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I also don't own the BBC, and thus have no claim to ownership of any rights associated with Doctor Who.
A/N: Don't be offended if the Daleks aren't portrayed the way you're used to; I'm trying to portray them as they would appear on a kid's show.
WordGirl in…
THE DALEK INVASION OF LEXICON! (PART 1)
Narrator: Hey kids, look out for the words 'Overwhelm,' and 'Exterminate.'
At the city's Dangerous Chemical Storage for Dangerous Chemicals, where they keep all kinds of dangerous chemicals, all is peace and quiet….which probably means something bad is gonna happen to it very soon.
Sure enough, just as the workers finished unloading a load of dangerous chemicals into the storage sheds, sparks started to fly from the main loading-dock doors.
Eventually, a loud voice on the other side exclaimed: "THE LOCK HAS BEEN DISABLED."
"THEN OPEN THE DOOR." exclaimed another voice, deeper than the other, but no less loud.
"I OBEY." And with that, the doors flung open with a loud 'smash'.
Before any of the workers could react, the deeper voice shouted: "ATTENTION ALL HUMANS WITHIN THIS AREA! YOU WILL OBEY OUR DEMANDS, OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"
All the employees started screaming.
Meanwhile, across town …
Tim Botsford looked over the cameras in the window with the kind of attention to detail you would expect from an art critic. He looked thoroughly at every shutter, every flashbulb, every lens…even the shape of the little buttons that adjust the picture. Eventually, Becky started getting bored.
"Bob," she said to her pet monkey, busy enjoying a large hamburger, "Dad's taking forever to decide what kind of camera he'll use to replace the one he broke! I almost find myself wishing trouble would-"
Just before she could continue, the television sets in a nearby store flared to life with: "Breaking news! There is a robbery in progress at the Dangerous Chemical Storage for Dangerous Chemicals! We don't know the full details, but from a bystander account, a strange truck pulled up to the loading area, and the occupants quickly broke in and overwhelmed the staff, shouting as they did."
Bob, who knew what was coming up next, stuffed his hamburger into a nearby bag, hid the bag, and grabbed Becky's hand.
Becky wasted no time: she got herself excused to walk around for a little, ran off to a nearby alleyway, (backtracking for a second to admire the sparkly pony toys in the window of a toy store,) then shouted "WOOOORRRRD UP!" as she changed into WordGirl.
In no time at all, WordGirl and Captain Huggyface arrived at the Dangerous Chemical Storage for Dangerous Chemicals, and quickly saw the odd unmarked truck at the loading area. From her aerial vantage point she saw some of the workers in a chain line, handing off barrels and barrels of toxic chemicals into the truck.
Captain Huggyface screeched something to WordGirl, who replied with: "I know, but I don't want to put the workers in danger!"
Just then, her super-hearing picked up one of the workers say: "That's the last one! Now please let us-!"
"YOU WILL ALL ENTER OUR VEHICLE!" exclaimed a loud, grating voice from inside the building. With panicked gasps, the workers moved into the truck, obviously complying with the demands.
"Looks like the Whammer's got some competition for 'most annoyingly loud bad guy'" commented the superhero... "and most short-sighted, too! Nobody's watching for us!"
With a quick wink to her sidekick, WordGirl took this opportunity to float on in silently, hiding behind a set of empty chemical barrels. From her hiding spot she quickly saw that she was across the room from the doorway, where the interior of the truck, containing barrels and workers, was visible. She began to form a complex plan to rescue them in her head, whispering a few details to Captain Huggyface...
...when suddenly, the familiar loud voice (it's source still out of sight) shouted: "ALERT! INTRUDER DETECTED! INTRUDER DETECTED! SEEK OUT THE INTRUDER!"
"SEEK OUT THE INTRUDER!" said another (deeper) voice.
"SEEK OUT, AND DESTROY!" echoed the first voice.
"SEEK OUT, AND DESTROY!" both exclaimed in unison.
WordGirl sat still for a few seconds, in shock... before whispering to her sidekick: "Change of plans, Huggy; Initiate Secret Plan number 419!" Huggyface nodded, and began to sneak off.
While he did that, WordGirl moved into the open, and shouted: "No need to seek me out-I'm right here! And I'm gonna bring you..."
Suddenly, she got a good look at the villains behind this whole mess: They looked like a pair of human-sized, gray pepper shakers, with a stalk protruding from the top as though it were an eye. Also, attached to the front of these strange-looking villains was what appeared to be a plunger and an egg-beater. Along the lower half of these strange bad guys, several black half-orbs were mounted.
Overall, the sheer absurdity of their appearance quickly got to WordGirl, who broke out into giggles.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" shouted one of the adversaries, a pair of lightbulbs on its head flashing in time with the speech.
