Annnd This is my last chapter that I have written...so now I need to write more, pronto lol.
I took up the lead as Mickey and I walked through the hallways. I lifted my nose up to the air, trying to scent anything that wasn't human, and received a strange look from Mickey.
"What?" I snapped.
He shook his head and looked to want to say something when I heard voices over Mickey's phone. I hurried, taking up a paced run as I navigated through the hallway and eventually outside. I'm not sure when, but at some point I'd lost Mickey. Bursting through the doors, I spun my head around and caught sight of a heavy set older woman running. I didn't even think, I just reacted.
It didn't take long for me to realize I was in the wrong form. After the first two steps I was running on familiar paws. I was an orange steak to the human eye as I dashed after the woman. The hunt was over and the chase was on.
It wasn't long at all that I was on her heels and snarling as I took a hold of her skit. I tugged her skirt with all my strength and shook my head back and forth like a dog playing a game of tug of war. The woman yelped and beat my head, trying to get me to release her skirt, but like a terrier I just set my jaw tighter.
I growled lowly as she stopped. I hunkered lower, hackles raised and I'm sure looking like a demon mutt. She yanked her skirt and there was a loud rip. She stumbled backwards, but in no time at all she was stable and teleported away. I lunged after where she'd been, snarling with anger. She got away! My teeth ground into the fabric from my anger.
To my delight, she appeared right in front of me, running right at me. My plumed tail swung back and forth, ears perked forward as I let loose a rumbling bark that was muffled by the cloth in my mouth. She turned around and ran away again before once more appearing in front of me. I glanced over at Doctor and barked at him. The sonic screwdriver never ceases to amaze me.
Eventually she'd had enough and ended up standing right in front of the Doctor. I trotted over to them, trailing behind them.
Along the way I saw my clothes, I'd strewn them in an attempt to become what I was now. I veered off course to gather what I could up. My pants wasn't so bad, neither was the tank tops and the jacket was completely fine. I could work with that. The rest was a little...torn...but if I could manage jeans and a jacket for now. I really needed to find some shifter friendly clothes. Or carry a bag with me that had an extra pair of everything inside it.
I had to find a place to hide so I could shift and shimmy quickly into my clothes so I could get back to Jack and the others.
It was a very hard process, because I had to picture my Vaitaja form. Shifting back was oh so painful, but it was amazing at the same time. For a brief moment I'd been afraid I wouldn't be able to shift back like before. Once on two legs, I let loose a breath of relief and began walking back.
I entered the building and realized I had lost my pack. I crossed my arms, letting out a 'hmm' as I glanced around. Lifting my nose into the air, I tracked them down.
"You have to be kidding me!" I snarled. I'd found them, but they kicked me out of the building for 'trespassing'. "My friends are in there!"
My cried were ignored as they walked back into the building. I crossed my arms once more and glared daggers at the doors. My gaze traveled up and my stomach clenched. I saw the windows that were close to where they were and entertained the thought of climbing up.
"It can't be too hard...j-just a little climb." I muttered, walking up to the building.
I got as far as touching the building before banishing the thought all together. "Nope! Absolutely not. I'm not scaling a wall. They're just going to have to let me in." I decided, whirling around and marching up to the door.
Only minutes later and I was yelling obscenities at the guard and anyone else that kept me from getting to the door. They tried to grab me and I smacked their arms away and I'm pretty sure I gave out some black eyes too. By the time I burst through the door I was a mess. My hair, which never made it back into its pony tail, was in a curling mess. I was panting and glare at the first person my eyes landed on, the woman.
"What, you couldn't tell them to let me in?" I snarled, teeth bared as if I were still a canine.
All four of my friends looked at me in confusion. I studied them and noticed Jack was holding some sort of contraption and was looking rather excited. I turned my merciless glare on the ground behind me.
"You didn't tell them?" I let loose another snarl. I loved that a couple of them flinched away from me. Be afraid, be very afraid, I darkly thought.
"She was busy with other guests; I did not think it would be important to tell her." The younger man spoke, his thick accent laced his words.
I swear my eye twitched. The rumbling in my chest grew louder as I took a step forward.
"Khaz!" Rose called, stopping me in my steps. She stood next to me, putting a hand on my shoulder. "I was wondering where you had gone to."
She dragged me away from the annoying humans. She just saved your lives. I thought, glaring one last time at them before the doors were close. Whether I was really going to kill them, I wasn't sure. I was just angry and it made me feel better to be as threatening as possible.
My attention was quickly brought to the thing that had Jack's eyes lit with excitement. "What's that?"
"A trybophysical Waveform." The Doctor supplied before Jack ould ever form the words.
"Which is...?" My gaze drifted to the small city on the table. "Do I even want to know what's going on?"
"Is it a weapon?" Rose asks.
"It's a transport." Jack says as he sets it on the ground and stood up. "You see, the reactor blows, the rift opens." He uses hand gestures that had me following his hands more than actually listening. "Phenomenal cosmic disaster, but this thing shrouds you in a force field. You have this energy bubble–" He made a funny noise that sounded like 'zoom' and then continued on with actual words. "—so you're safe. Then you feed it coordinates, stand on top, and ride the concussion all the way out of the solar system."
"It's a surfboard!" Mickey exclaims.
"A pan-dimensional surfboard, yeah."
"...What's a surfboard?"I asked in utter confusion.
