CHAPTER 33
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Here is Part 2 of the Lily and Robin/War of the Guardians Crossover.
Hello, gentle readers. For this chapter at least, thanks to the kindness of my regular chronicler Time Lord Prime, you're going to be graced by my wonderful and gracious presence as I am your narrator today. Who am I? I'm the one who this story is named after. I'm Lily Wright.
I asked to be able to narrate my part in this whole Oz misadventure because I heard that Koschei got to narrate one of Rose's chapters. I figured if he could do it then anyone could so here I am.
So without any further ado, let's start this part of the story. When we last left off, The Doctor, Rose, and their companions plus Robin and I had been about to start down the Yellow Brick Road that Loder had created. He was going to make us live out his twisted version of the Wizard of Oz forever until Rose agreed to join his army against his mysterious enemy. He had gone so far as to make us look like the characters from the story and had blocked Rose somehow from using her powers so that she couldn't help us to escape.
With no other choice but to follow the road to wherever it led, we all started to walk down it. After walking along it for about ten minutes, we found ourselves in the middle of a large forest filled with apple trees.
Without thinking about it, Elizabeth picked an apple off of one of the trees and started to eat it. The tree that she had picked the apple from suddenly came to life and said, "Hey! Who told you that you could pick an apple off of me? Are we going to let her get away with that? Let's get her, boys!"
Every tree in the area came to life and started to attack Elizabeth by flinging apples at her. Some of them then uprooted themselves from the ground and started charging towards her.
"Why did you do that for? Didn't you remember that scene from the movie?" I asked her, annoyed at her incredible stupidity.
"I never even saw the movie," Elizabeth, as she now calls herself for some reason, said as she started to run for her life.
"Oh, come on! Everyone's seen that movie!" I said to her while I rolled my eyes.
"I'm a Time Lady. I don't watch human movies," Elizabeth said indignantly as she dodged apples being flung around her left and right.
"You're kidding me! Don't tell me that you've never ever watched a human movie before! I find that hard to believe. Your son is the Doctor. He's the biggest human lover there is," I said in exasperation.
"Will you leave me alone about the stupid movie already? I'm trying very hard not to be killed here," Elizabeth said to me with a groan.
I couldn't help but laugh at her. It used to be one of my greatest pleasures in life to make fun of that woman and now, thanks to some lucky star somewhere, I get to do so once again. She makes such an easy target too.
Don't tell her this, but I actually like her. I mean once you get past the snarky exterior, the pompous attitude, and the permanent stick up her rear what you have left is . . . admittedly not much but still she's not that bad really. The best way to handle her is to pretty much ignore all of her whining and her incessant prattling and then throw in a couple of zingers every now and then to totally catch her off guard. It's fun really. Elizabeth bashing is now my new favorite hobby.
Elizabeth kept running around like a scared rabbit as the trees continued to attack her mercilessly. As much fun as watching her get pelted by apples was, I decided to take mercy on her and end this whole farce right here and now.
I powered up my regenerative energy and began using it on all of the trees nearest to Elizabeth. All of the trees that I hit were instantly burnt into ashes, and the other trees all looked at me in shock.
"She's a witch. Watch out. She'll kill us all. Run!" one of the trees yelled as they scattered in a mad dash away from me.
"There's no need for gratitude. I'll just take cash," I joked to Elizabeth.
"Stuff it!" Elizabeth grumbled.
I giggled to myself with glee. I so loved torturing that woman.
"Mum, if you're done making fun of my mother-in-law, I think that we should continue on down the road. The sooner that we get to the end of it the sooner that I can maybe figure a way out of this place," Rose said.
"Aw, Rose. You're putting a damper on my fun," I pouted with a fake frown on my face.
Rose just laughed at me in that sweet little way that she does that always melts my hearts. She really is the best daughter that a mother could ever have. I'm so lucky to have her in my life.
That's not to slight Allison at all of course. I love Allison too just as much as if she were my own. It's amazing how quickly I took to that girl. I sometimes wonder if she isn't really mine in some way. She's a little too much like me for it to be a coincidence it seems like sometimes. Not that it's very likely that she could be mine. I've never had but one child in my entire existence and that's Rose. I only had her through very special circumstances that are not likely to ever be repeated again though.
