Welcome to chapter 3!
In this chapter, Artemis and Martha end up on the moon! Anyone for a spacewalk?
I do NOT own Doctor Who, only my Oc's and story idea.
Chapter 3: Smith, Jones, and Brooks, Oh my!
ROYAL HOPE HOSPITAL
MEZZANINE LEVEL
Artemis stuck close to Martha as she knelt down behind some plants from view with the Doctor, down below them the aliens were shining a blue light on people before marking them with an 'X' on the back of their hand.
"Oh, look down there, you've got a little shop, I like a little shop," The Doctor said with a grin as he noticed the shop.
"Really? Out of all the things to notice? The shop? Not, Oh! Look aliens running around scanning people! No, you notice the shop first!" Artemis almost whispered to the Doctor making him stare at her for a second before breaking out into a big grin.
"I like you, Artemis Brooks, very perceptive of you," The Doctor said sounding impressed with Artemis who rolled her eyes before looking down at the chaos below.
"Artemis is right, never mind the shop, what are Judoon?" Martha asked as one of the rhino aliens said 'Human' and the only one speaking English it seems.
"They're like police, well, police for hire, they're more like," The Doctor said only for Artemis to sigh.
"Let me guess, more like thugs for hire?" She asked making the Doctor nod.
Martha bit her lip asking "And they brought us to the moon?"
"Neutral territory, according to galactic law, they've got no jurisdiction over the Earth, and they isolated it," The Doctor said moving to look over Artemis's shoulder.
'Hang on a minute! If he knows all of this then is he a..' Artemis thought as she started to piece things together.
"That rain, lightning? That was them, using an H2O scoop," The Doctor finished as he glanced around the bottom floor.
Martha not really understanding what he was saying decided to do what she did best, ask questions.
"What are you on about, galactic law? Where'd you get that from? If they're police, are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something?" She asked rapidly while Artemis hid a grin.
She always liked how Martha was to the point and not letting anyone walk all over her, she remembered how she decked her last boyfriend who cheated on her. In fact, Artemis helped with the decking of the Ex-boyfriend. She even kicked him where the sun doesn't shine for hurting her friend's feelings.
The Doctor when moved to another part to get a better look at what was going on, the two females followed him with Artemis moving to stand by his right side.
Glancing at Martha the Doctor said "No, but I like that, good thinking, no, I wish it were that simple," Before looking back down.
"They're making a catalog, that means they're after something nonhuman," The Doctor said making Artemis grin.
"Which is bad news for you, Doctor," She said making his head snap towards her.
"Yes, how did you know?" He asked wondering how she figured it out.
"The way you talk, the things you've been saying, how you act, you're something much more than a human," Artemis said before poking the Doctor on the nose making him move his head back a bit though he had to admit he was really impressed.
Martha shot the Doctor a look of disbelief saying "Oh, you're kidding me, don't be ridiculous!" Only for both Artimus and the Doctor to give her a raised eyebrow in sync.
If this was any other situation Martha would have chuckled at that but now was not the time, so, she just asking "Stop looking at me like that,"
Artemis stood up as the Doctor said "Come on then,"
With that, the trio left the area as the Judoon kept searching.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
ADMIN OFFICE
Artemis stood watching the Doctor as he sat in front of the computer using something called a sonic screwdriver on the computer, to be honest, she kinda wanted one.
She bit her lip as she felt her hands twitch, oh! She wanted to do something! Anything!
She almost jumped as Martha came over saying "They've reached the third floor, what's that thing?"
"Sonic screwdriver," The Doctor said focusing on the computer.
"Well, if you're not going to answer me properly," Martha said not looking amused.
The Doctor paused turning to face Martha saying "No, really, it is, It's a screwdriver," He held said device up. "And it's sonic, look," He said before turning back to the computer.
"What else have you got, a laser spanner?" Martha asked jokingly while Artemis hid a chuckle.
"I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman," The Doctor said before wacking the computer yelling "What's wrong with this computer!"
"Calm down," Artemis said before moving to sit by him as he sighs saying "The Judoon must have locked it down, Judoon platoon upon the moon,"
'That rhymed, cool' She thought before looking at the Doctor as he ran a hand through his hair.
"Because I was just traveling past, I swear, I was just wondering," He said before going off on a ramble. "I wasn't looking for trouble, honestly, I wasn't, but I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital, and that lightning, that's a plasma coil, been building up for two days now, so I checked in, I thought something was going on inside! It turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above,"
Artemis gave him a bemused look before chuckling and whispering to herself "You sure know how to ramble,"
"But what were they looking for?" Martha asked.
"Something that looks human, but isn't," The Doctor said as he began to type away on the computer.
"Like me, but not me," The Doctor said giving Artemis a nod making her grin.
"Haven't they got a photo?" Martha asked making Artemis turn to her with a thoughtful look.
"Maybe the alien disguised itself? Made itself look human? And that's why their scanning people?" Artemis asked missing the Doctor glance at her with interest but Martha did.
