Author's notes: Well, I really like this one. It touches upon some good comedy and some important lessons about not taking jokes seriously. Not too much to say here though. Let's go.

Dear Rachel, Mike, James, Mitch and Dustin

Mike, Twilight Sparkle, James and Pinkie Pie had been having troubles with Thomas and Percy. The two engines had had a fallout with each other and it was driving me, James, Mike, Applejack, Twilight, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Dustin crazy. We were hoping Toby and Flora would help stop the argument with their wisdom, but they didn't and neither did Princess Celestia nor the Fat Controller, no matter how hard they tried. We were all confused but we somehow knew that the two engines would come to their senses and become friends again. And indeed they did. These stories will tell you all about our escapades on the branchline.

Your best friend forever,

William James Holden

Thomas Percy and the Coal

Narrator: It was a beautiful morning on the Island of Sodor. Thomas the tank engine's blue paint sparkled in the sun as he puffed happily along his branchline with his two coaches Annie and Clarabel. Thomas, Twilight Sparkle, Mr. Hawkins, Annie and Clarabel were having a very good day as they all sang happily together.

Thomas: (Singing) There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,

There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,

The sun is as higher than an elephant's eye,

All: (Singing ) And it looks like its climbin' clear up to the sky.

Annie: (Singing) Oh what a beautiful morning,

Oh what a beautiful day,

Clarabel: (Singing) I've got a wonderful feeling,

Everything's going my way.

All: (Singing) Oh what a beautiful morning,

Oh what a beautiful day,

We've got a wonderful feeling,

Everything's going our way.

Mr. Hawkins : (Singing) All the cattle are standing like statues,

All the cattle are standing like statues,

They don't turn their heads as they see us ride by.

All: (Singing) But a little brown maverick is winking her eye.

Oh what a beautiful morning,

Oh what a beautiful day,

We've got a wonderful feeling,

Everything's going our way.

Twilight Sparkle: (Singing) All the sounds of the earth are like music,

All the sounds of the earth are like music,

The breeze is so busy it don't miss a tree,

And an old Weeping Willow is laughing at me.

All: (Singing) Oh what a beautiful morning,

Oh what a beautiful day,

We've got a wonderful feeling,

Everything's going our way.

Narrator: Thomas had made very good time when had reach Ffarquhar Station. Percy, Toby and Flora along with Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Holden and Mr Hoskins were already there. Thomas was feeling very pleased with himself as he went to get serviced for his next run at the sheds.

Percy: Hullo Mr. Hawkins, Twilight Sparkle, Thomas, Annie and Clarabel! You all look splendid and cheerful.

Applejack: That's right. We all could hear you all singin' all the way down the valley. Very nice song.

Flora: Oh yes. It did make me smile as you came up.

Fluttershy: It sounded like the happy birds in the springtime.

Henrietta: Indeed it does Fluttershy.

Fiona: Oh yes. That was really good.

Elsie: Agreed.

Thomas: Yes indeed. Thank you.

Twilight Sparkle: Oh why thank you Percy, Applejack, Flora, Fluttershy, Henrietta, Fiona and Elsie.

Pinkie Pie: Oh, and your paint is really sparkly today.

Thomas: Oh why thank you Pinkie Pie. I suppose it's because blew is the only proper colour for an engine.

Toby: Oh I don't know. I actually like my brown paint. It reminds me of my days on the Great Eastern railway.

Flora: Same here Toby.

Mr. Holden: Yeah. And the blue trim on your side plates adds to the nostalgia Toby.

Mr Hoskins: As does the blue, red and black on yours Flora.

Applejack: Yeah, and besides, it makes the colours remind me of Sweet Apple Acres back home.

Fluttershy: And the colours remind me of my cottage too.

Percy: And I've always been green. I wouldn't want to be any other colour either.

Mr. Roberts: Yeah, and I like it too.

Pinkie Pie: Yeah, because your colours make you what you are.

Mr. Hawkins: That's not entirely true, but it does give you guys a unique look.

Thomas: (Uptight) Well… Well anyway… Blue is the only colour for… for a… a really useful engine. Everyone and everypony knows that.

Narrator: Percy, drivers and the ponies said no more, they just grinned at Toby and Flora, and winked, whom winked back. They knew all too well that sometimes Thomas could be a little too cheeky for his own good. Each day, Percy takes a truck full of coal for the coal merchants at Ffarquhar and for the coal supply for himself, Thomas, Toby and Flora. The next morning, Thomas was resting at Ffarquhar with Mr. Hawkins and Twilight Sparkle, who were on their breakfast break, courtesy of Betty Wilson Jr.

Mr. Hawkins: (Eating egg sandwich) Oh my goodness. I tell you Betty senior definitely knows how to teach her kids how to cook.

Twilight Sparkle: (Eating egg and daisy sandwich) Oh yes. I second that motion.

Thomas: Heh, sometimes I wish I wasn't an engine. That way, I really can go into a stationmasters house and have breakfast… with permission of course.

Mr Hawkins: I don't think you'll like sandwiches Thomas.

Twilight Sparkle: Me neither. Hehehehe.

Narrator: Just then, Percy arrived with his trucks. He first shunted his empty trucks to the pickup siding for Toby and Flora to take to quarry and soon began to push the trucks into a siding beside Thomas.

Thomas: Be careful with those trucks in this siding Percy. These buffers aren't very safe, they….

