Chapter 1: Night of the Living Plastic
Space, a vast and unknown frontier where there could be an unknown number of life throughout the universe. There is one planet that has 8 billion people living on it known as Earth and in a city known as Canterlot City, an alarm clock goes off before a bright red hand quickly hits snooze. Soon a teenage girl with bright red skin and dark pink hair set up from her bed and stretched her arms. She soon got out and got dressed before heading down the stairs and quickly grabbed a muffin before heading out the door. "Daisy, please be careful while out!" A woman called out from a different part of the house.
"I will mom, just heading to work!" Daisy replied. "It's my first day and a girl named Twilight is going to show me the ropes!" She then grabbed a car key before going out the door.
Later at Canterlot City Mall, Daisy was wearing a uniform as she was working at a techno store while a girl wearing glasses with bright purple skin and indigo hair with a pink strip in it was showing her the ropes. "And if you can't find what the customer is looking for, just pull up your tablet and search it up on there to see if we still have it in stock or not." She told Daisy.
"Thanks, Twilight." She replied with a smile. "And I just have one question: Uh, do I need to put the password in every time I use the tablet or…?"
"Oh don't, once you put the password in, it'll automatically login on its own." Twilight assured her.
"Hey Twilight." A teen boy's voice called out as the two girls looked over and saw Flash Sentry walking over to them. "You think you can help me out with something?"
"Oh sure." Twilight replied before she looked at Daisy. "Be right back." She then walked over to Flash with a smile. "So, what seems to be the problem?"
"It's my phone." Flash answered as he pulled out his iphone. "Every time I try to use it, I keep on getting this gurgling noise."
"Are you serious right now?" Twilight questioned with disbelief. "That's the 12th phone today that has the same problem. A bunch of other people came in and said their phones have been making the same noise every time they turn it on." Twilight then took his phone before turning it on and they both heard the gurgling noise. "Yup, and it's the same noise."
"So I guess that means you can't fix it?" Flash questioned.
"Give me like twenty minutes, and I'll see what I can do." Twilight replied before she walked back over to Daisy.
"He seems nice." Daisy mentioned as she looked at Flash before she turned to Twilight. "Is he your boyfriend?"
"What? Oh no, Flash is just a friend." She quickly replied. "I already have a boyfriend named Timber. He runs a camp outside of the city with his sister so I don't exactly see him too often during the summer."
"I'm sure he finds the time to come by and surprise you." Daisy mentioned with a smile. "Now come on, let's get to work."
The rest of the day was spent working at the mall before lunch break started and Twilight introduced Daisy to the rest of her friends: Sunset Shimmer, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity. The girls talked for a bit as Rainbow bragged that they are a band and Daisy mentioned that she would love to hear some other songs sometime later. Soon as their lunch break was over, the girls made plans to hang out later after work as they went back to their jobs.
Soon the sun was beginning to set as Twilight and Daisy were back in their regular clothing and ready to head back home. "Uh Twilight, Daisy, can I have a moment with you both?" Their manager asked as he walked up to them. "I sent Bucks done in the basement to stack a few boxes but he hasn't come back up to get the rest. I'm worried he's slacking on the job again, so I'm going to need you both to finish what he started and tell him to get his lazy ass back up here."
"Yes, sir." Both of them replied before their boss showed them the remaining boxes. The two of them picked up as much as they could as they were a bit heavy to carry. Twilight wanted to use her levitation magic to help carry them but she didn't want to freak out her new friend right before an extra pair of hands helped lift the boxes she was carrying. She looked behind them and saw Flash helping her carry them.
"Flash, what are you doing here?" Twilight questioned him. "The mall is about to close."
"I know, but I was getting a couple of things for my mom's birthday and I noticed you two were having trouble with these boxes on my way out." Flash mentioned with a smile. "Can't a friend help out a friend?"
"Nonetheless that friend could help with the elevator?" Daisy grunted as she struggled to press the elevator button while holding the boxes. Suddenly a finger pressed the button for her before they saw a man with dark red skin, brown hair, and a burnt scar on the right side of his face wearing a business suit standing next to the elevator doors. "Thank you, sir."
"Eh, no problem." He replied as the elevator door opened and they all went inside. "Consider it a little something for my business later."
"Well, our boss is going to have a little talk with Bucks when we send him back up." Twilight mentioned as they set the boxes down on the elevator floor.
