"What's going on?" Rose demanded, pulling the frightened little girl behind her.
"No idea," Jack said, pointing his gun all round the room.
Quinn lowered the smoking rocket launcher, admiring his fallen prey.
"Seems almost sad to shoot things like that out of the sky," he said, nodding towards the smouldering dragon.
"Go collect its teeth as a memento," Jack said sarcastically, but Quinn took him entirely seriously, walking towards carcass, taking a knife from his belt and kneeling before the agape mouth and getting to work.
"Who the hell is that weirdo?" Rose demanded.
"Jack's new best friend," Amber said, pushing her currently short brown hair backwards out of her face as it changed back to shoulder length and blue. The little girl gasped with shock and delight, drawing everyone's attention back to her.
"What's your name sweetheart?" Rose asked.
"Suzi," the girl replied timidly.
"Well Suzi, we are gonna get you out of here safe, ok?" Rose said, "You just stick with us."
"Who are you people?" Suzi asked, looking cautiously at Amber.
"Just a group of travellers," Amber told her, "No one in particular."
"Well, as you two seem to have found your friends," Quinn said, brushing the blood on his hands off onto his trousers, "What is the next part of your master plan?"
"We haven't found all of our friends," Jack said, "This is Rose, by the way, Rose, where is the Doctor?"
"We got separated," Rose said, shrugging her shoulders.
"How careless of you," Jack said, "Let's go find him."
"He found us," Amber said, looking at a spot in front of her where the air was beginning to shimmer. Soon after the unmistakeable sound of the TARDIS engines ripped through the air. The wind blew through Amber's hair, drawing Quinn's attention to the fact that it had changed colour and length.
"But she…?" he began, staring after her helplessly, as she stepped into the now fully materialized TARDIS.
"Shape shifting alien from the year one million four hundred thousand," Jack said with a smug grin as he followed Rose and Suzi into the TARDIS.
Quinn shook his head in disbelief, then headed through the blue doorway after them.
"One of these days I'll get it right and land on top of you lot, rather than just to the side – I'm getting closer though don't you think?"
The Doctor ran over to Rose and hugged her tight, then hugged both Amber and Jack together, before turning to Quinn and stopping dead at the sight of an unfamiliar face on his ship.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"Quinn," he replied, as bemused as the Doctor.
"Right," The Doctor said, turning to Rose who shrugged then nodded her head towards Jack.
"To cut a long story short," Jack began, "games not actually games, nearly got eaten about three times by hungry dinosaurs, Quinn saves life, Amber triggers alarms, SPLOOSH! Entire park meltdown."
"You say that like it was my fault I set off the alarm…" Amber said.
"The games aren't games?" Rose asked.
"Well that dragon didn't look particularly computer animated to me," Jack said.
"What is going on then?" Rose asked again.
"That's what we're trying to work out," Jack said.
"Never mind what's going on," Quinn said, "What about all the people out there? They need to be evacuated."
"Very good point!" The Doctor said, "Jack, Amber!"
"Yes?"
"You two help Quinn evacuate the entire park. Somewhere there has to be a radio tower of some description. Find it, call Earth, get everyone off of here as soon as you can. I'm the Doctor by the way, nice to meet you Quinn and good luck!"
Quinn nodded, then ran after Amber and Jack who were already halfway out of the door.
"Rose! I need you to help me try and trace a signal I picked up while trying to find you, it might give us a clue as to who is in charge of this place."
"Um, Doctor?" Rose asked, "What about Suzi?"
"Who's Suzi?" the Doctor asked.
Rose nodded down towards her feet where the dusty, frightened little girl was stood, looking up at the Doctor and his magic spaceship with wide eyes.
"Hello Suzi!" the Doctor said, kneeling down before her, holding out a hand for her to shake, "Nice to meet you, I'm the Doctor!"
"Hello," Suzi said cautiously, taking his large hand in her tiny one and shaking it gently.
"Well Suzi, would you like to sit on this chair up here?" the Doctor picked the girl up and sat her on the high seat at the TARDIS console, "and we can put the telly on for you? How about that?"
Suzi was quite happy to sit and watch TV on one of the console monitors, leaving Rose and the Doctor free to trace his bogus signal.
"What sort of signal is it?" Rose asked.
"A data stream," the Doctor said, "Basically a load of numbers being transmitted to the computers telling them what to do, useless to us really, unless we can cancel it, rework it and re-transmit it, but that could take weeks. No we want to trace it, find the source so we can locate the people running this place."
"You're talking too fast again," Rose said, "You must have an idea, or a plan."
"Yep, great plan – hit the computer until it comes up with that screen again, isolate the signal and trace it. Go and visit our rather twisted friends, and, as Jack would say, Kaplow!"
"You seem a bit incensed, Doctor," Rose said with a grin.
"No one ruins a boat ride of ours and gets away with it lightly," the Doctor said with a big cheesy grin, the kind that made Rose want to laugh out loud with the sheer joy and mischief of it.
"I'm picking up a radio signal, straight ahead," Jack said, holding his watch out in front of him as he ran along side Amber and Quinn.
"How many people are in this park?" Amber asked, turning towards Quinn.
"I don't know," Quinn replied, shaking his head, "Up to fifteen million in peak season."
"How are we going to get all those people off of here?" Jack asked.
"Lets just concentrate on the job at hand," Amber said, pointing towards a tall tower in the distance.
She was still dressed in her combat gear, but her hair and skin were back to normal. Quinn kept glancing across at her every few seconds, as if he couldn't quite believe she was still the same person.
"Are you staring at my girl, Quinn?" Jack asked with a grin.
"No, no," Quinn said quickly, "She just…"
"I know, blue hair," Jack said, nodding sagely, "it's a good look isn't it?"
"She's alien!" Quinn said.
"Oh come on!" Jack said, "This is the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire, full of aliens. You act like she's the first alien you've ever seen. I know she's probably the hottest alien you've ever seen but…"
"I thought no aliens could live here, immigration controls as strict as they are," Quinn said, "And Inter-race relationships are punishable by death!"
"What?" Jack asked, "That's not right. Time Agent basic training, Earth is at its peak now. Culture, food, race relations, all that Jazz, should be at the best it's ever been."
"What are you on about?" Quinn asked, "This is the world where there is no such thing as News reports, a smog cloud is forming that the scientists predict will rage for a hundred years, making it impossible for us to breath outside, and the Government is so corrupt that they are too busy executing people for daring to house Alien immigrants that they aren't even considering the environmental problems. So you better watch it, Jack, or you and you're girl will both end up on the executioner's block."
"That makes no sense!" Jack said, "Time must have changed, it's supposed to be…"
"The Time War Jack," Amber reminded him, "It's changed and affected everything. You're outside of time, you remember things how they were before it was rewritten."
"You lot don't make any sense either!" Quinn said, "Time Wars, rewritten history, virtual reality and that ship?"
"Bigger on the inside," Amber and Jack said together, "We know."
"There we go!" the Doctor said, standing back from the screen, "Data stream, now let's try and find a trace on it."
Rose wandered over and looked over his shoulder at the monitor. The characters on it didn't look much like numbers to her, but she guessed they were some kind of alien alphabet.
"What does it all mean?" Rose asked, squinting to try and make some sense of them.
"No idea," the Doctor said, twirling a few dials and reattaching some different wires, "But we are about to find out!" he said, pushing a large red button.
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