9:25 AM
Everyone woke up rather early for final preparations before our attempt of getting onto the mainline. Tilly and Carter went to go see if they can gather ANY form of defence. Meanwhile, Donald and Douglas's crew were gathering food and water while Me and Erick form the plan. Our main goal is to remain hidden, and not attract too much attention to ourselves. We're unsure if it will work, but we've been through so much that planning is just another Sunday for us.
10:27 AM
Tilly and Carter returned with dynamite from a nearby mine, and Oliver's crew actually found some workmen for cover. Now we have an advantage over Percy if we encounter him. We're still unsure of where Thomas might be, as he might still be alive somewhere. Though it might be too late now, as we've never found him through all our attempts.
10:48 AM
Alright, here's the plan. We'll be trying to make our way to Vicarstown where we can access the bridge and flee to the mainline. Once we're over the bridge, we're going to use the dynamite we found at the mines to destroy the bridge to make sure nobody follows us. We're going to have to keep a big eye out for the mutated, since we theorize that Percy can use the mutated to find us. If he does find us, we're prepared for him this time. We have a lot of firearms and ammunition. I say we're prepared for at least the same amount of mutated we had to fight off at brendam. Our plan is to make our way close enough to Percy, and use the dynamite to blow him to kingdom come. The formation is simple, Donald and Douglas will be in the front with flatbeds loaded with bricks protecting them, and carrying workmen incase we do encounter Percy or someone else like him. Duck and Oliver will be positioned in the middle with more workmen incase the people in the front need more firepower. In the back are Salty and Rosie, incase we need to make a getaway. In-between all the engines are flatbeds where the narrow gauge engines will be positioned. They're the ones carrying the dynamite. Once we get close, the drivers will hop out of their cab and launch the dynamite. Our only flaws are that we still don't know where Thomas is, and he could've sided with the other team. Also, despite smudger's downfall, there are still members of his gang out to kill us. We've marked a trail on a map we found in a store earlier, so we have alternative routes incase one is blocked. Hopefully this works
2:37 PM - Carter and the Blue Hero
I'm really struggling to write this right now, what happened was tragic. Basically, everything went according to plan for the trip. However, just as we were approaching the bridge, Erick gazed in horror as we saw over at least a thousand mutants. Percy was behind all of them, at the entrance of the bridge. They obviously had left the bridge up to give us some hope that they could crush. We all looked at each other, terror on all of our faces. We knew that all that planning wasn't enough, and that this was our end. At least, that's what we thought. Just then, carter hopped out of rosie's cab. He looked like he was about to breakdown. Carter pulled something out of his pocket. It looked like some sort of necklace with half of a heart on it. He looked at Tilly, gave her his necklace and told her to keep it for him. We were all confused, when suddenly carter dashed at the mutants, completely defenceless. He diverted all the mutant's attention onto him, and we all watched in horror as they ran at him and tore him apart. It took me a second to realize what he was trying to achieve, and he did get what he wanted. None of the mutants were blocking Percy, carter had just gave us our one in a million chance to finally end this nightmare. But god, I wish we took that opportunity sooner. We were just starting to steam up the engines, when we heard a yell from behind us, followed by Thomas' whistle. Thomas rushed right by us with fuel tankers, without protection. The motherfucker was going to suicide bomb Percy. We all bellowed for him to stop, but he didn't listen. We all closed our eyes as we heard an explosion off in the distance. When we opened our eyes, there was a lot of smoke and fire. We got in close, and saw the corpses of Thomas and Percy. Also, after the explosion, all the mutants started moaning for help and walking around aimlessly. My guess is that Percy was the thing making all the mutants hostile, without him they're just helpless little lost souls. We saw Thomas' crew approach us. They explained that after Thomas left, they kept in contact with carter, and that they were planning this incase our plan failed. We said our final goodbyes to Thomas and carter, and thanked them for their sacrifice as we headed back to base, victorious yet utterly defeated on the inside.
5:29 PM
Once we arrived back at Crovan's gate, everyone just stayed silent and sat down. It's a lot to process. 1st of all, Thomas sacrificed his own life to let us keep going. 2nd, our journey is over now. Our goal was achieved, we got rid of Percy. I can't believe I'm saying this but, I had some sort of small sick enjoyment going through all of this. I don't know the point of this journal is anymore. As we were silently thinking about everything, we overheard two voices over in a shed. They sounded feminine but... there weren't any more female engines on the island (besides Rosie), all of them were dead or mutated. We looked in the shed to see Annie and Clarabel. We were all dumbfounded to see them. We immediately got our weapons out, incase there was some ambush coming. The two started panicking, so we lowered our weapons and started questioning them. From what I got, they were in their sheds ever since this began, they were left there until Thomas found them yesterday. Thomas cried at the sight of them, and kept on apologizing for not looking for them sooner. After that, he took them down the line until they reached cronk, by the time we were asleep. 1st thing in the morning, he took them all the way to Crovan's gate. They arrived a few minutes after we left. Thomas put them in the shed and bid them farewell. They don't know what happened next, all they heard was him chuffing away. We all looked at each other, before breaking the sad news to them. The two stared in horror while listening. None of them wanted to believe it, but they knew deep down we were right. We were planning on just staying here until officials come, when the two told us that they overheard rumours of government boats coming to find survivors at knapford harbour. Even though they said these were rumours, we had to believe them. We're currently at cronk gathering as much coal and water as we can. We have 7 bags of coal and 50 bottles of (chemical-free) water. We don't wan't to make any stops, so we'll arrive quickly. We're taking workmen and my family in Annie and Clarabel if this is a trap, or if we get ambushed. Hopefully we'll get there soon.
