The whole group was standing outside the doors of one of the main hospital rooms, listening in on the conversation that was going on inside.
"When are we gonna bust a move?" asked Iggy, eager for some action.
"Soon." answered Bowtie. "Now hush, I'm waiting for something."
Iggy rolled his unseeing eyes and also listened.
"This just isn't possible!" said Jack as he scanned some of the people who had the gas masks. "How did this happen?"
"What kind of Chula ship landed here?" asked Mr. Spock.
"What?" asked Jack, spinning around to look at Mr. Spock.
"You said it was a warship." said Rose in an accusing voice.
Mr. Spock whipped his head around, surprised.
"He said he stole it." continued Rose to Mr. Spock. "Parked it somewhere out there. Somewhere a bomb's gonna fall on it unless we," she gestured to herself and Spock, "make him an offer."
"What kind of warship?" asked Spock, now turning to Jack who was pacing the ground in front of them.
"Does it matter?" answered Jack, clearly annoyed at their nosiness. "It's got nothing to do with this!" he gestured to the gas masked people.
"This started at the bomb site." said Spock, walking up to Jack. "It's got everything to do with it. What kind of warship?"
"An ambulance!" yelled Jack, throwing his arms in the air in surrender. "Look." he walked toward the Doctor, hitting a button on a device he was carrying around. It beeped to life and showed a three dimensional figure of the "warship" he had been talking about. "That's what you chased through the time vortex. It's space junk. I wanted to kid you it was valuable. It's empty. I made sure of it. Nothing but a shell."
"So he thinks." said Bowtie to himself with a smile.
"I threw it at you." continued Jack, turning off his device. "Saw your time travel vehicle - love the retro by the way. Nice panels."
"Aren't they?" asked Bowtie, bursting through the doors of the hospital room and interrupting the conversation. "She is a sexy thing."
"Oh… oh no. Oh, please… please don't tell me that that… that was what you were waiting for. Oh… no." said Sandshoes, also walking into the room.
"What?" asked Bowtie, "She is." he turned back to Spock and Jack but then quickly swiveled back to Sandshoes to add, "Oh, I need to tell you about this one time, when I was outside the universe, oh my god, the TARDIS was a woman. And, we talked to each other!"
"Oh ya." said Amy pushing through the doors, "You should've seen him. He was almost drooling on his shirt."
Bowtie turned to Amy, his mouth open in a giant O. "Hush you." he said
"I'm sorry." said Mr. Spock, "Who are you?"
"Why hello there, Spock!" said Bowtie, running up to him and shaking his hand. "So nice to finally meet you, well… I mean I have… but it was mostly when I looked in the mirror."
"I have no idea what you're talking about but as you can see, I'm busy."
"Of course you are." said Sandshoes also approaching him. "About to save the world from gas masked children asking for mummy."
"So you've seen him." shot Spock.
"Oh yes." answered Sandshoes.
"And to save you some time," said Bowtie, "We're gonna tell you what happens."
"Cause, you see, you were just about to find out that Jack here is, in fact, an ex-time agent who became a con man out of his hate for the agency."
"And that since he thought you were time agents…"
"Which your not…"
"Tried to con you into buying a piece of junk for a lot of money."
"And then there was gonna be a lot of running for your lives…"
"Which is still sure to happen…" pointed out Bowtie.
"Right. But you were still going to figure out that the ambulance was not empty."
"Yes it was." said Jack.
"No it wasn't." said Bowtie. "Now hush, we're still show-and-telling the future."
"The ambulance was full of nanogenes." said Sandshoes.
"Tiny robotic nurses of the air. Fix ya in a second."
"Like the ones you," Sandshoes gestured to Jack, "Have on your ship."
"How-" started Jack but was cut off.
"Hush." said Bowtie again. "Show-and-Tell."
"You were then," continued Sandshoes, "going to realize…"
"With dread, may I add..."
"That the nanogenes inside the pod had never seen an actual human before."
"Well, not a live one."
"So they brought back a young boy from the dead who turned out to have a lot of injuries and also a gas mask on and figured "Hey! This is what all humans look like!" and went on a mission to change all of humanity."
"For short…"
"The end of the world." Bowtie and Sandshoes finished together.
Spock was staring at them, not sure how to react.
"You think we messed up time?" asked Bowtie to Sandshoes. "Telling them what happens?"
"Nah. We saved time." answered Sandshoes.
"Right, we're goin' with the saving time excuse." informed Bowtie to Spock.
"What's he doin'?" asked Spock ignoring the comment and pointing over Bowtie's shoulder at one of the beds.
Carl was leaning over one of the gas mask people, his finger poised to touch their face.
"No, no, no, no, no!" yelled Bowtie running over to him, but it was too late. Carl had his whole hand over the mouthpiece of the mask, as if trying to pull it off, but he was frozen. Unable to move.
"Uh oh." said Spock backing away and glancing at Doctor Constantine who was still slumped, as if dead, in his chair.
The changes to Carl were immediate. With a lot of choking and coughing, the front part of the gas mask was slowly pushing it's way up his throat while at the same time, his eyes were turning pitch black and puffing out of his skull like tinted lenses.
Max covered her mouth in awe and disgust.
"I told you, I told you not to touch them!" said Bowtie. "I specifically told you all."
"Ya. I think they get that." said Sandshoes, also backing away from the young boy who now had the full mask on.
"There is no way this can get worse." said Total covering his eyes with his paws.
"No! Don't say that!" said Gazzy, "Those words are like a curse! They always make things worse!"
"Are you my mummy?" asked Carl, slowly approaching them, his arms out held like a zombie, "Mummy?"
"See!" said Gazzy. "Now you just made him more creepy!"
"Okay." said Total, "Now this can't get any worse."
"Stop it!" yelled Gazzy.
All of a sudden, all the people in the bed sat up and got out of bed.
"Total! Don't say another word!" yelled Gazzy over the loud murmurs of grown adults asking for their moms.
They had surround the large group of time travelers who were now backed up against the wall.
"May I suggest flight mode?" asked Iggy, sensing that they were in trouble.
"There's not enough room to spread our wings." said Max. "Besides, even if we could, what about these guys? We barely flew them over the gate. What makes you think we can fly them outta here?"
"So we're just gonna die?" asked Fang.
"We'll see." said Max with the slight tilt of her head.
"You know," said Bowtie. "There's a powerful word. A word that can give you the courage to do anything and also increases your survival rate my fifty percent."
"Oh ya? And what word is that?" asked Amanda.
"Geronimo."