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Finally, a DW one-shot by me! This takes place in Buffy Season 5 around 5x9, and for DW its between 'The God Complex' and 'Closing Time', since 200 years passed for The Doctor there.
Thank you to Brainstorm Sorcerer and Sayman for a few suggestions.
The Doctor had never been to Sunnydale before, but he knew a lot about it. The town where the supernatural was real, and unexplained strange occurrences kept happening, with none the wiser….most of the time that is.
There were reports of an influx in the amount of mentally challenged patients. What was really astounding though, was that many of these people had been leading perfectly normal lives until a certain point, but had suddenly gone insane without any rational explanation.
They just babbled incoherently and behaved like infants, which was understandable since all logic and reason was gone from their minds.
As he arrived at the hospital, he saw one guy being carted away, screaming incoherently and crying as well.
"Huh?" He muttered to himself, seeing the guy being wheeled to the ward for the mentally unwell. So he followed discreetly, seeing from the corner the one who had wheeled the guy walking off, so the coast was clear now at last.
So walking in, The Doctor was in the ward of these people, as no one else was around for now.
One of them looked at him and suddenly said. "Not…..one of us."
"What are you on about?" The Doctor wondered. "I am dressed exactly the same, even look the same, yet you can tell the difference?"
"Not one of us", another one said too, pointing at The Doctor, who started coming to a realization before he did a little mental scan just to see what was happening to these people here.
"Hmmm…" He muttered, looking at the scans and then at the people there. "Your brains are all scrambled, and not in the way you'd like your eggs."
Looking at them, he continued. "The prefrontal cortex of the brain, its just burnt like a steak, well done."
"Not one of us", one more person said.
"Aha, so whatever has happened to you lot has made you aware to any non-human kinds of energy, and you can recognize them", The Doctor figured it out. "Well, that was easy." He cheerfully thanked the patients of this hospital ward. "Thank you for your kind help to me, it is very much appreciated."
The Doctor walked out, now wondering what had caused this. They were insane as their prefrontal cortex had clearly suffered the assault of whoever it was that had come after them, but they could sense he was not a human, they were aware of that.
"What could it be?" He wondered when a guy in a medical outfit ran past him into the ward himself. Normally, The Doctor would ignore him, but the way he had run past him into that specific room only had him interested.
Was he trying to do something or what?
The Doctor hid near the doorframe in a position where the guy would not be able to really see him unless he looked there on purpose.
"Why is this happening?" The guy muttered to himself, rubbing his forehead, The Doctor looking at him from behind with narrowed eyes.
There was definitely something off about him. What, he couldn't tell, but he seemed to be connected to these insane people with the way he was talking and looking at them.
The guy walked to one of them who was muttering. "I need…Key, Key…..Key."
Key? What kind of Key?!
"What are you on about, huh?" The guy asked that patient before groaning. "You know what? This is it! I'm really not in the mood for this anymore, these extra shifts and all that crap. I'm done cleaning up her mess."
Her mess? Who was this 'her' now? Was this 'her' responsible for what had happened to these patients? Seemed like it, and this guy was in on it but hated it.
The Doctor hid himself at the doorway's side as the man walked out, not noticing him before walking off into some other direction.
"I think you definitely know something, and are about to do something as well", The Doctor whispered to himself, discreetly following the guy, trying not to attract any attention.
The guy was off into what looked like the changing room of the hospital, and The Doctor hid, watching him as he was about to change, but then suddenly grabbed his head and screamed.
"NO! NOT RIGHT NOW!"
In front of The Doctor's eyes, the guy suddenly grew long blonde hair, and his body changed as well. He had turned into a woman!
As he prepared to walk off, the woman suddenly said. "Not so fast."
"Ah!" The Doctor stopped as the blonde woman turned to face him. "Hello there."
"Who the hell are you?" The woman asked, tilting her head as she walked to him.
"I am The Doctor", The Doctor told her simply.
"Wait what? You're a doctor at this place?" The woman gestured to the hospital around them, and he shook his head.
"No, not that kind of doctor….never mind", The Doctor backed a little from the approaching woman, theorizing what was going on. "Possession by an entity is clearly capable of altering appearance and even body functions, like in your case here, since you turned from that man into this woman."
"Wait what? You saw that idiot Ben turn into me, and remember?" The woman asked, clearly confused as to how that had happened.
"Why? Should I not?" The Doctor inquired.
"This has never happened before", the woman muttered before telling him with a smirk. "You look cute though."
The Doctor responded in kind. "Well, thank yo-"
"Too bad I have to do this to you", the woman interrupted him, and then suddenly put her hands on either side of his head, sinking her fingers into the head, as The Doctor gritted his teeth, the woman trying to do to him what had happened to the insane people.
So it was her after all! She had some sort of ability to take away people's sanity that burnt the prefrontal cortex.
However, she suddenly started screaming in pain, the screaming increasing in volume as she staggered back, letting The Doctor go.
The Doctor shook his head like a dog before slapping himself. "That gets nogging back in working order."
The woman was screaming. "Damn! That place has got mountains that sway in the breeze, mountains that move, can you imagine?"
She suddenly turned back into the guy, whose name was Ben, apparently. "Huh? Its all in my head!" He looked at The Doctor, seeming normal for just a second. "What did you do to me?"
The Doctor moved to him as he turned into the woman again. "All of it packed into my brain." He was Ben once more. "Its all just….binary…binary…binary…"
The woman and this Ben guy changed back and forth, all the while repeating 'binary' again and again. The Doctor approached them as Ben looked at him and screamed.
"BINARY!"
Then he collapsed to the ground, unmoving!
The Doctor knelt down, trying to check his pulse. He was dead!
"This is strange", The Doctor got up, seeming confused. "It did not happen this fast last time." He realized. "Must be due to the conflict between him and the possessor, and neither one could handle it."
It seemed the mystery behind these insane people had been solved, but he could not help them even with his technology, since this woman's power of draining people of their sanity was quite high.
Walking back to the room, he said silently to the people. "My apologies." He then walked out, back to the TARDIS.
This had been one of his easier adventures, but he wished he could have helped the possessed guy.
Either way, it was time to go somewhere else, maybe one day his path through time would lead him back to this strange town.
Not as good as I wanted it to be but hope you enjoyed and it made sense. Glory in trying to brain The Doctor made both herself and Ben suffer the same thing Donna had before The Doctor saved her.
Now I know Glory is a Hell Goddess but her power is weakened due to the fuse with Ben, and she has shown mental instability without absorbing any brains.
So absorbing too much affected her here, and due to her and Ben conflicting against each other, Ben just died from the two things combined, taking Glory with him.
The Doctor wasn't affected by that forget spell due to not being human.
And no power level comments, its just annoying seeing that crap in the e-mails every time I post a Buffyverse crossover with anything. So just NO!
Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with some other update.
