Arry and Bert

**Harrison "Arry" and Herbert "Bert" the Ironworks Twins** are two of the antagonists in the SeventyVerse. Bert is privately owned by the Killdane Ironworks as was Arry prior to his death in *Engines of the Same Metals*.

## Backstory

### Main Timeline

Arry and Bert both worked at Paddington alongside Diesel. When they heard Diesel was being bullied and/or ignored by the steam engines, they stood by him. They fed into his ego that being a diesel meant he was revolutionary, and their brother embraced his nickname over his real name, Jasper. When Diesel returned after his failed trial, the trio stuck together like glue. They were eventually transferred to Barrow, and Diesel was trialled on the North Western Railway a second time. Not long after the trial began, the 08s scrapped Collet. He was the first of many victims at the Ironworks, making the duo known as The Grim Messengers of Doom.

During the events of *Engines of the Same Metals*, they are captured by Addison. Bert is rescued by Oliver, but Arry is burnt to death before Duck can get to him. Duck would have died too if not for Diesel's quick thinking.

### Midis Management AU

Arry is killed by Addison with Black Water on purpose instead of Duck being knocked out by Green Water. Duck and Diesel seek therapy and Bert runs away. Ali comes to the Ironworks in the AU, and Bert is brought a few days later. Bert is heavily untrusted by the other engines, but therapy and a good word from Ali did slowly turn him around.

### Good Addison AU

Arry and Bert were too scared to come back to Sodor because of Addison and Duck biffing them off the rails and subsequently getting them arrested by the police.

### Paxton AU

Diesel had secretly helped Collet escape to Sodor, and Bert witnessed this. He was so moved by Diesel's actions, he decided to help him where he can. Arry was oblivious to this, and thought Bert was being stupid. However, when Arry saw Bert let Duck go 'accidentally on purpose', he was furious at him. Bert was given a second chance on Sodor when the Ironworks opened, and Ali joined him. Arry was executed via Final Firing.

## Relationships

### Each other

Arry and Bert have very similar beliefs of "revolutionary" diesels and "out of date, clapped out steamies". They had no problems with scrapping others, even Donald and Duck, who were both owned by the NWR at the time. That being said, Arry often gets frustrated at Bert's more 'clueless' remarks. However, after seeing Bowler's scrapped body and Collet's spirit, Bert has started to second guess the illegal scrapping or engines who want to get a second chance of life. This will cause a rift in their relationship.

### Diesel

The relationship between Diesel and the Ironworks twins is very complicated. They were the only two engines willing to give Diesel any time of day following his failed trial on Sodor, so he was grateful for that. However, Diesel always felt something was off with his two brothers. He didn't truly realise that until he heard that Oliver and Toad had escaped from their clutches. Knowing his brothers were scrappers, he warns all the engines to steer clear from them. Things only got worse when Arry and Bert snidely told Gordon his siblings were dead, and when Donald was almost scrapped at Arry and Bert's buffers. The final straw came when Duck was nearly given a final firing out of petty revenge, and Diesel's rage came out in full force. Upon their return to Sodor however, Diesel had gone to the Ironworks to keep an eye on them. However, this had mixed results, as Arry and Bert's toxic nature started to get to Diesel. This hasn't made him popular with the other engines. Despite everything, Diesel never wanted to see his brothers die. He almost did though, when Diesel 10 intended to send them and Thomas up in flames, and later saw Arry die.

### Duck

Duck had hated the duo when he found out they nearly killed his cousin, Toad and later on, Donald. Things got worse, when Arry and Bert decided to get revenge on Duck by trying to force a final firing on him. Though this thankfully backfired, Duck has been petrified of the duo ever since.

### Donald and Douglas

Donald and Douglas hate Arry and Bert for what they do to steam engines. If it wasn't bad enough they tried to scrap Oliver and Toad, they tried to get Donald as well (they were aiming for Douglas, but they got the twins mixed up). There is a lot of tension when the four engines are together.

### Oliver and Toad

Oliver and Toad despise Arry and Bert for trying to scrap them, Gladys, Donald and Duck. While Oliver is scared of them, he does at least work up the nerve to tell them to back off. Toad is not as bold as his engine compain, and tends to freeze up in terror.

