Hello again, sorry for the delay. Hope I've made up for it with this longer chapter!

Sonic fans: More Egg Pawns, Sonic and Tails, and even Shadow! What's not to like?

Who fans: Here are last chapter's references for anyone who didn't get them:

"I saw - a good friend of mine use it once." The Armageddon Factor, Romana sees Princess Astra turn into a segment of the Key to Time, which she holds. Later, out of remorse, Romana regenerates into the form of Princess Astra.

"It feels different..." The Caves of Androzani, The Fifth Doctor comments on his impending regeneration.

Remember, see any references and you can point them out in a review!

On with the fic!


Whonic

An Unearthly Traveler

By Ultiman92

Part Three

000

The Doctor straightened up, running his hands over his face again. "Oh dear, oh dear, this is not good," he murmured.

"Alright, let's see, two eyes, two ears, arms, legs, the whole lot," he said, rolling his neck. "I'm still me."

"I do have fur, though…hmm, yes…quills…and a tail! Brilliant! I've got a tail!" The Doctor grinned. "That is a definitive improvement, right there."

"Still…can't help but think I'm forgetting something," The Doctor said, drumming his fingers on the console distractedly. "What could it be.."

His eyes widened. "Rose!"

He scrambled back over to where Rose lay and turned her over. A yellow hedgehog yawned and rubbed her eyes.

"Oh, Rose…" The Doctor shook his head. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry…"

Rose blinked, then sat up abruptly, pushing herself back from him. "And jus' who are you, then?" she demanded. "How'd you get in 'ere?"

The Doctor cautiously approached her, his arms spread. "Rose, it's me, it's the Doctor, I've just changed again."

Rose scoffed. "Don't try an' pull that on me, I know The Doctor. He's not the cross-species type."

"Don't believe I could be a hedgehog?" The Doctor leaned in close. "Look at your face," he whispered.

"My face? What-" Rose quickly got up and stared at her reflection in a monitor.

Rose remained there, simply staring. Tears started to leak out of the corner of her eyes.

"Doctor…" she whimpered. "What's happened to me?"

The Doctor turned her around and enveloped her in a tight embrace. Rose sobbed into his shoulder.

"There, now," The Doctor said, patting her back. "It's okay."

000

"Honestly, she just came out of nowhere and grabbed the vial!" Tails rolled his eyes and sighed. This was the fifth time he had had to explain what had happened to the irate head of the blood blank, who was utterly convinced that the vial was being withheld by Sonic out of spite. It didn't help that Sonic was displaying reluctance and constantly trying to change the subject while under questioning, obviously unwilling to cooperate.

"And why would anyone want to steal blood?" The manager glared at Tails, hands on his hips.

Tails threw his arms in the air in exasperation. "For the millionth time, I don't know! She just came through the door, grabbed the vial, and ran away as fast as she could! That's it!"

"Really, there's no need…" Sonic called over uneasily, tracing a circle in the floor with his foot. "I mean…she's long gone by now…there's no way of tracking her…it's not really that important….uh," Sonic drew up, grinning weakly as he realized everyone in the room was glaring at him.

"I think I'll be…uh…out for a run." Sonic bolted out the door as fast as he could.

Tails sighed and palmed his forehead. This day could not get any worse, he thought to himself.

000

The Doctor and Rose stood in front of a clothes shop.

"Tell me why we're doin' this again," Rose said nervously, shifting from foot to foot.

The Doctor looked at her and grinned, squeezing her arm. "C'mon, Rose. Y'have to admit, we're in major need of a new wardrobe," he said, indicating their now extremely huge sets of clothing.

"Why couldn't we 'ave used the TARDIS wardrobe?" Rose complained, tossing her quills behind her shoulder.

"Because the TARDIS doesn't have anything in a size three," The Doctor explained patiently, steering Rose inside

A female fox came up to them. "Hello, can I help you?" she inquired.

The Doctor flashed her his signature grin. "We need some new clothes."

"Yes, I can see that," the fox replied, staring at The Doctor's beige suit hanging precariously off his frame. "Right this way."

000

The Doctor picked and chose his way through several suits, finally pulling one off the rack and heading for the changing room.

Several minutes later, The Doctor strolled out, striking a pose. "Well, what d'you think?"

The Doctor was wearing a three – piece brown suit with a dark blue vest and black tie, with a pair of black shoes. He was even sporting a brown fedora hat.

Rose nodded, smiling. "It looks good," she said. "Really brings out your eyes."

The Doctor rolled his eyes and smiled. "Rose, I'm part Mobian now," he explained slowly. "It'd be hard not to notice my eyes."

000

"Ready?" The Doctor called anxiously, twiddling his thumbs.

Rose nervously drew back the curtain, staring at her feet. "D'you like it?" she asked nervously.

Rose had on a red hoodie over a white t-shirt, with blue jeans and a pair of red trainers.

The Doctor flung an arm around her shoulders, smiling. "It looks great," he reassured her. "You're fine."

The sales fox cleared her throat. "How do you plan to pay for this?"

