*Jayde Walks Into The Store With The Door Bell Ringing Over Head When They See Zeb With A Broom Ready

*Jayde walks into the store with the door bell ringing over head when they see Zeb with a broom ready to smack some people.* Jayde: "Hey Zebedee I was wondering if that fabric had-" *Sees you and other Zorran.* "Uhh... do you need some help?" Zeb: "Jayde, get these two out of my store before I set fire to the next four blocks over." Jayde: "Okaaay..." *She ushers the two outside and begins to walk down the street with them.* "Alrighty, what the heck did you two do to make ol' Zeb miffed with you?"

Oh @cindercat01 , I made your Zebedee boy!! I got bored and since it’s starting to hopefully get warmer outside (which fuck me then) I decided to draw your boy.

Let me know what you think and I do wonder what he things too lol

Brotp?

I believe your supposed to give me a character to judge, but for the sake of answering I'll say- Spencer. BROTP: He and Gordon, the two are like "You're my favorite family member." And in my own cannon Spencer is Silver Link, who was the first A4, and since Gordon was the prototype for the A1's I imagen the two are very close because of that, and their just trying to keep their younger siblings from sticking a fork in an electrical socket.

Different versions of Gordon I promised- 12 years old: Gordon arrived on Sodor in my HM!AU at twelve years old, he mainly stayed merged to his engine body to make an illusion that he was older than he really was to the other engines, but they ran the math and knew he couldn't have been older than maybe 14. After Gordon rescued Henry from the tunnel that was when the others saw him de-merged from his body for the first time, and he stayed de-merged for the rest of the time Henry was recovering. Afterwards Gordon joined the others in the upstairs house instead of staying in his engine body. 100 years old: In present-day of 2022 Gordon had been retired from Sodor's express line since 2005 which his two adoptive daughters Pip and Emma now run. He has a long-distance marriage with Rebecca who still works on Sodor while Gordon works in a developing town called Lavender Meadows. He's currently the only standard gauge engine working in the small town with a narrow-gauge line being built around the hills which has one diesel working on it. He's been nicknamed Elder Dragon because of him being a steamy and he acts as an old grandpa dragon to everyone he meets, wise but intimidating. He now has a lavender livery with a number 1 on his tender and a purple dragon painted up his boiler, he also has a tattoo on his human body of a purple dragon on his back. Diesel AU: Gordon is a British rail class 55 whom pulls the express. After Sodor became a heritage line some steam engines started showing up but the fat controller keeps them closer to Vicarstown for the steam enthusiasts to see them when they first come on to the island. Flying Scotsman has actually taken a liking to Gordon as he reminds him of his older brother Galeing Gallaway. So he's sort of tried to take him under his wing with Gordon wishing the old galloping sausage would leave him alone. Role Reverse AU: The prototype of Sir Nigel Gresley's A1 Pacifics, the Galeing Gallaway, the world-famous engine for the first to go 105 miles per hour. The one to also travel the world in the 1960s, and the eldest brother to Scott. GG is cocky much like cannon Flying Scotsman. I like to imagen that if the two met they'd never shut up about getting out of the other's way and continuously trying to one-up each other, while Gordon and Scott are just watching them fight like children and trying to hold back their laughter.

Fusion of Flying Scotsman and Gordon, Scordon Gresley. It took them a month and a half before they were forcibly unfused because they also accidently fused with Spencer and the double H's.

Giant AU Gordon, he's not cannon but I'm debating writing a skit where Thomas shows up to an island full of giants.

Full body and colour ref-

Gregory: you don't even look like your from here.

*Indigo gently picks him up and places him on his shoulder.*

"Point the way."

Full body and colour ref-

Gregory: you don't even look like your from here.

Jayde sighed as they poured an unfinished coffee down the sink. It had been close to a few days already that the engines had been human for, and only a day longer to Jayde after they had recovered from being a snake. They had to heavily admit it by this point, they felt like pain.

They were so tired and exhausted, they had been having nightmares every night since turning back into a quadcopter, and the little stress of managing the engines to make sure they didn’t kill themselves was beginning to take its toll. Though Jayde would be an idiot if they didn’t admit they were in denial about it in the beginning.

