Stupidly long chapter this one, but it is the finale, and everything needs wrapping up. I've nicked a few lines of dialogue from a couple of places, full references with the disclaimer at the bottom of the chapter.
I'm quite happy with the way this story turned out, I wasn't sure I was going to finish it. I've tried to remain true to both shows - using the humour from both Grim Adventures & Doctor Who, and also using the classic Who's ability to fill gaping plot holes with a single line of dialogue. Classic.
I do tend to make silly spelling and/or wording errors that I just don't notice even after reading it 20 times. If you spot any, feel free to let me know so I can correct them!
And for those of you who are interested, the Doctor in this story is indeed the 4th Doctor, as played by Tom Baker between 1974-1981.
So, sit back, hum the Doctor Who theme tune if you know it, and please enjoy:
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The Dalek Invasion of Endsville - Part 4
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Grim, the Doctor, Mandy, and Billy were backed up against the elevator door they had just come through, by a dozen or more Daleks hell bent on destroying them. Billy closed his eyes as tightly as he could and prepared to be exterminated.
Suddenly, the elevator door opened behind them. The foursome stepped out of the way, and the Supreme Dalek that Mandy had maimed earlier trundled out. The blind Dalek had spent the last few hours wandering aimlessly throughout the ship, bumping into walls and doors. It glided past the Doctor and co and the other Daleks were momentarily distracted. The Doctor took the opportunity to slowly creep along the wall while the Daleks were not looking.
"Halt!" Called out one of the Daleks. The Supreme Dalek stopped.
"I am damaged! I cannot see!" It cried.
"That much is obvious!" Replied the other Dalek.
"Help me!"
"Over here!" The Doctor called out. He had managed to slip past the Daleks and was now behind them. As the other Daleks all turned round to face him, the Supreme Dalek spoke.
"I hear the Doctor! He must be exterminated!" The red Dalek aimed its weapon and fired in the direction the Doctor's voice came from. The Doctor ran across the room behind the Daleks as the Supreme fired.
The bolt of energy smashed into the Dalek nearest to where the Doctor had been and it exploded in a brilliant flash. Twisted shards of Dalek casing rained down around the other Daleks. Several of the remaining Daleks turned to face the Doctor. But before they could react, he called out again.
"Missed me!"
The Doctor threw himself to the floor as the red Dalek turned, and fired again several times, destroying more Daleks in the process. Smoke filled the room as the surviving Daleks began to fire at the damaged one, but missed due to poor visibility. Grim, Billy and Mandy crouched as close to the floor as they could, trying to avoid being caught in the crossfire. The bolts smashed into the control panel and door of the elevator, fusing it shut. The Dalek supreme began to advance in the direction it last heard the Doctor.
Blots of energy were now flying round the room at random, Daleks exploding left and right as they hit each other by mistake. Any Dalek still left alive was now advancing roughly towards the back of the room, ignoring the Grim Trio. Grim and the two kids stared into the smoke, unable to see the Doctor or anything that was going on. Then they heard the Doctor's voice.
"Up here!"
His voice came seemingly from above, somewhere high above the floor in the rafters.
"Exterminate!" Came the somewhat predictable response from a thin chorus of Daleks. What followed was the sound of several barrages of Dalek fire power, followed by the creaking of metal, an almighty crash, and then silence.
Eerie, eerie silence.
The smoke began to clear, revealing the source of the crash. As the Daleks had fired up towards the ceiling, they had hit a metal support beam, which in turn had fallen and flattened all of the remaining creatures. There was, however, no sign of the Doctor.
"Doctor?" Billy called out.
"Do you think the Daleks got him?" Asked a nervous Grim.
"No, they didn't," replied the Doctor, as he stepped over the fallen support beam, and dodged the smouldering Dalek remains that littered the floor.
"Hey, Doc! How'd you do that?" Asked a not-so-nervous-now Grim.
"Simple little trick, really. I just hid in the far corner of the room and threw my voice, anyone can do it. The Daleks did the rest, they're terrible with directions. Jelly baby?" The Doctor offered the Reaper a sweet.
