-Evening-
Gordon is waiting at Platform 2 for his express coaches. Thomas shunts them into Platform 1 for him.
Gordon
Hurry up with those coaches, Thomas!
Thomas
Hurry yourself! I'm taking my sweet time!
Gordon
Yes, maybe I will...
Thomas pushes the coaches into platform 1 and Gordon immediately buffers up to them. The passengers get on board, and then the guard blows his whistle. Gordon whistles, and puffs away quickly. He pulls out so quickly that Thomas could not be uncoupled from the back of the train.
Thomas
Wait! Stop! I need to get back to the yard!
Gordon doesn't stop. He just keeps puffing through the countryside, nearly reaching his top speed. And he's dragging Thomas behind with him.
Thomas
Gordon! Stop!
Gordon
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
James puffs by pulling a passenger train.
James
What on earth?
James' driver
Was that Thomas? Being dragged behind the Wild nor wester?
James
I'd never seen a tank engine go so fast!
Gordon keeps pulling Thomas down the line. He eventually makes a stop at Cronk station. Thomas gets uncoupled from the train and runs around up front to talk to Gordon, tired as can be.
Thomas
Gordon! Why did you just drag me down the tracks like that? At such a high speed?
Gordon
I felt like paying you back for whistling at me and giving me a scare.
Thomas
Well, maybe I did that because I've been fed up with being treated like a station pilot lately! I'm here to pull passengers and short goods trains, not shunt them!
Gordon
Well, we important engines need someone to shunt our trains for us when the current station pilots are busy.
Thomas
Like that really matters.
Gordon
It does. Now, how does it feel going fast? You did say you wanted to prove you were the best by showing you were faster and stronger than all of us.
Thomas
I don't want to be fast anymore. But I still want to prove that I'm stronger than all of you!
Gordon
I would love to see you try.
Thomas goes and takes on a little bit of water, and then he puffs back to Tidmouth sheds to get a well deserved rest.
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