Yo, what's up fam? Haha. Sorry for the wait. Sparkle and I have been crazy busy with our classes and our own individual stories on our main accounts. So, thank you all for your patience. Hope you're still with us. We'll do our best to have the next chapter up as soon as we can. So...without further ado...enjoy chapter three!
~ Elsie
"What are you getting all the junk for?" Desery asked the short haired blonde as she dashed around pieces of junk in her arms.
"It might be junk to you, but it's the answer to all our problems in my hands." The woman replied as she set the pieces down.
"You know what they say, another man's trash is another man's treasure." Clarity smiled.
"Exactly!" The woman snapped her fingers in Clarity's direction with a grin. "Except I'm not a man anymore. So I'll have to tweak that phrase before it gets written down, or just better apply it to this situation I suppose. This deceased man's trash is this woman's treasure. There see? Much more accurate."
"But what are you going to make with all of it?" Deserey demanded. "It's all broken."
"Something that will help us, hopefully." The woman replied. "That's the thing with broken things Dez, when you fit the right broken pieces together you make something new and sometimes, if you're just a bit lucky, it's even better than it was before."
"Well, you made that there screwdriver out of broken bits n' pieces and it seems pretty handy." Graham gestured to her sonic screwdriver in her hand. "I'll bet whatever this is will be just as useful."
"Thank you, Graham." The woman replied.
"If not then we'll probably die." Graham shrugged continuing on.
"Ah,I take it back. Not so much thanks, Graham." The woman rescinded her thank you.
"Oh, don't mind him love," Grace told her. "He's a bit of a pessimist. You just work your magic."
"Oh, it's not magic. It's science." The woman corrected. "A bit of jiggery pokery and this'll all be working just fine."
"Well, whatever it is your making can you hurry up? Who knows how long that thing is going to stay where that bus driver saw it." Yaz pointed out. Her police officer instincts nagging at her to get a move on before this threat to the community moved.
"Right, yes, good point, Yaz." The woman replied hurrying on with her work. Once the blonde was done with her tinkering everyone was rushed to the car. The new and improved junk weapons crammed into the car's trunk.
"No way, Yaz, it's your turn." Deserey crossed her arms glaring at her partner.
"Dez, Cmon we really don't have time for this." Yaz pleaded already sat in the middle of the back seat.
"I'm not sitting in his lap again. He's your childhood friend why don't you give it a go?" Deserey demanded.
"But I'm already sittin down." Yaz complained.
"We could switch?" Clarity offered the only other person yet to get in the car.
Deserey looked at the blonde woman then back to Ryan who shifted uncomfortably in his seat as the dark skinned woman debated the brunette's offer.
"No." Deserey curtly replied making her decision climbing into Ryan's lap with a huff. "Let's just go."
Clarity nodded in reply getting into the blonde's lap shutting the door behind her.
"Hello again." The woman smiled linking her hand with Clarity's.
"Hi." Clarity smiled in return before the two turned their focus out the window to search for any signs of the creature. Grace started the car and began to drive as Graham gave her directions from the backseat. The car ride to the creature's location was relatively quick. Luckily for them there wasn't a lot of traffic this time of night.
"We should be getting close now, Grace." Graham told his wife.
"If it hasn't moved already." Yaz pointed out.
"Up there!" Clarity exclaimed as she pointed tapping repeatedly on the glass window. Her finger angled in the direction of the roof where lightning crackled from the rooftop of a nearby building.
"Good eye, that's definitely our creature." The woman nodded her head. She couldn't help but grin. "Grace, get us as close as you can. We need to get to it before it moves."
"Oh, and would you look at that. Free parking right out front." Grace grinned parking the car in the closest spot to the door.
The very second after the car was in park the woman practically leapt out of the car taking Clarity right along with her due to their connected hands. Deserey rolled her eyes knowing she had picked right when she chose Ryan. This woman didn't seem to understand the concept of personal space.
"Alright, team, gang, fam?" The woman questioned as she addressed the group Clarity opening the car's trunk.
"Definitely not fam." Deserey denied crossing her arms.
"You sure?" The woman frowned.
"Who cares what we're called. What's the plan?" Yaz wondered.
"Right, Yes, the plan, love a plan, plans are good, okay, so the plan is very simple. We go up to the roof and we use this repurposed junk to stun it. Yaz, Ryan, And Dez you'll connect these jumper cables to whatever antenna you can find up there. That'll reroute the electricity to this battery. Once that's done Graham you're going to flick that red switch there on that box to divert the power to the actual stunning device. Grace you'll do the actual shocking." The woman explained passing out all the items. "Once that's done we should be able to keep it from fighting the other nasty alien we saw in the alley. Any questions?"