"Ooh, ooh! Me! Me!" Cried a suddenly over excited Billy, as he ran towards the Doctor and grabbed the bag of sweets from his hands. The boy ran to the far corner of the room, crouched down and began to gobble up the sweets. He paused only to look up and hiss at everyone for a few seconds, before continuing to devour the jelly treats.
"Well, that put an end to that running gag," sighed Grim.
"If you've quite finished patting yourself on the back, Doctor," Mandy began, almost spitting on saying the Time Lord's name, "you'll notice that we're now trapped in here as the door has been melted shut."
"Ah, yes, well," the Time Lord began to stammer. "I'll think of something."
"Wonderful," sighed the girl, rolling her eyes.
The Doctor turned, walked towards a control panel and started to play around with it. Mandy skulked over to a still smouldering bottom half of a Dalek and sat on it, placing the scythe on the floor in front of her. There was a squelch and Mandy shot straight up again. She turned, bent down and picked up what she had sat on. It was a small, green blob with several still twitching tentacles, and a single eye in the middle.
"Eww," said Mandy, as she threw the mutant away.
"That's a Dalek, or more specifically a Kaled mutant." said the Doctor, not turning around from the console. "That's what the Daleks look like on the inside."
"I didn't ask you," snapped Mandy, wiping her hands on her dress and sitting back down on her makeshift Dalek chair. Billy, fresh from his candy binge, walked over to the girl.
"Mandy?"
"What do you want, dork-head?" She replied, not looking up.
"What was you gonna say to me a minute ago, before everything went KABOOM!" Billy leapt into the air and shouted the last word, which made Mandy jump slightly.
"What? Oh that. I was just going to tell you that you still owe me three months worth of your allowance."
"Oh, right. Will you take a cheque?" Billy produced a cheque book and a pen, and began writing furiously. "How do you spell 'Mandy'?"
"Just sign it!" She snapped. "I'll fill the rest in later."
Billy did as he was told and handed the girl the cheque. Mandy put it in her pocket.
"If it bounces you'll owe me double. Now go bother someone else, you idiot. I'm not in the mood for you."
Billy nodded quietly, and skipped across the room to join the Doctor. Grim walked over to the girl, and picked up the scythe.
"Are you ok, Mandy?" Asked the Reaper.
"Fine," came the abrupt response.
"Are you sure?"
"Cram it, Grim. Just leave me alone."
"What happened up there with the Emperor?"
"Grim!" The girl shot her gaze towards the skeleton, staring an infinite number of daggers into him. "If you don't shut up I'm going to stick your head up your butt, and you'll spend the rest of eternity wondering around on all fours looking for the light switch." Mandy stared at the floor again.
"I don't have a butt," said Grim, sitting next to the girl. They sat in silence for a few moments, before Mandy spoke.
"All that power, Grim. It could have been mine, and I rejected it."
"A good thing you did, too. But why?" The Reaper questioned the girl.
"If you need to kill to have power, then you're as weak as those you want to control. People should be frightened of the threat alone. The Daleks are just in it for the killing, where as I'd like to have as many minions as possible to do my bidding."
"And that's the only reason?" Asked a not-very-convinced Grim.
"Deehehehehehehee!" A familiar laugh interrupted their chat, as Grim and Mandy both looked up towards the Doctor and Billy. "You have a super fun happy rope swing!" Shouted Billy in glee, pointing to the Doctor's abnormally long scarf.
"What? Oh that, it's just a …" The Doctor began, before Billy jumped up towards the Doctor, grabbed on to his scarf and began to swing on it. The scarf began to tighten around the Doctor's neck, as Billy continued to hang there. "Get off me, boy! You're choking me!" The Doctor coughed as his face began to turn red.
"Deehehehehe! Wheeeeeee!" Cried the child out of pure joy.
Grim looked back at Mandy, who was still staring, almost hypnotised by the swinging boy.
"Yeah Grim, that's definitely the only reason," Mandy concluded after a few seconds.
