A/N: Hello! This is the next installment of "The Doctor and the Duplicates." This chapter explains what you people have probably been wondering: What the hell are Gorganas? Well, here's your answer. And I know the title sounds a bit misleading here, but it'll all get sorted out. I hope... *grin*
Also, HungerWho and I had to rewrite this because it got a bit... Away from us. I'm just going to call it Wibbly and leave it there,
Disclaimer: I don't, nor will I ever, own Doctor Who. If I did, there would be some plot to the last few episodes, and Amy and Rory would be gone by now. Sorry, but Doctor Who is becoming centered around Amy's life rather than the Doctor's. I think we all knew that when Amy started calling The Doctor and Rory "her boys." AND THE NEW COMPANION WOULD BE A FEMALE RORY! :D (sorry, rambling.)
As soon as the trio stepped into the dark cafeteria/canteen, Melody knew that something was wrong. Jade felt it too, and looked to Kaden.
"Waitaminute," Jade muttered, "There isn't any ice cream here!" She exclaimed.
"I'm sorry..." Kaden muttered. "I'm so sorry..."
"Sorry for what?" Melody asked.
"Great job, honey!" Natalie's sticky sweet voice came crashing upon them like a heavy weight as the platinum blonde came sauntering out of the shadows. "It's exactly what I wanted."
"Wait, what the heck?!" Jade said, eyes widening, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, just, you know, making you like me and killing of Melody. The usual." She flipped her hair dismissively, and switched on the lights.
The cafeteria/canteen had gone from a regular cafeteria/canteen to a scene from a bad horror movie. The windows were tinted darkly, casting menacing shadows on the floor. But the scariest part of the room was the large machine in the middle.
"Wow Natalie, that was pathetic," Jade says, rolling her eyes.
"Yeah," Melody laughs, she flips her hair just like Natalie in a mocking way, "Oh, just, you know, making you like me and killing of Melody. The usual." Jade giggled at Melody's mocking of Natalie.
Natalie herself growled and gritted her teeth. "You can come back to our side now Kaden," she says through her teeth.
"Yeah, yeah, keep her your wig on I'm coming," Kaden mumbles as he walks back over to Natalie's side.
"OK, seriously, why are we here?" Jade asks.
"Why are you here? Didn't I just tell you?" Natalie snaps.
"You can't be serious!" Melody exclaims. "Make Jade like you? What the hell does that mean?!"
"It means, my dear Jade, that Natalie is planning on a conversion of some sort. Sort of like Cybermen but in a different way and much more girly I guess but in retrospect it's still sorta the same-"
"Mr. Smith what the hell are you doing here?" Jade frowns as Mr. Smith strolls up beside them from the canteen/cafeteria entrance.
"Call me Doctor," he grins.
"I thought it was either that or caretaker?" Jade frowned.
"Or get off this planet?" Melody adds.
"Just go with Doctor for now."
"Doctor Who?" Melody and Jade ask at once.
"Nope, just the Doctor." Mr. Smith- sorry, the Doctor- grinned. "So... What do we have here?" He asked rhetorically, and pulled out a metal cylinder with a clawed tip on the end. He waved it around the machine, and the clawed end glowed green. He stopped waving it, and flicked it up. "Ah, now, see, this isn't earth technology. From somewhere in the cloud belt, probably from one of the moons of Akrado. Giandika?" The Doctor looked at Natalie.
"No, you imbecile! We are from the mighty planet of Gorgana! How dare you suggest that we are from Giandika?! And from a moon, no less!" Natalie spat.
"We, you said we, so there must be more of you, yeah?" The Doctor walked towards Natalie.
"Of course!" Natalie exclaimed, and from the shadows, came her minions. All girls who had once been unpopular nobodies: Clara, Penelope, Jenny, Isabella, Nicole, Sandra, Kim, and Mia. "Jadelyn, meet your future. Melody, meet your executioners." Natalie sneered.
"Oh so your Gorganas? How interesting! Far relation to the Gorgons of Greece!" The Doctor babbles.
"Are we going to turn to stone!?" Jade gasps, flinging her arm over her eyes.
"Nah, don't worry about it," The Doctor replies.
"Wait, why am I getting executed?" Melody frowns.
"Adultery," Natalie spits.
"Adulter-wha?"
"It means you've cheated," Jade whispers.
"Technically it's adultery on Kaden's part," Nicole hissed, throwing a glare at Kaden.
"It's theft on yours," Kim adds.
"What have I stolen?" Melody asks.
"My chosen mate!" Natalie snaps.
"Boyfriend!" Kaden protests. "Edging close to ex-boy-Ok Natalie please don't hit me again!"
"I didn't steal Kaden! I don't want him!" Melody snaps.
