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Boom Town: Part 2
Eventually the Doctor had finished all his repairs on the TARDIS, and opened up the engines in order to make sure that the radiation should fill up the TARDIS. Which meant, the Doctor said, that we could have fun looking around Cardiff. I had never been to Cardiff before, except in 1869, which I didn't really think counted seeing as most of the time it was spent looking at the inside of an undertakers, but I was up for looking around the city, because realistically there had already been trouble in Cardiff once before, and you know what they said. Lightning never struck twice. And besides, anything that kept us entertained until the TARDIS had refuelled herself was a very good thing. It might not have quite rivalled the beauty of Woman Wept or San Kaloon, but Cardiff Bay did look very pretty as we walked out into the rather chilly cold. October weather.
"Right then," the Doctor shut the door of the TARDIS behind him as we all gathered outside, dressed in gloves, mittens, scarves, jumpers, coats, and in my case, a woolly hat. My ears tended to get very sensitive when it was cold, so I wore the blue woolly hat that I had found in the wardrobe. I liked it, and didn't particularly care whether it looked funny or not, "The TARDIS should take another twenty four hours until we can fly off to distant lands and sunsets long forgotten. Which therefore gives us time to kill. Shore leave if you like,"
"That old woman's staring at us," Jack noticed, motioning towards an old lady that was watching us with a slightly confused expression on her face. He nudged me with his elbow, grinning, "I bet she's probably wondering what five people could possibly be doing inside a small wooden box," I smirked at him, before waving obviously at the woman who straightened up, and bustled off, "You're always ruining my fun, Miss Mary," he complained, and I laughed, taking the Doctor's hand, already ready to wander off.
"What are you a captain of?" Mickey asked Jack, "The Innuendo Squad?" I stifled a laugh in the Doctor's shoulder when Jack merely gave Mickey the whatever sign with his hands, before turning to walk off, "But...hold on!" All four of us sighed before turning back to Mickey, who was still standing right by the TARDIS doors, "What about the TARDIS, how can you just leave it in the middle of Cardiff Bay? I mean, doesn't it get noticed or anything by people? And you haven't exactly locked it or anything,"
"What is with the whole police box thing anyway?" Jack said, leaning against the side of it, "Why does it look like that? Not that I don't like it or anything but it is rather an eccentric thing to have in the middle of a city,"
"It's a clocking device, a chameleon circuit," the Doctor explained, "The TARDIS was meant to disguise itself wherever it lands, like if we were in Ancient Rome then it'd be a statue on a plinth, but I landed in the nineteen sixties, it disguised itself as a police box and the circuit got stuck," he rapped the side of the TARDIS amicably, "They used to have these things on police corners. For the police to phone for help before they had radios and mobiles. If they arrested anyone then they could shove them in here, until they could get help. Like a little prison cell," he smiled at us, "Never bothered to repair it, liked it too much,"
"I love it," I added.
Mickey let out a laugh, "But that's just it," he pointed out, "There aren't any police phone boxes anymore, so doesn't it get noticed by everyone that walks past it? I mean I noticed it easy enough when I got here. How come you don't have people banging on your door all the time? Like the actual police wondering why a 1960s police box is cluttering up the view?"
The Doctor sighed, placing his hands on the man's shoulder, "Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race," he said patiently, using his patronising tone on him, "You put a mysterious blue box slap bang in the middle of town, what do they do?" we all paused for his answer and he grinned, "Walk past it. Now, stop your nagging. Let's go and explore," he grasped my hand, as we walked towards what looked like a row of shops and restaurants, "So Cardiff, early twenty first century and the wind's coming from the east. Trust me," he looked down at me, "It's safest place in the universe,"
"Oh do you have to say that?" I inquired, "That's almost as bad as saying, nothing could ever go wrong," I shrugged, feeling the sea air hit my face, "Anyway, I agree with you, what could possibly happen here? Cardiff already had all those problems with the Gelth, I doubt that there'll be any such adventure here, unless you count finding some money in those pockets of yours," he patted them, and there was no answering jangle of coins. I grinned at his predictably result, "Ahh never mind, I think I have got some change on me," I dug through my pockets, "Three quid...oh for the life of commerce," we both burst into laughter, and I looked behind me, "Hurry up, you three, we'll never get anywhere if you keep being that slow,"
"I am not slow," Jack quickly caught up with us, "Although Mickey Mouse and Rose over there are as slow as snails. Probably cultivating that lovebird atmosphere between them again, although I have no idea why she's choosing him over me," I rolled my eyes at his complaining, "What?" Jack gestured outwards, "I'm a fifty first century guy, all your twenty first century rules are so amusing to see,"
"I'm starting to think, Jack, that you're only ever going to be happy with yourself," I told him sweetly, "If it wouldn't cause the end of the world or a paradox then we could go meet yourself," Jack opened his mouth to retort something at me and then closed it, clearly thinking about what I was just saying, "Told you," I continued, "Only person you're going to be happy with,"
