They all turned around to see a man in blue suit and tennis shoes, with hair that stuck up.
Mary was the first to speak. "Who the Hell are you?"
"I," The man began, starting to walk towards them, "Am the Doctor. And really, can we try not to swear in front of the kids?"
"Okay," Mary said, looking around and realizing there were a lot of small children there, '' Now that we have that covered, what the heck are you doing here?"
"Oh, I was just passing through, and I noticed some unusual radiation," The Doctor began, " I check it out, and, sure enough, not only is there a Gray scout ship flying around, the radiation from the fuel leak they had has reanimated several dinosaur corpses and put the flesh back on the bone!"
"Oh, please," Mary snorted, "That's the most ludicrous story I've heard all day. "
"And yet there it is," Marshall said, nodding back to the Ducky The Hadrosaur.
"Yeah," The Doctor said, "Actually why is he tied to a rein post, anyway?"
The whole group turned to Lulu Bell. As she walked up to the Doctor, they all seemed to part the way for her. "My name is Lulu Bell Atkins," She began, "And this is my daughter, Ice," the little girl looked out from behind her mother, and waved. The Doctor waved back and smiled at her. "And this is my son, Halbert." The baby cooed sweetly and smiled. "I found this thing on our land a few weeks ago, and we were going to try to sell it to someone when my husband came up to visit from his job."
"Are you telling me the only specimen of Hadrosaur in existence in you were going to sell it? " The Doctor asked in disbelief, "What kind of person does that?"
"It's not like we want to do it," Lulu Bell defended herself, "My husband only makes 500 dollars a year at his job as curator of Big Al's Roadside Museum Of Things That Get Big When You Put Them In Water, if we're lucky, we have four kids, the only job I can get is peddling sheep rugs up and down The Vendor's Stroll we're living off of grain portaged and root vegetables. We were going to use the money to just survive!"
"Well, I can hardly fault them for that," The Doctor thought to himself, and said out loud, "All right, I'll give you that. Now, the bigger question is, why are the Grays here?" Then he eyed Kasey in the crowd and knew exactly what she was. "Oh, no, not again," He groaned, "They promised they'd stop."
"Who promised they'd stop what?" Marshall asked.
"The Grays!" The Doctor shouted, slapping a hand on his forehead, "Six years ago they swore in front of the Shadow Proclamation that would cease with their experiments on unwilling humans subjects and stop artificially inseminating human females against their will but look here, an obviously human-Gray hybrid, poor lass. But why didn't they take her? They usually take hybrid children before they're even born."
Kasey curled in closer to Christine, looking scared. "Mommy..."
"Oh, sorry," The Doctor said, realizing what he had done, "I didn't mean to scare you. Look maybe it would be best if there weren't any little ears around for this conversation, if you know what I mean."
Lulu Bell lent down close to Ice and said, "Ice, sweetie, take Kasey inside and go play."
Without a word they two girl went inside the trailer. Christine was the first to speak. "I'm Kasey's mother."
"And just to clarify, Kasey's the little hybrid girl?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes," Christine replied, "I came up here to hide from them six years ago, and until yesterday it worked. "
The Doctor thought for a moment, then exclaimed, "Of course! It all makes perfect sense now!"
"What does?" Marshall asked.
"Everything's that going on here," The Doctor said, "Don't you see? Six years ago the Gray have to agree to stop human experimentation, it was that or go to war with all Shadow Proclamation allied planets-"
"Wait a second," Mary cut in, "Shadow what?"
"Shadow Proclamation," The Doctor answered, "Posh word for space police. Anyway, they're still slowly becoming infertile, that's why they started the experiments in the first place, so they need more hybrids, and by happy coincidence, the one that got away is still out there, so what do they do? "
No one said anything but they all looked engaged.
"They search for the one that got away until they find her!" The Doctor exclaimed, "And then they go get her, and the consequences to the planet be dammed! By the way, how did you escape? They should've already found you by now."
"They did," Christine responded, "Cat showed up and distracted them and we managed to get away."
"Cat?" The Doctor asked.
"That's me," Cat said, stepping forward, "Cat Borden, U.S. Marshall."
"Well, Cat Borden," The Doctor began, "You are a very capable young woman."
"Wait a minute," Mary interjected, "How do you know all this stuff?"
"Oh," The Doctor said, "I probably should've lead with this, um, I'm a alien."
"And I take it you don't mean from a foreign country," Marshal deuced.
"No," The Doctor confirmed, "I mean from a foreign planet."
Mary rolled her eyes.
"Mary," Cat murmured.