"Oh what a coincidence, because my business is with that guy." The man mentioned. "Well actually someone hired me to do business with him."
"Why? Does he owe money to someone?" Flash asked as Twilight hit the elevator button for the basement.
"Something like that…" This man replied with a smirk, but when the elevator doors were about to close, a hand quickly stopped them before a woman with hot pink skin and pinkish white hair stepped in. She was wearing a fur coat and a hot pink dress as sunglasses covered her eyes. "Oh great…" The man muttered with annoyance as he knew this woman.
"Sorry, but I'm late." This woman spoke as she walked in and stood next to the man and Flash.
"It's no problem, we could have held the elevator for you." Flash assured this woman before she looked at him when she lifted up her sunglasses.
"Well, aren't you a gentleman?" She said with a seductive tone as she smiled.
"Oh my god, you're Verosika Mayday." Daisy said as she recognized the woman. "I'm a really big fan of your songs."
"Oh well, it's so nice to meet a fan when I'm out from work." Verosika mentioned with a smile.
"Even if you're a washed up skank." The man muttered to himself which made her quickly look at him.
"What was that?!"
"Oh nothing." The man replied as Verosika leaned in close to him to get a better look.
"You look strangely familiar to me." She mentioned with a brow. "Have we met somewhere before?" Before the man could say anything about that, the elevator soon reached the basement as the two teens picked up the boxes and carried them out of the elevator. "What are we doing down here? I need to be in the parking garage where my car is."
"Don't worry, will drop these boxes off and get Bucks before we--" Twilight was cut short when they heard a loud noise coming from down the hall. This piqued each of their curiosity as they all walked towards where they heard the sound before opening a door and entering a room filled with plastic mannequins. "Bucks! Bucks are you here!"
"The manager is pretty mad at you!" Daisy called out as they walked deeper into the room before the door they walked through before suddenly slammed closed on its own. They quickly ran over and tried to open it but it was somehow locked.
"Okay, who the fuck is here?!" The man called out with an annoyed tone. "If this is some kind of joke, it's not funny!"
"I'm with him, I got places to be!" Verosika called out as they wandered about before one of the plastic mannequins started to move its head and look towards them. They heard the creaking of the plastic moving as they quickly turned and saw the plastic mannequin started to move towards them.
"Okay, where this is, you had your fun!" Flash called out before they started seeing more mannequins moving. "Knock it off already, we get it!" None of the mannequins was even replying to them as they all moved closer to the group.
"Okay that's it!" The man shouted as he reached into his suit and pulled out a gun before aiming at them. "I ain't playing no games here, so cut the shit!" The three teens were shocked that he pulled out a gun as Verosika recognized the gun and glared at the man.
"Blitzo!" She growed.
"Yeah, hi, nice to see you again you whore, but now is not the time." Blitzo replied to her before he looked at the team. "By the way, the O is silent." He then glared back at the mannequins. "Now you better stop or I'll--" He was cut short when one of the mannequins raised its arm and cut the gun in half, which shocked the entire group. "Okay, I'm starting to think this is no joke." The group soon got backed up into a corner as Daisy had a frightened look on her face before each mannequin raised their arms up. She then let out a scream when she felt something grab her hand before they looked and saw a man with bright green skin, short black hair with blue streaks in it while he was wearing a red and green jacket.
"Run, all of you!" He shouted as he pulled Daisy out of the way and the others ducked under the mannequins' arms when they chopped the pipes behind them. They followed the man out of the room as the mannequins chased them down. The man led them to another elevator as he quickly opened it and they all went inside. One of the mannequins managed to reach in when the elevated doors started to close before the man grabbed its arm and started jerking it. Eventually he ripped off the mannequin's arm allowing the elevator door to fully close.
"You ripped his arm off." Flash told the guy.
"Yup, just as I thought, plastic." The guy said before he tossed the plastic arm over to Daisy.
"Okay, very nice trick there buddy." Daisy told him after seeing it was a plastic arm. "Now who the hell were those guys, a bunch of punk teens? Is this a punk teen thing?"
"Why would they be a bunch of teens?" The guy questioned her.
"I don't know!"
"Well you were the one who said it, not any of us." The guy pointed out.
"He's got a point." Blitzo told her as Verosika sort of nodded in agreement.
"'Cuse… that many people dress up as mannequins and just to scare people, they have to be a bunch of teenagers." Daisy explained as the guy smiled.
