March 3, 1995 - 3:11 PM
Every single one of us had fear inside of us when the agents showed up and now that this had gone by, it quickly went from 10 to 1000 really fucking fast. While thankfully the sheds were big enough to fit all 13 of our engines and their crews, every engine was squished to try and make room for everyone.
Toby ended up stuck behind Murdoch, James and Thomas had room all for themselves, Oliver was in-front of Donald and Rosie, Gordon and Stanley also had room for themselves, Emily and Dean were in the far right corner of the sheds, and Percy was stuck behind Douglas.
Thankfully for the rolling stock, we managed to find Henrietta, Annie, Clarabel, and Toad. They were just in the shed next to Tidmouth Sheds to make room for the engines.
Unfortunately, there must've been many others that weren't so lucky. At the time, We had no intel on whether engines like Edward, Henry and Duck survived. It was then I realized what was going on, the virus had spread to Sodor. As I watched from the shed windows, I saw fog coming down on top of us.
Percy tried to remain optimistic while everything was going down at the moment, I want to trust him but I can't. I can't really blame him though, because if I were him I would likely try to do the same thing.
March 3, 1995 - 4:47 PM
I decided to try and get acquainted with Dean's crew, Tyler, and Rick. Tyler was a doctor in his spare time. Rick also had a daughter that currently should be safe with her mother.
The rest of the crews and I started to get hungrier and the minutes went by, yet Some of us had already prepared and had packed several food packages and supplies that would help us hold out for a few days in case this would happen.
March 3, 1995 - 11:23 PM
For some reason I can't sleep so I decided to check each engine if they were ok. Several engines including Percy also had something keeping them up.
Rosie was worried if there was any other survivors besides us. Thomas was starting to lose hope if we would make it out of this alive. Gordon said he was getting quite irritated by some crickets that had gotten inside the shed, I decided to try and cover over the crickets then burry them, Gordon said he was thankful, I'm glad things haven't gotten full on serious but I'm sure that will change sooner or later.
I found that Nolan wasn't feeling well either and he told me that he was worried if our families were ok. I felt the same thing and at this point I thought they hadn't made it out alive. I started to silently cry at the possibility as I tried to hold back the tears.
I flashed back to a moment of my life where a year after Jacob was born a factory exploded sending radiation all across the world, I remember him asking about it saying he heard about something in class.
These events are very similar to Chernobyl so making me think of my family made me feel a little better.
March 4, 1995 - 2:15 AM
It was extremely early in the morning when I got up and I wasn't feeling too good either. I had done it before yet this was a situation where I'm pretty sure it won't be the worst if I slept barely.
I saw that Percy was startled by something, he told me he had a bad dream, Thomas asked him what was in it, Percy said that he was in the middle of Knapford Station and he saw several strange figures standing in front of him several went over to him and the one in front said "See you tomorrow, Percy". Thomas and I were creeped out at what Percy had just described and tried to calm him down.
I tried to fall back asleep but I was woken up by Douglas who started to cough, several engines woke up to this, asking that what was making the noise to stop. Douglas just kept coughing and it had me thinking......oh no.....oh god....... Thankfully, one of the other drivers had a thermometer to check his temperature and it was way worse than I imagined, the thermometer read -29 degrees Celsius. Nolan and I knew he had been infected by the virus, we decided to ask his crew but we checked back there and his crew were already in the coma-like state.
Donald then spoke up saying that Douglas had entered a contaminated zone last night while taking a goods train, but he decided not to say anything since the government agents were sure to have done something to him if he said otherwise. Gordon then immediately started to get into an argument about how irresponsible this was, Donald started back talking asking if he would do the same if his brothers were here right now, Gordon then spoke up saying he was sorry saying he would indeed do the same apologizing to Donald for his outlash.
Donald then said he was sorry, I know how hard it can be to have your sibling taken away or to put them out of of his/her misery.
