Krystal yawned a bit as she laid on her bed in her room, wearing her usual brown shirt and some super comfortable pastel red underwear with pastel pink flower shaped frills on it, a pair of underwear which Krystal would heavily deny owning at all to keep up her look as the tough girl, though she did have to admit they were super comfortable. Krystal was just finishing up on writing in her journal, adding in the finishing details on the sketch of a cyberman. As she slowly closed the journal the sound of knocking shocked her and made her throw a blanket over herself "w-what!?" the Doctor soon entered her room with what looked like a shiny dress slung over his shoulder "oi Krystal put this on, I brought us to somewhere really fun" he gently tossed the shiny dress onto her bed "a-alright just get out of my room so I can change!" she blushed massively as the Doctor soon left her room "w-welp there goes my lazy day"
Krystal groaned a bit as she had to change out of her lazy day clothes into a bland pair of bra and underwear and this shiny fancy dress. "Alright doctor fancy what's the big deal?" she almost did a double take when she saw the fancy black suit under his red trench coat. "The big deal? The big deal is I brought us to the best casino in all the 98 spiral clusters!" he opened the door to the outside of the TARDIS to what looked like a large hanger by of some kind with parking spaces painted on the floor. Krystal's eyes widen and she stepped outside and looked out at the large windows in the massive hanger, "we're in space…" she soon jumped up and squealed loudly, her rather small wings opening and buzzing quickly keeping her a good two feet off the ground. "Oh my gosh I can't believe it!, we are in space!" her wings soon gave out and she was soon stuck with hopping in place. "Alright calm down there Krystal hehe"
He slowly walked over to a strange tube like device with a large hand shaped touchpad on it's top, "alright krystal just put your hand on the pad and receive an entrance token" she gently places her hand on the touchpad and it glowed a bright orange for a few moments before sending a palm sized token through a slot, which Krystal slowly pulled out looking it over. It was a purple-ish gold color, on it was a face of a cartoony alien and the casino name, 'The Lucky Launchpad'. Soon as the Doctor smiled at Krystal he put his hand on the touchpad, it glowed orange and then flashed red suddenly, and then a picture of a pale skinned man with fluffy brown hair wearing a brown tweed jacket, a bright red bow tie and what looked like a fez appeared on a screen above them. A large black X soon appeared over the picture of the man, "right forgot I got banned from here, hmmm, hang on" he pulled out the sonic screwdriver and held it against the touchpad and turned it on as the pad soon sparked a bit and flashes orange and soon a purple coin popped out of the slot. Krystal blinked a bit at the doctor "how did you get banned?" the Doctor simply looked at her "you do not want to know" Krystal blinks a bit as a million thoughts pop into her head as she follows the Doctor to a large metal gate.
The Doctor pushed the purple gold coin into a slot next to the gate, the gate slide open as the Doctor went past the gate and it shut again right in Krystal's face. The killer bee girl yelping a bit as she soon pushed her coin into the slot the Doctor used, soon entering past the sliding gate as she took in the scene of the massive casino, it was filled to the brim with all manner of slot machines, roulette tables, and alien gamblers. The Doctor smiles and faces her "so what do you wanna do first?", little did the Doctor and Krystal know something sinister was lurking in the shadows behind the bright cheerful facade of gambling.
A blue skinned alien ran through the darkened
hallways of the maintenance crew, her four pink eyes scanning the darkness, the sound of heavy metal clangs drowning out her footsteps. She grunted as she slammed into a locked door, she fumbled with a bag slung around her shoulder, pulling out a laser cutter, the sound of metal clanging got closer, soon a loud bang right behind her caused her to spin around. Her eyes widened as she was staring right at the three pictures of a slot machine, the robot had large arms with large chainsaws and heavy legs to carry it's large dark red body, soon the three pictures began to spin, she prayed that luck was on her side. The pictures clicked into place, three black skulls, the heavy duty chainsaws revved up and before the blue skin alien could scream the saws slammed into her shoulders, spraying light glowing purple blood splattering onto the metal walls.
