Here's part 9! I hope you all enjoy it!
Alya: Wait! So, Mister Conductor just ran out of sparkles just like that?
Ash: Afraid so!
Ella: Oh, that's bad!
Etta: Very bad!
Chris: And that big bully Diesel 10 is the worst!
Ash: Oh, you don't know the half of it!
Just then, Serena came in with Adrien, Juleka, Luka and Kagami!
Serena: Yoo-hoo!
Ash: Oh! Hey, guys!
Pikachu: PIKA!
Adrien: Hey!
Luka: Hi, everyone!
Kagami: Greetings!
Juleka: Hi.
Marinette: [gasps] Adrien?! What are you doing here?
Serena: I received a text from Alya saying you guys were telling a story, so I came to Paris through the warp tube system and who should I bump into at the school but Adrien and Kagami, I told them about what you guys were doing and Adrien suggested that we'd invite, Juleka and Luka! So, here we are!
Juleka: [smiles and nods]
Adrien: What are you guys reading?
Ash: Well, since you guys weren't here for some of, I'll fill you in! We're reading a book about one of my big adventures! Basically, it's about a place full of sentient trains and a big bully diesel, named Diesel 10 is bullying the steam engines and making threats and wanting to destroy the Lost Engine and gain domination!
Juleka: [gasps]
Luka: I can tell through the music that this Diesel 10 craves to wreak havoc and disharmony.
Ash: In a way, yes!
Adrien: [coming over with the others] Where are you at in the story now?
Ash: [looks in the book] Let's see! Ah, yes! Here!
[Scene changes to a train station in the big city]
[train whistle blows]
Ash (voiceover): Next morning, Mutt the Growlithe traveled with Billy to the big station. Mutt was sure that Lily could help her grandpa and that together they could help Mr. Conductor! But only if she met someone special at Shining Time first!
P.A. Announcer: Attention, passengers! The train to Muffle Mountain departs from Track 3. Last stop to Muffle Mountain. The train from Shining Time will depart from Track 4. Shining Time Track 4.
(Lily walks down the stairs to see Mutt the Growlithe barking)
Mutt: GROWLITHE! GROWLITHE GROWL!
Lily: [she happily walks over to him] I don't suppose you know where Track 3 is. Do you? (Mutt groans and walks towards Track 4, attracting Lily) You do. Is it that one? (Mutt barks in approval) Well, why not. (walks towards track 4 and onto the train) I hope you're right. (walks inside the coach)
Mutt: GROWLITHE GROWL!
Ash (voiceover): Mutt was feeling pleased with himself. He had put Lily on the wrong train but he had done so for the right reasons.
[Mutt hops on board the train as the train departed!]
[Song: I know how the moon must feel (shorter version)]
[train chuffs through the countryside on its way to Shining Time.]
I know how the moon must feel
Looking down from the heavens
Smiling at the silly things
We put ourselves through
Missing magic each day
and not seeing the wonder
That's how the moon must feel
I know how the moon must feel
When he makes someone happy.
That's the feeling I will feel
When you smile at me
I'll be floating on air
I'll be beaming with wonder
That's how the moon must feel.
[End song]
(Burnett is inside his mountain house reading a book about railroading. Somehow he hears a distant train whistle from far away in the mountain)
[Scene changes to Sodor where Mr. Conductor was with James at Tidmouth Sheds, helping him get rid of an itch on his nose with a scrubber with Jirachi watching from a distance]
James: (as Mr. Conductor is scrubbing) Left a bit. Right a bit. Up a bit. (laughs)
Mr. Conductor: There, James. Tickle all gone now?
James: No, still itchy. (Conductor feels glum) Hey, Mr. C, why do you look so tired? Is it because I'm red? Diesel 10 says red is a very tiring color but Mr. C, red looks so nice against the snow. It's not me, is it?
Mr. Conductor: Oh, no, James. I think that red is nice and cheerful.
James: Oh, good.
Mr. Conductor: Just like my sparkle. Or at least it was - and must be again. (short silence) Oh, I'm sorry, James. I'm going to the windmill to search for something important. Now off you go to work, please.
James: (as he chuffs away) Okay, Mr. C. Keep your steam up.