Word count: 394 (Damnit! Nearly 400!)
Author's Note: Oh lord, praise thyself, for I have actually updated a story in God knows how long. Okay, this is a crackfic, flames welcomes, reviews adored.
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"'Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, wanted for ransacking, theft and general inconvenience.' Dated February 17th, 1901." The Doctor wrinkled his nose in distaste, scrunching up the wanted poster and tossing it behind him. "General inconvenience?" He snorted. "Must've been just before he scurried off to Argentina."
"Uh, Doctor?" Rose eyed him quizzically. "Who's 'he'"?
"He," the Doctor slapped that day's newspaper onto the TARDIS' console, "is one of the most wanted men in the U.S. You'd know him better as the Sundance Kid."
Rose laughed. "The Sundance Kid? As in, Butch Cassidy, shoot 'em up, notorious outlaw Sundance Kid? That one?"
"That's the one." He peered out the door. "Not sure what we're meant to be doing here though. Unless there's a gun-toting imp from Garbogswa around here. They tend to like these sorts of things."
Upon catching sight of something, he gasped the sort of gasp Rose could imagine coming from Kate off Days of our Lives after she spotted Nicholas kissing Sammy right after she went to dinner with him. In short, it was a shocked sort of gasp.
"Rose!" He squeaked, beckoning her over. "He's ginger! I come all this way to find out he's ginger and got a moustache!"
"Is that him?" She frowned at a man not too far away in the distance. "Is that the Sundance Kid?"
"He's ginger and he can dance in the sun."
"I never thought I'd – what did you say?" Rose raised an eyebrow at him. "About dancing in the sun?"
"Didn't you know that was where he got the name from? He dances in the sun to confuse the people trying to shoot him."
"Er, I don't think that's where it's from, Doctor, I think it was because of that prison –"
"Right!" The Doctor strode out of the TARDIS, pausing only once to glance back at Rose.
"Rose, I'm the Doctor, and I can dance. If he thinks he's so good with his feet, let's see how he compares with the real McCoy. We're going to have ourselves a showdown."
"What?" Rose looked horrified. "Doctor, you can't! I know how you feel about guns, and he'll, he'll kill you!"
"Rose, don't be daft. I'm not going to have a stand off with him. That's ridiculous, and might I add, immature."
"Then…what're you going to do?"
"Challenge him to a game of Dance Dance Revolution."
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Author's Note: To clear things up, Harry Longabaugh was named the Sundance Kid after his 18-month stint in Sundance, Wyoming jail. But hey, the Doctor didn't know that. He just let his imagination get away with him.