"Huh, it actually makes sense." He told her. "Well done, but they're not a bunch of teenagers, they're not even human. Just as those two aren't human either." He added as he gestured to both Blitzo and Verosika.
This had the two off guard while the three teens looked confused. "Look, maybe you hit your head or something but we don't even know what you're talking about." Blitzo told him.
"I do know what I'm talking about and I do know that you're an imp from the greed ring from hell, just as she's a succubus from the lust ring." The guy told them. "I can tell by the way the two of you smell."
"Look, whatever you're saying or whoever they are down there, I'm sure Bucks has already called the police by now." Twilight spoke up which caught the guy's attention.
"Who's Bucks?"
"A coworker." Twilight answered as they reached the first floor of the building.
"They killed Bucks." The guy said as he walked out of the elevator while the group looked shocked.
"Wait, you mean those things already killed that fucker?!" Blitzo exclaimed.
"That's funny, you can't just see sick things like that!" Daisy told the guy as he pulled out some sort of device from his jacket.
"If you don't mind, look away for a bit." He told them as he aimed his device at the elevator button before pressing the button on the device. It let out a buzzing sound when it lit up and as they were going to say something, the elevator button sort of sparked before the man walked away from them. "There we go. Now they won't be able to follow us."
"Wait, who are they?!" Flash called out before they followed the guy. "You said they weren't human! If they aren't human then what are they?!"
"I told you, plastic." The guy replied. "Living plastic creatures, to be more precise. Right now, they're being controlled by a relay device up on the roof. Now that would be a problem, if I didn't bring this with me." He said as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a rectangular remote detonator bomb as he showed it to them. "So! I'm going to go up on the roof and blow the whole thing up. I might die in the process, but don't worry about me." He told the group as he opened the back door exit and pushed them all out. "You go on and live your lives, you know the whole having ice cream thing. As for the two of you, go back to hell and have a nice time now that extermination day is canceled forever so you don't have to worry about dying by extermination angels. Also, don't tell anyone about this because if any of you do you'll end up getting them killed." He quickly shut the door as the group looked at each other and confusion for the guy reopened the door with a smile. "I'm the Professor, by the way. Who are all of you?"
"Flash Sentry."
"Twilight Sparkle."
"Daisy Glimmer."
"Verosika Mayday."
"Blitzo Buzkso, the o is silent."
"Nice to meet all of you, now run for your lives!" The Professor told them as he held up the detonator before closing the door. The group looked at each other before walking away from the mall.
"Well hopefully Moxxie and Millie took care of the other two." Blitzo muttered.
"You were hired to kill Bucks yourself, weren't you?" Flash asked him. "Because you seemed pretty upset when the Professor told us that they killed him."
"Yeah, him and two other guys." Blitzo replied. "Me and my team were paid to do so and we came here to do it. But my job was done for me and we nearly got killed ourselves by plastic people." Daisy looked at the top of the mall when they were across the street from it as she wondered what the Professor meant.
"Yeah but I still need to get my car from the--" Verosika was going to say before the entire Mall blew up and startled the group. They were shocked and surprised that the professor actually blew the place up. "On second thought, I've been meaning to get a new model…" She said through her teeth with a slight anger in her tone. The three teens then turned to look at the two adults but they were certainly gone. With Sirens coming down the street, the three teens decided to head out as they past by a brown box with green lights blinking between two buildings.
The three of them soon met up with the rest of the Rainbooms at Sunset's place as news about the mall exploded was on TV and Daisy was on the phone with her mother. "Mom, I told you, I'm okay!" She repeated herself. "Me, Twilight, and a guy named Flash were outside the mall when it happened."
"I seriously can't believe the whole place blew up and now most of us are out of jobs!" Rainbow complained.
"Just glad all the animals in the pet department work taken to the vet before it blew up." Fluttershy mentioned before she looked at Twilight and Flash. "How did it exactly blow up?"
"We don't know." Twilight lied. "We were outside when it happened and it just blew up."
"We're just glad you didn't die there, darlings." Rarity mentioned.
"Us too." Flash said before Daisy hung up her phone and plopped down on the couch.
"My own mom tried to give me an interview with some reporter for money, and I told her no and I'll find a new job soon." Daisy told them with a sigh.
