Terribly sorry for the gap between each chapter, but I thought it would be interesting to leave it hanging. The Author.
Once again, I don't own DW or GB, I am merely having a bit of fun, and I don't actually know the first thing about scientific jargon.
Doctor who: The Dummy Walks.
Chapter 3: Jarryd, meet The Doctor.
Jarryd thumped the wall angrily. Stupid, he had been so stupid! Of course his parents wouldn't believe him about the dummy and the other Goosebumps characters that seemed to want to have revenge on just him. But they just kept appearing everywhere he went and every time they did, something awful would happen. It had been eight days since he first encountered the dummy, Slappy, and he was still trying to work out what was going on.
Why had his parents thrown him in here again?
'Deary me,' he thought miserably. 'I've only been here a few days and I'm already losing it.'
At that moment, two guards clattered outside his cell, just out of his vision.
"What have you got there, Buddy?" One asked.
"This is the thing that Master Jeremy was so scared about. I thought it a good idea to show him for certain the thing can't actually talk or move freely. It's totally wrecked!"
Jeremy gasped. 'No! They've got him? Surely they can't get away with this! OH, CR..."
His swear was interrupted by a very strange sound. A whirring noise, like some kind of engine, filled the cell and almost burst Jeremy's ear-drums. To a normal, untrained human's ears it would have just sounded like an engine, but Jeremy... he recognized it. How was that possible?
Then he remembered something. He had been around four or five when he had first heard the same noise. He had been in Sydney with his parents in the busy crowds and streets when he had accidentally lost track of where he was and found he couldn't see his parents anywhere. He had cried for help, and that's when the noise came from somewhere nearby. Minutes later, a man Jeremy didn't recognize at the time came over and spotted Jeremy. He seemed to be in a rush, but he stopped in front of Jeremy and had asked 'what a young boy like you is doing in a busy place like this?' before he flipped out some kind of pen device and pointed a light from it at Jeremy. Without even bothering to ask who his parents were, the man had taken Jeremy through the crowd quickly and had found his parents within minutes.
Jeremy could NEVER forget that moment, because not long afterwards, there had been some panic in the streets of Sydney about mannequins attacking the city. This whole episode with Slappy MAY have had a connection, but Jeremy wasn't too sure.
While he had been remembering this, something materialized in a corner of his cell. It was a big, blue telephone box with a small light on the top that flashed even brighter blue every time the box made the engine noise.
Jeremy would always think afterwards that even though it hadn't been there before, it was almost as if the box actually belonged in the small cell.
Before Jeremy could move, a smiling face belonging to a strange man with a funny bow tie on his shirt popped out of the telephone box's door.
"Ah! Hello! Am I in the torchwood Institute of Australia? Oh, right! Of course I am! Silly me, I'll soon forget my own head if I let myself...hang on... don't I know you?"
Jeremy was speechless. Who on earth was this man? He said the strangest things, as if he had known all along that he would be seeing Jeremy.
Jeremy was about to reply when his cell door opened and the two guards were about to throw the Slappy dummy, still broken, into his cell, when they saw the funny man as well.
"Who the hell are you, and how did you get in here?" One of them asked.
The stranger held up a wallet in the guards faces and yawned impatiently.
"I'm here from the Torchwood Institute in England. My name is John Smith, codename The Doctor. I'm here to inspect your rules and see how you treat your prisoners. What is that you have there?"
Jeremy could see that there was nothing in the wallet but blank paper, and wondered how this man could have come out with such a big lie like that, but the guards seemed to believe the stranger and Jeremy was confused.
"Mr. Jeremy here... thought that this dummy... Slappy... from the Goosebumps series... was actually... alive... and ... umm... we were going to..."
The Stranger known as John Smith, or 'the Doctor' looked at the guards angrily.
"You were going to throw it in with him! How can you? Giving a prisoner the thing that sent them crazy? That's just inhuman! I will take that. Now, scamper off before I call up the big bosses and report you!"
The guards vanished like a couple of scared squirrels whilst the stranger chuckled and closed the door and took something out of his pocket, pointing it at the door.
Jeremy gasped silently. That was the same pen he saw the man from Sydney use! But Jeremy could see now that it wasn't a pen, it was far too electronic for that.
The Doctor, as this stranger seemed to want to be called, pressed against the door to double check if it was locked and then went back into the telephone box he had come from, still carrying the Dummy with him.
Jeremy stood there, stunned. Surely this couldn't be the same per...
"Well, are you coming in or not? I did all of this to help you get out of here, you know. You may as well grab the opportunity."
The Doctor disappeared back into the Telephone box, not quite closing the door behind him.
Jeremy could have sworn he saw more inside the box than there should be and finally decided enough was enough. He was going to find out what was going on once and for all.
He yanked open the door and sprinted in without a second thought, almost tripping over some metal stairs that were in front of him.
The door closed properly behind him as Jeremy stared in amazement.
The Telephone box, or 'police box' as the sign on the front of the door had called the blue box, was bigger on the inside, and had far more electronic things than Jeremy had ever set eyes on.
The Doctor ran around the impossible box, fiddling with controls and levers excitedly. In fact, every so often he would actually mutter the word 'exciting' as if he was a little boy playing with the best toy car in the world.
Jeremy wandered forward, his mind too focused on the surroundings but his body seemingly knowing where to step.
The Doctor strapped the dummy onto the control panel he had been fooling around with and pointed the pen-like thing at the dummy.
As a strange noise emitted from the pen, the Doctor turned and looked at Jeremy.
"So, you must be Jeremy. I'm the Doctor, oh, hang on; I already said that didn't I? You see that's the problem when you've travelled through time and space so often as I have, you start to forget what you've said, when you've said it and where you said it. But I am sure I've met you before! You look so familiar! Tell me, have you been one of my companions? I've had so many over the years I've forgotten most!"
Jeremy focused on The Doctor. "It's bigger on the inside... WHO are you? I remember a man who helped me when I was young, but you aren't him! You've got his pen-thingy, though! Just what in the hell is this place?"
The Doctor made a clicking noise with his mouth and shook his head. "They ALWAYS start with the size of you, don't they darling?"
Jeremy had the uncomfortable feeling that The Doctor, although clearly insane, was talking to the... ship?... as if it was alive, and the ship seemed to groan in response like it understood the crazy man.
Jeremy pointed at the Slappy dummy angrily. "This has to do with THAT thing, doesn't it? You think I'm crazy too, don't you?"
The Doctor smiled. "All the best minds in the world have been called crazy. But, you, my friend, you are NOT crazy. I know where I met you know! Yes it all is coming back to me! I escorted you through Sydney when you were younger, didn't I? Of course, that was in my earlier form. No wonder I almost forgot about it. I had to find the person who had stolen the TARDIS before the whole of history collapsed on itself. Yes, I remember that. You were four, if I recall."
"That WAS you? But how could you have changed your..."
Quite unexpectantly, the ship gave a lurch and the engine suddenly came to life. Jeremy and The Doctor failed to notice the dummy's eyes glow viciously green, even though the whole place was dark blue.
"What's going on? What madness is happening now?"
The Doctor struggled to a computer and looked at it in astonishment. "We're moving! The TARDIS is taking us somewhere!"
"How is that possible? It's your box ship, right? You take me home now! Where is it taking us?"
The Doctor grabbed the computer as the ship lurched again.
"It's taking us to the place where this dummy came from."
"Which is?"
"The TARDIS is taking us to the planet Goosebumps!"