I do not own Thomas the Tank/Thomas & Friends or I would have kept them in their models forms.

"Trucks are waiting in the Yard; Tackling them with ease'll,

'Show the world what I can do.' Gaily boasts the Diesel.

In and out he creeps about, Like a big black weasel.

When he pulls the wrong trucks/cars out – Pop goes the Diesel!"

Diesel groaned as the Rock & Load Crew kept on singing that annoying song which they have been doing ever since that incident with the wrong trucks Diesel tried to pull.

Diesel has since than had enough which did result in him punching one of the crew members breaking their nose. Diesel has gotten in trouble for it as Sir Topham Hatt has given the job of cleaning the engines for the next few days.

"Damn annoying maggots…" Diesel grumbled as he finished cleaning and started packing up.

"They will grow bored. Try not to let them get to you." Duck said kindly to him as he had gotten use Diesel and now tries to show there were no hard feelings between them, but Diesel did not feel the same as he glared at him. "You're the one who probably tells them to sing that song and pick on me!"

"Hey!" A voice suddenly shouts and Diesel jumped when he saw Henry march up to them as Henry usually doesn't yell, but seeing him looking mad now and he was taller than Diesel, it did scare him a bit. "Duck would never do that!"

"Yeah! We might have problems with him in the past, but Duck would do that!" James shouts joining in and Gordon too came over glaring at Diesel nodding in agreement.

Duck smiled as it was nice to see these three having his back despite they had problems in the past.

Diesel sneered at the Steam Engien drivers before stomping off.

"Thanks for that." Duck smiled at the others.

"Hey just because we got off to a bad start doesn't mean we got ill feelings towards you." Henry smiled as James and Gordon nod in agreement. Duck smiled at that glad they were past that.

"Thanks guys."

Later on, that day Duck was working hard in Knapford Yards sorting out the trucks assigned to him to handle and the Rock & Load Crew were glad he was the one to handle it as Diesel was still in their bad books. So having Duck around was a victory for them.

But Diesel was plotting revenge for what had happened and put all the blame on Duck.

When cleaning the engines earlier he had fooled around with Duck's engine.

Which Duck had started finding out when his engine started jerking a lot and making work a bit hard as his engine would start and stop.

It made him slow to fetch trains for the others and not knowing the reason for slowness it annoyed Gordon & James, but Henry was understandable do to his experience of a slow and not working well train.

Duck had no clue what was going on, but it was starting to grate his nerves and he had a good idea who was responsible for this.

When he got time he brought his engine to a stop and tried to find what was causing the problems.

"What's wrong Duck?" He heard Diesel asked as he came over to Duck who was checking his engine. "Engine problems? Signs of how terribly out of date Steam Engines are. This shows why Diesel Engines are greater." He bragged and Duck scowled as he tried to ignore him as he worked on his engine.

"I mean anyone with a brain could see how useless and worthless Steam Engines are, but guess the Fat Controller is unfortunately born without one." He spoke more and Duck scowled as he now looked at Diesel as he continued. "And all the Sodor drivers deserved having their engines scrapped and them jobless for their stupidness."

Duck had enough as today with his engine having problems today, he was pretty sure Diesel had something to do with it, stress of work with a bad acting engine and now Diesel's insults made him had enough.

He punched Diesel in the face hard.

Diesel stumbled back and he held his nose, he was surprised it wasn't broken as Duck had struck very hard.

"Duck!" Duck suddenly heard and saw to his shock Sir Topham Hatt coming over looking very crossed. Duck knew he must have seen him punching Diesel right now and Duck knew he was in big trouble.

"Sir…I…"

"I don't want to hear it. I heard how bad of a day you are having, but you can't take it out on other drivers like that. Be glad I am not firing you, but I feel you can't be around here for the time being. Grab your stuff and take your engine to Wellsworth, you be staying and working there until further notice." Sir Topham Hatt said firmly and without room for argument before stomping off. Duck looked on sadly and hurt before sighing as he heads off to grab his stuff.

Diesel grinned as his plan had worked, he had messed with Duck's engine to make his work harder and make him stressed out so when he insulted him he would lash out. Now Duck was gone and Diesel can do what he wants freely now without having to worry about him anymore.

Now he can plan to ruin the other drivers so Sir Topham Hatt can get rid of Steam Engines in peace.

However, unfortunately him.

Sir Topham Hatt is no fool.

Sorry for late update here as I have been very busy as of late and I wanted to try something new here for this episode/chapter.

Let me know what you guys think and again sorry for the late update

Hope you all enjoyed.