"Well, maybe you can come by my house tomorrow and we'll look for a new job together." Twilight offered before she took out her phone. "Let me give you my number so I can text you my address." After giving Daisy her number, she got a text from her mom asking her if she was all right. "I better get home. My parents are probably wondering if I survived that explosion."
"Yeah me too." Flash agreed. "I guess I'll have to look for a present for my mom somewhere else." Each of the girls soon left Sunset's apartment while Daisy was looking at the mannequin arm the professor ripped off before tossing it into a dumpster. Little did she or the other two know something was moving around in the dumpster when she threw the arm away.
The next day, Daisy came over to Twilight's house as they both were looking for a new job as Twilight's mother, Twilight Velvet made breakfast for them. "Here you girls go." She said as she placed a couple of plates of pancakes in front of them. "And you sure you don't need any help finding a job?"
"Yeah mom, we're good." Twilight assured her mom. "He's just going to work and me and Daisy will be fine."
"Okay." Velvet said it before she gave her daughter a kiss on the cheek. "Behave yourselves, I'll see you this afternoon." She soon left the two alone before the two of them heard the doggie door suddenly open and close from the back door.
"Do you have a dog?" Daisy asked her.
"Yeah, but my dog's Spike is upstairs taking a nap." Twilight mentioned as she went over to the back door and inspected the doggie door before she gasped when the door flipped on its own. Daisy wandered next to her as they wondered what was behind it before Twilight carefully pushed the doggie door back and they saw a familiar face, the Professor. They quickly gasp as they were shocked to see him here before they both stood up and Twilight opened the back door. "What are you doing here?!"
"I was going to ask you both the same thing." The Professor replied.
"I live here." Twilight answered before gesturing to Daisy. "She came over to look for a job."
"Well why would you do that for? The Professor asked Daisy.
"Because a certain someone blew up our last job." Daisy mentioned as the Professor pulled out the device they saw before while he had a baffled look on his face.
"That's odd…" He said as he pressed the button on the device as it buzzed. "I must have picked up the wrong signal again. Neither of you are made of plastic are you?" He questioned as he tapped both of their foreheads. "Nope, boneheads. Goodbye then!"
"Oh no you." Flash told him when he suddenly came up behind him and pushed him inside. "We have questions and you got answers."
"Flash, what are you doing here?" Twilight questioned when she saw him.
"He came to my house and said he was tracking a signal." Flash answered as he pointed to the Professor. "He wouldn't tell me what signal and he just disappeared. So I thought he might come here to you, but didn't expect Daisy to be here."
"Well, I guess he could ask him some questions that we're all thinking about." Daisy mentioned. "Lucky we're not at my house otherwise my mom would try to seduce him."
"I wouldn't count on that." Professor mentioned as he walked in and Twilight closed the door.
"Do you want some coffee?" She offered him as he looked around.
"I might as well, but just milk with it, thanks." He told her as the three teens walked into the kitchen.
"I still can't stop thinking about what happened last night." Flash whispered to the two girls as the professor picked up a magazine on the table. "Seriously, I think we should go to the police. All four of us, considering both Blitzo and Verosika just disappeared on us last night."
"That won't last." Professor said to himself as he read a page in the magazine with a smirk. "He's gay and she's an alien, so won't work out at all."
"And we can't exactly blame him considering he was just helping, or even if it was a joke or not…" Twilight mentioned as the Professor picked up a book and quickly flipped through the pages.
"Huh, I did not expect her to marry the werewolf." He muttered as he put the book down before picking up some letters.
"But it said on the news that a body was found in the mall when they put out the flames." Daisy told the two. "That could have been Bucks…"
"'Twilight Velvet.'" The Professor read the name on one of the letters. "This planet and the names they give." He muttered before putting down the letters and noticed his reflection in a mirror on the wall. "Oh well, I could have done worse. Although look at the ears." He said as he wiggled his own ears.
"I mean he was nice and all, but he didn't deserve death." Twilight told the two about Bucks as the Professor picked up a deck of cards and started shuffling them. "Anyway, if we were going to go to the police, especially my brother considering he's a policeman, what are we going to tell them?" The Professor shoveled the cards again and they accidentally flew out of his hands.
"Maybe we should have him explain everything?" Flash suggested as he pointed to the Professor.
"Maybe no." Professor replied before he heard pattering behind the couch. "What was that? Do you have a cat or something?"
