The Nartwin

**The Nartwin** is the third episode of The SCPs of Sodor and the seventy-third episode overall.

The Nartwin/Transcript

## Plot

In the winter of 1961, the Skarloey Railway engines are hard at work on their expansion through the Nartwin Valley. Stuart is taking a train of empty trucks past Rusty when the coupling on his brake van breaks. Since there are no replacements nearby, Rusty runs at the end of Stuart’s train and helps him to a water tower. As Stuart was enjoying his drink, his trucks break loose and run down the hill. Stuart gives chase, but the trucks derail on a bridge, and the Nartwin, who had avoided the falling trucks, walks away roaring. That night, the Nartwin attacks one of the worksites. The carnage is discovered by Rheneas and his crew the next morning.

Later, workmen are loading the wreckage into trucks and lorries. Dr. Hatley, Dr. Pierce, Agent Potter and Dr. Murphy are there. The latter inspects the workman’s dead corpse and concludes that whatever decapitated the person had very powerful hands, rather than teeth or claws, since there are no markings though they had found punctures. Just then, Agent Potter is notified about something being found at the bridge, so Dr. Murphy decides he and Dr. Pierce will investigate while Agent Potter and Dr. Hatley speak to the engine who was involved in the accident the day before.

Later, the four meet up again at Fort Sudrian. Dr. Pierce and Murphy say that the dead body bears a resemblance to the Nartwin, as well as SCP-1000. Agent Potter then confides that while they were talking with Stuart, another engine told them that a group of hunters went off to track down whatever attacked the worksite, thinking the attacker was a bear. Agent Potter had sent men out to find the Nartwin while the hunters were searching for it. By dusk, one of the hunters had fired at the Nartwin, and they follow the blood stains until it got dark. The Nartwin then attacks them and the only survivor retreats to Ivo Hugh and he and his crew take him back to Crovan’s Gate where he told Sir Handel Brown about what he saw. The next morning, the police found the bodies of the three dead hunters, and the story from the sole survivor made the papers.

At Fort Sudrian, Agent Potter and Dr. Pierce explain to Dr. Hatley and Dr. Murphy that they didn’t give the survivor amnestics because his drinking problem makes it easier to discredit his side of the story. However, because of the danger SCP–1000 poses, the foundation had ordered them to put the valley under lockdown. The engines and locals were not pleased about this. Old Bailey fought with three soldiers and managed to escape. Agent Potter berates one soldier and tells him to return to his post. Soon, he get notified that the Nartwin has been spotted just outside the town and they give chase. However, Duncan, who had been en route to Crovan’s Gate with the Little Kipper gets caught in the crossfire when he collides with one of their lorries.

Some time later, Murphy informs Pierce of the situation: Duncan’s crew saw everything, and both him and them have received amnestics. Potter confirms that they haven’t been able to relocate the Nartwin. Pierce then gives orders for them to search for the SCP again.

Potter and his soldiers search some more, but their efforts are futile. Hatley advises him to sleep afterwards, and he admits that this ordeal helped them find the perfect location for Camp Culdee. A soldier then says that the Nartwin has been spotted again. Potter and his men leave while Hatley goes into a signal box.

Once they find the Nartwin, Old Bailey appears and fights the soldiers, soon joined by it as well. Bailey tells it to run, while the commotion is overheard by Rheneas and Rusty. Just as Old Bailey punches Potter, he disappears into thin air.

The next morning, Potter tells Pierce what happened, much to the latter’s frustration for the situation. Potter is then informed over walkie-talkie that Nartwin has been found.

Pierce, Potter and Murphy, accompanied by soldiers, go to the Nartwin’s location. He then talks, expressing his desire to be killed because the railway’s expansion has destroyed his home and brother and wants to be killed. Pierce asks if his brother who was killed at the bridge. The Nartwin doesn’t respond, and Pierce looks at him before he approaches.

Back in 2015, Edward explains that the lockdown was lifted after the Nartwin was killed, covered up as a bear, with Sodor being the only place in the British Isles where they exist, as well as SCP-1000, also known as Bigfoot. Their kind was defeated by ancient humans in a battle for supremacy, with the survivors going into hiding and it was long thought the only survivors resided in North America. Later testimony from Old Bailey revealed that some still lived on Sodor and coexisted with the locals. Bailey also shared a different take on the legend of King Godred, where the tribes were hunted when the Danes took over, and only two survived: Crovan and Hawin. Bailey has also asserted that the legend has a several exaggerations. Though Edward admits that he can’t be sure that Bailey lied and or believe it, people to his claim to have seen the Nartwin as the SKR's Nartwin Express is still in service, meaning there could be more Nartwins alive. This worries him, particularly the relationship the SCP-1000 has with present day society.

A lorry travels along the Skarloey Railway, and the driver, who’s texting, hits a Nartwin on the road, which is witnessed by another one nearby. It returns to camp, where more Nartwins are revealed to live. It calls them to action, and sometime later, a group of them surround Atlas. The Nartwins then go on a rampage on the railway and the town, killing many people, along with Skarloey and Rheneas.

## Characters

* Edward
* Barry
* Iris
* Salty
* Gwen Hatley
* Gavin Potter
* Angus Murphy
* Rodney Pierce
* Crovan (Nartwin)
* Duncan *(does not speak)*
* Sir Handel Brown *(does not speak)*
* Old Bailey *(does not speak)*
* Hawin (Nartwin) *(does not speak; death)*
* Diesel *(cameo)*
* Rheneas *(cameo)*
* Rusty *(cameo)*
* Ivo Hugh *(cameo)*
* Stanley *(cameo)*
* Stuart *(cameo)*
* Falcon *(cameo)*
* Atlas *(cameo)*
* Duke *(cameo)*
* Adeline *(cameo)*
* Bertie *(cameo)*

## Trivia

* This episode takes place during the events of Creature.