The Elite Force (And a Time Lord)
Chapter four
The TARDIS landed with it's groaning noise in an alley, outside the Centium City park.
The Doctor stepped out and looked around.
The streets were quiet.
Deathly quiet.
The Doctor wasn't sure where to go. Chase could be anywhere. The last thing he needed was for a weeping angel to appear out of nowhere.
The Doctor turned.
Nope, not a weeping angel.
Good. Back to finding Chase.
The Doctor walked down, past the park, and still didn't see anyone.
Not a soul.
How peculiar. Bionic supehumans show up and the whole city disappears in the blink of a eye?
The Doctor soon found himself at a building that towered over the city. He looked up at the building, as if he recognized it.
He shook that off and went inside.
Not a soul. Again.
The Doctor went for the stairs and went up to the penthouse elevator. The TARDIS had given him Chase's coordinates, but there were multiple coordinate signals. So, the Doctor had to decipher the multiple coordinates to find Chase.
He got in the elevator and went up.
The Doctor decided to send a message to Chase through the sonic screwdriver and the psychic paper, to Chase's chip. After doing that, he waited.
Upstairs...
Chase looked out the window.
He was hiding his emotions from the team.
He missed the universe. The running, the new species, the Doctor and the TARDIS, oh, how he missed the Doctor and his bigger-on-the-inside machine.
He had hid these thoughts ever since he returned home from that desert in California. He didn't want to tell anybody.
Davenport and the others were so happy to see him, he didn't want to bring them down. The day he returned went without question.
He wanted to tell the stories. The stories of the universe, of all he learned.
His new bionic abilities.
He tried to super-speed one day, to no avail.
He tried to use super-strength one day, to no avail.
His abilities were gone.
He only had his intelligence now. The thing that got him into this mess.
He hopelessly tried his lost abilities every day. Today, they worked.
"Doctor." Chase thought. Then, he received the Doctor's message.
Chase bolted downstairs, scaring Skylar and Bree.
"Chase!" Bree yelled as she jumped. "You almost gave me a heart attack!"
Chase walked to the door.
Skylar thought for a moment. "Was that super-speed?"
Bree stood. "Chase? Is your super-speed and super-strength back?"
Chase nodded. Bree gasped.
"Well, guess I'm at the bottom of A.J.'s list now." Skylar said.
Chase looked around before opening the door. "I think I know who this is."
Bree walked over to Chase. "It's him, isn't it?"
Chase nodded. Then, he opened the door.
The Doctor was right there.
Chase looked at him. "Why did you leave me?"
The Doctor looked at him. "It wasn't my fault. The TARDIS went mad. I couldn't stop it because the controls disappeared."
"Eh. It happens." Chase said as he moved aside to let the Doctor in.
Bree looked at Chase. "You didn't tell me he was British. And hot!"
Chase glared at his sister. "Nobody around here is professional."
The Doctor looked around. "Nice place. But, it's no TARDIS."
"What?" Skylar asked.
"TARDIS. It stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. It's my vehicle, to put it simply." The Doctor answered.
Skylar nodded in response. She felt like she recognized his name and TARDIS? That was just giving it away.
"His name is T-"
Bree hadn't moved since she saw the Doctor for the first time. She was just staring at him, as if she had just walked into a classroom and saw a boy she liked.
"Let's go to Mission Command, Doctor. We have work to do." Chase said as he started walking to the hyper lift.
The Doctor followed and in a few seconds, they were both in Mission Command.
Upstairs...
Skylar walked over to Bree, who was still standing in the same position and with the same expression on her face.
"Bree?" Skylar said as she waved her hand in front of Bree's face.
Bree blinked and looked at Skylar. "He's British!"
Skylar gave Bree a "I know" look. "Are you okay?"
"Chase knows I'm a sucker for British accents!" Bree put her hands on Skylars shoulders and shook them. "Help me!"
"Oh, Bree. Trust me. He's not British. He's not of this Earth. I can't remember his planet's name, though. It started with a "G", a I'm pretty sure." Skylar responded.
Bree gave Skylar a look. "Other worlds? Oh please."
"Caldera? My home planet is not of this Earth." Skylar snapped at Bree.
"Always have to play the alien card, don't you?"Bree said as she went upstairs.
Skylar sat down on the couch. "His name is Th-"
Oliver and Kaz came into the room from the balcony. "Hey, Sky!" Oliver said as he and Kaz walked over to the couch and sat down.
"Aww, Skylar, what's wrong? Did you lose your powers again? Wait, if you did, then-"
"Oliver, I'm fine. I'm just thinking. I'm trying to remember something." Skylar responded to the peculiar remark.
"Our time at Mighty Med? I know it will be hard to recall those memories, but let's try to remember together." Oliver said as he slid over to Skylar and put his arm around her.
"Uh, no." Skylar remarked as she slid away from Oliver. "Just something important from my childhood. His name is The-"
Kaz gave Oliver a look. "Eww. But, that's a good story line for something. You should write that down."
Oliver looked at Kaz. "Why? I'm not a author."
"In case you want to be Quimby Fletcher again." Kaz said.
Oliver made a face. "Why would I ever do that again?"
Kaz shrugged. "I don't know. In case you want to-"
"Wow, you guys really are the kings of meaningless conversation." Skylar interrupted as she got up and walked away.
Meanwhile in Mission Command...
"Shape Shifters, eh?" The Doctor started. "Oh, I know quite a bit about Shape Shifters."
"Any way we can defeat them?" Chase questioned.
"There are a few ways. I have some things I need for one that might work in the TARDIS. Mind if I go grab them?" The Doctor asked.
"I'll come with." Chase said as he followed The Doctor to the hyperlift.
Kaz and Oliver were still on the couch when Chase and The Doctor came up from the hyperlift. Neither noticed the sound of the hyperlift bringing Chase and The Doctor up.
Bree came back downstairs as Chase and The Doctor were heading to the TARDIS. She ran over to them.
"So, uh, where are you guys going?" Bree questioned, a dreamy look in her eye.
"The TARDIS." Chase said.
Bree appeared to be out of sorts. "Can I go with you?"
"Uh, sure." Chase said. The Doctor, Chase and Bree headed out to the alley where the TARDIS was.
On the way there, the Doctor took his sonic screwdriver out and started scanning. Chase looked at his friend. It felt good to have the rest of his bionics back. "Doctor, why did my other bionics vanish after you left me in the desert?"
The Doctor looked in front of himself at the quiet city. "Might have had something to do with Krane and the TARDIS. Has the city always been like this?"
Chase looked around. "No. It's been like this since the shape shifters revealed themselves."
"It doesn't seem like your team has noticed. But you have." The Doctor looked at Bree.
"I'm not sure what's going on. You might want to see what's wrong with them." Chase looked at his sister. "Bree first, since she's here."
The Doctor nodded. "I'll look at her when we get to the TARDIS."
The trio walked a little bit more before someone appeared.