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I wasn't completely sure what to expect when Harmony inherited the Time Pixie biology into her body, but I expected it to be something a bit more major than what I saw. Other than having a few seizure-like spasms and her face turning extremely pale for a moment, there wasn't a lot more than that. She looked exactly the same as she had as a human, except her face had much more brightness in it.
Maxwell had noticed something as well. He wasn't completely sure what was happening, so he pressed his finger to his ear, calling for more security, I presumed. I looked back at Harmony, who was regaining her composure. She looked up at me and smiled.
"I'm back! I'm finally back!" She clapped her hands together. "After so many years, I'm back!" She walked up to the window to view her reflection. She marveled at her curves and facial features. "And certainly looking a lot better as well!" She giggled.
"Harmony?" I asked.
She didn't respond right away; it took a moment to realize I was addressing her. She spun around and looked at me. "Erin, right?"
I nodded. She smiled and ran up to me, giving me a tight hug. "Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks to you, I'm back!" She grinned again.
"Well, actually, I only gave it to you because the Doctor-"
"Whoa, who?" She paused a moment, holding her finger up, then exclaimed, "Oh, right! We'd better go get him!"
I looked over at Maxwell, who was just staring at Harmony. I smiled at his confusion; Harmony was busy thinking. She finally looked over to him. "Oh, hello. Forgot you were in here."
Maxwell examined her for a moment, then stated, "You're not human anymore."
"That is correct." She walked over to him and patted his head. "Looks like you live up to the expectations of the Peritis. But," she stepped back next to me and gripped my arm, "I honestly doubt that you will be able to figure out how I did this."
Before I knew what was happening, the room before me disappeared, and I was moving quickly through a vortex.
"Holy crap!" I screamed. Harmony just sighed and covered my eyes with my other hand.
A few seconds later, my feet hit the ground, and Harmony removed her hand from my eyes. I looked around, and we were in an empty hallway.
"You're supposed to keep your eyes shut, silly." Harmony commented as she let go of my arm and began examining the room.
"How did you do that?" I questioned hysterically.
She rolled her eyes and looked at me. "I'm genetically mutated; they wired TARDIS technology into my DNA, meaning I can travel through time and space. Time Pixies are like the super-Time Lord. We don't need technology; we are the technology."
I stared at her in awe. She rolled her eyes again. "Where did they take the Doctor, again?"
"They were taking him to the lab or something."
"Right." She walked up to the wall, where a map was posted, and quickly scanned over it. "We need to take the elevator." She began walking the other direction down the hall, and I followed.
"So, you can teleport out of that room, but you can't teleport to where the Doctor is?"
She sighed as she pressed the button for the elevator. "There was no way we could get out of there with the security guards at the door, and that guy being able to call more guards. Plus, they have no idea where we teleported. We're on the top floor in a completely different wing. We can get to the lab without the need of teleporting. It takes a lot of energy out of you, anyway, especially since I just entered this body again."
The elevator door opened, and we rushed inside. She pressed the button for the third floor, and the doors shut. She leaned against the wall and looked at me. She had a curious look on her face. "When did you meet the Doctor?"
"It was just today, I suppose. I helped him save some prisoners at a Graske base, and he asked me to travel with him. We intended to go to 1986, but we ended up here."
She walked up to me and swiped her finger on my forearm, then brought it up to her nose and sniffed it. I looked at her questioningly, but she just asked, "Were you fascinated with aliens beforehand?"
"In a way, I guess." I paused a moment, deciding whether or not I should tell her of my dreams. "I was always horrible in science, but I loved science fiction, and... I had these... these dreams. Dreams for three years about aliens. They were always so fascinating."
"Were these dreams connected?"
I looked up at her. "No, not that I'm aware." I lied.
She gave me another questioning look. "You're lying."
Before I could respond, the elevator doors opened. Harmony began walking down the hall, and I quickly followed after her.
"So, is your name still Harmony?"
"No, that name was chosen by her human parents." She said. "My name is... well, you'd never understand it, or even pronounce it correctly, so I guess I'll go by Harmony. That name sounds pretty, anyway."
