A/N: I am so sorry I took so long! I blame school work and my job but never fear for this is two parts. This story takes place after Trial of a Time Lord and it is also a retelling of Donna's first appearance in Doctor Who hope you like it!
Angry, frustrated, and annoyed. That is what the Doctor felt within his Tardis.
After dropping off Mel back into her time to meet her Doctor, which was him, but in the future. He was still upset over what the Time lord high council was going to do to him, not only creating a future dark version of himself so they can cover their own wicked hands, but also risking the life of Peri.
"Peri," The Doctor said silently.
He looked down and noticed a jacket. It was Peri's.
"Silly girl," the Doctor sighed, picking it up and putting it on a coat rack. "How many times have I told her not to leave her clothes around randomly?"
The Doctor was silent again.
"Are you really a warrior queen or was that another lie?" he said sadly.
The Doctor went back to the TARDIS console and tried to keep his mind off the negatives. He tried hard to focus on his next destination. When he looked up form the controls his eyes widened to find he was not alone.
Standing across form him on the other side of the console was a red-haired woman wearing a wedding dress. She faced the Doctor with a mixture of shock and anger.
"Who are you?" asked the woman.
The Doctor just looked at her in supprise.
"Where am I?" the woman asked again, her voice getting louder.
The Doctor mouth slowly opened up.
"What the hell is this place?!" the woman yelled.
And the Doctor finally spoke.
"WHAT!?"
(Doctor Who theme 1986)
Colin Baker
Catherine Tate
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The Runaway Bride (6th Doctor version)
By Z-King
The Doctor looked at the strange woman inside the Tardis and a whole galaxy full of questions came into his head. Unfortunately, only one came out.
"Who are you!?" the Doctor shouted "How did you get in here?!"
"Oi! I asked you first!" shouted the woman.
"How did you get in here? We're in mid-flight right now," the Doctor said ignoring the woman.
"Are you even listing to me?" she shouted back. "Answer me when I talk to you rainbow boy!"
"How did you get in my Tardis?!" the Doctor shouted.
"Your what?!"
"Oh don't pretend you don't know what a Tardis is, now answer my question!"
"Now what a minute! First off, that is not even a proper word. And second, I'm asking the questions since you're the one who's kidnapping me."
The Doctor gave the woman a blank expression and said "Kidnapped you? Kidnapped you?! Kidnapped you?!"
"Yea you kidnapped me! What are you deaf?!" shouted the woman
"I am not deaf and don't you change the question," said the Doctor pointing at the woman. "Did the Time lords send you?"
"The time what?" said the woman.
"The time lords of course! That explains how you got in my Tardis," said the Doctor looking up around the console room.
"Is this your lot doing?" said the Doctor, "Have you lot caused me enough trouble today!?"
As the Doctor ranted and raved at nothing the woman was looking at him like he was insane.
"Fat load of bonkers you are," she said.
The Doctor faced the woman.
"No, what is bonkers is that you are somehow in my ship wearing that ridiculous thing!"
The woman got angry again.
"This ridiculous thing is a wedding dress, and you shouldn't be talking to me about outfits, look what you're wearing!"
The Doctor huffed. "This outfit is not ridiculous and you will not change the subject! Now, why have the Time lords sent you here?"
The Woman was really starting to lose it now.
"Look here clown boy, nobody sent me to this stupid place. I was kidnapped by you remember!?"
"I did not!" The Doctor stopped, he put his hands together and took a deep breath. Composed, he spoke with a clam voice.
"Look, we're not getting anywhere with this, let's try to start with names; my name is the Doctor, what is yours?"
The woman calmly answered "Donna Noble."
The Doctor smiled "Good, now we are getting somewhere. Are you human?"
"What kind of a question is that?" Donna shouted. "Of course I'm human!"
"I was only asking," the Doctor breathed again. "Okay, you're human, can you tell me the last thing you remember before you came here?"
"Well I was on my way to the shop and-I WAS GETTING MARRIED YOU DUMBO! WHAT DO YOU THINK?!"
The Doctor was about to shout again but stopped himself. He was trying to gain a different personality, but this woman was making it very hard for him to not get angry. He calmly tried again.
"Please, Donna, it might help us both if you calmly my last question; what happened on your wedding day?"