"Why don't you tell them the truth, Mandy?" Came the familiar booming voice of the Dalek Emperor. The image of the grotesque mutant dissolved on to a large monitor above where the Doctor and Billy stood. Grim and Mandy looked up as Billy let go of the Doctor's scarf and fell to the floor with a thud.
"Oh thank goodness," gasped the Doctor as he caught his breath and composed himself.
"You rejected us because you are weak," continued the Emperor. "You try to hide your emotions, but you are ruled by them as is every other pathetic human being."
"Emotions aren't a weakness, Emperor, they're a strength," said the Doctor.
"So you say, Doctor!" The Emperor shouted. "But you of all people should know that's not true. Was it not your emotional weakness that let the Daleks be born in the first place?"
"What?" snapped Mandy.
"Haven't you told them, Doctor?" The Emperor taunted the Time Lord. "Haven't you told them how you were there at the beginning, sent by the Time Lords to destroy the Daleks? Haven't you told them how you held the fate of the Daleks in your hands, that you could have wiped them out before they'd hardly been born? And haven't you told them how you FAILED?"
"A moment I regret to this day," the Doctor responded.
"Yes, Doctor, because you were weak, just like the girl. You questioned your right to destroy us and so we lived! You showed us compassion, and look where it has got you. Countless lives lost, countless worlds destroyed! Look at Endsville below…"
The image of the Emperor was replaced by a view of what was happening on the planet below. Scores of people lined the streets as before, with more trying to escape and being killed by the Daleks.
"You murderers," growled the Doctor.
"People are dying right now, all because of the Doctor's self-righteousness, and weak minded emotions!" The image of Endsville dissolved as The Emperor appeared on the screen once more. "The same weak emotions that control you too, Mandy."
"They don't control me, nothing controls me," Mandy snarled.
"Yes Mandy, they do. Your weak-mindedness has trapped you and you will die here, along with the Doctor and your precious Billy! What use are your emotions now, if you cannot save the one you love?"
The Emperor's words cut through every fibre of Mandy's being like a million knives.
"Grrrr, I'LL KILL YOU!" She screamed, tearing the scythe from Grim's grasp. She ran at the monitor as fast as she could, the scythe raised far above her head. Mandy plunged the scythe forcefully into the screen, shattering it. She then turned her attention to a small camera in a top corner of the room, the device she assumed through which the Emperor was seeing and hearing them. She threw the scythe through the air. It spun a few times before connecting with the camera, knocking it out. Mandy stood, breathing heavily, her anger consuming her. Everyone stood in silence for a few seconds.
"Well we need to get out of here now, and stop what is happening in Endsville," said the Doctor, trying to tune out the fuming girl stood next to him.
"And how do you suppose we do that?" Asked Grim. "The door is sealed and it's the only way out!"
Everyone's attention was then drawn to a fizzing sound coming from the elevator door. Sparks were flying as a small beam cut through the door from the other side.
"Well that solves that problem, the door won't be sealed for much longer," said the Doctor, nonchalantly.
"Doctor!" Mandy shouted.
"There can't be more than one in there, the lift is rather small and Daleks are terribly clunky things," hypothesised the Doctor. "Mandy, do you think you can take out one more Dalek?"
"I didn't even know she was dating them!" Babbled a slightly confused Billy.
"That doesn't even make sense, boy," Grim scolded the red-head.
"The more Daleks I destroy the better," said Mandy, through gritted teeth. She picked up the scythe once more and stood by the door. "You'd better have a plan, Doctor!"
"I do, just be ready for the Dalek," shouted the Doctor as he turned back to the control panel and started jabbing seemingly random buttons.
The light cutting the door had burned through almost half the amount needed for a Dalek to get through. The Doctor continued to play with the controls.
"Doctor!" Shouted Mandy, the scythe poised above her head ready to strike a deadly blow.
"Yes I'm nearly done, child," snapped the Doctor.
"DOCTOR!" Mandy almost screamed as the Dalek was nearly through.
