Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave Page #4

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driving away

when I'm talking to him.

Now he hasn't collected

his mail cars.

Perhaps I should go and look

for him, sir.

Perhaps, thomas,

you should take the mail train

for your friend.

And if you do see Percy,

tell him I would like a word.

Yes, sir.

I will, sir.

So thomas took

the mail train again,

but he couldn't help worrying

about his friend

and wondering where he could be.

Percy.

Oh, gator.

Hello.

Hello, thomas.

Have you seen Percy anywhere?

Oh, not since this morning,

thomas.

And I was hoping to say

good-bye.

Good-bye?

Yes, my ship has come in.

I'm leaving sodor tonight.

Bye, thomas!

Nice to meet you!

Good-bye, gator.

Are you sure sir topham hatt

wanted you on this ship?

That doesn't sound right to me.

It is right, cranky.

I'm going to work far away,

like gator.

I can't stay on sodor forever.

I can be brave and really useful

on other railways too.

If you say so.

Where is he?

Hasn't he come back yet?

James.

James!

Where is he, James?

Pretty high up now,

but not as high

as the high mountains,

not at all.

Oh, Percy.

What are you doing here?

I'm going to work

in a faraway land

and show everyone

how brave I can be.

Just like you.

Hmm, yes, well...

running away from your problems

is not very brave, Percy.

I already told you.

He's doing something brave.

Something brave.

Like what?

Oh, how should I know?

Maybe he's gone up to the

clay pits to catch a monster.

Yes, James.

The clay pits.

Why didn't I think of that?

Come on.

We'd better find him

before he gets into trouble.

I'm not going.

Uh, I'm too sleepy.

What?

You have to come.

You have to apologize and...

you're not scared, are you?

I'm not scared of anything.

I'm the bravest engine

on the island of sodor.

Come on, thomas, keep up!

The ship.

Then thomas remembered

what Percy said

about being as brave as gator

and going to a faraway land.

No.

He wouldn't.

James, wait!

The big ship

was already starting to leave

by the time thomas came racing

onto the docks.

No.

Stop!

There's been a mistake.

You can't leave!

Come back!

Stop the ship, cranky.

Stop the ship?

Don't let it go.

This is an emergency.

Got it.

Uh-oh.

You'll never hold her.

She'll pull you overboard.

Careful, cranky.

No. Stop.

Quick. Quick.

Quick, quick, everybody.

It's still attached.

Loosen up your chain, cranky.

Let go your hook.

Oh, I can't.

I can't!

Luckily, the captain

was able to stop his ship

before cranky was pulled off

the docks.

I told you I had it.

Phew.

Percy, you can't leave.

Percy?

Is that what all this is about?

Percy's not on the ship, thomas.

I unloaded Percy

half an hour ago.

You unloaded Percy?

Then...

where is he now?

- Ben.

- What?

You're making puffing noises

in your sleep again.

Am not.

Are too.

So don't.

If I can find those footprints

thomas saw,

it will prove that the monster

is real,

and then everyone

will believe me

and realize how brave

I really am.

But I do hope

I only find footprints

and not the monster again.

Percy stopped

at the danger signs.

He had had trouble with going

past danger signs before.

And this was the area

where the landslide had been.

Hello, scaredy-engine.

Oh, sorry, Percy.

I shouldn't have said that.

Actually,

what I do need to say is-

- I'm braver

than you'll ever be, James.

Oh, really?

If you're so brave,

why don't you keep going

and look for the monster?

But...

it's not safe to go past

danger signs.

Only if you are

a scaredy-engine.

Let's see who is really

the bravest, shall we?

Percy.

Percy?

Are you here?

Ugh, now I can even hear

what you're dreaming, Ben.

That wasn't my dream, bill.

Must have been

timothy's dream, then.

Oh, that timothy.

Monster.

Oh, monster.

Come out, come out

wherever you are.

James, wait.

This is not a good idea.

It isn't brave

not to be careful, James.

It's silly.

That's just what I'd expect

a scaredy-engine to say.

James, wait.

Come back!

It isn't safe!

Thomas was right.

Percy?

Percy.

Nobody can say

I'm the scaredy-engine now.

I mean, I don't see

any other engines up here,

nothing to be frightened of...

at all.

There was something

poking out of the rocks

up ahead, and it looked like...

the monster!

Oh!

Oh!

The monster!

The monster!

Th-the monster?

I saw it.

Oh!

The cliffs were still unstable.

Percy had to move back

to getaway from the danger.

Then there was trouble.

No, James.

Go forward.

It's a landslide.

Percy,

you have to get out of there.

James needs my help.

I must be brave.

Percy...

oh!

Go forward.

- The monster.

- Go forward!

The monster!

The landslide!

Landslide?

Huh?

Oh!

Ooh!

Oh!

Oh!

Ohh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Whoa!

Look out!

Oh-oh, no.

Huh?

Luckily, nobody was hurt.

That's not a monster.

It's...

a rock.

No, it's a fossil.

A what?

A fossil.

When something is buried

for millions of years,

it turns into stone,

and that's called a fossil.

So it is a rock now.

Ah, yes, a rock formed

from the bones of a dinosaur.

- Oh.

- Ooh.

Oh, alas, poor dinosaur.

Oh, I wonder where the rest

of the dinosaur bones are.

Oh, my.

I've never dug up

a dinosaur before.

Um, maybe...

if you wouldn't mind,

you could dig me out first?

Ooh, oops.

Sorry, Percy.

I wasn't thinking.

Of course

I should dig you out first.

Percy had to be taken

to the steam works for repair.

How's Percy getting on, Kevin?

Well, they're still getting

the earth out of his funnel.

But it shouldn't be

too long now.

Hello.

Percy.

I... I owe you an apology.

I played a trick on you and made

a scrap monster to scare you.

I'm so sorry, Percy.

And I'm sorry too.

I should have listened when you

told me about the monster.

I should have believed you.

I hope we're still friends.

Of course we are.

We all are.

Turns out the footprints

were made by a dinosaur too.

They left their shape

in the rock,

just like the fossil bones.

So the monster

was really a dinosaur

a long, long time ago.

See for yourself.

Wow.

A perfect specimen

of a megalosaurus.

- Yes.

- How marvelous.

Ladies and gentlemen,

engines and coaches,

it is with great pleasure

that I come here today...

thomas, Percy, gator is leaving.

What?

I thought he'd already gone.

Well, no.

His ship got delayed...

again.

There was a bit of a holdup.

What kind of a holdup?

I'll tell you later.

And that is why Percy

is not just a really useful

fossil hunter

but one of the bravest engines

on the island of...

uh, fizzling fireboxes.

Where's he gone now?

Won't be long now, cranky.

You all right?

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Okay, we're gonna go up now,

up in the air.

Gator.

Gator.

Oh, Percy.

I didn't think you were

going to make it.

Neither did I, but...

I wanted to say good-bye...

and to thank you.

Thank me...

heh, for what?

For being such a good friend

and for helping me learn

that I could be brave.

You helped me too, Percy.

Having seen how brave

you've been, well,

I think I'm ready for the

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