Sodor: Left for Dead

The Once Thought Iron Safe Haven

We took some time to bury what we could of Henry. He deserved some form of ceremony, just like Edward. We decided to move down to the Iron Works and we considered it to be our safe haven and the perfect place to set up a base. A massive building able to house all the survivors and engines within. Plus those massive metal doors could keep anything out. If only we knew what was in there.

We had just pulled in and like Harvey had said it was silent with the only sound being the machinery in the smelters shed. We looked everywhere, no sign of any survivors. We were about to enter the smelters shed when we found something in a siding. It was Bert. He was in awful shape and once he saw us he told us we had to go and that it wasn't safe. Donald told him to calm down and asked what had happened to Arry. Bert took a few breaths and looked to the side of the line. There was Arry; his remains had just been thrown to the side of the line. However something was off, yes he was infected, but he was missing large chunks of metal almost like something tore pieces off of him.

While looking at the remains no one noticed another diesel roll up beside us and by the time we did it was too late. Bert screamed in horror as the massive claw was plunged into his face. In front of us was the most feared engine on the island Diesel 10. Blood covered him and his claw was covered in the most. I shudder to think of the pain he caused with that thing.

He laughed saying how he was glad to have guests. Arthur yelled asking why he killed Arry and Bert. Diesel 10 just stared at us and said they were infected and had to be killed, even though Bert hadn't been turned. Before we had a chance to think Diesel 10 lunged at us saying how he had to cleanse the world of the plague. I threw on the reverser and Thomas' wheels slipped fiercely as he couldn't get a grip on the blood soaked rails. Diesel 10 grabbed hold of the cab as he laughed maniacally. With a sudden jerk we felt the coupling connecting Thomas and Oliver snap and Oliver, Donald, Arthur and Trevor raced back down the line. Thomas yelled for them to get back to help but it was no use they were too far gone.

We were dragged into the smelters shed and Thomas was petrified. He said that he couldn't die like this, he still had to find Annie and Claraebel. Ted and I were thinking of a plan of escape. We had to get into the control room and open the door to escape but we couldn't leave Thomas alone. Ted volunteered to go as he knew the Iron Works layout like the back of his hand as he used to work there part time before becoming a fireman. So the plan was that I would make a distraction by throwing some metal making Diesel 10 think someone else was inside. While he was distracted Ted would run to the control room and open the door once he pushed the button. I would drive Thomas and hopefully by the time we got to the door there would be enough room for us to squeeze through.

The plan began perfectly, I made a distraction and Diesel 10 fell for it and Ted made his way to the control room. However what we failed to realize was that the Iron Works had changed over time and Ted couldn't find the right button to open the door and by the time he found the right button it was too late Diesel 10 had figured out our plan and went for the attack. I threw on the regulator hoping the doors would be open enough. Sadly they weren't and Diesel 10 got in front of us blocking the line. He began backing us further and further into the smelting shed and the buffers were getting close. At that moment I only thought one thing once we hit those buffers we're done for.

Diesel 10 began to laugh saying how it was the end of the line. But then we were shocked to hear an engine racing down the line towards us. It was Oliver charging full speed at Diesel 10. I saw Ted running up and swapped the points between Thomas and Diesel 10 and it all happened so fast. Once the points were swapped Oliver bashed into the back of Diesel 10 pushing him on to the other line and smashing threw the buffers. Just before Diesel 10 fell into the smelting pit he used pinchy to grab hold of some scrap keeping him from falling in. He begged for mercy, apologizing to steam engines in general. Oliver didn't fall for it and pushed Diesel 10 down into the fiery pit below.