March 4, 1995 - 8:50 AM
It's been a couple hours and most of us has agreed to send some out on an expedition to explore what is left of the island and to scavenge for supplies.
However, when we asked who wanted to go scavenge out there, all the engines said no, we decided that 2 engines take Douglas and try to find some supplies for us, none of us knew If the virus was contagious meaning it could spread to the rest of us if nothing was done.
We had some paper with us so we wrote each engine's name down on the paper, if 2 engines are drawn then those 2 engines and their crews were to go outside, I took off my hat and shuffled the papers inside the hat then pulled 2 slips out, reading James and Oliver, immediately after showing the papers I pulled out, both James and Oliver tried to rush back further into the sheds squishing Donald, Rosie, and Thomas even further.
I told them it was fair since it was completely random who gets picked, James then asked if we could make masks to wear for protection. I knew James was trying to stall, but it was true that without masks we would get infected within a day.
March 4, 1995 - 10:42 AM
It took about 2 hours, but we finally had made everyone in here a homemade mask using our resources like ziplock bags and plastic bags and even our own suits. At least this is one way to put plastic bags to good use. The masks fit very well covering the engines' mouth and nose, after fitting the masks on James and Oliver they both took a leap of faith and stepped outside the sheds.
Their crews went over and unlocked the sheds wearing the masks seeing that the rolling stock inside the shed were A-ok, I could tell that the trucks decided to behave since this was no time for pranks. James took Douglas out of his space while Oliver got the trucks ready to carry the gathered supplies and coupled up to the back of Douglas, they were to return with supplies by tonight, if they didn't make it back, more of us would be sent out to find them.
March 4, 1995 - 9:21 PM
It has been hours since James and Oliver left with Douglas and we aren't sure if they would return or not.
Thomas and Percy were both happy they could finally move around a bit without being flattened by James and Douglas, but deep down the two tank engines and everyone else in here hoped that the two are ok.
As for us we have not much food left so we decided to take extremely small portions if we were to ration further, at this point we couldn't stand it anymore without food.
March 4, 1995 - 11:38 PM
Ok, I definitely know that something is behind this now and not just randomly. I just had a small dream or vision I guess you could call it. I decided to sleep as I really couldn't for the past few days, as I fell asleep I felt a cold chill running down my spine, as soon as I felt that, I awoke and immediately found myself at Elsbridge station where I heard James and Oliver's whistles in the distance. They didn't know I was there until James said to stop as he said he noticed something in the distance, there over on the hill were several shadowy figures.
Then, I saw as the figures began to wait for other figures and then started running towards James and Oliver. James immediately shouted to run back as the two sped away with Douglas as the figures chased after them over the hill.
However, one of the figures began rushing towards me and weirdly it looked more like an animal than human. I tried run away but it's fast and it ran even faster after it saw me running, I realized there was nothing I could do after I realized I couldn't outrun or outsmart this thing. But just as it was about to pounce on me, I heard a cluster of unsettling loud roars in the distance which caused the thing to immediately run off and I awoke from this nightmare.
I told the others that I knew whoever these figures were were doing this spreading this virus across the world. I realized that they weren't wearing masks like they were immune, but if the aren't human either then, what were they, were they mutated animals?, were they aliens?
March 5, 1995 - 7:24 AM
Ok, it is time we get off of this island, but first we need to escape from these creatures and save our friends if any of them are still alive.
It was decided that 5 engines and their crews would go find a way off the island and rescue our friends, we got the masks ready for drawing and I pulled out Gordon, Dean, Rosie, Stanley, and Percy.
Thomas stopped and said he would take Rosie's place for her, that was very brave of him in my opinion. Percy decided that he, Nolan, and I would have to tough it up if we were to survive this nightmare.
Rosie gladly thanked Thomas for his act of courage as the five engines went outside of their sheds and once we got out of the turntable we coupled up with Gordon at the front and Thomas at the back.
It was go time.
To be continued..........
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