Author's notes: Ok! We have finally found Duke and he is back with his grandsons and 'brother' I guess. I consider Freddie to be Duke's 'bother' because I can see the 2 getting along really well, and I also see Freddie as sort of an uncle to Sir Handel/Falcon and Peter Sam/Stuart, so that's where that comes from. Anyway, here we go.

Sleeping Beauty

Narrator: Duke's story soon spread quickly. The little engines, ponies, drivers and Princess Luna told Mr Hugh, Mr Hugh told the thin controller, the thin controller told the owner, the owner told princess Celestia, Princess Celestia told the Fat controller, the fat controller told his grace Richard Robert, his grace told Princess Cadence, Princess Cadence told the small controller, the small controller told thin clergymen, and the thin clergyman told the fat one. And then, 5 months later, the mane 6 ponies, the 6 foals, the main 6 drivers, the 3 princess alicorns his grace, the 3 railway controllers, and the owner of the Skarloey Railway along with other people whom had heard about Duke the lost engine all met up at Wellsworth Library.

Thin Clergymen: Greetings maladies and Sirs. As you all know, we are all hear because we all want to help find Duke and help him to make him a useful and happy again. But we don't have enough information to go round on, even with the information that Sir Handel and Peter Sam have given us.

Narrator: So everyone started searching. They searched through every category from A to Z but they couldn't find anything pertaining to they're mission. Even Twilight couldn't find it. Books lay everywhere. The thin clergymen and the fat clergymen tried hard too, but it was no use. For several hours everypony and human were all searching hard, drinking coffee to keep themselves stimulated, well everyone except Pinkie Pie. Whom just drank cocoa. They didn't even notice two men with white russel terrier asking talking to a librarian.

Twilight : 4 Hours and not even a single word of mid sodor railway.

Thin Clergymen: (Sips his coffee) Well don't weaken. Theres bound to a book about the MSR somewhere.

Rainbow Dash: Yeah, but where Mr. Awdry? We've searched nearly every shelf down here. This uh… coffee is really starting to make my tongue go south for the winter.

Applejack: Yeah. I'm used drinkin' coffee ma self, but this is way too much.

Miss Ravens: Ugh! I know, I know, but we need to keep our strength up. Duke needs our help and Sir Handel, Peter Sam and Freddie are really missing him more then ever. Just to ignore the bitter taste. You can even add cream and sugar if you don't like the taste.

Twilight Sparkle: Oh, where is that book and if only we had map too.

?: I think we can help you out.

Narrator: Humans and ponies alike jumped, then turned and saw two men and a white russel terrier.

Twilight Sparkle: Oh hullo, there… Mr… um…

Tintin: allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tintin

Captain Haddock: And I am Captain Archibald Haddock. Pleasure to meet you mates.

?: Bark Bark!

Tintin: Oh, and this Snowy, my dog.

Mr. Holden: (Excited and surprised) You're the famous Tintin….. the Ace reporter and mystery solver? I must have drank too much coffee.

Tintin: Heheheh…. don't worry. Your coffee isn't playing tricks on you.

Mr. Holden: Oh my goodness! You really are the famous Tintin. Oh my goodness. I am absolutely honoured to meet you.

Narrator: Twilight Sparkle was excited too.

Twilight Sparkle: You're a mystery solver. Oh my goodness! It is an absolute honour to meet you mr. Tintin.

Narrator: And after shaking everyones hand and hoof, he told them what brought him and his friends to Sodor.

Tintin: Well, it's pleasure to meet you all. I must say, I guess the rumours about talking ponies on this island are true. You ponies are actually very famous world wide. Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity.

Rarity: You know my name?! (Faint's dramatically)

Tintin: We all know about you all. Anyway, I heard you and friends are looking for a lost engine called Duke from the Mid Sodor Railway.

Captain Haddock: Wait a minute! How can an engine be a Duke?

Narrator: Mr Holden chuckled.

Mr. Holden: (Chuckles) Actually, he's not really a Duke, his name was Duke. Named after the Duke of Sodor,

Captain Haddock: Well blubbering barnacles! That makes more sense.

Tintin: Well anyway, I've just had word with the librarian and she suggests that we look in that section (Points to the section) called 'Island of Sodor: It's People History And Railways'. My best guess is that we look there.

Thin Clergymen: Great idea!

Fat Clergymen: Of course. That would be the section we should looked for.

Twilight Sparkle: Oh thank you so much for coming to help us.

Miss Ravens: Come on everyone. Lets go and find that book and those maps.

