The Original Arc

Trivia compiled by Toz and Diesel 11

This was the beginning of Three Word Story Revolution, and as such, was a perfect way to kick off The Game. It was a lot different in those days, though, and as such, some characters have different personalities in this Arc than in the later ones.

The first Colorman seen in this arc, and the first of any Colorman to be seen in 3WSR as a whole, was Man In Black. He was made colorblind by Man In Blue. Interestingly enough, The Prism, the Morality Check, and the Colorwomen (not to mention VEC) were not mentioned here, let alone seen.

There were plenty of running gags begun here, including the Tail of the Tale and the Gift of Carrot, Man In Amber Apricot, and the gibberish spells.

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One day Thomas went to pick up a freight train at the Quarry. He backed up towards his line of freight cars and was prepared to leave, but something didn't feel quite right.

"Is there a brake van attached to this train?" He asked? One of the workers looked up at him, and he didn't look like he cared.

"No, and do you really need one? You're only pulling ten trucks"

"That's exactly why I need one!" Thomas couldn't even begin to count how many accidents had happened because someone was pulling a freight train without a brake van. "I won't leave until we have a brake van at the end of this train, right driver?" His driver and fireman nodded.

"I will not start Thomas up until there's a brakevan at the end of this train"

Now the worker was annoyed "Just get out of here will you, you're holding up this area of track"

"Are you suggesting we should brake the rules?" Thomas asked, now even more annoyed.

"Why not?" The worker said sarcastically, "we've been breaking them over and over again since season 10"

"Huh?" Thomas said puzzled

"Uh, nothing. just go already!"

"Not until there's a brake van!"

The argument would have gone on forever, but then...

...the workman kicked the crew out of the cab and drove Thomas away. "This'll teach you not to mess with the epicness of unrealism!" "What..." said Thomas' driver. "Just go and warn somebody will you?" grumbled the fireman. "Ok...'

"And now for the finale of the epicness of unrealism..." "What?" cried Thomas. "CHEEESE!" announce the worker and he ate a sandwich. "Great, sandwiches... How nice..." fumed Thomas.

The worker threw the sandwich out Thomas' window and ran away to get some McDonald's. Thomas suddenly crashed into a wall and ran out onto an epic highway with epic people doing stupid things like throwing trash bags across the highway.

"This is crazy" thomas thought... then he realized "Wait, there are no McDonalds on Sodor! What's going on here?!?" Then a massive thing too horrible for words began approaching Thomas. The driver finally caught up, and decided enough was enough.

"I say that enough is enough." and he pulled out a remote control and pressed rewind; he didn't release the button until Thomas was back at the Quarry.

"Fine, here's your brakevan, happy?" Said the workman, completely unaware of what just happened. Thomas' driver and fireman got back in the cab, with smiles on their faces. "I told you that was a good investment" he said. Thomas sighed with relief "thank goodness; I thought we were goners." The train started going through the countryside, when suddenly...

"Stop! Stop!" yelled a voice. Thomas did. "Who are you?" Asked the crew?

"My name is Toz76; I have something critically important for you; extremely important. So important that the very fabric of reality depends on you getting this package!"

The confused crew just stared, but said yes anyway.

He took out a bizarrely shaped box with purple and orange stripes and green stars. He opened the box, and inside was...

Edward!

"I must go to maron, but I have a cold!"

Thomas was surprised. "I didn't know engines could get colds!" he exclaimed.

"they can if they take the wrong coal" said Edward.

"I'm actually Bachmann Edward. The real Edward got sick so I had to do the marketing."

"Oh... Lame."

Thomas was very confused by what had just happened... He was told that what was in the box was important, but instead it turned out to be a complete waste of his time. He looked at the person with the box again. "Surely that isn't why you stopped me?"

"Uh... no, indeed it is not. HERE is the super important package I mentioned." It was an even weirder shaped package with green hourglasses and orange trapezoids. "Now please, the very fabric of reality depends on your delivery of this package! Inside the real delivery was a...

MC Bunn cinnamon roll!

"What?" said Thomas.

"If sir Topham hatt doesn't eat it, he will become thin, initiating a chain reaction that destroys they universe!"

Thomas was uncertain, but he set off with Bachmann Edward to deliver the cinnamon roll.

Soon The two were chuffing and puffing.... when they came to a set of buffers on a cliffside.

Thomas and Edward tried to move but.... *Explosion* They started to roll down the cliff and into a hole in the ground.

They landed in a deep pit. The top was 30 feet above the top of Thomas' funnel.

Suddenly, Bachmann Edward had an idea.

