After Carol and Evelyn had left the Josephine Railway, the thought of the next rail tour was exciting for them. In many parts of the world, there are preserved steam engines which come out on the main line, and pull special excursion trains called rail tours. Some are to certain destinations, others are just for the locomotive itself. Either way, many rail enthusiasts come and go to see steam in action.
Down at the station, one of the rail tour engines had just arrived on the scene. She is an LMS Compound 4-4-0 steam locomotive. Her paint is crimson red with gold lining, the number '1000' on her tender, her eyes red as are her lips, and she looks rather smart. This engine goes by the name of Alivia.
Alivia was designed by Johnson and built at Derby in 1902 at a cost of 3,340, and she was fitted with a large double bogie tender. Her original bogie tender was replaced in 1911 with a six-wheel tender. She was rebuilt by Deeley in 1914 where she was fitted with a superheated boiler. Alivia was initially allocated to work from Leeds but in 1922 moved to Gloucester and then Saltley in before returning to Gloucester in 1937. She was withdrawn from service at Derby in 1951, having clocked up 1,687,378 miles whilst in service. Alivia was then stored at Crewe from 1953 until 1959 when she was restored at Derby to her 1914 condition. This including fitting a boiler produced at Crewe in 1946 and her cylinders replaced. She was outfitted to a tender that originally been fitted to a former Somerset & Dorset 2-8-0 53805 (and therefore not strictly of the correct pattern) was attached. Test runs were made in 1959, and she was then used on special trains until 1962 when Alivia was repainted at Derby for installation at the Museum of British Transport at Clapham. When the Clapham museum closed, the locomotive as 1000 was transferred to the new National Railway Museum at York in April 1975. Alivia was returned to steam in order to take part in the Rail 150 S cavalcade at Shildon in August 1975.
"Welcome to the Josephine Railway, Alivia." Braedey announced to the LMS locomotive.
"Thank you. I must say, it is an honour to be here." Alivia thanked. The engines all look on in amazement. "It is very nice to be out on the mainline once again. But, just to tell you all, I am preserved. I can't have other engines right next to me, or fetch my own coaches. It spoils my appearance."
The engines were confused by her words, but they then decided gave her some space. Max, meanwhile, he was not too sure about this engine, but he kept this to himself. He rumbled away after giving a leering eye at Alivia.
The next morning, Alivia was having the coal in her tender being loaded by hand, much to the worker's annoyance. The other engines just watched on with bewilderment as they loaded up and got ready to go.
"I don't understand. There's a coal hopper right here." Shadow grumbled. "She doesn't need to be filled by hand."
"Oh, it's a request made by the museum." Alivia said with a smirk. Shadow just rolled his eyes, and headed off to the yards to collect his goods. Max rolled right next to Alivia to fuel up. "GET AWAY!!!" Alivia screeches, her voice like claws on a chalkboard, anyone around covering their ears in reaction.
"I need to fuel up before heading off to do shunting." Max stated back.
"I DON'T CARE, YOU UGLY GREEN THING!! YOU'LL GET MY PAINT ALL DIRTY!!!" Alivia screeched. Max just ignored her and got fuelled up, then spat out fumes at the LMS engine on purpose before rolling away to do some shunting, Alivia glaring as he left.
Alivia soon arrived at the platform, rail enthusiasts now coming from all over the station to see her. She showed her best smile at the enthusiasts. Anna soon arrived to take her Josephine Flyer Express and watched on.
"Stay back! You'll ruin my shot!" Alivia ordered at the LSWR T14 locomotive.
"Hey! I'm famous too, you know." Anna argued back with a huff. "I have been taking the Flying Scotsman trains to and from London and Edinburgh. I'm also one-of-a-kind."
Alivia scoffed and laughed. "But you see, I'm one of the chosen ones. I've been preserved. Fame suits me. You are just old news. Your 15 seconds of fame came and went. Don't be something you're not." She said smugly, smirking to the large crimson engine.