I digress though. It's time to get back to the story. We moved on away from the homicidal apple trees and soon found ourselves in an enormous field full of poppies. I, having actually watched the movie, knew what was coming next. We had to get out of there, or we were going to fall fast asleep in a matter of moments.
"Rose, we need to get out of here. This is . . . ," I started to warn her.
"I know what happens in the poppy field, mum. I actually did see the movie. I watched it every year for the holidays with Shareen and Mickey back on Earth," Rose said with a fond smile on her face.
Whenever she talks about her time as a human, I feel a twinge of regret. On the one hand, I'm happy that she became Rose Tyler because it made her a happy and fulfilled person. On the other hand, I hate it that I missed out on that part of her life. I always wish that I could have been there when she was growing up on Earth, and I always feel guilty that I wasn't even though I know that that wasn't my fault.
"We have to keep on moving through here as quickly as possible. No one should stay still for too long, or you may wind up asleep here forever," The Doctor warned the others.
All of us kept running through the poppy fields as fast as we could, but I noticed that the others were rapidly starting to slow down. The poppies were beginning to affect them and make them sleepy. They all kept getting slower and slower, and soon it looked like that they were running in slow motion.
Luckily for me, the poppies had no effect on me whatsoever. It's a side effect of my immortality that I don't sleep. I don't get tired at all actually because my body being constantly full of unlimited regenerative energy always leaves me feeling at the peak of my abilities and refreshed. There is a trade-off to that though. Not sleeping tends to make me kind of loopy and maybe just maybe, a little bit insane. Not a bad kind of crazy mind you but the good kind. At least I've never heard any complaints about it from Robin anyway, and he's the one that has to deal with it the most.
We had made it to within sight of the Emerald City, which I already knew was coming thanks to the movie, when the others all started to drop in their tracks and fall down asleep. Soon it was just me and Robin who were the only ones still awake.
"Oh, great! This is just like the movie, Robin. Half of them fall fast asleep, and the other half of them can't wake them up," I said in concern.
"Why didn't I fall asleep?" Robin wondered.
"I think that it may be that Loder's powers don't affect you because you're not from our home dimension. That's why he has to conquer this place by force and persuasion because he can't make anyone here join him with his powers. That may be why he wants to make an army out of your people because his enemy on the opposing team won't be able to use his powers to affect you either," I suggested to him.
"I think that you may be onto something, my lady. That doesn't help us at the moment though. The others are all fast asleep on the ground. What should we do? What happened in the story? How did they get through this?" Robin asked.
"The good witch Glinda woke them up with her magic in the movie. Since our Glinda, Rose, is fast asleep, I'm not sure what's going to happen next," I said with a shrug of my shoulders.
I was surprised when they all suddenly woke up just as I said that. What was going on here? I wondered to myself. Then I received my answer suddenly when a man wearing an eye patch and wearing a tall wizard's hat and a robe appeared with a smile on his face.
"You're the one who woke the others up I presume?" I asked him.
"Yes, I am. I am the one who Loder mockingly refers to as Big Daddy. I have come to ask Rose Tyler to join my side in the coming war against him. If you agree to join me, Rose, then I will free you and your friends from this farce that Loder has placed you all in," the man in the eye patch said.
"I'd have to find out more about you first before I decide to do anything," Rose said.
"Then I suppose that it's time to tell you the truth about what's really going on here. Once I do, I know that you will join me. If you don't, the entire universe may just be destroyed. For you see, Ragnarok is nigh. The Twilight of the Gods will soon fall upon us," the man with the eye patch said ominously.
I hate to leave you there, folks, but Time Lord Prime tells me that that's where it must end for this part of the story at least anyway. I may be back to do this again some other time. I really enjoyed it. So until next time, I'll bid you all adieu.
Part 3 of this story continues in War of the Guardians Chapter 84 coming soon. Unfortunately, Lily won't be narrating that one. That's too bad, huh?
Next in this title: Part 4 of the Oz story will be found here in the next chapter of Lily and Robin as the Oz storyline continues across both stories once again. Maybe Lily will be back to narrate again if I ask her very nicely.
Anything could happen, Time Lord Prime.