"if your driver stands on your funnel, he can throw me out with the package!" he said.

Thomas hated to miss out, but he grudgingly agreed. When Bachmann Edward got out he saw...

Sir Topham Hatt! He looked down the hole to see Thomas and his trapped crew

"what are you doing in this deep hole? What is all this nonsense about delivering me a package or the world will end?"

"We were told that if you didn't get this cinnamon roll, you would die and a chain reaction would start."

Hatt just stared at Thomas "What nonsense. Sure, I am a bit peckish, but that is no reason to get all worked up." He started having his snack, then he looked at the Bachmann Edward "And Thomas, you should know better than to talk to inanimate objects" he said as he threw it into a nearby garbage can. "people will think you are crazy if you do."

Thomas was finally brought back onto the rails, and Sir Topham Hatt and Thomas began to leave, when they suddenly heard...

Boulder rolling towards them! It crushed a house and rolled down towards Brendam docks!

Thomas ran off to stop it, from destroying more of Sodor

At Brendan docks...

Boulder suddenly ran up a hill, but he didn't make it to the top, he rolled back but rolled up another hill. He rolled down that hill only to start rolling up a the first hill, then he started rolling back down and up the other hill, Soon, this rock found himself stuck between 2 hard places. He kept going up and down the two hills, failing to get anywhere. A crowd of people gathered to watch this hilarious sight. Those who weren't laughing uncontrollably had their cameras and iPhones out.

"This is gonna get a million hits EASY!" Said one person. The crowd kept laughing and filming, until...

They remembered that they were standing on a railroad track, and the express was charging towards them!

"Look out!" someone yelled, and everyone jumped clear. Gordon was so surprised that he took a wrong turn and ended up on Thomas's branch line!

After sir Topham had fired the incompetent signalman...

Gordon was backed up onto the main line

"Oh no, not this again... once was enough."

He went back on the main line and continued on his way.

Meanwhile, James was pulling a slow goods train. "Freight cars, freight cars, why did it have to be freight cars" he said angrily. Suddenly he felt himself began to spin, he was spinning faster and faster and faster, he began to feel sick. "Wait, how can I be queezy?" But he did not have time to think about it, because so he was spinning so fast, the next thing he knew...

Meanwhile, James was pulling a slow goods train. "Freight cars, freight cars, why did it have to be freight cars" he said angrily. Suddenly he felt himself began to spin, he was spinning faster and faster and faster, he began to feel sick. "Wait, how can I be queezy?" But he did not have time to think about it, because so he was spinning so fast, the next thing he knew...

He had traveled back in time!

He found himself on the sodor and mainland railway in 1912. And there, in front of him, was the young fat controller!

James chuffed up and said:

"Excuse me? But by any chance, are you Sir Topham Hatt?"

"Yes, I am. Why do you ask?"

James then saw an excellent opportunity. "I have an important message. In the future there will be..."

But before he could say another word, he began to spin impossibly fast again. "How is this possible?!?!" He shrieked.

His crew held on for dear life. "What did we do to deserve this?" They kept spinning and spinning, until...

They returned to the present!

Unfortunately, James had caused a paradox. Because of what he had done, The Fat Controller gained an irrational fear of red engines. For that reason, James was still black, and all of sodor's red engines vanished without a trace!

Suddenly, a man dressed all in black ran up.

"You need to go back in time and stop yourself from causing the paradox." the man said. "There is a time machine disguised as a Bachmann Edward at the dump. You need to get it before it is compacted and time disintegrates forever!"

So James sped off. But suddenly...

Realization dawned. Something made no sense.

"Hey, wait a second, how could he be scared of red engines? All i did was say a sentence and a half to him."

The man stopped in his tracks. "Well, I...uh"

James continued "Plus what do you mean "all red engines?" Mike and I are the only Red engines on Sodor!"

"Well... there are the Skarloey engines..."

"Nonsense, there they are right there" as he looked into the Crovan's Gate yards. James driver, to his suprise, found the Bachmann Edward in the same trash can from earlier, and looked at it.

"As I thought, just a toy." Then, in the ultimate blow, a great gust of wind blew the black tarp straight off of James, revealing his red paint underneath. Now he was really angry.

"What is gong on here!?!?" James yelled. The man proceeded to run away and James angrily gave chase, speeding past the hills where boulder was still trapped, and the docks from earlier, until...

They came to a massive hole in the ground.

"What could have caused this?" James wondered. Looking down, he saw Arthur, Victor, Harvey, Salty and Winston trapped in the pit.

