A/N: Okay. I didn't again. But I actually have reasonable excuses which are just so amazingly brilliant in being reasons that there just is not enough brilliance available in the world to put them here.

Okay, yes. Shoot me. Shoot me dead.

And concerning the chapter, this is just ridiculous. This is how you break Doctor Who canon, friends! :D

Chapter 11 – But That's Impossible!

The Doctor woke up, hit by the usual blinding headache, only this time it felt about ten times worse than usual.

He could barely open his eyes, and his whole body was aching. But the headache was so much he knew he'd have to find some form of painkiller in order to go back to sleep, so he forced open his eyes and consequently the early morning light hit him like a bullet to the brain. A tiny yelp escaped his mouth, and he shut them again instantly.

For ten minutes he laid there, progressively opening and closing his eyes until his pupils agreed to dilate accordingly. Through now squinted eyes the room around him was spinning and blurring and merging together in some kind of crazy drug trip, but eventually he managed to get a sense of the vague direction where he'd find his medical kit.

He dared to sit up, dragging his aching muscles; each one a cold, dead weight. The act of sitting up alone took all the breath out of him instantly. He squinted to see the trousers and his leg braces on the chair, three metres away, but without any function in his legs this was almost positively going to be an ordeal.

Deciding he wasn't going to be defeated, he moved his legs sideways with his hands and hung them over the edge of the bed. He then tried to lift his body with his hands flat on the bed, but ended up uncontrollably falling flat on his face on the floor with a comical thump.

After a significant amount of time, he managed to raise his head again and started shimmying himself with his elbows towards the medical kit. After three minutes of pure stubbornness, he finally got to the chair, and reached up blindly to his trousers, rummaging in the pockets until his hand clasped on the medical kit. He pulled it out, and after a few minutes of fumbling he'd sorted out the needle gun and fired a painkiller right into his temple.

With a contented sigh, he let his head drop whilst he just waited for the pain to recede. It was ten seconds before the painkiller kicked in and his head was blissfully released from its hell.

He laid there for a few more minutes, just breathing. With every breath, his brain was rushing. Thoughts of Rose flooded his head. He hoped she was on the way to the Lake District by now. Once they met up he could be sure her and her mother were both safe, and he could start trying to sort this whole mess out.

He sighed. "Rose..." he muttered, and finally sat up. He reached for his leg braces and fixed them on, before getting dressed and heading to the door, lumbering like an 80-year-old with a back problem.

He made it out into the corridor, and was met by Vanaj coming the other way. He stopped dead at the sight of the utterly bedraggled Time Lord.

"Are you all right?" he asked, seemingly genuinely concerned.

"Yeah... Just need some air," the Doctor replied, giving a half-smile.

Vanaj nodded, stepping aside to let him pass.

He emerged into the grounds, and instantly realised where he was. He was, as he'd suspected, in a University Hall's residence, but now he recognised it as Oxford University. He was in Oxford, and it was a very long way to their destination.

He dropped to sit down on the expanse of grass, and laid flat on his back, staring at the sky. He was just about to let the usual millions of thoughts rush through his head when suddenly the ground beneath him started to shake violently in a fully-fledged earthquake. He didn't have any time to even be stunned at that as suddenly he was bouncing around like a rubber ball with rumbling and booming all around him. He scrambled desperately for the nearby tree to get a grip on it and ride this strange phenomenon out.

Cars parked around were bouncing up and down at least half a metre in the air, and there was a loud cracking sound – the Doctor knew it instantly as the University itself began to come down, crumbling and shifting before walls began to fall to the ground like a tower of cards. He looked up in alarm – the others were still inside...

"Doctor!" a voice suddenly screamed, before another rip and crash signalled more of the university tumbling to the ground.

"I'm here!" he yelled back to whoever had called, but the shaking was getting even worse, and the booming was getting louder. His head was jerking so hard back and forth that he was almost afraid of his neck breaking.

The booming was getting louder, and suddenly a huge shadow cast over him like the sun had just been covered over. He very quickly realised it, in fact, had. And this wasn't an earthquake.