Anna was now furious!!! When it was time to leave, she wheeshed steam rudely at Alivia, and she puffed away to travel onward with her high-speed express. Alivia was not happy at this as she left to take her tourist train, photographers taking her picture as she goes.
That evening, Max, Anna, as well as the others, were all talking about Alivia and about her behaviour to them and those around them.
"She's such a spoiled brat." Anna spat out. "I can't believe that she said that."
"She called me an 'ugly green thing'." Max fumed.
"What a total piece of work." Diana muttered.
"Now, now. I know she said some horrible things, but she's our guest." Braedey remarked to the others. "And we are getting many visitors here. So, just please try to deal with it. She'll be gone before you know it."
But she wasn't gone. Alivia was pulling all the rail tours that the Josephine Railway had planned, mocking the other engines about her words, saying they were not fit to be like her, much to their frustration. The engines of the Josephine Railway were all soon getting fed up with her attitude.
"I wish we had someone with some help and guidance here." Diana muttered.
"Like who? Silver Link?" Shadow asked.
"Yeah. He has changed overtime." Madeline agreed with them. "He would know what to do."
"I agree." Braedey acknowledged.
Just then, Alivia puffed down onto her train, scoffing at their words. "Silver Link? That old A4 Pacific timer? He's scrap now." She said to them.
The engines were furious and angry!! "How dare you..." Diana snarled.
"You are a despicable locomotive." Austin snapped.
"How could you say about a fellow steam engine?" Liliana demanded. "Silver Link is as famous an engine as both Flying Scotsman and Mallard put together! And he's in steam right now on Sodor!"
"All of them are just out-of-date kettles who got what was coming to them." Alivia remarked back snidely.
Soon, the station was filled with angry whistles and horns, until from the line to Barrow-In-Furness came a voice spoke out. "THAT IS ENOUGH!" The engines all looked back in shock.
"Is that...?" Max asked.
"It cannot be..." Diana muttered in awe.
"YES, IT IS!!" Austin announced.
Finally, chugging up towards the station of Marion, was none other than Eli the LNER A4 Pacific. He now looks to have some modifications such as valances and even a fresh coat of red paint.
Eli pulled up to the platform with his rail tour. He was welcomed with many whistles and horn. People cheer, along with people from Alivia's train. She was in bewilderment by what she's seeing. Soon, the other engines all raced from Alivia to Eli as he pulled to a halt, announcing his arrival onto the Josephine Railway with a loud whistle.
Alivia was aghast at the engine's behaviour. "Excuse me!! I'm the one you've come to see!! I'M THE FAMOUS ONE!!"
"Not like an LNER A4 Pacific like Mallard. They're as famous as Flying Scotsman." Max called out, Alivia glaring back.
"Hello, everyone, it's good to be back." Eli greeted to the engines around him.
"Good to see you, old friend." Braedey acknowledged.
"Same here, Eli." Diana added in.
Soon, Eli was told all that had happened, and he then looked at Alivia with a stern stare. "Yes. You are preserved, but it doesn't mean you are more important than others. You should be thankful. They could have chosen you for the scrapyards instead of preserving you. And what you said to my friends is unacceptable." With that, Eli puffed away to settle down.
Alivia had been kicked out from the J.R sheds, and she was sent to live onto British Railways. She had to sleep out in the open in open shunting yards or in sidings by the station, and she didn't like it. Alivia just groaned.
Alivia's attitude, unfortunately, had not changed. She was still ignorant to the engines, and was very rude to all of them. She never learnt sense from any of the engines, and never took any advice from them at all.
When Alivia was coupled up to her train to take down the line to the J.R, she watched as photographers took her picture, her smiling smugly and with pride. Soon, she was out on the mainline. While she was puffing down the mainline to the Lake District, she was looking around for more people to take her picture as she goes along. Alivia was so consumed by her pride and to have her picture taken, she didn't realise she just passed a red signal.