"What about me and you? What do we do?" Clarity asked tugging on the blonde's hand.
"Us? Oh we get the best bit. We're gonna talk to it and buy them all some time to get into place. Any other questions?" The woman wondered looking out at the group.
"Can't we just kill it?" Desery demanded. "It tried to kill us. We should end the thing and be done."
"We barely know anything about it." Clarity shook her head.
"So?" Desery asked.
"So, it still has a right to live!" Clarity replied with a glare.
"It put bombs in our necks." Deserey furiously pointed at the blinking red dot on her skin.
"We can't kill it," the woman announced breaking up the disagreement. "It's too risky. Might set off the bombs if it thinks it's about to die."
"Enough talking, let's go get this alien." Yaz nodded the group racing into the building weapons in hand. They took the elevator up to the top floor which Ryan was a bit thankful for. They crept out the roof access door Graham closing it gently so it didn't make a noise.
"Hi. Us again." The Woman spoke up gaining the lightning balls attention.
"Sorry, Zappy, this may sting a bit." Clarity apologized to the creature feeling a twinge of guilt for what was about to occur.
"Now!" The woman yelled as she clipped a stray jumper cable onto an antenna having let go of Clarity's hand to make it over to it. Grace fearlessly went at the creature pointing her device at it. The point made contact with the creature and Clarity frowned as it writhed in agony before it stopped moving all together. Once it was paralyzed Grace stepped back and Graham shut the machine off.
"Not bad for junk." Deserey placed her hands on her hips sounding somewhat impressed.
"Get in! It actually worked." Ryan grinned in disbelief.
"Course it worked. I'm not an amateur.
Overloaded its sockets, stunned it for a bit.
Not sure for how long, though." The woman explained.
"Is Zappy in pain?" Clarity asked in concern. She bent down besides the cables lightly petting the now nonmoving creature softly as if to offer it just a bit of comfort. Her skin tingling a bit as it made contact with the cables.
"Zappy?" Deserey repeated her eyebrows furrowing. "Please tell me you didn't name this thing, Springs."
"Yeah, so what if I did?" Clarity challenged her.
"Clarity, it's an alien." Ryan felt the need to remind his cousin. He threw his arms out towards the still creature for emphasis. "It's not some baby bird that fell from the sky."
"Just because it's alien doesn't mean it shouldn't have a name. Since it can't tell us it's I'm giving it one."Clarity replied her tone leaving no room for turned her attention back to the cables her tone softening. "Zappy, I have named you and Zappy you shall stay. Don't worry we aren't gonna hurt you anymore...Is Zappy hurting right now?" Clarity repeated her question looking up at the woman but the human received no reply.
"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" Clarity asked the blonde who stared down at her in stunned silence for a few moments. She had a far away look in her eyes as she looked at the blue eyed girl below her.
"You're just so...human." The woman replied with a shake of her head the faintest of smiles creeping out across her face as she snapped out of her trance bending down to survey the creature. "It's not in pain, probably just a bit numb, but best be quick just in case. And thank you to Kevin the bus driver - for location intel."
"See? Always ask a bus driver." Graham stated proudly. Grace smiled at him as their grandchildren shook their heads in unison. The woman pulled out her sonic, the crystal at the tip whirring with a golden light as she scanned the creature.
"Half-organic, half-machine. Starts to make sense now. Wait. It's a Gathering Coil. No, dozens of Gathering Coils!"
"It's what?" Desery asked not following.
"These tentacley things, they're creatures which gather 've been lashed together and augmented into one super-creature. But why? What data are they gathering? Unless"
"So that's an alien species?"
"Not really. More of a semi-species, weaponised biotech."
"That's awful, who would do that?" Clarity questioned.
"I don't know." The woman replied shaking her head millions of species names running through her mind but none of them the right match.
"You said there were two aliens in a battle." Yaz reminded.
"You're right, I did, but now I think I'm wrong and I'm trying to catch up with what that might mean. If I can access the data it's gathered -" The woman thought aloud pointing her sonic at the tentacles. Sparks flew from Zappy and a holographic 3d projection of Karl appeared in front of them.
"Whoa! It's Karl from the train!" Graham exclaimed recognizing the person.
"Karl's the data! That's what it was gathering on the train."
