A.N.-Sup Homies? No, ok. I have nothing better to do today, so here's another chapter. I was just wondering if you guys like my plots. Are they too typical? Or boring? Should they be more gory or something? Let me know, also I really want more guesses on who Scarlet's parents are. Review guys, because remember folks, reviewing is good for your health, and this story XD.
Jack, Scarlet and The Doctor ran out of the restaurant. They looked around to see what could have made such a loud noise.
"I don't know what could have made such a loud noise, Weevils are the only things that have come out of there in years." Jack said, hiding his worry. He reached inside of his backpack and grabbed two sonic blasters. He tossed them at his two partners, who both had different reactions.
"Cool!" Scarlet called.
"What am I supposed to do with this?" The Doctor dropped the weapon immediately, "I'm already armed." He held up his screwdriver.
"Fine, when we need someone to build a cabinet, we'll call you." Jack said sarcastically. He pulled out his old fashioned pistol and held it, pointing in the direction of the sound. They walked slowly, pointing their weapons in front of them, walking towards the object. It was smaller than they excepted, and didn't look that dangerous. It looked just like the sonic blaster Scarlet was holding. The loud bang must of came from it hitting the metal bench. Scarlet went to go pick it up.
"Stop, it might be dangerous!" The Doctor shouted.
"It could, but not everything from the rift is dangerous, I met some lovely folks that came out of the rift-"
"Jack your not helping!" The Doctor shouted.
"Fine, let's take it back to my place to do a proper analysis." Jack said, reaching to pick it up.
"Jack, he said it could be dangerous!" Scarlet shouted.
"Yeah, but I can't die, remember?" Jack picked it up and stuffed it under his jacket, leading The Doctor and Scarlet to his flat.
"This is your apartment?" Scarlet asked.
"It's called a flat, but yeah."
"But it's so empty." She looked around the flat. There was no kitchen to be seen. But he probably didn't eat too much because he couldn't starve. All there was was a sitting room, an untouched bedroom, a bathroom, and a room that was closed and locked. Jack stepped in front of her and unlocked the door. It was huge. It had gadgets and contraptions all across the room. It was messy compared to the rest of the house, papers scattered everywhere. This was probably where he spent most of his time.
"Hey Red, can you get us some tea?" Jack asked.
"You don't even have a kitchen, AND ITS SCARLET!"
"There's a coffee shop down the street, can you make a run?"
"Yeah, sure. You got any money?" Scarlet held out her hand. Jack placed a couple of coins in her hand.
"That'll be enough." Jack said, shooing her off. Scarlet slammed the door shut.
"So Doctor?"
"Hmm?"
"How's the new companion treating you, I certainly like her."
"She's good, very handy."
"But she doesn't seem odd to you, a little unhuman?"
"In what way?" The Doctor said with worry, scanning the object with one of Jack's gadgets.
"She seems, higher than other people, like she's better, like you talk."
"Maybe she just hangs out with me too much." The Doctor smiled. They both got back to finding what this thing was.
Not 10 minutes later, Scarlet arrived with two cups of tea in her hand. She entered the lab and handed the boys their hard earned drink.
"Thanks, Red." Jack said, loving how annoyed Scarlet got when he said that.
"So what have you found out?"
"It's just a normal sonic blaster, from the mid-6000's, totally empty." Jack said, knocking on it to prove it's hollowness.
"So not harmless?" Scarlet asked.
"No, see," He said as he pointed it at the wall, "If I shot it, nothing would happen." He clicked the trigger. instead of a sonic blast, a white puff of smoke came out of the gun. It looked like it was alive, wiggling like a worm in the air. It shot through the room and shot right into Scarlet's open mouth. Everything in her vision went black.
Jack and The Doctor rushed over to Scarlet's body laying on the ground. She looked like she was having a seizure, her body squirming and shaking.
"WHAT WAS THAT!" The Doctor shouted.
"I don't know I thought it was empty!"
"Oh, ANOTHER thing you thought was empty! When will you stop!"
"I'm sorry Doctor."
