Author's Note: We don't own, err, anything really, except the clothes on
our backs. We most certainly don't own Doctor Who or Sailor Moon or
anything great like that. So don't sue us. We really like these shirts.
TimeAsunderQ: Wow! Two chapters in one week! We're getting good!
Alcandre: Yes, yes, we also wanted yall to know that though our chapter titles are silly, the contents are not. This story is different in that it's more serious than our last one.
TimeAsunderQ: But funny in parts too, let's not forget!
Chapter 4: Running away from Skanks who want Guitars
The Doctor had left the console room taking long determined strides. Peri only heard him go as she was glued to the scanner screen, hoping for some sign of life. After mere moments, the Time Lord returned with a strange device.
"What---"
"This is a time and dimensional stabilizer Peri. I think that the disturbance outside has caught our friends. Perhaps I can help them find their way out." All of this was said without looking up. On his way out of the TARDIS he locked eyes with her and commented "Keep a lookout for me," and smiled wistfully.
Sailor Mercury twisted in the darkness, "looking" around herself. With such an oppressive darkness, little was to be gained from struggling. The only thing she could feel was the computer in her hands. She could hear strange sounds, very low frequencies coming from the minicomputer. 'Hmmmm... that's strange... perhaps this "disturbance" is altering my computer?' she thought. But each time Mercury tried to pick up her computer to see it in front of her, she could not get her arms to move. The computer was stubbornly out of reach. 'Damn!' she thought.
Sailor Jupiter was taking gasping breaths, kicking out at all angles and trying to flail her arms. Unfortunately, she could not seem to get moving, stuck in place by an enormous weight all around her. The air itself was solid and hard to breathe. She paused in her fighting, contemplating what exactly was going on. After all, to defeat an enemy, one had to understand it first. But instead of an enemy, all she could find was darkness, swallowing her, painfully, little at a time. 'Time?' she thought.
Sailor Venus was more troubled by her lack of communication with her fellow scouts, rather then concerned for her own safety. Try as she might, she could not find them, and all her cries to Sailor Moon had gone unanswered. Nothing moved around her, and she was frozen in spot. She thought she was flat on the ground, but she couldn't feel the coldness against her back. 'What's happening? Where are we?' As she took more and more breaths, the darkness grew thicker, more dense, more.. angry. It shifted around her, and though Sailor Venus could not feel it, she knew it was coming for her. With a distinct ripping sound, she felt it tear away from her, no longer sitting on her, but striking at her. Biting her lip, she moved to lash out. "OW!" she screamed.
And that's exactly what the Doctor heard, echoing through the void. As soon as he entered the same dimensional plane with them, he heard all the noises of struggle and frustration. Crying and movement and a single voice "OW!" ricocheted past him.
"SAILOR MOON!?!" he cried, trying to get her to move, to turn towards him. He couldn't risk entrapment in the same distortional bubbles. There was no sign from the blond girl. Only more sobs of frustration. Their distress tearing at his hearts, he quickly set up the time and dimensional stabilizer, pointing it at the closest Senshi. That lucky girl happened to be Sailor Mercury. Carefully aiming on a wide spread over that area, he fired, engulfing the air around her. As moments ticked by, it was as though the air simply melted away from her. Suddenly, she sat up with a gasp, her eyes blinking rapidly as they re-adjusted to light. The first thing she did was grab her computer and hug it to her, its high-pitched beeps coming as a comfort. The Doctor raced over and gently grabbed her arms, checking her pupils quickly. 'No damage' he thought. 'Thank goodness I was in time.' Then, a second later: 'for the first one.' a darker side of his mind added in.
Immediately, he turned to Jupiter, re-aiming the device. After she was "thawed," he aimed at Sailor Venus, then Moon, then Mars all in turn. Each one reacted differently to coming back into real-time. As soon as he was done with all five he approached Sailor Jupiter.