“Jayde?” Edward asked from behind them making the quad-whirly-birds blades swivel in attention. “Yeah Edward?” “Are you alright? You’ve been rather sporadic as of late.” “I really need to spend a night in my soul chamber, a lot has been getting to me.” It was a futile effort if you tried to lie to Edward, so Jayde didn’t even bother to try brush him off. “Would you like to talk about it?” “I would but I don’t need to involve you in my personal drama. That and I’m to tiered at the moment.” “If you’d like I can finish up here.” The old iron said as he carried some plates over to the kitchen counter.

“No, no. My body, my responsibility. You guys are my guests not indefinite house mates.” Jayde said as they put the plates in the sink. “If you’re sure…” Edward said before grabbing a glass of water and heading up stairs to bed. “Sweet dreams Eddie.” Jayde waved. “Goodnight Jayde.” The engine said kindly with a soft smile.

That left Jayde back to their thoughts again as the lower level was now vacant of humans. It was just edging at 9:30 so Jayde left the dirty dishes in the sink and decided that was a problem for future Jayde to deal with. They sauntered over to their control panel and opened their soul chamber, then slinking inside and got comfortable as they curled up. That was when the nightmare started.

Jayde woke up back in the cage that they escaped Vicarstown from, turned back into a snake. Jayde looked around, it was the same cage with the glass in front of them and heat lamp above with a shallow water dish to the side. Jayde had a few dreams start out like this, they’d become jaded to it ironically. The idea of going back to being a snake again just didn’t hit as hard anymore. They just need to break the glass all over again.

So they got to headbutting the glass again, Jayde was glad now that the former pain was now rather numb as they continued to thump against the glass. Once Jayde realised this dream wasn’t going to let them off easy they got a little more forceful. They coiled up against the back wall of the cage and launched off it like a spring, flying full force into the glass and promptly shattering it. But then came the fall.

Jayde hadn’t even looked out the glass to see how far the floor was, or in this case no floor at all. They fell into a black void and kept on falling as they watched to see what would happen next. They weren’t afraid of heights, or falling, or even the impending crash. But the fear of no sight was a slight worry.

But as they kept falling the black void started to gain some light until it was rather bright and Jayde was right back to being blinded again. But when they looked, they found that they were falling towards a dessert ground. That immediately made Jayde’s soul sink as they knew where their nightmare was sending them now. The deserts of Iraq, the battle field that took their twins life.

When Jayde blinked what was falling a few meters in front of them was Angel, their twin brother. And a few seconds later after they made eye contact bullets started whizzing past them along with rockets and other such war projectiles. Jayde dodged and rolled in the sky as they maneuvered out the way of the bullets, Angel with his two good remaining rotors doing the same.

Jayde could remember these minuets vividly, they watched as something like a cheap re-enactment played out in front of them while the real story played out in sound in the back of their head.

‘Gem! I’m on my last body and my last rotors!’ ‘Hold out Halo I’m in pursuit!’ they spoke through a radio when Jayde gasped. ‘Halo! Missile to my 11!’ Angel rolled to the right and dodged a rocket that was launched and so did Jayde. But while their humanoid bodies were missed, Angel’s quadcopter that was hovering high in the sky was struck.

A huge hole was created straight through the cockpit to the roof, meaning that Angel’s soul chamber was blown to pieces. And by proxy their soul as well.

Jayde could feel their soul’s pulse rate pick up dramatically as their chest cavity suddenly fell heavy and sore. “ANGEL!” Jayde shouted as she watched her brothers eyes flicker for a second before they dimmed and shut off completely. His rotors stopped spinning and soon he was quickly falling out of the sky. “ANGEL! BROTHER!” Jayde shrieked as they quickly put metal to the pedal and dived after their siblings lifeless husk.

But they suddenly began to withdraw power against their will as another voice spoke over Jayde’s radio. ‘Gem 02! Gem 02! Abort! Abort! You are about to hit ground level of enemy territory!’ Jayde knew that was their co-piolet but they ignored him and kept on going as their brothers heavy husk was approaching an enemy base.

But soon they lost all control of their body as their body put their power into reverse and they began to fly backwards and away from the assault of bullets. It was like something very akin to being in a vegetative state with puppet string tied to their every action as Jayde fought to get back control and charge right back after their brother.

But soon they were flying back to their own quadcopter and were soon inside taking a seat at the controls with a whole squadron of soldiers ready to evacuate. Jayde’s co-piolet dropped the forced control over their body and let them take the wheel to get them and all these other men and women out of there. Jayde had to bite down on their lip in anger as they took the controls and began to take off and out of that battle zone.

