Doctor Who: The Dummy Walks.
Chapter 6: Torchwood Industries.
Captain Jack was waiting for the duo in a lab, already having bought up a few screens for them to calculate and solve things on.
"Thought you'd never get here!" He smiled.
Jarryd went over and shook Captain Jack's hand. "Glad to meet the second guy who saved my life for real. Jarryd Harts, at your service Captain."
The Doctor had already begun fiddling with the controls of one of the computers when he commented. "There'll be more time for thanks later. We have a mystery to solve. Firstly, Jarryd, you need to write down precisely what your conversation between yourself in the future and Captain Jack from moments before Slappy first attacked you. Get it right, though, or things might be a little confusing. Secondly, Captain Jack, you need to set up a video Recorder and find a copy of 'Night of the Living dummy 2' from the Goosebumps series. Thirdly, I need to search your ship for our little friend, Jarryd, just to see if you are right."
Jack was confused, as was Jarryd. "Why do we have to do all this, Doctor?" Jack asked.
"To keep time correct! Now come on! We have no idea when to actually send the recording into the future. Jarryd, could you tell me the precise date you got that Goosebumps episode?"
"It was four days before you got me out of that Torchwood Institute in Australia. The date was 5th of July. You already know the year. I can imagine you would!"
'Yes, I did. I was merely showing off to a companion who wasn't there about how I could tell what year it was, when I knew I was really wrong. Why I did that, I can't remember. It's all happened so fast!' The Doctor thought glumly.
"Doctor?" Jarryd and Jack looked at The Doctor as they had seen him looking rather sad.
He shook his head and looked at them happily. "Shall we get this sorted?"
It didn't take too long, with Jack's extra help, Jarryd and Jack had the recording The Doctor wanted them to do set up and ready to go.
While they had been setting that up, The Doctor was in Jack's ship searching it carefully. While he didn't find Slappy the Dummy, he did find residues of the green goo trailing around some of the ship.
The Doctor sniffed the goo and shivered slightly. "I know what you are now. Now all I have to do is find a way to get rid of you."
He was just heading back to his companions when a siren suddenly went off. Without warning, The Doctor was suddenly surrounded by guards, no doubt working for Torchwood.
"Well, well, well. If I wouldn't know better I'd say we were looking at a time-travelling thief and imposter! But I do know better, and I know precisely who you are, DOCTOR!"
The Doctor saw a figure come out of the guards and cross his arms angrily.
"Oh no. Not YOU again!" The Doctor groaned.
"Still remember me then, Doctor; even in your new form you still have memories? I'm surprised."
Faint memory was all that helped The Doctor remember that the man he was looking at had once tried to battle against the Sontarens. The Doctor remembered that he had a lot of trouble getting this man to listen to him, because he was your typical army man who wanted to go in guns blazing all the time.
But there was no name in the memory.
"You chose a bad time to come after me, sir. I am currently in the middle of an investigation."
"Oh? It wouldn't have anything to do with that weird Dummy we shot down a few moments ago, would it?"
The Doctor stared at him angrily. "You really shouldn't have done that! I mean you REALLY shouldn't have done that."
The army man sniggered and clicked his gun. "We killed it, Doctor. What's it gonna do, rebuild itself and come after us with extra strength?"
A shadow rose up behind the guards, one that was joined by a few other faces The Doctor wished he wouldn't see again.
"Yes... to put it blankly, that's PRECISELY what it would do. I am SO sorry, sir, but you have just started a war against the Planet Goosebumps, and it starts now."
The man went to laugh, but then froze stiff in mid laugh as a huge, vicious claw dug through his stomach like it was paper. The Doctor looked on in shock as the guards were all ripped to bits in seconds by the Horrors from Horrorland.
The Doctor turned to Slappy the Dummy and yelled at him. "You didn't have to kill them!"
Slappy sneered at The Doctor. "If you had looked closely enough, Doctor, you would have noticed that it wasn't me who actually killed them."
"No, but you gave the order, didn't you?"
Slappy chuckled. "Of course! They killed me, it's only fair I kill them in return. A death for a death, Doctor. I usually try to get slaves, but when some-one doesn't do what I want, I get very angry."
"I will stop you, you know. You and all your followers. I know what the green goo is!"
Slappy leered at The Doctor. "The green goo is power! It makes us WHOLE, Doctor. But why don't you join us? You can have everything you ever wanted!"
"I already do!" The Doctor zapped at Slappy with his sonic Screwdriver and dashed through the horrors as they dumbly waited for Slappy's orders.
Slappy spun around and stared at the horrors angrily. "Well, go on! Don't just stand there! Get him!"
The Doctor ran back into the room where Jack and Jarryd had just finished recording Jack's message and The Doctor quickly locked the door behind him.
"We've got company!" He shouted.
Jarryd and Jack looked at each other and then back at The Doctor.
"What's going on, Doctor?"
"Is it Slappy?"
There was a loud thump at the locked door, which was followed by a loud growl of pain.
"Yes and no. Slappy has recruited some Horrors from the Planet Goosebumps to help him take over Earth. We've gotta get outta here now!"
Jarryd shook his head and grabbed a nearby wrench. "No, Doctor. No more running. Slappy dies here and now, I've had it up to here with him!"
