Sir Handel's Last Prank

Sir Handel's Last Prank is the twenty-second episode of the first season of The Railroad Girl.

Summary
After his latest prank gets James into a bad accident, Sir Handel decides to give up pranking.

Story
One day, Sir Handel, Bill, and Ben were up to their old pranks again. What were they doing this time? Well, they was greasing the tracks so that they will be very, very, very slippery.

"This is gonna be the best prank ever," said Sir Handel.

"Yeah," said Bill.

"Totally," said Ben.

In no time, they was finished.

"There," said Sir Handel, "now all I have to do is wait for my victim to come."

The trio then hid in a siding and soon heard James coming down the track. He was taking a few tankers of chocolate syrup to the ice cream factory, and he was singing while he worked.

"We built this city," James sang, "we built this city on rock and roll!"

However, James started feeling his wheels going very fast.

"What the," James gasped, "what's going on?!"

"I don't know," said his driver, "we may have hit a very slippery part of track!"

James then realized he was going really fast.

"HELP," cried James.

His driver applied the brakes, but the brake lever broke.

"It's no good," said the driver, "the darn thing's broke!"

"Fantastic," said James.

James was then diverted onto another track which was leading toward an abandoned building.

"Oh, snap," cried James.

James shut his eyes while his crew and the conductor in the brake van jumped free. In the siding, Sir Handel was pleased at what he was seeing, but Bill and Ben were kinda skeptical.

"Shouldn't we do something," asked Ben.

"I dunno," said Bill, "should we?"

"Nah," said Sir Handel, "eveything's going to plan."

Sir Handel didn't know that the tracks were diverted, so he didn't hear James crashing into the building, sending broken glass and brick dust everywhere.

"Phew," said James, "I'm glad that's over."

But James' good feelings quickly turned bad as he saw a heavy roof beam starting to fall.

"Aw, crud," said James.

The beam fell on top of James and he soon blacked out.

Later, Sir Handel went into Totally 60's to join Bill and Ben, but when he tried to sit by them, they just glared at him.

"Hey," said Sir Handel, "What gives?"

"Didn't you hear the news," asked Bill.

"What news," asked Sir Handel.

"James is in the Steam Works," said Ben.

Sir Handel was shocked.

"Oh, no," Sir Handel said to himself.

" "Oh, no" is right," said Bill, "you should see his current state."

With that, Sir Handel left, but not before ordering his usual banana milkshake with a chili dog and curly fries to go. When he arrived at the Steam Works, he was shocked at the mess James was in. His dome and funnel were severely bent, his front buffer beam was badly mangled, and there were several dents in his boiler from falling bricks. Emily, Edward, Molly, Thomas, Gordon, and Ernie were beside James, and Emily's eyes were red. It was obvious she had been crying.

"Whoa," said Sir Handel, "what a wreck."

Emily heard Sir Handel, and immediately flew into a rage when she saw him.

"You idiot," Emily screeched, "what the heck is wrong with you?! You almost killed him!"

"I swear," said Sir Handel, "I didn't mean for this to happen!"

But Emily wasn't buying it, and she slapped Sir Handel really hard in the face, leaving a red mark on his cheek.

"Ow," Sir Handel cried.

"That's what you get for what you did to my boyfriend," said Emily.

"Emily," said Ernie, "I understand you're upset, but that was very uncalled for."

Then Ernie turn to Sir Handel.

"And because of you," said Ernie, "James won't be going back to work for three months."

"Yeah," said Thomas, "thanks a lot, you little blue pest."

"Thomas," said Gordon, "please don't get involved."

"Yes, sir," said Thomas.

Sir Handel then left the Steam Works and started on his way home. In no time, he did arrive home, where he found Duke watching Wheel Of Fortune with the rest of the Narrow Gauge Engines on TV.

"Hey, Sir Handel," said Duke, "how does pizza from Pizza Planet sound for dinner?"

"Okay, I guess," said Sir Handel.

"Is something wrong," asked Rusty.

"I just want to be on my own right now," said Sir Handel.

Sir Handel then went to his room and closed the door tight.

"What have I done," Sir Handel asked as a tear rolled down his cheek.

WIP