AN: So I checked my story recently, and was like "0 views?! OH NO! Is my story that bad?" But then I realized it never updated for some reason, so hopefully it will with this chapter. Anyways, this is just a goofy chapter called:
Messing With Daleks
Becca arrives at school grumpy the next day. Her parents were angry at her the previous evening because they had to pick her up from school, which made Becca angry at them, as well as at herself for lying to them. As a typically honest person, Becca isn't fond of lying.
She also starts the day angry at Brad, but as the day wears on, Becca's anger at him gradually fades. Sure, he can be annoying at times, but he did choose Becca out of everyone in the school to take time-traveling with him, and he even offered to take her on a second trip. The more Becca thinks about it, the better that second trip is starting to sound. After all, she often wishes she could be anywhere but school as her algebra teacher drones on and on about the quadratic formula, and now she has the opportunity to do that!
But it's still dangerous. Becca could have been killed by one of the many t-rex or evil Cybermen on her last trip. Who knows what evil aliens she will encounter on her next one? And Brad isn't exactly the king of safety, he'd probably take her to the most dangerous planet ever just to impress her or something. Not that he needs to impress her. When Becca felt Brad's hearts, she couldn't help noticing his nice abs as well. That, combined with his cute face is actually quite attractive, Becca thinks, blushing.
After siting through another boring algebra class, Becca makes up her mind. She will travel with Brad again, but only if he agrees to follow a few rules she has decided on. The only class she has with Brad is history, and she gets there right as the bell rings, so she has to wait until after class to ask him.
After the class, during which Brad is surprisingly quiet and respectful compared to the previous day, Becca stops him in the hallway. "So, I was thinking…" Becca begins.
"Yeah?" Brad asks, his face not betraying any emotion.
"…well, would you still like to time-travel with me?" Becca asks, a bit uncertain if he will after how angrily she turned him down yesterday.
"Yeah," Brad replies, a grin slowly spreading across his face as he realizes she means it.
"Great!" Becca exclaims. "So here's some rules you're going to follow. 1: We're only going to safe times and places. No more getting involved in planetary wars. So talk to some other time-travelers, or however it is you time-travelers figure out where to go, and only take me to safe places. 2: If a place turns out to be unsafe, we leave. You're too immature to fix things, and I don't want to die, so we leave, and let a more responsible time-traveler deal with things. And 3—"
Becca gets cut off as Brad pushes the travel button on his vortex-manipulator. Becca experiences the annoyingness of time-traveling with a vortex-manipulator again, but when she lands, she's happy to discover that, while she feels a bit dizzy, she isn't so dizzy that she throws up. It seems she's starting to get used to time-travel.
Her happiness fades, however, as she realizes that Brad cut her off mid-sentence. "Were you even listening to me?!" Becca yells.
Brad shrugs. "I was, but then I decided coming here would be a lot more fun."
"And here is…" Becca asks impatiently, but then she realizes the place looks familiar. It's not the place with the dinosaurs, lizards, and Cybermen, but rather…
"YOU TOOK US BACK TO THE AMUSEMENT PARK FULL OF KILLER DALEKS?!" Becca yells. "AND AFTER I JUST TOLD YOU I WANT TO BE SAFE?! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!"
Brad shrugs. "Nowhere in the universe is safe." He grins. "Besides, I have something fun planned."
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT 'SOMETHING FUN,' I WANT TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!" Becca yells.
Just then, a Dalek scoots into view. "I HAVE LO-CA-TED THE HU-MANS!" it shouts in its annoyingly loud voice.
Brad sighs. "Way to go Becca, you complained so loudly that a Dalek heard you." He makes a face. "Seriously, they have really terrible hearing. It's why they have to shout like old people. 'What's that, sonny? What did you say?'" Brad says, doing an impression of a stereotypical grandpa-ish person.
"That's rude," Becca says of Brad's impression of an elderly person. "And you're rude for bringing me here. Now let's go!"
"No can do," Brad says, grinning like an idiot. "I have a plan to stop the Daleks and take back this amusement park!"
Unfortunately, the Daleks aren't too thrilled to hear this. "EXTERMINATE THE HU-MANS!" the Dalek in front of them yells, as more Daleks come towards them with cries of "EXTERMINATE!"
"Hey, I'm not a human!" Brad snaps. "I'm a Timelord, thank you very much! Just because I'm not as famous as my dad doesn't mean I'm human!"