Donna took a deep breath. "Okay, I was walking down the aisle where Lance was waiting for me…"
"This Lance is you boyfriend right?" The Doctor interrupted.
Donna ignored and continued. "I was feeling so happy and then I felt odd. Big, bright light and the next thing I knew I was in this crazy white room with you."
The Doctor put a hand on his chin in thought.
"Hmm. I'll be right back," The Doctor said as he walked off. "And don't touch anything!"
Donna watched him go, then stared to look around her new environment.
"This place is so bland, why only white?" she asked aloud. "You'd think a man who dresses up like a parrot would like color all over the place. What the hell am I on about? I have a wedding to go to, my own wedding!"
She picked up her skirt as she dashed to the console.
"One of these stupid things must be a way out of here," she wondered as she pulled a red lever. The wall behind started to open up, reveling blue doors.
"Finally, now to get out of this mad house," Donna said just as the Doctor came in holding a device.
"Ah. I found it. Now we can- WHAT ARE YOU DOING WOMAN?!"
Before Donna could answer she opened the doors to see not London, not the church, but stars, planets, and a gigantic nebula behind it all. Donna could hardly keep her eyes open in such disbelief. Somehow she is in space.
The Doctor walked up to her, seeing the view for himself.
"You are lucky the Tardis is putting up her shields, otherwise you and me would be heading out into the cold airless void of space," he said.
"I'm in space," said Donna surprised.
"I did just tell you didn't I?" asked the Doctor. "Now why don't we close these doors, it's getting chilly in here."
As the Doctor closed the doors and moved Donna away the white walls closed back up. Donna still could not believe it. A thought came into her head and looked at the Doctor.
"You're an Alien," she said.
"Finally she gets it," said the Doctor sourly. "Now hold still."
The Doctor got out what looks like to be a futuristic handheld vacuum cleaner.
"What is that?" Donna asked, not liking what she is seeing.
"Don't worry, it's a scanning device of my own design thank you very much. It's designed to scan for anomalies, particle anomalies to be exact. It will let me know if-"
Donna slapped him in the face mid-sentence. The Doctor grabbed his cheek in shock. No one has every slapped him before, not even Peri.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" shouted The Doctor.
"GET ME TO THE CHURCH!" shouted Donna matching the Doctor's tone.
"Well you didn't have to slap me to do that. What is the matter with you?!"
"Look clown-boy, I am getting married and I don't wont you or you vacuum cleaner or your stupid alien face to ruin it for me! Now. Get. Me. Back. To. Earth. NOW!"
The Doctor huffed as he put his device (Which is not a vacuum cleaner mind you) and started working on the console.
"Fine, I don't care anymore. Where is this wedding?" said the Doctor.
"St Mary's, Haven Road, Chiswick, London, England, Earth, the solar system," commanded Donna.
"Yes, I know what planet we are going to," said the Doctor. "Can't seem to get away from it anymore."
Donna then noticed Peri's jacket hanging on the coat rack.
"I knew it I was not the first one," she said grabbing the jacket.
"Not the first what?" said the Doctor looking up and seeing Donna wave Peri's jacket in his face.
"Okay Clown-boy, how many women have abducted?!" Donna shouted.
The Doctor snached the jacket from Donna's grasp.
"Do you mind? This belongs to a friend and I would very much appreciate if you keep your hands off of it!" the Doctor said putting the jacket back on the rack.
"Well where is your friend then, out on a space-walk?" Donna remarked sarcastically.
"She has a name, Peri!" shouted the Doctor.
"Okay then where is she then?"
The Doctor paused bringing him back to the question in his mind. Is Peri alive?
Donna noticed the Doctor's face turn from anger to a sad look and she just stared at him.
Then the Doctor's face went to neutral and went back to the console.
"That is not of your concern now if you don't mind lets get you back to Earth," He said frustrated, "to your wedding and out of my hair."
Earth, 25th of Decmber, 2006.
VOWRP, VOWRP, VOWRP Echoed the sounds of the Tardis as it materialized itself in a corner. Donna rushed out immediately. She looked around annoyed and shouted;
"This does not look like a church to me, what kind of a Martian clown are you?!"
"Martian? MARITAN! Are you an idiot? Do I look like a Martian?" shouted the Doctor as he looked from the scanner to the console. "Now for some reason it seems the Tarids is digesting something? But what…."
