Space and Time, Negima Style

Naturally there are disclaimers.

I don't own Negima or Doctor Who. Ken Akamatsu owns Negima, and the BBC owns Doctor Who.

This story came from two things. The first is a snippet in Time and Time Again, with Feeling! by Ala Iridia in which The Doctor is somehow teaching Class 2/3A. The second is from watching the Red Nose Day 2011 showing of Doctor Who. This is meant to be something of a parody, at least I hope you find it funny.

Apparently this is what happens when I am laid up for a while. For the curious, I have had sciatica for the past two weeks. I'm getting better, but my right leg still aches, I can maybe walk 50 yards without too much trouble, and I can only sleep on my left side.

The idea of Class 2/3A operating a TARDIS just sounds funny. So I took that particular ball and ran with it.

Chapter 1 Space

It was nighttime, such as it was inside the TARDIS. But not everyone was sleeping.

In fact, three girls were tinkering with the TARDIS proper. One of them was staring at a screen mounted above the controls, while another was flat on her back with her head and shoulders stuck into the TARDIS. The remaining girl was underneath the transparent floor shining a light up into the TARDIS.

All three were cheerleaders. At least they were when they were at Mahora. Now they, and the rest of their class, were traveling companions to their teacher. Even if he preferred to be called Doctor.

"It's making a humming noise. Is it supposed to do that?" Misa asked from her position under the floor.

"He did say it was going to do that when we entered conceptual space." Madoka's voice came from her position inside the main controls

"How is it coming Madoka?" Sakurako asked her friend on the floor.

"I think I have everything taken care of here." Madoka said as she reached up and flipped a switch before sitting up. "Misa? Can you start attaching the thermocouples now?"

"Which ones do I attach?" Misa asked.

Madoka glanced at a piece of paper before she answered. "Two, seven, and eleven."

"Ok." Misa said as she got to work.

Sakurako came around to Madoka. "Need a hand up?" she asked.

"Please? I think my back is trying to lock into this position." Madoka said.

Sakurako pulled her friend up before shifting her attention back to the controls. As she flipped a switch on one of the panels, Madoka asked, "Is that a new skirt? I don't think I've ever seen you wearing that?"

"Oh this thing?" Sakurako said with a giggle. "I've worn it a few times before. You must not have noticed."

Madoka frowned in thought as she peered at her handiwork under a control panel. "It looks familiar. But I don't remember you with that skirt on."

"Well, don't worry about it too much. It's only a skirt." Sakurako said as she went to another panel and adjusted something there.

"That's my skirt you're wearing!" Misa shouted.

Right then the lights went out and the TARDIS stopped making noise.

"Um..." Sakurako started to say

"Misa? Did you drop one of the thermocouples?" Madoka asked, interrupting her friend in a fit of panic.

There was a pause, then Misa's voice came up from below. "Oops."

"You weren't supposed to drop them. He said that bad things would happen if they were dropped." Madoka's voice was raising in alarm as she hurriedly fiddled with the controls.

"I suppose it was my fault." Sakurako said.

"How can it be your fault?" Madoka glanced at Sakurako while she flipped a pair of switches.

"Well, this is Misa's skirt I'm wearing."

Madoka sighed, then pushed a lever and started typing something on a panel, "Well we have landed somewhere. I believe the term is Emergency Materialization. We should be in the safest spot that the TARDIS could find." As she pushed a different lever the lights were restored to their former brightness.

By that time that Misa had climbed up the join her friends, so all three of them could see exactly where the TARDIS had materialized.

Right in front of them. Near the door to the outside.

"This is bad...right?" Sakurako asked.

"That's my guess Saku." Madoka said as she slowly made her way to the exterior of the TARDIS.

"What are you going to do?" Misa asked.

"I want to see if I think happened has happened." Madoka said, not taking her eyes off the exterior doors she was approaching. When she was in front of them, she opened the doors and stepped inside.

Whereupon she appeared by the interior doors a few feet away.

Madoka frowned as her friends watched, then she opened one of the interior doors behind her, stuck her arm through, and waved it.

All three could see Madoka's arm sticking out through the external doors waving around.

"Ok. That is not supposed to happen right?" asked Misa.

Madoka turned and exited through the interior doors to enter through the exterior doors near her friends. She closed the exterior doors and turned to Misa. "That's right. That is not supposed to happen. But now it has."

She glared at Misa as she continued, "The safest spot that the TARDIS could find to materialize just happened to be inside itself. Which means we are in a loop of space. The inside of the TARDIS is now connected to the outside thanks to you dropping that thermocouple. No one can get in or out."

All three then heard the interior doors open. All three turned toward the noise.

All three were surprised to see Haruna stumbling into the TARDIS with a expression of confusion and surprise on her face.

As all three of the cheerleaders stared at this development, Haruna seemed to regain her composure.

"What was that for?" she asked.

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