Narrator: And everyone got up and followed Tintin and his friends. Everyone searched and searched. Books and maps lay everywhere, till at last, Pinkie Pie found the book they needed.

Pinkie Pie: Found it! "The Mid Sodor Railway: A Reference Guide. From Grand Opening To Sudden Closure".

Twilight Sparkle: What?! How did you find it?

Pinkie Pie: (Bouncy merrily to coffee table) It was under 'M'!

Narrator: Twilight, Pipsqueak, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Mr. Holden, Mr. Hawkins and Miss Ravens began reading whilst the 2 clergymen and Tintin began reading the maps with the rest of the ponies whilst alicorns princess and the three railway controllers looked at some of the notes in Miss Ravens and Mr Holden's dairies to see if they could anything, (Which Mr Holden and Miss Ravens had given them permission to look at). Finally, the rest of the ponies and drivers brought in the system map to pin point on a larger scale where the location of Duke was. At last, they finally found what they were looking for and showed the information to the Princess Alicorns, and the railway controllers, the SKR owner, and the Duke of Sodor.

Small Controller: According to our research and our maps, our railway the Arlesdale Miniature Railway, is laid on the bed of the old Mid Sodor Railway, but swings round to the end of the road south of that village.

Princess Cadence: However, the old line kept straight on going north of the village and then into the mountains of Gob-Y-Deighan .

Twilight Sparkle: And look carefully, the map also shows the works of the old station at Alresdale.

Tintin: And according to our information, that was where Duke was sheeted up when the line closed in 1947. So if Duke is anywhere, he's there.

Miss Ravens: Jackpot!

Mr. Holden: alright we've got ourselves a possible location where he is.

His Grace: Right then, we'll start the search fresh tomorrow. We'll need a lot of rest to search for him. Goodnight all.

Narrator: They all went, tired but triumphantly home. The next morning, the search party lead by the Thin and Fat Clergymen went over to the Arlesdale Miniature Railway to tell the engines about the search.

Small engines Twist/Snips/Snails: Oh hullo Mr. Holden, Miss Ravens and Mr. Awdry sir. Are you three going to be writing another book?

Thin Controller: Yes, but afraid not about you.

Narrator: The 3 writers smiled at they're down cast faces.

Mr. Holden: Cheer up. It's about a nice old engine that was lost,

Miss Ravens: But if your good, the illustrator might put you in book.

Small engines/Twist/Snips/Snails: Oh, thank you sirs and ma'm.

Narrator: So the three writers told them all about Duke, Falcon (Sir Handel) and Stuart (Peter Sam).

Thin Clergymen: So you see, poor old Duke was left alone…

Narrator: Three small engines and foals sighed sympathetically.

Miss Ravens: So we want to find him and mend him and make him happy again.

Thin Clergymen: Your controller and Princess Cadence want to help in the search, but they can't if your naughty.

Narrator: The three small engines and the ponies promised to be as good as gold.

Mike: Oh! So that must have been the voice of Alresdale.

Rex: I would have never guessed it was a lost engine calling for help.

Bert: Neither. Well, now that we know, we promise to help in anyway we can.

Narrator: So everyone then set off to the old station at Alresdale near the mountains. The rescuers spend days and days at the old station searching all around. They came up every morning on Bert's train. Bert and Twist always wished them 'good luck', but every evening they came home with scratches, bruises, and torn clothes. The days went by and the search grew hard. But they wouldn't give up though.

(Search montage 1)

Twilight : Lets try that way!

(Search montage 2)

Narrator: But there was still no sign of Duke.

All: Duke's there somewhere.

Narrator: The ponies and humans spend days and days scrambling over hills and struggling over ditches while the pegasus ponies and alicorns hovered over them.

(Search montage 3)

Twilight Sparkle: I know he's gotta be here somewhere.

Narrator: At last, the search finally ended. The Fat Clergymen found him in the end. Uh… (Coughs) quite by accident though..

Pinkie Pie: Um… Mr. Boston. You might wanna watch out where you ….

Fat clergymen: (Falls through hole) Wwwhhhhhhooooooaaaaaaa!oooooooffffff

Pinkie Pie: …Step.

Narrator: Scrambling over a hillock he troded on something that wasn't there, crashed through a hole, and landed legs astride on Duke's saddle tank.

Duke: (Waking up) WHAT THE DEVIL?!

Narrator: Everyone and everypony ran over quickly to see if he was alright.

Thin Clergymen: I say Teddy! Are you alright?

