The New Doctor
Chapter 1
Average, that's what life was for me average. Just an average high school student doing the same thing everyday: wake up, eat breakfast, go to school, eat lunch, do well, go home, do work, go to sleep, it's always like this day in and day out. But there was something that gave me hope that possibly the world could be different, Doctor Who. Recently, I had started watching the show and I absoulutly loved it not just for its science fiction atmosphere but because it showed that the world is much bigger and much more complicated than it looks, it's filled with many impossible things, fantastic things that can only be seen by those willing to go out and look for them. I had always wanted to travel the stars, see far off places, live the life of the doctor but I never could, it wasn't real… or so I thought.
Today was different not just because of the events that would transpire, but also because I was late for school. I overslept and now I had to run if I wanted to make it before they locked the doors on me. I quickly rushed out of the house with just some jeans, a Doctor Who t-shirt (bought it at a store, really cool.), black shoes, and a sweatshirt hoping that I would make it on time. As I was getting close to school I heard a noise: EERrwWwoooooSHHHhEERrwWwoooooSHHHhEERrwWwoooooSHHH h
"That noise… that's the TARDIS. Someone must be watching the show, but… it sounded so loud, and close."
I may be late, but I was curious where that noise was coming from. I ran down the block looking in yards, through driveways, in alleys, but I didn't see it. I was about to disregard what I heard until I saw it in my school's parking lot down the street, the TARDIS in all its blue wooden glory. As soon as I saw it, I quickly ran over to it and checked it out, putting my hand on it to make sure that it was actually there and I wasn't going crazy. I felt the box and it was solid, it felt like wood.
"No this can't be happening, this can't be here it's supposed to be fiction, yet here it is right in front of me. The sound, the blue box being here, there's no way that this is a coincidence, it has to be real." I had made up my mind. "YES! It's real, that means everything else is real, oh this is too cool! Hold on though, if the TARDIS is here where's the doctor?"
I didn't have to wonder long because I saw that one of the doors had been forced open on the school, and I had a feeling he was in there. I quickly ran inside down the empty hallways to see if I could find him. I continued to run until I passed the cafeteria and I saw him, the doctor in his David Tennant form. I wanted to walk up to him but I saw he was looking forward in fear, he was face to face with something dangerous but I couldn't see what it was. I looked around the corner only to come face to face with my worst nightmare… a dalek!
"Daleks, why does it always have to be daleks?"
One of them started to talk "You have been identified as the doctor, you will be exterminated!" it said in that robotic voice.
The doctor looked nervous until he took out a pocket watch and opened it up causing some sort of light to shoot out of it into his eyeballs. Before he could finish the dalek shot a laser at the watch knocking it out of his hands and causing it to slide on the floor.
"A watch? Wait, I think I know what this is. I just hope that I'm right."
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
I had little time to think so I just picked up the watch, opened it and looked directly at it. My vision was gone, all I could see are images of the past, they were like memories that I had lived and yet I had no memory of living them. In my trance I saw far away planets, aliens from distant places, bloody battles, and I gained so much knowledge. The watch closed and I felt like all my senses have been heightened, but more than that I had an idea. I ran forward towards the doctor until I was noticed by a dalek.
"Human, EXTERMINATE!"
It fired its laser at me but thankfully I was running fast enough to dodge them. I ran up to the doctor and pulled his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket.
"Hey! That's my sonic, you can't just-"
"I know what I'm doing, trust me we're the doctor."
He looked confused, but I had little time to react since the dalek kept firing lasers at me. I ran around it to dodge its lasers and thankfully its body doesn't rotate very fast. I managed to get behind him and use the sonic screwdriver on his head, after a few seconds the eye stalk short circuited.
'Doctor, don't make a sound.' I mouthed. I needed to keep quiet for my plan to work. As the dalek was sliding across the floor unaware of where we were I pointed at a switch near the doctor asking him to flip it. Once he did the fans overhead turned on and the dalek went crazy.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
He started blasting his laser at thin air away from the both of us.
'Run' I mouthed and quickly we both ran out of the room. We ran down the hallway as far as we could from that metal deathtrap, thankfully everyone was still in classes so there wasn't anyone around to witness what just happened. We both stopped near the end of the hall out of breath.
"'pant' What just…" He asked before I answered for him
"Oh, I just set your sonic screwdriver to the same frequency as the dalek's shields allowing me to bypass them. Then I recalibrated his visual sensors to rely on movement instead of sight, then set it to a finite point so that he would react to displacements in the wind and turned on the fan to confuse him allowing us to escape. Side note, let me just say it's an honor to meet you doctor."
He stared at me with a bit of a blank expression on his face "Well, first of all that was impressive well done. Second of all, how do you know all this?"
I pulled out the watch "This watch. Although it isn't really a watch is it? It's a chameleon arch you used to disguise your genetic makeup from those who wanted to track it. I apologize but when the dalek knocked the watch out of your hand I opened it up and I absorbed some of your knowledge giving me the tools I needed to assist you. I know what I did might have been brash but I needed to save you and I hope you can forgive me."
He had a look of worry in his eyes for a moment but it quickly disappeared. "Right then. Well, we'll deal with this problem later for right now we've got a dalek running lose in a school with over 200 students and I refuse to let them die. So, what do we do?"
