does a sorry count for being away for a year? sorry!
"Theta, what type of name is that?" Tony asked.
Andy, Theta and himself were sitting in the kitchen as the two of them worked on the laptop pulling extra parts from the toaster and coffee maker so the laptop could work as a transmitter and a reciever. They were at it for about nine hours now. It was midnight and Jackie and Pete retired to bed for the night and Tony was asking a whole whack of questions about them.
"it's nine, in ancient greek." Theta responded. "now, shut up, I almost have it."
"are you sure this time?" Andy asked "Tony pass me that hammer."
He did was he was told and Andy promptly broke the toaster a little bit more.
"mum is going to be cross when she wakes up." Tony stated
"she'll be fine! Your sister coming here will make up for it." She waved him off.
"and a ha!" Theta cried turning something. Nothing happened. "Rassilon!" he said clearly frustrated. "Andy I need a conductor to attach to the reciever."
She handed him a wire from the toaster. "that should do it." she comfirmed.
Static appeared on the screen and Theta looked to Andy.
"we're almost home!" he shouted happily.
Theta entered the TARDIS basecode into the conputer and it strtes scanning for the corrrect frequency. This was going to take forever.
By three in the morning, Tony was passed out at the table. Andy, slumped against a wall almost asleep and Theta was just sitting infront of the laptop waiting for the signal to find the TARDIS. His eyes were drifting shut when he heard the sound of his mother telling someone about how they met The Face of Boe.
"hello?" he yelled at the screen.
Andy sat up and looked at the static. "what is it?" she asked
"Hello?" It says they're recieving me. Hello? Mum! Dad! Can you hear me?"
"Theta!" Rose said from the other side.
"Oh, I am very good!" Theta declared "Ha!"
"Hey, I helped!" Andy ptotested "mum, can you see us?"
"let me just reboot the visual component of the transmission..." Adam said
"Adam!" Theta said happily.
"One minute, and... There we go!" He said
The screen on the laptop turned blue for a second and then the transmission went through and he could see Adam, Donna, Jack and his parents. On their side they could see Andy, Theta and a sleeping boy in the background.
"oh, thank god you're safe!" Donna cried with relief.
"who's the kid behind you?" Jack asked
"hang on a moment," Rose stated "where are you two?"
"well, we're sort of in the Tyler mansion, and the boy behind us is our uncle Tony." Theta explained and he pulled at his ear nervously.
"oh god." Rose said. She covered her mouth and looked horrified. "that's little Tony?"
"he's eighteen now mum." Andy said "and frankly, he hasn't shut up about you since we came here."
"did you kill your nan?" she asked
"no, actually. She looked like she was going to kill us when we first came here." Theta said and Andy nodded in agreement.
"She's waiting to see you." Andy told her seriously. "When will you be here?"
"I'd say, four hours?" The Doctor guessed.
The twins nodded and watched as everyone ran around the console and checked the TARDIS for take off. Four hours later the Doctor sat back down at the monitor.
"okay, we're going to lose you, so I'm just going to stop this transmission. I want you twi to put back Jackie's toaster and coffee maker before we get there you hear me?" The Doctor told them sternly.
"yes dad." droned the twins.
"alright. I'll see you two soon." he nodded and stopped the transmission.
Andy turned to Theta. "Well brother, this has been an interesting birthday." she stated
"but we can't deny that it has been one of the best." he reminded her.
"this will be an entire page in mum's photo album for sure." she agreed. "now, let's get this toaster back together."
Andy placed the toaster back on the counter fifteen minutes later.
"There!" she said happily. "How's the laptop?"
"it should be okay." He told her.
Andy walked over to Tony. She tapped him on the shoulder. He didn't wake up. She shook him hard and he finally jumped in his chair, fully awake.
"hey, sleepy head. We've done it!" she said.
"they're coming here?" he asked excited.
"should be here any minute." Theta confirmed. "oh and we fixed everything for you."
"uh, thanks." he nodded his head to the toaster.
"just don't put it on high." Andy told him. "it might catch fire."