She had emerged from the darkness fighting. As soon as the air released her and normal time was restored, she was on her feet, lashing this way and that. The Doctor looked her over and quickly moved on to Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon, who had both joined as soon as they were able. Both were a bit disoriented, and Sailor Moon had tear-tracks on her face.
"It.. it was horrible.... What was it? It was sitting on me.... I ---"
The Doctor looked weary, but relieved. "*That,* young lady, was a temporal distortion, set up as a trap for us."
Sailor Venus had to ask, "So where is that Time Lord we were out to save?"
He grunted and answered darkly "Nowhere. There never was a Time Lord down. It was all an elaborate trap, that would have destroyed myself, Peri, and my TARDIS had you not distracted it from us."
Lower lip trembling, but with a set jaw, Sailor Moon stepped forward and looked him in the eyes. "Could it have killed us?"
Not wavering a moment, he answered. "Yes. Yes, it would have."
Then without hesitation, the Doctor went to check on Mars, who was hanging back from the rest of the group (who was reforming in front of the TARDIS doors). She was sullen, arms crossed, anxiously looking out into the darkness that still surrounded them. 'At least I can breathe now...'
As the Doctor stepped up to inspect Sailor Mars, she turned away from him, avoiding his questioning eyes. When he opened his mouth to speak, she just said once, "No." Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw movement.
"SAILOR MOON!"
The Senshi froze in place, a strange tingle running down their spines. Immediately they turned to the darkness, backs against the TARDIS again.
"That sounded like...."
"It is!" Mars interrupted, pointing.
From the darkness emerged a purple clad Scout bearing a staff. She walked regally towards Sailor Moon. Stopping a few feet short of the staring group, she glanced around. Nodding to Sailor Moon, she introduced herself (for the Doctor's sake).
"Greetings Doctor. I am Sailor Pluto, the Keeper of Time." One side of her mouth quirked up in a smirk. She knew just what he thought of himself and *his* relation to time.
"Ah, yes.... I thought as much. Sailor Mars was kind enough to inform me of your existence. That explains a lot about a few of my... coincidences, shall we say?" He smiled at her, not at all flustered.
Sailor Moon leapt forward. "Sailor Pluto!!! Welcome back!!!" She paused. "Why are you here?"
She held up her hand, pointing her staff towards the blue box. "Let us go inside the TARDIS. There is much to talk about. If that is alright with you Doctor...?"
"Oh yes, fine fine. The more the merrier." He made motions as if herding the girls back inside like children. Obediently they entered.
Right as they entered the TARDIS Peri ran up to the Senshi, her arms opened as if to hug one of them. And the lucky one to be hugged was Sailor Moon.
Peri's arms went around her and a loud gasp erupted from the blonde's mouth. "Ow, my ribs! My chest! My.. body!!!"
"You're hurt!!!!" Peri quickly let go of the scout and looked her over for the first time. Sailor Moon's lip was bleeding, she had a bruise on her cheek, and her arms were cut with blood running down to her gloves, staining them red.
And looking at the other scouts, Peri saw that they were injured as well. Mars had a slashed throat and cut legs, Jupiter had a black eye and brusies all down her arms, Venus had a bloody nose with a few cuts on her face and a slash on her stomach starting to bleed through her sailor suit, and Mercury was cradling her left arm as if it were broken.
"My goodness, why didn't you say so in the first place?" the Doctor asked.
There was a moment of silence as the Senshi looked at one another and the silence was interrupted when Sailor Moon gasped.
"I knew I was hurting but I didn't know it was this bad." She paused and touched her lip with her finger. "But we didn't fight with anything solid. Something just sat on me and wouldn't let me move."
The others nodded and Peri frowned. "Well, however it happened you all need something for those injuries."
"Come," the Doctor said, motioning them forward. "Let's go to the sickbay and there we can...... discuss what has happened,"
"And what will happen," Pluto finished for him.
To be Continued....
Author's Notes:
Peri: Well, that was quite a chapter! I would say we have obese... Wait..
Ami: Well, that's a Freudian slip!!!
Doctor: What are you saying???