"Gosh, you know how to make someone feel good," Kaden mumbles.
Sorry! Melody mouths, then Kaden gives a curt nod.
"Whatever." Natalie shakes her head. "Come to the dark side Jadelyn, we have free ice cream!" She said, pointing a finger at Jade.
Jade's eye twitched. "First, never call me that, and second, if you think I'd give up my new friends and awesomeness for free ice cream, you're dead wrong, Snakey!"
"It's unlimited and we have every flavor~" Clara cooed.
"... Okay, so you're mostly wrong." Jade mumbled.
"With lots of chocolate sauce~" Isabella added in sweetly, and Jade started to drool. Melody responded by grabbing Jade's shoulder sand shaking her.
"YOU WOULD GIVE UP YOUR SANITY FOR ICE CREAM?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" She screamed.
"But- but- its free... And with chocolate..." Jade sighed happily.
"SNAP OUT OF IT!" Melody screeched and slapped Jade, which snapped the girl out of her trance.
"What? Ice cream? Where? Oh wait... I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU! YOU KILLED MY FATHER!" Jade cried out, half jokingly.
"No, Jadelyn, I am your father!" The freshman girl, Jenny, cackled, getting the reference.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Jade collapsed on her knees. "Wait,what?"
The Doctor frowns at the mad girl on her knees.
"Jade, it's just Ice-Cream, you'll be OK," Melody comforts.
"Do you remember that Jenny? The love of Star Wars? It's still there in your subconscious," The Doctor coaxes. Jenny tilts her head for a moment before twiddling with her thumbs.
"Star Wars?" she frowns.
"A leak in your conversion caused you to recognize the reference. The real Jenny is still in there," The Doctor says, shining his sonic in Jenny's eyes.
"I'am not that silly geeky freshman. I'am Jenny Colorant and I work for Lady Gorgana."
"Obi Win Kenobi! R2D2! C3PO! Luke Skywalker!" Melody starts shouting. "I KNOW! Princess Leah!"
"Melody what are you doing?" The Doctor asks.
"Trying to jog her memory. DARTH VADAR!" Melody shouts.
"Melody, it's past that," The Doctor sighs. "The slips are only occasional."
"Nice try though," Jade murmurs.
"Thanks!"
"Melody, do you know who the other girls were before they were converted?" The Doctor asked.
"Not really. Clara, Isabella, Sandra, Kim, and Mia were here before me, so no. I don't really know Jenny, but I was friends with Penelope and Nicole for a brief period." Melody shrugged.
"Who we're they? What were they like?"
"Well, Penelope was kinda shy. Clumsy, too. But she was the sweetest thing ever, and a had a love of Littlest Pet Shop." Melody said.
"Littlest Pet Shop? What's that?" The Doctor raised an eyebrow.
"Its these adorable little pets with huge heads that bobbled!" Jade squealed, then pulled a small plastic kitten out of her pocket. "See?"
"You have Littlest Pet Shop in your pocket?" Melody asked.
"My first one. And lucky too! She's gotten me through a bunch of stuff!" Jade said proudly.
"Plastic..." The Doctor muttered, "plastic..."
"Enough of this useless prattle!" Natalie exclaimed, "Start the conversion!" She ordered, and Sandra and Nicole strode forward, and grabbed Jade by her arms, dragging her to the machine. In the scuffle, Jade's kitten flew out of her hand, and landed but the Doctor's foot. He picked it up, then grinned.
"PLASTIC!" He shouted joyfully, then chucked the kitten at the machine. Immediately after the kitten made contact, the air around the machine bubbled, then started to boil.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING?!" Natalie demanded, while the Doctor grabbed Jade out of Sandra and Nicole's grasp, and grabbed Melody's arm, and ran. Kaden quickly followed while the Gorganas panicked.
As they ran out of the canteen they stopped in the middle of the corridor. "Where do we go?!" Melody panicked.
"This way!" The Doctor declares, running in the direction of the Science block.
"Natalie's gonna kill me. Slowly. Then she's going to put my skeleton into the science room and use my skin as a handbag," Kaden mutters hysterically under his breath.
"Kaden, chill," Jade says.
"Oh my god she's going to use my hair for a coat!" Kaden gasps.
"Kaden, your bugging me," Melody calls over her shoulder.
"I should go back," he mutters, turning back round.
"Kaden get back here you twat!" Melody snapped, grabbing the scruff of his shirt and dragging him to the exit by the block that the Doctor and Jade just went through. All to be seen is a big blue box.
"Hop in!" The Doctor said, and opened the police box doors, and ran inside.
"What?! No! There's no way we're all going to fit in there!" Melody protested.
