Chapter2 Lucky Punch
We arrive at the lot. the sun had begun to go down giving the sky a dark blue look with purple pink clouds. One of my favorite kinds of skies. I start fallowing the doctor out of the TARDIS but before I can step onto the ground, he turns, putting his hand on the door. "ah, ah, ah." he prodded my back in. " Your staying here."
"But I wanna go to!" I wine. the Doctor puts a finger his his lips
"Shhhhh. Your going to wake them." He whispers. Sure enough, the weeds and flowers all seemed to be breathing softly in and out. Sure it was creepy but, at the same time, sweet. Life was resting all around us. "I'll have enough trouble with just me going in. If they wake up and I'm not done repairing their Nutrition Regulator-"
"I'll be quiet!" I say. Then, bringing it down to an even softer whisper- "I mean. I'll be real quiet." The doctor looks me in the eyes as I plead with them. He takes a deep breath and slowly releases the air.
"... Alright. you can come."
"Yes!" I make the cha-ching motion.
"But not a sound. got it?" I tuck my lips into my mouth and nod. After I step out, the Doctor gently closes the TARDIS doors and locks them. Placing the key into his pants pocket, he takes a few steps forward. " Now, where would a big'ol Nursury pod be hiding?," His next step sends him falling into an overgrown shrub. He would have been fine, if the plant hadn't been hiding a giant hole in the ground. I gasp, keeping myself from screaming "Doctor" and reach my hand to his. The Doctor grabs hold but the inertia is to much for me to counter. We both fall.
I was proud of myself for not screaming on the way down. That feeling soon left as we hit the dirt ground.
"AUuugh"I grown, rolling the Doctor off of me. He gets up slowly, twisting his neck and rotating his shoulders.
"You alright?" he says, rubbing his right arm. I raise to a sitting position, pushing the small of my back to crack it.
"Yeah. Don't worry. Landed on my face." He helps me to my feet and starts checking me for injures with the sonic screw driver. It's hum bouncing off the soil walls. "Quit it!" I swat at him. "I'm fine, I'm fine."
"Just making sure." He put his screw driver back in his coat pocket and begins looking around with me. The hole had to of been a good 20 ft deep. the sides at the bottom looked like they'd been dug away at, giving it a bottle shape. to the left of us was the ship. Egged shaped and thrice as big as a hummer."Well, isn't that precise." Said the Doctor, gazing up at the walls. They where littered with creatures that looked like Hedgehogs with Chinchilla fur. I step next the Doctor.
"That them?" I gaze up with the him.
"Yep." He said, still awing at them. "Resting like angels." We take another moment to appreciate the Meron-Tha before walking to the Nursery pod, half buried in the ground. As soon as we where close enough, the Doctor used his sonic screw driver to take off a panel. When it popped off he handed it to me. I set it on the ground.
"Doc?"
"Yeah?" He'd already started repairing.
"Theirs something I gotta tell you." He glanced at me.
"What?" I hesitate. I really should tell him but, what would his reaction be? To have your life broadcast to the Nation for entertainment had to be hard to take. No. I have to tell him. Just to be fair.
" I-"
"BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP-" Where the heck was that coming from?! Then The Doctors and mine eyes widened as we I realized, it was coming from me! My phone was ringing!
"Turn it off! Hurry!" He hissed at me, quickening his Reappearing. I dart into my pants pocket, doing my best to speedily get past the the fabric.
"I'm trying! I''m trying!" I rip the thing out, press the end button, and proceed to turn off it's sound. I look up at the doctor.
"Nichole.," He started,looking off to the side. " I can't feel my legs."
We both look down to see the Meron-Tha swarming around his legs. For the first time, I can truly see their faces. Big bug eyes with no mouth or nose. Just a hole where a long, skinny forked tong came in and out that curled at the ends. They move up to his knees, causing the Doctor to fall forward.
"Doctor!" I Catch him, gently sliding him to the ground.
"Green b-b-b-button!" He forces out as the aliens move up his body. Another frenzy has started on his left hand. "P-p-p-press - ," He points at he ship.
