Diesel and Silver Spoon were sulking. The trucks had witnessed all that had happened in the yard a few days earlier, and would not stop singing rudely about it.
"Trucks are waiting in the Yard;
Tackling them with ease'll
"Show the world what I can do,"
Gaily boasts the Diesel
In and out he creeps about
Like a big black weasel
When he pulls the wrong ones out –
Pop goes the Diesel!"
They even began to sing it in a round!
"Trucks are waiting-
Trucks are waiting-
Trucks are waiting-"
Eventually, Duck had enough. He was sick and tired of Diesel getting so much abuse from the trucks, and decided to do something about it. He charged into the back of the trucks. "SHUT UP!" he roared.
Apple Bloom looked around her. "Ah jolly hope nobody on Common Sense Media heard that," she said.
"What?" Duck asked. "What's Common Sense Media?"
"Ah, never mind," Apple Bloom replied. "At least the trucks are quiet now."
"Sorry about the trucks, Diesel," Duck told them. "That's no way to treat any engine at all, nor their driver."
Silver dropped Diesel's window, and looked out. "Well, that's not much consolation if you look on YouTube," she said, with a video entitled 'Diesel Shunter Fails' currently open. Their mistake was on the internet for all to see.
"Besides, it's all your fault," Diesel said angrily. "You made them laugh at me."
"That's nonsense!" Henry stated. "We may have our differences, but on the whole we respect one another, and would never do anything as horrid as share secrets with the trucks, or spill dirty laundry online for all to see. That would simply be dis-dis-!"
"Disgraceful!" said Gordon.
"Disgusting!" put in James.
"Despicable!" finished Henry.
Diesel hated Duck, and Silver Spoon hated Apple Bloom. Both of them wanted them sent away. Luckily, they already had a plan in that regard. In the few days that they had been there, they had been busy collecting dirt on the engines and people of the island, and planned to use it in a most despicable way. Diesel, on the other hand, planned to tell lies about Duck, and the next morning put his plan into action.
"Good morning," he said slimiliy to the trucks (is slimily a verb? It is now). "I see you all like jokes. Well, you made a good joke about me yesterday. I laughed and laughed. Duck told me one about Gordon, and I'll tell you as well, but don't tell Gordon I told you." And he told them that, and many other things.
The trucks burst out laughing. "Oh, that is a good one! Gordon will be most cross with Duck for bumping us. Let's tell him and pay Duck out!"
The engines were laughed at rudely as they steamed past, and soon they found out why.
"Disgraceful!" said Gordon.
"Disgusting!" put in James.
"Despicable!" finished Henry. "To think that a fellow engine we trusted would do something so horrible and heinous!"
Just then, the phones of their drivers beeped, and Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Rarity all checked their Facebook updates. What they saw horrified them.
"Horrible! Just horrible!" Rarity exclaimed.
Fluttershy said nothing, but simply burst into tears.
Rainbow Dash, on the other hand, gripped the reverser handle on Gordon's footplate so hard her fingers went white. "Just wait until those two get back," she growled. "They'll learn what happens when you mess with us."
"I concur!" called Gordon.
"Likewise!" said Henry.
"Agreed!" James called. "They'll learn what happens when you spill secrets!"
Later that day, Duck returned to the shed. He and Apple Bloom had had a hard day. The trucks had been badly behaved and rude, and he simply wanted a rest before going out again that evening. He made his way to the shed, but suddenly found that his path was blocked ahead of him! "What's going on here?" he asked.
"You're not coming in, secret stealer!" Gordon boomed.
Apple Bloom was confused. "What's goin' on?" she asked. Suddenly, her phone buzzed, and she checked it. It was a Facebook update, and she opened it to see what it was. Her eyes widened in horror when she saw it. It was a post from a page called 'Anon-a-Miss', which featured as its avatar a crude caricature of herself. Not only that, the page was full of images and secrets.
Gordon the domeless engine! Doesn't he look stupid!