Just up ahead, Shadow was with a goods train, waiting for the signal to change so he could travel ahead. Just behind him, Alivia came steaming down the line with her train, and she saw Shadow and his goods! Quickly, she blew her whistle, and slammed on her breakers, coming to a halt, just inches from the brakevan.
"WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!!" Alivia screeched. "YOU COULD'VE CAUSED AN ACCIDENT!!"
"Me!?!" Shadow yelled indignantly. "My signal is still red! You must've gone past your signal!"
"RUBBISH!" Alivia interjected back with a scoff. "I would never do something as stupid as that!"
Later, Alivia was down in the yard after taking her tour train. As she relaxed and settled down, Austin and Madeline chuffed up.
"You need to be more careful!" Austin scolded at Alivia. "You could've caused a serious accident."
"Yes. We take overrunning a red signal very seriously!!" Madeline added in. "Mr. Franklin will not be pleased." Just then, Alivia started to whimper. "Oh, we-we're sorry." Madeline apologised.
"We didn't mean to make you cry." Austin added. "We'll leave you alone." With that, the two engines puffed away from the LMS locomotive.
Alivia smirked smugly to herself. "Fools."
Alivia still didn't pay attention to what she was doing. She backed down onto the Round-Track Express, a fast train that goes around the Lake District. "Get me from Platform 2. That's my best side." Alivia offered.
"That's not your train. Your train is right there." Max called, referring to the tourist train over on Platform 2.
"Of course. I always leave from platform 1." Alivia spoke back with pride.
Max tried to argue with her, but Alivia wouldn't listen. The shunting diesel just sighed in exasperation, and he heads off to deal with other trains. Austin was also exhausted and annoyed by the fact she wouldn't listen, but Max just said not to try and argue with Alivia.
A few moments later, Eli steamed up and began to back down onto the train, coupling up to Alivia, much to her surprise. "What are you doing!?" She demanded.
"This is the Round-Track Express, is it not?" Eli asked. Alivia's eyes widened as she now realised her mistake, and she quickly asked to be uncoupled from the train. "We can't do that now." Eli spoke back. "You'll make me late. Like it or not, you're coming with me. Perhaps this will teach you some humility."
"B-B-B-But I wasn't looking where I was going!" Alivia spoke out, trying to worm her way out.
"And whose fault is that?" Eli asked with faint smugness.
Before Alivia could rven reply, the guard blew his whistle and waved his green flag. With a blast of his whistle, the red A4 steamed off with the LMS engine being dragged along. Max and Austin laughed, as Eli took Alivia with him down the line.
"HELP!!!" Alivia cried out until she was out of sight.
Belle soon chuffed up with Anna's coaches. "What's going on?"
"I think Alivia is having a lesson in humility!" Max spoke up.
"Wait a minute!" An enthusiast spoke up, seeing there is no engine to take the tourist train. "Where's our engine?"
"Oh dear." Max and Belle said. Fortunately, Charlotte came to the rescue to take the train. Sure, she wasn't the rail tour engine, but she was going to do a good job.
Later, an inspector and museum curator arrived to speak with the shed and stationmasters. "Eddie, Jordan, what is the meaning of this?" The railway inspector asked.
"Our engine has been kidnapped!!" The curator spoke back.
"I highly doubt it's kidnapping when you know where she is." The shed master said back.
"Now, what happened?" The inspector asked.
"Eli is a sensible engine, and I doubt he'd act out like that for no reason. A4's can be boastful, but Mallard, Eli, and Silver Link are not always like that." The shed master explained.
The five men stood there, then the curator yells out. "YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY!?! We'll see how funny it is when we never bring our engine here!! We'll only come back when you learn to control your engines!!"
"Don't judge us when you can hardly control your own engine." The shed master spoke back. This got the attention of the inspector, curator, and even Mr. Franklin, who came to stop the noise.
"What do you mean?" The inspector questioned.
Just then, Alivia steamed in with anger in her eyes. She was lucky enough to be taken off the Round-Track Express, but she wanted to give Max what she thought was justice. She saw the shunter in the yard, and she bumped Max furiously.