There was a creature, so incomprehensibly large that even the Doctor had to think for a while to come up with anything else in the entire universe that was bigger than it. As he kept being thrown about it was difficult to take a really good look, but he could tell the vague details. It had four legs, and if the Doctor had any inclination whatsoever to stand beside it, the top of his head probably wouldn't even reach the creature's knee. Its neck, holding its head, was so far up in the sky the Doctor could barely even see it. As it slowly moved towards him it was stepping on the nearby foliage; crushing the five metre tall trees with the ease of stepping on cornflakes.

It was a dinosaur, the Doctor was sure. A sauropod. Maybe even a Sauroposeidon, or at least an evolved form of one... But that was completely impossible.

He caught sight of the group of aliens running out of the University that was quickly decimating into a pile of rubble on the ground, as were all the other buildings he could see in range. He scrambled to his feet to join them, but was sent back down again when the creature stepped one last time towards him; now barely twenty metres away. It stopped, and it took around fifteen full seconds for the trembles to become manageable and the Doctor finally succeeded in getting upright.

But there was something else. Some sort of life-form was sitting atop of the dinosaur like a mount. The head moved to look around the dinosaur's gargantuan neck, and peered straight at him. In a vivid flashback the Doctor recognised what it was from a drawing he'd seen in a Gallifreyan school book at the Time Academy a thousand years ago.

It was a member of the Ingensias Colossus species, albeit, a slightly more evolved one. The long extinct race of giants that had lived on the planet Ingens, they were a much more peaceful and lot smaller sub-species of the Great Vampires – dragged into the universe along with their bloodthirsty world-destroying distant relatives supposedly when Rassilon and Omega had accidentally punch a hole through to the colossal species' realm. Their peaceful nature had not made them a target for the Time Lords in the war against the Great Vampires in the Dark Times and they had lived quite contentedly for many millions of years… Until there came to be so many Ingensias Colossus that their planet's food supply had not been able to sustain them, and they had wiped out around 300 million years ago prior to current Earth time.

Well, this was pretty impossible.

But there was no denying... seeing both these creatures together in such an unlikely place first-hand felt like a complete pleasure. Just a pretty impossible complete pleasure.

He thought about that, and quickly decided he was sick of many things happening recently being apparently impossible. He was just going to accept this. It was only an evolved Ingensias Colossus sitting atop a possible evolved domesticated sauropod dinosaur. It happened all the time.

"Doctor!" a voice screamed again, and it acted like the starting gun. He began to run back to the frankly terrified aliens, but then felt a sense of dread and impending doom wash over him in a profound biological warning. A second later, something scooped him up off the ground in mid run and he was lifted about fifty feet into the air.

This wasn't good. Not good at all.

Vanaj and the others could only watch, utterly helpless, as the Time Lord was swiftly plucked off of the ground like a scuttling insect. He was lifted so high into the air by the giant man, where for a moment it just stared at the tiny humanoid in its clutch.

"Vanaj!" G'uj yelped. "Do we shoot?!"

"I don't fulaking know!" Vanaj practically squeaked in return.

"YOU ARE THE TIME LORD?!" the Colossus roared. The Doctor flinched quite badly to the impact of the ejecting breath that came with the words, like he'd been caught in a temporary hurricane, but eventually managed to compose himself just enough to reply.

"That'll be me!" the certified Time Lord affirmed in a voice halfway between croaking and squeaking, the air completely blown out of lungs from the grip the Colossus had on him.

"OKAY!" it boomed, big blue eyes gazing down at him with an affirming smile on its face. "MY NAME IS NIGEL! IT'S VERY NICE TO MEET YOU!"

"Pleasure, Nigel! I'm the Doctor!" the Doctor squeaked out.

"I AM SORRY, AM I HOLDING YOU TOO HARD?!" Nigel asked suddenly, looking a little guilty.

"Just... Just a tad!" the Doctor gasped out, indicating with his finger and thumb close together.

"SORRY!" Nigel said sincerely, and relaxed his grip, a little too much as the Doctor slipped through like a wet bar of soap and was suddenly plummeting towards the ground.

