"Well, look at the bright side of it." I heard Crane speak.
I turned to him. With all the trouble with that butterfly, and suddenly seeing a woman called Bandora, whoever she may be, I had forgotten that Crane was still in the control room.
"You really wouldn't want to go out there and risk your life against... those... people." Crane continued.
"You certainly didn't have a problem leaving a traveling time machine and going out into a dinosaur infested world." I remarked, "And when did you decide to talk again?"
"Well, Doctor Sattler didn't let me talk before, but now that she's gone..." Crane explained.
"Wait, you didn't talk because you didn't want to be scolded?" I couldn't understand, "What kind of psychiatrist are you?"
Before he could answer, I heard a voice cackling. It came from that screen where we first saw Bandora. I looked at the screen.
"This land has become barren and wasted. No creature can survive here now!" she laughed out loud.
What surprised me wasn't so much what she was saying, but the fact that for some reason, even though she was speaking a language that sounded like an old form of Japanese, I could understand every word she said.
"Ahahah!" Crane seemed to force another laugh, "A prehistoric woman who knows English! Now I'm really crazy."
"You and me both." I said. And I was serious about that. Why did I hear her speak ancient Japanese, but he heard her speak English?
"Interesting." the Doctor's voice sounded, after which Bandora and her henchmen turned to see who spoke, "So you're behind this. I'd love to know how you did that."
"Who might you be?" she asked him.
The golden armored beast raised his sword, about ready to attack.
"Hold it, Grifforzer." Bandora told him.
The beast, or Grifforzer, lowered his sword.
"I am the Doctor." the Doctor replied to her question, "And I'm very curious about what you're doing here."
"He's standing face to face with a woman who, who admitted to have made this wasteland, and yet he is still so frivolous about all this." Crane seemed to try and laugh it all off.
"If you must know..." Bandora continued, pointing behind the Doctor, "... ask Dora Set!"
The Doctor seemed surprised, before he turned around and saw... I'm not sure what it was. It looked humanoid, but had the head of an animal I had never seen before. It resembled Seth from Egyptian mythology, but given how Bandora called him Set, I don't think it's the same one. Assuming Seth were ever real, but with what I have seen so far, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
"Another Set." the Doctor said.
"Another?" both Dora Set and I said in unison, but only Set said the following: "There can be only one Set!"
He attacked the Doctor, by conjuring up... some kind of magic beam. But as he shot it at the Doctor, something intercepted it.
"Thank you, Jon." the Doctor said.
This was the first time for Bandora and her gang to see Manhattan. Dora Set did not let him stop his actions. A fight broke out between the two. Some might call this a fight between gods, but I'm not so sure about that.
"So you're the one!" Sattler suddenly approached Bandora.
"The one what?" Bandora asked her.
This exchange was weird. Earlier, I heard the Doctor speak Bandora's language, and seeing as I knew very little about him, I just thought he knew her language, like an Egyptologist would know ancient Egyptian. But when Sattler spoke to Bandora, she spoke plain English, while Bandora kept talking her own language, yet the two seemed to understand each other perfectly well. How was that possible?
"It is you who gave women a bad name, and had them forever suppressed by men!" Sattler continued.
"You're even crazier than all the people who tried to stop me!" Bandora replied.
"People?" the Doctor questioned, "What people?"
"You mean those same people who built those dinosaur statues?" Huxley suddenly decided to show.
"Uh-oh." the gnome in Bandora's group seemed to panic, "If anyone ever mentions that word..."
"Dinosaur statues?!" Bandora started to get furious, "I thought I had destroyed them all!"
"Why would you want to destroy statues?" the Doctor asked her.
"What does it matter to you!" she screamed, after which she raised her staff, from which she conjured up more magic. But then more people appeared. One of whom carried a staff of his own, with which he blocked Bandora's magic.
Bandora looked at who stopped her, then growled: "Barzaa..."
"We thank you for distracting her." the man, Barzaa, said, "Now, let us finish this."
With him was what appeared to be an army of soldiers, each of which appeared perfectly human. But for some reason, there were some faces among them that seemed vaguely familiar. But I didn't have much of a chance to find out why, as that was when the Doctor, Sattler, Huxley and Manhattan returned to the control room.
"Wha... I'll never get used to that." Crane said.
"Er... what's going on?" I asked.
"I just remembered." the Doctor answered, "It was said that Bandora was locked away for 170 million years. I never believed it because there weren't any humans back then. But now it seems there were, and if so, it means that her defeat is a fixed point in time, so we'd better not intervene."
"That wasn't exactly what I meant." I told him.
Before I could tell him what I did mean, or the Doctor could ask me about it, Huxley remembered something else: "But meanwhile, we still have our patient."
"Oh, that's right." the Doctor suddenly remembered it, "Why won't we go check on him?"
"Hah! Of course!" Crane seemed to go more crazy every second, "Exactly what I need, after seeing monsters, witches. A soldier that's being operated on!"
"You're such a big baby!" Sattler complained to him.
"Nobody tells you to come along." the Doctor told him.
"Well, if you're gonna stay..." I told him, "... why won't you guard this."
I gave him the jar with the butterfly, which he hesitantly took.
"You know what, I better stay with him." Sattler decided, "Make sure that he will."
"Good." the Doctor decided, "Jon, how's the Tardis?"
"It should be good to go." he said.
"Then go back to the tribune. And Huxley..." the Doctor turned to him, "Try and keep the audience busy."
Both went to do as they were told, while the Doctor went to see that soldier we picked up earlier. Not wanting to miss anything, I followed him. I wasn't exactly keen on meeting Lecter again, but since the Doctor was there, and Brown should still be there, it gave me a little more courage.