Becca is about to ask what's so bad about being human, but a Dalek speaks first. "THE TIME-LORD WILL COME WITH ME! THE HU-MAN WILL BE EX-TER-MI-NA-TED!"
When the Daleks aim their egg-whisks at Becca, Brad realizes he has to stop them. Which means stalling them, more specifically, stalling them with the first thing he can think of. Which is: "Talking trashcan says what?"
"WHAT?!" The lead Dalek asks, confused.
"Talking trashcan says what?"
"WHAT?!"
"Talking trashcan says what?"
"IRRELEVANT!" The Dalek finally shouts, catching on that Brad is just stalling, although it still doesn't get the joke. "EX-TER-MI-NATE THE HU-MAN!"
Once again, the Daleks aim their egg-whisks at Becca, but Brad is faster, pushing a button on his sonic cellphone that freezes the Daleks in place.
"That won't stop them for long," Brad warns. "Quick, let's outrun them on this roller-coaster."
Becca stares at Brad like he's insane. "That won't help at all! The roller-coaster will drop us off right back where we started, and then the Daleks will kill us."
Brad just smiles and shakes his head. "I see you've only ridden Earth roller-coasters." He snorts. "Rollercoasters that go in circles. What a waste of time! THESE roller-coasters end at a different place than they start, and the line for the next roller-coaster is just a few feet away. You can ride all around the park without having to walk to different rides. All you have to do is stand in line.
"Well then let's go!" Becca exclaims, running towards the ride.
"One rollercoaster ride coming up!" Brad exclaims, sonic-ing the ride as he races towards it. The roller-coaster car lurches into motion, slowly picking up speed. "Hop on!" Brad yells, making a big show of expertly hopping into the rollercoaster car.
"OhnoohnoohnoohnoohNO!" Becca yells as she jumps, afraid she is going to miss the roller-coaster, but ends up making it right before the roller-coaster climbs up the hill.
"You might want to hold on," Brad says, causing Becca to panic as she realizes they are halfway up the hill and she doesn't even have her seatbelt on! Frantically, Becca grabs at the seatbelt, and hears it click just as she feels the car drop.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Becca screams, causing Brad, who is hardly scared at all, to laugh at her.
"IT ISN'T FUNNNNNAAAAAAAAAH!" Becca screams. She was trying to say "It isn't funny," but then the second drop caused her to scream again.
The rollercoaster continues onwards, sometimes making turns, but mostly going forward, unlike Earth rollercoasters that go in circles. The hills gradually get smaller and smaller, until the ride comes to a stop in front of a tunnel. "The roller-coaster car goes back to the beginning underground," Brad says, pointing to the tunnel in front of them that slopes downwards. "Isn't this ride awesome?!"
"Yeah!" Becca replies, giddy from her adrenaline rush. Then she remembers there are Daleks coming to kill them. "How are you going to stop the Daleks?" she asks, back in responsible mode.
"By temporarily hacking their hive mind," Brad says, no longer as cheerful. "It won't be easy, which is why I brought this." Brad reaches into his hoodie pocket and pulls out a book that says Hacking Evil Alien Hive Minds for Dummies.
"What the?! Is that a real book?!" Becca asks, hardly believing that. "And how did that fit inside your tiny pocket?"
Brad stares like Becca like she's… well… an alien. "My pockets are bigger on the inside," he says, slowly. "Yours aren't?"
"No…" Becca replies slowly.
Brad frowns. "Oh. Well, mine are. And the book is very much real!" Brad says angrily. "Which is terrible! I hate reading, and I hate that it's calling me a dummy!" Brad exclaims, glaring at the book as though daring it to fight him.
"Here, I like reading. I'll read it," Becca says, grabbing the book from Brad and starting to read it.
"It's about tech from way in the future. You wouldn't understand it," Brad replies, snatching the book back.
"THE HU-MAN HAS TAKEN THE RO-LER-COAS-TER THIS WAY!" A loud Dalek voice interrupts them.
"Shit! Brad exclaims. "Quick, in here," he whispers, pulling Becca towards a funhouse. The two of them run across a bouncy bridge and into a room full of mirrors. "I don't think they saw us, and there's no windows in this room, so we should be good," Brad says, plopping down to sit in the corner of the room farthest away from the door to the outside. He then opens his book, stares at it intently… and begins to let out a series of sighs, groans, and foot-tapping as though he were being tortured.
"Would you like some help?" Becca asks, after a few minutes of this behavior.