"How the hell should I know?" Donna remarked. "This is my first abduction, I'm…I...I"
She lost her words as she finally got a good look at the TARDIS.
It's a box, she thought to herself. A blue police box like granddad always talked about.
Donna looked around the box, trying to find an answer to this craziness.
She looked back inside the Tarids and saw the big white room and the Doctor standing over his Console.
"Donna, do you think you could shed some light on why the TARDIS is acting like this? Because, after all, this never happened to the old girl until you…"
The Doctor stopped as he saw Donna slowly gazed around the room in disbelief.
The Doctor sighed. This always happens.
The Doctor walked out and stood at Donna's side looking at the TARDIS.
"I bet your wondering how is this little box can be small on the outside, but big on the inside, am I right Miss Donna?"
The Doctor looked to his left to find Donna gone. He turned around to find her walking in the other direction.
"Donna wait a minute get back here!" shouted the Doctor.
"No way that box is to weird!" shouted Donna.
"Weird? The Tardis is dimensionally transcendental, so naturally it's bigger on the inside. That's not weird, it's science!" explained the Doctor.
Donna looked at her watch.
"Great," she said, "I'm going to miss it."
"Miss what?" asked the Doctor.
Donna stopped and looked at the Doctor with an angry expression.
"What do you think I'm going to miss? MY WEDDING!" she shouted.
The Doctor rubbed his ears and responded.
"Okay, okay, you don't have to shout. Why don't you just call them and tell them where you are? This is the 21st century you should have a mobile by now right?"
"That is a great idea but one problem," said Donna as she stood in front of the Doctor.
"I'm wearing a wedding dress!"
"So?" ask the Doctor.
"So, IT DOES NOT HAVE ANY POCKETS!" shouted Donna. "What kind of a person has pockets on a weeding dress anyway?"
"Why is that my fault?" said the Doctor. The Doctor decided to save his hearing by changing the subject.
"So, who is the lucky man?"
Donna's personality changed form mad to happy. "Lance."
"Is he deaf?" asked the Doctor.
"OY! Don't you joke around clown-boy," She said. "I'm not letting your Martian Box stop me from getting married!"
"I am not a Martian! Do I look green to you?!" the Doctor shouted, following Donna as she tried to call for a Taxi. "And the TARDIS isn't Martian either!"
"TAXI!" she shouted but the car just drove past her. The Doctor managed to catch up with her as another Taxi pasted her.
"Won't you stop?!" Donna shouted. "I think you've done enough today"
The Doctor saw a Taxi coming up and remembered what Peri did when they were in New York in 1999.
The Doctor took two of his fingers on his left hand and made a loud whistle. Donna covered her ears at the loud sound just as the Taxi pulled towards them.
The Doctor smiled.
"The universal way of getting attention," he said smugly.
"Whatever, just get in!" shouted Donna as she and the Doctor entered the car. "St Mary's in Chiswick, just off Haven Road, and step on it!"
"Okay," the cab driver said, "but it's double rates today sweetheart."
"Well," said the Doctor looking at Donna.
"Well what?" The Doctor asked.
"Don't you have any money?" asked Donna.
"Of course not. I don't carry around money with me, don't you have any with you?" asked the Doctor.
Donna was pissed now. "I'm just going to say this one last time. I. Don't. Have. Pockets!"
After that the Doctor and Donna left the cab, but not without Donna saying goodbye to the driver.
"AND THAT GOES DOUBLE FOR YOUR MOTHER!"
As the cab drove off Donna saw the Doctor looking at her.
"What!" she shouted.
"Just surprised over you vocabulary," The Doctor said.
"Well that driver had it coming," said Donna. "Talk about your Christmas spirit."
"Christmas?" whispered to himself.
The Doctor looked around and saw stores with Christmas lights, standup Santas, and last minute Christmas sales. The Doctor felt a little joy in him. He always did like Christmas, but right now he needed to focus on Donna because he still had questions on how she got in the TARDIS.
But he probably should act a little friendlier if he wanted any answers. Maybe breaking the ice should help.
"By the way," He asked, "why are you getting married on Christmas? Kind of negates the purpose a little doesn't it?
