Chapter 2: King Boom Boo PT 2
While Shade explained to the engines what happened earlier, the 3 Boos ventured out to explore for a new place to settle down. They were planning to claim the island as their new home while also finding a good base. Eventually they arrived at the docks to see Cranky unloading a few crates from a ship and putting them in a truck Salty was pulling. One of the ghosts decided to play a little trick. Seeing that Cranky was distracted, one of them flew next to him and waited for the right moment to scare him.
"Alright just one more crate and-AAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Cranky shut his eyes tight as the Boo jumps at his face, then he is possessed by the Boo. Cranky's eyes and mouth turned to look just like the Boos. Before anyone could act, the possessed Cranky swung the last crate far into the sea and it floated away. Whatever was inside was now ruined. The other Boos laughed as Salty and the workers gasped on horror.
"Shiver me timbers, those ghosts just loss the shipment, but where did they come from?" Salty wondered.
The Boo left Cranky who blinked several times.
"AUGH! STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Cranky growled.
He swung his hook towards the ghosts but they flew down towards the workers who ducked and thankfully the Boos only brushed passed them. One headed for Salty who retreated backwards but one Boo caught up and possessed him. Salty's face changed and he started to race forwards down the line with the truck still connected. But as he came towards a bend, he was going so fast, the untied crates flew out of the truck and the truck itself snapped from Salty and crashed on the ground. The other Boos continued laughing and chased the possessed Salty out of the docks.
The other Boos decided to separate and cause their own kind of trouble, so they went across the island scaring anyone still awake. They even went far as to break people's windows, mess with signal box controls and possess troublesome trucks making them bump into each other. With Salty, the poor diesel was still racing along the line coming close to Henry who was on his way back home after a successful run with the Flying Kipper, it was almost morning and he was ready sleep in.
"Phew, finally I get the Kipper finished on time, Sir Topham Hatt will be very pleased." Henry smiled.
Then he heard Salty's horn.
"Salty?" Henry looked back.
His driver and fireman look back to see a scary sight, there was Salty with spirally eyes and sharp teeth.
"AHOY MATEY! I'M GONNA CRASH YE!" Salty smirked.
"WHAT?" Henry gasped.
Then Salty caught up to Henry and bumped him. Henry sped up trying to get away as the other Boos had arrived and laughed at Henry's misfortune. Henry shut his eyes again.
"NO NOT THE GHOSTS!" Henry screamed.
Salty bumped him again harder, then again, and again. Henry's wheels almost came off the track, but Salty's did. After another bang, Salty lost control and derailed, Henry was sent into a siding by a station and crashed straight through the buffers derailing as well. The Boo left Salty and the all the Boos laugh. Salty felt exhausted and Henry felt embarrassed. The Boos high-three each other before they find they were being spied on. There puffing up to them was Percy, he looked more upset than scared.
"Bleh?" The Boos were confused.
Percy looked over at Henry and Salty before glaring at the Boos.
"You know, you guys were scary before...but now I realized, you're not scary, you're just jerks!" Percy scowled.
This left the Boos baffled. Saying nothing else, Percy chuffed back to get Rocky. The Boos were left in shock, especially one who extended an arm wanting to get Percy's attention, but Percy ignored him. The other Boos looked out at the sky to see it getting bright.
"AAH!" One gasped.
Seeing the sunlight coming, the Boos scrammed for somewhere dark. They needed to get in touch with the king. Later that morning, Henry explained what had happened to him and Salty, Shade face-palmed.
"Ugh, I knew those ghosts would be trouble. I'm calling Sonic to sort this out right now." Shade said.
"Don't you think it's strange that Tails' security tower didn't alarm G.U.N.?" Thomas asked.
"I guess it doesn't detect them as a threat. They're more of an annoyance than anything else." Shade said.
"Ooh, I'd hate to see them again." Henry shuttered.
"Relax, it's not like they possessed you." James teased.
"For now." Henry said.
"The ghosts will cause nothing but trouble, I've heard the reports." Edward informed them.