"HEY! Watch it, you!" Max yelled out.
"This is all your fault, you sniveling little-" Alivia now cut herself off when she saw the gentlemen standing nearby. "Oh, um, h-hello gentlemen." She now greeted timidly, her anger whisked away like water washing over a rock. The inspector and curator looked at Alivia.
"She's been a pain for the crews." The stationmaster spoke up, Mr. Franklin staying silent to hear all of this. "A nuisance to the other engines, and she's a danger to her passengers when she passed a red signal. I believe all the fame has gone to her smokebox."
The railway inspector looked at Alivia. "Alivia, you will be banded from hauling any railtours until we can trust you again. You will pull regular trains until you learn to be more vigilant! Maybe THAT will teach you to not be so vain."
"Y-Y-yes, sir." Alivia muttered softly.
The inspector turned back to the stationmaster and to Mr. Franklin with a sharp nod. "Never doubted you two for a second." He then walked off, with a very embarrassed museum curator alongside.
Soon enough, Alivia was now put to work, hauling regular trains. She was put on passenger work, and it did nothing to improve her state. The shed master soon put end to that: Alivia was ordered to haul only goods trains. She didn't want to be seen now. She once even pretended to cry again to try and get out of work.
"Put a cork in it and get going!" Max ordered as he shunts Alivia's trucks in place. "Crocodile tears won't work on me!"
"Oh pah!" Alivia spat as she reluctantly coupled up and puffed away with the goods train.
Max, Shadow, Madeline, Braedey, and Belle watched her go from the shunting yards and sheds. "Do you think she's learned her lesson?" Shadow asked to the others.
"For the time being, until she's allowed to pull railtours again." Madeline answered back.
"Some engines just never learn." Braedey said with a sigh of exasperation. The other engines had to agree.
About a few days later, Anna was finishing with her run on the Wild-Nor-Wester Express. She had taken over for Gordon, who had to take another train and nobody else was available at the time. She was looking forward for a rest, but when she looked at the sheds, there seems to be a commotion going on. When Anna looked over, she frowned darkly to see who was by the sheds. Alivia the LMS Compound was there.
"What's she doing here?" Anna asked darkly.
"She's here for a rail tour." Duck called as the GWR 5700 Pannier tank engine puffed by with a ballast train.
Anna rolled away from the shed, and she found Braedey and Diana, the two of them who's been called in to assist with some extra work. "Alivia is back hauling rail tours on Sodor!" Anna said to them.
"Oh no!!" Diana cried out. "Not her!!!"
Braedey swiftly uncoupled from his goods train, and he steamed off swiftly to confront the LMS locomotive. He soon came across Thomas, who had just shunted some trucks earlier and took note of Alivia.
"Wow." Thomas said in awe. "She looks beautiful."
"She may be nice to look at, but that's it." Braedey said to Thomas as he pulled up alongside. "Do not let appearances deceive you, Thomas."
"What do you mean?" Thomas asked in confusion. He could tell Braedey seemed to have some resentment towards the rail tour engine.
"She once visited the Josephine Railway earlier. Her name is Alivia, but she was a total nightmare. She often ordered us engines around, was rude to Max, and she had a horrible attitude. This has all happened ever since she was preserved." Braedey explained to the blue tank engine. "She claims to be the 'chosen one'. She is also envious of other famous engines. She'll say things to bring others down just to make herself look good." Braedey looked Thomas in the eye. "A word to the wise, do not trust her. EVER."
Thomas was not pleased with what he's heard. He watched as Braedey reversed out of the yards, then he looked back at to Alivia on the turntable by the sheds. Sure, he could be cheeky at times, but Thomas could tell the personalities of other engines.
That evening down in the sheds, the engines were all talking about Alivia. Braedey, Anna, and Diana were also there and fortunately, the LMS Compound engine was not in the sheds for now.
