Doctor Who: 221b Chapter 2
John approached the doctor and put his hand squarely on his chest. "I am terribly sorry, but we do not know who you are and we are not taking any cases today!"
The Doctor pushed back. "I'm not here for a case, I came to meet Sherlock."
Sherlock fell from the ceiling with a thud. In a second he was on his feet and facing the Doctor. "Doctor Who?"
The Doctor groaned. "I hate that question. It's just 'The Doctor.'"
"Well, 'Doctor,' I must ask you to leave-" John's words were cut off by a thumping noise.
John looked up at the Doctor. "Who else did you bring with you, huh? A whole bloody fan club?"
The Doctor gave John a confused look. "I came alone."
John watched as the Doctor pulled out a small metal tube with a green light on the tip from his pocket before walking briskly into the hallway. John came up behind the Doctor; who was holding the tube like a handgun.
"What is that thing?" John demanded.
The Doctor looked back at John. "It's a screwdriver."
The Doctor moved forward, leaving a very confused Watson in his wake. He moved down the hall until he reached the room where the thumping was coming from. Sherlock sprung up next to the Doctor.
"I agree with my assistant, I want to know why you are here." He said.
The Doctor didn't answer, instead he lowered the "screwdriver" and opened the door. Inside was a tall, metal figure.
"You brought a suit of armor with you!?" John asked.
The Doctor didn't answer, instead he turned to Sherlock and John.
"Run." he said quietly.
The Doctor turned back to the hulking suit and slammed the door before running down the stairs towards the lobby. John looked at Sherlock. Sherlock shrugged. Suddenly, the door burst off it's hinges and the suit stepped out.
"You will be deleted." The suit said.
Sherlock grabbed John and ran after the Doctor, who was already outside by this point. As they burst out into the street, they saw the Doctor standing at the ready.
"What the hell is that thing?" Sherlock asked.
"Cyberman!" The Doctor shouted.
Sherlock and John shared a baffled glance. The Doctor groaned. "Big suit of cybernetic armor that really wants your flesh to be turned into spare parts."
The Cyberman burst out into the street. It scanned the three men before saying it's catchphrase again. "You will be deleted!" A metallic firearm sprung from the robot's wrist. It fired a laser blast past them and into the street. The blast exploded, leaving a crater.
The Doctor began analyzing his screwdriver. "Where is that blasted button?" He muttered to himself.
"What button!?" John shouted as the Cyberman advanced on their position repeating it's saying over and over again.
"Aha!" The Doctor said joyously. "This button!"
The Doctor pressed a button on his screwdriver and with a whirring sound, a blue box bust through the walls of 221b and landed on the Cyberman with a crash.
John pointed at the box. "Care to explain that?"
The Doctor returned his screwdriver to his coat's inside pocket. "That is my TARDIS. Everyone inside."
"Inside the box? There's barely enough room." Sherlock said.
"Trust me," said the Doctor. "There's room."
The Doctor waited by the small door as Sherlock and John filed in, then watched while they got out, circled the TARDIS and then got back in. The Doctor stepped inside his ship and then realized rule number one, don't expose yourself.
Oh well, he already failed.
Sherlock turned to face the Doctor as he closed the door. "It's bigger on the inside." He said monotonously.
The Doctor nodded. "If I had a dollar for every time someone said that…" he said.
"This actually makes sense." John said.
Sherlock glared at John who only shrugged. "Haven't you seen Harry Potter?"
Sherlock rolled his eyes. "I read it in less than an hour."
The Doctor glanced at both of them, such an odd duo. Almost as conflicting as him and Donna. Wait, wait. Different life, better not bring that up.
"So," Sherlock asked. "why did you bring us in here?"
"Where there's one Cyberman, there's bound to be more, and I've only one TARDIS to smash them with, even though I did that on accident."
"Wait, you did that on accident?" John asked.
"John Watson. So many questions. Questions with answers I haven't the time to say."
The entire TARDIS shook. The Doctor looked up at the high ceiling. "Oh, boy."
The Doctor ran to the large console in the center of the TARDIS and began wildly pushing buttons and pulling levers. Sherlock ran up to the console and examined it.
"I've never seen an engine quite like this one." Sherlock said.
The Doctor pulled another lever. "Yeah, I wasn't really supposed to show you this."
The whooshing sound John heard earlier began again as the feeling of liftoff moved throughout the TARDIS. The Doctor laughed and grabbed a railing. "Mr. Holmes! Mr. Watson! Hold on to something."
John sat down in an uncomfortable chair and gripped the arms with hands of steel. Before he blacked out, he heard something that sounded like "Geronimo!"