Sodor High School Episode 4: New to the Crew Remastered Edition
Based on Sodor High School: Thomas and Friends Tales by ThomasZoey3000 on , and partially based The Jack and The Pack Episodes from Season 6 of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, (Re) Written by Wharf Studios
Newbie Doubts
Narrator: It was the weekend and the 13s and Emily were at a sleepover at Henry's home at Vicarstown. Everyone was having a grand old time, but Edward noticed that Emily was just sitting by a window looking out to the backyard which was almost completely covered by the darkness of the night, alone. He went up to her wanting to check if she was doing ok.
Edward: Hello my dear.
Emily: Och, hey… Uh…
Edward: Edward, Edward Pettigrew.
Emily: Och aye. Sorry.
Edward: It's all right my dear but I do have to ask. Why do you look so down?
Emily: It's juist a'm feelin' lik' ah don't pure fit in wi' ye a'. Yer lik' a gey pure tough unit, ye'v a' kent ilk ither fur years 'n' treat ilk ither as if yer th' Brady Bunch. Meanwhile I'm juist 'ere tae hurl it oot, nae pure contributing anythin' freish tae th' dynamic ye'v a' made 'n' shaped fur years afore ah fun oot aboot ye.
Edward: I see. One moment my dear.
(Edward walked off to Henry, Gordon, James, Patrick, and Thomas setting up an Uno game on a coffee table close to the television)
Henry: Hey Edward, Wanna play some Uno?
James: I bet I can beat Patrick this time.
Patrick: You keep saying that but when is that ever going to be a reality?
Edward: Um fellas, conference?
(In a couple minutes all 12 members were gathered around the coffee table, Emily just looked at them intrigued and confused on what this was about)
Thomas: Is something wrong Edward?
Edward: Well, I talked with Emily and now noticed that we haven't really allowed Emily to be a part of the group, she feels like she is just being dragged along with us without contributing anything, so I vote that we show her what it means to be in the 13s.
Gordon: Whilst I agree with your reasoning Edward, are we really sure that it's time for a new 13th member.
James: (Sigh) Yeah, we keep calling ourselves the 13s for ages because originally, we could not let go of what happened to him. But honestly, right now. Enough time has passed, we have accepted what happened and we are in a comfortable sit… situation to… allow for a… a proper… proper change. (James was trying his best to remain strong but it was obvious to the others that it wasn't easy for him. But he still tried, Henry and Gordon quickly got closer to him and patted his back in support.)
Toby: Well then James, if you are ready then it's fine, we'll be there for you if you need anything.
James: (Wipes some tears from his eyes) I know Toby… I know.
Oliver: So, I suppose with that, is everyone in favour.
(Everyone throws their arms up)
Percy: Alright, now to teach the newbie.
Duck: Hey Emily, come over here.
Emily: Aye?
Gordon: My dear, it's time you learned more about the 12s. Are you ready to learn?
(Emily's face quickly transformed into an excited smile, she started jumping around for joy. Before calming down)
Emily: Sur aye sur!
Initiation Night
Narrator: So, they headed down to the basement to which it was changed into a classroom and Emily was at her desk, ready to listen.
Gordon: Let me lead this one chap. I've got this.
Percy: Whatever.
Gordon: Ok Little Emily, Now the History of the 13s dates back a long time ago, back in our years of preschool. Before you were born and before we met Donald, Douglas, and Patrick. We all met on the first day of preschool in 2004. We were all in separate classes. But we always met during recess and would have the grandest of times. When Donald, Patrick and Douglas transferred here we always included them in our games, and we would talk till the bell about trains which sort of is our group's thing. When primary came around, we were all in the same class again except for James who had to go to Bristol for a brief period of time and we didn't see him until 7th grade. And finally, we were all in the same class as you see here now. So, any questions?
Narrator: Gordon looked to Emily and the rest and saw they had fallen asleep from the boredom of Gordon's lecture.
Gordon: What Cheek! And to think Patrick actually enjoyed history. What is the difference? I don't really know. Hmm. Now how to wake them up. Ah-Hah! That old whistle should work. But I know Henry would be mad if anyone used this 3-chime steam whistle from the Furness railway. Um? Oh, I know, my old coach whistles my father gave me. This should do the trick. (Whistle Sound Effect Ringtone - YouTube)
Narrator: Everyone woke to a start, some of which fell off their chairs.
Patrick: What? Huh? 57!
Gordon: What? Pat, no! Since my lecture was not to your standards, Percy shall teach next.
Percy: Me?! I can't!
Henry: Rubbish Percy!
James: Then it is settled, up you go Percy.
Narrator: Percy wished it wasn't.
Percy: Um so we are going to teach you about… Psst what do I teach her?