"Well they better not mess with me while I'm pulling the express, I must go!" Gordon left the sheds.
"Be careful Gordon!" Thomas called.
"Aren't I always." Gordon said.
"Don't worry Thomas, ghosts don't come out during the day." Shade said.
"Well that's a relief...hey Percy you've been quiet. You alright?" Thomas asked.
Percy looked angry and just backed more into the shed, the others were confused.
"Um Percy?"
"I just need some time alone Thomas." Percy grumbled.
"Okay." Thomas said.
Station Square...
Sonic the Hedgehog and his best friend Tails were eating some chilidogs outside Tails' workshop and admiring the bright sunny sky. Some chili felt onto Sonic's chest but he just swiped it away with an arm.
"Hey Sonic, did I tell you I have like 3 new inventions to work on this week?" Tails asked.
"Wow really? Why all in one week?" Sonic asked.
"I got a pretty long list, it builds up each month...I just need to figure out where I'll get some of the supplies, speaking of supplies, you still have that chaos emerald?" Tails asked.
"Right here!" Sonic pulled out the blue emerald.
"Sweet I might need it to power up some of the machines."
Nearbye was Big the cat who was fishing by the lake. Next to him, Froggy was just watching.
"Huh, Big has been there for awhile, but hasn't caught anything." Tails said.
"Maybe we should go talk to him." Sonic figured.
They went over to see Big smiling and humming a tune.
"Hey Big, caught anything?" Sonic asked.
"Nothing yet, but I'll catch something soon, isn't that right Froggy?" Big looked down at his friend.
"Ribbit!" Froggy hopped.
"You know I don't remember there being many fish in this lake you'd think they be scared off by all of Tails' engineering." Sonic joked.
"Ha ha." Tails rolled his eyes.
"I had a scary dream last night." Big spoke.
"About what?" Sonic asked.
"I was at Pumpkin Hill trapped behind a door, and all these ghosts kept scaring me and beat me up. It was horrible, then some strange figure came and freed me, only to start destroying the whole area." Big explained.
Sonic and Tails were surprised...and confused.
"Strange figure? Did you see what he looked like?" Tails asked.
"Well he kinda looked like Shadow." Big said.
"Shadow? People say I look like Shadow."
"Only because you're a faker!" They heard the familiar voice.
They turn to see Shadow standing a few feet away with his arms cross.
"Shadow, what are you doing here?" Tails asked.
"I got bored so I wanted to challenge the faker to a race." Shadow glared at Sonic.
"Hah, you're on!"
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Tails' wrist communicator started to beep and he answered.
"This is Tails come in."
"Tails! The Island of Sodor is in trouble again, these strange ghosts have been disturbing the peace on this island, and I can't stop them on my own."
"Ghosts...you mean the Boos? Oh no, those guys give me the creeps." Tails shuttered.
"Get Sonic, and if possible, bring Knuckles."
"You got it, we'll be there soon!"
Once the called ended, Sonic spoke up.
"Tails what happened?"
"The Island of Sodor is being harassed by the Boos and Shade wants to stop them." Tails explained.
"Hmm, well we should head over to Pumpkin Hill first...and Knuckles can help us out with that. Tails, you get out to the island, I'll grab Knuckles and head over to Pumpkin Hill." Sonic ordered.
Tails nodded and flew off to get his Tornado-2. Sonic turns to Shadow.
"Shadow, want to help?"
"Hmph, last time you barely needed my help...why would I do it now?" Shadow scoffed.
"Sounds like Shadow is afraid of ghosts." Big teased.
Sonic had to contain his laughter when Shadow turned to the cat.
"You got something to say big guy?" Shadow stormed towards him.
Sonic slipped between them as Big got scared.
"Come on Shadow he was only joking."
"Hmph whatever, we'll have our race later."
Shadow warped away before Sonic and Big high-fived.
"Nice job Big, say you should come with us, you and Froggy."
"Really? I can help?"
"I don't see why not!"
"Yay!"
"Now go with Tails to the Tornado-2. No offense but you'd slow me down." Sonic nervously chuckled.
