Sodor Super Hero Engines

**Sodor Super Hero Engines** is the ninth story of the second set of *Between the Lines*. It was originally published on August 20th, 2022.

## Plot

Rosie is helping Mavis take stone down from the quarry and she's flagged down to let another train pass. She gets curious when children are reading a comic book about a superhero. It's revealed Percy is taking the train and the two wonder if there's any books about engines with superpowers. Rosie later informs Mavis about the superheroes, and the duo are excited about the prospect.

That night, Percy is taking the mail train with extra vans to take to the museum. Arry and Bert start getting ideas and sneak off after the little green tank engine. They blow their horns and scare Percy, but he asks them what the diesels need money for. After failing to come up with a good answer, Arry gives Bert a scrap threat, which leads Percy to wonder if that was why Diesel was acting out. The points switch and Percy heads down the line. The diesels are confused, but a new face shows up: Tramgirl. She covered the rails in oil slick, preventing the twins from moving.

After taking the artwork to the museum, Rosie was asking Percy questions as a news reporter. While giving her answers, a vase mysteriously floats after a workman almost drops it. Percy asks why Rosie has glasses and the words SODOR TIMES on her sidetanks, but Rosie metaphorically shrugged.

Toby and Mavis are shunting at the quarry, and Toby catches Mavis up on the recent happening with Percy. Mavis laments about Arry and Bert being on Sodor after they nearly killed Duck and Donald. Then Toby mentions the blue and yellow engine that Percy saw, and the museum opening soon. They and Henrietta hope no one else would be in danger, and Toby and Henrietta depart. Mavis then enters a secret lair to see her gadgets, revealing she is indeed, Tramgirl.

Saturday came, and Mavis was on her way to the party, when she nearly bumped into Rosie. The two head to the museum together, when suddenly, five dark red lorries that looked like Horace showed up. Rosie boldly moves forward and bumps one. It lands off-balance and explodes, much to the other lorries' horror. Rosie, slightly embarrassed about her own strength, rushed off to get a crane. However, Mavis is suspicious.

Stanley was on a run to the Blue Mountain Quarry, with the trucks being very troublesome and he stops altogether. Stanley laments that Charlie won't hear the end of it. A new tank engine named Supertank arrived to help Stanley up the hill by flying, much to the trucks' dismay. Paxton is shocked to see Stanley arrive 20 minutes early, and none of the engines realise Tramgirl had been watching them.

Suddenly, James was in trouble. Tramgirl was able to save him, but not his trucks. To make matters worse, Henry was coming the other way. Supertank managed to stop the train, and Henry and James cheer for her. Tramgirl feels very disgruntled. There was more trouble now: a fire which Belle and Flynn were having trouble extinguishing. Tramgirl tries to use her ice grenades, but Supertank uses her icy wind to put the fire out. Tramgirl unfortunately got frozen and Supergirl uses laser eyes to melt the ice. Tramgirl scolds Supertank for trying to steal her thunder, but Supertank sadly insists she's trying to help. Little did they know someone was watching.

The two heroes are on patrol when they hear someone calling for help. They begrudgingly team up to look for the engine in distress. However, they were ambushed by George who was about to use a shrinkray. Supertank, being subdued by Railtonium, was too weak to help rescue Tramgirl trapped in the net. Suddenly, another superhero bursts in; Wonder Engine, who is really Emily. She destroys George's device. Supertank's strength is restored and she saves Tramgirl. With Supertank's strength, Tramgirl's grappling hook and Wonder Engine's chain lasso, the trio quickly dispelled George and his lorry clone army. George, now tiny and painted orange along with Arry and Bert, are all trapped in a prison cell.

The three superheroes ditch their secret identities and become Mavis, Emily and Rosie again, and are resting. However, a news broadcast mentions Henry is a runaway train with bank notes charted for Scotland. After a distress call from Sir Topham Hatt, the trio quickly take on their secret identities and race to the rescue. Henry is worried and distressed, but is relieved to see the heroes racing toward him. They are about to save the day when...

...Mavis wakes up back in her sheds at Anopha Quarry to Toby calling out to her. He questions if she's alright, but upon the insistence that she is, Toby decides not to question further. Mavis is disappointed not to have superpowers anymore. Regardless, she is tasked to take a train for Percy who was having trouble building up steam. She does so and meets up with Rosie and Emily at the junction. The trio all reveal they had the exact same dream that night, and decide to keep it a secret. They often imagine themselves being Tramgirl, Supertank and Wonder Engine when they're dreaming or resting on breaks.

## Characters

* Thomas
* Henry
* James
* Percy
* Toby
* Duck
* Oliver
* Emily/Wonder Engine
* Belle
* Rosie/Supertank
* Stanley
* Paxton
* Mavis/Tramgirl
* Arry and Bert
* Henrietta
* Troublesome Trucks
* George
* Flynn
* The Dark Red Lorries/Horace clones
* Sir Charles Topham Hatt
* Gordon (mentioned)
* Donald (mentioned)
* Charlie (mentioned)
* Diesel (mentioned)

## Voice Cast

### Official

* John Hasler as Thomas
* Keith Wickham as Henry
* Nigel Pilkington as Percy
* Rob Rackstraw as James, Toby and the Troublesome Trucks
* Steven Kynman as Duck and Paxton
* Joe Mills as Oliver
* Teresa Gallagher as Emily/Wonder Engine, Belle and Mavis/Tramgirl
* Jules de Jongh as Rosie/Supertank
* Matt Wilkinson as Stanley
* Kerry Shale as Arry, the Troublesome Trucks and Sir Charles Topham Hatt
* William Hope as Bert and the Troublesome Trucks
* Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
* Ben Small as the Troublesome Trucks
* Christopher Ragland as the Troublesome Trucks
* Lucy Montgomery as the Troublesome Trucks
* Rasmus Hardiker as the Troublesome Trucks
* Rupert Degas as Flynn

### Fan chosen

* Fred Tatasciore as George
* Will Arnett as The Dark Red Lorries

## Trivia

* The title of this story is a play on the 2019 Cartoon Network animated series *DC Super Hero Girls*.
* The story parodies several elements of *DC Comics* and its lore:
	+ Tramgirl is based upon Batgirl, with her purple and yellow outfit being based upon her *DC Super Hero Girls* counterpart.
	+ Supertank is based upon Supergirl; as Rosie, her secret identity, she wears reporter glasses, akin to Superman whenever he is Clark Kent. Supertank's weakness, Railtonium, is based upon Kryptonite, a weakness to Superman and Supergirl.
	+ Wonder Engine is based upon Wonder Woman. Her primary weapon, the Cable of Correctness, is based upon the Lasso of Truth.
* Most of the story is a fantasy sequence ala *Big World, Big Adventures!*.

## Continuity

* Duck mentions Horace being at a farm, which has been the case since *Diesels and Westerners*.
* Arry and Bert had been mentioned to attempt to kill Duck and Donald, nods to *Diesels and Westerners* and *Don't Fear the Scrapper*.

## Links

* DeviantArt
* Fanfiction.Net (Chapter 8)