"There! I just need to push one more button and I'll have reversed the polarity of the neutron flow. Long story short, the engines will be thrown into a feedback loop that will destroy the ship, the Daleks and the Emperor in a matter of minutes. I've locked the controls out too, they'll never figure out the sequence in time. Hopefully."
"How many minutes do we have?" Asked Grim, nervous again.
"About eight, give or take."
"Give or take what?"
"I'm not sure. Time, hopefully."
"What about all the Daleks that are already in Endsville?"
"One thing at a time, Reaper."
Before anyone could say anything else, a large chuck of metal from the door fell to the floor, revealing a single Dalek behind it. It began to move forward, but Mandy was ready for it. She brought the scythe down with all the force she could muster, once again taking the Daleks' eye stalk off. As soon as she did that, the Doctor pressed the button and the whole ship began to shake. The Dalek continued to move forward, dazed from the unexpected impact, as consoles all around the engine room began to explode.
"Come on!" Yelled the Doctor, and he started making for the now door less elevator.
Mandy passed the scythe to Grim and darted inside. Grim followed, and then the Doctor, who started pressing buttons on the control panel inside the elevator. Billy stopped just outside the lift, turned round and stared at the injured Dalek.
"My vision is impaired! I cannot seeee!" It cried, softly, continuing to move slowly forward, still slightly dazed.
"Awww, poor thing," said Billy, sympathetic to the Daleks' plight. "Don't worry little fella, I'll help you," Billy smiled, running towards the Dalek, as the lift began to ascend behind him.
"Billy, come back you idiot!" Cried Mandy, but it was too late. The boy swung round to see the Doctor, Mandy and Grim vanish up the lift shaft. At that moment, the Dalek came out of it's daze.
"I AM DAMAGED! I CANNOT SEE!" It yelled, and began firing in random directions.
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In the slowly ascending elevator, Grim, Mandy and the Doctor stood in silence as they heard the distinct sound of a Dalek weapon firing, followed by a crash and silence.
"Billy?" Said Mandy, quietly.
"I'm sorry, Mandy," said the Doctor, crouching down beside the girl.
"Don't you dare come anywhere near me, Doctor," screamed the girl. "Take us back. Now!"
"I can't do that Mandy, this ship is about to be destroyed and there are still Daleks to take care of in Endsville. We are the only ones that can stop them."
"Take me back. NOW!"
"I CAN'T!" Shouted the Doctor, losing his temper at the girl.
"You have Billy's blood on your hands, Doctor," said Mandy, "If you hadn't chickened out of destroying the Daleks when you had the chance, they wouldn't be here now, and we'd never have met you. You're no better than them. You may as well be down there with the Daleks, killing people, side by side with them."
"How dare you say that, you have no idea what I've been through with the Daleks. I've lost so much to them, Mandy, and I stand to lose so much more in the future. You cannot possibly understand the burden I carry everyday, thinking about how I could have stopped all this. It wasn't as easy as the Emperor made it sound. If I had destroyed them, all that time ago, all history would have changed. Nothing would be as it is now. Worlds that would normally have fought each other united and rose up against the Daleks. So you see, Mandy, if I had wiped them out, Earth might not ever have existed as it does now. You think I don't care about Billy? You think I don't care about innocents that die? You're wrong. Very, very wrong. If I could have saved him, without putting anyone else in danger except myself then I would have done."
Mandy looked the Time Lord in the eyes. "I hate you, and everything you stand for," she spat. "You think you're so righteous, so good in your fight against all the evil in the universe. You think you have the right to meddle in affairs that don't concern you. What gives you that right to interfere? Time Lord!" Mandy scoffed. "The very name of your race is pompous and arrogant. Just like you."
The Doctor's eyes widened with anger, but before he could say anything the lift juddered to a halt. The outer door opened, revealing the trans-mat room. The three of them stepped out.
"We only have a few minutes," stated the Doctor, composing himself. "I can get this thing working, we can transport off of here. Grim, I need you to help me with the controls. Mandy, you step on the pad."
"No," said Mandy, defiantly, stepping backwards into the elevator again.
"You can't seriously mean you're going back for the idiot?" Grim said, almost shocked.
