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4. Ben Franklin
"That was a day and a half. I got rope burns off that kite. And then I got soaked. And THEN I got electrocuted!" – The Doctor, "Smith and Jones"
Benjamin Franklin was on the verge of yet another great discovery. He glanced outside and smiled…it looked like it would storm soon. He hoped he could get the supplies ready before it started raining so he could test this idea. It had been difficult to balance his time between his experiments and his job as a Justice of the Peace, so he didn't know when he would be able to get the chance to do it again. He was putting the final touches on his formal hypothesis when a cloaked figure rushed into the room and locked it behind him.
"Sir, I am very busy, and I would appreciate-"
"Silence! You will cease these investigations at once!" the creature hissed.
"I assure you, Sir, that this test could very well be the discovery of the century!"
"Which is precisely why it must stop!" the creature roared back. He took down his hood, revealing a crimson-skinned face that was partially obscured by a strange skull-shaped mask. Benjamin had imagined many things, but he had never in his wildest dreams pictured something as grotesque and foreign as this.
From under his cloak the creature pulled out a sword and was about to strike when there was a strange buzzing sound and a man in a brown pinstriped suit burst into the room stunning the alien with a high-pitched noise with a glowing blue metal stick so it dropped the sword.
"Aha! A Sycorax! You know how easy it was to find you? An alien wearing a vortex manipulator in Eighteenth Century America…it's like a lighthouse beacon pointing out exactly where you are!" the man shouted. He then turned to Ben and said "Oh, hello Benjamin Franklin, how's the lightning experiment going?" Then he turned back and called back to the monster "Now…why don't you leave the nice genius alone and stay away from big historical events?"
The Sycorax ('I thought that was from Shakespeare,' Ben thought) just growled in return and reached for his sword again.
"Really?" the pin-striped man voiced. "I thought you would have gathered after I defeated your leader last Christmas that you really don't want to mess with me. When will you ever learn?"
"If I stop this discovery then the humans will not send out that satellite and we will not have been drawn to this filthy planet and YOU, Doctor, will not have caused our ship to be blown up and I wouldn't have to escape at the last second!" the Sycorax declared.
"Yes, yes, and then you would create a paradox and seeing as I really don't want to have to deal with Reapers again I am just going to have to do this," the Doctor replied, aiming the glowing metal tool at the Sycorax's wrist, on which there was another metal device. The machine beeped and then it, along with the alien it was attached to, was gone.
The Doctor sighed. "Right. You know, I wonder why they just stare at me and listen while I talk…must be my charisma."
"Thank you…Doctor, is it?" Benjamin expressed, very much confused at recent events.
The Doctor nodded and was about to say something when a crash of thunder sounded. "Oh! You have to hurry! Don't want to miss this storm!" he cried.
Benjamin had almost forgotten so he accepted the Doctor's help in carrying the kite, string, and other supplies. They rushed to the park down the street and the Doctor offered to get the kite up in the air, which he did.
It was extremely windy outside and the poor Doctor, being extremely skinny, was being dragged by the kite to and fro. He hissed as the rope bit into his hands as the downpour began. Ben grabbed a hold of the end of the rope and for a while they just held on while the tempest raged on.
"Okay, Ben, I think I'm gonna need to let go right-OW!" the Doctor howled, letting go from the shock.
"We've done it!" Benjamin exclaimed. "We've proven that lightning is electricity! Oh Doctor, thank you so much!"
"I would say it's my pleasure, but I feel like I've just been run over by a carriage! Oh, and don't feel any obligation to mention me in your report, you are the one who deserves the credit, Ben. Just do me a favour and keep being brilliant!" the Doctor replied, heading towards a blue box with a quick wave and a smile.
"What an odd man," Ben thought to himself, hurrying back to his study and wondering if he'd ever see that Doctor ever again.