"Is that hat really practical?" asked Howard.
"I've got to think of my reputation. There's no harm in looking good while you're saving the universe."
"Are you ready," asked the Doctor.
"Yep," replied Howard.
"Do you understand the plan, what you've got to do?"
"Can you go through it one more time," asked Vince.
"You take the bucket-,"
"Which one?"
"The blue one. And I'll take the meat-,"
"What meat?"
"The chops you bought," replied the Doctor. "I gave you the money for it."
"Erm…well…I don't know how to say it but I saw this hat and you know I just had to buy it," he admired his complexion in a nearby window. "Nice."
"You did what," exclaimed the Doctor and Howard together.
"I bought the hat-,"
"You're an idiot," said Rose.
"For this you," the Doctor slapped Vince on the back, "Will be the bait."
Vince gulped.
"Howard. You can't let him use me as bait. I'm too pretty."
"It's your own fault."
"But I'm aquarium he's aviary its out of my speciality. I don't do monsters-,"
"So like when are you going to leave," asked Fossil, tentatively.
"Leave? Leave!" the creature exclaimed. "I'm never going to leave."
"B-But-,"
"I can see into your…minuscule mind you putrid human. The only way to escape is to die!"
Fossil dropped to his knees hands in a praying position.
"Why won't you leave," he whined. "I want to go home!"
"Home? Home, when the Hoix is done and this planet is mine you won't have a home!"
They snuck up to the cage where the Hoix was being kept the master key in hand.
"Right, you stand there," said the Doctor to Vince, "And get ready to run."
"I don't like this, man."
"Just do as you're told and it will be fine."
He turned the key in the rusty lock with a creak the door swung open. There was a growl from the darkness and a rustle of something moving in the hay. Then suddenly it appeared looming out of the shadows.
Its face came right up close to Vince's and it lit out a snort of putrid rotting meat, spit spraying out.
"Aragh-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," cried Vince a look of utter terror on his face.
The creature snatched his hat off his head and proceeded to chew a huge chunk out of it before discarding the offending item.
"My hat!"
It roared at him again. He turned on his heels and ran. The monster pursued him through the zoo.
Rose and Howard waited round the corner ready. Both held their buckets ready.
"So what's in this stuff then," asked Howard.
"I don't know. He just poured in a load of stuff from the bathroom cabinet and the cupboard under the stairs."
"Do you think it's toxic?"
"I-, Here he comes get ready!"
As Vince passed them with the Hoix in pursuit they threw the buckets of liquid over the creature.