What is this? A second chapter? I'm apologising for being late... Enjoy the fun stuff and the - won't spoil, won't spoil!
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Chapter 3
"So, you have done what for the past year?" I asked
"Well, they decided I was too cool to say goodbye to and kept me to work for them. I babysit Isabel and teach her to write things. I also make sure she eats well and is clean."
"Ok...You're Mary Poppins?"
Rose cracked up. Soon I did too. We were laughing our heads off when we heard shouting. It sounded like it was coming from one of the mineshafts. Rose looked at me. I looked at Rose. The noise probably meant trouble.
We picked our skirts and ran towards it.
The closer we got towards it, the more obvious it became that the voices were excited. I quickly reviewed dates inside my head. It was early 1848. The Eureka stockade was in 1854, I think. We had a ton time, and I didn't think the riots started this early, so that wasn't what it was.
"What - do ya - think - it is?" I asked Rose between breathes. Let's just say I can't run very well. Actually that is a complete and utter lie. I can't run more than 100 m at top speed. This is about 3 km an hour.
"Sounds like a discovery!" said Rose, rather effortlessly. Seems goldfields rationing can be good for your figure, in some ways. Lucky bugger.
As we neared the source of the racket, I realised she was right. There were lots of people, lots of shouting and more than a few people trying to sneak forward to steal some. I saw that most of the people had come from the main camp, like us, and were mostly on one side. I indicated to Rose that we should go to the other side. I was breathing to heavily to speak well and I had a stitch. I needed to get fit.
We round the group of people, in search of a better view. I heard someone say
"Big as a horse, I heard!"
Bullshit, if there had been anything that size has been found we would have heard of it in our time. Then again, these days I could believe almost anything.
Almost anything.
Just as I got to the front of the crowd, I glimpsed what was being dug up and did a double take. I felt blindly behind me for Rose, and tugged her forward.
Her eyes widened when she saw it.
"Okay firstly, WHAT? Secondly, how? Thirdly, shit!" She stage whispered in my ear. Pretty much summed that up there, Rose.
"First, obvious, second, no freaking idea, third, agreed." I whispered back. "Question of the day is, what the fruitcake do we do?!"
Just then, the team of diggers lifted it out of the ground on a kind of stretcher. Its full extent became visible and a collective shiver ran through those assembled. It was obvious that it wasn't a giant gold nugget now. The diggers placed it on the ground.
The dalek chose that exact moment to come fully to life.
Its head section swung round and its eyestalk lit up slowly.
"Systems restoring. Life forms detected. Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!"
The assembled crowd descended into chaos. People were screaming and running. The dalek was shooting people and they were falling down and getting trampled.
"Rose!" I screamed. She had been separated from me in the crowd. I signalled for her to meet me in the trees behind the dalek.
"What do we do?!" She asked frantically, when she arrived.
"Think! What are dalek's weak points?" I told her
"The eyestalk! If we can block it we can push it back in the hole - no wait, that won't work."
"Why not?"
"Remember in 'The Stolen Earth', Wilf shot paint at the dalek? It just fizzed and disappeared! Besides it would just fly right out of the hole!"
"Listen, Rose, if that thing was buried in the ground, that far down, it must have been there, what, 500 years? Those daleks were from the future; maybe it doesn't have that technology!"
"We could die!" She exclaimed. A chill crept through me. Our voices were the only ones I could hear. Dead bodies were scattered through the clearing, but everyone left alive had fled. That meant...
"We are about to." I said.
"Two life forms remain. Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!"
"Erin?"
"Yeah?"
"Duck!"
Realising what she was about to do, I ducked down. A handful of mud flew over my head, hitting the dalek bang on the eye stalk.
"Vision impaired! Vision impaired!"
"Good shot!" I yelled, throwing my own handful. A badly aimed laser beam shot past me.
"Push it into the hole!" I heard Rose cry. I ran round to the back of the dalek, where it couldn't accidentally shoot me. I placed my ands on it and pushed with all my might. Rose joined me a moment later, and together we managed to move it towards the hole.
A rock jammed beneath the dalek stymied us for a moment.
"Tip it over!" I shouted.
"Power systems failing! Fai-l-l-i.."
We pushed it up, up, up! It teetered on its edge then toppled, upside down, into the hole.
I put my hands on my hips and breathed out. I never wanted to do that again, at least without working out for a couple of years. I looked at Rose and gave her a grin. She returned it.
"Weeping Angels, a dalek now what? We've conquered the Whoniverse!" I told her with a laugh.
"I can answer that!" I looked questioningly at her. "What about him?" She said, pointing behind me. I turned on the spot expecting trouble. And finding it.
A man wearing a blue suit, red Converse shoes and a brown overcoat was running towards us. His spiky hair looked mussed and he was streaked with dirt.
"Hello! Sorry to be a bother, but did a big, shooting metal thing come this way?" He asked, with a cheesy grin on his face.
"Oh you mean the Dalek? It's in the hole over there." The words tumbled out of my mouth and I promptly fainted.
Side note: When Rose says duck (in the story) Rose (in real life) thought I meant the quack quack kind of duck.