"What's wrong with her?" Henry asked to Anna and Braedey. He and the others have never met Alivia. The three Josephine Railway engines then explained to the others about how it went last time. After a few more minutes, Henry and the others were furious!! "How dare she say that about you all!!"
"Despicable!" James spluttered.
Gordon soon arrived after taking the night train, and he backed down into his berth. "Have you heard that there's a rail tour? I heard the engine is beautiful!"
"Yes." Henry grunted back. "She's nice to look at, but that's it. She is horrible!"
"Not as bad as what she remarked about Scotsman." Braedey remarked, now remembering his visit back to the National Railway Museum a few months back. "He told me this when I went to the museum."
"What did she say?" Gordon asked in confusion. "I'm sure she respected him very much."
"No, Gordon. She didn't." Braedey spoke back firmly. His gaze was sharp and stern. He was silent for a moment.
"Braedey, do you want me to say it?" Diana asked.
"No, I'll do it." Braedey took a deep breath. "Scotsman told me that when he talked to Alivia, she then rudely commented that he should be sent away to America to be scrapped, and that he was an old kettle that should get what was coming!!"
Gordon was in shock. "SHE SAID WHAT!?!?" The other engines were aghast by what they heard too. Now, they knew not to trust an engine who'd say such a thing about one of the most famous engines in the world.
"She doesn't take kindly to engines that are famous like you Sudrian engines." Anna stated next. "Best you be on your guard."
Gordon was furious!!! "How dare she say my brother deserves to be scrapped!!"
"We all despise her." Diana said bluntly.
Later that night at the sheds, the engines listened to Alivia. They didn't say a word as they listened to hear what the LMS locomotive has to say.
"I must say it is an honour to see a proper railway again, but I am very special." Alivia said to the other engines. "See, I'm preserved. I am the chosen one. I cannot have other engines so close to me. I need an open birth on each side." Thomas watched in shock as Braedey and Diana gave up their births to sleep over at the nearby carriage shed, along with Emily and Thomas.
"I wish I was as like her." Emily said as she gazed at the form of the LMS engine.
"I don't." Thomas said. He then told her what Braedey had told him, to the GNR Sterling Single's shock.
The next morning, the railtour was to be pulled up and down along the mainline, and Alivia loved the attention of the many photographers that were around her. She smiled with pride and smugness as she waited to leave. Henry was right next to her on the opposite platform, waiting for his passengers to arrive.
"Get back." Alivia orders at the LMS Black Five engine. "You'll ruin my shot!"
"But I'm famous too! I'm a Sudrian engine. I was in the first Railway Series book!" Henry stated back with feeling in her voice.
Alivia laughed mockingly. "Oh, but you see, I'm one of the chosen ones. I've been preserved. All these people have come to see me. You're just old news. Your 15 seconds of fame has come and gone. Don't be something that you're not. Fame suits me, not you. So why don't you go and hide in a tunnel? I think it might rain." The guard blew his whistle, and Alivia then set off. Henry was hurt very badly by her words, looking down at his buffers.
Unbeknown to Alivia, Thomas had seen and heard everything. He puffed up next to Henry. "Don't listen to her, Henry. You're still a really useful engine, no matter what others would say." Henry shows a small smile back to Thomas, then headed off with the local train.
For the time Alivia was at Sodor, Gordon and the engines of the Josephine Railway would hiss steam at her, and blow fumes at her rudely. James and Henry had been told about Alivia, and they didn't want to talk to her at all. BoCo, Peter, Lady, and Jane had seen the interactions between the other engines, and they had asked to Alivia about what's going on.
"Those engines don't know how to treat an engine properly." Alivia scoffed to herself.
Thomas then pulled up to the station with his coaches, Annie and Clarabel. "Don't mind Gordon." Thomas said. "He doesn't like famous visitors."
"Oh shut up, you blue teapot." Alivia snapped. "You and your book series are not fit for fame. You're only good for scrap." Thomas felt hurt. BoCo, Peter, Lady and Jane were shocked at Alivia and her words, but their shock turned to anger as they glared at Alivia.