"When it pinned him in the corner." Clarity remembered snapping her fingers.
"Well at least that explains why it only went for him." Deserey shrugged.
"But what would the alien want with him?" Graham wondered.
"Which one of you should I kill first?" A voice from the other side of the roof questioned gaining the group attention. Surprise dawning over each and everyone one of them.
"I'm voting none of us. Get behind me now." The woman ordered pushing all the humans behind her except for Clarity who was still crouched beside the gathering coils. "Clarity, that means you too. Zappy'll be fine." Without another word the woman grabbed Clarity's hand pushing her back.
"Stop right any further and we'll blast whatever that thing is." The woman warned her Sonic aimed towards the creature.
"What? No!" Clarity protested walking forwards grabbing the woman's arm. She tugged lightly on the woman's jacket sleeve but the blonde didn't take her eyes off the danger that was in front of them. "You just said Zappy would be fine!" Clarity hissed. Clarity grabbed her hand but still the response was the same as before, no acknowledgement of any kind from the woman though when she tried to take her hand back the woman tightened her grip signaling she didn't want her to let go. Her sonic moved to the opposite hand now.
"Clarity, quiet love, just let the aliens work things out amongst themselves. Quit calling attention to yourself." Grace warned her as she held onto Graham.
"In that outfit you think he's not gonna notice her?" Desery questioned.
"Hey, lay off her." Ryan said in defense of both his cousin and his gran.
"She's wearing metallic blue." Deserey pointed at Clarity.
"Could we all please shut up? We don't want to annoy the tooth stealer do we?" Yaz turned to her partner.
"To be continued." Dez told Ryan.
"You're interfering in things you don't understand." The Alien warned.
"Yeah, well, we all need a hobby." The woman replied squeezing Clarity's hand. A silent message that meant everything would be alright.
"You're not human. Who are you?" The alien inquiered.
"Me? I'm -" The woman frowned, as she lost her thought. "Oh, it's gone again! You made me remember! I swear I had it a minute ago...It's so annoying!" The woman complained turning to Clarity for a split second before facing the alien again. "Same question, back at you. No, in fact, before that, because it's really bugging me - No, actually not bugging me, offending me! Why the teeth? Bad enough you kill, why take a tooth from the victim?"
The alien snarled at the question removing his helmet revealing blue skin, eyes, and teeth to match. His face was marred with stolen teeth.
"A Stenza warrior wears his conquests.
You may tell your children you were privileged to encounter Tzim-Sha of the Stenza."
"Tim Shaw?" The woman asked cocking her head to the side.
"Tzim-Sha." The Alien corrected.
"Tim Shaw?" The woman repeated.
"I think there's a z somewhere in there." Clarity whispered to her.
"Tzim-Sha! Soon to be leader of the Stenza warrior race, Conquerors of the Nine systems."
"When you say 'soon to be leader', what are you now, the office junior?"
"Hey, don't wind him up!" Graham chastised. "Clarity get over here, C'mon. Where it's safe."
"I'm fine where I am, Grandad." Clarity replied over her shoulder offering him a smile but he didn't return too worried about his granddaughter's safety.
"Tonight is my challenge. Trace and obtain the selected human trophy."
"It's a hunt. You're on a hunt!" The woman realized stepping forwards closer to the stenza alien. Clarity moving with her.
"Well done. Your tiny mind must be burning with such effort."
"Did he just say I had a small mind?" The woman asked Clarity turning her head towards her, her voice gaining a bit of color. Clarity gave a helpless look in reply.
"The challenge is simple, our leaders randomly designate a selected human. I'm sent here alone, no weapons, no assistance. I must locate and obtain the trophy and return home with it, victorious. By doing this, I ascend to leader.
This is the ritual of the Stenza."
"This happened before. Rahul's sister." Yaz frowned.
"Earth is not a hunting ground." The woman warned with a slight shake of her head.
"Access was granted." Tzim-Shaw replied firmly.
"No, it wasn't. It was a misunderstanding.
Access revoked, as of now, by me." Ryan attempted to fix his mistake but the blue alien didn't even acknowledge him.
"Just to pick up on one thing, you don't mind, do you? You said the rules were, 'No weapons, no assistance'." The woman repeated his words.
"Correct." Tzim-Shaw nodded.
"How did you kill them? What caused the ice burns?" The woman demanded.
"We Stenza live in temperatures far below this touch of my cold skin will kill a human."
"So this super-powered Gathering Coil right here, you're not meant to have it, are you?" The woman asked.
