Instruction Manuals
Disclaimer: Doctor Who is older than I am. (Both the series and the character)
The Doctor stood by the bookcase in the library and reading a manual manual entitled 'Maintaining and Mending your own TARDIS' (in Galifranian), what had got the Doctor interested in it was that it contained instructions on a way to fix a chameleon circuit that he had never tried before. He did like his little blue box and it did make it easy for him to recognise her but both he and the TARDIS enjoyed a change and she would like to be dressed differently sometimes. Heading back to the control room he reread the instructions, they seemed relativity simple and would be easy to carry out. He pulled open one of the grids next to the console, jumped into it and when to work with his sonic screwdriver.
Following the instructions to the letter he was soon finished. He pulled himself out of the hole and glanced excitedly at the door, his face fell when he saw the normal blue door with the phone on it and the back of the sign above it informing him (backwards) that it was still a police public call box. Then he remembered that they were in the time vortex so the TARDIS would not be disguising itself as anything anyway. Replacing the grid in the floor he typed in the coordinates for 21st century London, no police boxes there so it had to change. He wondered what his ship would turn into.
Running around the console as his ship creaked and groaned its way through time he expertly keeping his balance against the rocking and shaking of the floor (shock absorbers: another thing to fix). As he prepared for landing he watched the door expectantly, waiting to see the change. On a quiet, empty street somewhere in London, unnoticed by anyone except a very startled cat which ran away, a tall blue police phone box slowly materialised before... remaining as a tall blue police phone box.
Inside the TARDIS was a different story. The Doctor was certain that this was not supposed to happen. The exterior was supposed to turn into an everyday item to fit the planet or era where it landed. It was not supposed to be that the interior changed to mimic the outside world. The doctor looked up from the signboard on the fenced in tree, which a few seconds ago had been his computer screen on the control panel, up to the ceiling which was trying hard to be the sky, still supported by the side struts which now looked more like street lamps than coral.
He swung around and grabbed the manual off the seat, which was now a bus shelter complete with time table, and flicked through it until he found the right page. Just as he had thought the instructions did not mention anything about the interior of the TARDIS only the exterior. He glanced back at the door, it now jutted out of the wall set into a blue phone box which would have been more effective if it were not that he was facing the inside of the door not the outside. He crouched down on the pavement and lifted the man hole cover that now led to the wiring. Nice as the scenery was he preferred it how it had been before.
The Doctor parked the TARDIS in the time vortex and gazed around appreciatively at his control room which he had finally been able to restore to normal. His eyes fell on the useless manual and he gave it a glare before picking it up and tossing it out the door to join all the other useless instruction manuals he had already thrown out into the vortex over the years. He never seemed to be able to fix that chameleon circuit but then he liked it as it was. Now those shock absorbers, they really needed looking at...
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