"No, I have a dog and he's upstairs asleep." Twilight told him as the Professor went to investigate what it was. But the moment he looked behind the couch, the plastic arm Daisy threw away yesterday jumped up and grabbed him by the throat as it started choking him. "And besides, that's not the point." She added as the professor struggled to get the arm off of his throat. After pouring the cup of coffee into a coffee mug, the three teens walked out of the kitchen to find the Professor struggling on the couch with the plastic arm around his throat.
"I thought I threw that away." Daisy muttered as Twilight set the coffee mug on the table.
"Look, we didn't get your name last night." Flash mentioned. "You're Professor…?" Professor managed to get the arm off as it quickly flew up and grabbed Daisy by the face. She shrieked as she tried to get it off before the professor quickly ran up and tried to help her.
"Don't just stand there you two!" He shouted at both Flash and Twilight who were stunned to see the plastic arm moving on its own. "Help me get it off her face!" They both quickly rushed over and started jerking on the arm to get it off Daisy's face. The group soon fell on to the floor as they struggled to get it off her face before Flash and Twilight managed to get Daisy onto the couch before the Professor pulled out his device and pressed the button on it while aiming it at the arm. He pressed the button a few times before pressing the device on the palm of the arm before it suddenly stopped moving. "It's okay, I stopped it. See? Armless." He tossed it over to Flash as the two girls gasp but it didn't move.
"You think?" Flash asked before the Professor took the arm back and started to walk away from them. The three teens started to follow behind as they weren't done with him. "Hang on, you can't just walk away from us!"
"Yes I can! I'm doing it right now. This is me walking away!" The Professor called out as he walked out the door. "See ya!"
"That arm was moving on its own, and it tried to kill me!" Daisy pointed out.
"Ten out of ten for observation, little miss." The Professor replied.
"You can't just walk away and not tell us anything!" Twilight told him as they started to walk down the street. "That's not fair. You have to tell us what's going on."
"No I don't." The Professor replied before Daisy ran up to him.
"Okay, then we'll go to the police and tell them everything." She told him. "You told us that if we tell anybody about last night, we will get them killed. So it's your choice: Talk or we tell."
"Is that supposed to sound tough?" The Professor questioned with a brow. "Doesn't work on me."
"But who are you?" Twilight questioned.
"I already told you, the Professor."
"Yeah, but Professor who?" Flash asked as the Professor let out a chuckle.
"If I had a dollar for every time I heard that question." He mentioned. "Just the Professor."
"The Professor?" All three of them questioned him.
"Yup."
"Okay, but you have to at least tell us something because we saw some things." Daisy pointed out. "Are you some sort of secret agent or something?"
"No, I was just passing through." The Professor replied. "I'm a long way from home…"
"But how come these plastic things are coming after us?" Twilight asked him.
"Oh so suddenly the entire world revolves around one of you now." The Professor sarcastically. "You all were just an accident. You got in the way, that was it."
"It tried to kill her!" Flash pointed out.
"No, it was after me, not her." The Professor corrected. "You see, last night at the mall, I was there before you three and those two demons just came in and almost ruined the whole thing." He explained. "This morning, I was tracking this down, while it was tracking me down… So the only reason it fixed on each of you is because all of you met me."
"So what you're saying is that the entire world revolves around you?" Daisy questioned with a brow.
"And if that plastic arm was coming after us, because we meant you, does that mean it will go after both Blitzo and Verosika?" Twilight asked next.
"Well, yes to the first question and not sure about the second one." The Professor answered both of them. "I'm not really sure if the signal can reach hell itself."
"So, you're being serious about all this?" Flash questioned him.
"Sorta, yeah." The Professor replied. "I met a few demons myself on my travels and I accidentally went to hell myself. Nearly forgot who I was for a whole six months due to the demonic and angelic energy then went into my body, but at least I stopped a holy war that was going to break loose and I might add, canceled extermination day forever with the help of the princess of hell."
"Okay… but what about all this living plastic stuff, does anyone else know about it?" Daisy asked.
"Nope, no one."
"So you're just on your own?" Flash asked him.
"Well, who else is there?" The Professor asked them. "I mean, all you do is eat fries, go to bed, and watch television, while all that underneath you there's a war going on and you don't even notice it." Daisy quickly took the plastic arm away from him as she looked him in the eye.
"Okay, then start from the beginning of what's going on." She told him as they continued walking. "I mean if we're going with the living plastic thing, and we don't even believe that, but if we do… how exactly did you kill it?"
