Here it is at last - the final chapter. After these long weeks, we've reached the end! Here you go:

Sunshine stood where he was, staring in shock and disbelief, rapidly shaking his head. "No, no, no, no, no!"

At that moment, O.J., Big Mac, Warrior, Top Hat, Zebedee and Zak steamed into view. They all spotted the burnt out rubble.

"Get a load of that!" gasped Top Hat.

"Is this the work of the last Fuel Driver - or that little Star shimper," Zebedee sneered, looking at Sunshine.

O.J. steamed over to the little switcher. "What happened here, Sunshine?"

"Tuh-Ten Cents! He was trapped inside! I tr-tried to pulled 'im out, but..." Sunshine couldn't finish. He just constantly gasped in fright.

The other Star tugs all gasped too. "Ten Cents! He was caught in that?!" Warrior cried, staring at the rubble. Zebedee and Zak looked at each other without saying anything. They weren't horrified, but they couldn't believe what they were hearing.

"It w-w-was all my fault," Sunshine said miserably. "I kn-know I c-c-could have pulled 'im out..."

"Well, thank heavens youweren't caught either Sunshine," remarked O.J. He turned to the rubble. "Hmm, maybe there's a chance that..." He turned to Big Mac and Warrior. "You two go fetch Scuttlebutt Pete. He can clear up the rubble."

"Right, O.J." Warrior replied. Then he and Big Mac set off into the the harbour.

"Uh, we'd better go too," put in Zak. He and Zebedee turned around and headed away.

"Won't Captain Zero be please that now we've caught all the Fuel Drivers," Zebedee smirked triumphantly, "and one Star Tug is out of the picture."

Sunshine, O.J. and Top Hat stared at the burnt out rubble. None of them spoke. They were all sad at the fact that Ten Cents had been caught when the building had collapsed and was now buried inside somewhere, possibly destroyed.

Big Mac and Warrior soon returned with Scuttlebutt Pete, who began scooping up several piles of burnt wood from the rubble. Hercules and Grampus had also arrived, having been informed of what had happened. Hercules was talking to O.J, while the other tugs were anxiously watching Mighty More clear the rubble, in search of Ten Cents.

"We managed to catch four of the Fuel Drivers," O.J. told Hercules solemnly.

"And we managed to catch the other one; their leader," replied Hercules. "Unfortunately, it turns out Zorran was helping them."

"He was? I should have known not to trust Z-Stacks."

"Oh, it's okay, O.J., old darling. All that matters now is that the Fuel Drivers have been caught." Hercules turned sadly towards the rubble and the watching Star Tugs. "And if Ten Cents is alright."

The other Stars continued to watch with sadness as Scuttlebutt continued scooping wood from the rubble. For a while, there was silence as he did so, then Scuttlebutt cried out. "Everyone, look!"

The Stars looked closely into the rubble and gasped with horror. Ten Cent's face was visible within the rubble. Scuttlebutt had scooped rubble that was covering it. His eyes were closed.

"Quick, Scuttlebutt, keep scooping!" Big Mac ordered. Scuttlebutt continued scooping up more rubble and soon, Ten Cents was visible from the deck up. The Stars looked at him. He was dirty all over with ashes, his porthole windows were smashed and his stack and flagpole were bent.

"Ten Cents?" Sunshine whispered in sadness. No answer. "Ten Cents, please wake up. Please."

Slowly, the little switcher opened his eyes to find several distraught faces which quickly changed to happy expressions. "Ugh! What happened?!"

"Ten Cents! You're alright!" Sunshine cried happily.

"Thanks goodness," O.J. sighed with relief.

"I was frightfully worried," Top Hat added. "I'm so glad you're alright, Ten Cents."

Ten Cents smiled. "Thanks, Top Hat." Then he suddenly remembered. "Zorran! Gangster! They got-"

"It's alright, Ten Cents, old darling," Hercules mused. "They've been caught - and so have the others. They won't be bothering us now."

Ten Cents let out a big sigh of relief.

"I'll go and fetch Mighty Moe and a barge," said Big Mac. "We'll tow you back since you can't move. We'll go back to Captain Star and tell him all we've done."