James: Charm her up! (punch) Ow! What?!
Patrick: Just tell our morals Percy. How we all act and such.
Percy: Oh ok, we are a very closely tight group. Pat is the sometimes-rational fearless person.
Patrick: Oi!
Percy: Thomas is the cheeky one which can often get him into trouble.
Thomas: Percy!
Percy: Henry, James and Gordon are the conceited ones. They once held a strike at school after their field trip was cancelled. Whilst it was successful, they were ridiculed by older students.
Gordon: Why you little!
Percy: Toby and Edward are the old grandpas as it were, having the most street and book smarts out of all of us. But often aren't aware of recent trends.
Toby: Expect me to hurt you outside later.
Percy: Duck and Oliver are proud of their family background of being long time members of the Great Western Railway. But are quite stuck in doing things the Great Western Way, even in cases we find annoying.
Duck: What!?
Percy: Donald and Douglas are the Daleks. Often working together but have trouble being separated for long periods of time.
Donald and Douglas: (robotically) Exterminate!
Percy: And I am the naive one. Bright eyed and only wanting the best for my friends, but my naivety can make me very easy to manipulate.
(Emily tried her hardest not to laugh, meanwhile the rest of the group were… less than flattered so to speak.)
Patrick: Oliver, can you cover Emily's eyes and ears?
Oliver: Yes sir.
(Chukles28's Fight Cloud Sound Effect)
Thomas: Ok uncover them.
Emily: Wis that really… whit happened tae him?
James: Nothing, we just needed to teach him a lesson.
(We see Percy huddled in a corner facing the wall with a cone hat.)
Realisation
Henry: Ok, I'm gonna go next.
James: Sure, don't really care.
Henry: Ok Emily, when you are with us, you also have to be really funny at times. To demonstrate I shall perform my comedy routine from many years ago.
Duck: Oh No!
Patrick: What's so bad about that?
Oliver: Oh, right you weren't here when he performed in year 6.
Gordon: This when we had that presentation of talent. The jokes are so bad you just can't help but laugh.
Henry: Now I need volunteers. Since you were not here last time, I performed Pat and James, why don't you come on up here?
Patrick: Um Ok.
James: Whatever.
Henry: Now just follow my lead. K?
Patrick: K.
Henry: Now, James? Have you heard of the Interrupting Cow?
James: The Intru…
Henry: Moo!
(Laugh Track)
Henry: Now, Patrick? If you are American, when you go into the bathroom and American when you go out, what are you when you are inside?
Patrick: (unimpressed) British.
(Laugh Track)
Patrick: This is probably not gonna work. What does this teach Emily?
Henry: Um.
Patrick: My thoughts exactly
Duck: Fear not dear friends, I know what to do, Oliver, Thomas, James, we have work to do.
James: And suddenly things were looking up.
Narrator: The four quickly got into position. Emily was confused, but the rest of the crew knew exactly what was coming.
Duck: 🎵 Hey dear friends of mine
Oliver: 🎵 Hey, what?
Duck: 🎵 Are you ready for?
James: 🎵 For what?
Duck: 🎵 For a brand new word I heard.
Thomas: 🎵 It sounds like it's for the birds
Duck: 🎵 Guys, it's new, it's true, you see.
Thomas: 🎵 Can we sing it in four part harmony?
Duck: 🎵 I guess we'll see
Oliver: 🎵 What is it?
Duck: 🎵 Y'all aint ready.
James: WHAT IS IT?
Duck: Fine!
Thomas: 🎵 Oh...
James: 🎵 It's...
Duck: 🎵 Oh...
Oliver: 🎵 This better be good.
James: I don't care, I'm hyped...
Get ready fam! Here comes the drop!
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: 🎵 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious;
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Oliver: 🎵 Time to sing the words, you guys.
James, Thomas, & Duck: 🎵 Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Oliver: 🎵 When trying to express oneself it's frankly quite absurd
James, Thomas, & Duck: 🎵 Absurd!
Oliver: 🎵 To leap through lengthy lexicons to find the perfect word.
Duck, Thomas, & James: 🎵 You know
A little spontaneity will really make your day,
Oliver: 🎵 Your day
Duck, Oliver, & James: 🎵 So Thomas will sing it in the new 13s born way!
Duck: 🎵 Come now, don't delay, don't stand away!
Thomas: (High Pitched Voice) 🎵 It's super-duper scary
Carnivore tyrannosaurus,
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you sing it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious;
Super power fergalicious definition
Oliver, Duck, & James: THOMAS!
Duck, Thomas, Oliver: 🎵 Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Hey James, why don't you give it a try?
James: Sure, my dudes, now I'm your guy!