"OOPS!" Nigel exclaimed, catching him with his other hand in mid-fall. "SORRY!"

The Doctor had just had the shock of his life as he'd nearly fallen fifty feet into the hard, unrelenting ground where certain death had been wholly imminent, but he tried not to let that disgruntle him, as Nigel was really quite nice and friendly and it had been a genuine mistake. "That's okay!" the Time Lord assured him.

"OH, YOU'RE SO REASONABLE AND LOVELY!" Nigel boomed happily. "I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO MEET THE OTHERS!"

The Doctor frowned. "Wait, others? Ahhh!" he yelped as Nigel and the dinosaur began to turn to go back. He strained his head around to try and find Vanaj and the others, knowing he had to get a message to them...

"VANAJ!" he screamed. "FIND ROSE! SHE CAN HELP YOU!"

"WHADDYA MEAN ROSE?!" Vanaj practically screamed as the giant turned, the earthquake returning and sending all the aliens to the ground. "DOCTOR! WHAT KIND OF ROSE?!"

"Can we shoot, yet?!" Kilo screamed over the booms of the walking dinosaur.

"Yes! Shoot it, shoot it!" Vanaj cried, but no one could get any kind of accurate, stable shot with their guns as the earthquake was sending them all over the place. By the time they could get their footing again the giants were far away in the distance, and had taken the Time Lord with them.

"Go after it!" Vanaj yelled, and the five began to run.

Rose had been watching the signs, and they'd revealed that they were somewhere in Oxford. Leo had gathered a group of about fifty humans and set off in cars towards the Lake District, and locked her and her mum into the back of a half mangled minibus with very little chance of escape.

She couldn't believe this. She was leading the humans straight to the Doctor – and with the way these humans treated their own, Rose dreaded to think what they would do to the Doctor if he refused to use the Switch for them.

It was all her fault.

Her mum was next to her, noticing her expression.

"Oh sweetheart," Jackie sighed, drawing her daughter into a hug. "Everything's gonna be okay. The Doctor'll sort it."

"Yeah..." Rose sighed. "I really miss him, Mum."

"I know."

"It... What was that?"

Jackie looked at her, seeing Rose staring at the floor of the van with wide eyes, her arms braced on nearby surfaces.

"What?" she asked, but the question was answered for her when suddenly the van seemed to jolt. And then more. And then even more. And then Jackie realised that it wasn't the van – it was the world outside too... "What the 'ell is goin' on?! It's a bloody earthquake!"

"No, Mum, look!" Rose yelped whilst struggling to stay upright, pointing out the window.

Jackie looked, and screamed.

"Oh my god! It's a bloody giant ridin' a bloody dinosaur!" she shrieked.

The driver had stopped the van and run out now, but they were still flying all over the place. Buildings were falling, the road was cracking, and people were screaming in terror at the giants they could see coming straight towards them.

They had to get out. Rose tried the door handle, but it was completely jammed.

"Come on!" she yelled to her mother, climbing awkwardly out the front to get out of the driver's door. She got onto solid ground, and was instantly apprehended by Leo, grabbing her around the neck and putting a gun to her head.

"Don't think you're fucking getting away from me!" he screamed over the sounds of chaos around them, spittle flying in her face.

"We need to get away from here!" Rose screamed back at him. "It's gonna kill us!"

Leo didn't even acknowledge that, dragging her along with his fingernails digging into the skin of her neck, off of the road and towards a forest.

Jackie was still trying get out of the minibus, struggling as the Earth itself around her moved. She was panicking to say the least, screaming to her daughter but not being heard. When she'd finally managed to get free, a building at the side of the road collapsed sideways and dropped right in front of her – blocking her off to her daughter.

"ROSE!" she screamed, tears running down her face. "ROSE!"

But she was gone.

A/N: Concerning the chapter upload rate, I'm personally on chapter 15 but I have to wait for the proofreader to get back to me with the earlier ones, so this is literally as fast as I can do it. Deal with it! :P