//------------------------------// // This Strange New World and a Blue Tank Engine guides them to Sodor. // Story: My Little Pony + Thomas & Friends: Equestria Sodor Engines // by ShaggyBoi23 //------------------------------// Her eyes open to see train tracks with a ladybug crawling across them. Twilight was moaning in pain as we see this. We then see Spike in another form, which is not similar to a dragon, but zoomed-in due to her POV. "Uh, Twilight?", Spike "Spike?", Twilight says as she sees Spike in another form. "Are you a..." We zoom out to his alternate form as he was a Class A6 "Boxcab" diesel-electric switcher. "...Movable Metal Box?" Spike then looks at his engine self and tries to move. Luckily, he started to move forwards and backward to get used to this strange body, but he looked at Twilight and know what she actually looked like. "I think so, but...you might need to look at yourself right near that mirror...", Spike hesitates, confused about what she has become. We then see her hoofs, but her hoofs turned to train buffers. And then... she looks at the mirror to know what she looked like. Exit Twilight's POV "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!", Twilight screams, as the camera pans out to see Spike as a diesel boxcab and Twilight, in particular, as a Tank Engine (TVR O2 class 0-6-2). She tries to calm down, so as not to scream so much. Twilight, with curiosity, tried her best to gain control of her Tank Engine form as she tries to figure out how to move in this heavy train form. She overreacts, then moves forward, bumping in front of Spike by accident, and finally pulls her breaks... "Why does the rest of me look like... A TRAIN?!" Twilight screamed, about to overreact about her train form again. "Well... we were on a train to arrive at the Crystal Empire. Your muzzle's very small.", Spike examines. "My muzzle?!" Twilight couldn't touch her muzzle, since she doesn't have arms. About to scream again, Spike used his horn to stop her screaming. "Are you gonna scream again?", Spike fears. Twilight nods no and Spike looks at her. They all look around and see a Station with Steam Engines from their world, moving and chugging their way with trucks. "Where are we?", Spike gulped. "I don't know... This must serve as a gateway back to Equestria.", expected Twilight. She shakes her head, reminding her of her quest of getting the crown back. "We need to find my crown as soon as possible and get back there. I suggest we start searching around first." Turning away from the magic buffers, they are astonished to see another view of a Big Station far ahead. "I suppose we start searching the castle first!", imagined Twilight. As Spike led Twilight out of the forest., she starts to move a little fast, even though she's an engine. Twilight then heard a while and a voice coming by. An bright blue "E2" Tank Engine was moving by with his two orange coaches when he noticed a purple steam engine and Boxcab Diesel he saw as they were out of the forest. "Oh, Hello there! I'm Thomas!" The Blue Tank Engine said, revealing his name to be Thomas. "Are you two new around here? I love meeting new engines around Sodor!" "Hi, there... uh... Thomas!" Spike shuddered, which made Thomas notice that these two have never been to this island before. "Woah! I don't think I've ever seen anyone like you two before. Do you two live really far away?" Thomas asked curiously, since he's met new engines before, but has never seen Twilight and Spike before. "Uh... of course Thomas..." Twilight said, nervously, but came up with an idea of where they came from to not reveal their secret. "My name is Twlight Sparkle... and this is Spike, the weird moving metal box thing...We came from a faraway railway called Steamquestria!" "Steamquestria?" Thomas questioned. "I never heard a railway like that before... and I believe Spike is a Diesel Boxcab, but what brings you two here in Sodor?" "Sodor?" Twilight and Spike questioned. "It's an island we live around here, where each engine does their jobs and branch lines around the island," Thomas explained. "Would you two be to explore around Sodor with me to know what it's like to be on the island?" "Oh, Sure thing, Thomas!" Spike said, now that he didn't studdered, "Come on, guys. I do not want to be like this for longer than I have to." Twilight grumbled as she was getting a little impatient. "Well, look on the bright side. You don't have those pesky wings to worry about anymore.", Spike encouraged. Twilight gave Spike an angry look, but then looked at Thomas as he was confused about what Spike said. "I mean... he was referring to the birds from the