CHAPTER 11

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A young brunette woman in her early 20's was running down a deserted alleyway in the middle of London as she desperately tried to escape from a creature out of a nightmare. It wasn't out of her nightmare though. She would never think that such a thing was capable of even existing much less be chasing her down an alley on the worst night of her life.

She just kept running from it as she wondered how such a tiny thing could run so fast. She really should be wondering how it could even be running at all she thought to herself. There was no way that it could even be alive much less be running after here in the dark with a huge knife in its hand!

She continued to run until her legs gave out beneath her, and she fell. She screamed in terror as she wondered if the thing behind her was almost upon her.

Would she be found dead in this alley? Would anyone have any idea what had ever happened to her?

She began to cry as she got to her knees. This couldn't be real! Things like this just didn't happen in real life. These things only happened on TV or in the movies!

Then as she got to her feet, she saw that her pursuer had finally caught up to her. It was a tiny doll about a foot high that looked Chinese and wore clothes from nineteenth century China. It had a sinister expression on its face and a huge knife in its hand.

The woman screamed as it got closer and closer.

"Hold still, this will only hurt for a minute," the doll spoke.

This frightened her even more as she was rooted to the spot in terror and continued to scream at the unbelievable entity standing before her.

Suddenly, she heard a woman behind her say, "Let her go, Mr. Sin. It's me you want. I've been tracking you ever since I followed you here from the 1950s. How you came back to life after the Doctor deactivated you back in the nineteenth century is beyond me. Maybe you'd care to tell me about it and let this poor woman go!"

"You don't worry me, Time Lady. I can gut this female and then be gone from here in an instant. Even you can't move that fast!" the puppet taunted the new arrival.

"If I were just a Time Lady, then that might be true. Unfortunately for you though, I'm much more than that," the woman behind her proclaimed.

There was a flash of golden light that zipped past the brunette's head and hit Mr. Sin square in the chest. The puppet screamed as he fell over on the ground and did not move again.

The brunette slowly turned around and looked at the woman who was behind her.

She was a beautiful blonde that looked like she belonged on a stage singing somewhere or maybe on a popular television show. The blonde woman smiled at her kindly and asked her, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah. Puppets come to life and chase me down alleys with knives as they threaten to kill me every day! It happens to me all of the time and never, ever freaks me out!" the brunette said as she started to shake all over as the events of the night finally caught up to her.

The blonde woman looked at her in concern and put an arm around her.

"It's all right. You're okay now. He won't hurt you anymore. I've deactivated him by frying out his cerebral cortex. My name's Rose by the way," the blonde woman said.

"I'm Penny. Penny Miller," the brunette said as she calmed down some.

This woman Rose was calming Penny down just by being here. She had been shaking in fear at first, but now she felt strangely calm as if this woman's presence was making her feel completely safe somehow. It was a strange feeling.

"Do you feel better now?" Rose asked her with a worried expression on her face. She seemed to genuinely care about her even though she had only just met her.

"I'm fine. I just want to go home now. I feel like I should call my mother. I could have died tonight! She would have never known how or why. I still don't know myself. It's made me think about what's important," Penny said.

"It will certainly do that. Being afraid for your life will set your priorities straight, that's for sure," Rose said with a big smile.

Penny gave her a funny look. She talked as if she did this kind of thing all of the time.

Rose just laughed at the look on her face. She remembered when this had been her.

"What was that thing, and why did it want to kill me? How did you stop it?" Penny asked as the questions started pouring out of her.

Here we go. Here come the questions Rose thought with a smile.

"That was a cybernetic organism created by combining a mechanical body with the cerebral cortex of a pig. It was a plaything for the Icelandic ambassador's children in the 51st century until it went rogue and the pig part took over and almost caused World War VI. It later reappeared with a madman named Magnus Greel, the Butcher of Brisbane. He brought it with him to the 19th century as he escaped punishment from war crimes that he committed back in his own time. A man called the Doctor stopped Magnus Greel and the Peking Homunculus, or Mr. Sin as Greel called him. Both were supposed to have died but somehow Mr. Sin here escaped. I found him in the 1950s in Los Angeles. He was attacking people, but I stopped him from killing anyone. I believe that he was planning on claiming a larger body for himself. I chased him and followed him here, luckily for you. I fried his cerebral cortex with a bolt of Vortex energy so he won't be bothering anyone ever again," Rose explained.

"That can't be real. What you just said doesn't make sense! There's no way! What's really going on here? Is it a prank? Is that it? Are you from a TV show out to prank me?" Penny said as her mind grasped for answers.

"I just told you the truth. If you don't like it though, just believe whatever you want. It's all over for you now, anyway. You'll never see me again. Just forget what happened here tonight, Penny Miller. Forget about me. You're probably better off that way. I don't want to get you hurt," Rose said as she looked at her with kind, compassionate eyes.

"Why would I get hurt?" Penny asked her confused.

"You'll want to start traveling with me, and you'll be in danger every step of the way if I tell you anymore than I've already told you. Your mom will be angry and thinking that I'm out to corrupt you or hurt you in some way. I know the whole drill. Either you'll wind up getting hurt, or you'll leave me after you wise up and decide that my kind of life isn't for you. I'll just nip that in the bud right now and stop everything right here I think. It's better for both of us, Penny!" Rose said as she babbled on.

"Why would I be in danger?" Penny asked as she started getting intrigued.

"What just happened to you is what happens to me every day! I always deal with the weird, the strange, and the bizarre. Trust me it's not the kind of life for you if this freaks you out. Just go home and live your life, Pen!" Rose said sadly as she walked away from Penny.

Penny stood there in shock for a moment, and then she ran after Rose as fast as she could. She saw a blue box dematerialize with a wheezing grinding noise and shook her head in amazement. I did not just see that! she thought.

She went back to the alley to find Mr. Sin still there.

I didn't imagine it. It's real! Penny thought.

She made her way back to her apartment and slumped down in a chair.

What should I do now? She wondered.

She knew somehow that her life would never be the same again. She would find her again. She had to experience that kind of adventure and excitement again!

Next: Rose gets tracked down by Penny. What happens next changes Penny Miller's life forever!