Vicki

**Vicki** is a red tank engine from Zimbabwe and Danielle's best friend during her early years. She went through several traumatic events throughout her life, culminating in becoming a member of Adventure Squad.

## Biography

Vicki was built to shunt at an unnamed railway in Zimbabwe, but after she proved unable to work there, was transferred to the old Leonold railway, where she quickly befriended Danielle. After helping Thomas find his happy place, she returned to Danielle as a conversation partner, but disappeared six months after the attack on the Leonold home base. Danielle managed to pass on her guilt over Thomas's banishment prior to her disappearance, but was unaware that Junkator had phantomized her into an unwilling assassin. She was eventually freed, but killed, and ended up grieving as a ghost for the next century and a half before she was revived after Thomas's sacrifice. She currently lives on Sodor as Edward's protégé, working all across the island as a way to pay her sins. A series of events around The Leonold Yard would result in her body becoming physically that of a newborn's. After Tom, Diana and Tori entered the picture, Vicki became a constant accomplice to the triplets' daily lives, and eventually began dating Diana. After Dylan chose to retire from active service, Vicki became the second user of Battle Raider 2, becoming the first female mech user in the organization to wear the color red.

## Personality

While outgoing towards Danielle, the Leonold was her only friend, as Vicki herself is a loner in actuality. Finding the concept of family to be a little pointless, she rarely desired company. However, after cheering up Thomas and talking with Danielle about her guilt, she began seeing the benefits of caring for someone, and started feeling lonely. This reached to a point that she became depressed enough to be enslaved by Demon X, forcing her to claim the lives of others against her will, causing her to be overloaded with guilt, horror, depression and loneliness. After being freed, she became silent and unresponsive, but graciously accepted a place on the North Western Railway as a way to repent for her past sins. She became good friends with Skiff and Sonny because of this, as the two have been in similar situations before.

After meeting Diana, the two bonded over their shared guilt before Diana revealed her past lives, particularly about having a crush on her. This lead to the two becoming more protective of each other until they eventually started dating, and much like Diana, she became much more open and optimistic. Due to constantly hanging around Tom and Tori, Vicki ended up with their caring and occasionally violent natures rubbing off on her.

## Appearance

Vicki is based on a Manning Wardle L Class 0-6-0ST. Billy and Charlie share the same basis. She is painted maroon with yellow lining, brass fittings and red wheels. As a Demon X servant, she was a metallic crimson humanoid porcupine with lavender highlights capable of assuming an offroad vehicle form. She mainly used a poisonous barb and blaster in her work, being put under the instructions of Venomox.

## Mech

Vicki inherited Battle Raider 2 directly from Dylan, though it was given a significant overhaul before she could use it.

## Notes

* Vicki was made from a TrackMaster Revolution Charlie with a Thomas Wood Ashima face. A *Robots in Disguise* Scatterspike was used as her enslaved form.