"No." Is Brad's short, angry reply. He then resumes skimming the book and groaning.
"Are you sure you don't want any help?" Becca asks after a few more minutes.
"No!" Brad exclaims. "Seriously, are all you humans from the 90's this annoying?"
"I'm just trying to help," Becca replies. When it becomes clear that Brad still isn't making progress, Becca tries a different tactic. "Soooo… what other places have you traveled to?"
Brad gives Becca a curious look. "I thought you wanted to get out of here as quickly as possible, so, like, why are you talking about random stuff?"
Becca smiles. "I do, but, you know what? You're right. This amusement park is awesome, and we should save it. You seem like you're having trouble figuring out how to stop the Daleks, and something I've noticed is that, when I'm stuck on something, like a hard math problem, taking a short break then coming back to it sometimes helps. So, where have you been?"
Brad shrugs. "Just a few planets. Oh, and Earth's future. I hung out in 2015 for a bit. That was cool. I haven't had a chance to go too many places though," Brad says, scowling, "because my stupid dad wouldn't let me go anywhere without him. He was all like 'You need to be more responsible, blah blah, blah!'"
"I'm sorry to hear that," Becca replies. "Soooo… what about the Cybermen?"
"What about them?" Brad asks.
"You said we couldn't understand the lizard-people because you didn't have your language translator, but the Cybermen spoke English. How is that possible? Do robots from parallel universes really speak English?"
Brad sighs. "They're not really robots, they're people that turned themselves into robots, except for their brains, or something. That's their goal, to turn everyone into robots, because they think robots are better than humans, or something. Anyways, they're somewhat human, and lots of humans speak English, so lots of Cybermen do too."
Becca nods. "Ok, so then what about the Daleks? Did they used to be human too?"
Brad makes a face. "No, they're like these gross octopus creatures."
"Really?" Becca says, surprised. "I thought they were robots."
"Nope, just slimy, radioactive octopus aliens in robotic armor."
"Oh," Becca replies. "So how do they know English?"
"They don't," Brad replies. "I just remembered to bring…" he pauses for dramatic effect. "…my translator thingie!" Brad cheers, pulling something out of his bigger-on-the-inside hoodie pocket.
Becca stares at the device. "That's a Walkman," she states, as though Brad were stupid.
"I know!" Brad exclaims. "Awesome, right? I gave it some radical modifications, and now it can translate languages as well as play music on the go."
"Ah, I see, you gave it some modifications," Becca says, examining it. "I'm guessing you modified its name to 'translator thingie' as well?"
"Yep!" Brad grins, knowing she's making fun of the name, but not caring. "You have a better name for it?"
"I don't know. It just doesn't seem very creative. You could have at least called it something random, so it wouldn't be boring."
Brad shrugs. Then his eyes widen. "Random! That's it!"
"What's it?" Becca asks, confused.
"The Daleks. I thought I'd have to hack them with a specific thing, but maybe it's a random thing!"
"…huh?" Becca asks, not able to make heads or tails of what Brad just said.
"Thanks, Becca!" Brad cheers. I don't think I could stand reading that book for another second! It's just so hard to concentrate. I think I have Timelord ADHD."
Becca raises an eyebrow. "Do I even want to know?"
"It's like human ADHD, but cooler, because I'm a Timelord."
Becca rolls her eyes, but can't help smiling. "Well, now that you've cleared that up, let's go—"
"EXTERMINATE!"
Becca screams as a Dalek fires its laser at them! She tries to dodge it, then screams again when, because of the mirrors, it looks like three lasers are coming at her, and Becca can't tell which one is real and which are the reflections! Trusting her instincts, Becca dodges away from the one she thinks is real… and breathes a sigh of relief because she guessed right.
The Dalek is still firing its weapon though, and Becca runs away to avoid its next blasts. She catches up to Brad, who is looking at his reflection in a mirror. "Ha ha ha! My face looks all smoshy in this one," Brad says, making a weird face that looks even weirder in the distorted mirror.
"HOW CAN YOU JOKE AT A TIME LIKE THIS?!" Becca exclaims, panicking. Brad makes a face at her as they continue running to the end of the mirror room, where a spinning tunnel awaits them. "Ugh! I hate these things!" Becca and Brad exclaim at the same time. They look at each other.
"You too?" Becca asks.
"Yeah, but I hate Daleks more," Brad grumbles.
The two time-travelers look behind them and see more Daleks entering the mirror room behind the one that was firing at them.