Narrator: But Pinkie interrupted.

Pinkie Pie: (Ears flopping) My ears are flopping! My ears are flopping!

Thomas: What on earth does that mean?

Pinkie Pie: I'll start a bath for you, Twilight and Mr. Hawkins. And, I'll get the cleaning supplies for you Thomas.

Thomas: What ever fo…

Pinkie Pie: (Twitching tail) Hmm. Twitcha, twitcha, twitcha, twitch.

Thomas: And what does that mean?

Pinkie Pie: That means something is going to fall.

Thomas: What could possibly fall around here…

Narrator: But he got no further. As one of the coal trucks passed him, the catch on its door burst open with a rumble and crash an avalanche of coal piled up around Thomas' wheels as thick cloud of coal dust arose all around him, Twilight and Mr. Hawkins .

Thomas/Mr. Hawkins/Twilight: ACHOO! HELP! HELP ( COUGH) ( COUGH) I'M CHOKING! GET ME OUT!

Narrator: Percy, Pinkie Pie and Mr Roberts looked worried. But when dust settled, they took one look at Thomas and began to laugh. Thomas's smart blue paint was black with coal dust from smoke box to bunker, Twilight Sparkle was covered in coal dust from horn to hoof and Mr Hawkins was covered in coal dust from head to toe.

Percy: Ha ha ha! Oh my goodness! You don't look really useful now Thomas. You should see yourself. You, Mr Hawkins and Twilight Sparkle look really disgraceful.

Twilight Sparkle: Uh… but I… What?!

Pinkie Pie: Now Twilight… ( trying to hide giggle ) Percy was only kidding.

Mr Roberts: Hehehehehe! I have to admit, it's a little funny.

Mr Hawkins: (Facepalms self) Doh!

Narrator: It was good thing that Twilight Sparkle and Mr Hawkins could take a joke from Percy, but unfortunately Thomas didn't work the same way.

Thomas: (Furious) I AM NOT DISGRACEFUL! You did that on purpose Percy! Now stop your stupid giggling and GET ME OUT!

Narrator: But it was some time before Percy could help. The coal bunker stood behind the buffers which Thomas had said were unsafe. It was only until the coal was shovelled into the bunker that Thomas could be moved. Poor Thomas was filthy.

Cleaner: You're not fit to be seen.

Mr. Hawkins: Well, let's get to work.

Twilight Sparkle: Right then.

Narrator: But even with Twilight's unicorn magic, It took so long to clean Thomas that he wasn't ready in time for his next train and Toby had to take Annie and Clarabel with Henrietta, while Flora took the trucks down from the coaling plant.

Annie/Clarabel: Poor Thomas.

Narrator: The poor coaches were most upset. Soon the cleaners, Mr. Hawkins and Twilight Sparkle were tired and dirty when they had finished. Thomas was grumpy in the sheds that night. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Holden, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Mr Hoskins and Fluttershy were worried. Toby and Flora thought it a great joke, but Percy was cross and annoyed with Thomas for thinking he had made his paint black on purpose.

Percy: (Cross) Well who would have thought it! Fancy, a really useful blue engine like Thomas becoming disgrace to the Fat Controllers railway and to Princess Celestia.

Thomas: OOOHH! Just you wait Percy! One of these days, you're gonna laugh right on the other end of your smoke box.

Narrator: Percy just chuckled rudely.

Percy: Pooh! I wouldn't have missed all that fun for anything!

Narrator: The feud worsened as time went on and Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Holden, Mr Hoskins, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Fluttershy were worried. Thomas still thought that Percy had coal dusted him deliberately and Percy was cross at Thomas for thinking so. 2 days later, Thomas was at the platform when Percy brought his trucks from the junction. The trucks were heavy and Percy felt tired.

Percy: Whew. What a heavy train that was. I feel so worn out.

Mr. Roberts: We'll give you a drink after we shunt the trucks then you'll feel better.

Narrator: So Percy arranged them and ran onto a siding for a drink before Thomas' train left. The water column stood on the siding with the faulty buffers. The props underneath them were old and need mending. They had just entered the sidings when…

(Pinkie shudders violently)

Pinkie Pie: Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu hu-bu-bu-bu!

Mr. Roberts: Great marmalade! What was that?! And what does it mean?

Pinkie Pie: It's a Pinkie sense. Dunno, but whatever that shudder's about, it's a doozy. Something you never expect to happen is gonna happen! Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu hu-bu-bu-bu!

Narrator: And she was right. As Percy tried to stop, he suddenly heard a metal sheering cracking sound and found to his horror that his brakes had failed and that he could stop and the buffers couldn't stop him either.

Pinkie Pie: Oh, no no no no no. Not good, not good, not good!

Percy: Oooohhhhhhhhh! HELP!

Mr Roberts: DAAAAAHHHHH!

Narrator: The buffers broke and Percy ran into the coal bunker with a thud! Coal dust flew everywhere and when the dust had settled Percy had disappeared beneath a thick black cloak. Thomas saw everything. As the crash died away, he could see Percy wheel and bunker deep in coal. Soon the signal arm dropped and Thomas moved off, laughing as he went.

Thomas: Heheheheh. Now Percy's learned his lesson too.

Mr Hawkins/Twilight Sparkle: Your pushing it Thomas!

Narrator: Percy was furious and he spend the rest of the day wondering how to pay Thomas out.

Look out for 'The Runaway' next guys. See you there.