I didn't really have a plan, but with these time-lord genes in me my thought process became much quicker. "All right, first we need a way to disable the dalek to make sure that it doesn't cause any problems. Bullets can't stop it and it'll be too smart to fall for the same trick twice. How can we disable it?" I asked
"Well first we need something to get through the dalek's shields, it appears sonic energy did a good job at disabling it. Also, if the shell is too tough on the outside for physical damage we can shut down its systems with a strong electric pulse. But how are we going to find tools strong enough to do that in a high school?"
After more thought I finally had an idea that was crazy enough to work. "I have an idea, follow me."
We both ran off again, this time towards the auditorium. The school was setting up for a theatre production and it had just the tools we needed.
"What are we doing here?" the doctor asked.
"This has exactly what we need." I gave him back his sonic screwdriver "Here take the sonic screwdriver and re-work the sound systems to project a frequency that will negate the dalek shields, then connect all the cables that are attached to the lights together and it should muster enough electric charge to turn off the daleks computer systems entirely."
"What are you going to be doing?"
"I'm gonna lure the dalek here."
I began running out of the auditorium.
"You know I'm usually the leader and not the follower right?"
"Yes but you've also only got half of your DNA, embrace the change."
I began running out the door and back to the cafeteria. On my way I saw the dalek had switched his eye stalk back on and was searching the halls
"Hey dalek! Come and get me!" I yelled getting his attention
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" He shot lasers at me as I ran down the hall back to the auditorium.
"Doctor, the dalek is on his way we have to hurry."
He had already set up the sound system now he was attaching the cables. Unfortunatly, that dalek came in faster than I had expected so we had to hide. We hid at the bottom of the rows of chairs so that he couldn't see us as he searched for us.
"Please, tell me that thing is done." I whispered softly.
"No, I still need time." Doctor said.
I looked over the row and saw the dalek getting closer. "Alright, I'm going to distract him while you finish setting up the trap."
I was about to hop over when the doctor pulled me down again.
"Get down here, you're crazy. You were lucky to survive two encounters with a dalek you won't last a third. There has to be a less dangerous solution so you don't go and get yourself killed."
"Is there any other solution but the dangerous one around you Doctor?"
He realized I was right and he let me go. I ran right in front of the dalek.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
"Wait! Before you exterminate me tell me more about your great dalek empire."
"You know about the daleks?" It said in its robotic voice.
"Oh yes the daleks are… well known around here for how dangerous they are. But let me ask you why attack here and now?"
"Humans are weak, we attack them with our advanced technology."
"But why? Surely you wouldn't want to attack when your greatest enemy the Doctor is here."
"The doctor was not here, he escaped from us."
"Escaped? You had him? How did he get here? Well actually I know how he got here but what about you? The daleks don't have any spaceships."
"We used a teleport device that we constructed."
"A teleporter? That would never work, you must have been millions and millions of miles away and a teleporter can't be that accurate unless you could track the energy frequency of something that traveled between there and here something like…." Suddenly, everything became clear.
"Oh yes, brilliant that's it! The doctor tried to stop you didn't he? But, you were too much for him and he ran away in his TARDIS. But you clever little daleks tracked it's frequency with your portal device, that would give you a strong connection to earth allowing you to teleport here without a problem. But, the doctor got ahead of you, came to earth first and had just enough time to use the chameleon arch on his ship to hide him and the TARDIS so you couldn't find him. Oh you daleks, too smart for your own good and too stupid to realize when you've made a mistake."
"Dalek's do not make mistakes."
"Oh yes you do, cause you messed with the wrong time lord and I think it's about time that you face the music. NOW!"
I signaled the doctor to start the sound system, it emitted a sound wave that dissipated the daleks shields.
"Your attacks are futile, you cannot stop me you will be exterminated."
"Oh but there is a way to stop you and I think you'll find it rather shocking."
The doctor snuck up behind the dalek and used the giant wire to shock him. With all that electricity coursing through his body, the robotic mechanism shut down and the dalek fell over. We stood face to face now, with the doctor being about half a foot taller than me
"Well done Doctor, I wasn't sure if I could hold him for much longer."
"Yes, but you did rather well yourself with your deduction skills. Did you have any memory of that?"
"Nope, but the dalek pretty much gave me all the pieces to figure it out. Once you've got the information it's simple to put it together."
The doctor smiled and went back to his cheery self. "Right then crisis averted, people saved, now we just need to get this thing out of here before anyone else notices."
"Well, how are we going to do that? And while we're asking questions what did that dalek mean when he kept saying we?"
"I… honestly don't know."
I looked behind the doctor, mortified. "I think I know, Doctor WATCH OUT!"
He turned around only to be met by a daleks laser beam. The doctor fell to thr ground and I managed to catch him.
"NO! You dalek bastards! Why can you never leave this planet alone? After all your countless failures, after all the people you killed WHY DON'T YOU DIE?!"
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
Well, first chapter ends with a cliff hanger, that's a good sign I think. In any case, please read review and give me any ideas you guys have because I would love to hear them. Also, please tell me if you like this story or not because if you don't I won't continue. Until next time, don't blink.