sky...", Twilight clarified but realized something she tried to do. "Ugh... My magic...isn't working!" "Makes sense. You don't exactly have your horn.", Spike answered. "WHAT!?" Twilight yelled since her hoar isn't there. "Oh, don't worry about your little magic show, Twilight, it's time for you two to follow me," Thomas said happily, "Time to explore around the world of Sodor!" Thomas whistled as he chugs his way to explore around Sodor to meet friends, engines, and everyone around, making Twilight and Spike follow the Blue Tank Engine as Twilight is trying her best to get used to her engine form, while Spike has gotten used to it. The three then chugged out of the forest from the Magic Buffers, in the search for the crown but also exploring around Sodor as they were chugging. Twilight tries to slow down her balance as she briefly looked at Spike on her right just as confused as he is about all of this, realizing getting used to their engine forums, but managed to catch up with Thomas so that they don't miss out. Twilight smiled at him to thank him, since being an engine was strange at first but practice could do the trick, to which Thomas kindly returns with a smile in return before they continued forward. "I've never seen a place That's quite like this Everything is turned around This crazy world is upside-down Getting on my wheels It's the ashes that I was dealt But I don't have much time with them Got to learn all that I can." Twilight sang in her mind as she chugged around the railway. As they looked around as they traveled to Brendam Docks, Twilight and Spike saw the difference in how steam engines do things in this world compared to their world as they see one purple Class N2 shunting trucks around, two yellow twin Bagnall 0-4-0STs working together, a green Metro-Cammell Class 101/102 DMU diesel traveling though, a black Class 08 diesel-electric shunter Diesel performing some act to be rude to the steam engines, and another engine who was a Orange Manning Wardle L Class 0-6-0ST Chugging through with his trucks. All the while, Twilight is the most interested and intrigued by all of this as she peers at a Green 0-4-0 saddle tank engine, which is Thomas' best Friend, Percy, bringing his mail to Brendam Docks. Noticing Thomas and his new friends, Percy introduced himself to them, which made Twilight and Spike happy that Thomas has made many friends around Sodor. Percy then says goodbye to them, as he chugs his way to the next station. "They don't use any magic or fly with any wings I don't get these heavy weights, moving wheels or tiny nose Everything's confusing when it seems so new But I look a little closer and it starts to feel familiar too." Twilight sang in her mind as she walked around the railways. As they chugged forward to the Skarloey Railway, a narrow gauge engine of Scootaloo was chugging by and used her whistle to Thomas and his new friends, while pulling logs of wood to which Spike got distracted. The narrow gauge versions of Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle chugging after her. The two look at each in the confusion about what they had just seen. "Is it me or did that look like the Cutie Mark Crusaders' other world counterparts?" Spike asked as he watched them run down behind them. "Looks like it," Twilight answered just as surprised as Spike. The trio then chugged to Henry's Forest, where she gets a good look at herself in her reflection on a mirror that was on a board as she stops to look at the mirror. Just then, a Big Green Engine comes into the forest to meet Thomas' new friends. Apparently, Twilight whistled too loudly in Henry's Forest due to seeing a Green Stanier 5MT "Black Five" 4-6-0. right beside here as was surprised, which caused the animals to go on a ruckus and the Big Green Engine to react in shock, and scared as he chugged backwards out of there. "Sorry, Henry! My new friends are looking around on Sodor!" Thomas apologized on Twilight's behalf as they quickly ran off from Henry's forest. "What a strange new world (what a strange new world) I'm trying to make heads or tails of this strange new world (what a strange new world) Sorting through the small details of this strange new world What a strange new world." Twilight's mind sang as the trio explored around Sodor. Thanks to Thomas for introducing Twilight and Spike to the world of Sodor and meeting a few engines, it seemed Sodor is a place for anyone who are engines to work for the railway and meet the civilians around the island to see the engines. But now that Twilight and Spike know about Sodor now, they chuffed around with Thomas to hear two familiar voices in Peel Godred.