"Jarryd's right, Doctor! If we want to stop this Slappy from taking over Earth, we have to stop him now!" Jack nodded in agreement.
"But if you kill Slappy, he'll just be rebuilt again from the goo, stronger then before!"
Before anyone could reply, the door bursts off its hinges and the trio looked at the mass group of Horrors entering the room quickly.
Slappy followed behind and stared at the three of them angrily.
"What do we have here, Doctor? Your army? Three against twenty is a very unfair advantage."
"I'm warning you Slappy. Stop this now before it's too late. If you continue you will end up dying with no chance of being rebuilt!" The Doctor crossed his fingers behind his back hoping the dummy would listen.
Slappy just chuckled madly and then sneered at The Doctor. "Don't you get it? I'm indestructible!"
Jarryd jumped forward and cracked the dummy's head with his wrench fiercely.
The Dummy only got the chance to utter a small scream of pain before he crumbled to the floor. The horrors, now with their master defeated, decided to fight the best way they could. With their claws.
Jack flung a gun out and shot the first four, whilst Jarryd tried searching for a different weapon. The Doctor, however, ran to one horror and pinched its cheek.
The Horror screamed before melting to nothing and as soon as Jarryd saw this, he immediately started to use this tactic against the other horrors.
Jack was the only one using a gun, but between the three of them, they managed to bring down the numbers to just one horror.
This horror looked at them with fright. "Who ARE you?"
"I'm The Doctor, and you should have NEVER messed with me! These are my companions, Jarryd Harts and Captain Jack Ha..."
"That's all I needed to know, thank you!" Another evil voice said.
It all happened at once. Slappy, after being rebuilt once more by the green goo, had over-heard the conversation and was about to kill Jarryd when Jack zapped at it with a strange device of his. Before they knew it, Slappy disappeared unexpectantly, but not before the Horror managed to take a swipe at Jarryd and almost get him, if it weren't for another hand pushed a sword through its stomach and it screeched in pain.
All three companions looked on in shock as ANOTHER Slappy finished killing the Horror and turned to them in anger.
"Hello again, slaves!"
Jarryd had just about enough of the confusing events of the day.
"What the hell is going on? Jack just sent you away!"
"To precisely where I wanted to go... although in hindsight I kinda wished my trap DID work." Slappy complained.
"What?"
"Oh, wake up and see the evidence, Jarryd Harts! I set it all up! It's all a loop through time and space! I hid in Captain Jack's ship and fought with you only moments ago for you, but a whole two years ago for me. Then your Jack sent me to your past, Jarryd, without realising he sent me to kill you, although you managed to kill me again! Not a very good thing to do, Jarryd. Then I was sent back to Torchwood, where you and the Doctor kindly took me back to my home. I knew that time was going in a loop, so I made sure I caught up with the past version of Captain Jack's ship and set his little time gun there to send the past me to your house, knowing what would happen! Although one of the Goosebumps residents killed me there when I came looking for you two, I was quickly bought back to life by the goo when the past version of me unknowingly dragged me along with him into Jack's ship! The rest of the time confusement sorta sorts itself out!" Slappy explained.
"But how do you explain all those other Goosebumps things that haunted me after your attack?" Jarryd asked.
"Merely some tests to see if you were ready to face the true evil of Goosebumps."
The Doctor snorted with laughter. "And that would be you, right?"
Slappy frowned. "Why are you laughing, Doctor? You've seen my power in time and space AND in the TV shows I am so famous for! Surely you know I come back the most out of all other Goosebumps characters?"
The Doctor grabbed something in his pocket and looked away from the dummy. "Jarryd, do you remember when I took the snow-man's mouth away?"
Slappy looked confused, which was difficult for a dummy. "I'm about to destroy you all and rule the universe, and you're chatting about snowmen?"
"Oh, do shut up for a moment, dummy!" The Doctor warned, with a slight smile on his face.
Jarryd chuckled, and at that moment Slappy blocked his ears in pain. "No! Stop! I command you!"
The trio looked at Slappy. The Doctor with a smile, Jarryd with suspicion and Jack with confusion.
Jarryd turned to The Doctor and he winked at Jarryd.
"Oh, yes, I remember that Doctor! If I recall, I laughed when you did it. It was pretty funny." Jarryd made sure he finished the sentence with a good laugh, one that he fully meant.
The dummy went totally mad. "STOP! YOU CANNOT DO THIS!"
The Doctor took out his Sonic Screw-driver and prepared to zap Slappy with it.
"I also remember a time when my dad slipped and landed in a pile of cow poo, that was brilliant!" Jarryd laughed uncontrollably now.
Slappy continued his crazed run, and unknowingly headed straight for a machine that not only made things, but also took things apart.
The Doctor took careful aim at the machine and turned it on just as Slappy tripped over and went into it.
Slappy's screams raged through the institute as he was torn to tiny pieces, too many to rebuild within a day.
Jarryd sighed with relief and looked at The Doctor and Captain Jack happily.
"Well, that's the whole mystery solved! That's everything sorted out!"
The Doctor looked at the scrapped remains of Slappy and frowned.
"Not quite!" He complained, grabbing them both and heading for the TARDIS.
AN: Next chapter will be the last! Hope you all enjoy it and sorry for the huge gap in-between chapters!