I nodded, and we stopped in front of a door. There was nothing indicating that it was the laboratory; only the number "2012" was written on the door.
"What is 2012 supposed to mean?" I asked.
Harmony shrugged, and placed her hand on the doorknob. It unlocked a moment later, and she slowly opened the door. I peered inside, and the room was empty. The only thing occupying the space was the operating table, and a few tables with medical tools lined on the surface. We began to walk inside.
"Did they..." I started, praying that it wasn't the worst.
"No." Harmony said. She pointed to a transparent case on one of the tables. "It's empty. It would be in there if they already did it."
Suddenly, the doorknob of the door on the other end of the room began to wiggle, and we quickly slipped underneath the operating table.
"Sir, if you won't allow me to sedate you, then I will have to operate on you without it." A gentle but firm voice said.
"I'm aware of that." The familiar voice of the Doctor responded. I smiled in relief, knowing he was still alive.
"Sir, I don't want to see you have to go through all of that pain."
"Why do you work here, then?"
There was a pause, then the other broke into sobs. I looked at Harmony, who had a sympathetic look on her face, and she began to crawl out from under the table. I followed her.
We stood up, and looked at the Doctor, who had his arm comfortingly around the other, who was a female Periti-tall, slim, a lighter blue than Maxwell was, and wearing a white lab coat. He looked at us with a shocked look on his face, but looked back at the Periti.
"Did they force you here?" He asked.
She nodded. "I'm supposedly one of the most brilliant surgeons on my planet." She laughed sadly. "They forced me to come here, and said they would kill my family if I didn't." She started to cry again.
"Well, I'll do my best to get you out of here, I promise." He said softly. She nodded, and he let go of her. He looked at Harmony and me. "Did you open it?" He asked me.
I nodded. "I had to. We wouldn't have been able to get out if I hadn't had."
The Doctor nodded. "We should probably hurry, then. There's another surgeon coming soon, anyway."
That moment, the door we came through opened, and we bent down again. But it was too late; he saw us.
It was the other surgeon. He still had his human disguise on-a tall, handsome man wearing a lab coat. He looked down at us with a shocked look on his face. He started to put his finger to his ear, but he looked at the Doctor, who was pointing his sonic screwdriver at him.
"That can't hurt me." He said matter-of-factly.
"Eh, it was worth a shot." The Doctor put it away. "So you're just going to call security again? Is that really how you solve all of your problems?"
He gulped. "Many Peritis are not fit for physical duties. Therefore, we instruct others to do it for us."
The Doctor rolled his eyes. The surgeon pressed a finger to his ear again, and the Doctor gripped my arm and the female Periti's. "Harmony?" He asked, looking at her.
She nodded and gripped my arm. I shut my eyes, and I felt the floor disappear. I didn't dare open my eyes, though I was curious to see the vortex again. In a few seconds, we all fell to the ground.
"Ah, probably wasn't the best idea with four people." The Doctor commented, standing up. I looked around to see that we were outside.
"What are we supposed to do now?" I asked, standing up with Harmony.
"Is there a central power source, umm," He asked, motioning to the Periti.
"Jayla May, sir." She said. "Yes, there is one in the basement that controls the power for everything."
"Alright, then." The Doctor clapped his hands together and started walking to a window. He pulled his screwdriver out and began running it across the hinges.
Soon, the hinges loosened, and he managed to pull the window off. He slipped through quickly, and everybody else followed after him.
The Doctor immediately ran over to the control panel, and began flipping off switches. "They can just turn them back on, you know." Jayla May informed him.
"I'm trying to get their attention. If they won't listen, I'll have to call the authorities."
A moment later, I heard footsteps down the stairs. I turned to see Maxwell, along with about twenty security guards, marching angrily toward the Doctor.
"Now, now, let's just wait a moment." He said, waving his hands in the air. "I have a deal for you, Maxwell."
"I'm listening." Maxwell said, holding up his arm to keep the guards back.
"You shut down this whole project and recall all of the products, or I call the authorities."
"You honestly expect me to have this all shut down? I'm just one man; there are so many more of these stations across the planet."
"Get it all shut down, or I call authorities."
