It is Monday morning. Reimu had already eaten breakfast and awaiting Thomas' bus to give her people to visit her shrine. She walked down the steps leading to her shrine to get a better view of his bus. It wasn't long till she heard the bus' diesel engine roar, the bus stopped beside her, the "Shhhh" of brakes and the door opening was heard. Thomas stopped the bus and stepped out to greet Reimu.
"Good morning Reimu." greet Thomas.
"Hi Thomas." replied Reimu, "Anything new?"
"Toby had bus duties to the east of Gensokyo and Percy is on goods work." said Thomas, "But otherwise things are going okay."
"What about James?" asked Reimu curiously.
"I don't know how I feel about James. I honestly liked him better as an engine. At least he wasn't experimenting with women's fashion. He's a good friend, but somethings he can be...kind of...sort of..."
"Strange?" suggested Reimu.
"Effeminate." said Thomas.
"Oh." replied Reimu, "What about Gordon or Henry?"
"Gordon got into an other car accident racing Aya again." said Thomas.
Gordon still retained his passion for speed from his days as a Gresley A1 Pacific. Ever since he came to Gensokyo, he always was trying to be faster than the tengu. He usually raced Aya, and he usually lost to her. So Gordon and Nitori Kawashiro and the other kappas would usually help. This time, they built him a car. It was sleek, it was fast, and it was amazing, but Gordon sadly wasted it on a race with Aya by going down a dangerous road down Youkai Mountain, he turned a corner too fast and went down and smashed onto the ground, many feet below. Luckily, he was unhurt, but the car was completely totaled, beyond repair.
"Henry on the other hand, told me over the phone that he performed his first chest surgery. He didn't say which organ, but I presumed it was around her." said Thomas, then circled his upper torso to demonstrate where he thought Henry had did surgery to.
"Ah." said Reimu.
"Well, I best be going." said Thomas.
"I'll see you later." replied Reimu.
"I'll see you later too. I'll be back in 45 minutes!"
Thomas went back into his bus, started the engine back up and left. Reimu went up to perform her holy duties and to see how many donation she had got.
The day was busy and Reimu liked it, it beat just sitting around and doing nothing but wait for an incident. Her shrine was managed like clockwork. But by the afternoon, she was already tired. She went into the main building to get a snack. She got out a cup of instant noodles and she was boiling water for her food and her tea.
She was getting out a pair of chopsticks when she heard the sound of whistles blowing. Reimu panicked and screamed! A voice came towards her, it seemed to her the kind of voice a British drummer would have.
"Its okay Reimu! Don't get your knickers in a knot!" said the voice.
"Who's there?!" said Reimu.
"Down here! On this shelf!" said the voice again.
Reimu turned her attention to one of the shelves, with the voice telling her if she was getting warmer or colder. She then looked to an empty shelf covered in dust. She saw three figures, all dressed like men of the railway.
"Who are you?" said Reimu, wondering if Eirin's medicine was having a flashback.
"I'm Mr. Conductor. Well, we all are Mr. Conductor. But you can call me Ringo." said the one with the beard.
"I'm George!" said the one with the pony tail.
"And I'm Alec, nice to meet you." said the clean shaven one.
"What are you doing here?!" said Reimu, she was about to grab her gohei and smash the tiny men to bits.
"Well if you weren't being a such a twat and being so goddamn afraid of us, we'll tell you!" said George.
"So put that thing of yours down and we'll tell you why we're all here." said Alec.
Reimu put down her gohei, but kept it close. She didn't want to be caught off guard.
"That's a good miko." said Ringo.
"What do you want from me? Why are you even here!" exclaimed Reimu.
"I'll tell you. In fact, I'll even show you." and with that, Ringo blew his whistle. He and Reimu disappeared in a cloud of gold dust.
Reimu and Ringo reappeared in a room, it was dark and the only light came from a lamp in the corner.