"And I'll go and tell the Coast Guard to arrest the other Fuel Drivers," chuckled O.J., heading away. "They're still stuck on the smelly garbage."

Later, Ten Cents found himself on top of a barge, being towed by Big Mac towards the Star Dock, with Sunshine, Top Hat, Warrior, Hercules and Grampus all around him. They were all happy that he was okay and he was happy to have such good friends who cared about him.

They arrived back at the Star Dock immediately to shouts of anger by Captain Star. "There you all are! Just where do you think you've all been?!"

"Oh, nowhere much," grinned Ten Cents. "Just stopping the Fuel Drivers."

"WHAT?! But I told you not-"

Before Captain Star could finish, O.J. steamed into the dock, followed by the Coast Guard, who was towing Zorran and the Fuel Drivers in a line.

"Captain Star!" The Coast Guard called. "I'd just like to say that you should be proud of your Star Fleet. They helped us to catch one of the biggest gang of crooks ever to invade Bigg City Port. As you can see here, these thieves had a bit of help from Zorran."

"I see. I always knew you were no good Zorran. I'm glad you finally get what you deserve."

"But I'm innocent!" Zorran protested angrily. "Wait until Captain Zero here's about this! He'll-"

"Ah, shut up!" moaned Gangster grudgingly. "You're coming with me."

"Yes. you're all coming with me!" The Coast Guard barked, as he lead the five fuel driven tugs and one coal driven tug away.

The Stars turn back to Captain Star, who hesitated before speaking. "Well Star Fleet, as much as I didn't want you do get involved, I am pleased with you all. You've stopped these criminals and now we can get back to work as normal. I am proud to be at the helm of such a loyal fleet."

All the tugs blew their hooters in happiness. Then Captain Star noticed that Ten Cents was damaged. "Ten Cents, wha-?! I won't ask. Sunshine, tomorrow, take him to Lucky's Yard for repairs. Now all of you get a good night's sleep now. Goodnight."

"Goodnight!" And the entire Star Fleet fell happily to sleep.

A few weeks later, Ten Cents was steaming happily through the harbour. He had been repaired and was as good as new. Captain Star had sent him off to his first job in weeks.

As he steamed through the harbour, to his surprise, he met Zorran. "Oh, Zorran, you've been released, have you?"

"Yeah, Captain Zero bailed me out. And a good thing too." Zorran scowled. "I didn't do anything."

"Well, you should have helped me instead of Gangster. But it doesn't matter now, as we're back to being rivals." Ten Cents smiled. "But you know what, Zorran? I'd rather have you and the Z-Stacks as rivals than the Fuel Drivers any day.

"Yeah, I guess you Stars aren't as bad as those Fuel Drivers. They still didn't gimmie my money. Captain Zero was annoyed at that and the fact he had to spend a great deal of of money to get me out."

"Well, things are back to normal now," said Ten Cents. "So I guess I'll see you around, Zorran."

"Yeah, see you."

And Ten Cents steamed off into the harbour, feeling happy now that things were back to normal. Now he was back at work and was determined to do a good job to make Captain Star please, which he would be, as the Star Fleet could not manage without a tug like Ten Cents.

At last! The story has reached the end. I'm glad of that, because it took so long to write, and I wanna go on to write some other stuff. I'm gonna take a break now from writing Thomas & TUGS stories. Don't worry, I'll still be writing plenty. But I've had so many ideas for stories in my head for a long time now. I want to get some of the ideas for other stuff I like done.

I hope you've enjoyed this story. I actually can't say I enjoyed writing it much. Writing took so long and updates were slow. Also, I don't think the story itself was that good. But I'll let you be the judges of that. So please review and tell me what you think.

Before I conclude this message, I would just like to say that this story is dedicated to the memory of David Mitton, the man who brought us Thomas & TUGS and provided us with plenty of entertainment from these two classic shows. While Thomas has now changed a lot, TUGS remains gone, but nowhere near forgotten.

So here's to you, David. Rest in peace and thank you for bring us two shows, which me and others have love from when we were little to this day.

And thank you, the reader, for reading this story! See you soon!