He may not be able to ride the TARDIS into battle, but a moped worked quite well.
That was until he almost hit the girl.
In all fairness he was in quite a hurry. And she wasn't looking. The Doctor understood that crosswalks were supposed to be a waiting zone, but sometimes they're like keep out signs.
And is it really his fault that she was-in all honestly-quite short and had her nose suck in a dictionary.
VROOM VROOM
"HOLY SHIT"
The small girl jumped out of the Doctor's way, but he slowed down and pulled over to apologize
"Sorry sorry, real important business"
"More important than pedestrian safety?" She had clutched the book to her chest, and the Doctor saw she wore small glasses, with a black rim and blue stripes on the sides, and coffee brown eyes, and pin straight brown hair that reached just past her shoulders. Her sundress was a collage of flowers, vibrant yellows and greens and purples.
"Well, you see, this alien species-the Daleks-they're actually kind of like robots…but anyway, they heard that your President didn't pass the motion to further atomic bomb research and production. The Daleks were hoping to use this new bomb to blow up Earth, so they're a little upset it won't be built. They are currently trying to kidnap the President and convince him to sign the motion." The Doctor explained, using his hands a lot and almost falling off his moped once. "I'm the Doctor, by the way"
"Alright 'Doctor'. So what you're trying to say is an alien species of robots is about to kidnap the president and we have to stop it."
The Doctor knew that there were quite a lot of people who could process things like this quickly, but when they shorten down the explanations, it doesn't really seem like much to grasp.
"Basically." he said, handing her a helmet.
"Thank you" She said, sitting on the moped and grabbing the seat in front of her. It was then the Doctor realized that she was British, but he was in Washington, D.C. "What's your name"
"Alyssa. Alyssa McKendry."
When they arrived at the white house, security saw them and immediately blocked their entrance. "No tours today"
"Ah, but we are here to stop the robot aliens from kidnapping President McCleary. I'm the Doctor, this is may companion-"he pointed to Alyssa "-and your government system leader's life is at stake. If you would…" He waved his hands in a motion as to say they should let them through.
The two living mountains looked at eachother before shrugging and moving out of their way. The Doctor nodded and walked past them swiftly.
Alyssa ran to catch up before falling in step. "Is that just what you do? Tell them you're the Doctor and bullshit your way through the door?"
He stopped and threw his arms out, sliding on the marble floor before tripping and moving down a hallway. Alyssa shook her head and followed.
"Most of the time, yeah"
"Brilliant" she muttered.
They continued down the hallway until the Doctor stopped again and pulled out some kind of machine from his jacket pocket. It was thin, and the very top was glowing a bright green. He began to wave it around wildly, like he was scanning the entire area.
"What?"
"Sonic screwdriver" he said flippantly "Time Lord technology, very useful." He held it to his face, reading something, before moving swiftly down another hallway. Alyssa got the feeling it was more than a GPS.
They continued down the hall until they came to a very elegant set of doors. Taking seemingly no notice of the imposing image, the Doctor threw open the doors and walked in, giving Alyssa no choice but to follow.
"-nothing from me, wait, who are you?" The ever recognizable voice of the president was cut off by their arrival.
"Ah hello Mr. President. I'm the Doctor, this is Alyssa" Alyssa gave a small wave. "We're here to dispose of the Daleks"
"Oh is that what these things are? Some alien technology?" He somehow managed to look calm and in control while tied to a chair and surrounded by robots with weapons. When the Doctor said alien robots, these weren't exactly what she was expecting.
"Doctor? Doctor? Doctor Who?" The robotic voice of the head Dalek called out. The Doctor smiled
"Oh I do love when they say that-anyway!" he pulled out the sonic screwdriver once more and scanned it at the nearest robot-thing. The light in its camera died and the whole thing collapsed, screws popping out and suddenly, it was just a heap of scraps.
"Useful indeed."
As useful as it was, there was still nine or ten more, and only one sonic screwdriver. The Daleks began to surround the Doctor.
"Alyssa, they are after me now. You go around them, slowly, and free the President. Free him and take him down the hall. Once he's gone I can take them all out. Go."
She nodded and moved carefully around the loose circle made by the robots. Once she was past she sprinted to Mr. McCleary. She knelt behind him and began furiously trying to undo the knots. But god damnit Sara was the one good at knots! After furiously tugging at the ropes to no avail, she looked around wildly for something to cut the ropes. Sitting on the desk was a letter opener-designed to look like a sword.
The thing about letter openers-they're sharp. People don't really imagine that they are, but it isn't easy to slice through paper without something to brace it. They aren't just sharp. They're really sharp.
Alyssa dove for the 'sword', grabbed it, and began to saw through the ropes holding the president to the chair.
"You and the Doctor" he began "you do this kind of thing often?"
"Well, I imagine he does" She said as she cut through the roped binding his hands and moved on to the ones binding his chest. "I just met him about 15 minutes ago."
The President hummed appreciatively. "Would you look at that?"
The ropes broke and fell to the ground. Alyssa sprang up, grabbed President McCleary, and all but dragged him out the doors and down the hall, before shoving him into another room at the end of the corridor. "Stay here" she told him before running like the wind back into the office.
The Daleks had surrounded the Doctor, and he couldn't seem to be able to activate the screwdriver in his hand.
"DOCTOR!" he understood immediately, tossing the device to her. Alyssa caught it, frantically searching the surface before she found what she was looking for.
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She rammed hard on the button, and at first the screwdriver admitted a shrill noise, but immediately it quiet as it became too loud and shrill for her to hear.
But the Daleks could hear. The began to roll about in circle, screaming and ramming into walls before the sound vibrations began pulling out screws one by one, until Eleven Daleks were reduced to a load of bonze pieces of metal.
The Doctor looked at her, slightly awed. "What did you…?"
She felt herself smile. "You think I read the dictionary for nothing? I know what sonic means. And when something sonic is amplified loud enough-"She gestured around at all of the pieces of wires and steel around her "-machines fizzle out"
The Doctor smiled to her. "Do you have any plans tomorrow? I heard rumors of a Sabiaman that got…oh what did they say…free. Free as a bird"
Alyssa smiled. "Well, tomorrow I have plans to travel with a madman and stop a free Sabiaman from destroying a planet."