Sodor's Unforgettable Betrayal

The Next Morning

7:48 AM
We woke up the next morning, still shaken up by what happened last night. We decided to check Elsbridge station to see if anyone was there or if there were any supplies. Good thing we checked as we did find someone. It was the stationmaster, Jacqueline Davis. He told us when all hell broke loose, he was in his office. BoCo rolled into the station, but Jacqueline could see from the window that something wasn't right about him. The pupils of his eyes were orange, and he had orange cracks all over his face, just like Gordon. Suddenly he heard gunshots from outside followed by screaming everywhere. Jacqueline locked his door and stayed low so no one could see him through the window. He had no idea what was going on so he just hid until things died down a little bit, however he ended up staying in his office for a while, because he was scared to leave it. We offered for him to join us and he agreed. As we were walking back to Percy, I noticed the little green engine seemed very puzzled. I asked him what was wrong and he told me he saw an engine pass by last night. The engine had one coach behind and was heading in the direction of Knapford. At first he couldn't properly see who it was, but then he saw the number 7 on the engine's side, that told him exactly who it was. It was Toby, with his faithful coach Henrietta. Percy also said Toby didn't seem to notice him, nor did Henrietta. Why was the tram engine heading to Knapford? That place was absolute chaos last night and why the bloody hell would it be safe there now? Though he probably didn't know about it since he wasn't there when all hell broke lose. We're going to head down Thomas' branchline and see if we can find any survivors.

10:36 AM
We wanted to head down Thomas' branchline, but a tree was blocking the line, so we decided to head down the mainline instead. When we reached Crosby, we found something truly devastating. It was Bear, he has several bullet holes all over his face. We were all horrified at the state of him, poor engine. He didn't deserve such an awful fate, he was a great chap.

We carried on down the mainline, and we reached Wellsworth. There we saw another engine. It was Murdoch, and he was alive, though not unscratched. He had two scars on his face and he was covered in blood. We slowly puffed towards him and I jumped out of Percy's cab. I was greeted by Murdoch's driver, Max Newman. I asked why Murdoch was covered in blood and he explained to me that when they got to Wellsworth they saw Emily in the yard, shocked and confused. She was surrounded by more of those men who were all armed. Suddenly Vanessa (Emily's Driver) jumped out of Emily's cab holding one of the men hostage with a gun pointed towards his head. She threatened to shoot the man if they didn't agree to release her and Emily. While the men were quarreling with her, the sounds of hissing started to come from Emily. That's when Vanessa realized that she had forgotten to turn off steam before she jumped out of Emily's cab. She tried to reach into the cab to turn off steam, but the man she was holding hostage stabbed her hand with a pocket knife. She quickly pulled the trigger after that and the man died, that's when the chaos began. After shooting the man in the head the rest of the men tried to kill her. She was able to put up a good fight, though she was one against many, but then the hissing from Emily got louder. Emily started to scream in pain as her temperature began to heat up. Max, who had seen everything, realized what was going to happen. He quickly got Murdoch out of harms way. That is when Emily's boiler blew, killing her instantly, along with all the men. Vanessa miraculously survived the explosion, and is currently sitting in Murdoch's cab, her hand is bandaged up and she has a few scratches on her face. She feels guilty and thinks that if she had never held that man hostage, Emily's boiler would've never burst. Thankfully, none of the boiler tubes hit anyone, but Murdoch now has Emily's blood all over him.

We all had a moment of silence for Emily. There was a bad smell in the air from the bodies of the men. That's when I realised, Emily's remains were no where to be seen, how was that possible? We asked Max and it turns out that they'd grabbed some pieces of her that remained, and put them on a flatbed. Murdoch shunted the flatbed to the back of the shed, and left her to rest in peace. We decided to stay at Wellsworth for a little while, we're probably going to go up to Brendam later, maybe we can find some more survivors up there.