06x13 - Percy and the Haunted Mine

[bunniefuu]

(bright music)

- [Narrator] In the summer time,

the Branch Line

Station masters enjoy

a friendly competition for

the most beautiful station

on the island of Sodor.

(light music)

(hooting)

The engines love to help too.

One evening, Sir Topham

Hatt came to the sheds.

"I want Percy to collect

some flower bushes

"for Lower Tidmouth

Station," he said.

"They're at Maithwaite."

"Maithwaite?" Percy said.

"Y-y-yes sir," he

added nervously.

(whistling)

(engine rumbling)

Percy chuffed anxiously

through the thickening fog.

He doesn't like traveling

to Maithwaite at night.

The line passes

through a junction

next to a spooky

old quarry mine.

(owl hooting)

(eerie music)

Percy hoped the signal at

the junction would be green.

He didn't wanna stop

next to the mine.

But the signal was red.

He had to stop.

(train rumbling)

(eerie music)

Suddenly he saw something.

(crashing)

(mysterious music)

"Bouncing buffers!" cried Percy.

His driver hadn't seen the old

chimney sink into the ground.

The signal changed.

Percy was so scared, he steamed

away as fast as he could.

(energetic music)

(hissing)

The next day, Percy was

telling Donald and Douglas

about the disappearing chimney.

"It's the naughty

gnomes," teased Donald.

"Wee fat men with big feet."

"They make strange things

happen," said Douglas.

"It's legend they steal your

wheels and filch your funnels."

Percy didn't wanna believe

them, but he wasn't sure.

(light music)

Sir Topham Hatt was waiting

for Percy at Dryaw Station.

"I want you to collect

some freight cars

"from the abandoned

mine," he said.

"Y-y-yes sir," Percy answered.

But he really didn't

wanna go there again.

(engine chugging)

Percy hoped he wouldn't see

anything else disappear.

He slipped into the

sidings and buffered

up to the freight cars.

(eerie music)

"Spooky," stammered Percy.

Suddenly, another

building at the old mine

sank into the ground.

(mysterious music)

(rumbling)

"What was that?"

shouted his driver.

"Double bouncing

buffers," shrieked Percy.

He was so scared

he lurched forward

and rammed the freight car.

"Naughty gnomes," cried Percy.

He steamed away

faster than before,

all the way back to

Lower Tidmouth Station.

(engine chugging)

Percy's driver told Sir Topham

Hatt what they had seen.

"It's the naughty

gnomes," cried Percy.

"They like to cause trouble.

"It's legend."

"Nonsense," said

Sir Topham Hatt.

"The old buildings

are collapsing

into empty mine

shafts, that's all."

"But I saw the gnomes,"

protested Percy.

"Of course you did,"

said Dr. Topham Hatt.

"Garden gnomes."

"Garden gnomes?"

"To decorate Lower

Tidmouth Station,"

sir Topham Hatt said.

"They're not scary.

"Garden gnomes bring good luck."

And he ordered Percy to return

immediately and get them.

Percy was scared.

But he knew he had to be

responsible, so he carried on.

"I'm not scared,

I'm not scared."

(light music)

He waited for something

else spooky to happen.

But it didn't.

And Sir Topham Hatt was right.

The garden gnomes

weren't scary at all.

(light music)

(insects whirring)

His driver and firemen

had collected the gnomes.

And Percy took them straight

back to Lower Tidmouth Station.

(owl hooting)

Later that week, the station

master thanked Percy.

"We wouldn't have won

our competition without

"your garden gnomes, Percy."

Percy was very proud.

"You were right sir.

"Naughty gnomes can

be lucky after all."

(cheerful music)