Fat Clergymen: AHA! We've found him! Our sleeping beauty himself!

Narrator: And everyone peeped through the hole above.

Duke: Excuse me? But are you a vandal?! My driver and fireman, or firewoman, Mr. Willam James Holden and Miss Rachel Marie Ravens once told me that vandals break in and smash things.

Narrator: The Fat Clergymen ruefully felt his bruises.

Fat clergymen: Oh bless you no my dear engine. I'm actually quite respectable. I dropped in because I couldn't find the shed door.

Duke: Oh! Well, that's understandable.

Narrator: The fat clergyman then he told them about Falcon, Stuart and Freddie.

Fat Clergymen: And that's what basically what happened to them, and they along with two old friends of yours told us all about you. Oh boy will they be pleased to see you.

Narrator: Duke smiled and tear of joy trickled from his eye.

Duke: aww… So they did remember me. Um… whom were the other two friends?

Narrator: Then he saw a ladder and thin clergymen small controller, and then a girl and boy came down.

Mr. Holden/Miss Ravens: Hullo Duke old friend. (Tear of joy) we've missed you so much.

Duke: (Tear of joy) Oh Miss Ravens, Mr. Holden, it's you. And you look just the same as you as you did when used to work with me. Believe me. I missed you two so much too, my faithful good friends.

Narrator: And the whole rescue team had tears of joy in there eyes as to see the three old friends reunited. Miss Ravens then glanced at Mr Holden as they were unsure of telling Duke about their eternal youth and immortality yet. Duke then changed the subject.

Duke: Oh by the way, does his grace know about me?

Fat Clergymen: He certainly does Duke, and he's coming to see you.

Duke: (Happily) Me?! Oh how fantastic. How kind of him. But yet mind you, but I'm all filthy and full of cobwebs. Would you please clean me up?

Mr. Holden/ Miss Ravens: (Happier than ever before) It would be our honour Duke.

Narrator: They all set to work and by the time the thin controller had fetched his grace, Duke was the cleanest engine in the shed. Early next morning, Mike and Snips brought workmen and some tools. They enlarged the fat clergymen's hole, lifted Duke out via crane and put him on a lowloader to be taken away by road.

Duke: I'd be ashamed to be transported by road. It's… undignified.

His Grace: I'm sorry Duke, but the small railway is not the right gauge for you. It has no suitable trucks either.

Narrator: Duke gave in then. But by the time they reached Alresburgh, some many people and ponies greeted him that he felt better.

Duke: (Tear in his eye of happiness) So they still remember me. I always knew there was still hope.

Narrator: Donald was waiting with a flat truck and everyone cheered as Duke was lifted onto it and still more when he started along the big railway on the final stages of his journey to his new home on the Skarloey railway. Peter Sam and Sir Handel along with Fearless Freddie were on early turn with Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Feather Weight. They peeped out of the shed and were delighted at the sight they saw.

Sir Handel/Peter Sam/Freddie: (Whisper) He's there. Shssh shsssh shssh.

Narrator: Duke opened his eyes.

Duke: (Grumbling) You woke me. In my young days, engines were.

Peter Sam and Sir Handel: Seen and not heard, remember?

Freddie: I do, and I know I'll never forget those words.

Duke: Fredrick! My dear old friend.

Peter Sam: See, you remember old fearless Freddie

Duke: Yes indeed I do, and I also remember 2 idle good for nothings called Falcon and Stuart. (Gives the 2 engines a playful wink)

Sir Handel: Good for you Granpuff.

Peter Sam: We're glad you've come back.

Duke: My word, look at you 2. You've changed quite a lot.

Peter Sam: Indeed we have.

Sir Handel: Yeah. We have new names now too.

Duke: Ah yes, the fat clergyman told me about that Sir Handel and Peter Sam. Heh, looks like I'll have to get used to the change.

Sir Handel/Peter Sam: Indeed. Oy! We can keep you in order now.

Duke: Keep me in order!? Impertinences, be off with you

Narrator: And the pair puffed away, chuckling and well content.

Duke: Heheheh. Impudent scallywags

Freddie: Heheheh. We were like that with our elders

Duke: Heheheheh we sure old friend (yawn) we sure were.

Narrator: But Duke's old eyes twinkled and for the first time in 22 years, he smiled happily as he dozed in the warmth of the Sudrian sun.

Wow! Who would have thought that we have gotten so far so quickly? Next is the final book written by the Rev Awrdy, "Tramway Engines".