🎵 Now Gandhi fasted so long that his frame was rather frail
Duck, Thomas, Oliver: 🎵 What a weakling
James: 🎵 And when he'd eat the strangest foods his breath was often stale
Duck, Thomas, Oliver: 🎵 Always stinky
James: 🎵 He walked barefoot so hard and bottom squint his diagnosis;
Duck, Thomas, Oliver: 🎵 He was a
James: 🎵 Super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis!
(The group laugh as James walks to the side leaving the rest of the four confused)
🎵 Tosis!
Duck, Thomas, Oliver: 🎵 You didn't make that up, I bet!
James: 🎵 I stole it from the internet.
Duck, Thomas, Oliver: 🎵 From cyberspace, the world wide web,
He jacked it from the net!
The information superhighway!
James: Anyway, Oliver I think it's your turn
Oliver: 🎵 The melody I haven't learned
I only know the baritone
Thomas: 🎵 That's OK, you're not alone
Oliver: 🎵 I don't wanna!
Duck, Thomas, James: DO IT!
Oliver: 🎵 Ohh...
It's super massive black holeistic
Baritone -adocious.
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If your lead sings loud enough
Then no one else will notice;
Super mega cali fragmalistic expiabodacious
Duck, Thomas, James: 🎵 Who wrote this awful chart for you?
Oliver: 🎵 It was Douglas after curfew.
Duck, Thomas, James: Ew, gross!
🎵 Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle ay!
Duck: 🎵 Hey, guys this isn't going
Just exactly how I planned
Thomas: 🎵 Oh what do you think we should do
My GW friend Collete?
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: 🎵 Let's ask the audience to see if they can pronounce it!
I bet they think they can,
but we all know they're full of sh... Sharpness!
James: 1, 2, 3! It's...
Rest of the 13s minus Emily: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: 🎵 Hey not bad, you did so rad
You said the word, we knew it!
Let's shift this to the gods now
And see if they can do it?
(Silence)
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: 🎵 Nope, too late, they blew it!
James: 🎵 You blew it!
Oliver: 🎵 You blew it!
Duck: 🎵 You see, there's nothing to it!
Thomas: 🎵 Now watch us sing right through it
James: 🎵 The whole dang word!
Oliver and Duck: 🎵 The whole dang... word;
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: 🎵 It's supercalifragilistic-
Oliver: 🎵 It's artistic and linguistic
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: 🎵 Supercalifragilistic-
James: 🎵 Nothing else rhymes with "-istic"!
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: Supercalifragilistic...
Expial-
Thomas: Expiali
Duck, Thomas, Oliver, & James: 🎵 Docious!
Um diddle, diddle, diddle, um diddle ay!
Hey we said it guys! We're precocious!
Not atrocious, -alidocious!
(The 13s cheer as their four friends take a bow)
James: Thank you Vicarstown. Goodnight!
Emily: A'richt, ah think ah git it. Ah hae tae be musical?
(Patrick facepalmed himself at the realisation nothing they had teached had properly sinked in yet.)
Oliver: No worries, Pat, I know what to teach her.
Patrick: You have the floor, Oli.
Oliver: Really Emily, if you can be a supportive, agreeable, and kind person to everyone here then you will be a welcome addition to our group.
Duck: How about it Emily? Can you do that?
Emily: Aye, aye ah kin.
Patrick: We know you can.
Donald: Ye'v bin thare fur us fur mony years.
Douglas: Even whin we lost oor parents.
Emily: Fur ah see ye mair than cousins wee jimmies, efter a' we hae bin thro' a'm proud tae ca' ye a' brothers.
(Patrick and the twins smile as the four embraced)
James: Aww. That's sweet.
Thomas: Yeah.
Gordon: I guess this educational journey has come to an end.
Edward: Now let's just relax and let the night take us away to a sweet, and beautiful area full of calmness and serenity.
Thomas: Struth. (Gets hit in the back of the head by a pillow)
Toby: Like that's ever going to happen. (Holds another pillow locked and loaded)
Patrick: I see how it is. Game! Bloody! On!
(And one by one, the 13s start joining in on the pillow fight. With Emily looking on at the group before smiling and saying)
Emily: Sgrios e!
(And joins in on the fun)
Narrator: And the 12s (ahem) 13s resumed their sleepover, telling ghost stories, watching old films, dancing, singing karaoke, and even star gazing. All until the moon came to its highest point where they all headed to sleep, ready to see what awaits them. What that might be, no one knows.
Meanwhile Outside in the Backyard
Splatter: Dodge, we've gotten good at this.
Dodge: Yes, but do we show this to the boss yet?
Splatter: Not yet my good brother, we wait a couple more weeks and then we will.
Dodge: If you say so, Splatter.
To Be Continued…