Mandy produced the cheque Billy had given her earlier and explained, "Billy didn't sign this in the right place, it's no good to me." She tore it in two and dropped it on the floor.
"Oh, right, fair enough then."
"Besides Grim, you're coming with me."
"Ah, dang it."
"I still need someone here with me," said the Doctor. "There isn't enough time for just one person to set the controls."
Suddenly, the ship shook violently and warning sirens began to sound.
"Fine," said Mandy, trying to cover up the fear in her voice, "I'll go alone."
"Alright, just go!" Shouted the Doctor, "at least one of us needs to get off of here. I'll wait as long as I can, but not a moment more, got that?"
Mandy gave a single nod while staring intensely at the Doctor. She pressed a button on the control panel and the lift descended from sight.
"I swear there's something going on with those two," Grim said as he turned to the Doctor. "I'm pretty sure Billy doesn't even have a bank account!"
"Yes, well, never mind about that, we've got work to do!" Replied the Time Lord, as yet again he began to fiddle with the controls.
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The lift shook violently and Mandy was thrown to the floor. For a moment it did not move, and Mandy jabbed at the controls.
"Come on you stupid thing, work!"
Almost as if it was afraid of her, the elevator did as it was told and began to descend once more. Mandy composed herself as the engine room began to appear through the hole in the elevator door. The elevator came to stand still and Mandy stared at the sight before her. Smoke was filling the room, and she could barely see two feet in front of her. She stepped out of the lift and instantly began to cough.
"Billy?" She spluttered. There was no answer.
Mandy bumped into something. It was a motionless Dalek, and it had been crushed under falling debris from the ceiling. Mandy spotted the cutting tool in place of the standard Dalek suction cup and she realised that this was the Dalek that Billy had gone after. Apparently in it's confusion it too had fired in random directions and bought the roof down on to itself, killing it instantly.
Mandy carefully walked around the Dalek, but tripped over something and fell to floor with a thud. She looked round and saw what she had fallen over.
"Billy!" She exclaimed, as she picked herself up and dusted herself down. There was no response. She bent down beside him and checked he was still breathing. He was, just.
Mandy slapped his face a couple of times and the boy stirred, but then he fell limp again.
"Come on you idiot, wake up!" She cried, grabbing Billy by his collar. "So help me, if you die I'll kill you!"
She shook the boy forcefully and he began to open his eyes. "Who are you and where's my soup?" Was all he could muster.
"Shut up your dork, we've got to get out of here!"
"But I'm so sleepy," the boy yawned.
"Urgh!" Groaned the girl, grabbing the bridge of her almost non-existent nose between her thumb and finger.
"Night, night," Billy said, wearily.
"Why do I bother?" Mandy said out loud, rolling her eyes. She did her best to help to half unconscious boy to his feet, draped one of his arms over her shoulders and began to walk him towards the elevator.
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"Grim, hold that switch down and don't let go until I tell you to."
The Reaper did what the Doctor asked.
"I wonder what's taking Mandy so long? How long do we have, Doctor?"
"About four minutes," replied the Time Lord, not looking up from his work. "NOW!"
"Now what?" Said Grim, lost in thought.
"The button, Grim, Release the button!"
"What? Oh, right," Grim said as he released the button he had been holding down. The console next to the Doctor fizzled a bit, then exploded in a small shower of sparks.
"No, no no!" The Doctor scolded the skeleton. "Too late. Try again!"
"Ah, sorry Doc." Grim went to press the button again, but his attention was distracted by the floor number at the top of the elevator counting up. "Doctor look, they're coming!"
"Good, just in time too. Look, just hold in that button!"
"Oh sorry." Grim pushed in the button once more, but his attention was still focused on the indicator panel. "Hey, Doc?"
"Yes?" Sighed the Doctor, impatiently.
"What floor are we on?"
"Oh, I don't know, twenty-something I think. Why?" The Doctor did not look up from the console.
"Because that's saying that the lift is at floor fifteen …. Fourteen …. Thirteen!"
"What?" The Doctor looked up at the panel, wide-eyed with confusion.
