Again, the general premise for this and the next couple of chapters go to Seafoam Tainted Memoirs.
So, are you wondering about the "public shaming?" :) Ok, so it's a bit childish, but kind of hilarious too. I'm such a child sometimes. I giggled while writing this!
Does anyone ever read the disclaimers? I don't own this, so don't sue. Thanks!
CHAPTER 29
The second day did not go as well as the first for some in the game. "Don" (aka Tentoo), bleary eyed and not completely awake, got impatient for his toast to get done and sonicked the toaster like he used to every day in Pete's world. Immediately, there was a loud POOF and the Doctor's blue suit morphed into a yellow chicken suit! Rose, of course, picked that moment to come into the kitchen for her morning tea, saw what he was wearing, and started laughing so hard that she dropped her mug.
"Public shaming, I'm guessing?" Rose inquired after she was able to breathe again. "Alright, what did you do?"
"I forgot and sonicked the toaster." His face looked so pathetic because of his embarrassment that it made the hilarious situation even more so.
Rose started laughing again. Her sides hurt and tears were forming. "I'm sorry, but you look ridiculous. I'm guessing you can't change out of that?"
He tried the zipper. "Nope."
"Would you like me to call the Dean and tell him you're unwell and you need to cancel your classes for the day?" she was still giggling.
"Please."
"Don" wasn't the only one to endure the TARDIS's idea of public shaming. "David" (aka Ten), had stayed up all night working on lesson plans and other scientific theories just for fun. He ran out of paper and started writing on the walls. When Rose found him the next morning, he'd lost his head - literally. His head sat on the table while the rest of him wandered around without direction. Rose had to help his body to a chair while she called her "husband" off work due to a massive "headache". She could hardly contain her mirth.
"You're enjoying this a bit too much!" the head scowled at her.
"Well, you'll fix this some how. You've got a good head on your shoulders... oh wait. Well, maybe you'd better quit while you're still a head!" Rose teased him, tongue between her teeth, eyes dancing. The scowl deepened. He was not amused! She picked up the head off the table and kissed his cheek. "Oh, come on, like you wouldn't be laughing at me if our roles were reversed!" He admitted that he probably would, though her puns were horrible!
Jack had overslept and without thinking, used his vortex manipulator to go back in time one hour. His clothes immediately turned into a pink leotard, tights, and tutu. The scary thing was, he seemed to like it! He went to work that way that night and did pirouettes on top of the bar for extra tips. The TARDIS needed to come up with a better way to shame him. River was not amused and decided to disown him.
"Matt" (aka Eleven), true to the name of the punishment, was shamed in public. Frustrated that no one believed that he knew what he was talking about at the museum, he whipped out the psychic paper to prove his credentials. And his trousers disappeared. He was left standing in his banana covered boxers. Several people whistled at him or made cat calls as he ran home, red faced, where Rose had a few good laughs at his expense. He was not amused in the least.
"You actually wear banana boxers?!" she howled. "Let me guess, you have another pair with bow ties, and another with fish sticks and custard?"
"Maybe some... And also some with fezzes and TARDISs," he whispered, his face so red it was almost purple. "Might as well get it out in the open." Rose laughed even harder!
By the end of the day, hardly anyone had been spared. "Chris" (aka Nine), ended up in a dress after he sonicked the coffee machine at the garage, much to Mickey's amusement. When he got home, Rose remarked that he had fantastic legs! Like his future selves, he was not amused. Mickey couldn't stop laughing after he drove "Chris" home, accidentally drove the car through the garage door, and ended up with arms for legs and legs for arms because the TARDIS considered that to be vandalism. Martha heard the commotion outside and used her mobile to call for help. She turned into a man. "Peter" (aka Twelve) sonicked a lock at the school, and his hair turned bright, fire engine red. ("Well, you did always want to be ginger!" Rose teased. He scowled.) River got bored, shot a hole in the wall and was suddenly unable to stop belting show tunes until the children came home from school. She was hoarse after that. Danny used his pen that he forgot was also a usb drive to sign some forms and ended up in a gorilla suit. Amy wanted to write some more of her latest book, attempted to transfer the file from her laptop to an old floppy disk for the first generation IBM computer the TARDIS had provided, but before she could finish, she turned into a snowman. Rory, ever helpful, finished transferring the file for her, but not before turning into a woman. Donna took a peek at her Kindle with the intention of driving to the library to check out the book she was in the middle of, and was unable to speak for the rest of the day. (Shaun could have kissed the TARDIS). "And the bloody book hasn't even been published yet!" Donna scribbled in a frantic note to her husband when he came home. Clara was tempted by her iPod, and her ears grew to ten times their normal size. Shaun, out of habit, whipped out his iPad in the privacy of his office in order to look something up, and his skin turned as green as the incredible hulk. The TARDIS was starting to run out of embarrassing ideas but was having great fun carrying them out.
By the end of the day, no one was arrested, and only Rose in her multiple forms had been spared from the public shaming. They had had a few good laughs at the expense of the others, but somehow were not tempted by the technology nor vandalizing their home. They adapted very nicely to the older era and continued to be model wives and mothers. The Doctor noticed.