7:50 PM - one final runaway
This is the most terrified I've ever been in my entire life, it's near impossible for me to calm down. As we were smoothly going down the line, the radio suddenly turned on. It was the government, for once we have contact with the government. At least, that's what I thought. It was a message, the radio was all statically so we didn't understand it all, but what we could make out was horrifying. "In exactly 2 hours, we shall be dropping a nuke onto Sodor. If there are any survivors still out there, make your way to knapford harbour IMMEDIATELY." Everyone gasped in horror once we heard it. We didn't need instructions on what to do, we went full speed barreling down the line. This was like fleeing the cloud, but worse. In the cloud, we would at least live and maybe even adapt to mutations. But when it comes to a nuke, you're better off killing yourself before the nuke even hits the ground. We didn't even think about stopping, that would be suicide. As we were rocketing down the line, we saw that the line to brendam was blocked off by cargo, fire, and a finally derailed Edward. After all this time, he's finally been stopped. Hearing his screams was the worst part of finding him. But we had no time for pity, we had to keep going. We were burning coal and water quickly, so it was vital we applied water and coal at the right time. I couldn't help feel like we were going slightly faster than we usually go at full speed. I looked at Duck's face, and he looked absolutely traumatized. All the engines did. It's probably because the crews might have a slight chance on surviving, being covered by the cab. But the engines were all out in the open, sitting ducks (no pun intended). They must've felt the need to go quick. At last, we rocketed through Henry's tunnel. We were on the last sack of coal, and only had 4 water bottles left. As we entered tidmouth, we saw the tunnel to duck's branch line blocked off by rubble. And underneath the rubble was Harold the helicopter. His wings were torn off, and his face looked like it caved in. He must've been killed while we were sleeping by Percy. Finally, we used up all the water bottles and sacks of coal. But we didn't mind that, we were already in knapford. My pen is almost out of ink so I can't go on.
8:30 PM
Before I explain how I got a new pen, let me finish up the runaway. We finally entered knapford harbour, and saw one massive boat. Suddenly, cranes came down and started loading Salty and Rosie onto the ship. These guys were bringing us onto the ship. Donald and Douglas, being the selfless engines they are suggested that they should be loaded on last incase there was no time. So duck and Oliver were loaded on next. For once in a long time, me and Erick hugged. Erick's been with me ever since the beginning of the nightmare, we've seen it all. Once my family were onboard, I gave them all the biggest hug I've ever gave. Finally, Donald and Douglas were loaded onto the ship, and the boat sped away. However, as we were leaving I saw one last engine enter the docks. It was an engine nobody who's survived could forget, Percy. However, this time was different. The huge gaping hole was gone, and his pupils were more visible. This wasn't the Percy that tried to kill us all these days, this was the ACTUAL Percy. I saw him shed a tear before reversing, finally accepting his long overdue fate. Nobody seemed to notice besides me, so I kept to myself about it. Duck was talking endlessly about the sea, as he was finally able to go to new horizons. I asked one of the crew members for a new pen, and they gave me this new one. Kind of fancy, if I may add. Once I looked around the ship, I saw one engine I haven't seen at all. His name was Wilbert, the forest engine. He explained that he just arrived on sodor as the sirens started going off, so took refuge in a nearby shed. They only travelled at night, to not alarm anyone. When suddenly, they got news of a ship coming on September 14th, so went to knapford harbour and got picked up. They said they were waiting for James, but had to leave early when they saw Percy chasing a mutated Edward, barely able to catch up. That explains why we never saw them. As I explored the insides of the boat, I found the one and only Wilbert Awdry, accompanied by his son Christopher. I was in awe to find him, so I took the opportunity to talk to him. He simply explained that things had been rough for them. However, what I found most interesting was what the two were doing during the leak. Apparently, they were out in the open when the cloud passed by. However, they were shockingly immune to the chemicals. They decided to stay in their home for a while, until going with Wilbert's crew to knapford harbour. Before I could ask more questions, Wilbert Awdry asked me what things were like, so I showed him some of the logs. He stayed silent for a while, but then complimented me on my writing. That meant a lot coming from him of all people. Suddenly, Erick told me to come up to the deck, so I scrambled my way up. He pointed out a helicopter in the sky, hovering over sodor. We watched in sadness as the nuke was dropped, right into the centre of what we used to call home. Everyone stayed quiet, until Erick asked the captain of the ship where we were heading. He said that we were heading to London, and told us we could wait in the bedrooms on the 2nd floor. So everyone went and lied down in the bedroom. I'm going to stop writing, I'm too tired to keep going.