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Mandy jabbed futilely at the elevator control panel with her free hand, the other arm still draped around Billy. Floor ten, floor nine, floor eight, the darn thing just wouldn't stop, just as if something else had taken control of it.
"Come on, for the love of…" she shouted, beginning to lose her cool.
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"Where are they going, Doctor?"
"I don't know Grim, but I bet it's not their choice!"
"Another trap?"
"Yes, and this time I let Mandy walk right into it. How could I be so blind? I was so obsessed with getting off the ship and proving to Mandy that the most important thing was to stop the Daleks that I didn't even consider her safety. Have I really sacrificed the life of an innocent child, just because of my obsession with the Daleks?"
"Meh, these things happen, Doc!" Grim said, shrugging his shoulders. "What will be will be!"
"No Grim, I can fix this!" The Doctor had a moment of inspiration. "If I can widen the beam of the trans-mat, I can lock on to everything on the ship with a skeletal structure and transport us all off at the same time. The resultant beam would be a massive power drain on the ship, but I don't suppose that matters really."
"Doctor, slow down, you're giving me a headache!"
"Oh it's quite simple really. If I can widen the beam even further and invert it, direct it to Endsville below, I can lock on to all the Daleks on the surface and simultaneously transport them back on board just before the ship explodes! Two birds with one stone! The massive power drain just wouldn't matter!" The Doctor looked at the Reaper with a 'eureka' type facial expression. Grim returned this with a blank expression.
"I have no idea what you just said, but you've got a little over three minutes to do it all in!"
Neither the Doctor or Grim had noticed that the count on the lift panel had reached the number one.
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Mandy, still propping up a semi-conscious Billy, stepped out of the elevator onto the bridge. The room was shaking, Daleks aimlessly glided around in panic, consoles exploded and bits of the ceiling fell to the floor.
Mandy calmly walked to the middle of the room, dragging Billy with her. She was once again face to face with the Dalek emperor.
"Welcome back Mandy," the Emperor taunted the girl.
"Why have you brought me back here?"
"To watch your fear as you DIE here with us."
"I don't fear anything."
"Your fear has dictated your actions. Your fear of losing the boy!" The Emperor's voice echoed around the disintegrating room. "Your emotions are strong, child. I can sense them."
"Fine. Perhaps I do have emotions, but I know how to control them. They don't control me. Unlike you and your Daleks. You couldn't control your emotions, so you removed them like a defective limb. You're no better than machines. You're pathetic."
"Strong words for a mortal child. But perhaps not so mortal? There is something else I sense in you, something I've never sensed before from a human. An evil. An evil as old as the universe itself, maybe older. But your humanity fights it. If you would only have given in to it, you could have been all powerful."
"I will be, one day, Emperor. Without your help!"
"No, Mandy, you will not, you will be dead soon."
Mandy felt a surge of energy in her bones that began to spread throughout her body.
"Unlikely," she responded.
As she said that, both her and Billy vanished in a sudden flash of white light. At the same time, dozens of Daleks began to appear on the bridge.
"So, Doctor, you have escaped," screamed the Emperor. "Little do you know that by saving the child, you have DOOMED THE UNIVERSE!"
"Engines have reached critical!" Shouted a random Dalek. "Explosion imminent!"
"Emergency temporal shift!" cried the Emperor.
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In Endsville park, Grim, Mandy and The Doctor stared up into the night's sky, while Billy lay half asleep on the soft grass. Mere hours had passed, but for them it had seemed like a lifetime.
"There, look!" Said the Doctor, pointing upwards. Grim and Mandy followed his gaze to a bright light in the sky. The light burned for a few seconds and then was extinguished.
"So is that it then, Doctor?" Said Grim.
"For now, yes. The Dalek ship has been destroyed and I think we got all of them out of Endsville too, which is a bonus."
"All but me!" Came the familiar sound of a Dalek voice from across the road. "Exterminate the Doctor! Capture the Reaper! Annihilate Endsville!"
The Dalek's cries were, however, silenced as it began to cross the street and a rather large truck ploughed into it, smashing it into hundreds of tiny pieces. The truck did not stop.