"Oh – right-" The Doctor dug through the pockets of his old suit. "I know I have it in 'ere somewhere-"

Finally, The Doctor produced a small white piece of paper. "This should explain everything."

The fox squinted at the paper. Her eyes became unfocused, then snapped to attention, wide with shock. "Oh, you w-work for G. U. N.," she stammered. "I – I didn't realize-"

"Oh, it's okay, it's fine," The Doctor said airily, dismissing her apologies. "Just – ah – charge it to their account, 'kay?"

000

"That was mean," Rose smiled, digging an elbow into The Doctor's side playfully as they walked away from the store, the sales fox still hurriedly apologizing behind them.

The Doctor feigned a look of extreme hurt. "Now, Rose, y'know I had no choice. I could hardly admit I was an alien who had just regenerated into a Mobian form in the space of an afternoon, could I?"

Rose laughed, then became quiet.

The Doctor looked over at her. "Something wrong?"

Rose shook her head. "Nothin', it's just – you seem the same," she confessed. "Last time you – changed, you were a completely different man."

The Doctor considered this, staring off into the distance thoughtfully. "Y'know, I've realized that too," he murmured. "Funny, innit? My body changes but my mind remains the same for once!"

"It's all very int- oh no." The Doctor stopped, freezing in place and jerking on Rose's hand to do the same.

"Doctor, what is it?" Rose whispered, scared at The Doctor's sudden change in behavior.

The Doctor's lips barely moved. "Look to your left."

Rose turned, then shrank back against The Doctor instinctively.

An Egg Pawn was watching them, blue eyes glowing.

"Rose – don't move," The Doctor whispered urgently. "Don't even move. Move and you're dead."

"What does it want?" Rose asked, not taking her eyes off the Egg Pawn.

"I don't know, but let's just wait for it to make a move first," The Doctor responded, giving her shoulder a little squeeze.

Still watching them, the Egg Pawn raised a hand and pressed a button on its shoulder.

A large armored mech flew up behind it, consisting of a torso with two giant arms attached. Another Egg Pawn was in the cockpit.

The Doctor's eyes widened. "Oh my giddy aunt," he whispered to himself.

"Rose, when I say run, run, got it?" The Doctor whispered anxiously. Rose nodded, terrified. The mech slowly started to hover towards them.

"RUN!" The Doctor blew down the sidewalk, with the mech now in hot pursuit.

Rose sprinted down after them, watching The Doctor get farther and farther away. "When did he get so fast…" she muttered to herself.

000

Sonic smiled, being able to relax for the first time that day. He was currently going at 180 miles an hour, and only getting faster.

He grinned, watching people and cars blend into swirls of color flashing around him. This was the one place he could find peace.

A voice behind him snapped Sonic out of his reverie. "Uh, excuse me!"

"Whuh? Oh, sure," Sonic said, still half in his daydream. He moved aside to let past The Doctor, holding onto his fedora for dear life to keep it from being blown off.

Sonic suddenly snapped fully alert. "Wait a sec, who the heck was that?" he half-yelled.

Sonic sped up, drawing right alongside The Doctor. Staring at the hedgehog who seemed to be a mirror image of himself, all Sonic could get out was, "What – where – who are you?!?"

The Doctor flashed him a grin. "Oh, terribly sorry about that, I forgot to introduce myself!"

Sonic cocked an eyebrow.

"I'm The Doctor, by the way, what's your name?" The Doctor asked politely.

"Sonic the Hedgehog," Sonic replied, still staring at The Doctor quizzically.

The Doctor dipped his head in greeting. "Nice to meet you, Sonic the Hedgehog. Run for your life!"

With that, he sped up, leaving Sonic in his dust.

"What are you running from?" Sonic yelled, confused.

"Look behind you!" The Doctor yelled back, increasing his speed even more.

Sonic looked back and was almost run over by the huge mech, wheeling up when it spotted him.

Sonic's eyes widened when he saw the Egg Pawn in the cockpit. "One of Eggman's machines! Now this I can handle!"

000

The Doctor skidded to a halt, gasping for breath. "Rose, did we lose it? Rose?"

He looked around, then sighed. "Where is she? Come to think of it, where's that great whacking robot that was chasing me?"

Peering back, The Doctor spotted Sonic and the mech battling, Sonic whacking the dome with his Spin Dash attacks.

The Doctor slapped a palm to his forehead. "That robot must have mistaken that Sonic for me," he groaned. "Still, no matter. Doctor to the rescue!"

With that, he sped back towards the battle.

000

Sonic was on the ground, resisting the open hand from grabbing him by pressing his feet against it.

The Doctor bent down next to him. " 'Scuse me, you look like you could use some help."

"No…it's fine…I'm good," Sonic said between gritted teeth, feeling his legs start to bend.

"You sure? 'Cause it looks you're in a tight spot," The Doctor chuckled, then frowned. "No, that was in bad taste."

Sonic spared him an incredulous look. "Dude, get out of here! I don't know how much longer I can – aghh…" Sonic grimaced as the pressure increased.

The Doctor held up his hands. "No, it's okay, I can help."