"Whatever it is, can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?," Martha asked looking at the Doctor.
She then took note of her friend's twitching hands, smirking Martha nudged her making Artemis look at her with a questioning look. Martha then nodded towards the computer with a smirk making Artemis grin and nod.
"If they declare the hospital guilty of harboring a fugitive, they'll sentence it to execution," The Doctor said grimly wiping the smiles off the girl's faces.
"All of us?" Martha asked a sinking feeling in her chest.
"Oh yes, If I can find this thing first," He said before yelling making Artemis and Martha jump.
"Oh! You see, they're thick! Judoon are thick! They are completely thick! They wiped the records, oh, that's clever," He said running a hand through his already messy hair.
Artemis taking her chance stood up saying "Move over, space guy, my time to shine," She pushed his chair out of the way before sitting in front of the computer.
Cracking her fingers and hands Artemis began to type away if there was one other thing she was good at besides healing it was hacking and making little gadgets. She took a mechanics course and engineering along with other stuff, she was always drifting from course to course. She stayed with medical longer since it was harder to do and had a lot of courses to complete.
Healing and mechanics always felt more natural to her for some reason, so, she just followed her feelings.
"You hack?" The Doctor asked looking between Artemis and the computer.
"I can, uh, don't tell anyone though only Martha knows," Artemis said with a small blush staining her cheeks.
"That's because you don't want anyone finding out you pranked the president by rigging the white house to play 'I'm a Barbie girl' for 2 days," Martha said remembering that little event.
"You what?" The Doctor asked momentarily forgetting about the crisis at hand.
"Not right now! Anyway, What are we looking for?" Artemis asked ignoring Martha's chuckle and snapping the Doctor out of it.
"I don't know, say, any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms," The Doctor said before using his sonic on the computer as Artemis typed away.
"Maybe there's a back-up," Artemis said as Martha looked over at the doors.
"Just keep working, I'll go ask Mister Stoker, he might know," Martha said before leaving the room.
"So, pranked the white house?" The Doctor asked with a grin as they worked.
Artemis blushed again saying "Would you believe me if I said I had been very bored that day?"
The Doctor let a laugh escape him as Artemis chuckled before focusing on her work, she felt her hearts race as she typed. Then grinned as the computer beeps bringing up the records.
"Success!" Artemis yelled as she stood up with the Doctor.
"Brilliant! Let's get Martha," The Doctor said taking Artemis hand and pulling her along.
OUTSIDE STOCKER'S OFFICE
Artemis lead the Doctor to Mr. Stocker's office when they ran into Martha, literally! Artemis had to catch her friend as she bolted out of the office like her pants were on fire!
"We've restored the back-up," The Doctor said as Martha looked at them in a panic.
"I've found her!" She almost yelled.
"You did what?" Artemis and the Doctor asked together before look up as the door to Mr. Stocker's office was bashed down to show a black motorcycle guy.
The Doctor grabbed Artemis's hand as she grabbed Martha's yelling "RUN!"
"Don't need to tell me twice!" Artemis yelled back as they took off running with motorcycle man after them.
They ran through the corridors avoiding patients scattered along the corridor before making it to the stairs, they ran down them and was about to head down to the second floor when Artemis saw the Judoon.
"Whoa!" She yelled and quickly ran down another corridor which she took note was the corridor to Radiology.
'That's it!' Artemis thought yelling "This way!"
She glanced behind her to see the Doctor and Martha following her and the black leather guy still after them! Taking a corner she skidded to a stop turning she caught Martha before pushing her down another hallway towards the dental department, the Doctor quickly followed Artemis as she ran down and into the room with Martha.
She quickly ran behind the radiation screen and began to fiddle with the buttons and switches, she looked up in time to see the Doctor sonic screwdriver the door before running over to the X-ray machine and use the screwdriver on it.
"When I say now, press the button!" The Doctor yelled as Artemis stood ready.
"I'm on it!" She yelled moving to the button that would switch on the X-ray machine.
"Here he comes!" Martha said as the door was hit off its hinges and crashed to the floor with a loud bang.
"Now!" The Doctor yelled pointing the machine at the man as he stepped into the room.
Artemis hit the button making the room flash with a bright light and for a split second Artemis swore she saw the Doctor's skeleton, she blinked a few times as she pulled her hand off the button stopping the machine. She watched as the motorcycle guy landed face first on the floor, licking her lips she looked over at the Doctor.
"What did you do?" Martha asked as Artemis moved towards the exit.
"Increased the radiation by five thousand percent, killed him dead," The Doctor said letting go of the machine to look down at the dead guy.
Alarmed Martha asked, "But isn't that going to kill you?"
"Nah, it's only roentgen radiation, we used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery," The Doctor said making Artemis pause, why did that sound familiar? Pushing it aside she focused back on the Doctor as he said "It's safe for you to come out, I've absorbed it all,"
Artemis stepped out from behind the screen as the Doctor began to grunt and move on the spot.
"All I need to do is expel it, If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot," The Doctor said before lifting up his left leg.
