Lost Relic Found

Lost Relic Found is the thirty-seventh episode of Sodor High School: Thomas and Friends Tales.
==Synopsis==
With Stephen missing, everyone tries to figure out what happened to him.
==Plot==
The morning after Stephen went to search for the crown, Millie wakes up to find he's not there to greet her like he does every morning, assuming he's sleeping in. After she gets dressed, Sir Robert comes to her room asking if she knows where Stephen is as nobody's seen him. When Millie suggests he's getting groceries, Robert decides to wait a few hours for his son to clock into work.
Inside Ulfstead Mine, Stephen has been unable to clear the entrance and goes deeper into the mine to find another way out. Sadly, the tunnels are either blocked or have gaps making it impossible to reach the other side. Worse was to follow as his battery-powered torch was about to die. As he's thinking, he trips over an old wooden chest and digs it out. What Stephen finds inside leaves him speechless.
At the castle, work continues as Rosie arrives for duty right when the Earl and Millie arrive. After they learn that she doesn't know where Stephen is, they ask around and Sir Robert even calls the Brightons to see if Dalton's seen him, to no avail. Fearing something's happened given how Stephen vanishing like this is unlikely, Robert files a missing person report with the police.
Meanwhile at the Brighton house, Emily is thinking about where Stephen could be during a nail-painting session with Annie and Clarabel and theorizes that Stephen went to go find King Godred's crown. While there's little to no evidence supporting Emily's theory, she, Thomas, and Dalton go back to the castle to search Robert's office for clues. The four of them and Millie find the hand-drawn one is missing and Emily explains that Stephen wanted to make his father happy by finding the crown, with the map leading to the mine serving as the final piece of the puzzle.
In the mine, Stephen is weakly following a tunnel while contemplating how the map ended up being useless since he found the chest with the crown by sheer luck. He discovers that he ended up in a loop and is back at the entrance. Nearly out of energy, he sits down to rest and finds his food and water almost gone and begins shouting for help again hearing no response besides his echoes.
Outside the mine's entryway, Thomas, Emily, Dalton, and the Earl arrived to find it blocked off. They assume Stephen isn't there and prepare to leave when Thomas spots the one of the firecrackers that the Troublesome Trucks gang used and shouts to Stephen, who hears him but has too much of a dry throat to shout back properly. Thomas and Emily hear nothing and begin to leave again, but Stephen drinks the last of his water and shouts loudly enough for them to hear. Thomas sends his father and Emily to get Jack from the castle so he can clear the entrance while he and the Earl try to clear some of the rocks, receiving help from the Kawasaki family who were in the area taking photos.
Dalton drives as fast as he could to the castle grounds. Upon arrival, Emily jumped informs Jack of the situation and he heads back down with Rosie offering her help and going with them. When they arrive, Jack quickly sets to work. Sir Robert guesses that Stephen is dehydrated and asks for a water bottle to give him, which Sakura provides. After five minutes of clearing, Jack props his bucket against the entrance to prevent it collapsing again before Thomas, Emily, and Rosie head inside to get Stephen.
Together, they walk into the dark shaft of the mine with Rosie carrying a light while Emily held onto Sakura's water bottle. The trio go down the tunnel Stephen's in and find him, Emily giving him the water bottle. Once he's able to speak, he thanks the teens and explains what he was doing before the girls help him to his feet as they all need to get out of the mine before the entrance collapses again; before he forgets, Stephen tells Thomas to bring the chest with him.
At the entrance, Jack knows the roof is going to cave in again and hopes his friends will get out soon. Running as fast as they can, the quartet make it out just in time. Jack reverses and everyone watches as the roofed caved in a second time, with Thomas saying it's best if the mine was left alone from here on out. After Robert reunites with his son, they all bring him back to the castle so Millie can do the same. Once father and daughter embrace, Stephen promises he won't go on any other adventures so she won't lose him, a comment that Emily is intrigued by when Millie mentioned being afraid of "losing her father, too". As they have their moment, Hiro speaks to Thomas, happy that after almost a year since he and Emily saved Hiro himself, the two are still helping people. Sir Robert asks if his son found what he was looking for, and Stepehn tells Thomas to give the Earl the cest, where they find the golden crown to their amazement. Sir Robert chooses to have Stephen present his discovery on the castle's opening day, but he asks that Mille be the one to do it, which she accepts.
After a few more weeks, the castle is finally completely restored. Many come to see the celebration, even James who had to use crutches. When Spencer insults him, Gordon tells him off and Caitlin offers to help him put Spencer in his place by racing him, with Gordon and Connor agreeing to it. Everyone goes quiet when the Earl walks on stage wearing a suit of armor, gives a speech on how proud he is of everyone who worked on the restoration, and Stephen for his work on the railway museum before having Millie present King Godred's crown. As the crowds cheer, Miloie mouths her thanks to Thomas and Emily.
A few speeches later, the crowds enter the castle and start their tours while Gordon, Spencer, Caitlin and Connor mount their bikes and begin their race, the former and latter two making a pact to make sure Spencer loses as James watches them head off. Back in the castle, Sakura wonders what kind of adventures Thomas and Emily will have next after saving so many people, and they both say in unison that "One can only guess," getting embarrassed upon realising what they said.
==Characters==
* Thomas 
* Emily 
* Percy 
* Rosie 
* James 
* Gordon 
* Annie and Clarabel 
* Spencer 
* The Kawasaki family 
** Hiro 
** Koyuki (does not speak)
** Yoshida (does not speak)
** Yuji (does not speak)
** Sakura 
* Dalton 
* Millie 
* Stephen 
* Sir Robert 
* Jack 
* Connor 
* Caitlin 
* Andrea (mentioned)
* Millie's mother (mentioned)
==Cast==
==Trivia==
* This episode concludes the series' adaptation of "King of the Railway".
* It's implied that Millie lost her mother and Stephen has been raising her alone.
* According to Hiro, the events of this episode take place almost a year after those of the second to fourth episodes.
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