Return Visit Chapter the Fourth 'The Hunt Begins' or 'Lost in Time'
As ya knows by now, we ain't doing a disclaimer for each chapter er journal entry but at the end of the last entry, I scared the very Dickens (Yeah Yuri wants to be more ladylike and knock off the cuss words! Sheesh! What a crybaby!) outta the Time Shuffler when I warned him that when his attempt to locate the Knights Templars' treasure trove in 'Before Rassilon' time on Gallifrey that he would be tried for his crimes by the High Council of Time Lords and that will be no walk in the park either!
OK whose turn it is now? You? OK, 'Pops' (Inspector Zenigata of Interpol from the Lupin III gang) the ball's on your green now. I need another drink and another stogie.
Hi folks, I have been trying to catch up w/ Loo-Pon for a dog's age! Now that I found him and his pals, I am outta me jurisprudence on this here ice world they calls Guy-See-May-Yo. Well, the white doggie and his laddie (Mr Peabody and Sherman) have managed to load his Way-Back time machine onto the Time Shuffler's TARDIS which looks like an old 17th Century pirate ship.
"Don't forget the booze for the redhead, Samurai! And lots of cakes and pies for Rachel and Fujicakes. Better rep up some firearms too. How the Time guy thinks we are gonna sneak onto Gallifrey w/o the Time Lords findin' out is beyond me." said the Druid guy who was the wheelman and demo expert of the Lupin gang.
"I told you big guy. Careful w/ that gadget, Goemon! That's a cloaking device I invented that will make my TARDIS invisible. I am landing us in Dead Lands near the Tower of Rassilon. I am sure the Knights hid their loot in the tower. After all, Castellan somebody on the High Council was one of the Order's founders ya know? Doc #4 told me that nobody ever goes anywhere near that old tower so we won't be disturbed." explained the vertically challenged villain.
"If you say so, pal. Will it be cold on Gallifrey this time of year I wonder? Lupin, see if you can get the weather forecast on the vidphone, will ya? I never know what to pack for these off world trips." whined Fujiko Mine (Mee-Nay).
"Are you sure Mi-Ke (Mee-Kay was the name of the haunted nekomata tank that belonged to the Elf Hunters) will fit on your vessel, sir?" asked Junpei the strong man of the Hunters' squadron.
"I told you, ya big lummox- it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside." grumbled the Time Shuffler who never expected to be hosting this large of an expedition to Time Lord and Time Lady Land.
"Mr T? Are there any elf maidens there?" asked Ritsuke (Rees-Kay) who was the youngest Hunter of all trying to decide on a Thompson .45 or a Mark XII disruptor gun. "Take 'em both." suggested Ari the wanna-be actress Hunter.
"We will need dog food but no toilet paper." said Rachel who was cuddling Celsia the Elfin queen who was temporarily stuck in canine form and part Teddy bear as well. One of her tricks was the ability to crap out fresh rolls of toilet tissue when needed.
"Can we adopt the puppy dog, Mr Peabody, sir?" asked Sherman looking wistfully at Celsia.
"Not unless you want to clean up the messes she will make, boy. Check the batteries on the Way-Back and bring me a cup of tea, please?" replied the white doggie in the dinner suit and spats who was wiping off his spectacles. He was currently holding the 3WA ranking of Brigadier but he refused to wear the uniform that went w/ the title.
"I damned well heard that crack, girlie and sir, I will have you know that Celsia has been house-broken and hardly ever makes a mess." snapped Ritsuke.
"Go ahead. Act like I am not even here, child. By the by, I am partial to caviar and truffles. I loathe canned dog food. Why do we need so much TP when Mi-Ke does not even have a bathroom?" whimpered Celsia.
"You're the one that craps it out all the time, yer ladyship." growled Junpei.
"Do you think that three 'replicators' is enough for the trip. How long will it take anyway, Mr T?" asked the pouty-faced Rachel, Lupin's sometimes wife and all the time pain in the posterior.
"If you ever get through loading up, I can get us there in four solar days." sighed our villain.
"I can do it in three!" yelled Junpei.
"This ain't 'Name That Tune', boyo." grumbled the Boss Lady. "Has anyone loaded the 'Lovely Angel 2' yet and my shuttlecrafts?" she added.
"I put them aboard last night, Reds. Hurry up. The gravity well won't stay open much longer." said Mr T who was staring at the control vidscreen of his TARDIS. None of us knew where he had gotten a TARDIS Mark Five time and space travel ship and we knew better than to ask.
"Someone please help me w/ my trunks and cases." howled Rachel. As usual, she had packed for a long sea voyage instead of a short jaunt to Gallifrey of no more than a few hundred 'lightys' (light years).
"Jigen, give milady a hand w/ her valises please." grunted Goemon who was still dragging a crate of explosives aboard the ship.
"We must lift off like- now! Get aboard and rep up the rest of the junk later!" yelled the Time Shuffler.
"What an idiot I am!" screeched the firebrand redhead. "Just use the transporter, kiddies." she added.
Somehow, the Time guy finally managed to lift off through the gravity well that surrounded the ice world. Meanwhile the ladies were complaining at the lack of seating until I repped up some chairs and seat belts for everyone. See Loo-Pon- I am good for something after all!
Time Shuffler shifted something and the TARDIS vibrated like the devil while Rebecca was complaining at the lack of seats until Fujiko dragged her off to the galley to rep up lunch for everybody which caused us all to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Are we there yet, sir?" demanded Sherman for the hundredth time since the Mark 5 had begun its trip to Gallifrey's Dead Lands in general and the Tower of Rassilon in particular- in other words we had lifted off ten minutes ago.
"Yo Peabody! Shut your kid up, will ya?" growled the Time Shuffler guy.
"Go and find yourself a bedroom and finish your homework, Shermie. There's a good laddie." yawned the white doggie who was quite used to the boredom of time travel.
The doors opened and Fujiko and Rebecca used remotes to fly in various platters and salvers and java urns and tea pots. "Lunch is ready, gang but where the Hell's the table, TS?" snarled Fujiko.
"You will just have to rep one up and some chairs, tablecloth, cups and plates and chairs. I don't have time to make tables and fly this ship too ya know." grumbled their host.
"You heard the man, Strong Man. Make yourself useful boy and that's an order." barked 'Pops' Zenigata which caused Junpei to ball up his fists until Ari told him to do what he was told.
Lunch was soon over and then before we knew it, so was dinner. Peabody consulted his huge gold Hunter pocket watch and observed that it was time for Sherman to retire and unlike most kids, Sherman obeyed without any fuss at all.
"Are you sure we are on the correct course, TS?" asked Peabody, rankling the Time bandit/treasure hunter.
"Of course I am, my dear Peabody. I was born there you know?" grumbled our host and the Boss Lady's ears perked up. You see, only time lords and time ladies are born on Gallifrey as a rule and none of the Doctor time lords ever mentioned this bozo to her so she started tapping keys on her PDO (personal data organizer) which in no way resembled the PDOs we had ever swiped er I mean seen. Jigen quickly changed the subject when the TARDIS began shaking like a bucking bronco!
"Damnation! We seem to have wandered into 'Smugglers Cove' and I don't have the security codes nor can I recall the correct route through this labyrinthe." admitted the TS guy.
"We are in a real dill pickle now, gang." whispered Lupin III.
"Where are the parachutes dammit?" howled Rebecca. Jigen shrugged his shoulders and Rebecca turned on her waterworks.
END of Chapter the Fourth. Chapter the Fifth 'Hurdling Asteroids' or 'Way-Back When?' coming soon.