I own nothing! Sorry for the long update, I just got braces, and the hurt so much that it is hard to concentrate.
mimi34: Really poor them...they'll need that good luck. ;)
"How are we even supposed to get these crystals, anyway?" Donna looked extremely confused. "Wouldn't we die if we tried?"
"I don't know..." John looked rather worried about his friends. "Maybe there's a gift shop? I always love a good gift shop..."
The companions rolled their eyes.
"Can we go?" Ushas looked hopeful.
"I'm afraid that this one will be a little dangerous." the Metacrisis said regretfully.
"You said that about Barcelona too..." Koschei complained.
"If one of the ingredient is in a not-so-dangerous place, you can come along too."
The Gallifreyans looked at each other thoughtfully.
"That would be boring." Theta decided. "No adventure...exploration is fantastic!" he grinned.
Jack, Donna, John, Rose, and Jackie started laughing a little bit about the last word that came out of his mouth.
"Maybe next time." and with that, everyone except the Gallifreyans and Jackie (the universe-renown babysitter) left the TARDIS.
"Where should we look first?" Rose asked.
"A gift shop." John pointed at the store labeled 'Gift Shop' in Earth English.
The companions only shrugged. Without killing themselves, using the gift shop to get a crystal would be their best bet.
"Hello, how may I help you?" the emo-like teenager spoke in monotone.
"We are working on a cure for a de-aging potion." John began hesitantly. "And one of the ingredients is a crystal from this planet. The person who first created the potion must have been able to acquire a crystal, so we are looking for a way to get one as well."
"A crystal?" he looked surprised. "You are at the wrong place. To get a crystal," he pulled out a map. "You have to go down to this building." the building was only a few blocks away. "Inside this building, you have to tell the receptionist this exactly: 'I need to shine'."
John finally decided to look at the boy more closely. "Thank you, Jethro."
"You are welcome, Doctor."
The companions decided not to mention to the teenager that the Doctor obviously knew that John actually wasn't the Doctor. They were in a hurry and could not explain it to him.
"I didn't expect to see Jethro there..." the Metacrisis mentioned as soon as they left.
"Neither did I." Donna admitted.
"Who's Jethro?" Martha asked.
"Jethro was an emo teenager who took a tour with his family; the same tour the Doctor just happened to be on. Let's just say that that tour went haywire and two people ended up dying." John looked like he was plagued by this deep sadness that he couldn't save them.
He was immediately reassured by his companions that he could not save everybody.
"I thought he was just vacationing...does he actually live here?" Donna asked.
"It seems so." the Metacrisis looked back. "And he's got a job, too. Lovely!"
They went forward in silence. There was only one mishap (Sarah thought her jeans would never be the same again) that included falling and a mud puddle.
The receptionist looked up at the large group, surprised by not only Sarah's jeans, but also the fact that some of them looked ready to go fight a war, some of them looked ready to go to school, while others looked like they were ready to go to a professional job. All in all, it was very random.
"I need to shine." John mentioned briefly, yawning and stretching.
His eyes widened immediately. "Of course, right away." he punched in a few numbers on a nearby phone. "Go to floor -45."
"Negative 45?" Rose hissed. "Is that even a thing?"
"Apparently." Jack and Mickey shrugged; tin dogs for the win.
The companions entered the elevator before searching for the negative numbers. There were none.
"Great. What now?" Mickey looked slightly annoyed.
"There is a negative sign. Perhaps you have to press that before you press the number." Donna proposed.
"Good idea." John pressed the negative sign and the number 45.
They went down extremely fast; it was so fast that Rose's hair flew up and Martha felt like she was being lifted off the ground a little bit. Everyone was holding onto either the sides or someone else.
Let's just say that when the elevator opened, everyone looked like they had been through a wind tunnel.
Small, glowing crystals lined the walls in seperate glass cases.
"Do we just take three?" Jack asked.
"I suppose so." Donna shrugged.
As soon as the got three of them, alarms sounded.
"And that would be our cue to run." John smirked.
And they did.
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