"Shit!" Brad exclaims. "We're going to have to run for it."
"Run? IN A SPINNING TUNNEL?!" Becca exclaims, the idea sounding impossible. She can barely WALK through one without getting dizzy!
"'Fraid so," Brad replies, running as fast as he can through it.
Becca tries to run as fast as she can, when suddenly, she trips! Then a Dalek shoots its laser straight at her!
Becca screams, sure she is a goner, when a person suddenly appears next to her and teleports her away. However, she is barely in the time-space void for a full second before she finds herself back in the funhouse, only this time, she's past the spinning tunnel.
"Thanks," Becca says, turning to look at her rescuer, but then she's majorly confused, because it's Brad?!
"WHAT THE?!" the Brad she was running through the tunnel with exclaims, having just come out of the tunnel and seen her with another Brad.
Fortunately, Brad isn't confused for long, because the Brad who rescued Becca says, "Hey, it's past me! High-five!" Past-Brad and Future-Brad both raise their hands to high-five, then grin. "No can do. That would break the universe," both Brads say at the same time.
Unfortunately, Becca is so confused, she practically has a headache. "Would you mind telling me what's going on?!" Becca yells.
The two Brads look at each other. "Nope, I'm not explaining that again," Future Brad says, crossing his arms. "Like, bye!" With that, future Brad teleports away.
Past Brad sighs. "So, basically, that was me from the future saving you, and this is me from now, so yeah."
"Why didn't you just save me now?!"
"I didn't realize you fell."
"Gee, that's helpful! And what was with your weird 'not high-fiving' thing?"
Brad shrugs. "Crossing your own time-stream messes stuff up, and stuff. Doing something that changes your own history, like high-fiving, could mess time up. It's helpful as a test though. I decided that if I ever cross my own time-stream, the me from the future should suggest high-fiving the me from the past to prove that they really are me from the future and not, like, a shapeshifting alien, or a robot that looks like me, or something."
"Oookay…" Becca says, trying to digest what Brad just said.
Brad frowns. "Speaking of which, I should probably go back to rescue you before I forget." With that, Brad time-travels away.
Barely a second passes before Brad returns. "You're welcome, he announces.
"Wait a minute," Becca frowns, noticing a problem in Brad's explanation. "You knew to come rescue me because your future-self did, but how did your future-self know to rescue me?"
Brad groans. "I don't know! That's the type of thing that gives me a headache!"
"By 'thing,' do you mean 'paradox'?"
"Yes. Now stop talking about it!"
Becca laughs. "Ok." Then her face gets a horrified look on it. "THE DALEKS!"
Frantically, Becca turns around, afraid that while they were talking, the Daleks have come close enough to shoot them. However, what Becca and Brad discover makes them laugh!
The Daleks are stuck in the spinning tunnel. Apparently, to avoid the annoyingness of having to slowly scoot through the spinning tunnel, the Daleks decided to hover, only something went wrong, and now the Daleks are spinning in circles in mid-air!
"Quick, let's hack them before they stop spinning in circles!" Becca exclaims.
"'K," Brad says. He starts punching buttons on his sonic cellphone, a look of intense concentration on his face. Then he smiles. "Got it!"
"And not a moment too soon!" Becca says, pointing to the Daleks, who have suddenly stopped spinning in circles and are now floating towards them. "Hurry up!"
Brad sighs. "Sorry, but to hack all the Daleks, we'll have to go to their ship." With that, Brad sets his vortex manipulator, and the two of them arrive on board the Dalek ship that is floating above the planet. And full of thousands of Daleks, a hundred of which are right in front of Becca and Brad! For a moment, Brad and Becca remain frozen in fear, as a hundred glowing eyepieces turn to look at them. Then it begins.
"EXTERMINATE!" A hundred Daleks yell at the same time. They raise their egg-whisks, but Brad is faster, pushing the final button on his sonic cellphone that will start the hack. Suddenly, all the Daleks start spinning in circles!
"Yeah!" Brad cheers, pumping his fist in the air. "The Daleks were stupid enough to spin in circles on their own, so I figured it would be easy to make them do it."
"So they're under your control now?" Becca asks, hardly daring to believe it.
"Yep," Brad replies.
"EXTERMINAAA…AAATE!" A Dalek yells, the sound of its voice fading away, then coming back as its spinning causes it to face them again.
