Eat the Gold

Chapter 1

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20,000 miles from the moon…

"Oh, no!" said the Doctor, as he frantically worked the controls of the rocket.

"Doctor, what is it?" asked Zoe Heriot. The young girl was being bounced around the cockpit by the tremendous G-forces.

"We've lost the homing signal! Without that, we won't be able to find the Moonbase and we'll crash…into the moon!"

"Ach!" Jamie MacDonald, the Doctor's other companion, said in disbelief. "You claim to have flown all over 'space and time,' but you can't even get us to the fucking moon?"

Even with the turbulence of the now-out-of-control flight, Jamie was still somehow able to make his way over to the Doctor at the control panel. He got right into the Doctor's face. "You're the fucking shittest space captain ever!" He started to head back to his seat, then stopped and turned back to the Timelord. "You're...you're Scott fucking Bakula!"