A/N: Hope you like this chapter, it's quite action packed. And in case anybody wonders about the timeline this takes place, or incase anyone has forgotten, this story takes place after Gridlock and after Evolution of the Daleks but before The Lazarus Experiment. So when the Doctor mentions that he promised Martha one trip, you'll understand the frame of time that is going on here. Please R/R. And thanks to MissHaunted-Moonlight and Medusa Descouedres for reviewing my last chapter, to thee I give cupcakes with Edible ball bearings. To the rest of ye non reviewers, ye are hereby smited with the aforementioned ball bearings. :)

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Chapter Fourteen: Don't Tease the Animals or the Time Lord

Ry'kla latched onto the Doctor's arm, she was scared. The Doctor chuckled, "Oy, you Mala'shra are all alike. Why, I remember…."

Martha looked annoyed, "Doctor this is no time to be reminiscing about something. I am willing to bet the Kai'cha are right behind us."

Ry'kla nodded her eyes were wide with fear, "Yes, and they are hungry."

The Doctor smirked, "Now really, those big ole lizards are not really going to eat us. In fact, they are probably not allowed to eat us."

"Doctor, do you really want to test that theory out?"

The Doctor paused, "Oooh Martha, you're right. You know that reminds me of the time that I once got…"

"Doctor….not now."

"Right, sorry….let's be off."

The Doctor stepped out the door and he then stepped back, "Uhh Martha….lizards…."

Martha took a peak out the door to find themselves trapped by the Kai'cha.

The Doctor smiled, "Hello…."

The lizards hissed on in laughter, one of them said, "Trrraapped like raaatssss. I like raaatssss…."

The Doctor said, "I can imagine. Big ole strapping reptiles like you, rats to you would be like what, chocolate?" The Doctor managed to brush free from Ry'kla's grasp, and stepped over to the speaker that he had been fiddling with earlier. He took up a few wires, "The question is; how do lizards react to high level pitched sounds?"

He put the wires together and a loud sonic sound filled the cell. The lizards hissed in pain. Ry'kla whimpered as well. "My ears…."

The window in the cell suddenly started to crack and then it shattered. He grabbed Ry'kla and Martha by the hands and grinned, "Run…."

The three of them ran out of the shattered window and the Doctor said, "Okay here's the plan. I need to see what Ms. Lai has in her office; she has it pass worded though."

"Uhh Doctor…." Martha said trying to get his attention.

"Now I can probably bypass the security system and…."

"Uhh Doctor…"

"But it will take some time. Martha, Ry'kla. I want you to create a distraction. Give me enough time so…"

"DOCTOR…I HAVE A PASSWORD."

The Doctor stopped and looked at Martha his eyes wide at that revelation, "Martha, why didn't you say so before?"

Martha rolled her eyes, "Could you honestly just listen for once?"

"I always listen."

Martha snorted, "Right. An elephant could go right past you and you wouldn't even notice."

The Doctor grinned, "Martha, you're a genius. Elephant, we're in a zoo. We just need to release some of these aliens and monsters and….that should keep security busy as well."

Martha sighed, "Yea and how do you expect us to do that? Shatter the glass."

The Doctor frowned, "Hmm….that's not ordinary glass either…never mind. Come on…let's get to her office first and enter that password and then worry about it."

"Doctor….umm problem."

The Doctor looked around and found that Martha, Ry'kla and himself were surrounded by guards each of them holding blaster rifles.

"Hands up…."

The Doctor grinned and raised his right hand up, then dropped it and then put up his left hand up.

"No funny business…"

The Doctor kept putting his hands up and down and got closer and closer to one of the guards, suddenly he grabbed one of the guards and put the blaster rifle toward his head, "Alright….drop the weapons…"

"Or what, you'll shoot, Doctor."

Martha turned around to look at who was speaking and found it was coming from a woman dressed in a Victorian dress.

Ms. Lai smiled, "Would you really kill a guard, Doctor? I have heard and read a lot about you. You wouldn't kill a man doing his job, would you?"

The Doctor glared at her, his eyes were filled with flame and fire and he said angrily. "Ms. Lai. You have pushed enough of my buttons for one day. I don't know what you know about me, but you should know this, I am not a man to upset. Because when I get upset, things happen."

The Doctor cranked up the setting on the rifle and aimed it at the exhibit containing the Macara, he fired. The weapon didn't damage the glass, but it seemed to agitate the Macara inside the exhibit and the Doctor repeated firing. Suddenly the Macra began to pound against the glass and it began to crack, cracks began to form and the glass shattered.

The Doctor grinned and then said, "Word of advice…run before the Macra gets you."

He threw the rifle as far as he could and let go of the guard who fled in terror at the monster that was now released. Gas flooded out of the exhibit, as the exhibit was filled with what the Macra loved the most.

Meanwhile Ms. Lai was yelling at her guards to contain the beast and not to kill it.

The Doctor grabbed Martha and Ry'kla by the hands, "Run…."

The three ran and Martha said, "That woman, she's a regular nutter."

The Doctor laughed, "Very much. But you travel with me long enough; you'll meet plenty of them."

"It's a good thing you only invited me for one trip."

"Yea, you might end up getting hurt if you travel with me too long…"

Behind them the Macara was creating havoc, it threw guards aside as if they were match sticks. Other exhibits had also broken free as the Macra smashed the glass that contained the exhibits. Some of them were like Ry'kla, not at all hostile and they ran screaming from the menagerie. Other exhibits were a bit more hostile and were taking advantage of the situation as well. An Ice Warrior, also a lizard, was taking on some of the Kai'cha, but the Ice Warrior was a bit more cumbersome than the Kai'cha, but both came from warrior like races and despite the havoc going around them, they could not resist fighting each other, the Kai'cha were vowing to rip the Ice Warrior to shreds and the Ice Warrior vowing to do the same. Lora Lai finally threw up her hands in defeat and entered a pass code as she reached a lift, the lift doors opened; she decided she would be safer on the second floor.

"Now this is more like it…" The Doctor said as they arrived at Ms. Lai's office.

"Martha, would you open it for me?"

"Of course, Doctor."

Martha ran the card through and punched in the password, the door came open and Ry'kla ran in first, "There's tea and chocolate biscuits in here." She said as she looked at a table that had a tea pot and a plate of biscuits. Ry'kla's stomach growled noisily at the sight of food. She had been kept purposely thin by her captors as most of her kind were very slender. It was that and being left partially hungry made it difficult for a Mala'shra to concentrate and use their psychic and telepathic abilities.

The Doctor laughed, "Help yourself, Ry'kla."

He plopped himself down into the chair that Lora Lai had sat in earlier, Moving up the antimacassar he found a keypad. "Now Martha, what's that code?"

Martha shut the door and locked it and then told the Doctor the code. The Doctor punched the code in and a passageway opened up by the bookshelves.

The Doctor got up, "Now….to see what mysteries the mysterious Lora Lai holds…"

He took Martha by the hand and both went in. Meanwhile, Ry'kla stuffed herself on biscuits and tea.