Sodor Left for Dead [AU]: Alternative fate.

Help won't be coming.

This all brings us to today, i found this journal, abandoned on Wellsworth, and i thought id write down here to keep my sanity, if that makes any sence to you. If you are reading any of this, im either dead and you found this close to my body, or we survived, i sold this experience and became famous.

I wish the second one to be the case.

I miss Phil. I miss my old life. I miss when the worse thing i had to go through was James' complaining.

But it won't come back, will it?

Ill be fiddling with a radio i found at the station. God, i hope the others did the same before leaving Elsbridge. We want to find them, but don't know where to look. If they have, maybe we can contact them with the radio

i hope this works.

So, a bit of an update, a voice did went through.
Not one i recognized, it didn't help much the fact i heard groaning. I called over Connor and Eric so they listened to this as well.

The voice introduced herself as Lucy, she said she was a passenger in a train pulled by Duncan. In fact, the groaning actually came from other passengers trying to rerail him.

She explained how she got in, as Duncan laughed at Sir Handel over him being chosen to pull passengers over him, at least this once. But everything went quiet as they heard Gordon's whistle from afar, followed with what sounded like gunshots. They both slowly made their way to check was was going on, they looked at the open shed, where they saw Skarloey and Oliver.

From what she later learned, just moments before the zombies had arrived in Crovan's gate. They got Skarloey easily, while Oliver had come there to get Toad, however he stopped to get back to the works shed, she assumed it was so Oliver could save whoever engine was in there, but that only sealed Oliver, Toad and that other engine's fate.

At least Oliver was spared. Same can't be said for his crew.

A few workmen and other civillians took the chance to run up to the half empty train, trying to get in, and a few did. Which was how she even got to know what happend.

They reversed away before they could be shot, unable tl do anything, as they lacked any sort of weapons to act, so there wasn't anything they could do.

A few hours later, they heard screaming coming back from Crovan's Gate, the engine was Emily. As they weren't going back there, specially after the sound of bullets being shot was heard again, as well as Emily's screaming. Apparently, she somehow survived, as soon after the sound of fired bullets started, Emily blew her whistle, and it sounded like she had made a run for it. The sound of bullets quickly stopped.

Everyone was horrified, and wondering why they decided to mostly leave Skarloey, Oliver, Toad and whoever the other engine was, but aggresive throwards Emily?

They made their way back to the quarry, and swear they heard what sounded like Peter Sam, who was yelling for help from the other side, but they couldn't make their way over to him, as there had apparently been a landslide which had damaged the equipment, and trapped Peter Sam in there.

We all felt silent after hearing this, the military won't even attempt to help us, we would die if we even made it to Crovan's Gate. There was no hope for us.

I recognized that the engine at the works was probably Percy, who broke down the day of the outbreak.

God, this day is getting worse and worse by the minute.