When they touched down back at base, Jayde exploded into tears of agony. They began to cry and wail in mourning for their lost twin to the enemy. They stumbled out of their chair and collapsed to the floor screaming at it while slamming their fist.

Jayde’s co-piolet had some heavy duty earmuffs on as they hugged the young aviation close, Jayde’s screams having made a few people double over in pain from the loud screeching. The man with the curly blonde hair did his best to hug Jayde in sorry for their twin, eventually Jayde stopped hitting the floor and moved to hugging their co-worker back, picking him up like a pillow in their size and crying their soul out into his shoulder.

“Capulet… please don’t leave me to…” Jayde cried until they opened their eyes again to see that they were standing at an open casket funeral for their said co-piolet. Fresh tears flowed down their cheeks but no sobs or any bated breaths could be heard this time, they were just numb.

Jayde fell to their knees and screamed into the open sky, their cries echoing in a white void as their body felt so weak from the misery. They continued to cry and cry when they felt presence suddenly on looking them.

When they looked down to see what was going on, they saw that they were now in a circle of people. People who all had whited out eyes and did not look very happy at Jayde. They ranged from the Duke and Duchess, Spencer, the victims of Thomas, James and Edward’s bodies, Ben and Arry, Capulet and even Angel.

Jayde almost felt like they couldn’t breath as they all began to whisper, but it was still loud enough for Jayde to hear. “Your fault.” They kept on changing with keeping the same monotone rhythm and note. Jayde covered their ears only for the sound to not be blocked in anyway, no matter how much they tried to scream over them or block out their sound they could still hear them no matter what they did.

Eventually it became so suffocating that Jayde was very sure they were about to split apart like cheap plastic or an old brittle egg. Jayde screamed openly into the sky as a lost cry but what came out was a long almost monstrous hiss.

When Jayde stopped and they slumped back down, they were shocked to see that they were trapped and binded in a wrap of snake coils. They followed the body up to its source where they found their battle ready body attached to the mass of coils.

Jayde could tell it was their larger battle ready body because of the indented groove along the top of its head that their piolet body did not have. But there was so much wrong, at its waist was where the snake body began like a centaurian creature, and its eyes were black with white cat pupils and red diamond rings around its pupils. And it looked very pissed off.

It constricted its grip around Jayde and used the tip of its tail to make Jayde face it. Jayde was worried as this was new.

“Pathetic.” It spoke. Jayde glared up at it to at least save some face. “What is?” They asked. “THIS!” it shouted with a deafening roar that shook the void they were in. “YOU! You could be out there instead of here! Your failing yet again a problem that you can easily take into your own hands. You know you can just storm that wretched building you came from going gun hoe! You know you can just shut this pain and anger down in an instant and yet your hiding and playing nurse!” it shouted.

Jayde could feel their soul sink as they staired up at this monster. It’s words were very true and brutal. “You could have done this, two times prior. First with Angel, and then with Capulet. You had an extra body ready to go that you could have used to rescue Angel if you had just taken the rocket instead of his body. The simple, basic, stand in, decoy method.” It paused. “You could have taken the rounds and used yourself as a shield for Capulet.” “I know I’m bullet proof but that doesn’t mean I want to get shot!” Jayde yelled causing them to get constricted tighter.

“Pathetic… your excuses are as pathetic as your courage! You have the power to stop this! You have the complete capability to rescue all these poor engines and be the hero! You had all the responsibility to rip yourself apart to save those more vulnerable than you! Have you even stopped to think that there might be a bigger picture?!” It yelled. Jayde just staired up at it quizzingly, not understanding what it meant. “What makes you think they’re going to stop at Sodor? What’s stopping them from moving over onto the mainland and continuing this strife? Once they get over to the mainland what’s stopping them from spreading like a virus across the whole country? What would stop them from going after the Duke and Duchess? After Spencer!.” It let Jayde have a moment for that to sink in.

“You’re a coward, you act like the hero but really your just a scared little child. You’ve known for days now that Duck has been turned back to normal yet you refuse to see him, you know you could be flying with the engines you have across Sodor to help find their bodies. They couldn’t of taken their humanoid bodies to far from their engines after all for them to make the transition. You know you can be doing more. And just think, what if they perfect what they’re trying to do? What’s stopping them from doing what they did to the engines in reverse? What’s stopping them from putting a human soul in a machine body? For all we know they could be on the road to discovering immortality.” Jayde paled. That was an incredibly good point.