The next second, he was swept up in the mech's other hand, the Egg Pawn inside having spotted him.

Sonic pushed the hand off him and immediately started hitting the wrist holding The Doctor with homing attacks.

"No, I'm fine, I just need to – ugh…" The Doctor screwed his eyes shut, slowly being crushed by the hand.

"Are you serious?" Sonic yelled between Spin Dashes. "You're about to die, and yet you swear that you're fine?!?"

"Really, I just need to – there!" The Doctor popped his arm out, holding his sonic screwdriver.

"What're you going to do with that?" Sonic questioned, in flat – out disbelief. "Poke him to death?"

"No, I'm going to do this!" With some difficulty, The Doctor aimed his sonic screwdriver and buzzed it right at the mech.

The Egg Pawn inside blew up, and the mech crashed to the ground.

The Doctor gingerly untangled himself from the giant fist. "Well, that was fun, let's do that again sometime."

Rose appeared, gasping for breath. "Doctor – you okay – ran so fast – couldn't see you – "

"It's okay, Rose, it's okay," The Doctor said gently, enveloping her into a hug. "See? I zapped the robot with my handy – dandy sonic screwdriver!"

He turned back to Sonic, who was standing there with his jaw dropped. "Ah, c'mon, don't look so surprised," The Doctor said, rolling his eyes. "I said I would help, and I did!"

"How – how in the world did you do that?" Sonic exclaimed.

The Doctor held up his sonic screwdriver. "Didn't you see? I used this on it, and then-"

Sonic grabbed The Doctor by the arm and led him down the street. "C'mon," Sonic said resolutely. "You and I need to have a serious talk."

000

The Doctor and Rose were lounging in Tails' workshop along with Sonic and Tails. Sonic had brought them to meet the surprised fox and demanded they explain their story.

Tails swirled his tea with a spoon. "Let me see if I've got this right. Excluding all the weird stealing-Sonic's-blood-and-changing-into-a-weird-alternate-version-of-him, you say Egg Pawns have been relentlessly hunting you?"

"That's right," The Doctor nodded.

"An' we don't even know why!" Rose cut in.

Tails looked over at Sonic. "What do you think? Could Eggman have sent them after The Doctor, mistaking him for you?"

"Who's Eggman?" The Doctor questioned.

"He's the creator of all those robots. Real full of himself," Sonic answered. "And no, something like that isn't Eggman's style. Besides, The Doctor told us they were attacked even before they changed."

"But that's not what worries me," Sonic continued, "Those Egg Pawns you described – they had blue eyes, right?"

The Doctor and Rose nodded.

"See, Egg Pawns normally have yellow eyes," Sonic explained. "I think someone might have tampered with them."

"But how can we know for sure?" Tails questioned. "All the Egg Pawns were destroyed."

"Why the answer is obvious," The Doctor stated, smiling. "Let's go visit your Eggman!"

000

Shadow the Hedgehog was bored.

This was not an unusual thing while in the service of G.U.N. Quickly shunted from assignment to assignment, he was quickly staffed with the most boring and menial tasks seeing as no one wanted to be near him. Finally, the agency had found a place to station him that was both important and very, very far away from them. It appeared they still hadn't gotten over the whole 'Black Doom' thing.

This is why he now found himself on board Space Colony ARK, on active extraterrestrial invasion alert 24/7.

And he was bored out of his mind.

Sure, it was an important job, to make sure nothing like the Black Arms happened again. He was essential in preparing Mobius for a counterstrike.

But most of the time, the alarm did not go off, and he found himself with nothing to do.

Currently, he was fast asleep in a console chair, so he could tell any superiors he had at least been in the same room as the alert system.

But to be quite honest with himself, he didn't expect anything today, or ever.

Which is why it came as such a surprise when the alarm actually went off.

Shadow fell out of his chair, scrambled to his feet, and hurriedly answered the incoming message.

The face of the G.U.N. Commander appeared on the screen. "Shadow! What's going on?" he barked.

"Just checking that now, sir," said Shadow, hurriedly tracking the signal. His eyes widened.

"What is it, Shadow? Talk to me!" the Commander said impatiently.

"We – we have a Priority One signal, sir," Shadow said, barely able to get the words out.

The Commander's eyebrows shot up. "Priority One?" he yelled. "Give us details, Shadow!"

Shadow swallowed heavily. "A flying saucer, sir," he said. "It's huge, and headed straight for Mobius."

To be continued…


DUN DUN DUNNNN!!! In keeping with Who style, next time is the last part of An Unearthly Traveler! See exactly what attacked Eggman and what sent the Egg Pawns after The Doctor! (Yes, they're the same, I hoped that was obvious.)

Sonic fans: Don't you just love the image of Shadow falling out of a chair? I know I do!

Who fans: Gah, I've just realized why so many Who fics star Ten! He's just so damn fun to write for!

In case anyone was wondering, this fic will neither be pro Ten/Rose or anti-Ten/Roe, much like my own feelings on the subject.

The references here are mostly from the new series, but I've slipped at least one 2nd Doctor era one in there. Those familiar with Two shouls spot it easily.

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