"It's in my left shoe, here we go, here we go," He said before hopping on the stop to Artemis's amusement and Martha's bewilderment.
"Easy does it, out, out, out, out, out! Out, out! Ah, ah, ah, ah! It is, it is, it is, it is, it is hot! Hold on!" The Doctor said before ripping his shoe and sock off before throwing it in the waste bin.
"Done!" He said looking at the two ladies.
Artemis stared at him for around 5 seconds before bursting into laughter, she held her sides as she laughed. That was funny!
"You're completely mad," Martha said but grinned as her friend's laughter made her chuckle a bit.
Artemis looked up as she started to get her laughter under control when the Doctor said "You're right, I look daft with one shoe,"
He then took his other shoe and sock off and threw them in the bin he then looked at the ladies saying "Barefoot on the moon!"
Artemis snorted as she sank to her knees in laughter and fell on her side, oh! He was too much! If Artemis had looked up she would have seen the pleased grin the Doctor shot her, he was glad he could make her laugh in a situation like this.
Once Artemis calmed down enough to get off the floor Martha looked over at the dead 'guy' she asked "So what is that thing? And where's it from, the planet Zovirax?"
She moved over and knelt beside the guy with Artemis and the Doctor.
"It's just a Slab. They're called Slabs, basic slave drones," He said reaching over and squeezed the drones arm. "See? Solid leather, all the way through, someone has got one hell of a fetish," He said while getting up.
He then went over to the X-ray machine to grab his sonic screwdriver as Artemis stood up.
"But it was that woman, Miss Finnegan, it was working for her, just like a servant," Martha said as the Doctor pulled his device from the machine only to see a fried sonic.
"My sonic screwdriver," The Doctor said looking upset at his device.
"It's fried, the poor thing," Artemis said moving to look at the device.
"She was one of the patients, but," Martha said only to be ignored.
"Oh, no, my sonic screwdriver," The Doctor said lightly tapping his sonic while Artemis patted his shoulder.
"There, there, Doctor," She said in sympathy knowing what it was like to see your gadgets get destroyed.
"She had a straw like some kind of vampire," Martha said before rolling her eyes as she stood up.
"I loved my sonic screwdriver," The Doctor said before snapping out of it as Martha yelled.
"Doctor!" Martha yelled making him turn to her throwing the sonic screwdriver over his shoulder.
"Hey!" Artemis yelled before going to pick it up and pocketed it.
"Sorry," He said before saying to Martha "You called me Doctor,"
Martha shook her head slightly saying "Anyway? Miss Finnegan is the alien, she was drinking Mister Stoker's blood,"
Artemis frowns asking "Funny time to take a snack, you'd think she'd be hiding with all of the rhino police around,"
The Doctor nods saying "Yes, unless," He paused thinking before his eyes went wide.
"No, yes, that's it! Wait a minute, yes! Artemis you're brilliant!" The Doctor said turning to a confused Artemis.
"I am?" She asked looking at him as he nods.
"Yes! Before you said the alien might have disguised itself as human, you're correct on that part the aliens a shape-changer! An Internal shape-changer, she wasn't drinking blood, she was assimilating it," He said making something click in Artemis head.
"Hang on a minute! If she can assimilate Mister Stoker's blood and copy it she'll register as a human!" Artemis said making the Doctor nod as Martha went wide-eyed.
"We've got to find her and show the Judoon! Come on!" The Doctor yelled running out of the room with the ladies right behind him.
OUTSIDE PATHOLOGY
Artemis was running beside Martha behind the Doctor when he stopped and pulled them back and ducked beside a water cooler, right as another motor-uh Slab went past them.
"That's the thing about Slabs, they always travel in pairs," The Doctor said as Artemis watched the Slab walk away.
"What about you?" Martha asked making the Doctor look at her asking "What about me what?"
"Haven't you got back-up? You must have a partner or something?" Martha asked the Doctor who shot her a look but before he could say anything Artemis beat him to it.
"Martha, we're currently stuck on the moon with a hospital full of people, with rhino police stomping around and a blood-sucking alien convict running around! Now is not the time to gossip!" Artemis said slightly annoyed as she stood up.
"Well, that's humans for ya, couldn't have said it better myself," The Doctor said getting up himself and moved in front of Artemis while taking her hand.
Martha got up and followed them saying "I like that, humans, I'm still not convinced you're an alien,"
Right as the Doctor stepped into the hallway out of all things, he gets scanned by a Judoon! The scanner beep as the police rhino said "Nonhuman,"
Artemis felt her heart jump as Martha said: "Oh my God, you really are!"
The Doctor turned saying "And again!"
He took off running with Artemis and Martha right behind him as the ducked shots from the Judoon.
Artemis couldn't help but grin, this was insane! But she was loving it!
'What's wrong with me today?' Artemis thought as they kept running, this time with the police after them!
Done! Hope you like it!
Next chapter, we have a little bit of kissing but who will get kissed? Find out in the next chapter.
Until then, SaberbladePrime signing out!