Rainbow Dash; test failer. Learn how to spell!
Henry is so scared of rain he hid in a tunnel once! Do you really want this engine pulling you on your commute?
Fluttershy singing fail!
James the red engine? More like James the rusty!
Learn how to sew, Rarity!
No sooner had she seen this, then she found herself staring into the face of an angry Rainbow Dash.
Later, Sir Toppham Hatt arrived, to hear a commotion going on.
"YOU SPILLED THOSE SECRETS!" Gordon boomed.
"I DID NOT!" Duck boomed back.
"You so did!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "You were around when all those things were discussed, so only you know about them!"
"That's completely ridiculous!" Apple Bloom shot back.
"What's going on here?" Sir Toppham Hatt called.
Rarity pointed. "This here ruffian posted personal information of ours and then called us rude names! Duck did the same!"
"HE CALLED ME A GALLOPING SAUSAGE!" Gordon shouted.
"Rusty red scrap iron!" James added.
"I'm old square wheels!" Henry said sadly.
"Well, Duck?" Sir Toppham Hatt asked.
Duck paused for a moment. "I only wish, Sir, that I'd thought of those names myself. If the dome fits-"
"It weren't us!" Apple Bloom blurted out, trying to prevent Duck from making the situation any worse than it already was.
"Oh come on!" Rainbow Dash shouted again. "When is that little brat gonna stop lying to you? She's Anon-a-Miss!"
Diesel then chimed in. "I must say sir," he said, "that I cannot understand it. That Duck and Apple Bloom of all engines and people would do such a thing; I am grieved, but know nothing."
Sir Toppham Hatt turned back to them. "It's probably best that the two of you go to work at Wellsworth for a while. I'm certain Applejack and Edward will be happy to see you, and hopefully this nonsense will blow over soon."
Apple Bloom, by this point, was choking back sobs. Nobody believed them. "O-OK sir," she stammered, trying desperately not to cry as she got back on Duck's footplate. They headed off for Wellsworth, whilst Diesel and Silver Spoon smirked in triumph.
I forgot how sad that episode was. Even worse for Applebloom.
Common Sense Media? More like Uncommon Sense. I think I can hear the Reverend Awdry turning in his grave, again.
The one thing I don't like about this book is that we never saw how Diesel was found out. We're told he was sent packing, I can understand the Fat Controller having doubt about Diesel and trusting Duck, but I would like to see how he was about to learn about where the names came from.
YouTuber WildnorWester did a good job of this in his special Bad Apple, which has become my own headcanon on the situation.
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Those six are going to be left feeling very foolish when Applejack finds out...
That being said, I'm surprised that Silver Spoon didn't try and get Applejack against Apple Bloom as well. I have three suspicions:
1) She didn't know about Applejack, being confined to the shunting yard whilst Edward and Applejack were at Wellsworth.
2) She knew that it would be a lost cause from the start as Applejack would see right through it.
3) She did try, and Applejack saw right through it.
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I'm actually working on something similar to this, which will include Diesel and his driver getting theirs. Although mine has Applejack and Fluttershy swap engines, Celestia and Luna as The Fat Controller's deputies, and Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo as Duck's crew along with Apple Bloom (with the three rotating as Driver, Fireman and Guard/Shunter)
It would have been nice to see Sir Topham Hatt tell them off for jumping to conclusions about Duck and Apple Bloom.
10095127
That it is.
10095135
Dirty Work was a story high on feels, and quite sad too.
10095139
I'll give that a watch at some point.
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What?
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10095188
Unlike my last takes on this narrative, not everybody is a blithering idiot.
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Soon. Soon.
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10095729
OK, Pinkie.
10095730
Okay, normally, I'm okay with Gordon, James, and Henry being arrogant fools for believing rumors and lies
But, the way Apple Bloom was treated in here makes it worse!
I sure hope Applejack smacks some sense into Rarity and Rainbow for mistreating her younger sister based on lies and gossip. I would do it if that were my younger brother.