"What?" he said. "How could I have forgotten them?"

Suddenly, the man in black grabbed Bachmann Edward and laughed.

"Soon, all of sodor's red engines will be in my pit, where people will forget they ever existed!" he said. "And now I have the most powerful superweapon ever built!"

He pressed a button on the bottom of Bachmann Edward, and a portal opened behind him. He stepped through. James was so shocked, he fell into the pit!

Meanwhile...

The man emerged from the other side of the portal... to find he had only traveled 14 feet.

"what, how?"

"Looking for these?" As a man in blue approached him, holding the batteries. the man in black was shocked.

"No! Foiled by batteries! Why!?!?"

"Because you act before you think, man in black!"

"Hey, I have a name you know."

"yea, what is it?"

"Its... well, its Man In Black, but that's just a coincidence!

"Enough of this!" The man in blue said, as he reached for a strange device. "Now meet your fate." And Man In Black was zapped.

When the dust settled, man in black was horrified. "What... no!! you've made me color blind!!"

"That's right... now you can't distinguish colors... your plans are foiled!"

"I've lost my motivation to go on... I can't believe..." and he broke down crying. Man in blue went to the pit. "Don't worry, you're safe now; Man in Black can't distinguish colors." The red engines cheered. The cranes came soon after, and the man in blue was talking to the engines.

"He will never find Bachmann Edward again; Ive sent it to the one place he'll never think to look... a safety deposit box in some bank on the Mainland."

But he turned around and was terrified. "No! Not you!" It's...

Gordon!

"Well, well!" he said. "What did you do to my driver?"

"Your driver?" he gasped in shock.

"Yes." he said. "But I'm not the mastermind behind all this."

Just then, Thomas pulled in. His special was very late. But instead of Princess unikitty, a Man in red emerged.

"You will pay for this!" said the man in blue.

Suddenly, a shadow fell over them. It was...

the Man In Green!

Man In Green is only 4 feet 11 inches tall, so to intimidate others he stands on stilts. He looked at Man In Blue. "well well well... we meet again."

"Look Man In Green, I really don't have time for this; I just dealt with Man In Black, and now Man In Red just appeared."

"That's right!" Red called out, "and I'm not alone!" Just then there were seven of him!

"hey, the rule is one man per color!"

"Exactly! We are the men in red, crimson, scarlet, cardinal, brick, ruby and rose."

Thomas suddenly got angry. "Quit hijacking our story! This is supposed to be about us, the engines!"

"Oh Yea?" Said Man in Red. "Take this!" And he started punching Thomas. Then Man in Green came over and said to Thomas. "Ah, glad I found you Thomas. I have an extremely important message for you. It's going to take me 3 and a half hours to say, so I'd better get started."

"not this again." Thomas sighed, as Man In Green Began.

"For the number one blue engine of the North West Railway..."

"You know what?" burst Thomas suddenly. "I've had enough! First my story gets hijacked, then all these weird people in colors appear, and now you want to send me on another quest! Plus you locked poor Bachmann Edward in a safe deposit box!"

"Now, now... that wasn't me." stuttered the man in green, but Thomas didn't care.

"I'm going to get Bachmann Edward, and use him to get rid of all you people so I can have my story back!" he said.

Thomas chuffed away, flattening the men in cardinal, brick, and rose in the process. Before he could get too far, however...

Thomas suddenly realized something

"Wait... I don't know what bank he's in, let alone what safety deposit box! And how will I get into that bank if I find it?!"

"Relax, we will go into the bank when we find it." His driver and fireman assured thomas.

"Looks like you lost after all!" Said Man In Black, who briefly held his head up again. The man in green just looked down upon him

"Oh be quiet; you're not needed in this story anymore!" He then went back to crying. Then to Thomas' annoyance, the men in orange, indigo, brown, purple, aquamarine and lime green appeared and stood in front of him. "You'll have to go through us if you want to get to the mainland!" They said in unison.

And the man in red still kept punching thomas. "I'll get you for flattening 3 of my brothers!"

The man in green, still on his stilts, asked thomas "why do you care about Bachman Edward anyway? He's just a toy!"

Thomas pondered, then said "well, if you must know..."

Then music began playing from nowhere. "Really? A musical number?" Asked man in blue.

Thomas then began: "whenever..."

"No!" screeched a voice. Suddenly, the men in scarlet, ruby, indigo, brown, aquamarine, and lime green vanished.

"Finally, I can leave and find Bachmann Edward!" said Thomas. But little did he know that the man in blue had lied. Bachmann Edward was actually in..