“Then what the hell do you want me to do about it? I know what I saw in that building, if I went in there even with my battle ready body I could have the capacity to be shot down and changed into an animal all over again, they impaled me out of the sky pretty easily. And I have a right to be nervous about seeing Duck again, I revealed my huge secret to him when I didn’t know he was Duck at the time that he reminded me of my former co-piolet right down to the face and voice. I told him that I wanted to work up the courage to ask him how he dealed with the loss of his close ones since he had nearly eight-hundred siblings suddenly lost to the cutters torch. And I know from Thomas that Duck apparently doesn’t have the best view on me for some reason I had no idea about even before he became a duck.” Jayde said then grit their teeth as they pulled out a snarl at the mechanical naga in front of them.

“And don’t you dare tell me what I could have done in the past when I can’t do anything about it in the present! And your right! I am a scared child! I’m terrified for what the future holds for me! I’m terrified of the unknown! I’m worried sick about all my friend who are close to a hundred years old and possibly dying on me soon to! I’m mortified that I’m going to be living in a hell where all the people I hold close to me are suddenly going to be dropping like flies around me! So yes I’m scared! So YES I’m a coward! SO YES I can be doing something more! SO YES I KNOW I CAN BE BETTER! SO YES I KNOW I’M A DISAPPOINTMENT! I. DON’T. NEED. YOU. TO… TELL… ME… THAT!!” Jayde roared at the monster who was forced off of them by the shockwave of their voice.

When it skidded to a stop a few kilometres away from Jayde it only got up on its hands and smirked and said in a whisper- “Then prove it.”

In the blink of an eye Jayde was suddenly awake in their soul chamber, they gasped deep in for air as they could feel their internal systems having heated up rather dramatically. They shot out of their chamber and came sliding out on their belly, when they sat up on their backside they sharply gasped in and held back a shriek by what they saw.

Just like the monster in their dream prior, Jayde now had their legs replaced by a long mechanical snake tail.

They tried to squirm as if it was like an odd sleeping bag that wouldn’t come off but they ended up bumping into someone as they tried to back up. They knocked into Gordon and Edward who kneeled by the humanoids shoulders to stable them, the two bigger blue engines shouted and hissed in pain as Jayde’s body was hot to the touch and it burning them like supper heated plastic. They moved to sitting the mutant up by the blade guards that were cooler as the rest all looked in shock of what happened to Jayde, at a loss for their new appearance. It wasn’t long before James spoke up however. “Jayde? What the hell happened?” he asked. Jayde just staired at the offending new limb themself. “I had a… nightmare.” Not being able to say anything more.

“You had a nightmare?! Jayde, nightmares don’t do this.” Thomas said gesturing to the squirming limp sprawled out in front of them. “I… I…” Jayde started, only to have their eyes start to threaten to trickle down with tears. “I… don’t… know…” they managed to huff out as their snake limp began to wrap in on itself closer to them, almost like hugging their legs to their chest. Jayde just wanted to curl up into a ball and hide when they started to smell something odd through their weak near sobs.

They looked to Edward and Gordon to see that their hands were burnt. “Edward? Gordon? Did you burn yourselves?” “What?” Gordon asked then looked to his hand that now had some first and second degree burns on it. He hissed as the pain suddenly hit him and Edward again when they took notice.

Jayde did their best to ‘stand up’ and move over to a cupboard to get the first aid kit. “Sit down at the table for me would you?” “Jayde are you serious?!” James yelled. “What?” Jayde asked genuinely sounding confused. “You just had this happen to you and your already up and trying to take care of Edward and Gordon?” Henry asked following James’s tone on how bewildered he was by Jayde’s sudden turn around.

“They’re burnt and that was my fault, is it weird of me to want to patch them up after my mistake? I did the same with Thomas’s cab roof.” “It’s weird that you went from looking like you were about to cry to suddenly jumping up to help us.” Gordon said as he held his hand. “Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. That’s the army way. I haven’t got the time to feel sorry for myself. Nor should I. It happened, it’s here despite it not being welcomed, I’ll deal with it later. Right now these two are a little more of my concern.” Jayde rebutted while pointing to Gordon and Edward.

The engines were all stunned but also a little concerned, this was how Jayde had been acting for days now compared to their normally hype-man like personality and friendly, supportive charm. “Now are you two big blues gonna stand there in pain, or do you want me to patch that up for ya?” The two former tendered loco’s walked over and sat across from Jayde as she got to work on patching them up, all of the others worrying about the crowned quadcopter.