"You see, the thing that's controlling it projects life into the arm." The Professor explained. "All I did was cut the signal."
"So it's like radio control?" Twilight questioned.
"Thought control actually." The Professor corrected before he noticed the looks on each of their faces. "Are you three all right?"
"Yeah, but who exactly is controlling it?" Flash asked next.
"That's a long story."
"But what's it all for anyway? Daisy asked him. "I mean, window shop dummies? Is someone trying to take over the American shops or something?" This caused all four of them to chuckle in amusement.
"No!" The Professor told them. "In fact, it's not a price war at all. They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do any of you believe me?"
"No." All three of them answered.
"But you three are still listening, right?"
"But, who are you really, Professor?" Flash asked, causing the Professor to stop and look at the three.
There was a bit of silence for a moment before he let out a sigh. "Do you remember what we said earlier, about the Earth revolving?" He asked them as they nodded in response. "It's like when you're a kid. The first time any adult tells you that the world's turning but you can't just believe it everything around you is just standing still to you." He told them as he walked up to them. "But I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is only spinning at a thousand miles an hour. And the entire planet itself is hurtling around the Sun at 67,000 miles an hour and I can feel it, or all falling through space, the four of us, and every single being on this planet. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go…" He stopped for a moment before he looked at them. "That's who I am. Now forget about me, all three of you." He told them before he took the plastic arm from Daisy and waved goodbye with it. "Go home."
The Professor then walked away from them as they watched him make his way over to a brown box with green lights and circuitry on it. They soon started to walk away as they thought about what he said before the winds started to blow and they heard a noise coming from the brown box the Professor went to. They quickly ran back but saw that the brown box was gone and they knew that the Professor was no ordinary man and they had to figure out who he is.
Meanwhile in Hell at the office building where I.M.P. is located, Blitzo was at his desk and was lost in his thoughts about the Professor. He wondered how he was able to figure out that he and Verosika weren't humans, but mostly how he knew about the extermination day being canceled. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a knock on his door before Moxxie walked in. "Sir, you've been in here for a while now, is there something wrong?" He asked him.
"No…I mean yes… honestly Moxxie, I don't know." Blitzo replied with an irritated look. "I think Fizzy's lover may need to check his crystals because I think we got a broken one."
"What do you mean, sir?" Moxxie questioned with a brow. "The crystal works great. We completely blend in with the humans on our last job."
"Yeah, but someone called 'The Professor' instantly knew I wasn't human." Blitzo mentioned, which completely surprised his employee. "Yeah, I was off to kill one of the guys we are hired to kill at the mall, I was in an elevator with three teens and that bitch whore Verosika. But the moment we got down to the basement, a bunch of mannequins started attacking us before this guy showed up and just saved us I guess. But then when we got to another elevator, he said he knew that me and her weren't humans by the way we smell."
"And he said it in front of the three teens?" Moxxie asked him.
"Yeah, but I doubt they believed him." Blitzo replied. "What bugs me more is that he knew that the extermination day was canceled forever, and he knew about the extermination angels."
"But that was months ago." Moxxie pointed out before he realized something. "And you said this man called himself the Professor."
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, on the day the extermination day was canceled, I heard rumors that someone with that exact name was there to stop some overlord who wanted to start a holy war." Moxxie explained. "He called himself the Professor himself. No first or last name, just Professor."
"You fucking serious right now?"
"Yes, and I believe a couple of sinners knew him when they were alive." Moxxie added. "One of them is here in the pride ring while the other is in the lust ring." After hearing this, Blitzo gets up from his desk with a determined look.
"Moxxie, tell Millie and Loona we're going to meet one of these two who knows this 'Professor' right now!" He ordered before he left the room without even letting Moxxie ask why.
Meanwhile in the lust ring, Verosika was alone at a club where a few succubuses or succubi, along with a few sinners were having some intimate fun together, or enjoying a nice show by watching strippers dancing. A bartender then placed her drink order in front of her as she had an irritated look on her face. "Damn that human and everything else." She cursed under her breath. "You can't blow up a person's car with an entire Mall and just disappear. Professor…" A female avian sinner overheard her and looked towards her way when she said that last part. "Professor of what exactly, blowing up someone's car?"