Maxwell rolled his eyes and moved his arm back to his side, and the guards began marching up to the Doctor. The Doctor held his hand up and reached his other into his pocket. He pulled something small out of it and placed it underneath the control panel. "I will do it, Maxwell."
Maxwell froze in his place. "Halt." He said quietly. The guards stopped.
"Thank you." The Doctor said, standing up. "If you want some help shutting this down-"
"What are you talking about, Doctor? I made no mention of plans of shutting down this project. We will go through with the initial plan. Guards, grab the Doctor and his companions. Miss Halagroman, you will be sent back to C-2 to be imprisoned for life for treason."
Jayla May began to cry. The Doctor ran over to us and grabbed Jayla May's hand, then motioned for us to go. We began to run to the stairs. The guards followed closely behind. We finally made it to the main floor and started running down the long hallway to the door.
"Lock all exits!" One of the guards yelled. We quickened our speed, and the Doctor held up his screwdriver to the door. He pressed the button, and they flew open. We sprinted out the door, and he pressed the button again, causing the doors to quickly shut and halt the guards.
"What was that thing you put underneath the control panel?" Jayla May asked.
"Just a simple explosive device. I can trigger it to explode with my screwdriver. Speaking of..." He trailed off as he flicked through the settings. He finally hit the button, and I heard the distant sound of an explosion.
"Did you kill them?" I asked.
"Course not." He put it back into his pocket. "I just made it impossible for them to power the system for surrounding areas by causing their central power source to explode."
"They can always get a new one." Jayla May interjected.
"Well, while they're working on that, I'll call up some old friends of mine."
The Judoon handcuffed Maxwell and pushed him into their spaceship. One of them walked up to the Doctor and began talking to him in their language. The Doctor responded in their language, and they both nodded. The Doctor turned around and walked up to Harmony, Jayla May, and me.
"They're tracking all of the stations across the planet and shutting them down. They're recalling the products, and are sending a message to the UN to inform them that they will need to rebuild their schooling systems."
"It's going to take a long time for them to get back to normal, though." Harmony responded.
"I know." He stuffed his hands into his pockets. "But, knowing Earth, they will get back on their feet."
One of the Judoon walked up to Jayla May and gripped her arm. He said something in his language, and tears started to stream down her face.
"Oi!" The Doctor exclaimed. He said something in their language, and the Judoon let go of her and nodded, then walked away.
"What did you say?" I asked.
"She's innocent and was forced here against her will." The Doctor said. "They're allowing me to fly you back to C-2." He said, looking at Jayla May.
"Oh, thank you!" Jayla May exclaimed, wrapping her arms around the Doctor in a hug. He hugged her back, and she let go a moment later.
"Back to the TARDIS, then?" He asked, smiling. I smiled back, and we followed him back to the TARDIS.
"Oooh, I always thought that it was just a myth." Jayla May marveled as she stepped into the TARDIS. "Time machines that are bigger on the inside."
The Doctor smiled, and began to press the buttons on the console. A moment later, the familiar jolt of the TARDIS landing sent everybody holding onto something solid until we finally landed.
Jayla May let go, and smiled at the Doctor. "Thank you. Thank you so much. I will forever be grateful."
The Doctor smiled at her, and she walked to the door. "It was nice meeting you two girls, too." She said.
We nodded in response, and she silently walked out of the TARDIS. As she shut the door, the Doctor ran back to the controls and pressed a few buttons. When he had finished, he stepped back and looked at Harmony.
"Now, what are we going to do with you?"
Author's Note: I apologize for not updating much this week. Along with exams and trying to not force myself to write (in hope that I won't eventually become bored with writing this story and stop), I was a bit blocked. I knew what I wanted to write, but I had no idea how to put it down. The original format of the chapter had Harmony acting incredibly Mary Sue-ish, and I didn't want her to come off as that. I knew that she would still end up being that way, but I believe I've made it so hopefully she won't come off that way (as much).
Also, I apologize if this chapter seemed a bit dull. Calling the Judoon to come and solve your problems may have not been the best idea, but I couldn't think of a better way to have the Doctor shut down the systems across the planet.
Please review! I'll hopefully have the next chapter up tomorrow or Saturday.