Teamwork is Key

Teamwork is Key is the forty-first episode of Sodor High School: Thomas and Friends Tales.
==Synopsis==
Leo and his hockey team try to get a hotheaded friend to see the value of cooperation.
==Plot==
At the Ffarquhar Arena, Leo, Mikey, and their hockey team, the "Green Machines" (composed of the McIntosh twins, Hank, Murdoch, Sidney, Paxton, Den, Dart, and the Splinterson's friends Raphael Abbey and Donatello Paulson) are having practice since football season has ended until spring. As the first game of the season is next Friday, they're practicing hard. However, Raph acts out and is unwilling to work together with his teammates, sometimes nearly coming to blows with Leo before being stopped and scolded by Casey, the team's coach.
Spencer and his team, the "Silver Streams" (composed of Max, Monty, and teens named Logan, Samson, Dustin, Sam, Alarac, Cecil, Alfred Patrick, and Neville) show up for practice, with Spencer mocking the "Green Machines" for their less than admirable teamwork. Logan and Neville try to defend the "Green Machines", but are stopped by Cecil, Alfred, Max, and Monty.
It's then the coach for the "Silver Stream", Horace Schemer, arrives. Schemer runs out onto the ice, only to accidently slip and fall, resulting in Casey going over to help him up. Schemer shoos Casey and the "Green Machines" away so that the "Silver Stream" can practice. Schemer starts going over one of his "Schemer's System of Success" speeches, much to Spencer and his friends' annoyance since they knew Schemer knows nothing about hockey and only has the job to try and impress the school's superintendent, who's a hockey fanatic. Spencer takes charge of the practice, not wanting to lose to Leo and the "Green Machines". As the team gets started with practice, Schemer realizes that no one listened to his speech and wonders to himself why he took up the job in the first place.
Leo and the others leave the arena, with Hank questioning Raph about his reckless attitude in the sport. Raph pays no attention, to the dismay of the rest of the team. Mikey teases Raph for hating to lose games, earning him a smack upside the head by the hothead. At school the next day, Leo is thinking about the upcoming hockey game and knows he and the others won't stand a chance against the "Silver Stream" unless Raph learns to work with the team. Gordon, James, and Percy approach Leo, who explains the situation with Raph. Gordon assures Leo that Raph will learn to work with the team—because Spencer will make sure to never let him, Leo, or the "Green Machines" live down a loss.
Thomas and the group talk about the upcoming game, knowing that Raph is the problem because he isn't interested in teamwork. Duck soon gets an idea. Later outside during lunch, Leo, Mikey, Donnie, and Raph are summoned to the grounds outside by Edward, BoCo, Bill, and Ben. They challenge Leo and the likes to a quick game of Football, which also requires teamwork, to Raph's objection. When Bill and Ben taunt Raph by calling him a chicken, Raph angrily accepts the game challenge. Watching from nearby are Thomas, Emily, Rosie, James, Percy, and Gordon, who hope Duck's plan will work. A few minutes in, Leo, Mikey, Donnie, and Raph are losing four to nothing, causing Duck to acknowledged his plan failed. However, when Bill and Ben keep mocking Raph, they anger him into saying he can prove that he could work with his friends as a team. As the game resumes, Leo calls out to Raph to pass the ball, and, to everyone's surprise, Raph does just that, allowing Leo to score a goal. Raph is praised for passing the ball, and it makes him think that working as a team isn't as bad as he initially believed it to be. At the end of the game, through working with his friends as a team, Raph's team wins six to four, fully convincing him to do the same while playing hockey.
Suddenly, Spencer and a few of his teammates show up, unconvinced that Raph will keep his word on working with the team, something Sam, Alaric, and Patrick manage to back up, causing Raph to suggest a wager, amusing Spencer and shocking Leo, Donnie, and Mikey. Spencer states that if the "Green Machines" win, each member of the "Silver Stream" will cough up fifty pounds each, donating the money to the "Green Machine's" choice of charity. However, if the "Silver Stream" wins, or Raph breaks his promise on working with his teammates, then Leo, Raph, Mikey, and Donnie have to give up playing hockey and serve the "Silver Stream" for the rest of the school year, stunning Thomas and the others. Logan and Neville try objecting to the bet, but are quickly shut down by Sam and Spencer. Raph accepts the wager, and Spencer and his friends leave in laughter, much to the concern of everyone else. Logan is unhappy about the bet, annoying Alaric as he points out that as long as they listen to Spencer and not Schemer, they will win easily. Neville comforts Logan.