"Pfff…you guys look so silly!" she said weakly, recovering from her laughing fit.
"YOU DARE MOCK OUR APPEARANCE?" the…thing…shouted, before angling its egg-beater arm to point directly at WordGirl. That, and the fact that the arm started glowing and emitting a high-pitched humming sound, quickly tipped off WordGirl to incoming danger. With a burst of super-speed, she darted off to one side…just before a bright blue beam of light, originating from the villain's egg-beater arm (which WordGirl realized was actually a ray gun) blasted right through the spot where WordGirl once was.
The attacker (after spending a brief instant being shocked at this intruder's sudden agility) re-positioned its ray gun, and fired again, only for its target to dodge again. And again. And again…
"…STOP MOVING! STOP MOVING!" the villains shouted in frustration…to which WordGirl replied with a raspberry, and more dodging.
*(one scene transition later)*
While the criminals were distracted, Captain Huggyface ran over to the truck, got in front of the captives, and pointed desperately towards the far end of the room.
"What's the lemur trying to say?" asked one of the workers, offending Huggyface.
"I think he's trying to get us to do some kind of dance?" said another, causing Huggy to sigh in disappointment…
…when another one suddenly asked: "Is that the case, or are you talking about an escape?" Finally, Huggy nodded. And now that he had the workers with him, he started to lead them to safety, sneaking around the flashy battle.
After a minute of shooting at WordGirl, however, one of the bad guys eventually asked: "WAIT-WHY IS THIS CREATURE NOT FIGHTING BACK?"
The attacker's companion swiveled his eyestalk around, until he glimpsed the truck…and saw none of the captives! "THE PRISONERS ARE ESCAPING! THE PRISONERS ARE ESCAPING!"
"Huggy! Hurry!" shouted WordGirl, as her combatants suddenly moved away from her, and started hunting the escapees.
And the chase was on: the villainous human-sized pepper-shakers coasted across the floor, zigzagging throughout the maze of barrels that occupied the room, with their quarry rushing ahead of them and always staying just out of reach. If one were to view it from a certain angle, it would resemble something from a cartoon. And so this was for a minute…
…but then Huggy spotted a nearby open door, dashed towards it, and with a loud screech, ushered all the workers inside.
No sooner had the last worker gotten through the door, than the oddly-shaped villains rounded a corner and shouted: "HALT! DO NOT MOVE!"
"THE PRISONERS WILL NOT ESCAPE!"
Huggy didn't have time to close the door, so he just rushed inside. His pursuers quickly followed him inside…
…and quickly bumped into the bottom of a flight of stairs, which they heard the workers and the monkey rushing up. Unsure of what just happened, the first one tried again…and bumped against the stair again. The two then looked up the stairs, at themselves, at their lack of legs, then back at the stairs…
"…THE PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPED." they said, disappointed.
Just then, WordGirl appeared right behind them: "And you two haven't! I'm taking you to jail!"
"YOU ARE INTERFERING IN MATTERS THAT DO NOT CONCERN YOU!"
"Oh, really? Since when is 'innocent people being overwhelmed and made to do acts against their will' not my concern?"
"THEIR WILL IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE! THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THEIR EXISTENCE IS TO SERVE US! ALL CREATURES OF ALL WORLDS EITHER SERVE US, OR ARE EXTERMINATED!"
"YES! EXTERMINATED!" echoed the other one of these strange villains…earning an expression of shock on WordGirl's face: "Wait…did you just use the word 'Exterminate?"
"YES!" replied one of the villains, unsure of why the question was even asked.
"As in 'to get rid of something by destroying it completely?'"
"YES!" said the other, even more confused.
"And you meant to do that to the workers?"
"IF THEY WOULD NOT SERVE OUR CAUSE, OF COURSE!" the villains proudly declared.
Instantly, the expression on WordGirl's face turned angry: "You're new around here, I can guess. As such, you probably don't know it, but that's the kind of thing you never, never, ever tell a superhero!"
And before the oddly-shaped shouting villains could have any chance to react, WordGirl zoomed up to them, and twisted their ray-gun arms into knots right before their eyes! (or eyestalks, or whatever they had.)
"There! Now you won't be exterminating anyone!"
For a second, they just stood there, unsure of what to do now that their weapons were destroyed…but then they turned towards the truck, shouted (in a panic): "WE HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMED! WE REQUIRE ASSISTANCE!" and started gliding away. WordGirl gave pursuit…
…only to find that three more of the odd villains have emerged from the truck! They angled their weapons, shouted: "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" and fired!
By the time WordGirl could stop dodging their shots, the criminals had gotten away.
*(one scene transition later)*
Inside the truck, the strange criminals had their friends use their plunger-arms to remove the damaged ray guns, and replace them with new ones.
