Chapter 38:
The three sliders fell out of the portal and landed on the ground. They stood up and brushed themselves off.
"Well, that ride never gets any less bumpier." Michael said.
Suddenly the group fell to the ground as the ground shook and an explosion went off.
"What was that?" Rebecca asked.
"Let's find out!" Sam replied as they ran toward the explosion.
The group saw a man running away from the explosion. The man was wearing a navy blue Crombie coat and had short graying hair. The man stopped in front of them.
"Listen, you have to follow exactly as I say. When I say run, run!" the man said in a Scottish accent.
"What's going on here?" Rebecca asked.
"Run!" the man shouted as another explosion shook the ground.
The group ran with the man towards a blue box that said Police Public Call Box. The man snapped his fingers and the doors opened.
"I don't usually say this, but hop in!" the man shouted as a robot began to walk toward them. The sliders ran into the box and watched from behind the door.
The man took out a device shaped like a weird flashlight/lightsaber from his pocket. He held it toward the robot and it started to buzz, the robot began to shake and exploded. The man walked back into the box and the sliders turned around, noticing the surprisingly big room inside the small blue box.
"Wow... it's..." Sam started.
"Bigger on the inside? I get that a lot." the man said.
"Who are you?" Michael asked.
"Who! That is the question, why don't you three introduce yourselves first?" the man replied.
"I'm Michael, this is Sam and this is Rebecca." Michael said.
"I'm The Doctor." the man said, walking toward the console in the middle of the room.
"Doctor of what?" Rebecca asked.
"A lot of things, actually. But no time to explain that. I would like to know why my TARDIS is detecting that you do not belong here." The Doctor said, as he looked up from the console.
"That's a bit hard to explain..." Michael said. "It'll take a long time."
"Don't worry. Time I've got a lot of." The Doctor said.
"Ah, inter-dimensional travelers! That's interesting." The Doctor said.
"So what do you do, in this impossibly sized box of yours'?" Rebecca asked.
"Time travel actually." The Doctor said. "TARDIS stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space."
"Huh." Sam said.
"What? No, "Time travel is impossible!" or "You're lying!"?" The Doctor asked.
"Eh, after traveling between dimensions you sort of just learn to accept things easier." Michael replied.
"Well, if that's all, I must be off. I hate San Francisco, I had a bad experience here during the last day of the last millennium." The Doctor said. "Nice meeting you three though, good change of pace."
"Uh, actually... We were wondering if you could help us." Sam said.
"Yeah... Rebecca's not from our world, as we explained. And we have our dimensional coordinates back, but due to timey wimey shenanigans, we can't return for a bit, but we don't have her dimensional coordinates, and you seem to have a lot of tech, and we were wondering if you'd be willing to help us figure that out." Michael said.
"You want me, to help you find her dimensional coordinates? What do you think, I just fly around through time and space in this box and help people?" The Doctor asked, raising his voice. The trio stepped back.
"..." the trio stood there, silent.
"Well..." The Doctor started to smile. "That's exactly what I do."
"So, I've reversed the polarity of your, what do you call it?" The Doctor started..
"Timer." Sam replied.
"Right, your timer. And so even though it doesn't have her coordinates inside of it, if I hook it up to the TARDIS, we can use it to find them." The Doctor said.
"Great!" Michael said.
"Okay, Rebecca. You have to stick your hands into this." The Doctor said, motioning to a part of the console with a gel-like substance sitting in it.
"You want me to stick my hands into that goo?" Rebecca asked.
"It's completely safe. It's a form of the telepathic circuits that the TARDIS has. It can extrapolate your timestream from birth to death." The Doctor replied. "But... using the timer, I can make it extrapolate your proper location in the multiverse."
"This is a very interesting ship." Michael said.
"That's exactly why I chose it." The Doctor said. "Now Rebecca, your hands go in that goo!"
"...Fine." Rebecca said, sticking her hands into the telepathic circuits. "Yuck..."
"Now we wait until it extrapolates it!" The Doctor said.
"How long will that take?" Rebecca asked, hands still in the telepathic circuits.
"Anywhere from two seconds to two hours." The Doctor said.
"Really?" Rebecca asked.
"No, it's actually done. It's just processing the information." The Doctor said.
"Ugh." Rebecca said, pulling her hands out of the telepathic circuits.
"It'll take some time, so do you three fancy a trip around time and space?" The Doctor asked.
"Do we?" Sam asked.
"If we're waiting for the telepathic circuits to tell us where Rebecca's world is, I don't see why not." Michael replied.
"Neither do I." Rebecca said. "If we find my world that'll make this a hell of a last outing."
"Then it's settled. We have all of time and space to traverse, where do you want to start?" The Doctor asked.
To Be Continued...