Raph is confronted by Bill and Ben over stupidly accepting a high stakes bet with Spencer, while Thomas and everyone else are worried and hoping that the "Green Machines" will win the game. Later at the Ffarquhar Arena, Raph is keeping his promise during practice, working with his teammates to score goals and get the puck. Casey is most surprised, yet delighted, by the sudden change in Raph's attitude towards teamwork. Although the "Green Machines" now have a chance, the game against the "Silver Stream" will still be difficult to win. As the team hits the showers, Patrick is shown spying on the practice from the seats and leaves to report the info to Spencer.
During the bus ride home, the team discuss who's coming to see the game next Friday night. As soon as Leo brings up Emily, Thomas, Annie, and Clarabel, he is teased by his friends for liking Emily more than as a friend, with Donnie claiming Leo has a really high chance of having her as a girlfriend and Raph jokingly threatening to give Leo a knuckle sandwhich if he doesn't ask Emily out soon. Donald and Douglas, however, know that Thomas also really likes Emily, despite his denials. What nobody else knew is that Emily has feelings for both Thomas AND Leo, leaving her torn over who she likes more—and that dream she had involving Diesel 10 doesn't exactly help the matters.
At the Splinterson residence in the evening, April has dinner of spaghetti and garlic bread prepared as Casey and his two sons return home. Hamato Yoshi also shows up for dinner, glad to hear that Raph has learned the values of teamwork. During everyone eats, Hamato Yoshi asks Leo and Mikey to, the next time they see Donnie and Raph, ask their friends if they would be interested in learning martial arts under his guidance. Mikey likes the idea and briefly daydreams himself, Leo, Raph, and Donnie as ninja warriors who serve as protectors of the city and fight against a band of evil ninjas. Leo dryly remarks that Mikey reads too many comic books, but, at the same time, does like the idea of training with Raph and Donnie.
At the Boxford mansion, Spencer and his team are notified by Patrick about Raph's success during practice, worrying Cecil, Max, and Monty. Spencer decides they will have to find a way to trick Raph into forgetting his promise, to the disapproval of Logan. Patrick suggests getting Schemer to do the dirty work through a guidance session at school, an idea that Spencer approves of.
==Characters==
* Thomas 
* Emily 
* Percy 
* Rosie 
* Leo
* James 
* Gordon 
* Edward 
* Henry 
* Duck 
* Spencer 
* Donald and Douglas
* Murdoch 
* Hank 
* BoCo 
* Bill and Ben 
* Paxton 
* Sidney 
* Den 
* Dart 
* The Splinterson family
** Mikey 
** Mrs. Splinterson 
** Mr. Splinterson 
** Hamato Yoshi
* Donnie (Debut)
* Raph (Debut)
* Samson (Debut)
* Sam (Debut)
* Logan (Debut)
* Dustin (Debut)
* Neville (Debut)
* Max and Monty (Debut)
* Alaric "Old Stuck Up" (Debut)
* Cecil and Alfred (Debut)
* Patrick "Lord Harry" (Debut)
* Horace Schemer (Debut)
* Annie and Clarabel (mentioned)
* 'Arry and Bert (mentioned)
* Mavis (mentioned)
* Mrs. Drewry (mentioned)
* Olivia (mentioned)
* Mr. Baldwin (mentioned)
* J.B. King (mentioned)
==Cast==
==Trivia==
* The events of "Meet Leonardo" are mentioned.
* Schemer is the second "Shining Time Station" character to appear in the series after Stacy.
* This episode features the largest cast yet and also features the most character debuts (12 in total), excluding the first episode's character debuts. The largest cast record would be broken in the next episode.
* Mikey's daydream about himself, his brother, and two friends as a crime-fighting team parodies some of the first issue of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Mirage Comics, and their enemy "The Grater" is based on the main villain "The Shredder" (who, ironically, was going to be named "Grater" among other names). Some lines in the daydream were even adapted from the first issue:
** "Shredder! We are here!" (Leo)
** "Shredder! Face us!" (Donnie)
** "Shredder! Do you fear us?!" (Raph)
** "I am here! Now, come and face your doom!" (Shredder)
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