Peri: I'm calling you fat!
Doctor: ::gasps and runs off sobbing::
TimeAsunderQ: Wow! Two chapters in one week! We're getting good!
Alcandre: Yes, yes, we also wanted yall to know that though our chapter titles are silly, the contents are not. This story is different in that it's more serious than our last one.
TimeAsunderQ: But funny in parts too, let's not forget!
Chapter 4: Running away from Skanks who want Guitars
The Doctor had left the console room taking long determined strides. Peri only heard him go as she was glued to the scanner screen, hoping for some sign of life. After mere moments, the Time Lord returned with a strange device.
"What---"
"This is a time and dimensional stabilizer Peri. I think that the disturbance outside has caught our friends. Perhaps I can help them find their way out." All of this was said without looking up. On his way out of the TARDIS he locked eyes with her and commented "Keep a lookout for me," and smiled wistfully.
Sailor Mercury twisted in the darkness, "looking" around herself. With such an oppressive darkness, little was to be gained from struggling. The only thing she could feel was the computer in her hands. She could hear strange sounds, very low frequencies coming from the minicomputer. 'Hmmmm... that's strange... perhaps this "disturbance" is altering my computer?' she thought. But each time Mercury tried to pick up her computer to see it in front of her, she could not get her arms to move. The computer was stubbornly out of reach. 'Damn!' she thought.
Sailor Jupiter was taking gasping breaths, kicking out at all angles and trying to flail her arms. Unfortunately, she could not seem to get moving, stuck in place by an enormous weight all around her. The air itself was solid and hard to breathe. She paused in her fighting, contemplating what exactly was going on. After all, to defeat an enemy, one had to understand it first. But instead of an enemy, all she could find was darkness, swallowing her, painfully, little at a time. 'Time?' she thought.
Sailor Venus was more troubled by her lack of communication with her fellow scouts, rather then concerned for her own safety. Try as she might, she could not find them, and all her cries to Sailor Moon had gone unanswered. Nothing moved around her, and she was frozen in spot. She thought she was flat on the ground, but she couldn't feel the coldness against her back. 'What's happening? Where are we?' As she took more and more breaths, the darkness grew thicker, more dense, more.. angry. It shifted around her, and though Sailor Venus could not feel it, she knew it was coming for her. With a distinct ripping sound, she felt it tear away from her, no longer sitting on her, but striking at her. Biting her lip, she moved to lash out. "OW!" she screamed.
And that's exactly what the Doctor heard, echoing through the void. As soon as he entered the same dimensional plane with them, he heard all the noises of struggle and frustration. Crying and movement and a single voice "OW!" ricocheted past him.
"SAILOR MOON!?!" he cried, trying to get her to move, to turn towards him. He couldn't risk entrapment in the same distortional bubbles. There was no sign from the blond girl. Only more sobs of frustration. Their distress tearing at his hearts, he quickly set up the time and dimensional stabilizer, pointing it at the closest Senshi. That lucky girl happened to be Sailor Mercury. Carefully aiming on a wide spread over that area, he fired, engulfing the air around her. As moments ticked by, it was as though the air simply melted away from her. Suddenly, she sat up with a gasp, her eyes blinking rapidly as they re-adjusted to light. The first thing she did was grab her computer and hug it to her, its high-pitched beeps coming as a comfort. The Doctor raced over and gently grabbed her arms, checking her pupils quickly. 'No damage' he thought. 'Thank goodness I was in time.' Then, a second later: 'for the first one.' a darker side of his mind added in.
Immediately, he turned to Jupiter, re-aiming the device. After she was "thawed," he aimed at Sailor Venus, then Moon, then Mars all in turn. Each one reacted differently to coming back into real-time. As soon as he was done with all five he approached Sailor Jupiter.
She had emerged from the darkness fighting. As soon as the air released her and normal time was restored, she was on her feet, lashing this way and that. The Doctor looked her over and quickly moved on to Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon, who had both joined as soon as they were able. Both were a bit disoriented, and Sailor Moon had tear-tracks on her face.