"The green button! Got it!" I leave his side to do so but I can't feel my foot. Before I hit the ground, I grab the ridge of where the panel used to be. I look back to see the doctor totally encompassed by the Meron-Tha and my knees already being surrounded. I need to focus. That button. Nothing else matters but pressing that button.
I reach for it but the aliens have quickly made their way to my waits, making it hard to hold up my body. My grip loosens as they ant line their way up my arm.
"This is it." I thought, swinging my hand back to give the green button one good smack. That's when they got to my chest. My lungs slowed down, as dose my hart. My outreached hand began to twitch as I strained to keep it up.
"Urrrrahh!" I put what I can into a palm thrust to the Button. I feel it go in as my grip slips from the ridge. I fall on my back and watch as a green sparkly mist erupts from the top of the ship. In unison, the Meron-Tha look up, tongs waving in the air. They skater to the walls to get closer to their food supply unblanketing the doctor and I.
"I did it." I say with pride. "We did it." I move my head to look at the doctor. "Doc?" I roll onto my belly and start crawling towards him. "Doc! Doctor!" He wasn't moving. I put an ear to his chest and found his harts had stopped. "No no NO! Don't do this!" I yell at his lifeless face. I do CPR Martha Jones style but nothing. again and again, with everything I had left I put into bringing him back."Don't die on my Time lord!" I go in for air and come back. "Don't you dare die!" I start to cry as time and time again I fail. "you can't." I squint to see through my watery eyes. "You can't die." I grip my hand on his shirt and bury my face in his side. "No, no, no ..." with one last frustrating hit, I punch his rib.
"Gaaaah" He breaths in. My head shoots up from his shirt at the sound. I watch him come to life. Every step making my smile bigger.
"YOUR ALIVE!" I jump to his throat, hugging him and laughing hysterically.
"Ah. No fair." He squirmed. " I don't have enough strength to hug back yet."
We sat and watched the children feed from the ship, waiting for their parents to come. The doctor had already called the Meron-Tha's guardians and told them what had happened. They where only to happy to help us out of the hole after gathering their young onto their ship. Anti-gravity beams are fun.
"So, what'll happen to the plants at the lot?" I say as we stroll back to his ship. He takes a look around, clicking his tong.
"Well, they got a good start. Most plants only need is a good start to get going. Shame about that Bush thought. Had to get ride of it to expose the hole."
"Yeah." I look down to watch my feet get closing and closer to the TARDIS. "Suppose... I can go home now." I say in a depressed tone.
"I Suppose," The Doctor unlocks the TARDIS and takes a step inside. "Or," He turns around. "You can come with me." He smiled. "You saved me Nichole. Brink of death and you saved me. The way I see it is, I owe you a trip." There it was. That famous look. The Doctor, in the TARDIS with a welcoming hand towards the viewer. Only this time, it was just me.
"Doc. I-"
"Its not just a space ship ya know. It's a time machine." He says, pointing his thumb at the core of the TARDIS.
"I know."
"You do?" He says with a puzzled look. I freeze
"Well... the thing has like, a bazillion and two buttons on it. It's got to do more then just space travel." He smiles. Probably thinks I'm smart or something. "No." I look away. "If we're going to travel together, I've got to tell you." He waits patiently for me to speak. "... My names not Nichole. Well, it's not my first name. It's my middle name." He raises an eye brow. "My first name is Ashley."
"Ashley Nichole. Is that it?" I nod. "That's a beautiful name!" He spouts, throwing his hands to his sides. "Why'd you keep it from me?"
"Ashley's such a common name. I must have went to school with at least seven girls with the same name!"
"Well, why do you think it's so popular?" He happily jumps to my side, elbow extended. "Shall we, Ashley Nichole?" He said it with such Joy and silliness, I had to smile back.
"All right." I take his arm. "My back pack's on the TARDIS Anyway." We walk in together, and the doors close. I guess I'll tell him later. It's just one little secret. What's the worst that could happen. ... Oh crap. Why'd I say that.