One of the few parts of the railroad Thomas could not access... The Culdee Fell Railway! As thomas raced towards the vicarstown bridge for the mainland, high atop the mountain, Man In Blue just finished burying the Bachmann Edward in a box near the highest station. He then walked back towards culdee and Catherine, waiting nearby. "It's done; get me out of here!"

"Ok, hop on!" Called culdee. And they headed back to the bottom."

"Thanks for using us by the way; were the one railway everyone forgets about!" Shouted culdee. "No problem" said the man in blue. "I really do hate to do this, but it is the only way to ensure this doesn't happen again." "If you say so." culdee glanced, confused.

Thomas had reached the bridge, and was about to cross, when...

The bridge collapsed!

"Oh no!" Thomas cried. "Now I'll never rescue Bachmann Edward!"

Meanwhile, Henry was on his way back from his visit to the mainland. When he reached the bridge and found it broken, he panicked. Then he saw Thomas. Thomas explained about Bachmann Edward, and Henry agreed to go get him. Before he got too far, however...

..because the Man In Green arrived

"I know where Bachmann Edward is Thomas" he said.

"Tell me now!" Thomas said

"You'll have to catch me first!! And he started running away. Thomas gave chase. "How the heck are you outrunning me on STILTS?!?!" Thomas yelled in frustration.

"That's for me to know and you to find out!" He called. The chase continued all the way to...

Tidmouth sheds, where the man in green's stilts broke and he fell onto the roof.

"A little help?" he called.

"Tell me where Bachmann Edward is!" Demanded Thomas.

"I don't actually know!" he said. "I wanted to lure you into this pit, so I tricked you into chasing me."

Then, he slipped and landed in the pit.

"well, that was a waste of time". Said Thomas. Little did he know that while he was distracted, man in red had...

Gotten together with the man in crimson, and the men in orange and purple at knapford station. They were trying to figure out their next move.

"Right, so here's the plan; we'll round up some more of our kind, then we'll lure Thomas into a trap, and send him to the most terrible place on sodor we can think of!"

"You don't mean..."

"Yes... misty Island!! But first, let's round up some friends; we seem to be the only ones left now."

Meanwhile, man in blue had reached the docks, and was arguing with himself over if he should leave or not "Just gotta leave, and we can all move on" he said to himself, but he also had doubts But thomas still raced around the island, looking for any clues to Bachmann Edwards location. He came to rest at the bottom station of the culdee fell railway, where Alaric, Eric and Patrick were at the station. "What's the matter Thomas?" Asked Alaric; "you look tired."

So Thomas told the mountain engines everything that had happened. Culdee remembered where Bachmann Edward had been buried, and went to go get him. At last, Thomas and Bachmann Edward were reunited. But there was a problem!

"He's not responding!" sobbed Thomas.

"He's probably broken." said Culdee with pity. He's been through a lot."

"There's only one person who can fix this." said Ernest.

"Who?" asked Thomas.

Ernest opened his mouth and said...

"Kenderboo Flickerbee!!"

"Who?" Said Thomas, confused?

"According to lore, he's a legendary toy maker and craftsman, able to fix anything that's broken. The path to his lair is dangerous any filled with many quests, but those who can complete the quests and present him with the "gift of carrot" and speak the "tale of tail" shall be able to ask him to fix whatever they desire."

Thomas was a bit suspicious. "Are you sure that's a real man?" He asked ernest.

But this time, it was Culdee who spoke...

"No." said Culdee.

"What?" said Thomas.

"I'm sorry, Thomas. We don't believe your story. Men in black? Strange packages? I think you've taken on some bad coal."

"I believe him!" said Wilfred, but the others shushed him.

The mountain engine left, until only Wilfred remained. Wilfred suddenly said,

"Wait a second Culdee, you actually met and helped the Man in Blue! How can you not believe thomas?"

Culdee, suddenly recalling, came back. "Oh, right. Sorry thomas."

"I don't blame you, my story is pretty ridiculous. But I assure you, every word is true."

"Well the rest of us still don't believe you." Said Patrick.

"Even so , we still need to repair Bachmann Edward, I'm not sure how, but he is the key to dealing with all of the weird men in colors."

"I'm afraid that is not an option." Said a voice behind them. Thomas' crew turned around and were shocked. "You?!?!?!"

"That's right, I'm back.... Man In Red!" He said, and next to him were the men in black, crimson, orange and purple. "They are real!!" Alaric, Eric, Ernest and Patrick exclaimed together.

"You may have found Bachmann Edward, but you will do nothing else! We are going to exile you thomas, to somewhere that you'll never get home from."

