Fortune Favours the Lucky

**Fortune Favours the Lucky** is the second episode of The SCPs of Sodor and the seventy-second episode overall.

Fortune Favours the Lucky/Transcript

## Plot

In 1917, a narrow gauge tank engine, Kyle Proteus, is traversing the Western Front with an ambulance train when the Germans start firing cannons. Kyle speeds up, miraculously avoiding all the ammo, and safely makes it back to the depot. Benson soon arrives to congratulate Kyle on his exploit and berate Stanley for derailing. Before departing, he orders Kyle to take ammunition to the front, where the Germans are preparing an attack, and for Stanley to follow with medical supplies. Stanley mopes about being bad luck, so Kyle assures him that adopting a self-confident attitude will help. Later, when Kyle is taking his ammunition train to the fort, the Germans start firing. Kyle sprints, only to be blocked by a fallen tree. A shell hits the unmoving ammunition train, killing Kyle in the resulting explosion. Stanley soon arrives at the scene, learning of his friend’s death. As Stanley backs away, Kyle whistles, but Stanley is unable to see or hear his friend's spirit, which then goes inside the lamp.

One wintry night in 1958, outside Crosby, two police officers come across a man who is trying to break into a house. They give chase and are joined by two more officers. They lose track of the man, who ends up stealing a lorry. An owl hoots and the fog comes down. The lorry’s engine starts spluttering as it stops on the crossing outside of Wellsworth. The man gets out just as he hears the horn of an approaching diesel. He gets to a safe distance before the diesel crashes into the lorry. The next morning, the lamp is found in the wreckage and is taken to Crovan’s Gate Works. Agent Potter arrives, only to find out that the lamp has disappeared.

Back at the Foundation’s base at Culdee Fell, Potter informs Pierce about the lamp's disappearance. Pierce explains to Hatley that the Foundation first got a hold of the lamp in 1955 when they discovered that Sodor has a history of unusual anomalies, but the lamp had disappeared before any testing could be done. With the lamp still not in their possession, all the Foundation can do is continue testing on the cave, and Hatley assures Potter that they will find lamp eventually.

 A year later, Geoffrey is pulling a post train and stops in the middle of the line. A deer and an owl pass by, while Old Bailey stops two thieves in nearby bushes. The men are subsequently arrested, and give up their boss. Potter visits the police station and spots a piece of paper with old Sudrian text. He gets ahold of it and brings it to Pierce and Hatley, with the latter being able to translate it. The text are descriptions of directions, starting at the Standing Stones.

Pierce, Potter and Hatley, along with a crew, go to the Standing Stones and follow its directions. Once the crew start digging, they discover a treasure chest with South African diamonds in it, that may have been stolen during the Second Boer War. On Pierce's orders, Potter and Hatley speak to the man behind the theft operation to see what he knows about the map and diamonds.

On the Skarloey Railway, Old Bailey stops Andreas to ask him for a ride, at which point a large rock lands on the rails in front of them. They attribute this luck to the lamp and carry on to Sudwin. As Jack leaves, Stanley starts to tell Andreas about Kyle Proteus, only to discover that mentioning his fallen friend's name causes the lamp to glow and Kyle to suddenly appear, this time seeable and hearable by everyone, including the nearby Potter and Hatley. The Foundation starts to take statements and erase the memories of all the witnesses. Potter picks up the lamp, causing Kyle to disappear.

At the Foundation’s compound, Hatley informs Pierce that the man behind the theft operation’s father had stolen the diamonds, ripped off his comrades, and fled to Sodor. Following his death, he willed them to Old Bailey, a friend of his. Despite this, not much else is known about Bailey.

They then summon Kyle and question him about his death. He describes that he latched onto the lamp after his death, and knew nothing about his name causing him to be summoned. When asked whether the good luck stems from himself or the lamp, Kyle explains that he doesn't actually "do" anything other than appear; he can’t explain how good things always happen. Ever since his death, he has developed a sixth sense, which causes an urge to help others. Suddenly, he feels said urge again and excuses himself, teleporting both himself and the lamp away.

Back in 2015, Edward explains that Foundation wasn't successful in finding the lamp afterwards. He also explains that Godred’s treasure wasn’t mentioned in the legend because it doesn’t exist. It was an idea for a tourism campaign started by the Sodor Council back in 1852. He also explains that Whiff’s guard was connected with the diamond thieves, having tipped them off, but no one knows what happened after that. Edward doesn’t believe the diamonds ended up on Sodor, and reminds them that Camp Culdee was closed in 1991. Diesel also then remembers  the last time anyone saw the lamp was the ordeal with Sir Topham Hatt and the hospital in 1962. Edward also believes that the lamp is wherever it needs to be.

Stanley is taking the Nartwin Express through the gorge where Andreas was killed. His brakes suddenly come on just before rocks fall onto the tracks; The lucky lamp is nearby, hidden behind some rocks. Kyle appears in his usual spirit form. At first, Kyle is upset that Stanley still cannot see him, but he perks up when he sees that Stanley recognises the luck.

## Characters

* Edward
* Diesel
* Barry
* Iris
* Salty
* Benson
* Andreas
* Stanley
* Kyle Proteus
* Old Bailey
* Gwen Hatley
* Gavin Potter
* Rodney Pierce
* Joshua *(not named, does not speak)*
* Mickey *(cameo)*
* Geoffrey *(cameo)*
* Whiff *(mentioned)*
* The Fat Controller *(mentioned)*

## Trivia

* The events of the episode take place during Prototypes and Treasure.