"It's not even supposed to be like that. Forcing it together like this is wrong!" Clarity glared at the blue alien.
"The creature is irrelevant." Tzim-Shaw dismissed her claims.
"I don't think it is. I think you smuggled it ahead of you. I think it located the 'randomly designed human' for you. I think you broke the rules. Some leader you're going to make. Tzim Shaw is a big, blue cheat." The woman snapped. Tzim-Shaw growled and raised his hand a threatening blue beam of ice curling in his hand.
"Okay, fine, have it."The woman pulled Clarity away from the coil. The others following careful to stay behind the woman.
"No! You can't! It's defenseless! It can't even move." Clarity exclaimed going to rush over but the woman wrapped her arms around Clarity's waist keeping her from moving any closer. "Leave it alone! You've hurt the poor thing enough!" Clarity protested.
"What's it doing?" Ryan questioned.
"Total transference." The woman replied making sure to keep a tight hold on Clarity as Tzim-Shaw held his right hand out over the bio creature absorbing it's electricity and information into his suit. Clarity stopping her struggle realizing it was no use now.
"If you've finished, let's be really clear .You're not taking any human from Earth tonight." The Woman promised. "Leave now, or we're going to stop you."
"Good luck." Tzim-Shaw grinned bending down on one knee disappearing in a burst of bright blue light along with the gathering coil.
"No! Short-range teleport! Double cheat!" The woman fumed releasing Clarity twisting settings on her sonic as quick as she could. She pointed where Tzim-Shaw had been and clicked the sonic on, the blue tooth covered alien appearing on the roof again.
"This may be your game Tzim-Shaw but you'll play by my rules." The woman told him.
"No, I don't think I will." Tzim-Shaw replied running off the building teleporting away again.
"Honestly, not gonna be that easy. Wanna see something cool gang?" The woman shook her head growing a bit cocky as she smirked her sonic whirring to life with a gold glow. She turned to face the five humans that stood behind her. Tzim-Shaw appearing again on the roof again behind her.
"Hello, were you going somewhere?" The woman asked cheerily though she was a bit confused on why Graham had suddenly gone ghostly white. Looks of horror on all the humans faces.
"Yes, and this time you're going to let me leave." The stenza warned.
"And why would I do that?" The woman asked.
"Turn around." Yaz told her dread in her voice. "Now."
Then it hit the woman. It hit her hard. There were five humans in front of her, she had been with six tonight. She also couldn't feel Clarity's hand in hers and that meant-
The woman whipped around to see Tzim-Shaw holding Clarity both her hands held behind her back. Clarity struggled but the alien was clearly stronger than her. His hands were still gloved which meant she wasn't in danger of getting any ice burns quite yet.
"You teleport me back here and the human dies." There was promise in his voice. The woman could hear it.
"The human's name is, Clarity." Clarity snapped in reply.
"Alright fine, just...just let her go. Release her Tzim-Sha." The woman commanded.
"No, the human will not be released until the challenge is complete. Do not interfere. You have been warned."
The woman dove for her, but she was too late her body meeting the roofs rough metal. Clarity teleporting away with Tzim-sha. "Clarity..." The woman whispered her voice trembling. It was her fault. She was gone.
Hello All! Sparkle here! And may I just say... Mwahahaha that's the end of Chapter 3 peoples! I love a good cliff hanger don't you? Sorry for the inactivity lately, like Elsie said College classes have us swamped with work and short on time. But that won't stop us from writing! I promise! Now here are some questions for you all cause who doesn't love questions?
1. Thoughts on the chapters ending?
2. What do you think of Clarity?
3. What would happen if the Doctor landed on a planet in which everything, even the atoms in the air, were pears?
4. What do you like about the thirteenth Doctor?
5. Who would win in a fight? A Dalek That was missing it's eye stalk or a p'ting? And why?
6. Finish the sentence. "If Graham Met Wilf..."
7. Any idea what's going to happen next chapter? Got any theories? Feel free to tell them!
8. Thoughts on Deserey?
9. What would you think of adding Missy to this story?
10. If we made a book where the past Doctors (at least going back to nine) and all their companions (from Rose to Bill) watched/ read this book would you read it?
11. What do you think the doctors favorite place in the universe is?
12. Who's the most useless companion? And why?
13. Who's the Doctor's greatest companion and why?
14. Are you shipping anyone in this story? If so, who and why?
15. Anything else you'd like to ask, rant or tell us!