### Collet

Collet had zero trust and tolerance for Arry and Bert when the trio were at Paddington together. He thought that they and the other diesels were out to replace them. This was undoubtedly proven correct when, on his run to Sodor, Arry and Bert had him scrapped alive. In the afterlife, Collet's spirit has a lot of fun tormenting the duo. He won't stop until Arry and Bert feel guilt for what they have done. And it seems for Arry, that was never. When Arry finally joined the Underground Railway, Collet was relived. He knew the only reason he stopped Duck from saving him was that it was too late to save him.

### Emily

Arry and Bert were the only ones besides Diesel to hear Duck's 'final words' before his almost death. They decided to use that to their advantage and twist what Duck said in their favour: that Duck and the others only saw Emily as a spare engine if one of them fell. Emily was torn deep with those words. However, upon hearing the truth from Duck, that had he died that day, he fully trusted her to run the branch, Emily had nothing but pure *hatred* for the Ironworks twins.

### Jackie

Jackie absolutely hates Arry and Bert for trying to kill Duck and successfully killing Collet, even though she saw Bert on Sodor years after his senseless murdering days were over. She vows never to give them the light of day to talk to her, and wishes they never came to Sodor at all.

### Addison Darnell

Addison wanted to destroy Arry and Bert right then and there after they captured Duck. However, she didn't want to blow her cover, and just used green water to knock Duck out instead. When the duo find out the truth, Arry was outraged by Addison's betrayal... never mind the fact Duck could have had a worse death. It was also through Addison's actions that indirectly killed Arry through the fire.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Arry and Bert are based on British Rail (BR) Class 08 diesel-electric shunters. In the real world, BR Class 08s were in fact the most successful shunting engines in the world with 996 of them built. Over seventy of them are preserved by heritage railways, such as the Dean Forest Railway and museums, such as the National Railway Museum. Around one-hundred BR Class 08s also remain in service on the national rail network. Arry and Bert are based on 13060/D3060/08047 and 13061/D3061/08048. They were built on the 22nd of August 1953 (Arry and Bert), withdrawn 28th of October 1979 (Arry) and 12th of December 1977 (Bert) and scrapped June 1980 (Arry), and April 1978 (Bert).

Diesel, Paxton, Sidney, Ulli, Zeke, Rayker, Matias, Ali, Prisca and Lyla are also based on BR Class 08s.

### Livery

Arry and Bert are painted green-grey with yellow cabs and yellow hazard stripes on their fronts. They have their company's name (Sodor Ironworks) painted on their sides in white.

## Personalities

With mallious intentions and devious smirks, Arry and Bert are a duo you do not want to cross. They will not hesitate to scrap innocent steam engines or rolling stock, even if they are preserved or are trying to seek refuge. However, they do have a soft spot for other diesels, especially their own kin. After they come to Sodor, Bert starts to value the importance of lives, but Arry is still very vindictive. Bert is also not too bright, much to Arry's annoyance.

## Differences between the episodes and this series

* Arry and Bert were on Sodor from the get go in the TV series. In this series, they were at Barrow, forced on community service for five years, and then Kildane.
* Arry and Bert were the "passing diesels" who saw Oliver and Toad escaping.
* Arry and Bert take up Diesel's more 'evil' role in *Tender Engines/Tenders for Henry*, and in chapter 4 of *Diesels and Westerners* which was loosely based on *Fergus Breaks the Rules*.
	+ Diesel took up Thomas' role in that adaptation, and Fergus' role was taken up by Duck.
* In the series 5 episode *Stepney Gets Lost*, Arry and Bert's target was Stepney, hence the title. In the series 5 redux episode that was based on SGL, *Don't Fear the Scrapper,* Arry and Bert were aiming for Douglas but grabbed Donald. Naturally, the duo didn't care about who it was.
* Arry and Bert have BR numbers before coming to Sodor, D3060 and D3061. Their Sudrian numbers are KI1 and KI2.
	+ Their numbers in real life were 13060/D3060/08047 and 13061/D3061/08048
* Bert now works with Hurricane at the Kildane Ironworks, and is impressed.
* Arry is killed in a fire and Bert is joined by his sister Ali at Killdane.

## Trivia

* Bert says that Arry wouldn't have gone to the Great Railway. Unfortunately, he is correct, as Arry committed too many crimes in life - him telling Duck it was too late to save him was too little, too late.