Hey there, sorry this is long in coming out... have had a million essays and stuff to do grrr, not fun! Hope you like the new part, and thank you to everyone for reading my stuff
If this is the first story of mine you have read STOP! there are three tht come before this one, read them first or you won't have a clue what is going on! lol
Anyway... on with the story!
"The plan is progressing too slowly… commence the final initiative."
"Final initiative commencing…"
"Bring in the Humans for processing."
The grating sound of the TARDIS engines filled the dull grey corridor, echoing up and down uncomfortably loud in the previous silence, but no one heard.
"I didn't land quite when I was supposed to," the Doctor admitted as he stepped out of the door.
"What year is it?" Rose asked, looking around at their new environment.
"Err… two hundred thousand and fourteen…" he said very quickly.
"Two hundred thousand and fourteen?" Rose demanded, "You missed by over three thousand years!"
"Well," the Doctor said defensively, "Maybe the TARDIS couldn't find a parking space!"
"Does it matter?" Jack asked, pulling on a jacket and joining them outside, "The park is still here – let's just go, whatever year it is!"
"Aye aye cap'ain," Amber said dryly.
An Earth 21st century movie-athon, instigated by Rose and much encouraged by Jack had had the double effect of inspiring their next travel destination and giving Jack a new icon in the form of womanising, drunken pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow, whom Captain Jack Harkness insisted had exactly the right ideas.
Their destination was the largest theme park ever built by man (and woman). It covered the entire surface of the moon. As well as rides and attractions through the centuries, from helter-skelters to the 70th century Obliterator, a roller coaster so extreme one in ten people who went on it could never walk again, the park boasted a wide range of Virtual Reality games, where the player could enter a movie environment of their choice and see how they would have faired fighting film watchers favourite bad guys. It was the ultimate high for any adrenaline junkie, Jack said, and the perfect date to take Amber on, he added in undertones to Rose and the Doctor.
The Doctor, who was already cross at Jack for only thinking about Amber and allowing Rose to be taken hostage by Nadir in their last adventure, wasn't best amused. Rose thought it was hilarious.
"How come the park is here then?" Rose asked, "Three thousand years ago... that's a long time."
"Plenty of business," the Doctor said, "And besides, that's nothing – the Disney park that was transferred here has been running for the better part of a hundred thousand years!"
"They still have Disney?" Rose asked.
"Course they do!" the Doctor said, "Timeless entertainment."
"Although 346 Dalmatians was pretty dire…" Jack said, "They should have quit the series back at 129."
The troop arrived at a plain metal door that almost blended in with the rest of the corridor.
"Are you sure we can't interest you in a game of Alien vs. Predator, kill a few dangerous creatures with invisibility shields and acid spit?" Jack asked, slipping a friendly arm round Amber's shoulders.
"That's ok," the Doctor said, "Never was too keen on weapons."
"What he means," Rose said, "Is he'd be rubbish, so we are going to go and check out the rest of the theme park."
"Well, let's get going," the Doctor said, taking out his sonic screwdriver and unlocking the door. It opened from the dull grey corridor into a buzzing colourful room full of balloons, cheesy circus music and throngs of people.
"See you later!" Jack said, grabbing Amber's hand and pulling her onto a high-speed shuttle bus, waving goodbye to the Doctor and Rose. As they disappeared the Doctor grinned at Rose and took her hand.
"Just like the good old days," he said, "Now candy floss or the carousel first?"
At a thousand miles an hour, Jack and Amber where shuttled across the moon's surface towards the Virtual Reality sector of the theme park.
"What do you want to try first then?" Jack asked, scan reading a list of the major attractions, "Seems you have to work your way up through the levels, starting out with stuff like X-men, you know comic book films, and working your way up to Dracula, Godzilla, the real scary stuff. I want to try Space Invasion Episode Six, that was a great film, I grew up watching the Space Invasion series."
"How about that one?" Amber asked, nodding towards a poster on the wall of the bus.
"For one week only enter right at the top level, fight the T-rex and win prizes galore, the chance to prove yourself as the ultimate hunter," Jack read, "From the classic Earth movie Jurassic Park. Sounds good to me!"
"Saves fighting up through the levels," Amber said.
"Maybe the TARDIS saw the special offer," Jack said.
The shuttle bus ground to a halt and they jumped off, heading straight for the large banner that signalled the entrance to the Jurassic Park area. Surprisingly, the queue wasn't very long.
"Two tickets to your Jurassic Park game please," Jack said, handing the man behind the counter his credit tab.
"Two?" the man asked sceptically, looking at Amber.
"She's tougher than she looks," Jack said, grinning cheesily.
"Ok…" the man said, eyebrows raised, but not saying anything else, "Step this way."