"How dare you!" Peter spoke out harshly.
"You don't deserve the right to speak to my boyfriend like that!" Lady snapped next, the fire in her firebox burning hotter than before.
Alivia laughed. "Boyfriend? You mean you, a tiny industrial engine like you, are dating this blue pile of scrap iron?"
"HEY! Watch your tongue!" Gordon barked, now pulling up nearby with James and Henry alongside him. "You don't speak to either Lady or Thomas like that and get away with it!"
"You are a disgrace to that of steam engines!" James added in.
"Thomas may not be the most well-behaved engine (HEY!), but he doesn't deserve to be scrapped!" Henry spoke up next.
Alivia just snorted. "Oh, are we jealous? See, I'm one of the chosen ones. Even when you're all long gone, I'll still be here!" The three big engines, as well as the others, just wheeshed steam at her, and they all puffed away.
Not everyone believed what the other said about Alivia. Thomas and the others called out to the others about the LMS Compound locomotive. Whenever those would see Alivia, she would just flash a smile at them as she goes by, whereas those who've come across Alivia just blew steam at her.
Braedey now confronted Alivia outside of the shed she was staying in. "I don't care if you're perserved, I can expose you for who you are!!" He spoke out harshly.
"I'll have you know, I can get you scrapped, and get away with it. After all, that's how I was preserved in the first place. Many engines were gone because I said that they were past it!" Alivia declared. Braedey just huffed and puffed away from the red Engine, not wanting to spend another second with an arrogant locomotive.
Down at Wellsworth, Thomas was doing some shunting for Edward, the latter being called to Brendam Docks. The blue tank engine shunted about the trucks, some of them liking him and getting along with him. The trucks even joked about some incidents that happened at the docks like workmen slipping on fish scales and such. Thomas couldn't help but laugh at these jokes.
Just then, a whistle echoed out, and a familiar engine to Thomas pulled up at the platform. The engine is a LSWR (London and South Western Railway) N15 Class 4-6-0 engine. He is painted dark green with white stripes, the number "26" in yellow with red linning on both sides of his tender.
"Richard?" Thomas asked in surprise. He hadn't seen his friend for a while since Richard had gone to the N.R.M a few years ago.
"Hello, Thomas. Great to see you again. I'm here to stretch my wheels for a bit." Richard greeted back to Thomas. "It can get stuffy in a museum for a while." He remarked, he and Thomas chuckling to one another.
Just then, Richard noticed an unwelcoming sight as Alivia pulled up on the opposite platform with her rail tour train. "Oh. It's you." Richard frowned with anger.
"Hello, Richard." Alivia said in a fake sweet voice.
Richard looked at her with real distaste. "If you are going to do anything stupid, don't. Even the other engines at the museum hate you."
"Why no, why would I?" Alivia remarked.
"I really hate you, Alivia." Richard grunted, now puffing away.
Alivia was soon out on the mainline, and Richard would follow close by with some trains he took, or no train at all. Richard worked rather hard, and he kept Alivia in her place. Soon, when he took a slow local train, Richard ran into Braedey, the latter moving some coaches into a siding.
"Oh. Hello, there." Richard greeted the GWR Engine. "I don't think we've officially met."
"Oh, hey there." Braedey greeted back. "I'm Braedey, from the Josephine Railway."
"I'm Richard. I'm from the National Railway Museum." The LSWR N15 Class engine introduced himself.
"Nice to meet you, Richard." Braedey greeted back. "I don't think I saw you when I went to the museum on a visit a few months back."
"Oh, I must've been having an overhaul." Richard remarked, he and Braedey sharing a laugh. Just then, Alivia rushed by, and she hissed steam at them rudely. "Ugh, what an arrogant engine she is." He muttered to himself.
"You know Alivia, Richard?" Braedey asked to him.
"KNOW HER!?! I have to live with her in the same shed!!" Richard sighed in exasperation.
"She's part of the National Collection, isn't she?" Braedey took a guess.