"Oh, come on," Mary said, exasperated, "Why should we believe this guy? "
"Maybe because he's the only guy who has any idea what's going on." Marshal pointed out.
"How do we knows he's just not crazy?" Mary argued.
Before the debate could go any further Christine screamed. They all turned and saw a creature about as tall as Cat, (Cat was rather petite) with gray skin, a large head, large back eyes, and a small silted mouth, wearing a one-piece blue uniform. "It's them!" Christine screamed, "They've found us!"
The alien opened it small mouth and began to speak. "Who speak for the humans?"
Everyone looked at each other for the answer. ''Let me do it," The Doctor urged, "I know what to say."
"Okay, Doctor," Cat said.
"Yes, Doctor," Christine consented.
"You've got my vote," Marshal added.
"Mine too," Lulu Bell agreed.
Then they all looked at Mary, their only hold out. "Alright," Mary gave in, "You can speak for us."
With that settled, the Doctor stepped forward. "I speak for them. Now you know that under the terms of the Earth Treaty you cannot be here, so what are you doing here?"
Mary mouthed the words "Earth Treaty?" to Cat. She mouthed the words "Just go with it" back.
"The hybrid child," The Gray said, neutrally, "We want to take it with us."
Christine looked like she could barely contain herself. Mary leaned in and hissed, "Hey! Keep it together. It's the only way you're going to get through this."
Cat put a hand on her shoulder, "Let the Doctor handle it."
While this was going on, the Doctor firmly told the Gray, "No."
"The hybrid child in question was conceived and most likely born before the treaty was made," The Grey augured, "Under it we were allowed to take it."
"First off, the child is not an it, the child is a her." The Doctor said.
"We could not know that," The Grey replied, "We were not there for the birth. And the gender of the hybrid child does not change the facts of the matter."
"Yeah, well what about her mother?" The Doctor snapped back, "I know on Graylick parental rights are quickly disappearing, here the mother still has a right to decide her child's fate."
"We created the hybrid child," The Grey said, "We have a right to her."
"You have no right!" Christine screamed, no longer able to take it, lunging forward, "I'm her mother! Me!" Marshall, Mary, Lulu Bell, and Cat tried to pull her back as she continued, "I've took care of her, I've protected her, I love her!" Christine breathed stopped fighting the arms that grabbed her, and tried to meet the Grey's eyes. "Please. Please, she's just a little girl."
The Grey paused a minute, then said, his voice border-line cold, "We mean the child no harm. But she is necessary for our survival. Surely you must understand that."
"Oh, come on," Mary said, "It's not like she's the only hybrid. From what I understand you made a bunch of other kids, and Christine here was the only smart enough to evade you freaks!"
"Yeah, thanks Mary, I don't think that's helping," The Doctor said, then to Grey, added, "But Inspector Shandon has a point. You have at least 200 hybrid in your care at the moment, maybe more. So why do you need one more?"
"We have not yet found a solution for our sterility," The Grey explained, " We need all the hybrid children we have sired."
"She's a child, not a lab rat," The Doctor said, "If you want the child you'll have to give us a better reason for handing her over."
"The humans of this planet haven't acknowledged intelligent life on other planets," The Grey said, "The child is an outcast here, and that is if she's fortunate."
"Oh, come one, the only one trying to put tubes in her is you," The Doctor argued, "I'm sorry, but you can't have her."
The Grey was silent for a minute, baffled by their resistance. "Then I will be back," He said at last, at least the Grey seemed like a he, "And next time I won't be alone." Then he turned around and walked off into the woods from wench he came.
Christine fell to her knees. "Oh, God, they're gonna take her! There's nothing we can do to stop it!"
The Doctor crouched down in front of her, gently cupped her face, and his hand, and said, "Christine, listen to me. They aren't going to take Kasey, we are not going to let them."
"But how?" Christine said, tears filling her eyes, ''How?"
"We'll find a way." The Doctor said, his voice almost a whisper. Just then a voice called from other side of the house, calling, "Lulu Bell! Lulu!"
"Back here, Bubba!" Lulu Bell called out.
They all turned towards the voice in time to see a sandy-haired man in faded overalls and a faded plaid shirt, with two children, a girl of about nine in a red dress with brown hair done back in pigtails, and a six-year-old boy with brown hair, wearing a blue and red long sleeve shirt and faded jeans, run to the back of the house. "What's going on? I was getting the kids from school to surprise them, and I saw this...this...thing rushing towards our house! And who are all these people?! What are they doing here?"