Krystal was bouncing a bit on the stool in front of a slot machine, her compound eyes watching as the three pictures spun, before each coming to a halt. "Oh come on! A cherry, a ufo, and a pair of dice for the sixth time!" the Doctor takes a long sip from a dark green and pink milkshake before speaking "I told you those things where rigged" krystal growls a bit "says the man who got a free milkshake from the bar spin wheel!" the doctor did a double take at krystal's outburst "oi don't insult the milkshakes,they are to die for" he nonchalantly takes another sip as krystal screams in rage at getting two ufos and a cherry for the fifth time.
Krystal grumbles to herself as she stomps away from the slot machine area, her lower arms crossed and her upper arms shaking in anger at her sides. "Stupid slot machines, giving me bad rolls…" she stopped once she reached what looked like a bar, a tall alien with a upside down teardrop shaped head two large brown compound eyes and three arms on what looked like a ball joint in the center of it's body turned to look at her, "what's your poison?" a sphere in the middle of it's collar flashed as it spoke it's mangled english. "Surprise me" the alien soon goes over to the left side of the bar, it's three legs extending as it grabs a bottle of a brownish pink fluid before walking back to Krystal and pouring her a martini glass of the stuff, Krystal sniffed it a bit before taking a long gulp of the pink fluid, her eyes going wide as she soon throws the drink up, the tripod alien merely shaking it's head, "earthlings, can't even handle light slegian wine".
Krystal was still coughing as she stumbled away from the bar, resting against a wall next to an open door. "Uggh that was the worst thing I've ever drank, right next to that awful gaming so.." her rant on terrible liquids was cut short as she heard heavy footsteps go by, taking a look she as a very large robot carrying what looked like a big glob of trash, maybe it was one of the service robots. Her eyes went wide when she saw the glowing purple liquid dripping onto the floor as it walked down the dark hallway, "I need to get the Doctor", where was said Doctor?, why chatting it up with a male Raxacoricofallapatorin, two male Oods, and a female Sycorax. "So there I was, the beaches of Omega Ranciss nine, a Traxus neuro parasite trying to latch on snapping it's beak at my neck, and me without a hydrogen sonic disruptor" the gathered group of aliens letting out a laugh as Krystal rushed over and stumbled over the tendril of a passing alien. "Doctor we got a big problem…." the killer bee girl stopped mid sentence as she looked at the two Oods at the table "...are those guys holding their brains in their hands?" "pre brains, it's a thing, what's this about a problem?" the bee girl took a deep breath and grabbed the Doctor by the hand dragging him over to where she saw the large robot. "It was this big robot, and it had this big bag in it's hands, I think those were hands, and this purple liquid was dripping out of it and I am pretty sure it was blood…." "hold up, how are you sure it's blood" Krystal's antenna twitched in response "we killer bees got like a sixth sense when it comes to blood, some kind of survival thing".
The Doctor rolled his eyes a bit and entered through the open doorway and knelt down at the drying tiny puddles of glowing purple, running his finger through one of the larger puddles and tapping it on his tongue, much to Krystal's disgust. "Uuuuggh why'd you have to put it in your mouth?", the Doctor licked his lips as he tasted the liquid "yup this is blood, Ger'vania blood, a race of shapeshifters, the second best infiltrators in the universe, looks like this one was a rookie…. What are they doing here?", the Doctor stood up and looked down both ends of the hallway "which way did you say it went Krystal?", the killer bee girl joining him in the hallway and pointing to her left. "That way I think" "come along then, there's a mystery afoot!", the Doctor started to run down the hallway, following the trail of glowing purple blood, Krystal having to sprint to keep up with him "so there are shapeshifters in space?" the Doctor skidded to a halt as they reached a fork in the road. "Oh yes, shapeshifting liminals may be good, but they aren't as good as Ger'vania, well the Ger'vania are only second best next to the Zygons, there could be thousands of Zygons on earth and not even U.N.I.T would know, but Ger'vania have tells, they can't change the cellular make up of their blood, and they have awful breath, side effect of the shapeshifting process" Krystal panting a bit as she caught up to the Doctor, glaring at him, "next time there's a trail of blood, don't leave me behind…" the Doctor following the trail with his eyes before walking alongside the trail with the killer bee following behind him. "So if this alien can shapeshift how did that robot know she was a spy or something?" the Doctor stopped once the trail ended at a garbage chute using his sonic screwdriver to open the chute and look down before answering, "most likely didn't know she was a shapeshifter, probably saw someone that wasn't staff and chased her, which by the way something's been bugging me…" the Doctor spun around in the darkened hallways, the lights as dim as can be "...last time I was here these maintenance halls would be filled with workers, flesh and blood workers all shoulder to shoulder fixing and maintaining things, so where are they?" Krystal looked around and soon shrugged a bit. "Coffee break?" the Doctor took a double take at this "a coffee break?, all at the same time?, that's one bloody big coff-" the Doctor was cut off at the sudden slam of metal against metal, spinning around he and Krystal stared at the robot, it's dark red body designed to look like a slot machine, a single blue eye underneath the rollers, two large legs hefted it's large body around and two power arms jutted out from it's sides, the arms ending in what looked like flamethrowers.