"It.. it was horrible.... What was it? It was sitting on me.... I ---"
The Doctor looked weary, but relieved. "*That,* young lady, was a temporal distortion, set up as a trap for us."
Sailor Venus had to ask, "So where is that Time Lord we were out to save?"
He grunted and answered darkly "Nowhere. There never was a Time Lord down. It was all an elaborate trap, that would have destroyed myself, Peri, and my TARDIS had you not distracted it from us."
Lower lip trembling, but with a set jaw, Sailor Moon stepped forward and looked him in the eyes. "Could it have killed us?"
Not wavering a moment, he answered. "Yes. Yes, it would have."
Then without hesitation, the Doctor went to check on Mars, who was hanging back from the rest of the group (who was reforming in front of the TARDIS doors). She was sullen, arms crossed, anxiously looking out into the darkness that still surrounded them. 'At least I can breathe now...'
As the Doctor stepped up to inspect Sailor Mars, she turned away from him, avoiding his questioning eyes. When he opened his mouth to speak, she just said once, "No." Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw movement.
"SAILOR MOON!"
The Senshi froze in place, a strange tingle running down their spines. Immediately they turned to the darkness, backs against the TARDIS again.
"That sounded like...."
"It is!" Mars interrupted, pointing.
From the darkness emerged a purple clad Scout bearing a staff. She walked regally towards Sailor Moon. Stopping a few feet short of the staring group, she glanced around. Nodding to Sailor Moon, she introduced herself (for the Doctor's sake).
"Greetings Doctor. I am Sailor Pluto, the Keeper of Time." One side of her mouth quirked up in a smirk. She knew just what he thought of himself and *his* relation to time.
"Ah, yes.... I thought as much. Sailor Mars was kind enough to inform me of your existence. That explains a lot about a few of my... coincidences, shall we say?" He smiled at her, not at all flustered.
Sailor Moon leapt forward. "Sailor Pluto!!! Welcome back!!!" She paused. "Why are you here?"
She held up her hand, pointing her staff towards the blue box. "Let us go inside the TARDIS. There is much to talk about. If that is alright with you Doctor...?"
"Oh yes, fine fine. The more the merrier." He made motions as if herding the girls back inside like children. Obediently they entered.
Right as they entered the TARDIS Peri ran up to the Senshi, her arms opened as if to hug one of them. And the lucky one to be hugged was Sailor Moon.
Peri's arms went around her and a loud gasp erupted from the blonde's mouth. "Ow, my ribs! My chest! My.. body!!!"
"You're hurt!!!!" Peri quickly let go of the scout and looked her over for the first time. Sailor Moon's lip was bleeding, she had a bruise on her cheek, and her arms were cut with blood running down to her gloves, staining them red.
And looking at the other scouts, Peri saw that they were injured as well. Mars had a slashed throat and cut legs, Jupiter had a black eye and brusies all down her arms, Venus had a bloody nose with a few cuts on her face and a slash on her stomach starting to bleed through her sailor suit, and Mercury was cradling her left arm as if it were broken.
"My goodness, why didn't you say so in the first place?" the Doctor asked.
There was a moment of silence as the Senshi looked at one another and the silence was interrupted when Sailor Moon gasped.
"I knew I was hurting but I didn't know it was this bad." She paused and touched her lip with her finger. "But we didn't fight with anything solid. Something just sat on me and wouldn't let me move."
The others nodded and Peri frowned. "Well, however it happened you all need something for those injuries."
"Come," the Doctor said, motioning them forward. "Let's go to the sickbay and there we can...... discuss what has happened,"
"And what will happen," Pluto finished for him.
To be Continued....
Author's Notes:
Peri: Well, that was quite a chapter! I would say we have obese... Wait..
Ami: Well, that's a Freudian slip!!!
Doctor: What are you saying???
Peri: I'm calling you fat!
Doctor: ::gasps and runs off sobbing::