Operation 800080

**Operation #800080** is the eighth episode in The Sudric Legends and the third episode of the Unwanted Guests Arc.

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## Plot

One day, Shane Dooiney returns to Ryan and Gordon's Shed, remarking that it's pretty quiet. The shed is a mess and Shane gets very worried, asking if anyone is there and saying he's going to start freaking out. He then finds Godred's corpse hidden behind a van. Shane tries to calm down with deep breathing, but is horrified when he finds more of his friends's corpses, asking why they're so high up. Shane finds another corpse in a shed and begins panicking and making nervous noises. Sobbing, he tells whoever killed his friends to not show themselves, but Gordon emerges from the back, remarking that there's still one left. Shane is shocked and the big engine tells him that his friends kept squirming around. He charges at Shane, who dodges, but Gordon comes from the side and stabs him.

Ryan arrives and asks what Gordon is doing. Gordon explains that it was the only way and that he had to kill Duck and Ninja Buddy as well, asking Ryan if he's going to try to stop him as well. Ryan tries to leave, but Gordon approaches him. Ryan tries to get him to stop, revealing that it was all a dream. In a last ditch effort to wake Gordon up, Ryan screams at him, calling him a worthless over-glorified tube of shit. This results in Gordon waking up from his dream screaming and lunging at Ryan. The two then begin making plans, but Gordon complains about it being 3AM. Ryan notes that the Culdee Fell engines only sleep for two hours and they have to act fast. The two begin scheming so they can get rid of their guests and rest.

Six hours later, Duck and Ninja Buddy find their friends lying on the floor, asking what happened. Ryan gives up, saying they can't figure out how to get rid of their guests. The doorbell rings and an exhausted and pissed off Ryan answers it, but it turns out to be the mail train. The mailman introduces himself as Tiny Tim, who is filling in for the regular guy. Tim says he has a package for Gordon and the latter pounces on it and immediately takes it away. Ryan is in awe of Tim, but the moment is cut short when Godred loads a gun and screams at Tim until he leaves, believing he was a Jehovah's Witness. Gordon descends further into madness as Ryan tries to calm him down, but they are being watched by Alaric.

Alaric heads into an upstairs room to meet with Eric. The latter is confused as to why they can’t tell the others about what they are doing and Alaric admits that he is manipulating him because he is the youngest and most naive, to which Eric agrees. Alaric wants to start the meeting, but Eric is concerned about a mini truck who has been staring at him for a while, Alaric tells him to let the truck be and they leave the room just as Duck enters. The mini truck warns Duck that Alaric and Eric are going to try to kill him later, but the latter brushes it off as nothing. Duck takes the mini truck downstairs and couples it to a train. Ryan makes a train of his own and leaves for the waste dump, alarming Gordon, who doesn’t want to stay with the purple freaks. The two have a dispute about the situation, but Ryan leaves, leading Gordon to seek out help from Duck and Ninja Buddy. Gordon begins the discussion, but gets interrupted by Patrick flying into a line of Mini trucks. Duck whispers into Gordon's ear about something at the Blue Mountain Quarry which could help them. The shed crane proceeds to collapse due to how much damage it has sustained. Duck and Ninja Buddy shove Gordon out of the way just in time. When the dust settles, Gordon decides he will go to the quarry.

Later, Ryan came back to find his shed was a mess. He asks what happened, and Duck tells him to "take a guess" as Ernest, Eric, and Godred speed down from the upstairs track on flatbeds and crash to the floor below.  Ryan asked what Gordon was doing and Arthur, who was helping clean up with Stepney and Rocky, said he would do their jobs if they cleaned the shed. Arthur yelled at a crying Shane, not understanding anything about the mountain with a fear of heights. Ryan asked Stepney what Gordon was doing and the Bluebell engine told him he would be at the quarry right about now.

Meanwhile, work was going on as usual at the Blue Mountain Quarry. Skarloey arrived, surprised to see Gordon pulling in. The old engine teased Gordon, asking if he was there because the express was cancelled, but Gordon told him he was there for another reason. Gordon asked if he could see a new machine that was at the quarry, but Skarloey angrily told him no. His answer would always be no, as only authorised personnel were allowed near it. Gordon decided to ask someone more naive and his chance came when Peter Sam puffed into view. Gordon mentally prepared himself, took a deep breath, and then raced over to Peter Sam, crying about how he couldn't see the new machine. He was curious about the new machine, but Skarloey yelled at him and told him to get lost! Peter Sam sympathised with Gordon and led him to the machine, as long as Gordon didn't tell anyone he did it. Once they arrived at the drilling site, Peter Sam explained that the new machine was a type of drill. It used lasers and created explosions, but it was still in the testing phase and wasn't wasn't safe. This leaves Gordon intrigue.