"How the hell did that manage to sneak up on us?" the Doctor backed up, pulling Krystal close in case they needed to make a quick get away, the rollers began to spin. "Huh Doctor what is it doing?", "well, I assume it's deciding to kill us" the Doctor pulled out the sonic screwdriver as the three pictures came to a halt, three black skulls, the robot hefted up it's flamethrowers, the caps opening and the pilot lights turning on, the Doctor using the screwdriver to shut the caps around the pilot lights, "run!", the Doctor and Krystal running past the large robot as it beeped in confusion, trying to open the caps, the large slot machine like robot soon bursting into flames. It's powerful legs stumbling forward before falling over, "okay, killer slot machine robots with flamethrowers, that's not good" the Doctor turns around to look at the wreckage of the robot, Krystal panting a bit and looking mad, muttering to herself "I just wanted a lazy day in the TARDIS…." she groans as she walks over to the Doctor, who was looking the burning wreck over.
"These were not here the last time I was here, well let's go see the owner to find out what's what" the Doctor jumps up and turns, Krystal turning to follow him. The two walking down the dark corridors for what seemed like hours, until Krystal's antenna started to twitch, the killer bee turning around and her compound eyes caught the glint of razor sharp chainsaw teeth as the heavy legs slammed into the metal floor, the Doctor spinning around in shock, "how the hell do they keep sneaking up on us, do their legs have silent mode?!", the three black skulls popped up in the rollers and the right chainsaw revved up and swung it in a downward slash at Krystal. The killer bee jumping backwards to avoid the whirring teeth, the front of her dress was not so lucky however, the glittery material getting snagged by the sharp teeth and the dress ripping with a loud tearing sound, the shining fabric getting sucked into the chainsaw and getting tangled around it's teeth the chain getting stuck. The dark red robot trying to rev it's right chainsaw in a futile attempt to unclog it, soon a loud snap echoed through the corridors, the chain snapping from the strain of the clog and rebounding into the robot's eye. The Doctor and Krystal taking the chance to run from the blinded robot before it regains it's senses, "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS DRESS MADE OUT OF?!" Krystal yells as she runs blushing redder than an apple as she covers her lower half with her lower set of hands, "micro diamonds laced together into a mesh" the killer bee stares in shock, mouth agape as she runs, "this is a dress made out of DIAMONDS?!", the Doctor opened his mouth to respond, but stopped as the sound of slamming metal on metal started to grow close. The dark red robot chasing them, it's remaining chainsaw revved, as it charged forward trying to catch them.
The pair soon slammed into a pair of gilded doors, the Doctor pulling out his sonic screwdriver and pressing it to the door as Krystal scrambles to look for the door controls, the sound of the robot stomping getting closer, "Doctor hurry up and get this door open!, I do not want to become a killer bee cutlet platter!" the killer bee shrieked in terror at the thought of her body being chopped up, cooked and served to strange alien creatures as some form of earth delicacy, the gilded door soon slid open the Doctor rushing in and Krystal stumbling in after him, as the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to close the door, the killer robot a few feet away from the opening and prepping to swing it's only remaining chainsaw.