10095737
This has gotten weird...
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Rest assured they will feel very silly when the dust clears.
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Yeah, that's always a given when the fools find out they were set up.
And personally, I always believed Diesel, Class 40, Spam Can, and other diesel engines that say Steamers are no good (I know I'm gonna get bad comments for saying this) are just a bunch of delusional racists. Maybe that sounds a bit extreme, but that's just how I think of things. I mean Arry, Bert, and Diesel 10 (TATMR version not the stupid CAE and DOTD version) even tried to murder them. Arry and Bert - Stepney "Stepney gets Lost" Diesel 10 - James.
If they actually took a look at things better they would see Steamers on Sodor are more popular because several of them are classes that don't even exist anymore.
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I would argue it's more youthful arrogance than ferroequiphobia (fear of iron horses). Machines like D261 and D199 are new machines, and hence assume they all know better.
It's like seeing the new intake at Uni. The First years all have that brash arrogance to them and think they are invincible.
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Sorry. I thought you want to see something funny.
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Okay, I can agree with that. Plus I have no idea how old Diesel 10 is anyway so I can't really argue with that logic. But for the record, I never believed it was fear. Or even went to think it was.
That was a good metaphor.
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I currently don't have wifi where I am, so I canniot watch many videos to avoid burning data.
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Oh sorry I didn't know.
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Assuming that TATMR takes place in the same time period as the preceding season (late 1960s-early 1970s), Diesel 10 would have been fairly new; the air vents and engine sound reveal him to be a Swindon Warship, fitted with Mekydro transmission. Alternatively, if the film takes place in 2000, it would make more sense for him to hate Diesel-Electric designs like the Class 50s, which displaced him and his hydraulic brethren.
But why Diesel 10? No proper explanation is ever given for the name.
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Not to worry. Good thing East Midlands Trains has wifi onboard!
(Yes, I am British.)
10095770
I could never understand that myself either. It always makes me wonder the same thing. I mean, since he was originally gonna be given a Russian accent, I would imagine given him a Russian name
10095773
Interesting theory, given that Falcon (the Class 47 prototype) was sold to Russia.
My theory is that Diesel 10 was the 10th Warship produced, making him D810 Cockade (the last example to run in BR Green, interestingly; the sandstorm livery he wears was only ever applied to the Westerns).
10095774
That is a good theory
10095776
Two Warships are preserved. D821 Greyhound and D832 Onslaught. D818 Glory was broken up at Swindon in 1985.
10095791
Interesting
10095792
However, Diesel 10's ERTL toy is a Class 45 (as it is a repaint of D199).
10095795
I knew something wasn't right about the ERTL Diesel 10's size and looks
10095803
Talk about laziness. Rather like how the Adventures range gets the wheel arrangements wrong.
For someone to consider the use of the phrase 'Shut up' as obscenity is an indication of them being a molly-coddling prude.
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True. In Britain, 'damn' and 'heck' are not considered swearing.
10096059
There's even a place in Yorkshire called Great Heck.
(And a place in Norway called Hell)
10096122
I've been there.
Right, who's downvoting all the comments?
10095842
You don't have to tell me twice
10096140
Excellent.
10096157
In my personal opinion, Bachmann and Hornby are the only ones that get the characters accurate to their real selves.
Why, if I had a 3D printer and some extra cash, I would make myself an HO/OO Diesel 10 using a Hornby Warship for the base
10096184
Nice.
Well, another thing I keep finding odd about this episode is that, with the TV Series version of Tidmouth Sheds, we see that Diesel, Gordon, James, and Henry have the first four stalls blocked/occupied while Stalls 5 and 6 were unblocked/unoccupied.
10096558
The table was jammed.
10096561
True. That could be a reason ^^'
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Besides, would Duck want to stay there with them?
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True, another reason in that they would keep him up all night... ^^'
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Or worse...
How am I not surprised there that Silver Spoon would do that.
Liar!
There gonna pay for this!