Martha stepped in quickly, grabbing the murderous Ade by the arm and dragging him away from the other man who was prone on the floor. With an angry mutter of "Boys and their toys… what next?" she wrenched the piping from the attacker and threw it away. "Cut the macho man act out, now."
"Ooo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo." Both men taunted with gleeful sarcasm, Rik recovering instantaneously from possible concussion to join in.
The poor woman who had found herself stuck with them rolled her eyes, wishing the Doctor's old personality back.
"If you could possibly behave for just a few minutes I have something very important to tell you, Doctor."
"It's okay my dear, I love you too."
"Barbara," Ade hissed a warning out of the side of his mouth.
"Obviously the regeneration has caused you to experience slight amnesia, but before you were…" Here Martha had to break off and look away into the camera with tears dancing at the corners of her profoundly suffering eyes for a moment, the last few moments of the late Doctor's death replaying painfully in her head. "Excuse me. Before you regenerated, we were just on our way to check out a Dalek convention, as you believed that the few remaining Daleks were planning to regroup there and draw out their plans for universe domination through novelty action figure merchandise. We have to stop them, Doctor."
The faux Time Lord and his bespectacled companion stared gormlessly at her.
"We only have 5 minutes before it starts!" Panic at the blank looks on their faces caused her to shout.
"What do you expect me to do about it?" Rik shouted back in annoyance. Women these days, all they did was nag – 'do this, do that, you've got five minutes to save the world'. It was a disgrace.
Martha stared at him for a moment, unable to do anything except hang her usually talkative mouth open. Deciding she would have to take matters into her own hands until the Doctor regained some form of sanity, not that he had had any to begin with, she crossed over to the TARDIS consoles and keyed in the co ordinates for the Dalek convention – Geekville, then threw switches and lurched about, all the usual actions that accompany the firing up of the time machine.
It would have been a pleasant journey if Ade hadn't decided to get time sick all over Martha's new jacket…