"Yes. We don't like her, especially myself, Rocket, Mallard, Duchess of Hamilton, Flying Scotsman, and City of Truro." Richard then sighed.
"Why is that, though?" Braedey raised an eyebrow.
Richard breathed a shaky sigh. "Alivia... she has even done something that is unforgivable. I saw it with my own eyes." He then explained to Braedey about what the LMS locomotive did.
When he had finished, Braedey was SPEECHLESS!!! "She did NOT." He spoke out, his teeth clenched.
"Yes. The LNER, Great Western, Southern, British Railways, and even her own LMS brethren." Richard acknowledged.
Braedey was now furious. Actually, he was far beyond outraged!!! His boiler pressure shot up like a rocket, hot steam shooting out of his pistons and funnel. He then raced away in a cloud of steam, Reginald now realising what he's going to do, and chased after Braedey.
Alivia was currently resting in a siding after her run. "Sometimes, it's hard being such a lovely engine, even one who's better than everyone else." She mused to herself. Suddenly, she was woken up by Thomas blowing his whistle. "GAH!!!!" Alivia screamed in surprise as she woke up.
"Wake up, rusty wheels. Why not do some hard work, like me?" Thomas said cheekily with a smirk.
"THOMAS, YOU LITTLE PIECE OF-" Before Alivia could say anymore, a screeching metallic noise could now be heard. It started low, then it started to grow. Soon, Braedey came around the corner with large clouds of steam erupting from his funnel and pistons, and Reginald was trying to pull him back. The GWR 4900 locomotive was charging forward, sparks coming off his driving wheels, with Reginald coupled up behind and trying to pull him back.
"B-B-Braedey, it was all in the past!!! We can't do anything about it!!! Please, don't do something brash!!!" Reginald said hesitantly, trying to hold back the crimson locomotive.
"SHE MUST PAY FOR WHAT SHE DID!! ALIVIA!!!!!!" Braedey yelled out.
"Oh dear." Thomas said quickly.
Just then, Reginald's coupling snapped, and he raced backwards before stopping. Braedey then charged forward, and he saw Alivia in front of him.
"Hello." Alivia said. "You wanted something?"
Braedey looked at her with fire in his eyes from the pits of hell! "THIS IS FOR MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!!" He charged forward, bashing Alivia backwards and sending her flying into the buffers at the far side of the siding. "WHY YOU LITTLE-!!!" Soon, the station was filled with the sounds of crashing, bashing, and all sorts of smashing.
"Guys, stop it." Reginald called.
"Oh dear." Toby commented as he arrived with Henrietta.
"Yeah, show her what for!" James called out.
"Go for it, Braedey!" Gordon added in.
"Whoa. I didn't know Braedey was capable of this kind of violence." Thomas said with wide eyes.
Soon, Diana had raced up with Jane and Kieron, worry on her face. "BRAEDEY, STOP!!!!" The former screams out.
Braedey stopped just a few centimetres away from Alivia's front buffers. They both stared at each other, until Braedey now began to back down, looking down at his buffers. Braedey sadly got a scolding from Sir Topham Hatt. "I'm sorry, sir. It's just... Alivia has done something that is unforgivable." Braedey muttered.
"What is it that she did that you can never forgive her for?" Sir Topham asked.
"Braedey, are you sure you want to tell everyone?" Richard asked.
"It has to be said." Braedey now glared at Alivia, the latter just looking back at him.
"DON'T YOU EVEN DARE!!!" Alivia yelled.
"Alivia!" Sir Topham now cuts off the LMS Compound locomotive. "Let him speak."
Braedey looked to the other engines, and he took a deep breath. "Alivia has helped sent many of my brothers, sisters, and many other engines for scrap back in the 60's. Some of those engines were even meant to be preserved, just to save her own metal hide. She's responsible for why classes of engine like Thomas', Edward's, James', and many others are gone!" He yells out to everyone.
Everyone was in shock, horror, fear, and with unreadable expressions. The engines now looked back at Alivia, then their expressions turned to that of pure anger. All at once, the entire yard erupted into a chorus of angry whistles and horns!