But I never found the answer to that, as the funny smelling alien woman thing spoke.
"And it would've worked – I'd have surfed away from this dead – end dump back to civilization."
"Wait a minute," I cut in, sensing something wasn't quite right, "you would blow up a whole planet, just to get a lift?" I asked in horror.
"Like stepping on an ant hill." The woman snapped. She stalked around the table, almost proud of herself. It made me sick. I didn't even know I was growling until I felt Rose's hand on my shoulder again. I bottled up my emotions, hoping that the extra emotions that were subtly leaking out would go away too. Aspen was still pretty silent since out experiment, but when my anger had risen, it seemed to bring her presence back, but only briefly.
"How did you think of the name?" Doctor asked. We all looked over at the wall where it said 'The Blaidd Drwg project'.
"What, 'Blaidd Drwg'?" She asked.
No, the other name on a huge banner on the wall. I grumbled in my thoughts.
"It's Welsh"
"I know, but how did you think of it?"
"Chose it at random – that's all." She continues her stalk around the table towards the banner. "I don't know – just sounded good. Does it matter?"
The Doctor turned and locked eye with Rose. I watched the interaction with confusion.
"What's it mean?" Rose asked.
" 'Bad Wolf'."
"But I've heard that before – Bad Wolf."
"I think I missed something…" I quietly said, glancing at Mickey. He just looked back to Rose and when I looked to Jack he shrugged.
Rose's gaze didn't move from The Doctors. "I've it heard lots of times."
"Everywhere we go, two words, following us – 'Bad Wolf'."
"How can they be following us?"
The Doctor stared off, his gaze slowly lowering before he scoffed and broke into a wide grin. "Nah, just a coincidence. Like hearing a word on the radio, then hearing it all day – never mind." I looked at Rose and saw she didn't quite believe what The Doctor was saying. "Things to do."
He clapped his hands together and walked away from the fireplace and banner. "Margaret, we're gonna take you home."
"Hold on, isn't that the easy option, like letting her go?" Jack asked.
"I actually agree with him on that one." I said and walked over to stand next him, my usual and natural position.
"I don't believe it." Rose said, sounding excited. "We actually get to go to Raxa –" The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Wait a minute! Raxacor—"
"Raxacoricofallapatorius."
"—Raxacorico…" Rose tried again.
"—fallapatorius." The Doctor finished.
"Raxacoricofallapatorius. Ahh!" Rose cheered, seemingly quite proud of herself. Her arms raised above her head as she walked into The Doctor's hug.
"That's it!"
They both laughed and I turned to Jack with a 'What the heck' look and pointing finger at them. He shrugged and I shrugged with a roll of my eyes.
"They have a death penalty."
The excitement died away and everyone grew somber.
"The family Slitheen was tried in its absences many years ago and found guilty, with no chance of appeal. According to the statutes of the government, the moment I return I am to be executed." Her gaze was relentless and made me squirm until it landed on The Doctor. "What do you make of that, Doctor? Take me home, and you take me to my death."
"Not my problem."
We fell silent again. For the rest of the time I didn't so much as glance at the woman. Sure, it wasn't our problem, I completely agreed, but that didn't make me any less guilty for bringing her to her death. By the time I was back in the TARDIS I wanted to run and hide away until all this was over with. I was too irritated to try and figure out what exactly would be the right thing to do in this situation, I'd feel unbelievably guilty either way.
"This ship is impossible!" Margerate gasped. "It's superb. How'd you get the outside around the inside?"
"Like I would give you the secret."
"I almost feel better about being defeated. We never stood a chance. This is the technology of the gods."
"Don't worship me – I'd be a very bad god." The Doctor said as he fiddled with the ship. "Wouldn't get a day off for starters. Jack, how are we doing, big fella?"
"This extrapolator's top of the range." Jack said, and then looked up accusingly at Margerate. "Where did you get it?"
"I don't know. Some airlock sale?"
I scoffed at her reply and looked away from them. I had made myself at home above everyone else on the metal floor that The Doctor had been standing on earlier that day. "Yeah, I'm sure that's what it was."
"Must have been a great big heist." Jack said and looked up to Doctor. "It's stacked with power."
"But we can use it for fuel?"
"It's not compatible, but it should knock off about twelve hours. We'll be ready to go by morning."
"Then we're stuck here over night." I complained, having lost all interest in everything that they were doing and feeling extremely homesick. I didn't want anything to do with this decision, bringing a person to their death just wasn't something that settled well with me.
"I'm in no hurry." The woman that was the reason for this whole mess said.
"We've got a prisoner." Rose said with wonder. "The police box is really a police box."
"You're not just the police, though. Since you're taking me to my death, that makes you my executioners…each and every one of you." She said as she played with a ball in her hands.
"Well, you deserve it." Mickey's voice echoed through the TARDIS.
"You're very quick to say so. You're very quick to soak your hands in my blood. Which makes you better than me how, exactly?" Mickey just stared at her, unable to come up with a retort. "Long night ahead." She walked away and sat away from everyone in the small seat. "Let's see who can look me in the eye."
It wasn't long before I felt her eyes on me, lingering there. I hardly looked at her this whole time, but with a rush of nerve and anger, I turned to lock my gaze onto hers. I bared my teeth in a very animal like way and narrowed my eyes, even going as far as snarling, before looking away.