"I hate Christmas, after the wedding it's honeymooning in sunny Morocco!" said Donna.
They managed to reach a phone booth. Donna reached for the phone, but then she said;
"Wait a minute, I haven't used these things in years," she said.
"Oh let me do it," said the Doctor grabbing a small metal stick out and pointed at the phone while it made a buzzing noise.
"What was that?" ask Donna.
"That was my new Sonic Screwdriver, miss Donna." He answered as he put it away in his jacket. "My old one got destroyed a life time ago. Hadn't bothered to make a replacement for it, always too busy."
"You keep something like that but you don't keep money?" said Donna.
"Just answer the damn phone," said the Doctor.
As Donna tried to get her mom to answer, the Doctor looked around the area for some reason. The hairs on the back of his neck were standing up and to him that means trouble.
The Doctor soon noticed three figures wearing a Santa costume and a Santa mask slowly walking up to them while each playing musical instruments.
"Mom get off the phone! Listen, I'm…" Donna looked around. "Wait, I don't know where I am! A street but… hey Doctor, where are we in London?"
The Doctor did not answer as he was still looking at the three Santas now getting a little closer.
"Oy, Martian man, are you hearing me?!" shouted Donna as the Doctor got out his vacuum design scanner device.
He pointed it at the three Santas, causing the device to beep.
The Doctor's eyes widened as the center Santa lowering its trombone, causing the rest to follow suite.
"What ,you never seen a Santa before?" said Donna mocking the Doctor, only for him to grab her and throw both of them down to the ground.
Donna was about to yell at him when trombone fired an energy blast, destroying the phone booth.
"WHAT THE HELL? SANTAS SHOOTTING AT US!?" she shouted.
"RUN!" shouted the Doctor, getting Donna up and running with crowd away from the three Santas.
"What the hell is going on here? Why are they shooting at us!" said Donna, not believing any of this.
"Whatever they are, they have particle sensing equipment similar to mine. Maybe…"
But the Doctor stopped when a car nearly ran into them on the sidewalk. Thankfully, the Doctor managed to push Donna out of the way before it could hit them.
The Driver came out to show another Santa coming towards them, the Doctor turn around to see the other three Santas coming towards them.
The Doctor quickly grabbed Donna and led her to an ally way right near a…
"Dead end, way a go genius!" shouted Donna.
They glanced behind them to see the four Santas marching towards them.
Donna was about to panic more when the Doctor grabbed her shoulders and made her face him.
"Listen to me Donna, I have an idea but you have to trust me on this," the Doctor said to Donna.
The Doctor then turned to the Santas and walked, but stopped when Donna said;
"Did Peri trust you?"
The Doctor tightened his grip then pulled out his sonic Screwdriver, pointing it at the four Santas. And with a press of a button…
BUZZZZ
The four Santas started to shake, then sparks flew out of their bodies as they fell face first on the ground.
The Doctor walked up to one of the fallen Santas, pulling its face to show a gold robot face.
Donna looked down at the Doctor.
"Oh my god…. Santa's a robot!"
The Doctor ignored her and studied the robot for two minutes. Soon the two went back to the Tardis as the Doctor used the console's computers to figure out these yuletide androids.
"They seem to be some sort of scavengers, I doubt they where the cause of how we met, but perhaps they are working for the ones who are responsible for it. They were trying to kill me. But not you, Donna."
The Doctor looked around the Tardis only to see Donna outside sitting down on the floor. The Doctor walked up to her and set down next to her.
"You know you're going to get that thing dirty," said the Doctor.
"It does not matter anymore," said Donna with a sad look.
The Doctor nodded his head in understanding.
"So we missed it then?" he asked.
"Yeah," sighed Donna. "By two whole hours."
"Well, you can always book another. And you still have the honeymoon," said the Doctor trying to cheer her up.
"Yeah but the honeymoon is now a holiday," sighed Donna.
"Well I'm sorry," said the Doctor.
"It's not your fault," said Donna.
"Well true but sometimes people like to blame me a lot for their troubles. It's like a tradition."
Donna laughed a bit.
"You know, I wish that I had a time machine so I could go back and stop myself from making all of this insanity from happing to me."
The Doctor was about to say something about that, but just said to himself it's best for her not to know everything.
Instead, the Doctor took off his coat and gave it to Donna to warm her up.