"No problem, come on Froggy." Big scooped him up.
So Sonic sped off to find Knuckles, no doubt he was guarding the Master Emerald.
Island of Sodor...
As the day went on, the engines were barely disturbed by the ghosts. Though several times Gordon was spooked by the Boos when he would enter tunnels, his constant slowing down caused him to nearly be late. At one point one Boo braved the sunlights and scared him as he went up his own hill, and made him stuck.
"Oh the indignity...now what?" Gordon sighed.
The Boo returned, trying it's best to stand the sunlight and possessed Gordon giving him the creepy face.
"HAH! You're too weak to get up this hill, let me take over." The Boos spoke.
The possessed Gordon actually managed to make it all the way up the hill just as Edward was coming from the other side with some trucks.
"Wow Gordon, you made it all by yourself...huh?"
Edward was immediately freaked out by Gordon's face and sped down the hill in fear. As they reached the top, the Boo released him and faded away.
"Huh? How did I..."
Gordon was at a lost for words as he raced down the hill, and made it to the station on time. Thomas was busy shunting some trucks around the mine where he once fell into years ago, he shuttered at the memories. He could faintly hear some kind of laughter coming from a small tunnel nearby. At first he thought one of the diesels was hiding around waiting to scare him. Just then, Mavis rolled up.
"Hello Mavis."
"Hello Thomas, I see you've been quick to shunt these trucks."
"Oh yes...say Mavis, do you hear something coming from that tunnel over there?" Thomas asked.
"Hmm, actually I do hear someting now, I'll go take a look." Mavis said.
Switching tracks, she headed towards the tunnel but could see nobody there.
"That's really odd, then who is-AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
Mavis gets spooked, but instead of just her getting scared, the Boo was scared too. Turns out Mavis had found their temporary hiding spot and scared them by almost rushing in. Mavis laughs right after that. She backed towards Thomas who had came over.
"What happened?" Thomas asked.
"Apparently we scared each other." Mavis laughed.
The Boos grumbled as the two went away still laughing.
Angel Island...
Sonic found Knuckles who surprisingly was in a heated argument with King Boom Boo and the boos have somehow managed to find Knuckles and were accusing him of something. Sonic looked up at the sky to see it was getting very cloudy the less sunlight made it easier for the Boos to be out during the day. Sonic whistled and they all turned to him, Sonic tried not to look at the Boos' creepy faces.
"Okay enough already, what's going on?" Sonic asked.
"These ghosts are accusing me of wrecking Pumpkin Hill, apparently it was attacked after they send Shade out on some mission." Knuckles said.
"Oh yeah, some of the Boos are flying around the Island of Sodor and I needed your help and theirs." Sonic said.
"WHAT! WHY ME?" Knuckles said.
"Well because you know about these ghosts more than me and the others do, only you are crazy enough to go there for a reason." Sonic shrugged.
"You bet I am...WAIT WHAT! SHUT UP!" Knuckles growled.
"JUST ADMIT YOU ATTACKED PUMPKIN HILL!" King Boom Boo yelled.
"I DIDN'T ATTACK NOTHING!" Knuckles shot back.
"King Boom Boo I'm sure Knuckles couldn't have attacked Pumpkin Hill, how exactly was it attacked?" Sonic asked.
"After that female echidna left, we were bombarded with these large purple blasts that started to destroy the mountains and injure several of my minions. ONLY HE WOULD DO SUCH A THING!" The king point to Knuckles.
"SCREW OFF YOU STUPID GHOST! I'VE DEFEATED YOU BEFORE, I'LL DO IT AGAIN!" Knuckles shook a fist at him.
"Ugh, we don't have time for this. King Boom Boo can't you just call the Boos back?" Sonic asked.
"I would, but I don't know the location of this island you speak of." King Boom Boo said.
"Then we'll just have to get them back ourselves, plus Tails and Big should already be getting there." Sonic said.
"Wait you send Big? Seriously?" Knuckles groaned.
"Hey he wanted to help, poor guy barely gets to do anything these days." Sonic said.
