Ever After
River Song One
"Who the hell are you?" the woman demanded as she blasted a Cyberman in the head.
"Hazuki. This is Lilith and Quill," Hazuki swung her sword, cutting an attacker in half.
"River Song," she replied as she shot another.
Quill blasted another away with her staff. "I still cant get over them being former humans," she sighed quietly.
River noted, "Cyberforming is basically irreversable, sorry to say." She shot another, "And if it helps, you're relieving them of unbearable agony."
Hazuki cut another one down, "Lilith, could you...?"
"Yes, yes," Lilith began to glow, floating off the ground. She scowled, "Eve is long gone."
"Eve?" River Song asked, intrigued.
"My sister, Hatsumi. We're trying to find her," Hazuki explained.
"More cybermen coming," Quill noted.
"Well, I found what I wanted," River Song noted. She activated a device on her wrist as she said, "Excuse me."
In a burst of temporal energy, River Song was gone.
"We'd best get out of here too," Lilith noted as they disappeared too.
River Song Three
"Why didn't you tell me you had met the Doctor?" River Song demanded, accosting the women at the Locket.
Hazuki, Quill and Lilith blinked at her, "We haven't?" Quill replied.
River blinked, realizing that they were out of sequence. "Oh. Spoilers!" she blurted.
"What?" Lilith sigh.
"Please just forget I said that," River added. "Buy you all a drink?" she offered.
The four ended up at a table together, where one of the temp waitresses took their order and dropped off a few drinks.
"So, you have the ability to move through space and time," Hazuki noted.
"Yes, via a Vortex Manipulator," River waved the device. "It's crude, but it works."
"So could you use it to jump to where Eve is?" Lilith asked.
"Hatsumi," Hazuki corrected.
"Whichever," Lilith waved it off.
"There's the question of what's in it for me," River Song noted. She continued, "However, I have the same problem you do: I don't know where she is, so I can't just jump there."
"Hmm," Quill frowned.
"What's in it for me?" Hazuki echoed.
"I'm a historian from the future. Most of my time trips are related to that," River explained.
"I suppose so," Lilith drank from her glass of red wine, that she had somehow managed to get served to her.
"Beer!" Rived waved.
Hazuki sighed and contented herself with juice.
River Song Ten
The Sontaran troops advanced, the lumpy, kind of potato looking aliens bearing weapons.
"These AGAIN?" Quill asked, blasting one with her staff.
"Where's your other teammate?" River asked.
"What?" Lilith asked.
"Whoop. Ignore that. Spoilers!" River said.
Hazuki growled under her breath.
"Sorry," River added.
"If I remember right, they have a vulnerable point on their neck," Hazuki recalled.
"All right. You and River distract them!" Quill ordered.
"Hey!" River protested, "I didn't volunteer..."
"People are in danger," Hazuki said as she charged the Sontarans, sword in hand.
River scowled, then opened fire with her blaster, keeping their attention.
As they fought, Lilith and Quill fired off a cloud of magic bullets, homing in on the weak point on the back of their necks. In moments, the Sontarans were down.
"That was.. most dishonourable.." the general managed before falling too.
"That might not have been the best of ideas," River noted, "Sontarans bear grudges."
Lilith shrugged eloquently.
"Did you manage what you were here for, miss historian," Quill asked wryly.
"I was trying to find out why the Sontaran attack failed... and now we know," River noted somewhat wryly.
"Ah," Hazuki looked sheepish.
"Well, at least we know," River noted. She added, "I'm joining an expedition to investigate a planetary library in the 51st century. Wish me luck."
As River disappeared in a vortex jump Quill started, "Wait!"
"What?" Lilith asked.
"I remembered hearing that was when she died...,"
River Song Two
"Why, exactly, should I trust you?" River Song demanded.
There was an odd beat of silence as the three looked at each other.
"What?" River demanded.
"We're going to have several adventures together," Quill said.
Lilith added, "Spoilers. As you're known to say."
River paused, then nodded. "Time travel gets confusing," she conceded.
"So we've ended up in the same place again... what were you looking for today, Miss Archeologist?" Hazuki asked mildly.
"Looking into the disappearance of a historical figure," River started, then trailed off.
"What?" Quill asked.
"A child prodigy writer who disappeared without a trace at sixteen," River sighed, realizing who it was.
"Eve!" Lilith scowled.
"Hatsumi," Hazuki nodded.
River sighed, "Let's see..." She took a device out of her pocket, searching for something. "Is this her?" she asked, showing the image to them.
"That's her," Hazuki confirmed.
River cussed mildly.
"Sorry," Hazuki apologized, though it wasn't exactly her fault.
"Not your fault," River waved it off.
RANDOM UNIT INTERLUDE
"Eeep," Hazuki yelped as they were suddenly surrounded by troops.
"What the...?" River muttered.
"Targets secured!" one soldier reported in to a radio.
A few moments later a sandy brown haired woman strode up, lecturing the soldiers oddly. "I said detain them, not go full attack squad," she scolded.
"Sorry, ma'am," the lead soldier apologized.
"Sorry," the woman addressed them, "the boys get over enthusiastic at times."
"Ah," Hazuki blinked.
River frowned, "UNIT?"
"United Nations Intelligence Task-force," the woman agreed, "Kate Stewart, I head the group."
"So why... ?" Lilith waved.
"We picked up the tacheon surge of your transit, I wanted to check it out," Kate admitted cheerfully.
"Looking for the Doctor?" River teased.
"Possibly," Kate shrugged.
"I think we'll leave you to your fun," Lilith noted as she wisked them away.
To be continued...
Notes: I liked River Song, wanted to do a thing where she shows up in non-linear order. And tossed in UNIT because, again, liked it.