Night at the Smelter's

**Night at the Smelter's** is an episode from The Wicked Adventures of Ian and Wilhelmina.

It also serves as a Halloween episode.

## Synopsis

One Halloween Night, while working at the Smelter's Yard, 'Arry and Bert tease Thomas, Percy, Ian, Maggie and Wilhelmina by telling a spooky story of a "Headless Witch", who haunts the Smelter's on Halloween Night. But Percy and the gang decide to pay them out by playing a Halloween Trick on the two diesels.

## Plot

The engines love working on the Island of Sodor, and Ian and his friends, human and witch alike, love living on the beautiful Sudrian island. But the Smelter's Yard is not a great place to visit, especially on Halloween.

Most of the steam engines fear the Smelter's, and are often teased by 'Arry and Bert the Ironworks Diesels. Despite the engines knowing that they will never be scrapped, 'Arry and Bert's teasing make them think otherwise.

One Halloween night, Thomas, Percy, Ian, Maggie and Wilhelmina were working at the Smelter's to collect some iron for Brendam Docks, to finish up for a Halloween Party later on. But Percy was still afraid of the Smelter's, despite Thomas' soothing words.

Once work was finished, the two tank engines and their companions were ready to leave, when 'Arry and Bert arrive and tease them to get moving or the "Headless Witch" will come.

Thomas, Ian, Maggie and Wilhelmina didn't believe it, but Percy did, being nearly afraid of everything. 'Arry and Bert tell Percy that the Headless Witch used to be a normal witch like Wilhelmina, but she got her cape snagged on a branch while flying through the forest. With a sudden jerk, her head popped clean off. And they think that legend has it that her ghost haunts the Smelter's on Halloween looking for her lost head, or somebody else's.

Percy whistles in fright, while the two diesels laugh. Thomas tells them off by saying about the time when they thought Emily was a ghost, although the diesels bring up the fact that Thomas thought the same thing, and the time when he got scared by an old steam whistle. Wilhelmina and Maggie reproach that the Headless Witch might have something to say about that. But the two diesels laugh and roll off.

Thomas tries to cheer up his friend, though not before Bert returns with some trick-or-treat bags for the Ian and his two friends. But when Ian mentions he can't eat chocolate, Bert teases him and rolls off, much to the latter's annoyance.

Later, Thomas and Percy had just finished delivering the mail at Dryaw station, when Ian and Maggie return from their trick-or-treating. But Wilhelmina was late, because her hat got caught in a branch and she had to go back for it, otherwise people would've thought she was the Headless Witch.

This gives Percy an idea of how to pay 'Arry and Bert back for scaring him and teasing Ian.

Later that night, Thomas, Ian and Maggie make their way back to the Smelter's Yard, where 'Arry and Bert were hiding behind the Breakdown Train, waiting to scare them.

Thomas and his two friends puff past the diesels and into the Smelting Shed. 'Arry and Bert follow him to the entrance to the shed.

Just as they were getting their trick ready, they hear spooky moaning sounds. Thomas thinks the "Headless Witch" has come back to haunt them, but 'Arry and Bert think it was all a prank.

Just as the moans are heard again, Thomas races out of the shed, and a ghostly witch-like figure emerges from the shed. 'Arry and Bert thinks it was Wilhelmina trying to scare them. But when she removes the sheet, they see that the figure wasn't Wilhelmina, but the Headless Witch in person. Scared, the two diesels race off.

When they had gone, Thomas, Maggie and Ian laugh, revealing that it had been a trick. Wilhelmina had used an invisibility spell to make her head invisible, and had changed her clothes to make them look torn up. And Percy had been wheeshing steam to create the eerie fog. Once they had finished laughing, they headed off to the Halloween Party at Tidmouth Bay.

The party was a big success. And the engines enjoy seeing the fireworks and the children's costumes. It was another Happy Halloween for Ian, Wilhelmina, Maggie and the steam engines on Sir Topham Hatt's railway.

As for 'Arry and Bert, they now think twice about treating the other engines, in case the "Headless Witch" comes back to haunt them again.

## Characters

* Ian Sweeney
* Wilhelmina
* Berrina (Cameo)
* Puffilia (Cameo)
* Lemillia (Cameo)
* Maggie
* Thomas
* Edward (Does not speak)
* Henry
* Gordon
* James
* Percy
* Toby
* Duck
* Donald
* Emily (Does not speak)
* Fergus (Cameo)
* 'Arry and Bert
* Sir Topham Hatt (Mentioned)
* Bertie (Cameo)
* Annie and Clarabel (Cameos)
* Henrietta (Cameo)
* Sonya Lee
* Michael
* Sarah Lynn
* Eddie
* The Headless Witch (Mentioned, seen in flashback)

## Trivia

* This is the first Halloween episode of the series.
* Reference to the Thomas & Friends episode, "Scaredy Engines" and "Halloween" are mentioned.
* This is the first episode to feature the Smelter's Yard.