"We can't just leave her like this! What if it was poison!" Suddenly, Scarlet stopped shaking. She coughed, white smoke coming out of her mouth. Jack grabbed a jar and caught it. Scarlet opened her eyes and groaned.
"Where am I?" she mumbled. The Doctor smiled. He leaned down to hug her, and she actually let him, oh yeah, that was her old regeneration.
"I knew you could fight it!" The Doctor shouted.
"Yeah, why don't you lie down in my bedroom and we'll come back to get you when we're finished testing...stuff." Jack said, pushing her out of the lab and locking the door. She went into his bed room and laid down like he said.
"What was that for, we already finished testing," The Doctor said.
"No, whatever was in that blaster could still be inside of her, we need to analyze it," Jack said, holding up the jar.
It took them a while to analyze it too, about 2 hours, which for The Doctor is a lifetime. They did millions of scans and searches, until they found one tidbit of information that helped them.
"In many intergalactic species," Jack read aloud from a conspiracy book he was holding onto, "When a person of some races die, they loose their physical form and become a sprit that can posses the alive or take over the dead."
"That happened to us!" The Doctor shouted, "Me and Rose, I mean. These blue smoke creatures that hid in the gas."
"Well I guess these one's live in sonic blasters."
"We have to get Scarlet." The Doctor said, bursting open the door of Jack's bedroom. He looked around the room, it was empty. Then he saw it. An open window.
Scarlet was running, but it wasn't her, it was someone else controlling her. It was like someone had pushed her into her own mind and was taking control of the body. After hours of her out of control, she kept trying, she wouldn't give up. She could see where her body was taking her, it was toward the TARDIS.
"What do you want?" Scarlet screamed inside her mind. The question was followed by silence. "ANSWER ME!"
"Well child, since you asked so kindly, I guess I could tell you. My race was destroyed in the late stages of the last Great Time War. We had no where to go, just dust floating around the universe. But I traveled into the rift, thanks to your ship strengthening the connection to it. Now I can use the blue box to send out a pulse that will kill all humans in its radius, dead unharmed bodies that my species can have!"
"If you can only posses dead bodies, how are you inside of me?"
"Your body is weak! I can't access you memories, but it's from something that happened a few days ago, It wa-" Scarlet nor the smoke noticed Jack attack from behind, pinning her to the ground. If Scarlet could say anything, she would have been thank God, or it took you long enough. But only the old smoke hag could access the lips.
"Unhand me!" The old smoke hag yelled, still disguised under Scarlet's voice. Jack rolled her over, holding her down by the waist. The Doctor grabbed something out of his pocket and handed it to Jack. Scarlet started to squirm, but Jack was strong. He placed one hand one her lower chest and held the singularity scalpel in the other, pointing it directly at Scarlet's head. A flash of light went off and the smoke came out from Scarlet's mouth. The Doctor caught it in a jar. Instead of fainting again, Scarlet sprang up and gave Jack a hug.
Jack had walked them both back to the TARDIS.
"I'll make sure I dispose of that smoke, it won't harm anyone again."
"Thanks a lot Jack." Scarlet smiled and walked into the TARDIS, The Doctor about to follow her.
"Uh, Doctor?"
"Yes, Jack?"
"About earlier, your emotions showed a lot of compassion for that girl."
"Yes, that was companion compassion, nothing else."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am completely sure." Jack popped his head into the TARDIS.
"Oh, and Red!" He called to Scarlet.
"Yes?"
"See you later Time Lord." Jack smiled.
"How did you know?" The Doctor and Scarlet asked at the same time.
"Any companion knows all the books in the TARDIS library are in Gallifreyan, and when I was holding you down, I got the privilege to feel both of your lovely hearts beating, and what, your not gonna complain about your nickname?"
"Hey, you saved my life, you can call me whatever you want." Scarlet smiled. The Doctor closed the door as Jack saluted them goodbye. As the TARDIS disappeared, hiding behind it was a weevil. He pulled out his old fashioned pistol and chased it around Cardiff.
A.N- If you guys haven't watched Torchwood, a singularity scalpel is an item that can take an object out of something without harming the outside. Like if you wanted to take an egg out of a chicken without harming the chicken, you use that...you know...if they were real.