Donna looked at the coat.
"It still the ugliest coat I ever seen," she said. "How many pollos had to die to make this monster?"
The Doctor held back a yell.
"I think you should wear this," he said pulling out a ring
"Great, you're rubbing it in," she said putting the ring on her finger.
"This right here is a bio-damper. Whatever those creatures are after you for this will make sure they won't find you."
"For better or for worse right?" Donna joked. "Have you figured out what those Santa-bots are yet? Where they came from?"
"They're scavengers, that's all I can guess at the moment. The Holiday gimmick is merely to blend in," said the Doctor. "And as for why they want you…well…"
The Doctor pulled out his Particle scanner, cracked and almost shattered. The fall from earlier did quite a number on it.
"I'll get back to you on that." He grumbled. "This is why you should have let me scan you earlier, could've got the whole thing over and done with in just 3 minutes."
After that there was silence. Donna tried to break it.
"So what happened to your friend Peri?" asked Donna.
"Irrelevant." He said without any emotion. "We need to focus on why they're after you."
Donna rolled her eyes as he began repairs on the scanner.
"Let's gather a little more info on you then," he said. "What are you exactly? A politician? Military woman? An ambassador? Chief of police?"
"I'm a secretary," said Donna.
The Doctor looked up at her.
"That's it?" he said in disbelief. "I'd figure you'd be more important."
"This Peri girl, before she left did she give you a big punch in the face?" Donna said in anger.
"So what sort of a secretary are you?" ask the Doctor.
"I work at HC Clements," She began. "It was also where I met Lance. I was temping, it was dull and I never thought I would fit in. But then Lance gave me a cup of Coffee, no one ever goes their way to make a cup of coffee for a temp. And he was the head of HR, he did not have to bother with me."
"Let me guess, sparks flew?" ask the Doctor.
"Oh, did they fly," swooned Donna.
"So when was this?" The Doctor asked.
"Six months ago."
The Doctor stared at her with a weird look.
"Six months?!" He sat up, "You got engaged in six months? Seems hardly enough time to settle."
"What can I say? He insisted," Donna said. "He nagged and nagged, then finally I had to give in."
The Doctor doubted Donna's little tale of romance but who was he to kill a woman's fantasy?
"So what does HC Clements do?" ask the Doctor, trying to reattach wires and not hear about her love life.
"Oh, security systems. You know; entry codes, ID cards, the works," said Donna.
"Makes me think of keys," pondered the Doctor.
"Well that is what I thought too," said Donna. A though entered her mind.
"Wait a minute, I forgot- everyone at the wedding! They must be worried sick, but what am I going to say to everyone?"
Donna grabbed the Doctor by the collar, "You can do all the talking Martian man."
"Donna, I told you once I will tell you again I am not from Mars!" said Doctor, quickly grabbing the pieces of tech while being dragged by a rather forceful Donna.
"Whatever. Oh and I had this big wedding reception all planned out, everyone is going to be so heartbroken," sighed Donna as she dragged him off.
Finally, after the two got a cab with money the Doctor got from the nearest automated teller (thanks Sonic), they arrived where the wedding reception was held. But instead of finding worried guest and family members like Donna expected, she saw every one partying.
Donna was pissed. And not just because she saw Lance dancing with her best friend Nerys.
Soon everyone in the room saw Donna, the music stopped and they all stared in shock.
"You had the reception without me?!" said Donna, still ticked while the Doctor just adjusted his new Hello Kitty pin.
Lance was the first one to speak. "Donna! What happened to you?"
"You had the reception without me?" she repeated.
"I think they heard you the first time," said the Doctor.
"They had the reception without me!" Donna said to the Doctor.
"Did they now?" he said sarcastically. "Would never have guessed, thanks for pointing that out."
"Well it was already paid for," said the blonde haired woman named Nerys.
"Thank you so much Nerys," said Donna grinding her teeth.
"Well what were we supposed to do anyway?" said a woman who the Doctor would guess was Donna's mother. They did share a certain decibel.
"I got your message, very funny. By the way, nice of adding that little sound effect or whatever it was and speaking of effects what the hell happened?!"
Soon everyone was around the Donna demanding questions from Donna. The Doctor was silent, afraid the part where they start asking him questions with the occasion of holding a gun to his face. That part he didn't mind being absent.