One of these villains, coated entirely in black, demanded of the damaged twosome: "WHERE ARE THE PRISONERS?"
"THEY WERE PROTECTED BY AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL BEING! WE WERE OVERWHELMED BY THEIR DEFENDER!"
The black one started shaking, as if in anger, and then shouted: "WE ARE NEVER OVERWHELMED! WE ARE THE GREATER RACE! ANY WHO DENY US OUR SUPREMACY ARE TO BE EXTERMINATED!"
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" the villains shouted as if they were cheering.
"WE SHALL ATTACK IN GREATER FORCE NEXT TIME!" exclaimed the black one. "NEXT TIME, THE ARTIFACTS WILL BE WITHIN OUR GRASP!" And with that, the black one turned towards the front of the trailer, and shouted: "DRIVER! TAKE US TO THE NEAREST FACTORY!"
In the front of the cab, the driver heard this. Fear in his voice, he weakly stated: "Okay… Zachary Zany's Candy Factory it is!" and turned the wheel in the direction of the Candy factory.
Meanwhile, at WordGirl's Super-Secret Spaceship Hideout…
WordGirl slouched in the lounge room, Huggy eating chips nearby. Over the crunching in his mouth, the sidekick managed to hear: "Huggy, that was a really terrible fight!"
After a couple of monkey-screeches from Captain Huggyface, WordGirl responded: "Yeah, I know the workers got out safely…but those crazy bad guys got away! With the chemicals! And they overwhelmed me when I tried to stop them!"
(monkey screeching.)
"Hmmm…I dunno…oh well, it's worth a try," she said with a sigh. Then, she cleared her throat, and said: "To 'overwhelm' is to overcome or overpower somebody or something, usually with stronger or better forces."
She waited for a few seconds, and said: "You know, defining a word actually did work a little! I do feel a little better now! But…you know what would make me feel really better?"
Bob only answered with an eyeroll; he knew what was coming.
"…The Pretty Princess and Sparkling Pony Power Hour!" she said excitedly, reaching for the remote, and turning on the TV. Instantly, she was greeted with the familiar jingle of the 'Pretty Princess' theme song…
…when, suddenly, she also heard: "We interrupt this program to bring you some Breaking News: there is a robbery in progress at Zachary Zany's Candy Factory! We are not told who is responsible, but on-scene reports have spotted a strange unmarked truck, which suggests the robbers are the same ones that attacked the Dangerous Chemical Storage for Dangerous Chemicals!"
Instantly, WordGirl's mood changed; she said: "C'mon, Bob; duty calls." As her sidekick hopped on her back, she thought aloud: "They won't get away this time!"
Later, at Zany Zachary's Candy Factory…
Seven of the oddly shaped criminals, having rounded up the workers, guided them into the truck by shouting: "ALL HUMANS PRESENT ARE TO ENTER OUR VEHI CLE! DISOBEY, AND YOU WILL BE-"
"-Exterminated! I know!" WordGirl interjected, having suddenly arrived on the scene. Once she had the villains' attention, she continued: "Now then, mister…um…you know, I never got your names last time! What do you call yourselves?"
"WE ARE CALLED THE DALEKS!" it replied, proudly.
"…Daleks? That's not even a word!"
"IT IS A WORD!" shouted the 'Dalek' indignantly, before adding: "…IN THE LANGUAGE OF OUR HOMEWORLD, THE PLANET SKARO!"
"Ohhh, you're from another planet!" WordGirl exclaimed, "That explains a lot! (ahem) Anyway, I'm WordGirl, and now that we've been introduced…Your prisoners are gonna go free, now!"
"YOU ARE INCORRECT, 'WORD-GIRL'! WE HAVE MORE DALEKS THAN OUR PREVIOUS ENCOUNTER! YOU WILL BE OVERWHELMED! AND THEN, YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" another Dalek exclaimed proudly.
And as the workers ducked down, the Daleks all shouted: "EXTERMINATE WORDGIRL!" and aimed their ray guns….
...and as they started firing, WordGirl started dodging!
"IMPOSSIBLE! NO CREATURE IS FASTER THAN OUR RAYS!"exclaimed one of the Daleks.
"None, except me!" WordGirl proclaimed, dodging more blasts as she did. After a little more dodging, she finally noticed what she'd been waiting for: Captain Huggyface had snuck behind the Daleks, who were entirely focused on 'exterminating' WordGirl.
"NOW, HUGGY!"
With a triumphant screech, Captain Huggyface leaped on top of one of the Daleks, causing it to shake, and exclaim: "GET OFF OF ME! GET OFF OF ME! GET OFF OF MEEEE!"
Curious, the other Daleks turned towards the source of the exclamations...giving WordGirl the time to twist up their raygun arms, and tie the group of Daleks together by their plunger-arms! WordGirl and Captain Huggyface high-fived, while the Daleks shouted: "EMERGENCY! WE CANNOT MOVE! WE CANNOT MOVE! EMERGENCY!"
