"No, you can't!" Protested a furious Ian. "Surely now you know that this is a life supporting planet, you'll stop this?"
"He can't." Spoke a serious Doctor. "He's just a soldier, hired to enforce the laws. They aren't going to listen to this craft."
Barbara gasped. "This is our home! They can't!"
"I know." The Doctor replied. That's why we need to go somewhere they will listen."
Ian nodded, like he understood.
"The mothership. We go there, we tell them about their mistake. They call it off, and we go home in time for tea."
Wupo shook his head.
"This organisation is set out for there to be no 'mothership.' They communicate through screens. Most of the major powers are on other sides of the galaxy at this moment. But there is no main authority. There would need to be a conference, several meetings,-"
"No chance of getting past bureaucracy in other words." Barbara muttered. "Doctor? Any ideas?"
The Doctor looked back at the group, who were all looking at him in hope, even Wupo.
"I have an idea. But don't think that it'll work easily. It also involves having a little conference of our own. I'll need to make a phone call."
"Human technology will not work on this ship. You will have to be teleported back down."
Ian and Barbara sighed.
"It's what we wanted in the first place!" Ian said, exasperated.
"You would still be prisoners here if it wasn't for this problem. Might I suggest moving to another planet as a viable alternative if this plan fails?"
"No. Earth isn't capable of interstellar travel yet. There's even a few years to go before they go to the moon. Getting everyone away isn't an option. And it shouldn't even be an option." The Doctor spat out the last part of his answer, in disgust to the situation.
"How long do we have?" Barbara asked the question that the others were too afraid to ask.
"Not long. A few days. We were doing our last minute scans to clear the planet of unauthorised lifeforms."
"And if the Doctor hadn't have been here..." Ian started.
"...Our planet would just be destroyed. No one would even know. Oh God..." Barbara finished, going white.
The Doctor and Wupo were silent.
"Lets get going then, shall we?" Ian prompted everyone.
Everyone seemed to agree, so they all followed Wupo back into the room they arrived in.
The Doctor looked unhappy.
"I figured it was a Transmat system."
"It is similar to that system. It is more advanced, so that people don't become sick after they use it."
The Doctor pouted.
"I still don't like it."
"You don't have to." Wupo growled back.
Ian and Barbara stood with the Doctor in the middle of the room. Wupo made a signal to another Judoon officer stood inside a control pannel hidden behind one of the walls, and stood next to them.
"What do you think you're-"
-Vroom-
"-Doing?" The Doctor asked Wupo.
"He can't come on earth! He'll stick out like a sore thumb!" Ian protested.
"It's too late now." The Doctor pointed out.
"Perhaps if he took his helmet off?" Barbara suggested.
The Doctor sighed, and motioned to Wupo to show them what he looked like.
He removed his helmet, and the Doctor saw Ian and Barbara's faces first appear shocked, then intrigued. He smiled, remembering why he had learned to like humans because of them.
They always surprised you in the way they looked at things. And Ian and Barbara still had that excitement and fascination in their eyes that he always recognised in his companions.
"He's a rhinoceros!"
"I am a Judoon! Your earth 'rhinos' just bare a similarity to my species. As humans do to many different species."
"Including mine. One of the oldest races in the universe." The Doctor added under his breath, "At least they were."
"Enough of this." Wupo said, placing his helmet back on. "We need to travel to where ever we must go. It may take a long time by Earth transport."
"We aren't going by Earth transport." The Doctor turned to his old companions. "How would you like to see the TARDIS again?"
They acted nonchalant, but he saw their eyes light up. He turned his back, so he didn't see them share looks and grin like children.
"What is this TARDIS? Your craft?" Wupo asked the Doctor.
"Yes. Capable of traveling in any direction, at any speed, any distance."
He purposely didn't say about the fact it was a time machine. If it got out that the Doctor was letting just about any aliens ride with him- well, he'd be traveling with a dalek or a cyberman next. Best to trust humans. They usually had all the best factors needed. Including a lack of hate for him.
They followed him outside the room and into the lift.
They stood in silence as the lift descended. The lift music played its relaxing melody, which failed to reflect the seriousness of their situation.
On the second floor, it stopped, and an elderly couple stared slack-jawed at the strange giant man in the lift.
"You would cause his elevator to exceed weight limitations if you entered." He said, completely matter of fact.
"I think you should wait for it to come back up." Barbara said to them, a lot more kindly.
The lift stopped at the ground floor, and they rushed out. The Doctor pointed at a cleaning supply cupboard, and they all ran inside, entering the TARDIS.
A hotel worker, who was headed towards the cupboard, dropped everything he was holding as he saw the strange group run full speed into a tiny closet. He slowly opened the door, to see that they had disappeared.
He rubbed his eyes, shut the door and opened it again. He gawped at the empty space, and immediately walked out of the hotel, shaking his head, and swearing to never come back to this 'mad house' again.
Meanwhile, in the TARDIS, Ian and Barbara were walking around the new console room, gasping and smiling at every single thing they saw.
"It's so different now! What are those symbols up there?" Barbara pointed up towards the top of the console.
"I have changed it a lot during my recent regenerations. Those symbols are of my own language."
He glance over at Wupo, then whispered towards Barbara.
"Gallifreyan."
She raised an eyebrow.
"We travelled with you for two years and you revealed nothing about yourself. Now you're more than ready to share. Why?"
He ignored her, and instead played with an important looking lever on the console, that was actually broken but made a cool-looking flashing light appear whenever he tried to use it.
"What are 'regenerations'?" Ian called over.
"Glad you asked, Chessy."
"Just call me Ian, Doctor." He replied in a flat voice. Barbara laughed.
"A regeneration is what happens when I die."
Ian and Barbara looked concerned.
"You've died?!" They both cried in unison.
"Only a few times. It's not like I'm on my last one. There is a limit of twelve regenerations. I've used ten of them. I'm the eleventh Doctor."
"What happened when you were our Doctor? The first?"
The Doctor smiled.
"Old age."
He turned to the console again, and pressed a button which caused the whirring of the TARDIS to commence.
"Just one little stop before we go to our final destination." He explained to the others, as they tried to follow him out the door when the TARDIS had landed. "I won't be long, so just stay here."
He was back within two minutes, looking pleased with himself.
"That's sorted now. We have a conference to make in Geneva. Keep all questions you have until the end of the ride, and keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times." He joked.
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Thanks for viewing my story this far. This is my first update for 2014.
disclaimer: Nothing is mine. I am not a writer for the BBC, and I probably never will be.
spoiler: Also, Wupo will not be in the story for much longer, but I haven't quite decided what to do with him yet...
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