Suddenly King Boom Boo felt a strange disturbance in his head and he growled.
"Eh?" The Boos looked confused.
"The missing Boos just sent me a signal...AH I KNOW JUST WHERE THEY ARE! THIS ISLAND OF SODOR MUST BE VERY INTERESTING IF THEY ALL WENT THERE! MAYBE IT CAN BE OUR NEW HOME!" King Boom Boo grinned evilly.
The Boos laughed evilly making Sonic and Knuckles angry, though the echidna was already pissed.
"NO!' Sonic shouted.
"Oh yes!" The King grinned.
With that all the ghosts warp away and Knuckles stomps a foot.
"DAMN! We need to get there fast!" Knuckles said.
"I got just the thing." Sonic pulled out the chaos emerald.
Knuckles looked back at the Master Emerald.
"Rouge I swear I'll punch you if you put one finger on that emerald." Knuckles whispered to himself.
Sonic teleported both him and Knuckles to the island.
Island of Sodor...
While the engines didn't have to deal with the Boos much during the day, the Boos themselves were getting tired of hiding around. Several times they attempted to float into the sunlight, only for it to burn them. However it was already starting to get late and that meant that Boos could finally come out of hiding. Shade and the remaining engines in the shed decided to stay there so they couldn't risk being spooked. Thomas, Percy, James and Henry were the only ones in the shed at the time.
"Here we go again, no doubt those Boos will be after us." Thomas said.
"Ugh...those things are so annoying." James groaned.
"I don't need to see them again." Henry backed up some more.
"Let's just hope for the best." Percy said.
"Hey what is that?" Shade asked.
She pointed to what looked like one Boo hiding behind a bush looking at them, Percy had had enough.
"I'll deal with him." Percy chuffed away.
"I'm coming too!" Shade got into his cab.
As the approached the Boo, the ghost looked a little embarrassed and sad...Percy was confused. It was the same Boo who first scared Shade and ruined the mail.
"Look, you ghosts need to go back to where you came from." Percy said.
The Boo still had it's sad look, Shade watched from the cab. Finally the Boo managed to speak.
"I'm sorry..." It said.
"What?" Percy said.
"I'm sorry for scaring you and your friends...we're just trying to find a newer home, not all the Boos, just some of us. We saw that your mountains are perfect for us to roam around, but the king wants to takeover the island." The Boo informed him.
Percy and Shade were surprised.
"So why aren't you helping him?" Shade asked.
"We don't have the desire to takeover...just exist somewhere besides the same places." The Boos sighed.
"How do we know this isn't a trick?" Percy asked.
"The other Boos are helping the other engines with their jobs." The Boo smiled.
Indeed they were, to make up for what they did, 2 Boos helped Edward get some troublsome trucks in line by scaring them straight. And when Gordon got stuck again, the Boos helped up him the hill, they were stronger than they looked. Heck they even listened to Toby tell them about past before coming to the railway.
"Well the king is wondering where they are!" Shade said.
"I know, so I called the king here so we could explain to him." The Boo said.
Shade face-palmed.
"That wasn't a good idea." Shade said.
Suddenly Sonic and Knuckles warp next to them.
"Ugh...I'm so not used to that." Knuckles said rubbing his head.
"SONIC! KNUCKLES!" Percy cheered.
"Hey Percy and Shade long time no see!" Sonic waved.
"S'up guys!" Knuckles nodded.
Then they spotted the Boo.
"THERE'S ONE!" Sonic pointed.
"WAIT HE'S ON OUR SIDE!" Shade stopped them.
"What?" Knuckles was shocked.
"Look we'll explain later."
Suddenly they see Tails and Big racing through the sky on the Tornado-2 and being chased by King Boom Boo, the Boos just looked confused.
"TAILS DOWN HERE!" Sonic yelled.
Tails dove towards them and Percy, Shade, Sonic and Knuckles raced back over to Tidmouth Sheds. The engines barely noticed Sonic's team as King Boom Boo hovered down laughing. All the Boos moved closer towards the engines. Henry was so frightened he couldn't even scream.
