One day, Akemi was waiting at the Human Village yards when Kiyoshi arrived with some trucks.
"Kiyoshi, every engine has to come on time. Your late." said Akemi.
"Yeah, yeah, that purple paint must make you bossy!" retorted Kiyoshi.
"I'll never!"
It is market day in the Human Village and from what gardens and farms alongside the Sanzu River, the tugboats bring in barges of produce to be shipped to the Human Village. Akemi arrived and picked up a train of the fresh comestibles and ran off back onto the mainline. He stopped at a signal, when he saw Ichihiro.
"I'm pulling a market train, full of fruits! Probably because, I'm a great engine." Akemi said.
"Its probably because you are one." replied Ichihiro.
"I'm what?"
"A fruit!" explained Ichihiro.
Akemi huffed and went away.
"I hope Hina doesn't do anything to Akemi." said Ichihiro, predicting some misfortune.
Kiyoshi was busy shunting in the yard when the Human Village stationmaster requested to see his driver. After a small conversation, his driver went up front.
"Looks like Akemi's brakes are jammed, we're going to have push him." said Kiyoshi's driver.
Akemi's injector had failed and when he pulled the train, he got slower and slower. Now he's stranded on the mainline. Kiyoshi went up to the back of Akemi's train. Kiyoshi laughed and began to tease him.
"Vegetating on the line. How fruity of you!" said Kiyoshi, making bad produce puns.
"Can you take the trucks?" said Akemi's driver.
"Sure." replied Kiyoshi.
Kiyoshi whatever trucks he could carry and left Akemi to be fetched by a bigger engine. Kiyoshi took the trucks to the Human Village, but a set of points had failed and he was diverted into a siding, he was in a hurry and now paying attention, he didn't notice what was going on until he crashed in the back of a van of fruits. The van's was partially destroyed and Kiyoshi was covered in the flesh of some melons he had smashed apart, his whole front was covered. The Scarlet Controller caught wind of what had happened, she went to talk to Kiyoshi.
"I know the points failing wasn't your fault, but I run a railway, not a jam factory!" she said.
The sheds were unusually quiet that night. That is until Ichihiro said something that irked Kiyoshi and Akemi.
"We are all very fruitful engines, even when things do go wrong."
The shed stayed rightfully silent after that.