"Why the hell not?" Jade declared, and jumped in. "Whoa!" She exclaimed inside. "MEL YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!"
"See what?" Melody asked, and looked inside the box. Inside, there was a large console room, too big for the tiny box.
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"HOLY CRAB CAKES!" Melody shrieked, and started circling the box. Kaden on the other hand, ran quickly inside it, grabbing Melody's arm and dragging her in.
"What do we do in here then?" Jade frowns as she jumps onto the car seat.
"Uh. . . at the moment, no idea, but I'm working on it," The Doctor cheers, dancing around the console, flicking leavers and pressing buttons. "Kaden!" he clicks his fingers at the dazed boy.
"What?!" He jumps, still on edge a bit.
"Tell me everything you know about Natalie and the Gorganas."
"How would I know about them?" Kaden frowns.
"Ah come on! Don't play dumb. You obviously know. The table bruise is a sign that you do."
"Go on Kaden," Jade urges. "He won't bite."
"Nope I won't," The Doctor confirms. "Mostly..."
"I don't know. . ."
"Tell them and I'll kiss you," Melody sighs.
"OK, here's the deal with them. Natalie is Lady Gorgana's second in command, pretty much. Apparently they crashed here a while ago, and Natalie was hit by the ship. She was instantly converted by the only survivor there, Lady Gorgana. Since then, Natalie's been out converting the girls with the potential of being a Gorganian handmaiden. I was chosen as Natalie's ideal 'mate' so now I'm stuck with her. Think of the Amazons. The Gorganas are the alien version of that." Kaden sighed and ran ah and through his hair.
"Their ultimate goal is to repopulate the females on Gorgana. They all died of some disease, except for Lady Gorgana. Can I have a kiss now?" Kaden asked.
"Sure." Melody shrugged. She quickly kissed her hand and lightly slapped Kaden.
"That wasn't a kiss!" He protested.
"My lip residue touched your face. Close enough."
"Someday, Melody Curran I'll get that kiss!"
"Course you will," Melody laughs.
"Why you as the ideal mate though?" Jade thinks out loud.
"Yeah why you? Nothing special about you," The Doctor muses. "Gorganas don't just chose mates at random. They have to have strong morals and reasons for choosing someone."
"I dunno. Your right. Nothing special about me," Kaden shrugs.
"That's another mystery to solve gang," The Doctor grins.
"Gang?" Melody scoffs. "Sounds a bit Scooby-doo."
"I love Scooby-Doo," Jade gasps.
"Back to the point I think," The Doctor says.
"No, seriously!" Jade insists. "You could be Shaggy, you could be Fred, you could be Daphne, I could be Scooby, and... Um... Doctor, you're also Velma." Jade said, pointing to the Doctor, Kaden, and Jade in turn.
"Right..." Melody said warily. "Kaden, do you know how to stop them?"
"Can I get a real kiss if I do?" He asked hopefully.
"Maybe. Talk first, potential kiss later."
"This is crazy, but the Gorgana's weaknesses are, for some reason, apple juice, and grape flavored skittles. I kinda found that out the hard way..." Kadem rubbed the back of his neck.
"What do you mean?"
"Remember Kiara? Well... She died." Kaden said nervously.
"That was YOU?! Good man!" Melody laughed. "I hated her."
"Hey, are you wearing chap stick?" Kaden asked casually, "I smell cherries."
"Oh yeah!" Melody realized. "You want a taste?"
"Yes!" Kaden almost squealed. Melody quickly rubbed off some of her chap stick off her mouth, and rubbed it onto Kaden's mouth.
"Happy?"
"Ooh... This close..." He mumbled. "Hey, who's watching Jade?"
The Doctor, Melody, and Kaden looked. Around, and realized that Jade as missing. As of on queue, the quirky girl came running through the door, wearing some new clothes.
"HEY GUESS WHAT THERE'S A CLOTHING ROOM AND I FOUND THIS AWESOME COAT OF MANY COLORS AND THIS AWESOME CYLINDER HAT!" She exclaimed, showing off her new coat and fez.
"Oi! That's my old coat!" The Doctor said, "And that's my fez!" He went to grab the hat off Jade's head, but she ducked and ran away. "Gimme my fez!"
"Never!" Jade responded happily, and continued to evade the Doctor.
"... She acts like a five year old. How old is she?" Kaden asked.
"She's our age. But still, it's nice to have a crazy one around." Malody smiled as the Doctor finally caught Jade, latching onto her waist and lifting her up, sending the girl into fits of giggles.
"Now gimme me fez!" The Doctor laughed, and pulled the fez off Jade's head, and placing it on his own.
"So grape flavoured skittles?" Melody asks. "They're my favourite! Look, I always keep big paper bags of skittles in my pocket. I always pick out the grape ones to eat separately!"
