controller for a Transfer to the LMS section of the Kalos Railway to go see Duchess Corrinne and ask her about what happened during the previous two years.
King Elgar was busy on an express service from Paris and he was taking some important people such as the French ambassador and the school board of directors to their destination. The King Class locomotive stopped to take on water at a station but as he did he noticed a chase was going on. A young man was running with a camera in hand from a bunch of jocks and the jocks all had baseball bats, wooden boards and chains.
The Great Western King Class locomotive decided to do what Duchess Corrinne would do and let loose a cloud of steam at the jocks which gave the youth the time to escape. The jocks yelled for the cloud of steam to stop and vanish before the youth managed to flee.
King Elgar: (to the Jocks) Serves you dumb jocks right for chasing that youth for no reason.
The guard blew his whistle and King Elgar steamed away with his coaches before the jocks could retaliate and get revenge upon him.
King Elgar felt very proud as he had done what Duchess Corrinne would've done but the coaches on the other hand were concerned by King Elgar's Actions.
Lead Coach: I don't think you're supposed to do that King Elgar. It's not proper.
Brake Coach: Are you kidding me? King Elgar made the right decision when he taught those jock straps a lesson by blowing steam at them and protecting the youth they were chasing in the process.
King Elgar: At least somebody agrees with me. Still the lead coach may have a point but considering the alternative doing a wrong thing in that situation is better than doing nothing at all.
The coaches seemed to understand that as King Elgar continued the trip.
Over with Tina she finished her stopping passenger service and was getting ready for her next train, a slow goods train. She was fortunate that one of the tank engines was there to take her coaches away so she can go and rest up. Tina had a bit of time so she decided to get some rest before work but what the BR Standard Class 4 Ten Wheeler didn't know was that things were about to get somewhat dicey on her slow freight train.
Lord Arcanon was in a simple house in Paris plotting his next move when he got a note from one of his thugs stating it was from Coi's Daughter.
Lord Arcanon: (Reads note) Duchess Corrinne is on the Kalos Railway and she is influencing the fleet to stand up for themselves, their human friends and to those who despite steam engines. A great Western kettle blew steam at some of my clients who were trying to get revenge upon a youth who ratted them out and ahd them punished severely.
Lord Arcanon finished reading the note and wrote a note of his own with some instructions for his new right hand lieutenant to give to his minions.
Back with Tina, she was coupled to her slow goods train and puffed along the line as she stopped at every station picking up and dropping off cars.
Tina: This sounds like it should be an easy job and the cars here are much more polite and behaved than those troublesome trucks from England.
Tina's Driver: Well we are in a different country and the terminology here is different.
Lead Car: (Speaks in a French accent) Your driver is right. We are much more civilized and polite than our counterparts in the United Kingdom and we don't like causing chaos. We know that the Railway needs us and it'll shut down should we cause an accident.
Tina smiled at the comments as she continued with her goods train. The cars behaved very well, the guard had an easy time watching the train and the trip was a simple one. After arriving at the last station on the branch line Tina left her cars and found a coal bunker, a water tower and a turn table so as to turn round and get some coal and water for the return trip. Fortunately the route was double tracked like all the branch lines of the Kalos Railway so she can get coal and water while one of the other branch line engines was on a passenger service.
Once that was done Tina went to pick up a train that was to go to Paris before finishing up the other set of jobs.
Later that evening Tina and the Great Western Engines all discussed what happened.
Tina: Well I had a typical day today. First it was a stopping service, then a slow goods train, followed by a run to the cement works.
Kalos Star: I was on stopping passenger services all day though I did get a chance to fill in for King Elgar instead of Edinburgh Castle on an Express.
Edinburgh Castle: Only because you were the nearest locomotive there when King Elgar was due to have an inspection.
King Elgar: And I'd like to add that it was either Kalos Star or Bryant and the latter isn't suitable on express passenger work. No offense.
Bryant: None taken though I think Norton Manor or Monica might've had a good chance.
Monica: Perhaps but somebody has to cover the goods trains. Though I will say one thing. Being on the Kalos Railway has allowed me to live up to my full potential.
Kalos Star: I think that the Kalos Railway has allowed all of us to live up to our full potential but for now we should get some sleep. King Elgar's tussle earlier with some jocks when he saved a youth shows that while the Kalos Railway Fleet will step up the plate to protect those from being chased our enemies could use that to belittle us.
King Elgar: That's what the Kalos Controller said and I'm worried that I may have damaged the Kalos Railway's image. You all know how our old general manager on the Great Western Railway was when it came to image.
All the Great Wester Locomotives knew full well what King Elgar meant. It was that attitude that led to the King Class Locomotives being built in the first place but for now they decided to get some sleep for the next day's events.