"Hey, I resent that," he said to me, "Miss Mary, you could always take me up on that offer of a drink," the Doctor turned to give him a look, and Jack raised his hands in defeat, "You two are no fun. You're almost as bad at those two back there," he pointed behind us, "Lovebirds, dancing together. Ever since I joined the gang, I haven't slept with a single person, you know that? Not a single one,"
I frowned at that, "You slept with the Princess of Califrax Major," I reminded him, "We had to rescue you because the guards were going to arrest you, and execute you. The Doctor had to promise them that you would never return to the planet in case you tried it again," Jack didn't seem to hear that, "Am I talking to a brick wall?" I asked the Doctor who nodded. I shivered slightly, rubbing my arms again, "How about we try to find a cafe or something to eat in. Somewhere warm perhaps. Where we aren't going to freeze our arms and legs off,"
"There should be a cafe around here," he said to me, "Although you look like a miniature snowman so I doubt that you're going to freeze anytime soon," Did he just suggest that I was short, and fat? Or simply just wearing too many clothes, "Well it's a little different to what you were wearing in 1941,"
"I was dressing for Rome," I argued back, "I didn't think that we were going to be in an air raid in the middle of the night in the middle of 1941," an old man passed us, giving us all strange looks, "I really shouldn't talk to loud, I'm scaring the locals with my nonsensical madness," he laughed a little, his face lighting up. I watched him carefully. He had changed so much since I had met him all that time ago, it was like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulder and he like living life. And I would do anything to make sure that weight on his shoulders would stay off, even if I had to stay with him for the rest of my life.
We finally reached the cafe, finding a table large enough to fit all of us in, "So who are you?" Mickey asked Jack, "How did you end up travelling with this lot?"
"1941," Rose answered him, saving Jack from having to answer Mickey, "We were in the middle of an air raid, almost getting turned into these gas mask creatures, and almost getting blown up by the bombs, and he comes swooping in with his spaceship just in the nick of time. Saved us all," that was certainly the nicest way of saying what had happened, "Jack's from the fifty first century, and he was part of this Time Agency, but ended up in the twentieth," she kicked Jack from under the table, "So you were going to finish telling us about that mammoth, Jack," she pressed him.
And so for the next half an hour, Jack regaled us with even more stories about the Time Agency, with the Doctor and I inputted our teasing remarks in between sentences. Even Mickey looked like he was having a fun time, "I swear..." Jack promised us, "Sixty foot tall, and with tusks, it turns out that the white things were tusks!" all of us were laughing at his description, "I mean, tusks, and it is not happy. And we are standing there, all fifteen of us, naked, and I'm like, it nothing to do with me," Rose dissolved into giggles at that point, "And then it roars, and we are running, oh my God, we are running. And Brakovitch falls, and I turn back, and I say..."
"I knew we should have turned left!" Mickey finished, guessing the punchline, and we all dissolved into laughter once again. I had my face in my hands, laughing at the story. With Jack, there really never was a serious moment amongst us.
"I didn't get my clothes back," Jack carried on, "I just picked him up, and ran back to the ship, full throttle, kept going until I hit the space lanes," the Doctor stood up, walking over to another man, and taking his newspaper, "Kept going till I hit the space lanes, and then I was shaking. Didn't hit me until I was fifteen light years away..." I watched the Doctor leaf through the newspaper, a grim look on his face.
The others conversation just faded around me, as he looked up at us. I tapped Jack on the shoulder and we all turned to look at the Doctor, "And I was having such a nice day," he said to us, holding up the front page that showed a picture of that female Slitheen, that had tried to kill all of us, all those months ago. I frowned at the title, 'New Mayor, New Cardiff' and I slumped back in my seat. So maybe there were some serious moment.
"But that's the woman," Rose said, taking the paper off him and opening it up, "That's the Slitheen in Downing Street," he scanned through the article and I looked at the Doctor who was watching the seaside with a grim look on his face, "What the hell is she doing in Cardiff, I thought that she got blown up with the rest of the Slitheen when Mickey sent that missile to them,"
Jack looked merely confused, so I decided to take pity on him, "Couple of months ago, the last time Rose and I came back home," I told him, "There was this family, the Slitheen, and they sort of wanted to take over the world, rip it apart and use it as fuel for every space ship," he nodded, "They managed to crash land a spaceship in the middle of the Thames, smashing Big Ben as they did it, and declared a Code Red on the entire planet. We got taken to Downing Street where we got Mickey to send a missile to us, blowing up the Prime Minister's House. All in all, a good day's work, by our standards,"
"Says here, that they're building a nuclear power station," Rose looked up at us, "Margaret Blaine, that the Slitheen, she's building a nuclear power station in the middle of Cardiff as a monument to Welsh industry," she turned to the Doctor, "Do you think that she means it?"