Jade buttoned the coat up to her neck and frowned. "What do you do? Chuck it at them?"
"Well no, for the skittles they have to eat them. You could soak them with the apple juice but it has to be freshly squeezed for the apple itself," Kaden explains. "Not from a carton."
"Why though? That's the most random thing ever!" Jade frowns.
"Do you want the technical answer that you have no hope of understanding or do you want the easier one?" The Doctor asks.
"Easy please."
"Apples make bad girls go boom," Kaden says.
"Pretty much," The Doctor laughs.
"That makes sense," Jade nods. "Sorta."
"Sorta? How much simpler do you need?" Kaden sweatdrops.
"Um... APPLE MAKE SNAKE GO BOOM BOOM!" Jade cheers, giggling, then snatching the Doctor's fez off his head and placing it back on hers. "MY HAT!"
"No, it's mine! Give it back!" The Doctor protests, then starts chasing Jade around again. Melody's eye twitches, and she stands between the two, separating them.
"That's enough. We have other things to worry about! Doctor, do you have any apples on board?" She asks commandingly.
"No. Why would I have apples? Apples are rubbish." The Doctor pouts.
"I HAVE APPLES!" Jade announces, and pulls a bag of apples out of her backpack/rucksack.
"I just noticed that you weren't acting this crazy during school." Kaden said.
"My meds wore off." Jade shrugs. "I'm ADHD. Speaking of meds wearing off, IM FREAKING STARVING!" She says, and pulls out an apple and crunches on it.
"Ugh, how can you eat that?" The Doctor asked, clearly disgusted.
"Like this." Jade smirked, and bit into the fruit again.
"Okey Dokey, it's med time, Jade, take them please. We can't deal with a nutball crazy job at the moment. This is too serious. Now give the Doctor back his hat and coat, eat your apple and take your meds," Melody orders, rubbing her temples, feeling a headache coming on. "I shouldn't have eaten that cheese earlier," she groans as Jade reluctantly gives the Doctor back his fez and coat.
"Thank you," The Doctor grins as he triumphantly places the hat back on his head.
"Your welcome," Jade grumbles as she goes to take her medication.
"Your good with kids," Kaden grins.
"Thanks," Melody laughs quietly.
"You'll be a brilliant mother some day," he replies.
"HA! If I have kids I'll have lost my head ages ago," Melody says drily.
"Nah, your just cranky cuz you had a cheese sandwich for lunch," Kaden grins manically.
"Shut it Kaden before I ram my fist down your throat."
"OK, we need some painkillers over here!" Kaden shouts to the Doctor.
The Doctor glared in surprise. "Sorry, no pain killers here. Nope, not one single bottle. Sorry." He apologized.
"Why not?" Kaden asked.
"Deadly to me, sorry, but you cannot have any pain killers. There aren't any on this ship."
"I have aspirin!" Jade said, holding up a small bottle, causing the Doctor to squeak in fear, and hide on the other side of the console.
"Thanks, Jade, you're a lifesaver." Melody smiled, and took two, then handed the bottle back to Jade.
"Where do you get this random stuff?" Kaden asked.
"I dunno." Jade shrugged, swallowing her medication. "I just pack weird stuff."
"What else do you have?" The Doctor asked, being very cautious so as not to have a reappearance of the aspirin.
"Some rope, a juice squeezer, a few mints, a bandana, a banana, a bandage, a ham sandwich, a peanut butter sandwich, a nutella sandwich, a ham-and-peanut butter-and-nutella sandwich-"
"Sounds gross..."
"Don't knock it 'til ya try it! As I was saying, I also have a slingshot, and my meds." Jade finished.
"... Wow."
"Well, we've learnt a lot today haven't we?" Melody says with a tired smile. "I hate cheese, Jade is a physchopath, alien boy can't handle aspirin and Kaden sure knows how to pick girlfriends."
"If it makes me look any less like an idiot, Natalie chose me," Kaden says.
"It doesn't really," Jade frowns. "It shows you give in easy."
"She asked me out for ice-cream! Who doesn't give in to ice-cream?!"
"He has a point," The Doctor points out.
"Thank you. Even the alien agrees with me!" Kaden grins.
"You can just call me Doctor."
"Shall we get down to juicing these apples?" Melody asks, pushing her glasses back up her face.
"Yeah, I think we're wasting time," Jade says.
"Do you know how to juice an apple Doctor?" Melody asks.
"Course I do! To the juicing room!"
A/N: *counts the words* ... Wow... That is a lot of words. This chapter total is 3,177 words! That's like, way more than my usual! I am very proud of myself and Hunger Who. :) Well, do what good readers do and click that little box and type a review!
~Doc and HungerWho