The door slammed shut the second the chainsaw swung, the awful sound of metal screeching and grinding against metal was muffled by the thickness of the door, "ok we should be good, as long as-" "EXCUSE ME!, how the bloody hell did you get into my office?!" the two turned to see an obese alien, the alien looked like a humanoid gray parrot, the rotund bird alien was sitting on a mobile chair with three thick spider-like legs, each one ending in a round orb. "Well?, are you two going to answer?!", the two looked at each other as a thinner bird alien came out, "is everything alright sir?" the larger alien turned to the other. "No!, of course everything is not alright, these two scoundrels somehow got into my office and almost let one of those murderous maintenance droids in here!" the Doctor shook his head a bit as marched over to the larger bird alien, "I'm terribly sorry sir, we are from the space station maintenance union." he pulled out the psychic paper and held it up, the bird like alien squinted his eyes before smacking the paper out of his hands. "There is only one man I know that uses psychic paper, Doctor!,I thought I banned you from this establishment for that stunt you and that red headed beast of a girl of your's pulled!" the Doctor looked shocked at the sudden smacking of the psychic paper out of his hands, "it worked on you last time, how the hell are you immune to it now?" the bird alien let out a thunderous laugh as he soon pointed a clawed finger to one of his eyes, "ocular implants, designed to detect the fractal lines on a psychic paper, much cheaper than paying some monks to train me to spot them" the rotund bird soon moved to the other side of the room, the robotic legs of his chair groaning with each step, he grabbing a long bottle of green liquid and began drinking from it.
"Alright eye implants, that's new, oh uh Krystal this is Jogur Vast the second, owner of the lucky launchpad." the rotund bird scoffed as he looked the killer bee over "your taste in women hasn't improved Doctor…" Krystal looks at the alien with a look of shock, butler getting two chairs out and offered Krystal one, "mind getting me a towel or something jeeves?, a bit exposed over here" "of course ma'am" the butler went off to a back room as the Doctor took a seat. "So Joggy let's talk about those maintenance bots, why did you buy a bunch of murder bots?" Jogur let out a displeased gruff as he slammed the bottle down, "I did not order a pack of murderous machines, I ordered maintenance bots!, I had too ever since that stunt you pulled last time you were here" the Doctor looked at the bird like alien with a look of disbelief, the thinner butler coming out with a long teal towel. "Here you go ma'am" Krystal takes the towel and wraps it around her waist, "thanks man" "of course ma'am" Krystal's nose scrunched up at the sheer horrid smell that came past his beak. "I highly doubt that you got scammed Jogur, someone with your eye for business, or did you buy them after you got your eyes scooped out?" the Doctor chuckled a bit at his ribbing of the fat bird. "For your information Doctor i purchased them from a fine vendor from the rings of Cor'vak, he told me they are top of the line, casino themed, arms powerful enough to carry five ton loads, and silent mode for the legs" the Doctor threw up his hands "I knew it!" Krystal rolled her eyes as she finished trying the towel around her hips, the butler looking at her. "Would you like anything else ma'am?" Krystal nearly gagged from his breath, "yeah, you getting a brea..th….mint…." she trailed off as she remembered about what the Doctor said about the shapeshifting aliens called the Ger'vania "hey big bird what color is your species blood?" the Doctor, the butler and Jogur looked at her in shock "is this the company you keep?, picky vampires?!" Krystal puts her lower set of hands on her hips "just answer the damn question morbucks" Jogur scoffed and grumbled before he answered "teal".