"Oh yea, how are you going to do that?" The five men then held hands and began chanting.

"Dok bac teru flab sek Doy gorb yik furm biv mest yelm gim." They repeated over and over. Thomas found himself engulfed in a whirlwind, and to the amazement of the mountain engines, he was gone.

"That'll teach him!" Said man in crimson.

"I can believe that actually worked." Said man in orange

"Shouldn't we have taken Bachmann Edward before we teleported him?" Asked man in black

"Darn it!!" Said man in red, as they quickly retreated.

"Hey, what did I miss?" Said Shane dooiney, as he pulled into the station. The others explained. "Oh come on, why do I miss everything?" He asked.

Meanwhile thomas was horrified, "where am I? All I see is mist." In front of him were three engines.

"Hello! Welcome to... Misty island... That's right!"

"AHHHHHH!!!" Thomas screamed in terror, as he backed away and tried to find the track back to sodor. "Why, why did they send me here of all places!?" Thomas said as he backed away faster and faster.

He kept going and going, until...

He hit some buffers! He was stuck! The logging locos came up behind him.

"Come on, Thomas!" "Let's play "Warbling wheels"!" "That's right!"

"Go away!" said Thomas.

But the logging locos wouldn't go.

"I wish I was back on Sodor!" said Thomas, shutting his eyes.

Another whirlwind surrounded Thomas, and when he opened his eyes, he found himself back on Sodor, but not quite the way he expected. He was off the tracks, behind Tidmouth Sheds, his fire had gone out, but at least he still had Bachman Edward. His driver and fireman came out of the cab.

"Don't worry Thomas, we'll get the breakdown train." They walked off to get help, leaving Thomas alone. But just as they left, the men in red, crimson, orange, purple and black came back!

"how did you!?... never mind, I don't think I want to know" man in red said angrily. "Alright everybody, again!" They began to chant, and try to send Thomas back, but then...

There was a blinding flash! Bachmann Edward, who had been lying on the floor of the cab, began shooting beams of light everywhere. Man in black was blasted into the miller era, man in crimson went into orbit, and the others were stunned.

"But how?" wondered Thomas.

"Listen," croaked Bachmann Edward. "I barely had the strength to do that, but at least they can't teleport you with only three. There's only one person who can fix me, and that person is...

... A man named David Mitton."

"Who?" Asked Thomas.

"He is one of the best model makers in the buisness. He knows about my kind better than anybody; we find him, I just might be able to make it.

Thomas' crew soon came back with the breakdown train and thomas was back on the rails. Luckily he wasn't damaged during this misadventure, so after explaining the situation to the driver and fireman, they lot thomas' fire, and once there was plenty of steam, they were underway.

So thomas and his crew crossed the bridge at vicarstown to the mainland, and started the search for mr. mitton. After a few days, thomas' crew finally found something... But it wasn't what they were hoping for.

His driver spoke first "Thomas, we found mr Mitton, but I am afraid we are to late."

"Why?" Asked Thomas, confused.

"Look over there" festered the fireman, gesturing to a carved stone in the middle if a field full of them. It bore the inscription "David Mitton 1938 -2008"

"What? No!!!! Now we'll never save Bachman Edward!!" And thomas began crying uncontrollably. The fireman tried to comfort thomas, but the driver had his attention called to a man who had recently arrived. Thankfully, he wasn't one of the color-men"

"Are you thomas' driver?"

"Yes, who are you?" And the driver proceeded to hear the man out.

"I'm David Mitton's son," the man said, "I saw you over by my Father's grave and was wondering if you needed anything."

Thomas explained about Bachmann Edward.

"I'm afraid I don't quite have a knack for fixing things, but if it was buried, there is probably sand in the gears. Try taking it apart, cleaning the pieces, and putting it back together again."

The son left, and Thomas's crew set to work. Everything was going fine, until...

They felt like they were missing something. They had taken him apart and put him back together again, but he still wouldn't work. Then it finally occurred to them: "batteries!" They said together. They put fresh batteries in, then it happened. Bachman Edward was working. But then the strangest thing happened. An automated sounding voice came from Bachman Edward:

"Hello, this is Bachman Edward. If you are hearing this message, then congratulations, you have accomplished step one in the process to activate me.

Thomas was relieved "what a relief, at last he works... Wait, did he say step ONE?"

"That's right friend! Step one, out of eighteen." Thomas sighed. "Well, they can't be that hard, right?"

