Myth Lords: A Doctor Who and Mythbusters Crossover

Why? Because secretly, you've always wondered. And that's why I'm here. And I feel like I might have slightly underestimated the odd feeling of writing about real people. It's certainly a bit odd… And surprisingly difficult to keep them in character.

Chapter 2: In which the Doctor meets the Mythbusters.

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The Doctor

The first thing the Doctor was aware of when he began to wake up was that he was freezing cold. And wet. Very wet. For a moment, he was confused. Hadn't he just been in an explosion? Why was he cold and wet of all things? His questions were answered as another bucket of cold water was dumped on him. There was a sizzling sound where it hit his legs, and he realized that his clothes had been smoking.

"Do you think he's ok?" a male voice, American accent. Not one the Doctor recognized, but it sounded oddly familiar and full of concern.

"Well, at least he's not smoking anymore…" another male voice, same accent. It was a different voice, though.

"Why didn't we see him? He was right outside of the shack, must have been to get hit by the explosion. It's not like it was huge." Now a female voice, confused. "Wasn't it your job, Tory, to make sure the area was clear?"

The second voice answered, mildly irritated. "There was nothing there. No one, nothing. Certainly not a big, blue, box or a man in tweed." Tory snorted. "I think I would have seen a 1960's Police Box during my check of the area."

"And this is why I should have brought one of my robots. Rule out any human cough-Tory-cough error."

"Shut up, Grant." The female voice snapped. "Tory, do you think we should call someone? I know we shouldn't have blown up anything without the paramedic here, but the light was going and…"

"Yada yada yada, Kari. We're Mythbusters; this was supposed to be completely safe!" The Doctor felt a slight nudge in his side as someone kicked him slightly. "Are you sure he's alive?"

"I heard a heart rate, there's a pulse. Sort of… It's either a double heart beat, which is impossible, or his heart rate is going way too fast." Kari sounded concerned, and the Doctor felt her breath on her face as she leaned over and placed a hand on his neck. "I don't know, it's just weird."

The Doctor coughed slightly. "We've all got our quirks, I suppose… Make's life interesting, right?" He smiled and cracked one eyelid open as Kari gasped and stood up, staring at the Doctor. He slowly pushed himself to a sitting position, then looked up at the three. They were all young, all staring at him interestedly. "I'm the Doctor, who are you? And why are you blowing stuff up for fun?"

Kari shrugged. "Not really for fun, it's our job. We're the Mythbusters. I'm Kari, this is Grant-" she pointed at the Asian man to her left, the one who had mentioned bringing a robot. He nodded to the Doctor, smiling slightly. "and that's Tory" she gestured to the other man standing with her, taller than the both of them with short, brownish hair and a half-mad grin on his face.

"But it is fun though!" Tory laughed, high-fiving Grant.

"Right…" the Doctor pushed himself to his feet, taking a quick mental check of his appearance- legs-check. Bowtie-cool. He almost checked for a fez, then disappointedly remembered that he hadn't been wearing one in the first place. "Does anyone have a fez?"

"A what?"

"Never mind. I'll just be going, then?" he started off, before being grabbed by the back of his jacked by Kari. "What?"

"Adam wants to meet you." She explained. "We called back to the shop when you turned up, to get the guys' opinion of what to do. Jamie-"

Grant cut in. "Jamie was like-" he put his fingers over his mouth, and wiggled them to parody a mustache, then talked with a much deeper voice, a passable imitation of Jamie. "Uh… y'know, we should uh… really call the paramedics, let them take a look at him. And uh… maybe bring him back to the uh… shop, once their done. I'd like to uh… meet him."

Tory snorted. "Would have been interested if they had been here when you showed up. Adam would have been all-" he grinned even wider and started jumping around. "I'm really excited! A random guy and a big blue box fell from the sky! Let's take them back to the shop and blow things up!"

The Doctor raised an eyebrow. "Right, well, I really should get going, my.. erm… friend, is waiting for me back in the box."

Kari smiled. "Well, then, you're going to have to come with us then! We sent the box back to the shop, wanted to know why it showed up." She suddenly broke off and looked over the Doctor's shoulder, shielding her eyes. "and here's Adam now!"

The low whir of a Segway slowly got louder as Adam joined the little group. The Doctor muttered something under his breath- the others could only make out the words "ginger" and "Segway."

"You must be the one these guys called me about?" he asked, extending a hand to the Doctor. "Adam, Adam Savage."

"Doctor. The Doctor." The Doctor took the hand, and shook it firmly. There was a glint in Adam's eyes, the same glint that showed in the Doctor's eyes- the glint of one slightly mad, but loving every minute of it. The Doctor could tell that they would get on very well, and had the oddest feeling that he had met the man before.

"The Doctor? Doctor what?" Adam asked, clearly at least mildly confused, but still grinning.

"Just the Doctor. Although I have occasionally gone by 'John Smith.'"

"Right then." Adam took off his hat and ran a hand through his hair. "We'd better get back to the shop, guys." He looked over at the Doctor. "you're going to have to come with us."

The Doctor shrugged. "I've got nothing better to do."