"He didn't seem too happy about giving me a ticket," Amber said.
"Probably just afraid he'd get his high score beat by a girl," Jack said, unconcerned.
"Probably," Amber agreed.
They walked through a few dark, fern lined corridors, entering a metal bunker lined with equipment.
"Take you pick gentlemen… and ladies?" the man supervising the bunker said with surprise.
"That's right, sister," Jack said jokingly to the very butch man, "now what have you got?"
"Everyone gets these," he said taking two pairs of handguns down from the wall, "Basic automatic handguns. I might be able to get you something a bit more powerful, maybe with laser sighting…" he said to Amber.
"I can handle it in there," Amber said, "Just because I'm female doesn't mean I can't shoot straight."
"If you're certain…" the man said, "There are other more powerful weapons inside if you can find them, and I suggest you try, because these babies won't do much damage to the larger lizards."
"Aren't dinosaurs more closely related to birds?" Amber asked.
"Birds, lizards, they're still just out to eat you at the end of the day," the man said with a shrug. He handed Amber her guns then turned to Jack, pulling him slightly to the side as Amber twirled the guns round her hands getting a feel for them. Jack was all ready to give the guy his phone number when he said in a hushed voice.
"Are you sure about taking her? It's not easy in there."
"Trust me mate, she can handle it," Jack said.
"I can't tell you not to, so if you're sure, step right through," he said, indicating a door that was sliding open with a hiss.
"You have an hour," he continued, "Each kill you make will be monitored and a points tally kept, the bigger the kill, the more points, with the T-Rex coming in at top of the scale. Good luck."
"What no suits?" Amber asked, thinking VR games required equipment of some sort.
"No suits, ma'am, just the clothes on your back and the guns in your hand," the man said, not quite meeting her eyes.
Amber looked impressed but Jack was too eager to get started to engage in conversation about how the technical side of the game worked, he just wanted to shoot a few T-Rex.
"Come on girl! Are we gonna play this game or what?" Jack asked, dragging her through the door.
Where do you want to go first?" the Doctor asked Rose, gesturing towards the various attractions clustered around them.
"Dunno," Rose said, "spoilt for choice!"
They wandered over to a few arcade games, including a few of the sort full of cuddly toys and a grabber to try and fish them out with.
"These things are such a con," Rose said, peering in at the cute fluffy pig toy the machine contained, "No one ever wins, the hand thing doesn't actually grip anything."
"Ah, but if you're as super fantastic as me, you can find ways around the limitations of such simple machines," the Doctor said, flicking on his sonic screwdriver on and off.
Rose gave him a challenging look and he waved his credit tab over the sensor, giving him two goes on the machine.
"Watch an learn Rose Tyler," the Doctor said, demonstrating a failed game, his grabber feebly poking at the plump pink pig, completely failing to grip it, let alone pick it up.
He then 'adjusted' it, using the sonic screwdriver to do something to the controls. With the newly configured machine, the Doctor carefully guided the grabber to the same pink pig, which this time it grabbed and carried back to the hole, dropping it into it.
The Doctor presented it to a beaming Rose who admired it and tucked it under her arm.
"Is there anything that thing can't do?" She asked.
"I don't know," the Doctor said, "I've not tried to do everything with it," he added suggestively, making Rose snort with laughter.
"I think the Captain is having a bad influence on you Doctor," she said, taking his arm and leading him to the next attraction.
Jack and Amber emerged in a thicket of knee high ferns, both with their guns out. Jack looked around his eyes sharp, Amber coolly walked behind him, her guns raised beside her in a very defensive position.
Jack looked around, spotting in the distance a small, chicken like lizard with rows of razor sharp teeth. Neither Jack nor Amber knew it was a Compsognathus, a scavenger dinosaur that often travelled in groups, overwhelming their enemies with their number, they didn't really care, they were just here to score a few points. Jack carefully aimed at it, looking down the barrel of his gun. He went to pull the trigger, but there was a gunshot from behind him and the small lizard fell to the floor dead with a shrill squeak.
Jack turned round to Amber.
"I think we better split up or you're going to steal all my points," he said, nodding towards the smoking barrel of her gun.
"You do that," she said sweetly, "This thing is really good," she added, looking at her gun, "kicks like a real gun."
"Yeah, I'm impressed with this place, thought coming three thousand years earlier might have made it bad, but it's really good," Jack said.
"Well, see you later," Amber said, turning away and running into the trees, switching appearance as she went. She wasn't around long enough for him to see what she had changed her appearance to, but Jack (for once in his life) wasn't too concerned about what Amber looked like, only about beating her score. With that in mind he sprinted in the opposite direction to hunt some dinosaurs.
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