Then Donna started to whimper, almost like she was about to cry. The group went sympathetic, feeling sorry and hugged her. Donna gave the Doctor a wink over her mother's shoulder.
"Clever girl," he said to himself.
After that, the party continued with Donna dancing with Lance. The Doctor just stood on the sidelines, not really one for parties. But before he settled, he went straight to the DJ. The song Run, Run Rudolph was playing.
"Excuse me," he said annoyed, "but why are you playing Christmas music?"
"Uhhh," the DJ stumbled. "Because it's Christmas mate?"
"Well the bride doesn't like Christmas very much. If there's anything worse than a woman's scorn, it's her scorn! Now make her happy!"
The DJ, immensely frightened, searched through his MP3 and selected another song. It had a definite Broadway feel.
'You lured me in with your cold grey eyes. Your simple smile, your bewitching lies!
One and one and one is three, My bad bad angel, the devil in me…'
He turned to see Donna, winking at him secretly as she danced with her meant-to-be husband.
"That should take care of the wedding present." He said, using the open bar as a make-shift work station to continue repairs on the scanner.
"What will you have sir?" the bartender asked.
"A cell phone." He said not even looking up from his work.
"Pardon?" the Bartender said.
"I need to borrow a cell phone." He repeated.
The bartender handed over his phone. While the barman was distracted by an order, the Doctor typed in the words HC Clements, secretly using his Sonic Screwdriver to hack in the Wi-Fi. Using his other hand for repairs on the scanner, he searched the internet for all the info he could on the company. Hitting the phone with sonic again, he hacked further, but all he got where these words.
"Torchwood?" said the Doctor. "Never heard of it."
The Doctor then gave the phone back and continued his tinkering. Finally, he managed to fix it. Since he knew Donna wouldn't let him scan her up close, he'd use the long-range option on the scanner.
He scanned her as she danced, completely oblivious to what he was doing. The scan took only 30 seconds before giving data. The Doctor observed what he scanner told him. But something was amiss. There was only one particle that gave off that signature…
"Huon particles?" said the Doctor. "But that can't be. Huon energy hasn't existed for eons. How could Donna…"
But the Doctor stopped, hitting a realization.
The Doctor looked at Donna.
"The bio damper isn't able to hide Huon energy!" the Doctor said, making a break to the windows. What he saw did not make him happy.
Three more robots in Santa costumes marching with instruments, aka weapons in disguise.
"Great. I'm going to need a stronger Screwdriver," said the Doctor.
The Doctor quickly ran to Donna. He tapped lance's shoulder.
"Dance with the bride?" the doctor said.
"Certainly not." Lance snapped.
The Doctor groaned as he threw Lance off of her, taking his place in the dance.
"Hey!" Lance said.
"What the hell Doctor?" Donna demanded.
"Don't panic," the Doctor said quickly. "I just found out what they want, and I'm afraid they've found us. We have to get out of here now!"
Donna quickly panicked. "My family! We've got to hurry, the back door!"
The Doctor and Donna quickly checked the back door, only to see three more Robo-Santas coming.
"Any other ideas?" asked the Doctor quickly closing the doors.
The Doctor and Donna went back to the Party. They looked out one of the windows and saw two more of them.
"We're trapped," Donna said fearfully.
Then the Doctor noticed that the Santa-bot on the left was holding what looked like a remote controller.
The Doctor saw it pointing the controller at them. He didn't understand until he turned around to see a Christmas tree behind them.
The Doctor put two and two together, realizing what it meant.
"Oh you got to be kidding me," he said.
And as he said that the Christmas ornaments started to fly away from the tree, catching the eye of everyone. Everyone looked in amazement while the Doctor was preparing for the worse.
Which it did.
Suddenly, one of the ornaments flew straight down, causing a large blast making everyone run around in panic. The Doctor was about to get his sonic screwdriver out, but suddenly the tree started to spin around like a moving chainsaw heading right towards him.
To be continued…
A/N: Once more I am so sorry for the long wait. Work and College have been more of a challenge to me then ever. But as an author I will try my best to continue this story, which reminds me you can still vote for which classic Doctor to travel with Amy Pond so don't shy go on and vote….OR I WILL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!
Kidding….maybe.