A/N: Hello! I am terribly sorry for the writers block, I forced myself to stay awake so I could get this next chapter out to you all, even though it is one on the morning. I shall attempt to be posting chapters on a regular basis, I may be a nanny and have other jobs and volunteer work, but I still have little of a life to be able to keep writing. Honestly I have no excuse. Alright, no more keeping you from your reading, enjoy!
Chapter 17
"Alright, I think that's about everything into place. As long as the TARDIS does her part, this should work perfectly." Luna said as she closed the last door and pressed the flashing green button on the doorknob.
Crack
"I am so excited, oh my god, I'm actually going to do my most favorite part of Scooby Doo in real life! I think I'm gonna pass out." Alli Rose was jumping up and down at an impossible rate as her hands flapped around like a bird about to take flight.
Crack
"As adorable as it is to see fangirling about a cartoon dog from 1969, we need to focus. Remember, we just need to get Rose."
Crack
"What do we do about the Doctor?" Alli was slightly worried about the next encounter with the Doctor after what Luna did to him. She really hoped that he would stop being so stubbornly short sighted and listen to Rose. That is, if she even wanted to even help them.
Crack
"I've set these door dimensions randomizers to send him back to the console room after we get Rose and us in the same room. The TARDIS knows enough about you to store you in the voice interface so he and sort-of-you can have a little chat as well as us and Rose"
Crack
"Then is this part of the plan even necessary with the holograms?"
Crack
"This is just plan B. The Doctor is clever, he's just being really stupid. Now come on, last stop is the music room, but first, a change of clothes would do nicely."
The two, or the one depending on how you saw it, stepped out of the many doored corridor at a brisk pace to update their wardrobe, finishing the last part of their plan afterwards. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Rose raced down the halls at the mercy of the genetic tracker to lead them towards Alli Rose.
The two halted their steps as an eerily familiar laughter echoed off the walls. It sent chills down Rose's spine. She glanced at the Doctor, seeing his stoney impression printed on his face.
"Was that her? Or..her?" She spoke cautiously, she began to fear what this little girl could do. If whatever took over Alli hurt the Doctor just because he was helping her, what would she do if they were going to stop her?
"It might be her," He answered unsurely, "I don't know if Alli is still even there, but she better be." Flickering lights fell on the couple as the sound of someone playing the piano flowed around them. The tune was the theme of Scooby Doo, playing across speakers that were placed artfully in the halls.
"Who's playing that?"
The Doctor's face finally broke into a relieved smile, "Alli Rose. She loves that show, went on and on about it. Come on then, lets follow the music!"
They broke back into a run with a tiny glimmer of hope that she was okay as the music was growing slightly louder, along with the faster beeping from the genetic tracker. They came skidding to a halt when they ran into a circular like room that broke into more corridors.
They saw the smiling little girl standing at one end of the many hallways, her long golden hair messily bunched up on her right shoulder with a gray patterned flat cap, as she gave them a little wave.
Her petite body was fitted with a deep TARDIS blue shirt that ruffled elegantly down her torso. Black pants hugged her legs revealing the small figure she had and ended at her feet with sparkling silver, high top sneakers.
"You're okay!" Rose was about to sprint towards her to see if she was alright but couldn't run anywhere as the Doctor placed a firm arm around her waist, keeping her from getting closer.
She gave him a confused glance as she stared at his suspicious look towards Alli. "What's wrong, she's right there!"
The Doctor wasn't convinced, it's just that those eyes didn't have that familiar smile in them, "Alli Rose? Is that you?" He questioned, hoping to receive an answer that would ensure it was really her.
It didn't.
"Nope." She said, popping the 'P' like the Doctor. She threw another mischievous smile down the hall to the crestfallen Doctor.
"Aww, don't look so disappointed." She said in mocking baby voice at him.
He tried his hardest to keep his temper, but his patience was running thin very quickly, especially since whatever this thing was had hurt this little girl.
"What are you? What have you done to Alli Rose?" He demanded in a cold tone, still keeping his arm protectively around Rose's waist.
"That is a very rude question so early in the conversation, I'm a ten year old human girl, you should know that. Although the DNA might have mutated a bit from the Time Vortex energy that I had her absorb."
"Answer the question." He said in a lower voice, as he released Rose and pulled out his sonic screwdriver at her.
"Is that supposed to scare me?"
He stayed in his same position, aiming it at her, until finally she broke the tension.
"Oh alright, fine, spoil all my fun. My name is Luna Erythro, and Alli Rose is perfectly fine."
"Luna Erythro? Where'd you get that name then?" He asked rather rudely.
"Jeez, where'd you get the name 'The Doctor'. I have my reasons, you have yours, you bloody idiot." She snarked back.
"Oi, there's no need for that kind of language in her mouth." He barked right back at her.
While the two were busy bickering, Rose felt her heart stutter with reassurance that Alli was okay, but she couldn't bring herself to trust this Luna without proof. "Where is she, Alli Rose, can you show us?"
Luna sighed, "I guess, but under one condition!" She added with a glare at the Doctor, "You have to listen to me, and under no circumstances are you to try and attempt to take me out of this body."