Brad frowns. "Well, almost. I can't get them to stop saying 'Exterminate.'" Then Brad gets a mischievous look on his face. "Although…" Brad pushes some buttons on his sonic cellphone, then aims it at the Daleks. Another Dalek says "Exterminate!" only instead of its typical Dalek voice, the Dalek's voice is super high-pitched and squeaky, like an Alvin and the Chipmunks voice.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Brad bursts out laughing. Becca rolls her eyes at Brad's immature behavior, but she can't help smiling slightly.
"Welp, now that I know that works, all I have to do is give them the command to leave here, and they'll do it."
"Rad!" Becca exclaims. Then she frowns slightly. "And while you're at it, why don't you make them stop spinning? They're probably about ready to puke."
Brad rolls his eyes. "Only you would feel bad for puking Daleks," Brad grumbles, but he pushes some buttons, and the Daleks stop spinning. "I do plan on leaving their voices like that," Brad says, chuckling slightly.
Becca shrugs. "Fine by me," she says, smiling as another Dalek squeaks "Exterminate!"
With that, Brad pushes more buttons on his sonic cellphone, then teleports Becca and himself back to the planet's surface. "Let's see if this works," Brad says, his gaze darting back and forth between the Daleks near them and the spaceship in the sky.
Suddenly, all the Daleks around them teleport away, and the spaceship starts to fly away. "YEAH!" Brad cheers, putting his hand up to high-five Becca, and Becca high-fives him right back. Then Brad gets a scheming look on his face. "Although, if the Daleks are under my control, there's one more thing I want to do…" With that, Brad teleports away, only to return a few seconds later.
"What did you do?" Becca asks, her hand on her hip, knowing that whatever it was will make the Daleks quite angry with Brad once his hack on them wears off.
"Oh… nothing…" Brad says, not very convincingly, since he is barely holding in laughter. Then he sighs. "Yeah, I figured I'd have one last laugh before having to spend a shit ton of time helping the natives invasion-proof this planet. Otherwise, the Daleks will take this over again by, like, tomorrow."
"And speaking of time, it's almost six o-clock!" Becca wails. "I'll never get my homework done now!"
"Nah, you'll be fine," Brad says, dismissing her with a wave of his hand."
"NO, I WON'T!" Becca yells, fed up with Brad not listening to her. "AND IF YOU TAKE ME SOMEWHERE YOU KNOW IS SUPER-DANGEROUS AGAIN, I WON'T TIME-TRAVEL WITH YOU!"
Brad frowns. "Sorry. This planet should be safe now. Wanna come back tomorrow?"
"No!" Becca exclaims." I mean, I won't have time with my homework. Let's wait 'till Monday to travel again, and since you never asked, I would like to go to the Medieval ages and see some knights in shining armor, so that's where we're going!"
"Ok, Miss Bossy!" Brad grumbles. When Becca shoots her a glare, Brad sighs. "Fine, we'll go there."
"Thank you," Becca says, smiling. And with that, the two time-travelers return to Earth. Yet as Becca starts her homework, she can't help wondering what the last thing Brad did to the Daleks was…
A few weeks later, the Daleks are surrounding some planet. The Doctor steps out of his TARDIS to find… a hundred Daleks with "Kick me!" signs taped to their backs?! "WHAT THE?!" The Doctor exclaims, causing the Daleks to notice him, turn around, and squeak "Exterminate!" "Who could have done this?!" The Doctor wonders aloud, when he looks up and sees, graffitied on the Dalek's spaceship in an obnoxiously neon yellow, the words "Brad was here." "BRAAAAAAD!" The Doctor yells, deciding that, if he sees Brad, he will be grounded for a very long time.
Unfortunately, The Doctor isn't the only person to visit the Daleks before their hack wears off. As the Daleks are stuck in their spaceship and unable to attack anyone due to their hack, a flash of red appears, out of which comes a black-and-red robot. The robot says the same thing that it said to the Cybermen: "Data must be retrieved." It then starts walking over to a Dalek.
"Exterminate!" the Dalek squeaks, but Brad's hack prevents it from firing its laser at anyone, so it is unable to stop the robot from downloading its memories. "Data retrieval complete," the robot says when it is done. "Target number three acquired." Then the robot disappears in a flash of red light.
AN: Hey, I hope you liked this chapter. I got my inspiration from that episode where the 10th Doctor got cloned and Donna got his memories, hacked the Daleks, and made them spin in circles. Anyways, the next chapter will be about dragons, so stay tuned!
