Sodor's New Worker

Mystery

  Maddy awoke to a soft crunching sound next to her bed. When she cracked an eye open, she caught Thomas trying to steal a sucker. She just quietly stared at him, waiting for the right moment to catch his ass.

"..Thomas."

"WAH- Uh..good morning, Maddy!" he yelped, hiding the candy behind his back. "You're...up early!"

"..Yeah. Watcha got there?"

"..Nothing."

"Liar."

"..Just one..!"

".....fiiiiiiine.."

   The small engine jumped for joy, hugged his friend, and went back to his berth, sucker in mouth. Tasted like cotton candy.

"Tasty.."

"Don't eat the stick, dumbass.." she yawned. Maddy cracked her back before getting out of bed. It was a good haul last night. She had at least three pounds of candy to munch on. Such a win for her. Now to keep thieving little men out of if. That was just the least of her problems. As she got dressed for the day, she pondered the things she saw last night.

"Oh, good morning, dear!" Edward peeped. "You were out quite late last night..how was it..?"

"Fucking awesome, for the most part."

"Oh? What happened? Some punk tried to snatch your candy?" James asked.

"If by punk you mean a teen thinking I was an easy target to steal from, then technically yes. But that wasn't the problem."

"How..How was that not the problem?"

"I kicked him in the nads and threatened to tear off his dick."

"Maddy!"

"Whaaaat? I highly doubt he'd recognize me."

"..Right..anyway..what happened?" Edward sighed.

"Well, when it was when I was going to go scare the shit out of Diesel, as I promised James. He was sleeping, y'know, as one does. I have my phone on record, and of course he scares himself off the tracks. Or, almost did, I swear I heard the buffers he ran into cracked. But..I heard some metal creaking, almost snappy like. I was looking around..and didn't really see anything. I thought I heard a growling voice, too, but I couldn't make out what it said. I hightailed it out of there once I felt something try and grab me, though..so..there's that."

   Her friends went silent, looking at one another. She noticed they looked nervous.

"He couldn't be back, right..?" Henry whispered.

"Sir Topham Hatt sent him away.."

"Sent who away, Dad?"

"No one..! No one! Just..uh..go do your job, dear!"

"I'm waiting for Buzzy Butt over here.."

"..Buz-"

"Thomas, I will bump you off the rails." James sneered as Maddy hopped onboard.  

"No you won't, Jaaaaamesy!"

"...I will end you." he hissed, while his girlfriend was laughing her ass off.

"This is your fault, Maddy!"

"I know, Buzzy, and I don't really care-"

"Bitch-"

"You love this bitch-"

"It's like looking in a mirror."

"You calling me ugly?"