"Step 2 of 18... You must bring me a gift of carrot, then speak the "tale of tail" to me"

"GAAAHHH" Thomas, the driver and fireman all screamed in frustration, having heard that somewhere before. The automated voice continued; "afterwards, you shall move on to step three, which is to...

"Go to misty island and play warbling whistles with the logging locos. Step four is to..."

"There has to be a quicker way." muttered Thomas's driver.

Suddenly, they saw someone walking over. "Hello, I'm Kendarboo Flickerbee. Need anything?"

"Oh, yes!" said Thomas, who repeated the entire eighteen-step process to him.

"I'll help you, if you do one simple thing for me." said Kendarboo. "You must give me Bachmann Edward, and those tools first." So they did. "What next?"

"That's it; I told you it was just one step. Now let's see what the problem is." The driver and fireman breathed a sigh of relief.

After some looking, he was surprised. "Ah, here's the problem, it seems that...

"This piece is incorrectly positioned, and it's messed up a whole bunch of other components."

"How long will it take to fix?" asked Thomas.

"Here, right now, with the tools I have... about a week."

"A week?" exclaimed Thomas. "Can you go any faster?"

"I have a laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio. If I were there, I could do it in a couple hours."

"Well, how are we going to get to Cincinnati?" asked Thomas.

"Easy!" said Kendarboo. "I just...

Need you to get back to sodor first; I have an idea that might be crazy enough to work." Thomas and the crew agreed, and they set off to sodor.

Back on the island, they went into tidmouth sheds when no one was looking, and shut the doors.

"I do have a teleportation device, but no one must see us; the color men are still out there after all." He set the coordinates, and pressed the button. Kernderboo, thomas' driver and fireman found themselves in the master craftsman's workshop. "All right, I'll get started right away."

"Wait, where's thomas!?" Shouted the crew.

Meanwhile on sodor, thomas found himself in an awkward spot.

"Ahhhh!!!! Thomas kept screaming in terror!

He had somehow ended up in between the hills where boulder was trapped earlier! Luckily he was a bit to the side, so boulder didn't touch him; but he was not even a foot away. Thomas was scared: "help!!!"

Back at the workshop, Thomas's driver and fireman were growing impatient. A couple hours is longer than it seems.

"Want to go out for coffee?" asked the fireman.

The driver replied that he did, so the duo went out to get something to drink. Unfortunately, they soon were hopelessly lost. As they wandered through a high-class neighborhood, they saw something that made them gasp in fright. It was...

One of the color-men! Right in front of them stood none other than the man in blue! They were horrified.

"You! Why did you hide Bachmann Edward?!" Yelled the driver

""We have no clue why Bachmann Edward is important, but you had some nerve to do what you did!" Added the fireman."

Man in blue tried to calm them down "will you relax, I'm on your side!!" Thomas' crew looked confused.

"I used to be just like the others, but one day I had an epiphany, and now I'm a good man." "I had to hide Bachmann Edward because they want to use it for something terrible. I'm not sure what it is, but I couldn't let them take action, that is why I hid it." The crew were unsure, but decided to trust him.

They headed back to the master craftsman's workshop, where work was almost complete.

"Ah, perfect timing gentlemen! I was just about to put the finishing touches". And he let them see his almost finished project. The three men were amazed

Bachmann Edward was fixed! And back in his right mind, too.

"Where's Thomas?" he asked.

"We don't know." said Thomas's driver sadly.

"I'll find him for you!" said Bachmann Edward.

"No, don't!" said all four men, but it was too late. Bachmann Edward teleported away.

On Sodor, Bachmann Edward found Thomas and put him back on the rails. Suddenly, they saw the men in red, orange, and purple standing before them.

"We have you now!" said man in red.

"Do something!" said Thomas.

So Bachmann Edward...

decided that they he would try to intimidate the color men and scare them off for good.

"Give it up already, you know what I am capable of, and now there is only three of you!"

"That's what you think!" said a voice. To their horror, it was the man in green!

"that's right, I'm back! Not only did I fix my stilts, but I have more rounded up more than 300 of us to destroy you Thomas!"

Thomas was horrified, not only where there new faces, but ones he thought were gone had returned. "Oh no! Its the men in purple, orange, black, periwinkle, cobalt, light blue, baby blue, royal blue, navy blue, red, crimson, scarlet, brick, cardinal ruby, rose, magenta, pink,"

"Salmon!!!" he yelled in anger

"Oh, sorry.. Salmon, maroon, yellow, light yellow, cream, lemon, khaki, Olive, Goldenrod, green, lime green, chartreuse, lime, forest green, teal, amber apricot, brown, light brown, aquamarine, Mahogany, vermilion..."