"You remember Reverend Awdry, right?" asked Ringo.
Reimu nodded silently.
"Good! You see him over there, on that bed? Right?"
Reimu nodded again and looked at the bed. By the bedside was a much younger looking Wilbert Awdry, he was drawing a picture and saying something.
"Its okay, Reimu. They can't see us." said Ringo.
Reimu walked over to Wilbert and saw a boy in the bed, he looked weak.
Wilbert showed the picture he drew and told the boy a nursery rhyme.
"Daddy." said the boy, "Who is that? And why is he sad?"
"Oh this is...um...Edward. He is sad, because he...doesn't come out much." said Wilbert.
"See that boy, Reimu?" said Ringo, "That's his son, Christopher."
Reimu and Ringo teleported away in another cloud of gold dust and appeared to another place, this time, a terrible train wreck. It was a collison between a heavy goods train and an express train. All the coaches had telescoped into each other, it seemed like there were to be no survivers.
"This is the crash, that Wilbert gained his powers." said Ringo, he pointed to crowd of people.
"What happened? How did it happen?" asked Reimu.
"He was a writing a story and he wrote 'Luckily, no one was hurt.' Wilbert obtained his powers very sudden. One second he was writing that phrase down, the next, no one really was hurt." said Ringo.
"That's when he turned Sodor from a fictional place on paper to a real place with real people and real trains. Sodor became a living functioning island, with government, history, and with an economy."
"Just like Gensokyo." said Reimu.
"Just like Gensokyo, Reimu." replied Ringo.
"And Wilbert Awdry is just like Yukari."
"That is, if Wilbert Awdry was also ZUN."
Ringo blew his whistle and the two disappeared yet again.
Reimu reappeared back into her shrine, "But what about Christopher?" asked Reimu.
"Christopher." said George, "Is going to fucking kill you and every other motherfucker who helped to kill his father and destroy Sodor."
"But how is Christopher going to find Gensokyo?" asked Reimu.
"He's writer, all he needs is the correct information." said Alec.
All of a sudden, Reimu heard screaming coming from outside of the shrine. She then heard a loud BANG. Reimu rushed out and saw her patrons running about, they were running away from something. The loud bang came again and a woman fell down. Reimu ran out, luckily, she was standing by her donation box. The bang came and the sound of breaking wood was heard. She looked at the damaged box, then it became clear.
"Someone's trying to shoot me!" he thought.
Reimu dove behind a rock for cover. The gunshots rang throughout the eastern Gensokyoian countryside.
Christopher Awdry worked the bolt on his British made sniper rifle.
"This one is for my father!" he said, firing another bullet.
BANG! "This one is for Sodor!" BANG! "This one is for Stephen Topham Hatt!" BANG!
KA-CHUNK! "Crap! Now, I'll have to reload." he said, begrudedly.
Marisa Kirisame arrived just in time. "What's up Rei-"
"GET THE HELL DOWN MARISA!" screamed Reimu.
"What do you mean-" BANG!
Marisa dove for cover, a neat bullet hole went through the top of her hat.
"Marisa! Fire a master spark! At the trees!" commanded Reimu.
"Will do!" and Marisa took out her mini-hakkero and fired a master spark at the canopy of the trees that surrounded the Hakurei Shrine.
She aimed the master spark, leaving behind a burned bare spot on the trees.
Christopher heard the master spark come nearer and nearer. He took out his notepad and wrote 'Luckily, no one was hurt.'. The master spark came and he was caught in the laser, but he survived and jumped out of the tree and ran away.
"I'll get you Reimu. Not today, not tomorrow, but someday I will!" he said as he went into the cover of the forest.
Marisa stopped firing the master spark. The gunshots stopped, and Reimu came out from behind the big rock.
"Thank you Marisa!" said Reimu.
"What was that, da ze?" said Marisa.
"Its Wilbert's son! He's come for us!"
"Holy shit." said Marisa.