"Hmm, I shall have to add that to me list of ways of getting rid of a Dalek," said the Doctor, slightly amused.
Billy began to groan as he opened his eyes.
"Oooooh, my head. Where am I?" The boy staggered to his feet.
"Oh great! Now you wake up!" Said Mandy, sarcastically. "You couldn't have come round ten minutes ago, could you?" The girl slapped him. "That's for making me bail you out. Again!"
"So what's next Doctor?" Asked Grim, ignoring the children.
"Well Endsville needs to rebuild. It may take some time for the people to get over what has happened."
"Somehow I doubt that, the people of Endsville are used to this sort of thing."
"Yeah, this was the third invasion attempt this month," Mandy added.
"Well, maybe so, but I never hang around. Too many questions."
"So where will you go?" The Reaper asked, puzzled.
"Just to my ship, the Tardis. It's over there," said the Doctor pointing to the other side of the park. The group walked over to the blue box.
"That thing is your ship?" Grim exclaimed. "It's an old British police call box, and they haven't been used in decades!"
"How do you know that?" Mandy looked up at the Reaper.
"Hey, I'm the Grim Reaper, I get around a bit!"
"Same here," said the Doctor, unlocking the Tardis with his key-on-a-rope. "Anyway, goodbye."
"WAIT!" Cried out Billy. "You brought me jelly babies, you can't leave."
"I have to Billy, I can't stay here."
"Then take me with you!"
"Billy, I can't….."
Billy dropped to his knees, his hands clasped out in front of him.
"Please! PLEEEEEEASE! PUH-LEEEEEEEEEEEEESE! Oh, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please!" Begged the child, annoyingly. "Please take me with you!"
"Yes, please take him with you," said Grim, very peeved.
The Doctor looked down at the boy.
"Oh, alright, just one trip! And I pick the time and place. Somewhere safe!"
"Another time, eh?" Said Mandy. "Well, I'd better go too, to make sure Billy doesn't step on any butterflies and destroy the universe or something."
"Fine," sighed the Doctor.
"Yay!" Grim couldn't believe his luck. "I'm free for a while! Yippee!"
"Zip it Grim, you're coming too," demanded Mandy.
"Ah, dang it."
"One trip," reiterated the Doctor, opening the door of the Tardis.
"But how are all four of us going to fit inside that tiny box?" Grim said, scratching his head.
"Oh you'll see," grinned the Doctor. The Time Lord gestured for Billy to step inside. He did so and disappeared from view.
"Wow! It's so big!"
Mandy followed. "Oh very clever. Bigger on the inside than outside. I haven't seen that done before," she sarcastically commented. Grim followed the children in, silently.
The Doctor chuckled to himself quietly, and paused for a moment outside the Tardis to gaze one final time into the night sky.
"I can't help the feeling that I've forgotten something," he said to himself. "Ah, no matter, I'm sure it was nothing important."
With that, the Doctor stepped inside the Tardis and closed the door behind him. A few seconds later, the light at the top of the box began to blink and the police box faded to nothing.
"Master?" Cried K-9, gliding across the road, towards the spot the Tardis had been only seconds previously. "Master! Doctor Master?"
"Come back here, you tin mutt!" Shouted Sperg, as he ran after the robot dog.
K-9 increased his speed and disappeared over the horizon, Sperg in close pursuit.
"Master? Master! DOCTOR!"
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Grim, Billy, Mandy and all related characters created by Maxwell Atoms, and Cartoon Network fit in there somewhere too.
Doctor Who is owned by the BBC, the Daleks having been created by Terry Nation.
"Head up your butt" joke nicked from a 1991 episode of Bottom, written by Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson.
"What use are your emotions if you cannot save the one you love?" adapted from a line of dialogue from the 2005 Doctor Who episode "Dalek", written by Robert Shearman. It's a good episode, well worth checking out on Youtube!
Will there be more "Grim Adventures of Doctor Who?"
Maybe, if I can come up with some original ideas!
Ciao for now!