"Excuse me, but did you say 'Professor'?" The avian sinner asked Verosika and got her attention. "Did he give that first or last name or did he just say the Professor?"
"Just the Professor." Verosika replied before she realized something. "Why? Did you know him when you were alive?"
"Yes, but let's not talk out here." The avian sinner whispered as she looked around. "Let's go to one of the private rooms and we can talk about him there."
Meanwhile up on Earth, Flash drove his car up to a house with both Twilight and Daisy in the passenger seats. "You sure this is it, Twilight?" He asked her.
"I'm positive." She replied as she looked at the house. "After a couple of failed attempts of looking up the professor, the one website shows a picture of him and the guy who has it lives here with his family, one kid, a wife and his father who used to fought in the war. He seemed very eager to talk with us when we mentioned we saw him."
"Well then, let's meet this guy and hope he's not a internet lunatic." Daisy said before they got out of the car and walked up to the front door. Flash rang the doorbell before a boy with blue skin and yellow hair opened the door.
"Hello, is your father, Picture Date, here?" Twilight asked the kid. "We've been e-mailing about the Professor."
"Dad! It's the three teens that saw your website!" The boy called out before a man with greenish blue skin and brown hair walked up to them.
"Hello, I'm Picture." The man introduced himself to them. "Nice to meet all of you."
"Nice to meet you too." Flash replied with a smile.
"Who's at the door, honey?!" A woman's voice called out from inside.
"It's something to do with the Professor! They've been reading the website and they want to talk with my father!" He replied before he looked back at the three teens. "Come in, my father is just upstairs." They went inside and he closed the door behind them before going upstairs and entered a room where an elderly man with indigo skin and gray hair sat in bed. "Hey dad, they want to know about the Professor." Picture told his elderly father as they entered the room and got his attention. "This is my father, Grand Blade."
"Oh, you three meet him, have you?" Blade asked the three teens.
"Well yeah, two times actually." Daisy told Blade. "The first time was at the mall before it got blown up and the second was at Twilight's house."
"Oh, so he's been busy as always?" Blade questioned with a slight chuckle. "Tell me, does he look like the picture that is on my son's website?"
"Yes, actually he does." Twilight answered before she looked at Picture. "That photo that's on your website, that's only a zoomed image. Am I right?"
"Yeah, it is." Picture replied before he pulled out a suitcase from a closet. "I wish I could have sent you the whole thing but some people might have intercepted it. Gotta keep a lively mind, this Professor keeps popping up all over the place. Political diaries, conspiracy theories, even ghost stories." He pulled out a small table before setting the suitcase on it and opening it up.
"Not only that, but he never tells people his real name." Blade added. "He doesn't tell them his first or last name. Just 'the Professor' and nothing more. Now what we're about to tell and show you, know that the title itself isn't passed down from parent to child, it's not inheritance at all."
"Now, like you said, the picture on my website is a zoomed image." Picture told the three teens as he pulled out a file. "I sort of tracked it down to the Washington Public Archive just about a year ago. These are the original." The three teens looked and saw the first photo with the Professor's face circled before he showed them another picture that was zoomed out before showing another one that Twilight was shocked to see.
"Was…was this taken on November 22nd 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated?" She asked them in shock.
"Yes, it was." Blade answered which surprised the other two teens before Blade reached over to his nightstand and opened a drawer as he pulled out another photo. "This was taken when I was just a young man and the man standing next to me and the woman is the Professor." He pointed towards a man wearing a twine coat and a sweater vest, but due to the picture being black and white, it was hard to tell what his skin and hair looked like. "Back then, his skin was yellow while his hair was orange."
"Are you think that's the same man that we met?" Daisy questioned with confusion before Flash noticed something in the background of the photo.
"I think he is, just look in the background." He told the two girls as he pointed towards a familiar large box behind the three. "It's that box he walked up to before it disappeared."
"It disappears here and reappears in a different place." Blade told them. "Like him, that box is full of surprises."
Back in hell, the I.M.P.'s company van was parked outside of a building while Loona was leaning against it and was on her phone. Inside, Blitzo with both Moxxie and Millie were sitting on a couch as a sinner, wearing an old britain soldier uniform, carried a train with four cups and a pot of tea. "I didn't think the immediate murder professionals would actually come to my front door." He said to himself as he sat down the tray and started to pour the tea into the cups. "Hope no one in hell is out to get me down here."