"She tried to kill us, I'm not in a particularly forgiving mood when people try to kill me," he said, thrusting his hands deep into his pockets, "So I think we need to have a talk with Margaret Blaine and find out exactly what she is doing in the middle of Cardiff of all places," he walked already walking towards the exit, "Come on,"
I quickly fell in line with him, "So you think that she's trying to take over Cardiff or something?" I asked him and he shrugged, clearly unable to answer, "You think she knows that we're here? Or that we were gonna be here?"
"Nah, I think that she's here for something though," he admitted, as we walked quickly towards the town hall, "It's just a question of what she wants, but we're going to stop her anyway. She still did try to kill us in Downing Street, remember," I grimaced, remembering what had happened at what seemed like years ago. I also remembered the Slitheen's huge talons and how I didn't want them near me any time soon, "We'll just have a nice little talk with her,"
Eventually we reached the town hall, and I looked around the interior, "All right," Jack opened his wrist strap, "According to intelligence, namely Miss Mary, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius," I still loved that name, "And she is masquerading as a human zipped inside a skin suit. Ok," he clapped his hands, "Plan of attack, we assume a basic fifty seven/fifty six strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor, you go face to face, so let's designate that as Exit One. I'll cover Exit Two, Rose, Exit Three, Mickey Smith, Exit Four and Miss Mary, Exit Five. Have you got that?"
"Excuse me?" we all turned to the Doctor who was glaring at Jack, "Who's in charge?" the fifty first century man merely sighed, placing his hands behind his back like he was waiting for orders, "Thank you," the Doctor looked forward, "Right, here's the plan," he grinned, "Like he said," nodding at Jack, "Nice plan, any more ideas?"
Jack sighed, grinning, "Present arms," we all took out our mobiles, "Speed dial," he grinned at all of us, "Right then, let's go. See you in hell," I mocked saluted at him before walking down my own exit, placing my phone to my ear.
"Slitheen heading north," the Doctor suddenly said, and I looked around before running towards the Exit I was supposed to be on. Only trouble was I didn't exactly know where Exit Five was. That was a rather big problem.
I however ran smack bang into someone, and fell back. I looked up at Jack, frowning slightly, "Jack?" I asked him, and he helped me up, "Where on Earth did you get the coat from?" and he was wearing a coat that I hadn't seen him wearing just five minutes earlier, "I mean I know that you like dressing up, but we're trying to catch a Slitheen and now isn't the right time to find a random coat that is from the nineteen forties. I thought that you left that all behind,"
"Oh, I've missed you too, Mary-Anne," he told me, placing his hands on his waist, "Exit Five, right?" I nodded, "Go down that corridor, turn right and you should be going the right way," he patted me on the back, walking the other way, "Don't wait up for me," I turned around, looking at him, "What is it, Miss Mary?"
I opened my mouth, looking at him. Something wasn't quite right about him, but I merely shook my head, "Nice coat, Jack," I walked backwards, "Anyway, see you in hell, remember," he nodded, and I ran down the corridor the way he told me to and burst through the doors, right in front of Jack, Rose and the Doctor. I stared at Jack, he had been going the other way! "Lost the coat then?" he stared at me, "What the hell was that back there then?"
"Don't know what you're talking about, Miss Mary," he replied and I blinked. How could he have just not know what I was talking about, he had just been wearing a huge blue coat, "How did you manage to get through those doors,"
"You just told me," I said slowly, "Not five minutes ago, you said that I had to go down a corridor, turn right and through the doors," he just looked at me as if I were mad, "Nevermind, talk about it later when we're not trying to find a Slitheen," I looked around, seeing Margaret Blaine running away from us, "Err...who was on Exit Four again?"
"That would be Ricky," the Doctor said and the man in question ran up behind us, "Mickey the Idiot," the woman suddenly disappeared from the small alleyway, "Oh teleports, I love teleports," he held up the sonic screwdriver, buzzing it. Margaret appeared in front of us, startled, turned around and ran back the way that she came, disappearing as she did so. Again, he buzzed the sonic and she appeared right in front of us, "I could do this all day," he boasted easily to us.
"I couldn't," she snarled, "This is persecution. Oh, why can't you just leave me alone, whatever did I do to any of you?"
"You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet," the Doctor said as if it were obvious.
"Apart from that?" she argued.
I thought about it, "You did destroy a clock that's been here for nearly one hundred and fifty years, and is practically one of Britain's famous landmarks," I said, and she glared at me, "Don't look at me like that, you asked,"
So another chapter over, and so we find ourselves reaching the end. As for the last bit. Always wondered what happened to the other Jack in Cardiff, because if I'd been waiting over a hundred years to find someone, I'd go and have a look, even if it wasn't the right Doctor. That and I wanted to have a bit of fun.
See you soon.
