User:Tonygameman/Pilot Episode Idea

This pitch/idea on my sandbox is made for a upcoming series on Disney+, which is a spin-off sequel to a Thomas the Tank Engine film. While most of the episodes are original stories (with some other engines taking a spotlight as well), some of them like this one will be adaptations (like some stories being combined into one), such as many Seasons 8-10 episodes involving Emily's original bossy personality until Emily's New Route in this case.

Some of the ideas even came from one of my favorite TTTE fan-fiction writers, AaronCottrell97's stories (with changes and also SF64Rules91's in this case), which is intended for a tone based on the two engines' relationship after Emily joined Thomas as his partner in Sodor on a film.

One last thing I'll say before starting is that I envision Rosie and Molly (who shows up later in a series) as Nia and Rebecca in this universe, instead of adding them there with Edward, Henry and Toby staying on a team alongside Duck as a new member, though they're no longer labeled as "the Steam Team".

For similarities, Rosie and Nia are tank engines who came from a other country (USA/Africa), while Molly (unlike Rebecca) is a kind yellow female tender engine, who has notable strength, a notably different personality (shy), has a real life basis that wouldn't look farfetched in a RWS story, etc. The only real difference is that she isn't accident-prone like Rebecca, and Molly lacks that "high energy" spirit (which isn't a bad thing).

Plot Details
The episode takes place directly after Thomas rescued Emily from being scrapped in the Mainland because of her old age and steaming problems (like in Victor Tanzig's Stories of Sodor series and a film's scene being akin to Oliver's escape with Douglas' help in Season 3) when he noticed her during his way to home, even helping on restoring her in The Works at Crovan's Gate before showing her to other engines in the sheds (where Thomas ended his story in a film).

The next day, he and the Fat Director (Sir Charles Topham Hatt) has planned up something special for Emily if she proves herself a really useful engine, so Thomas temporarily gave her his coaches Annie & Clarabel, though big engines thought she was stealing them from him.

Like in the original concept, Percy will be involved in Emily's New Coaches, replacing Oliver in a story and starting up their mother-son relationship. Her coaches are also named Martha and Jennifer based on the DeviantArt stories/artwork I found. In this universe/series, Emily also works on Ffraquhar Branch Line alongside Thomas, Percy and Toby (Rosie at rare chances as she is a station pilot in the Main Line).

Gordon, James (for Emily taking his dead brother Eagle's shed) and Alfred (98462) are those big engines who planned to bully Emily (on her not having a dome like in Domeless Engines/Gordon & The Famous Visitor and calling her a steamroller because of her big wheels) into changing her personality, so she will cause many incidents (confusion & delay in other words) and the Fat Director may send her away back to the Mainland. Rosie also took a part of the plan, because she was jealous of Emily on taking Thomas's affection without knowing that he was chosen as her guardian by the Fat Director to ensure her staying happy after what almost happened to her in the Mainland.

One day, with Martha & Jennifer's and later Rosie's (who apologized him on her behavior upon realizing big engines' plan's true intention) help, Thomas managed to find out about this strange change right when Emily gets involved in a flour incident when James told her about a sea monster in Black Loch, Gordon & Alfred trying to make her late and Troublesome Trucks teasing her due to this.

Just when the Fat Director was about to assign Emily to Black Loch for a few days in order to make her behave much better, Thomas and Rosie asked him to give her one more chance right when Gordon, James and Alfred laughed at them in the other side of a station, starting to call Emily a "goody-goody tattletale" which made her cry. Thomas convinced Emily to tell the Fat Director a truth about what big engines did to her weeks right when she proved herself a worthy member of the team.

After the Fat Director scolded the big engines into a shed, he shortened Emily's punishment to a couple of days and assigned Thomas as her back engine temporarily (to ensure she will not be scared after having told him about James's story) and Rosie taking his branch line work during this (becoming a part of the engine family). He then revealed that he planned to punish Gordon & James by sending them into a small, abandoned shed for a month and push heavy goods trains since he knew that it will take a long time before they can apologize to Emily and respect her like how they looked down on Edward and Thomas in the past.

For Alfred and his younger brother Cecil (87546), he intended to send them away from Sodor because of their behavior (like when they bullied Edward for being weak in Edward's Day Out before he was set free from the sheds) and having helped Diesel (in this universe, Thomas and Duck's arch-enemy) during a war. This made all three engines very happy and relieved. Thomas even started to call Rosie his little sister to thank her for helping him save Emily from her original fate.

While in Black Loch, Emily was still concerned about a sea monster during her run with Martha & Jennifer coupled on her and Thomas trying to make her feel brave. When a boulder falls in-front of them, blocking their line and it has to be cleared away, she sees a black, mysterious figure moving in water and starts getting scared, closing her eyes and shaking (unlike bouncing on Mattel's universe, see trivia below) in fear. She then heard barking when opening them and sees a family of seals to which Thomas claimed to her that he knew there's no monsters at all, which made her happy as he intended for his role.

Later at night, Emily planned to take Thomas in their first "date" there to see the seals again, playing in water. At this point, they confessed their true "love" as Thomas revealed that he didn't want to see such a beautiful engine with a kind/sisterly personality to be scrapped, even calling Emily a emerald angel because of this (having seen this on her eyes when they first met), with her admitting that he's handsome on his blue paint (hence calling him a cobalt star and gave him a nickname, Tommy to which he blushed). Since they will return back to their branch line in next days, a couple decided to sleep under the moon after kissing each other on their cheeks.

Trivia

 * While bouncing is among the most criticized elements since Journey Beyond Sodor, the classic and new model series eras (before a CGI era) had shown engines shaking/shuddering their bodies. This was demonstrated by (as claimed here):
 * Duncan when "rock 'n rolling" in a same-named Season 4 episode.
 * Emily, Thomas and Rosie when they were scared in Emily's New Route, Flour Power and Hector the Horrid respectively.
 * Even Gordon and James shook in Thomas and the Magic Railroad and Thomas the Jet Engine respectively.
 * Edward's body rising and lowering in Edward and Gordon.
 * Daisy shuddering violently in her titular Season 2 episode.