Back at the shed, Ernest and Wilfred are debating whether or not Brazilian football was a government conspiracy. Ryan asked Alaric and Eric if they wanted to go to the store with him, but Alaric told him that they had important business to attend to. Just then, Gordon returned and a furious Ryan asked where he was, but Gordon said that he had made a magnificent discovery. Gordon told the confused tank engine to follow him outside and the Culdee Fell engines wondered why. Ernest assumed it was some "homo shit" but it was actually a "truck with a giant fucking tumour on it", as Ryan put it. Gordon had the laser drill positioned on a turntable and uncoupled himself from his tender to demonstrate how the machine worked. Gordon claimed that it would be the solution to all of their problems as he fired up the machine. Ryan was sceptical, but the machine worked well, so well that it sent Gordon flying backwards and knocked Ryan, as well as several trees, onto the ground. After he got up, Gordon surveyed the large hole in a brick wall that the machine had made and laughed hysterically. Ryan told him to get rid of it, but Gordon spun around on the turntable and asked Ryan if he wanted to try. The latter didn't want the weapon pointed at him and backed away, but Gordon said it would be able to get rid of the purple weirdos once and for all. Ryan then left to get ready to go to the store, threatening Gordon that he'd better run if he came back and the machine was still there. Gordon was relieved that Ryan had left, because now he wouldn't have to explain to Ryan that the machine broke as soon as it fired.

Ryan returns to the shed and the Culdee Fell engines get ready, some annoyed. Patrick says he can't leave yet, as he is waiting for his uber. Ryan points out that he just ate, but the mountain engine wanted "actual good food". Ryan asked Gordon for the cannon and the latter panics. Sometime after this, Ryan, Ninja Buddy, Duck, Culdee, Ernest, Patrick, Wilfred, and Godred arrive at their destination; The Vicarstown Shopping District. Ryan explains that it is a large complex in which standard, narrow, and minimum gauge engines are able to shop to their heart's content and that it was nearly closing time. Everyone heads into the entrance, but Duck notices Alaric move into an alley. Ryan asks Duck if he he's coming in, to which the mini responds that he is going to stay outside and enjoy the fresh air. Ryan and an excited Ninja Buddy then proceed into the shopping centre while Duck follows Alaric.

Inside a food store, Ryan buys goods from Bulgy, thanking him for his service. The bus rudely tells him to "take your crap and and leave". Ryan and Ninja Buddy meet up with Ernest and Wilfred, who have trucks of cheese. Ernest asks why they needed that much, as it would make even The Fat Controller sick just looking at it. Ryan says that it's Gordon's "time of the month cheese", confusing Ernest. Wilfred asks where Culdee and Patrick went. Elsewhere, the latter two mountain engines had found a large supply of green leaves that bring great pleasure. They hit the jackpot and quickly dug into the massive pile of lettuce, agreeing to not tell the other guys about it.

Outside, Duck follows the track Alaric was on and ends up in a warehouse. Duck looks around, but Alaric's booming voice echoes around the building to greet him as the track behind Duck slides away and the door closes. Alaric descends on a hoist and tells Duck that he is just in time to say goodbye. Alaric pulls out a knife and tells Duck his friends were fools to make this mistake and had dug their graves, which had been empty for far too long. Duck smugly insults Alaric's intelligence as an aura of dark red lightning emanates around him. Duck pokes fun at the flaws in Alaric's plan as his sclera turn black and his irises turn red. He claims that if anyone is going to kill Gordon and Ryan, it is going to be him. The ground begins to shake, causing Ryan to panic, but Ernest assures him that he will protect the cheese. Hiro and Connor panic as well, the latter assuming they're experiencin an earthquake and the former screaming about the store's lack of tables. Back in the warehouse, Alaric drops his knife and Eric watches from behind some crates as Duck laughs maniacally. He has officially entered Super Charged Mode and Alaric is now scared. Duck grew in size and lectures Alaric about his life; how Gordon, Ryan, and their "worthless little pet" ruined it, and how it upset him, to put it lightly. The last thing he needed was another pest getting in his way and so he told Alaric to get out of his sight as he cast Radiant Entrapment. A ball of white light engulfs Alaric with dark red lightning as he screams in pain. Everyone in the Vicarstown Shopping District iss thrown around due to the tremors. Ryan is that whatever just happened seems to be over and Ernest proudly declares that the cheese is safe, but it wasn't over yet. Duck's eyes return to normal and he smiles.

