Princess Twilight Sparkle have returned back form the human world after apologize to Sunset and her friends for not answering her calls from her book and after the shock to see the human world's Twilight. Her friends were waiting at the portal for her return.

"So how was the human world Twilight?" ask Applejack as she is coming out of the portal.

" Let's just say it was a shocking visited." answered Twilight. Then she notice a glow coming of a book on the table and she walk up to it. "I wonder why this book glowing?" she said as she open it slowly.

Then suddenly the book beamed a light as she open it wide and began to pull Twilight, her friends, and every pony in Equestria including Princess Celestia and Luna into the book. As Twilight open her eyes and get up while rubbing her head and found out she was a human again then she look around and ask. "Wh--where are we?"

"Where are we Princess Celestia?" ask Twilight to Princess Celestia.

"I don't know Twilight, but for some reason I feel I have been here before." answered Princess Celestia. "Princess Celestia !?" said a voice Twilight and Celestia turned their heads and see a orange girl with black jacket and a red and yellow hair.

"Sunset Shimmer." said Twilight as run to her friends and giving her a hug. "Sunset Shimmer!, What you are doing here?" ask Princess Celestia.

"Well I got suck into some sort of a portal and found myself here then I saw you and Twilight." answered Sunset Shimmer.

Then suddenly they herded a whistle that made Twilight feel that she have herded it before. Then a blue E2 Class tank engine with two orange coaches behind it came of the tracks and stop right next to the girls. Then a blue teenage boy with brown hair, a blue shirt with red stripes, and a red pants with a number one on it's sides, came out form the tank engine's cab.

"Twilight?" said the boy. "Is that you!?"

"Thomas!?" said Twilight as she smiled to see him and gave him a hug. "Thomas!!!, oh it is so good to you again."

"It's good see you too Twilight." said Thomas then he once Sunset Shimmer. "How is your friend here?"

"My name Sunset Shimmer" she said. "Um what is your name and how did you know twilight?" she ask kindly.

"My name Thomas, Thomas Billinton and I have met twilight before long time ago but I'll tell you another time."  answered Thomas.

"Where are you heading Thomas?" ask Princess Celestia. "Well I was just heading toward to the next station to take on water" answered Thomas "Would you like a ride to the next station?"

"That is very kind of you, yes we would like a ride to the station." answered Princess Celestia. So the girls went inside the two coaches as Twilight and Sunset went in the cab with Thomas as they set off to the next station.

When they have arrived the girls were eating at a café in the station while Thomas was filling up his engine with water he feel very happy. Suddenly there a woosh and a weesh, and a clickety clack as a streak of silver roared by on the track. "FIZLING FIREBOXES!" said Thomas in shock. "What was that!?"

All over Sodor Thomas' friends were shock and blasted on their tracks. First it flash by Henry "Bubbling boilers!!" he said. And rush by Percy "Bust my engine's Buffers!!" then it zip pass James. "Watch the paintwork!" then it zoomed by Emily who jump and the fright cars bump in on each other. "Trembling Tracks!, Who was that!" then it fly by pass Toby pulling Henrietta. "Gosh!" he cried as he and Henrietta got separated. Then it steamed pass Edward "Slow down speedy!" and finally slip pass Gordon pulling the express. "Will waiter!" he said as he look up ahead to see something silver on the track. Later Thomas, his friends, and the girls were that Knapford they were very puzzled.

"He was big." said James "He was silver." said Gordon "He was very, very fast." said Henry nervously.

"That must mean it's." said Thomas just as a silver streamline engine and a silver man driving the engine. "SPENCER!!" said everybody in disappiontment.

"Hello Sodor!" said Spencer. "What do you know I'm there for the summer."

"Why?" ask Thomas

"I have a very important job to do." answered Spencer. "The Duke and Duchess of Boxford are having a new summer house built, it's as to be finish in time for the Duke and Duchess' holiday, I'm very busy no time to cheat" and Spencer steam smugly away.

"Who was that, Thomas?" asked Twilight.

"That was Spencer" answered Thomas. "He drives the fastest engine in the world, he is also the Duke and Duchess private engineer, but he thinks that nobody is more imported then him, we only have him for one day and it was bad."

"But now for the whole summer." said James "is trouble." said Gordon.

That afternoon Thomas, Twilight, Sunset, Percy, and Pinkie Pie huffing and puffing up Gordon's hill. Then they hear Spencer wooshing  and weeshing behind them. "A little more puff and you might make it to the by tea time" he said as move away up the hill. "Bossy showoff!" said Percy crossly.

Next Spencer got up to Rainbow Dash and Gordon with the express. "Out of him way slow poke!" he said whistling at him. "Ag the indignity" said Gordon.

Applejack was with toby who was moving slowly to a junction. Spencer steam along side hooting and tooting. "It looks like that you and your engine are too old to be really useful now toby!" He said "YEAH, don't so mean!" shouted Applejack just then both of the signals turn to green Spencer move ahead just as the for turn to red. Toby and Applejack gasp they were upset they miss their green light.

Edward, James, and Rarity were chuffing happy along. Spencer move in. "Dear oh dear it takes two old engines to one fright car, does it?" he said. "I'm pulling five." and he thunder away. James was so cross he couldn't talk at all.

That night at the hotel next to the engine shed the engineers and the girls can only about Spenser.

"He told Toby that he was too old" said Applejack.

"He's taking over my express line" said Gordon.

"His engine will never have a shining coat like my." said James.

"he'll never have manners" said Edward.

"Spencer's scary" said Fluttershy in fear.

The next Thomas was with Twilight and Sunset at Brendam Docks. He have heavy flatbed of machinery to take. Spencer was there he was being couple up to five flatbeds of building materials "Dear oh dear Thomas." he said "It's just has well the Duke and Duchess don't have a tiny toy tank engine like yours, the summer house will never be finish."

"What do you mean?" ask Thomas

"I mean, Thomas." said Spencer "You just can't pull heavy loads."

Thomas was upset and so were a others these time Spencer have gone to far. "Yes I can, I can just as heavy loads as you." he said. "Yes he can even heavier!" said Twilight. "Thomas' engine is not a toy." said Gordon. "He a really useful engineer!" said Edward. "And he's very strong!" said James.

The Sodor engineers didn't scared Spencer. an idea fly over into his head. "Very well Thomas." he said "Meet tomorrow at dawn at the shunting yards, we will have a contest of strength, we will each pull heavy load and we can see who pull it for longer and for thread." then Spencer steam away.

Thomas was worry. "Bust my engine's buffers I can't do these." he said "Spencer will win the contest of strength."

The other saw that their friend was worry "Your the number one engineer on Sodor." said Percy as he move up. "And you'll show Spencer that Sodor engines are more special than his. I know at because, your best friend." "He's right Thomas we all believed in you." said Twilight

Thomas looks at Twilight and his best friend Percy. They both believed in him. "I will meet Spencer at dawn" he said "And I will win!" Next Chapter: The Race & Great Discovery Estimated time remaining: 8 Minutes