Two Doctors and a Genetic Experiment
Chapter One
The engine of the TARDIS made its usual whoosh-whoosh-whoosh sound as it landed. The door opened and out came a humanoid alien from the planet of Gallifrey who went by the name of "The Doctor". His companion then followed out after him; a blonde, human girl from London, England who had been named Rose Tyler. He wore his usual suit, trench coat and canvas sneakers; she wore an oversized sweater, faded jeans, canvas sneakers, bright colored bangles and a primp and curled hairdo with more hairspray than necessary to match the time period she now stood in.
"Ah, 1985," the Doctor said, stuffing his hands into the pockets of his trench coat, "Rocky IV, The Breakfast Club, and the mini-series of America, North and South."
"All those came out in 1985?" Rose asked, "I should really brush up on my film knowledge."
He gave an amused smile as they began to walk. "Ah, we're not here for the films of the year. We're here for the music."
The Doctor gestured to a wall on the side of a building as they approached the shopping center of a town. The building was a record and cassette store. An overload of posters covered the wall, a variety of posters of bands and singers past, present and future tours being advertised on each one. There were punk bands, heavy metal bands, rock bands, girl groups, American bands, and even British bands.
"I've heard of all these," Rosa said, then pointed to one of the posters, "Except for this one."
The poster she pointed at had the name of a band that went: Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers. The name of the present tour was called the Watermelon Secrets tour. Odd name, Rose thought as the Doctor examined the poster, But then again, that's coming from me, and I travel through time and space in a big, blue box that's bigger on the inside than it is on the inside. No less with a man who's got two hearts and can regenerate, and isn't human. She shook off the thought and paid her attention back to the poster.
"Oh, Dr. Banzai!" the Doctor said with a smile of familiarity.
Rose gave a confused look. "This guys a doctor? And you know him?" she asked.
"Yes, well- I met him. Well- I saved him. When he was a teenager. But my face was a bit different then."
"Then how do you know he's a doctor?"
"I was curious on what happened to him. Went to the future and read up on him. I found some science and medical journals with essays of his. I knew he was studying to be a scientist and medical doctor when I saved him. He turned out brilliant. Well- he always was, but still."
"Is his name really Buckaroo Banzai?"
"If I'm correct, which I probably am-"
She let out a laugh. "You're so cheeky."
"-his father was Japanese. And I believe that his father had a great love for the west. Wonderful man. I met him once. It's a shame how he and his wife passed."
Rose gave a sad look. "You mean Dr. Banzai's parents are dead?" she asked quietly.
"They were killed," the Doctor announced sadly, "Back in the year 1955, they were testing an experiment. A man named Hanoi Xan tampered with their experiment, killing Masado Banzai and his wife, Sandra. Beautiful couple. Brilliant couple. Buckaroo was only five years old, and he saw his parents get killed."
"Oh gosh…"
"Then on his wedding day, the same man killed his bride."
"Why?"
"The Banzai's and the Xan's have been great enemies for centuries. It was Hanoi Xan I had to save Buckaroo from that time in his teenage years."
Rose grew sad at what she had been told about the man. She remembered the Doctor saying Buckaroo Banzai was a great scientist and physician. "How come I've never heard of him if he's such a great doctor and scientist, and apparently musician? I know they're in America, but still."
"That's because the Institute he started, the Banzai Institute, went downhill and shut down after his final death."
"When did he die?"
"The year 1985." The Doctor's eyes grew wide at his own answer. "Oh no," he muttered and began to run, yelling, "Come on!" Rose got the message and began to run after and with him. The two ran into one of the stores, startling the workers and shoppers the kitchenware store they had ran into. The two were given many strange looks, something they were both used to at this point, from all those inside the store. They ignored the looks and ran up to the counter of the store.
"What's today's date?" the Doctor asked the employee behind the desk in a rush.
The employee gave a strange look. "You two out there or something?" he asked.
"Yes, now what's the date?!"
"April 6, 1985."
"And what town is this?"
"New Brunswick, New Jersey."
"How do we get to the Banzai Institute?"
"Damn, how out of it are you, man? It's just around the corner and a few blocks away. Surrounded by that wall all around the property. Can't miss it. Everyone from New Jersey knows where the Institute is, man."
"If you can't tell from our accents, we're not from New Jersey," Rose tried, but then remembered something and leaned toward the Doctor, "The TARDIS activated the translator, didn't it?"
"Yes."
"We sound like we're from New Jersey, don't we."
"Yes."
She gave an embarrassed look. "Right."
The employee gave them a weird look. "Are you two gonna buy something or what?"
With that, the Doctor and his companion, Rose, ran out from the store and to the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information in the town of New Brunswick, in the state of New Jersey.