Culdee and Patrick arrive to find the store now a huge mess. Patrick rushes over to Godred, who had been crushed under fallen debris. Patrick cries out for him to hang on, but Godred dies in front of his friend. Patrick tries to get him to wake up, but he doesn't, causing Patrick to scream. Meanwhile, Alaric lays on his side near a cliff in a pool of his own blood after being sent flying by the explosion. Duck slowly approaches him and tells him he was overconfident and didn't plan well, but promised him he would grant his friends a swift death. Alaric was about to tell Duck he wouldn't get away with this, but the latter shoves him over the edge of the cliff, saying he was sorry that he "didn't catch that". Duck exits through the warehouse and Eric looks on in fear, stating that he has to warn the others. Duck reverts to his mini form and casually flees the scene.

Back at the shed, Gordon struggles to remove Shane Dooiney from a tall ledge. The mountain engine sobs and says he will stay there until he dies, Gordon threatens to cut him into little strips and put him through a paper shredder. Ryan casually returns and Gordon asks him why it took so long, which led to Ryan yelling at him about the supposed earthquake. Ernest diffused the situation by proudly presenting four vans carrying Gordon's time of the month cheese. Everyone is confused, but Ryan has some good news. However, he is cut off by Eric. The latter arrives with an important announcement and informs the other mountain engines that they had been staying in Gordon and Ryan's Shed in the presence of a great danger. Eric refers to it as a wretched beast, which upsets Gordon, telling him not to talk about Greg like that. Ryan jumps back in shock as he notices the large red engine next to Gordon and asks who he is and when he got there. Greg says he has been there the whole time, and is surprised that Ryan doesn't remember him. Ryan is confused, but quickly gets back to the main conversation and asks what the danger Eric was referring to was. Eric revealed that it was Duck, whom he saw hurt Alaric. Duck is shocked and Gordon doesn't believe him, which leads to Shane chiming in and saying Eric iss almost as high as him. Patrick is furious about a sick joke being pulled on him right after losing Godred, but then Godred exclaims that he is directly next to him and not dead.

Eric tries to defend himself, but suddenly Alaric enters the shed with several cuts and a bloody face. Everyone runs over to him to ask what happened and Eric thinks he won, but Duck starts to laugh. Alaric has amnesia from the battle and can't remember it, which Duck continues to laughs at. Eric, furious, remarks that it isn't over and that Duck will not get away with this. Gordon then asks Ryan what his good news is and the purple engine says he has finally found a way to get rid of the Culdee Fell engines. Gordon pounces on him angrily, thinking it's a joke, but Ryan nervously tells him it wasn't and tells Ninja Buddy to go get "the stuff". Ninja Buddy leaves and returns with a truck full of lettuce. Ryan buffers up to it, yells at the purple weirdos, and tells them that if they want it, they can go get it. Ryan shoves the truck through the door in the back of the shed and the Culdee Fell engines, who are now in a primal-instinct-like mode, chase after it. Gordon watches in disbelief and says he guesses its over with. He then asks Ryan where the door goes, but the latter tells him it's for him to know and for Gordon to hope to god he never finds out. Duck notes that the circumstances worked in his favour, but he could've been more careful and needs to be more careful from now on, or else it could jeopardise his plans. Ninja Buddy glares at him and he glares back.

Elsewhere, a red engine named Jones is sitting in a siding. Jones is seen on a cliff in an abandoned part of Sodor. In a tunnel close by, a mysterious engine asks in a booming voice if they are on the North Western Railway. Jones nervously confirms their location and the engine makes a remark about the scenery, saying it must remind Jones of his old home. Jones nervously agrees, but states he is unsure about something. The other engine cuts him off, saying that he can talk about his issue later and demanding that Jones give him the new information. The red engine tells his associate that an event will be held on Sodor in a few months and their best move would be to put their plan into action after it's over. The engine tells Jones he is proud of him and they leave before the sun rises while he states that they will reduce Sodor to a pile of twisted metal and scorching embers.