"Thanks" without a moment's notice she grabbed a knife and rammed it into the butler's forearm, glowing purple blood spraying out as the butler let out a guttural scream of pain as his body twisted and shifted, gray feathers turning to deep purple smooth shark like skin, the alien clutching his arm with long tentacle like fingers. "YOU INSECTOID WHORE! I'LL ATOMIZE YOU!" the shapeshifter pulled out a small pistol from under his suit, the pistol looked like a mix of a revolver and a pump action shotgun, the Doctor was quick to pull out his sonic screwdriver in defense of the killer bee girl. "Drop it tentacle boy" the ger'vania snarled as he pointed his gun at the Doctor "you first mammal!" the dark pink eyes glared at the Doctor as the Doctor slowly pushed on the dial on the side of the screwdriver making the tip extend and the red crystal glow and flash a few times. "Tell me what the ger'vania are doing here?" the shapeshifting alien growls as he looks between the Doctor, Krystal and a very shocked Jogur, before speaking again "my team was tasked to rob this icon of greed, it would have elevated my race to the greatest shifters in the universe!" the Doctor took on a look of shock and then understanding. "Oh your race could have done such great things if you didn't have such a bee in your collective bonnet over being the best" the ger'vania growled as his finger moved closer to the trigger, "so, I'm assuming the murder bots are yours then?" the imposter snarled at the Doctor before answering "yes, one of the spymasters sold them to the fat pig over there, and then gave my team the controller. The machines were meant to slaughter the maintenance crew and clear a path to the vaults and my team would have gotten in and out, but the accursed things malfunctioned and the second my vault cracker and enforcers made it halfway to the vault they were butchered!"
The shapeshifting alien snarled and soon moved the pistol to point at Jogur's face, the overweight alien squawking in shock and fear. "But they will be avanaged when I blast a hole in his lard-filled skull! Say your final prayers you obese hog of a bei-AAGGGH" he let out a sharp cry of pain as Krystal had grabbed the knife still stuck in his arm and twisted it, the shapeshifter dropping his pistol as he stumbled back the knife sliding out "lay off tons of fun slime ball!" he stumbled and nearly fell over as he clutched his bleeding arm. "Well look at that, disarmed and no gun" the Doctor grinned as he kicked the pistol into a far corner as the ger'vania snarled before pulling out a gold and blue box like device from his suit, "I still have one weapon, Doctor the robot's targeting sensors may have malfunctioned, but they still respond to the control box" he pressed three buttons and started to laugh. "I just deactivated the system keeping them in the maintenance halls, they will butcher all the guests in the casino, my race will be remembered as the greatest!" he laughed and soon ran towards the door inputting the code and running out the second the door opened, the Doctor and Krystal chasing after him. "We need to get that box Krystal!, we have to shut the maintenance bots down!" the ger'vania had a head start as he sprinted and turned a corner, only to come face to face with one of the dark red cased robots, this one had two large bolters on each arms with large drum fed magazines, the image of three black skulls on it's rollers. "NO NOT LIKE THI-" the robot opened fire, the barrels of it's bolters glowing red as it fired bolt after bolt into the ger'vania, his body being torn apart in a spray of glowing purple blood, the arm holding the control box was flung towards the Doctor and Krystal, the Doctor snatching the box from the still twitching hand and pressing his screwdriver against it using it to send a shut down signal. "Come on doc, I think bolt mobster is coming this way" but that was the least of the problems, three levels down in the family section of the casino a young single eyed alien ran over to an opening maintenance door trying to catch a dice ball that had rolled away from him, he stopped and looked up at the dark red robot with a single large chainsaw on one arm and a damaged mangled remnant of one on the other, a cracked blue sensor blinking and looking down at him, the rollers starting to roll.
"Doctor hurry up, that thing sees us!" back in the maintenance halls of station the Doctor was still trying to crack the code to send out the shut down signal, the rollers of the bolter armed bot already at two black skulls, before it could reach the final skull, three loud blasts rang out and three bolts of green plasma slammed into robot, the machine sparking and soon falling down on it's face, Krystal turning to see Jogur holding the ger'vania's pistol, the Doctor soon letting a joyful cry as he cracks the code, "got it! Sending the signal now!" the Doctor presses a button on the box. Three levels down the one eyed child looked up at the robot as it lifted up it's still working chainsaw revving it, before falling backwards it's blue eye blinking out as all across the station the maintenance bots shut down.