-/-/-
Dr. Sidney Zweibel, or more commonly known by his friends and colleagues by the nickname of "New Jersey", tossed his white lab coat aside. Putting on his trademark cowboy hat, he grabbed the research files on the desk and ran out from the lab. He tried to hide exactly what the file in his hand said and the information that it held, as not to startle anyone that he passed and to not let information get into the wrong hands. As he ran, he used his Go-Phone to contact his boss, colleague and friend.
"Buckaroo," New Jersey greeted flatly and in a rushed fashion.
"Hey, Jersey," Dr. Buckaroo Banzai greeted, "How's everything going in the labs?"
Buckaroo had given New Jersey control over some of the more recent experiments in one of the many Institute labs- under him, of course. Being that the two were colleagues even before the urban cowboy had arrived at the Institute, the head of the Institute had a good idea of his friend's work and trusted him to see over things. This was a common practice at the Banzai Institute, as it was a way to help teach responsibility in every way possible to those at the Institute, both the resident and the intern working his or her way up to that position.
New Jersey felt panic rise higher in him. "Not so good," he answered, "I just found some research and lab results that were not recorded and reported, and that were obviously being hidden."
A brief pause. "Whose?" Buckaroo asked seriously.
"It looks like it's in Sunshine's handwriting."
Sunshine was an intern at the Institute who was working her way up toward full resident. She had graduated with a Doctorate degree from Harvard University a year and a half earlier, and had started at the Banzai Institute a year earlier. She was one of the head scientists there who were studying genetic engineering, a new field of research now just at the Institute, but all over. New Jersey was to be the head over her, while Buckaroo would head over him. Every bit of research was to be documented and reported, like normal, and no testing in any way, shape or form was to be conducted quite yet.
But it was now obvious that this rule was not being followed.
"Is it for the genetic engineering research that she was overseeing?" Buckaroo asked calmly.
"I think so," New Jersey replied, "But something's weird to me. And not a good weird."
"What's that?"
"She's been handing in research to us. Every day she logs it into the system, then brings it in to me, and I to you. If there's things not being reported, that means she's doing some under the table research. And based off of this file and notebooks I found, there's a lot of it."
"Is it dangerous?"
"It looks like it can be, yes."
"Has she tested?"
"It looks that way, Buck."
Buckaroo sighed heavily. "Ok," he breathed out, "Ok. Where's Sunshine?"
"She said she was going to the labs near the pasture. The major testing hangars."
"Alright. Call Pecos cause she's at the barns and stables. I'll call Rawhide. Then we'll figure this all out."
"Ok," New Jersey confirmed.
"Good. And New Jersey?"
"Yeah?"
"Do not confront Sunshine until I say so," Buckaroo ordered, "Got it?"
"Got it."
-/-/-
Pinky Carruthers, Lady Gillette and Red River Daddy all stood inside the walls of the Banzai Institute grounds, guarding the front entrance. As the three stood, they each timed how long it took to load and draw their own individual guns. They each tried to beat the newest record of their two companions, as well as themselves, and each would beat or match their former's record. It was quite an impressive thing to see, whether or not you were inside or outside of the walls on a regular basis.
The three nearly jumped out of their skins when they heard something- or more like someone- from the other side of the gate. They looked to the live video system on the wall, trying to see who was on the other side; they saw a man in a trench coat and a blonde young woman.
Lady Gillette made herself visible to the two. "Can we help you?" she asked.
The man in the trench coat held up a piece of paper. "I'm the Doctor and I work for the New York Times," he said, "And this is my assistant, Rose Tyler."
"Assistant?" the blonde girl identified as Rose Tyler muttered in question.
Lady Gillette rose her eyebrows and crossed her arms in an unamused fashion. "Oh really? Hey, Pinky! Red! Come here." Two men appeared as she pointed to the paper. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but- is this paper, or is not, blank?" The two men confirmed her observation and she turned back to the two strangers. "Right. This paper's blank."
The Doctor smiled for a moment. "Brilliant. Ok, you caught me. I'm the Doctor and this is Rose Tyler and we don't really work for the New York Times. But we need to see Buckaroo Banzai."
"What kind a' doctor are you?" Red River Daddy asked in a skeptical manner.
"Not important. Look, we really need to see Dr. Banzai."
Pinky shook his head. "No can do," he declined, "Everyone who sees Buck needs an appointment."
"The only appointment he'll have is with death if you don't let me in to see him right now!"
Red River Daddy made the gun on his waist visible. "Is that a threat, friend?"
"No, it's not a threat," the Doctor answered, "It's a serious warning. But I can help, really, I can. But you need to let me in and I need to see Buckaroo Banzai to do that."
Pinky thought it over for a moment. "Fine," he allowed, "But we're keeping an eye on the two of you. Clear?"
"Crystal," the Doctor and Rose confirmed at the same time.
And with that, the two strange visitors were allowed watchful access onto the grounds of the interior of the wall of the Banzai Institute.
This fanfiction is classified under the Buckaroo Banzai fandom as well as the Doctor Who fandom, but is in the crossover section. You do not need to be in either fandom to read this.
This story may or may not be continued.