"The aliens came for Kasey," Lulu Bell said solemnly, if somewhat casually, "And apparently the radiation from their ship caused dinosaurs to come back to life. Don't ask me how, that's just what this guy told us." She gestured towards the Doctor with her head, and added, "That's the Doctor. He's an alien too, apparently, and he noticed something weird was going and popped in to see what was the matter, wound up in this mess. Those two over there," She gestured to Mary, Nora, and Marshal, "Are Cat's friends, Mary, Marshal, and their daughter, Nora."
"Oh, no," Marshal said quickly, "Nora's not our daughter."
"Just mine," Mary, "Well, obviously not just mine, I mean I wasn't adducted by, aliens, no offense. Mine and my ex, Mark's."
"Well, anyway," Lulu Bell said, "Cat called them in thinking that they could help. But so far all we've managed to do is make the aliens mad."
"How?" Bubba asked, concerned.
"We elected the Doctor as the group spokesperson," Marshal began quickly, "They wanted Kasey, the Doctor said no, Mary called the Grey a freak, the Gray went away saying when he came back he wouldn't be alone, and that's basically when you showed up."
"Oh," Bubba said, at a loss for words.
"Really?" Mary said in disbelief, "That's all you have to say? Oh?"
"Well, what else do you say to that?" Bubba retorted, "Except, maybe what's the plan now? Well, that and where's Kasey? "
"And Ice?" The girl added.
"And Halbert?" The boy added.
"They're all inside," Lulu Bell said, "We didn't want them to hear." Then turning her attention to her children, added, "You get inside too."
The two children ran inside.
"Blimey, how many kids do you have?" The Doctor asked.
"Just the four you saw," Lulu Bell answered, "The oldest Lavender is nine, Bubba Jr.'s six, Ice and five, and Halbert is five months."
"Okay, now that we got that covered I have a question," Mary said, turning the Doctor around to face her, "How did you know my last name? And how did you know I was an inspector? I never told you either of those things, and I'm pretty sure nobody else did."
The Doctor said nothing for a minute, thinking about how he should approach this. "There's a something I forgot to mention when I explained the whole alien, well, really I didn't think it was relevant, but I'm a time traveler."
"What?!" Mary said, not believing him, "What kind of excuse is that?!"
"It's not an excuse," The Doctor insisted, "I can really travel through time."
"Oh, and I suppose you've met me in the furtcure and that's why I don't know you," Mary mocked.
"No, actually it's because you've came up in history documents," The Doctor explained.
"Can please get back to the problem of the impending alien attack?" Marshal interjected.
"Right," The Doctor said, "What we need to do now, is try to figure out the Grays' weaknesses, something we can use against them. Christine, can you think of anything?"
"Well, why would I know anything?" Christine asked
"Yeah," Mary added, "Why would she know anything?"
"As we all know she was held captive by them for some period of time," The Doctor explained, "She could have noticed something, picked something up. I mean, she's been able to evade them this long somehow, right?"
Everyone turned to look at Christine. She thought a minute then said despondently, "I'm sorry, I don't know. I guess I got lucky, but now our luck's ran out."
Everyone was solemnly silent for a moment, desperately hopping a solution would fall out of the sky. Then Cat found one. "Doctor," She began, "That Earth Treaty, do you think you could get a hard copy of it?"
"I don't know how hard it will be," The Doctor said, "But I could go fetch one. Why?"
"Maybe I can find something," Cat explained, "A loophole, or a clause, that stops them from taking her."
"That might actually work," The Doctor realized, "Okay, everyone just stay here, I'll be back in a minute." Then he ran off down into the woods to where he parked the TARDIS.
"This is how we're gonna make the big scary aliens go away?" Mary said, part mockingly, part exasperated, "Throw a loophole at them?"
"Oh, and what's your plan, Mary?" Cat lashed back, almost defensively.
Mary said nothing else because she knew Cat had a point. No one else had a better plan.
"So what do we do now?" Marshal asked.
"Well, I guess, wait," Cat said.
Meanwhile, back at the TARDIS, the Doctor was fretfully waiting in front of a copy machine at in a room of the ship the never got used that much waiting for a copy of the Earth Treaty to come out. "Come on, come on, come on," He urged through gritted teeth, as the paper slowly crept out of the machine. "How hard is it to print out a two hundred page document?" If this was what waiting was like all the time, he was glad he was a time traveler.
At last the final page came out. "Ah!" The Doctor exclaimed in excitement and scoped up the treaty and ran out shouting, "I'll be back latter!"
The Doctor was running through the woods back to the house when he heard the first "Roar!" He turned around to see what made the noise, and when he saw it said, "Uh, oh."