"KING BOOM BOO! THIS STOPS NOW, YOU WILL NOT TAKEOVER THIS ISLAND!" Sonic said.
"OH BUT I WILL! YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" King Boom Boo said.
Knuckle growled and jumped towards him with a punch but KBB turned invisible and Knuckles went right through him.
"DARN!" Knuckles gritted his teeth.
KBB teleported next to Sonic and whacked him away and damaged the Tornado-2. Tails had to fly out of the way of KBB's next hit and Shade managed to kick the ghost back. KBB then looked at the Boos.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? ATTACK!" He ordered.
But the Boos refused and just stared at him angrily. The talking Boo stayed close to Percy. KBB was baffled by their responses.
"WHAT?"
Percy then spoke up surprising all the engines.
"Listen King, they don't want to takeover this island, they just want a new area to explore and live...the island has some nice mountains for them to roam around in. And we won't let you change their minds."
The Boos cheered and the engines whistled. Sonic and his team got ready for KBB's next attack.
"UGH! USELESS ALL OF YOU! I'LL GET RID OF YOU ALL!" King Boom Boo yelled.
"HEADLAMPS ON!" Percy shouted.
All the engines sprung on their headlamps and Tails put on the headlamps of the Tornado. All the light blinded KBB.
"AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" He whailed.
"NOW WHILE HE'S IN A SOLID FORM!" Shade said.
Sonic spindashed into the king and Knuckles clocked him in the face. Then Thomas and Percy rammed into him and pushed him down into the turntable well. Dazed, KBB struggled to get up, he had even shrunk down from all the sunlight. Sonic turned to Big.
"Hey Big, care for some fishing?" Sonic asked.
"I got this." Big said.
Thomas and Percy kept their headlamps on and the light shone over the turntable like a lazer grid. Big swung his finishing pole towards KBB and the hook snagged him on the back.
"RAWR!" KBB growled.
With a fierce tug, Big lifted KBB back in the light and he screamed.
"AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE!"
KBB vanished into a puff of smoke to parts unknown, everyone cheered. Edward, Gordon and Toby arrived at the sheds.
"You guys won't believe this, those Boos helped put my troublesome trucks in order." Edward said.
"And they helped me up the hill." Gordon said.
"And they even listened to my stories." Toby said.
The Boos felt great, and then turned to dog-pile on Big laughing. Froggy just watched not wanting to be a part of that. Finally Sir Topham Hatt arrived with Salty and Mavis.
"We saw everything from nearby and I must say Percy, Thomas, you're both really useful engines." Sir Topham Hatt smiled.
"Thank you sir." Thomas and Percy said at once.
The boos hovered Sir Topham Hatt laughing like children, this spooked the man.
"Ah yes well I suppose we'll be having some ghosts living here on the island as well." Sir Topham Hatt sighed.
"GHOSTS! LIVING HERE?" Henry shouted.
Without warning he backed all the way in the shed until his tender hit the wall. Sonic turned to his friends.
"Looks like another victory!" Sonic said.
"Yeah, only we barely did anything." Shade said.
"Well we may be here for awhile, I got to fix up the Tornado and upgrade the tower so it will detect King Boom Boo if he ever comes back." Tails said.
"I CAN'T STAY HERE! WHAT ABOUT THE MASTER EMERALD?" Knuckles shouted.
"As soon as I get the plane fixed I'll take you back." Tails offered.
"Thanks."
Sonic, Shade and Big turned to Thomas and Percy.
"Well Thomas, looks like I'm gonna be hanging here some more, it's been slow around my town, plus some weird entity is around blasting places up, maybe I could use your help again." Sonic said.
"I'll be ready!" Thomas whistled.
"Shade you in?" Sonic asked.
"Always."
"Big?"
"Yeah and so it Froggy!"
"Then that settles it!" Sonic shrugged.
Little did they know, the crystalized figure was watching them again...it's claws curled into fists before vanishing out of sight...
END OF ARC 1
To be continued in ARC 2: Pirates of Sodor...