CHAPTER 15
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Author's Note: The story now takes place after Children of the Night. The events in this story take place in the future of that one.
"You really don't want to do that," Lily said to the assassin as he prepared to kill the Zygon.
The assassin chuckled a little as she said that. He obviously didn't think much of her as a threat. He was very much mistaken!
"Why is that? Are you going to beat me to death with that umbrella?" the man asked with a snort.
"I probably could, but I would only do so as a last resort," Lily replied seriously.
The assassin was taken aback by the tone in her voice. He could tell that she actually believed what she had just said.
"You certainly have a lot of confidence in yourself, girl. I like that! I like it so much that I'll let you and the other girl go. I have no interest in either of you. I just need to kill this one. He has a huge price on his head," the assassin said as he started to squeeze the trigger again.
Lily swiftly kicked the gun out of his hand before he could react, and it flew several feet away and out of the assassin's reach. It hit the wall with a loud thud and broke into several pieces.
Then just a second later, she had him pinned to the ground with one fluid motion. He was lying on his back before he knew it. She was on top of him now with her legs pressing down against his so that they couldn't move, and her right hand was pressing down against his chest holding the rest of him in place with just one arm.
"If you wanted to date me, all you had to do was ask," the assassin joked. He obviously didn't take her seriously as a threat even now.
"Sorry, pal. I already have a boyfriend. If you need a date that bad though maybe I could hook you up. I'm sure that there's some poor blind person out there that's sufficiently deranged enough to want to go out with you!" Lily said with a wide grin on her face.
She was shocked by her actions. That was more like a comment that the old her would have made. Maybe her sense of humor wasn't so gone after all. That was good. She didn't want to be all dark and brooding all of the time. That wasn't her at all. She had always liked a good sense of humor. This incarnation hadn't really had time to quite settle into its complete form yet so maybe she would discover that the parts of herself that she liked from before were still around somewhere.
"A funny girl, eh? I like a sense of humor in a woman!" the assassin said in a cheerful tone.
Nothing seems to bother this guy! Lily thought amused.
Suddenly a massive electric shock passed through the outer shell of his armor and poured into Lily! She screamed at first, but then she gritted her teeth together and put up with the pain as she refused to move off of him.
"Impressive! That's enough juice to kill most beings! What are you?" the assassin asked her with a grudging tone of respect beginning to enter his voice.
"That's not your concern. What should be of concern to you is the fact that I can easily kill you, and that if you don't leave this planet immediately that I will stop being so merciful towards you," Lily said in a cold voice. She had now lost any sense of good feeling that she might have ever had towards this man.
To demonstrate her intentions, her hands began to glow with regenerative energy; and she used that power to quickly melt huge holes into his armor. The flow of electricity quickly stopped as his armor was now too damaged to function. She sighed in relief as the pain in her body began to subside.
"Oh, resourceful too!" the assassin said with clear respect now audible in his tone.
He now managed to press a hidden button in one of his gauntlets. This little device had its own power source and was unaffected by the loss of power to the rest of his armor. He had used it to get out of a lot of tricky situations in the past.
An odorless, invisible gas began to pour out from the gauntlet, and the Zygon and Holly feel to the ground as they began to gasp for air.
"What have you done to them?" Lily asked him with the eyes of an enraged animal.
"How can you not be affected?!" the assassin asked with fear now in his voice for the first time.
"I am a Time Lady, you stupid ape!" Lily said in fury.
She normally wouldn't have insulted humans in such a way, but now she was so furious at the thought that Holly might be dying that most of her normal good will towards them went out the window.
The assassin began to tremble at this display of her fury. He had heard the legends about the anger of a Time Lord, but he had never seen it up close. It was truly a frightening experience he found!
"It's n-n-n-not deadly!" he said in absolute terror.
She got up off of him, and then picked him up and flung him against a wall like he was a sack of potatoes instantly knocking the wind out of him!
"That's a good thing for you!" she hissed at him.
She inwardly cringed at her anger. She didn't like this. She didn't want to be this person at all. More and more she wanted to regenerate and remove this horrible personality before she actually grew to accept it. She didn't want to be this unhappy, angry woman. She missed being the laughing woman who liked to have a good flirt with Robin. She hadn't flirted with him at all since she had changed. This just wasn't right.
She had had enough of this persona! She decided to do it right then and there. She began to glow all over with energy; and then because she was still within the 15 hour limit, she was able to change herself without having to go through the whole process again. She kept her outward appearance and her new accent the same. She just changed her personality and added more of her old self to her new persona.
She was now a more balanced mixture of the old and the new. She had a sense of humor again and could flirt with the best of them if she so chose. She would still have an introverted personality and not be too friendly towards strangers, but her old sense of humor and flirtatious nature would help her to overcome it when she really needed to. She would be better able to overcome her new nature now with a little bit of help from her old one. That was about as good as you could do with regeneration.
The assassin needed to know just who he was dealing with. Some Time Lords were worse than others so he had to know exactly which one that she was. He pulled out a data pad from his belt and quickly scanned her while she was standing there adjusting to her new persona. His eyes filled with both fear and greed as her identity was now confirmed for him. She was the Time Lady known as Persephone, and she was wanted in the Isop Galaxy dead or alive for a huge sum. Enough to make him a king!
He quickly pulled out a small gun and shot a dart into her neck with it. Lily looked at him in surprise and cursed herself for wasting time with fixing her personality at a time like this. She had thought that he was finished though. Apparently he was more resourceful than she thought though. She quickly fell to the ground asleep.
"There's enough potency in that sleeping dart to even work on a Time Lady," the assassin told her as he stood over her in triumph.
Holly got to her feet slowly as she attempted to stop him. She had woken up a minute ago from the gas and thought that Lily had won only to watch in horror as she was quickly defeated. She now momentarily forgot her fears in her concern for Lily.
"Leave her alone!" she shouted at him as she rushed towards him in an attempt to tackle him to the ground.
The assassin gave her a mild shock, and she fell to the ground still awake but unable to move for the moment from the pain in her body.
"Go home, girl. I don't want you. I just need her and the Zygon. Forget about her. She's as good as dead!" the assassin said as he picked Lily up and slung her over one shoulder while slinging the still unconscious Zygon up over the other.
As she watched him walk off with the two of them, Holly cursed her helplessness. She had to save Lily, but she had no idea how to do it. There was still one thing that she could do though. She could call for help.
She would use the device that Lily once gave her for emergencies and call in the cavalry. She was going to call in Rose Tyler!
Next: Rose comes to help save her mother from certain death in the Isop Galaxy. She also gets a chance to react to the new Lily.