About a mile away from was a T-Rex with reins on its mouth, companied by two-saucer-shaped ships, heading towards Lulu Bell's house.
"Oh my Lord," Lulu Bell said, when she saw the onslaught of aliens and domesticated ancient beasts that were charging towards her family's home. Mary and the other US Marshals pulled out their guns as she said, "Okay, every who doesn't have a weapon, in the house!"
Lulu Bell and Bubba ran into the house. Almost seconds afterwards they came storming back through the door, both armed with shot guns.
The three Marshalls turned around in surprise.
"What, you didn't think we were gonna leave you out here all by yourselves, did ya?" Lulu Bell said.
"You realize this probably isn't gonna end well?" Marshal asked, "I mean, we have guns, but they have alien weapons and a battle T-Rex."
"Well, I don't know about you," Christine said, stepping out of the front door with a rifle in her hands, " But I'm not going out without a fight."
Just then the Doctor came running up. "What are you doing?" He asked, somewhat disconcerted.
"You got a better idea?" Mary snapped.
"No," The Doctor admitted, " Not at the moment. I never thought I'd say this, but you got any more of those?" As the words left his month the Doctor could swear he heard the sound of Hell freezing over, and the beating of pig's wings.
"Sorry," Lulu Bell said, "No."
"Oh well," The Doctor said, pulling his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket, "This is more effective anyway." He directed the sonic screwdriver at the two alien ships then there was a whizzing noise and the ships crashed to the ground. The small army of humans turned around to look at the Doctor in surprise.
"The ship's safety features will make so the worst anyone will receive is a few broken bones," The Doctor explained, "But this does level the playing felid to a certain extent." If the Doctor was being completely honest he was outraged that the Grays would send out two fully equipped fighter ships as well as the most infamous Dinosaur in history that was only walking around because of radiation from their ships, against six humans who only had guns that wouldn't even dent the sides of said fighter ships. All over what, one child? Why did they want her so badly? Was it so wrong for Christine to have her daughter? Why couldn't the Grays entertain the idea that that they could be wrong?
Just then a line of ten Grays came out of the woods all armed with lasers. "Aim!" The Gray in the middle who wore a green uniform while all the others wore blue. He appeared to be the one in charge. All the Grays aimed orange colored lasers at the group of humans. They responded by aiming their guns at the Grays. "Fire!" The Grays fired upon the group, who fortunately were able to dogged the blasts, and managed to get off a couple rounds themselves.
The aliens lined up and tried again with the same result. Then they did it again, and this time two of them got shot. Then deciding that that definition of insanity was doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result, they started running around, shooting at the humans who shot back. Some of them even engaged members of the other side in hand to hand combat. Just then the T-Rex stormed through, raised its foot, and stomped it down on the house, smashing the building to seethereens.
"The kids!" Lulu Bell screamed.
Miraculously, the foot didn't crush any of the children, who scattered across the field. As they did so one of the Grays ran up behind a fleeing Kasey, and scooped her up, with Kasey fighting him, and screaming, "Mommy!"
"Kasey!" Christine cried out, running towards creature trying to carry off her daughter, tackling it with all the foracicity of a champion line backer. Then she started pounding on it with all the rage of an untilmate fighter. "Don't-you-dare-though her!" Christine screamed as she repeatedly punched the Gray she had pinned to the ground. The Doctor saw what was happening and knew he had to pull Christine off before she did something she couldn't take back. He over to her and picked her up ,her arms still failing. "Christine, calm down, calm down," He told her, but she just kept failing and screaming and cursing until the Doctor finally pulled her up and yelled at her harshly, 'Christine!" He was so loud and his voice was so intense, that the whole battlefield stopped and turned around, and stared at them. The Doctor and Christine stared directly at each other, with Christine breathing heavily. Then at last the Doctor said, much more calmly, "Christine, I don't blame you, if the roles were reverse I'd probably kill him too, but right now you need to calm down. Now, I have an idea that will only work while I have everyone's attestation, but I need you to take Kasey and get as far away from here as you possibly can. Do you understand?"
Instead of answering Christine scooped up Kasey and started running never looking back. When that was done the Doctor looked back at the group and addressing mainly the Grays, began, "I just have one question, just one. How dare you? How dare you, after everything you have done to this planet, waltz in here and try to destroy these people?! Over a helpless child! A helpless child that you are trying to rip away from the only planet, the only mother the only life she has ever known because of your mistakes! Actually, it turns out I have two questions. What gives you the right to tear this place apart and kidnap her? What gives you a right to set two battle ships, and an unstoppable carnivore on innocent people because they have the nerve to defend themselves?! What makes you think you have the right to do that?! I'll tell you what, it's arrogance! The sheer arrogance that condemned your race to having to stoop to this in the first place! But now I stay, no more! " The Doctor paused a moment, catching his breath and calming down, "Now, Grays, I implore you, fix your ship and leave before this gets any worst, and believe me, it will get worst."
