| abstract | - Sir Topham hatt makes an announcement that he will be going away for a week and a half and has put Diesel 10 in charge. Diesel 10 had supposedly apologized for the past trouble he caused. Thomas gets the information from Neville and goes to tell the engines resting at Tidmouth Sheds, who complain about the abstract idea that their controller would put a homicidal diesel engine in charge of their railway for a week and a half. Thomas decides that each day two engines- one small, one large- engine will work together to do one job continuously until sir Topham hatt comes home so if Diesel pulls any tricks, they'd be together to defend each other. The next day, Toby and Gordon were double-heading an Express. Diesel 10 arrives and Toby obeys his command, but Gordon just grunts and sits at the front of the coaches. Toby, going to collect the next Express carriages from the Coach Yard, passes Diesel 10 who reaches Pinchy out and destroys Toby altogether. Gordon cries out and sticks up for Toby and before Gordon could say "Fat Controller", Diesel 10 has the coal, fuel and gunpowder trucks all in a row and had pushed them towards Gordon. Gordon is demolished as the passengers and crew scatter in all directions. Splatter, Dodge, 'Arry, and Bert tricked James and Edward that night, who go to check Arlesdale End for the missing engines. Edward, the heroic eldest engine, gets pulled in to the trick- the diesels had pushed runaway trucks hard past them and they chased after them to save whoever was in their path. The trucks led them to Arlesdale End where Diesel 10 and his minions showed up to take them to the Smelters. In a mtter of 4 days the engines had lost Gordon, Toby, James, Edward, all of the Narrow Gauge engines, the Logging Locos, The Pack and the transportation vehicles such as Bertie or Trevor. Elizabeth was the only survivor of the vehicle-blowout as she was out delivering fresh tomatoes while the vehicle shed blew up. Lady, who was recruited by Donald, helped out while the controller was gone. Diesel 10 was threatening the kinder diesels Daisy, BoCo, Mavis, Sidney, Norman, Paxton, Derek, Salty, Dennis, Den, and Dart to be his "servants" or else it meant death to the whole Railway. The weak, kind diesels meakly agreed. Within the next 2 days, the coach shed was set ablaze, Bulgy was crunched along his road route, Harold was shot out of the sky by Jeremy (who was also in Diesel 10's menacing scheme), Hank, Belle, and Emily were destroyed, Spencer, Hrio, Murdoch, and henry's shed was lit on fire, Arthur was taken to the Scrap Yard because of getting on Diesel 10's nerves, and Thomas the second night... declares WAR. Duck, Molly, and Donald use the Troublesome Trucks to get Devious Diesel angry. The trucks sing "Pop Goes the Diesel" at him, Duck mimicks Diesel from his first day when he said the "Your worthy Sir Topham Hatt thinks I need to learn..." speech, Percy and Duck asked "Shunt where?" "Why from here to there; and then again from there to here! Easy isn't it?" and finally Thomas tells the story of "Diesel: The World's Strongest Engine".Diesel bursts through the Dieselworks' doors, followed by Sidney, Paxton, and Diesel 10. The engines lose Donald in the havoc- Percy and Duck get T-boned by Paxton and Diesel, Sidney chased Molly into a siding with a cliff, and Diesel 10 and Pinchy nabbed Thomas as their next victim. Molly's tender and crew splashed into the water, after smashing through the buffers. Duck escapes being biffed in the boiler by Diesel and rushes to save Molly. His crew jumps down and couples him to Sidney and drags him to the turntable. Duck tells the workman to spin Sidney around until he says to stop. In addition to Sidney's short-tem memory loss, Sidney was giddy and dizzy. Duck races back to Molly, who is using her drive-wheels to balance herself on the cliff. Duck couples up to her and tries to save her. The coupling snaps and Duck races back to find Percy and Lady. Percy, who was coming the other way to find Duck, biffs into Duck. Then Lady appears behind them. They leave Sidney spinning, Diesel and Paxton panting and out of oil, and Diesel 10 sleeping in the Dieselworks to discuss the plan behind the locked doors of Tidmouth sheds. They take a sort of 'inventory-check' but by discussing who they saw on the way to Tidmouth. They saw Whiff and Scruff at the Waste Dump on the way with Donald and Molly. As the name "Donald" escapes Duck's throat, he instantly remembers Donald disappearing in the previous ruckus. To calm themselves down, Lady suggests they sing songs (Duck sings "It's Great to be an Engine", Percy sings "Percy's Seaside Trip", and Lady sings "Shining Time"). Then they go back to the checking who they saw. Billy and Stanley were shunting, Charlie was having a washdown. Then Percy remembers the frightening sight of Jeremy the jet plane, tricked out with cannons, shooting his helicopter friend out of the sky, his pilot landing possibly dead in a field. Percy moarns over Harold while Lady tells them the secret she's been hiding. Lady tells Duck and percy the truth: once every single engine except Lady was dead, she could magic it all back to normal. The reason she couldn't just magic everything better instantly was because everyone that was alive now would disappear and the lost would be alive again. The engines go to tell the nice diesels (who are GLAD to be nice again), Elizabeth, and the rest of the engines to go to the Docks that night at 7. At the Docks, Lady admits to Duck and Percy she is evil as Cranky drops Duck into the sea. Pery, swinging helplessly on Cranky's hook, only strength was about 50% because of the hook making his coupling snap, he tricks them into thinking he'll be on their side. Once on the ground again, the engines charge at the engines. Lady returns nice and Diesel pushes Percy toward the highest cliff on the Sodor Mountain. Lady, scratched up from Diesel 10's claw scraping at her, was pulled behind Diesel on a flatbed, helpless and screaming for help. Harold comes up, black with soot and smoke, behind the mountain and surprises them all. Percy's wheels, sparking from the friction of braking and being pushed, finally stop moving at his command and he plummits off and rolls down the mountainside. Lady is lifted up off the flatbed by Harold and he puts her way up on the top of the mountain and suicides. Lady calls down, to the nice diesels, Elizabeth, and the other engines, from the mountain to do the same. After it's all done, Lady uses her powers to make everything back to normal as engines reappear all across the Island, whistling and cheering with joy. Diesel 10, Splodge, B'Arry (Diesel 10's name for Bert and 'Arry) and the mean diesels are gone. And soon all engines are hard at work as if nothing had happened when Sir Topham Hatt arrives the next day. After Sir Topham Hatt leaves Tidmouth Sheds to greet the engines of his return, Lady comes out. Edward thanks her for everything and she whistles farewell to the engines. The engines are not worried anymore, because Diesel 10 was gone. But they knew they'd never forget what Lady had done for them, and the friendship they all had with her, before she had to go back forever.
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