"YOU TRAITOR!! FIEND!!! MONSTER!!! MURDERER!!! HOOLIGAN!!! BACKSTABBER! SHE WOULD JUST KILL OFF ONE OF HER OWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS JUST TO SAVE HER OWN METAL HIDE!!!!"
"SILENCE!!" Sir Topham Hatt snapped, now silencing everybody. The Rail Tour Manager had just arrived to see what was going on. Alivia thought she was saved. But she was wrong.
"Alivia, I am very disgusted by your behaviour!! If this is how you treat other engines at their end, then maybe it's best if you stay in the museum!!" The manager spoke out harshly. "There were many engines we wanted to preserve are gone because of you! You will never pull rail tours again!"
Alivia is confused. "What are you talking about?"
"You have betrayed your own family!!!" Sir Topham boomed, scaring Alivia by his booming voice. "You had helped send them to their deaths!! Engines who do that are NOT welcome on MY railway!! What you have done is unacceptable. There's only one thing that can be done with an engine like you - You will be taken out of service, and you shall be put in the back of the workshop shed at the museum, where no one will ever admire you and you will never be put back into steam ever again!!" He declared, the Rail Tour manager nodding in agreement.
Alivia was utterly shocked. She was being taken out of service and was being put away in the back of the shed, never to be steamed up again? This was all too much. "B-b-but sir, I... I'm sorry-" She muttered softly, almost like she's about to cry.
"YOU'RE SORRY!?!?!" Henry thundered, his whistle blowing aloud, the other engines whistling as well.
"SORRY DOESN'T CUT IT THIS TIME, ALIVIA!!!" Lady screamed.
"YOU MESS WITH ONE OF US, YOU DEAL WITH ALL OF US!" Thomas added in.
"YOU TALK BACK TO US, YOU SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!" James snapped next.
"YOU MONSTER!" Jane announced.
"A DESPICABLE CREATURE!" Gordon thundered.
"GET OFF OUR ISLAND!!!" Percy yelled.
"Alivia. Leave. NOW." Braedey said in a stern voice.
Alivia turned around on the turntable, and without a single word, the sound of angry whistles still echoing out, she raced away down the mainline to leave Sodor, sent away in disgrace, never to be seen on Sodor again.
As Alivia travelled off down the line to go back to the mainland, every single engine and diesel blew steam at her, whistling angry or even blowing their diesel horns at her, sending her away. She crossed over the Vicarstown Bridge to go back home, but as she does so, she had initially thought the diesels and other engines would try and help her. Boy, was she wrong: news about Alivia's true past and history had come to light, and many angry photographers and people were furious. Diesels had blew their horns at her and shooed her away, Alivia even having food, drinks, and rubbish being thrown at her as she travelled down the tracks, Alivia crying out from all the abuse she was receiving.
Once she arrived at the National Railway Museum, Alivia's fire was dropped, her boiler drained of water. She looked at the engines in the museum, but all of them looked away with disgust, giving her the cold bunker. A shunter diesel took Alivia away, putting her into the back of the workshop shed, and the shunter left. A sign had been put in front of Alivia. It reads this:
'ENGINE NOT TO BE TOUCHED'
Alivia sat in the corner of the workshop, watching on as other engines, whether they'd be steam, diesel, or even electric come in to get overhauled, repainted, and then some. None of them spoke back to her. Overtime, Alivia began to collect dust across her form, her paint and brass not polished, and nobody at all, whether they'd be mechanics, painters, or even tourists, ever dared to come near her. Alivia now felt like she was mistreated.
One day, Flying Scotsman was getting himself a touch up before a charter train. He saw Alivia in the corner, and just gave her a stern look. "It is because of those like you are why there's so few steam engines about. You are the reason. You should respect those who have lost families and friends." With that, and after his touch-up, Flying Scotsman puffed away, not giving Alivia a second glance.
I think Alivia got what she deserved. Don't you?