Marshall heard what he thought was weeping and looked at the Gray standing next to him and saw there were tears in its eye. "Are you crying?" Marshall asked.
"No," The Grey denied.
At the same time, Cat, who was beside married also heard weeping and turned to Marry and saw tears in her eyes as well. "Are you crying?" Cat asked.
"No," Marry denied as well, wiping away tears.
The leader of the Grays stepped towards the Doctor and said, "You are right, Doctor. Our arrogance has destroyed us, and I will not let it destroy these people as well. We will leave as soon as we can get our ship off the ground. Please, find the female, Christine, and her child tell her we will never bother them again."
The Doctor, satisfied, and somewhat surprised that his speech had worked, smiled as he said, "Don't worry. I will."
As they Grays quietly walked away, the humans and the Doctor gathered together, and went off to find Christine and Kasey.
They found the Christine trying to hotwire a car in the parking lot of the local convince store. "Hey!" Mary shouted at her, banging on the passenger seat with the palm of her hand. Startled, Christine jumped in the seat and looked around then sighed in relief when she saw it was Mary.
"Good news," Lulu Bell said, putting her face near the glass as well, "The Grays are gone, and they're never coming back! They say they're gonna leave you alone, the both of you!"
Christine quickly scooted over to the passenger seat, rolled down the window and asked, "Are you serious?"
"Yes," Lulu Bell said happily, "You don't have to run anymore, you don't have to hide. It's over."
Christine got out of the car, got Kasey out of the back and holding her precious daughter in her arms, asked somewhat in disbelief, as if this news was too good to possibly be true, "How?"
"I can't believe I'm saying this but," Mary began," The Doctor quilted them into leaving."
Christine looked over at the Doctor with a mixture of astonishment and gratitude on her face. "Is that true?"
"Well, I didn't exactly guilt them into it," The Doctor said, semi-modestly, "More like I just made them see reason."
Christine put Kasey down and ran over to the Doctor, startling him with her intense hug. "Thank you," Christine said, tears of happiness, and relief pouring down her face, "Thank you so, so much!"
"My pleasure," The Doctor said, somewhat awkwardly, his windpipe being crushed, "You know what, I think that's enough now. Oh, look, there's Kasey, and he's looking very confused. Maybe you should go explain what's going on to her?"
"Right," Christine finally backing off the embrace and heading back towards Kasey. She knelt down in front of her so she was the same height as the little girl, and said, "Kasey, remember how Mommy said we were going to have to leave?"
"Because of the bad creatures," Kasey said.
"Well," Christine began, "Those bad creatures are gone now, and they're never coming back."
"Does that me we can stay?" Kasey asked innocently.
"Yes, it does," Christine said, but then she turned around, stood up, and added, "That is, if you still want us here after all the trouble we've caused you." It was directed at Lulu Bell and Bubba, who were now homeless.
"Of course we do," Lulu Bell said, "You didn't ask for this to happen. None of this was your fault. It was there."
Just then the Doctor cut in, "You know, I think I might have a solution to your housing problem."
They all turned to look at the Doctor. "How?"
The group made their way back to the battle sight and the stood gathered around the wreckage that had been the Atkins' family home, waiting for the Doctor to return from wherever he had went to after they had got back, telling them to stay there. Suddenly the Doctor came marching up the hill, holding a blue orb in his hand. He sat it in the middle of the wreckage and stepped back.
"How is that gonna help?" Mary asked skeptically.
"You'll see," The Doctor said, "Haven't I been right about everything so far?"
Mary just roll her eyes. Just then a light beamed out of the orb, and soon there was holographic image of the trailer. Then the whole group, even Mary, was awe-stricken as the hologram slowly began solid. Within seconds, the house was standing there, as real as anything.
"Now," The Doctor said, "I don't know if it duplicates furniture or not, so before you get too excited you might want to check that."
"Okay," Lulu Bell, still dumbstruck, said as she walked into the house.
"Wow," Mary said, also stunned, "Just wow."
"Yeah," Marshall said, "Wow pretty much sums it up."
"Thanks," The Doctor said, "Now, if you don't need anything else I must be on my way." And with that he turned around and walked away.
Silently they all watched the Doctor walked away into the sunset.