Krystal sat down outside of the TARDIS as the Doctor walks away from a group a rhino like aliens, "alright so fun day was a bust, but good news it no visitors were killed" he clasped his hands together as a voice on the intercom sounded out "if you or a loved one have experienced mental trauma the Lucky Launchpad will cover all expenses with the Shadow Proclamation's therapy drones". Krystal took a deep breath as she looked at the various spaceships leaving the hanger, "so big bird unbanning you from the casino?" the Doctor opened his mouth and seemed to be in thought for a bit, "well no, he just updated the picture, oh but he did tell me to give you this" the Doctor handed her a necklace, at the end of it was a glittering crystal ufo. "Said he wanted to repay the brave girl who saved his life" she chuckled as she leans back against the TARDIS. "So where to next?" the Doctor chuckled a bit before responding, "how about you chose? Maybe somewhere on earth, something relaxing" she smiled, she had just the place in mind.
Earth, May seventh, two thousand nineteen
Kimihito walked arm linked with ms Smith, the two leaving a pop up fair, trailing behind them was Suu who was humming softly as the three turned to take a shortcut through an alleyway, a homeless man snoring behind a dumpster, the group stopped as a shadowy figure in a long trench coat and rancher hat jumped down in front of them, four arms pulling out a long length of rope. "Kuroko Smith, you had to have known this day was coming…" large circles reflected light making it seem like the shadowy figure had glowing white eyes, "yes, I did" in an instant Tionishia burst from the wall in front of Smith, Zombina landing from the rooftops and pointing a sub machine gun at the figure, behind him Manako burst out from behind a some fake garbage bags and pointed a carbine at him, as the homeless man burst into long white strands revealing Doppel who pulled out a small pistol. Tionishia took her helmet off as the shadowy figure pulls out a long barreled revolver, "please surrender sir, do not make us hurt you" the figure pointed the revolver at her, and then moved it to Zombina, which is when the plan fell apart, the second the barrel passed over Kimihito Suu's eyes widened and she leaped into action. "NO HURT MASTER!" the shadowy figure looked at the slime girl charging at him and pulled something out from his coat and tossed it into the air, pointing is gun at it and firing, the round container burst as the bullet tore through it, white flakes falling down like rain onto Suu. the slime skidding to a halt and seeming to be in a state of confusion, before crying out and running in circles as her body started to bubble, Zombina running her fingers through a pile of the white substance on the ground, and tasting it, "salt…" the figure spinning around and tossing his rope out, it wrapped around Manako's leg as he lifted her up and slammed her into Doppel. Tionishia running up behind the man and reaching to grab him, only for him to duck down and grab her arm, she yelps as she was suddenly lifted up, her own weight being used against her as he tossed her into Manako and Doppel, the two smaller monster girls grunting hard as the much heavier ogre landed on top of them. The man pointing his gun at a pipe and firing twice, the pipe groaning and falling spilling out three gallons of water onto the three. Doppel groaning as she struggled under Tio, "oh wow, he soaked us…" the man soon stepped aside, giving all three a good look at a bubbling slime girl who soon grinned eyes full of malice as she crept closer to the three soaked M.O.N agents, who now wore expressions of dread, "oh no he soaked us" the three couldn't even let out a cry as Suu lunged at them tentacles reaching out to grope and search for moisture. The shadowy figure turned around as Zombina charged him, "you BASTARD!" she leaped up and pointed her machine gun at him, ready to turn him to swiss cheese, her gun was smacked out of her hands as three hands grabbed her other arm and legs, a two toed chitin covered foot slamming into her gut, the stitches in her shoulders and hips tearing as she was sent flying backwards, landing a few feet away from Kimihito. "Oh shit, don't worry Smith I won't le-" he turned to see a distinct lack of the culture exchange agent next to him, turning back to face the figure, only to see him running right at him, the figure leaping up, a buzzing that Kimihito swore he heard before making him look up, he could see more details of the figure, four holsters, one empty, a belt of extra pistol bullets going around his chest, a black and yellow bandana covering his face, making him look like he walked out of a wild west movie, the man landing behind him and giving chase to Smith, who was loading a tranq dart into her pistol, turning around and pointing it at him, only for a shot to ring out and a well place bullet to knock her pistol out of her hands, reaching to her left ear, she yelled out "op is a bust, I repeat op is a bust, I need evac now!" a large black van bursting onto the scene, the door opening as Smith leaped into it, the van taking off as the figure skidded to a halt, "damnit!" the killer bee took off, wings buzzing as he flew away from the scene.
Next time: The Cowboy and The Assassin
