Emily's Bad Attitude

Emily's Bad Attitude is the thirty-first episode of Sodor High School: Thomas and Friends Tales.
==Synopsis==
A meeting with Daisy causes a drastic personality change in Emily.
==Plot==
School has ended, and the students are glad as now they can enjoy their Summer vacation. On the second day, Thomas, his sisters and Emily take the local to Knapford as the girls need new summer clothes and Thomas is getting a new air conditioner for the house as the old one gave out the night before. Emily remembers a time when the generator for her home's air conditioning unit broke during a heat wave, and it was ironically fixed three days later when the heat wave had stopped. The green-haired girl also expresses her joy of spending time with her friends outside to make up for all the summers she spent indoors and alone at her home pool. As the siblings continue with their own bisiness, Emily hopes that she'll still be able to see them after Diesel 10 is dealt with and she returns home.
Later after the girls had gotten their new clothes (swimsuits included), the group of four make their way to the appliance shop for the new air conditioner. On the way, Emily bumps into someone; said person is Daisy, who snaps at Emily and walks away. Thomas helps Emily up and they continue on. A few steps later though, Emily stops to look at a poster for the Knapford beauty contest set to take place at the beginning of the summer season. Annie mentions they know a few girls who entered the contest, and they had a great time and even made new friends. Emily automatically chooses to sign up but Thomas worries about the chances that Diesel 10 could end up in the audience; Annie and Clarabel alleviate that fear by pointing out how the participants usually wear makeup and dresses that make them look unrecognizable and Diesel 10 doesn't even know the truth about Emily. With that, Emily decides to enter the contest after they get the A.C. unit.
Later, the friends arrive at the town theatre. Emily sees that most contenders in the contest are young girls but focuses on having fun. She eventually signs up under the name 'Emily Brighton' (as a precaution) and bumps into Daisy again, who is also going to participate. Daisy scoffs at the idea that Emily is entering the contest for the fun of it and declares she'll lose with this way of thinking before going to sign up. Thomas explains to Emily that Daisy takes competitions too seriously and advises Emily to just ignore her. The next afternoon while Thomas takes care of a few home projects, leaving Annie and Clarabel to stick with Emily while they're at pageant practice. As they watch toe other contestants, Emily notices how plain her dress is by comparison, and Annie offers to add some designs while Clarabel suggests adding flowers to her hair, which Emily accepts.
A short while later, Emily performs her practise run and does well enough to impress the judges, but not Daisy. After Emily's turn, Daisy tells her she won't win if she's nice and having fun, declaring she'll beat all the "losers". Her words get to Emily, and she boldly declares she'll beat Daisy. As a result of Emily's drive to win, she revokes her suggestions to Annie and Clarabel for her appearance and starts blowing off her friends' requests to hang out to focus solely on the contest. A few days pass, and everyone meets at Percy's home to complain about Emily having become a second Daisy, or at least "beauty contest Daisy", since that's the only time she becomes a diva. Thomas hopes that Emily will return to normal after the contest is over, but can't answer when Percy asks what will happen if Emily doesn't stop acting this way.
The night before the beauty contest, Thomas is reading a novel book when Emily comes barging into the living room and demands his opinion on what kind of necklace she should wear. Thomas chooses the ruby one, but loses patience when Emily chooses the diamond one and calls him a useless friend; at that, Thomas becomes angry and declares he won't be going to the contest since he and everybody else would be getting in her way and storms off. Though stunned, Emily brushes off his reaction as he's too loyal to just abandon her. At that moment, however, Thomas calls Rosie to watch over Emily tomorrow since Annie and Clarabel refuse to.
The next day, Emily, Annie, and Clarabel take the first train to Knapford and once they arrive, the sisters ditch Emily to go to a toy store without her even noticing. Emily enters the theater and engages in smack talk with Daisy, which clues Rosie in to what's been going on with Emily. As Rosie declares she's glad she isn't competing, Emily insults her, and Rosie clarifies that she doesn't want to act like a bigger fool than Daisy and reminds Emily of why she entered the contest in the first place; now that she abandoned that reason, she has nobody to cheer her on. Emily scoffs at the notion, but when she sees that none of her friends are in the audience, not even Thomas, her resolve wavers and Rosie seals it by telling her she's just standing sentry over her, not cheering her on. All this combined with seeing how she resembles Daisy in her reflection causes Emily to realize her horrible mistake and decides to go make things right—by dropping out of the contest, but not before telling Daisy that should she even win, her victory will be a hollow one without anybody to congratulate her. After that, Emily leaves with Rosie.
Later at Ffarquhar arcade, Thomas, Percy, Toby, and Mavis are hanging out as Thomas rants about Emily. Soon enough, the girls (joined by Annie and Clarabel) arrive, and Emily confesses to dropping out of the contest, wanting to make amends and spend time with her friends rather than be alone like Daisy. An unconvinced Thomas remains cross until he sees she's wearing the ruby necklace and accepts her apology, inviting her to play games with everyone since there'll be rain that afternoon. Emily knows she made the right choice, but can't help wondering about the outcome of the contest. It would turn out that Molly beat Daisy, who is so humbled by the loss that she apologizes for her behavior as well and promises to never act that way again, a promise everyone doubts she'll keep.
==Characters==
* Thomas 
* Emily 
* Percy 
* Rosie 
* The Brighton family
** Annie and Clarabel
** Dalton (mentioned)
* Daisy (Debut)
* Toby (does not speak)
* Mavis (does not speak)
* Sir Topham Hatt (mentioned)
* Diesel 10 (mentioned)
* Molly (mentioned)
* Lady Hatt (mentioned)
==Cast==
==Trivia==
* This episode was originally meant to be published in January 2015, but was postponed for the revival and eventually rewritten.
* In this chapter, Emily, full of determination to win the pageant, acts like her TV counterpart during Series 8-12. She returns to her original personality at the end of the chapter.
* Gordon, Henry, James, Leo, and Mikey were all originally going to appear, but were ultimately not included due to the chapter being rewritten. Had it not been for this change, Mikey would've debuted in this chapter.
* This is the fourth episode with Emily's name in the title, the previous ones being "Emily the New Girl", "Thomas & Emily to the Rescue!" and "Emily's Bad Day".
* Annie is shown to know how to add designs onto clothes.
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