"Great Work, Huggy! They look pretty overwhelmed! Now, to get these workers to-" WordGirl started to say, when she was suddenly interrupted by a strange tickling sensation, as her body was suddenly enveloped in a blue glow…that disappeared after a second!
Just then, a Dalek outside of WordGirl's field of vision shouted "SCAN REVEALS THAT THE SUBJECT, WORDGIRL, COMES FROM THE PLANET LEXICON! PREPARE THE LEXONITE!"
"I OBEY!" replied another.
WordGirl quickly turned around, and spotted… an entirely black Dalek, standing next to one with a strange tube attached to its plunger arm! WordGirl prepared to spring at them, and disarm them like she did with the others…
…but then the strange tube blasted a finely-powdered red substance her way! She coughed, and said: "What is this tuff?"
GASP!
"Wait-did I say tuff? I meant spud! No, fluff! Oh no! I'm dis..use…ify..ing words ag…a…GAAAH!" WordGirl desperately tried to utter a coherent sentence, but already the glowing powder had done its job. Soon, she felt dramatically weak, and collapsed on the floor.
"THE LEXONITE HAS RENDERED HER HELPLESS! SHE CAN NO LONGER INTERFERE WITH OUR PLANS!" exclaimed the Dalek with the Lexonite container.
"GOOD!" noted the black one. "NOW THE DALEKS' PLAN CAN CONTINUE!" And with that, it turned away as its ally started ushering the workers away towards the Daleks' truck…
"Wait!" WordGirl weakly called after the Dalek, crawling towards it: "Why carry a bunch of Limonite around… if you didn't know I was from Lessicorn?"
The Dalek paused, turned around, and answered: "IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS! WE SEEK THE DALEK ARTIFACTS HIDDEN ON YOUR HOME PLANET, THE PLANET LEXICON!" This earned a shocked expression from WordGirl, as the Dalek continued: "AND, WE WILL OVERWHELM AND EXTERMINATE ALL WHO STAND IN OUR WAY!"
Having said that, the black Dalek aimed its raygun arm at WordGirl…but then Captain Huggyface threw a nearby coffee mug at the arm, knocking it out of alignment, causing the beam to strike the floor below them instead!
However, just before Captain Huggyface could ready a follow-up move, the floor cracked where the beam struck it, and sunk slightly. Within seconds, the floor collapsed, dropping WordGirl and Captain Huggyface into the basement below, where they landed with a 'WHUMP!'
The black Dalek looked at the sudden hole in the floor…and then turned away, trundling back to the truck. The Daleks who were tied up by their plunger arms did as well, albeit in a manner resembling awkward wobbling.
"NOW NO ONE CAN STOP THE DALEK MASTER PLAN! SOON THE DALEKS WILL BE THE MASTERS OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!" they all exclaimed triumphantly.
*(one scene transition later)*
In the basement, Captain Huggyface and WordGirl lay on top of a pile of rubble, dizzy expressions on their faces (especially WordGirl, who still had powdered Lexonite on her.) With a quick shake of their heads, they regained their bearings…and remembered what the Daleks said after they left!
"Huggy…." WordGirl said weakly, "They oversmelled-"
Overwhelmed.
"That's what I said…they oversmelled us! And now both the planet Ears and the planet Lethcon are in danjerr, and there's nothing we can do to stop them!"
Huggy screeched in response, to which WordGirl said: "What, Huggy? We've got no pallers, no plam, and no hope! How can we stop those Darlecks now?"
"Perhaps I can be of some assistance in that matter."
WordGirl and Huggyface turned towards the source of the voice, and found…a guy with curly hair, a coat, and a ridiculously long multicolored scarf standing right behind them!
As they stood there dumbfounded, the man looked up at the hole in the ceiling, and said: "Hmm, looks like I haven't arrived a moment too soon, either!"
Finally, WordGirl asked: "Who are you?"
"You don't recognize me? Oh yeah, that's right, you haven't met me yet…come to think of it, you were a lot older when I last saw you…" he said, earning a confused eyebrow from both his observers.
"…Oh yeah, right; you are the 'get down to business' type…(ahem) My name is The Doctor, and I'm here to help you stop those Daleks.
….
Will the Daleks conquer both the Earth and Lexicon? Will WordGirl find a way to overwhelm them for good? And who on earth is that guy anyway?
"I told you, I'm the Doctor!"
Find out next time, when we return to the adventures of…WORDGIRL!
"And the Doctor!"
(Sigh.)
…What? What's a Doctor Who crossover without the Doctor?
Anyway, Please leave reviews. I really want to know if people appreciate the way I've crossed these universes over.