"All right, I get it!" said Bachman Edward, who teleported Thomas' crew and the man in blue while Thomas was ranting.

"Do we have ANYONE on our side?" Said Thomas' driver?

"US!" As the men in silver, gold and white joined the man in blue. "Seriously, six men and a model train against 300?" Asked Thomas.

"Not quite" assured Bachman Edward. All of a sudden...

Sir Topham Hatt arrived. And he was cross!

"What are you thinking! Nobody messes with my railway and gets away with it!"

Sir Topham Hatt pulled out a silver whistle and blew on it. Instantly...

"His cheeks grew red as apples! They blew up as big as balloons! His face went..."

"Oh be quiet Michael Brandon!" Shouted Thomas

"Sorry" he said. The whistle was blown, and blown and blown. But nothing happened, not even a sound came from it. Everyone just stopped in their tracks and stared, confused at what had happened.

"Hmmm?" Said Hatt, then suddenly every dog in a 50 mile radius started barking uncontrollably. "Oops, sorry, that's my dog whistle. HERE'S the whistle I'm supposed to blow." It was a gold colored whistle. As soon as Hatt blew it...

There was a rumbling. The ground shook uncontrollably. And then, from the top of the hill, came all of the NWR's engines!

Thomas and his allies hid in a siding as the engines rolled uncontrollably towards the colormen.

"I can't stop!" shrieked Molly.

"Someone save us!" cried Bear.

But at the last second...

just before the engines hit the colormen, the trains stopped right in front of them... the great, all powerful force that protected the island from violence protected the colormen from being run over! Hatt slapped his face "Darn it!" The colormen though, just stood there, paralyzed in fear over what just happened.

Meanwhile, thomas' driver took out the television remote from even earlier in the story. "This has gone far enough; I've had it with these guys!" So he pressed the...

Channel change button!

Thomas, Bachmann Edward, Thomas's crew, the Fat Controller, and the men in blue, white, silver and gold found themselves at the north pole!

Back on Sodor, the man in red was cackling triumphantly. "Sodor is mine! All mine!"

Suddenly...

Man in green slapped him with one of his stilts

"No, it's mine!" This started a chain reaction, suddenly all of the color men were fighting each other over who would get rightful control of sodor. The engines looked bewildered.

"Should we do something?" Asked percy.

"No, I think they got this" said Edward.

"Well, while we are all here, there's something to do." Said James, and he stared at Charlie.

"Glim fev yora..." He began to chant, and after several seconds of that, Charlie disappeared in a whirlwind.

"James, where did he go?" Percy asked nervously

"Who cares? His jokes were getting old anyway." Gordon said. Then, a blinding flash!

Thomas and the others from earlier returned

"So that's what happens when you use the channel up and down buttons" the driver said.

"Hey, look at the color men" man in gold pointed out. They were fighting it out, and at the center of it all, man in red, trying to keep up with man in green on his stilts.

"Rest assured, when I get you off those stilts you're going down!" Said man in red

"Just try and get me!" Man in green yelled.

The fighting went on and on, for eight days and nights, until finally someone finally said...

"Why don't we vote on which color man gets to rule Sodor?" suggested the man in amber apricot.

All the color men agreed. A couple days later, man in amber apricot announced the results.

"The winner of the election is...

... A 300 way tie?!?!" As it turned out, everybody voted for themselves! Man in brown would have none of that. "Bok lurm kev yon loma" he chanted over and over, then suddenly, 12 of the color men randomly sprouted wings from their heads! They started flapping beyond their control and began flying in a random direction. "Help!!" They screamed as they flew away. Then he took to the podium. "Gentlemen, as the new ruler of sodor..." But man in cobalt would have none of it. "Grek vot dirm jek cet lo" and suddenly man in brown was blown away in a giant gust of wind "ahhhhh!!!!" Then man in cobalt, to be sure, said another chant "krod gew flib gerv subin" and 20 of the color men, their pants turned into rockets and they blasted off in random directions "enjoy your trips!" He taunted as he took the podium. "Sorry about that folks; anyway, as your new leader I promise to" "not on your life!" As man in salmon shot him with a dart; man in cobalt instantly fell asleep. "Dol fot gej yeki du" and man in Cobalt suddenly phased out of existence. Man in salmon then chanted "tol bork siv gork furn" and another 20 color men were turned into statues! Then he took to the podium "as the new, true leader of sodor I swear I shall". "As if!" Called man in lime green "lol vot bon dek gim sot" and man in salmon turned into a fish! Randomly flopping around, he finally made it to a lake. Man in lime green took no chances "cera Vera koln nik doln" and 25 color men got flatulence that was so bad, they blasted themselves straight into the air!