Sometime after this, Stanley is at Kirk Machan Station talking to Nevin, the Culdee Fell Railway diesel. Stanley comments on the diesel's good mood and Nevin explains that he has been living his best life and enjoying the peace and quiet ever since the other mountain engines left. He is in paradise, but not for long, as Hugo arrives at the station. The rail zeppelin's massive nose senses a threat approaching fast. Nevin looks up and sees the rest of the mountain engines charging towards him. They run in and demolish the shed. Stanley then says if anyone asks, he was never there. His driver gets into his cab and they quietly leave the scene.

## Characters

* Mini Trucks
* Troublesome Trucks (do not speak)
* Slate Trucks (cameo)
* Shane Dooiney
* Godred
* Alaric
* Ernest
* Patrick
* Culdee
* Eric
* Wilfred
* Gordon
* Ryan
* Ninja Buddy
* Duck
* Tiny Tim
* Unnamed Silver Mini (cameo)
* Yellow Mini Truck
* Rocky (cameo)
* Arthur
* Stepney
* Terence (cameo)
* Trevor (cameo)
* Rusty (cameo)
* Donald (cameo)
* Duncan (cameo)
* The Ballast Spreader (cameo)
* Skarloey
* Depressed Lorry (cameo)
* Sir Handel (cameo)
* Peter Sam
* Diesel (cameo)
* Duck (cameo)
* BoCo (cameo)
* Raul (mentioned)
* Gustavo (mentioned)
* Patrick's Uber (mentioned)
* Duke (cameo)
* Toby (cameo)
* Bulgy
* Sir Topham Hatt (mentioned)
* Hiro
* Connor
* Bert (cameo)
* Greg
* Fred (cameo)
* Sigrid of Arlesdale (cameo)
* Rex (cameo)
* Jock (cameo)
* George (cameo)
* Reg (cameo)
* Neville (cameo)
* Derek (cameo)
* James (cameo)
* Philip (cameo)
* Jones
* Mysterious Engine
* Unknown Tank Engines (do not speak)
* Unknown Diesel Engines (do not speak)
* Unknown Red engine (does not speak)
* Emiko (does not speak)
* Salty (cameo)
* Rosie (cameo)
* Container yard crane (cameo)
* Caroline (cameo)
* Nevin
* Stanley
* Charlie (cameo)
* Butch (cameo)
* Hugo

## Locations

* Sodor
	+ Ryan and Gordon's Shed
	+ Blue Mountain Quarry
	+ Vicarstown Shopping District
	+ Cliff
	+ Skarloey Railway
	+ Marthwaite Station
	+ Wellsworth Scrap Yard
	+ Unknown Yard
	+ Abandoned Siding
	+ The Container Yard
	+ Kirk Machan Station
	+ Whiff's Waste Dump (mentioned)
* The Mainland (indirectly mentioned)
	+ South Eastern Railway (mentioned)

## Abilities

* Duck: Super Charged Mode
	+ Radiant Entrapment
* Transformation

## Items

* Katana (dream)
* Knife (dream)
* Laser Drill
* Alaric's Knife
* Ryan's Sword

## Trivia

* This episode was originally going to simply be called "Operation Purple".
* The hex code for purple is #800080, which is where the episode gets it's name.
* This is the only episode to be released in 2019.
* This episode marks the first of a few things
	+ The first episode to feature its own original score.
	+ The first episode where Ninja Buddy is credited as being voiced by TheSudricLegend rather than a celebrity. Oliver admitted that this was a mistake on his part.
* Ernest's line where he mentioned calling Raul and Gustavo was improvised by Nick. This was because at the time, Nick had become obsessed with the character Gustavo, who had debuted in the twenty-third series of Thomas & Friends.
* Gordon's "time of the month" is a reference to a joke between Oliver and Nick where the former had become addicted to cheese after eating some for the first time in years.
* Ernest's line "You've got red on you." is a reference to the 2004 horror comedy film Shaun of the Dead.
* This is the longest episode in the series so far, being ten seconds short of being exactly half an hour. Oliver had planned at one point to split the episode into two to make it easier to work on, but decided not to as he felt the plot worked better as one episode.
* An update video that included a short clip from the episode was uploaded on July 17th, 2019.
* "Pull yourself together, Big G!" is a reference to the twenty-third series episode Gordon Gets the Giggles.

## Goofs

* When Alaric is overlooking Ryan and Gordon, an unidentified mini can be seen near Gordon. Oliver confirmed that he had forgotten it was there and didn't notice it until late into the editing process. The shed set had been disassembled at this point, meaning the scene couldn't be refilmed.
* When Toby reverses out of the Vicarstown Shopping District, one of his trucks hits the ceiling of the entrance, causing the building to move.