The Doctor scoffed, "Like that's gonna happen! You send her into a seizure, make her go through unbelievable amounts of pain, you probably opened the TARDIS and let her look inside. You seriously expect me to let you stay in her after all the damage you caused?"
"Yep." She answered sweetly, popping the 'P' as well.
"Well guess what, I won't let that happen. I can get you a flesh tank and let you live your life in peace somewhere else, but you won't stay in her." He replied stubbornly. It looked like it was time for plan A to begin.
"Well alright, but you leave me no choice, just to be clear, you can't exactly do that if you can't catch me." She taunted, very suddenly there were multiple Luna's at the end of every corridor attached to the circular room, making it nearly impossible to discern the real one from the others.
They all spoke in a creepy echo, "Let's play Doctor, try and catch me."
The Doctor held out his genetic tracker to find the real culprit, spinning around in circles until it finally made a satisfying ding to the Luna on his right.
"Found you." He said in a sing-songy voice, making her smirk fall from her face in annoyance.
"Oh well that's just cheating...and after all that hard work." the single accused girl pouted before looking back at the duo, slowly sauntering towards her. The rest of her holograms fizzled from view like an old television screen turning off, leaving only her.
"You may have found me, but you still haven't caught me." She reminded them, laughing. Turning away from them, Luna dashed down the hall and jumped around the corner, the Doctor and Rose right behind her.
She eventually made it to the hall containing her plan B, there were about five rows of plain, wooden doors with an identical door across of the other. She yanked open the first door on her left and jumped through.
As the door closed, the Doctor pulled it back open and ran after her. He paused for a second when he found himself stepping out of the fourth door on the right with Luna looking at him on the other side. She pulled the door shut and was finding herself being chased by Rose, then the Doctor, then she was chasing him, and he was chasing Rose.
This carried on for about four minutes before Luna was able to grab on to Rose's arm and pulled her through one more door, pressing the flashing green button on the inside doorknob as she slammed it shut.
Rose looked in confusion at the area she was placed in, it was a beautiful garden with stone brick paths, intricate fountains and flowered bushes wafting the scent of their heavenly aroma
through the air.
Luna broke through her trance of taking in all the lovely sights, "This is one of Alli's favorite gardens. We thought a peaceful setting to talk in would help."
Rose turned around to see the lone doorframe standing out of place, in a panic she quickly rushed to it to get back to the Doctor, but Luna made no move to stop her. When she pulled open the door, she was met with the garden that kept continuing on the other side.
"What do you want from me?" Rose asked as she turned around to see her impassive face.
"I just need you to tell the Doctor something for me, all you have to do is listen." She said surprisingly in a kind voice, grabbing her attention.
Blinding light sparked from the cracks under the door that Luan dragged Rose through, an electric crackle sounding behind it. The Doctor ran through the door himself, only to be frozen at the spot as the door shut itself behind him.
He looked around the console room from where he stood and found no sign of anyone else there. He walked backwards with his arm searching behind his back for the door, not taking his eyes of the confusing sight. He was met with only air and then stumbled around in his confusion to be met with the sight of no doorframe or any thing by the likes of it.
"What!?" He shouted. He decided to run back down the corridors to find the strange aisle of doors. He turned to his first right and nearly tripped over his feet when he found himself in the console room again.
"Oh no." He groaned out loud. "No no no no no no…" As he repeated this mantra, he ran back down the hall again in the same direction, but took a left.
When he was once again corralled back into the blasted room again, he growled in frustration at his delightfully obstinate time machine. "What's gotten into you? Why are you helping her?" His shouting was met in vain as She only gave him an unconcerned hum.
He tried pressing in a few combinations of codes that could stop the TARDIS from redirecting his route like he did last time, but the cheeky ship was headstrong at making sure that he stayed where he was.
He ran down the hallways extremely irritated over and over again hoping that the old girl would just take pity on him and let him out. He halted in his tracks at he amused giggle that carried from above in the coral-like columns.
"You do know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, right?"
He gazed up to the source of the voice that what he thought to be Luna, dangling her leg over the side as she lied against the strut.
Her head turned to the side to look down at him with a bright twinkle that came from her eyes.
"Alli Rose…" He breathed out in relief, he could tell that it was her from the smile that still showed in her eyes.
"Sort of, Alli needed to have a word with you so this was the best way to do it." Her body flickered down to stand in front of the Doctor, showing that she was a hologram like the rest. The amount of times the Doctor's hearts dropped from thinking that she was okay and them to be yanked away made each blow worse. He didn't know if he could take it anymore.
"This image was chosen from the many data collections had in storage for voice interface protocol. From the billions in storage, this one fits best. Now shut up and listen, all I ask of you, as Alli, is to just listen to Rose when she comes back, what she says is the truth. If you want to help her, then just listen." She repeated to him before blinking out of sight, leaving the Doctor to sit helplessly and wait for Rose, if she ever did come back.
A/N: To the reviewer E-man-dy-S, I used your description of him being "stubbornly short sighted" if you don't mind, but it is a perfect description for who he's behaving. I will have Luna and Alli one up him in the next chapter since I didn't do it this time, don't worry. I will attempt to have this updated soon, that's a promise, a very poor one but a promise all the same! Until next time my little companions!