"Good; that's 80 down, 220 left... Maybe one more to be safe." "Liy tern tok yit kliver" and another 20 color men disappeared in a blinding flash. "With 200 left, I'm sure all the aggressive ones are gone!" He took to the podium "as the right choice for the job..." "We'll see about that!" Then man in indigo began his chant "glera noy..."

All of a sudden, the man in amber apricot chanted "Purdy noltuk Fanta loik matre solik trie!" Instantly, all the colormen (Including the men in Blue, White, Silver, and Gold) found themselves unable to move their mouths.

"Looks like you can't cast a spell on me! I am your new ruler!" Muttering to himself, he added "I knew I should have rigged the election."

Suddenly, there was a commotion. The men in Vermillion, Olive, Off-White, and Green had painted a sign. They lifted it up on Man in Green's stilts and smirked silently.

The man in amber apricot looked at the sign. "What does that sign say? Nik lufta richa Jon... NOOOO!" They had tricked him into reading a spell that made him...

...turn back time 49 seconds! He raised his hands, beyond his control, and chanted "cerk dem sife dut." Man in Green then said his chant. Man in Amber Apricot's head blew up twenty times the size of a normal head, and he floated up like a balloon. But the weight of his body kept him from going too far, so he could only watch from his place, about 40 feet in the air, at the chaos that ensued.

"This has gone far enough!!" Man in Red said.

"Hey, give us our story back! You haven't even mentioned us for three posts!" The North Western Railway engines yelled.

"Oh be quiet and let us resolve this plot point!" The color men yelled back. "Gladly" and the men in Red, crimson, scarlet, brick, cardinal, ruby and rose all chanted. of the 200 color men, 180 suddenly found their clothes inflating until they looked like giant balls! They rolled away, leaving only a few men left.

On the side of the engines, there were the Men in blue, white, silver and gold. For the 20 remaining men, there was the men in red, crimson, scarlet, brick, cardinal, ruby, rose, green, off-white, Olive, Vermilion, black, yellow, orange, lavender, Navy Blue, Royal Blue, teal, turquoise and purple.

"Hey, I'm still in this too!" The man in amber apricot yelled, still floating in the same spot as before.

The others stared... "The next gust of wind should take care of him" they agreed.

"So... what now?" Asked man in brick. The seven shades of red found themselves surrounded by the other 13. "Get them!!" Shouted man in Navy Blue. Five days of fighting ensued, until...

Belle, of all engines, fed up by the commotion, shot the fighters with a jet of water. Amazingly, all the colormen that were sprayed dissolved!

"Get the others, Belle!" cheered the engines.

The only remaining colormen were the men in blue, white, silver, gold, amber apricot (still floating) royal blue, red, black, off-white, green, and salmon. But as Belle prepared her cannons, the man in off-white unscrewed a piece of the pneumatics that made the cannons work, and they fell uselessly.

The men in royal blue, off-white, black, and green turned back to the men in red and salmon. The six remaining evil colormen (not counting man in amber apricot) fought for another five days until...

Man in off-white suddenly said "Stop! Wait a second! man in salmon was turned into a fish! Who are you?" "I'm supposed to be man in crimson, but that water blast washed away some of the color!" (one quick clothing change later) "Ah. Much better" As man in crimson and red faced off against Royal Blue, Off-white, black and green, Royal Blue and green suddenly said suddenly said "You know what, forget this, we've wasted enough time." They walked over to the engines; somehow Man in green's stilts still intact. "We're on your side now." As the engines cheered, the remaining four began fighting again.

"I could still use some help!" yelled man in Amber Apricot. But was ignored.

Fighting went on for another fifteen days, until...

"Hold it!" said Edward. "This railway has been out of service for twenty-five days! What happened to Sodor's economy?"

"You are right!" said Sir Topham Hatt. "Back to work! Oh, I'm starving! I haven't eaten for twenty-five days!"

"But Sir! Where are our crews?" asked Duck.

In fact, the only engine crew that was there was Thomas's!

Fortunately, the crews were just taking their lunch breaks. They soon showed up and got their engines underway. Sir Topham stayed to keep an eye on the engines and the fighters. But Man In Green and Man In Royal Blue disappeared...

Bachmann Edward was put in Edward's cab, and the engines left, leaving Men in Red and Salmon still fighting Men in Off-white and black, and man in Amber Apricot bobbing in the breeze....