Chapter 7
"What have you done to my television?" Carrissa was blocked from even taking a step into her living room. The Doctor had all sorts of wires and antennas laying on the floor. Her T.V. was a mess of duct tape and electronics.
"I need to find out what the Mohandy want." He pulled out a small, almost screwdriver like device. It glowed green at the end and made a horribly annoying noise. He placed it between his teeth and tried to speak.
"To ve avel to contact dem, ee need to vild a transmihtah."
Carrissa just smiled and nodded, as if she knew what he was talking about. He smiled back and took the screwdriver out of his mouth.
"Ah, finally. Someone that understands me." He took a welding torch from his pocket. "They're bigger on the inside." He said pointing at his pockets. He put on round-eyed goggles and began welding.
"Right just start wrecking my living room then." Carrissa whispered to herself. "You're the guest, right?"
...
Carrissa felt like she needed to see the inside of the T.A.R.D.I.S. again. She grabbed a flash light and headed outside. She placed her hand on the T.A.R.D.I.S. door, her vision went black. All of her senses were gone, except hearing. She could hear someone speaking.
Hold on Mitzy!
Her senses came back. She gasped and pulled her hand back. Then she just... forgot. Like nothing happened. She opened the door to the T.A.R.D.I.S. and stepped inside. She tried not to think about the outside being different shape than the inside. It was easier to take it all in from that point of view.
She went around the console, looking at each button and lever. She couldn't help but wonder, why all the buttons? Shouldn't it be easy to fly this simple ship? Then she thought, How would I know? I don't even know what this thing does. She had no idea where those strange thoughts came from.
"So, what do you think of her?" Carrissa turned, startled. The Doctor had stood in the door way the whole time.
"It's... amazing!
"Well, that's a different answer than before, now isn't it?"
"What did you expect me to say? You didn't warn me that you were some mad alien man with an impossible spaceship. Once you get past all that, it really is amazing."
"You know, no one ever reacted to the T.A.R.D.I.S. that way."
"Which way? The terrified part, or the in awe part?"
"Both. They just kind of, take it in and ignore how great the old girl really is."
"Well just looking at it, the T.A.R.D.I.S. is amazing. But what does it do?"
"It travels through space and time."
"No way."
"Yes way. Now come inside. I've finished the transmitter. I thought you might want to hear what the Mohandy have to say."
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The Doctor was fiddling around with buttons and such on the dissected T.V. The Doctor stepped back and clapped his hands. A childish grin formed all the way across his face.
"Are you ready for your first alien contact?"
"I think so." She replied, not sounding convincing at all.
His smile quickly faded. "Well aren't we excited? Would you rather be doing something else?"
Before she could answer, a static came from the transmitter. Noises were coming through the statics. It must have been an alien language, because Carrissa didn't understand a word they were saying. The Doctor had a keyboard hooked up to the transmitter, for replying back.
Carrissa recognized the keyboard when she saw it. "Did you take my keyboard off my laptop and put it on this- thing?"
"Shush. I'm busy."
A few more minutes of him clacking at th keyboard and he finally turned it off. Carrissa waited for him to speak. They stood in silence for a few seconds before Carrissa decided to ask.
"What did they say?"
"Well, basically, they've come to take over the planet and they're not going to give up. They're planet is under attack, so they want another world if their planet gets destroyed. They've sent the fertilizer so humans can plant the metork plants for them. The plant can protect itself by grabbing whatever threatens them. The Mohandy eats the metork by biting it right away instead of grabbing at it."
"But why would they choose Earth?"
"It's the only planet a species stupid enough to do the labor for them."
"How do we stop them?"
"Well, for starters, we need to fix the T.A.R.D.I.S.