"Oh no, we used to do something like that but not anymore." Millie mentioned as he passed her a cup of tea. "Nowadays we only kill people in the human world, but only to the ones who want to pay back the ones who wronged them."
"Well, if you're here to discuss something and want to Revenge on someone in the living room, I assure you that I have no intentions."
"Look, I'll just cut right to the chase." Blitzo spoke up. "We heard that you know some professor guy, both here and when you were alive. On our last job I met a professor who blew up an entire mall after running into some weird living mannequins or something." The sinner stopped what he was doing after hearing the word professor. "He knew I was an imp, even though I had a disguise on. He even knew that I was from the greed ring."
The sinner let out a slight chuckle before he smiled at the three. "If you knew what you are, then that means you ran into the Professor." He mentioned.
"So you do know him, Mr….?" Moxxie spoke up but trailed off.
"Please, call me Slasher." The sinner told him. "As for the Professor, I never thought I'd meet him again for a long time until the day Extermination day was canceled. That was him there, on the day Hazbin Hotel was rebuilt." All three of them looked to where he was gesturing and saw a photo of Charlie Morningstar, with her girlfriend, her father, the staff of the hotel, Slasher, an avian sinner, and a man with pale red skin, one night that was red while the other was golden yellow, and with red and yellow hair. They also noticed he was wearing a black coat with a red shirt.
"Huh, he looks completely different from the first time I saw him." Blitzo mentioned.
"When I was alive and I first met the Professor, he looked completely different." Slasher mentioned. "He was a tall man with curling light brown hair and a bit of purplish blue skin. It really feels like he's always changing."
"What do you mean he's always changing?" Verosika asked the avian sinner as they were in a private bedroom and she told this sinner about the Professor and she told her everything she knew about him.
"I know it's hard to believe, but when I first met the Professor with my sister when I was alive, he was sort of a short man with long curly night blue hair and bright blue skin while he was wearing a long coat and a scarf on his neck." The sinner told her. "Then one day, as he was trying to stop some mad man from doing some evil plot, he fell and was on the brink of death. But for some reason, he didn't die and he just changed right in front of us. A different face, a different skin, hair, and even a personality. But it was still him."
"How is that even possible for someone to change completely and literally?" Twilight questions both Picture and his father as she, Flash, and Daisy were told something similar.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Blade replied. "I didn't understand it myself when he explained it, but it was very extraordinary to see in person how he survived just by changing into a different person."
Back in hell, Loona was still waiting for the other three to come out before her ear flickered when she heard something slowly rolling towards her. She looked around to find the source before the sound got louder and she quickly looked over and saw a bin just next to the van. She wondered what was going on until she saw it moved closer. "Okay, I get the shit." She groaned as she walked up to it. "If you jump up the moment I open this, I will bite the shit off your…" She trailed off the moment she opened the bin and saw nothing inside.
This baffled her as she looked on the sides to see if there were any strings attached but it's all none. The moment she put the lid down, she tried to walk away but the plastic on the lid of the bin stretched and was sticking to her fingers as it pulled her back. "What the fuck?!" She tried to pull harder away from the bin as it started to move and let out a small roar. She tried every ounce of strength she had to get away before it suddenly flung her into the air and opened wide before she landed inside just before the lid closed on her. It then let out a loud burp before everything went silent.
"But, how is it possible that he's able to stay alive but become a different person?" Daisy questioned Blade leaning in closer up to them.
"Because he is an alien." He whispered. "It was hard to believe at first because he looks human, but he is an alien…"
"But there is one thing for certain." Slasher continued to tell Blitzo and his two employees. "If he's back on Earth, that means there's a danger that threatens us all…"
"...and he's here to save us all." The avian sinner told Verosika. "I'm sorry I couldn't tell you more about him because there's so much about him that is such a mystery. I guess that's why people always call him Professor Who." Verosika thought for a moment before she took out her phone and started to dial up a number, one she never thought she had to use in her entire life.
Flash, Twilight, and Daisy walked downstairs as they said the goodbyes to both Picture and his father before walking out of the house. "Do you think he was telling the truth about the Professor?" Flash asked the two girls with curiosity. "About him being an alien and stuff?"
"I…I don't know." Twilight replied with a baffled look. "Honestly this is just too much to take in. I mean he's an old man and sometimes old people exaggerate things a bit. So it's kind of hard to tell if he's telling the truth about the Professor being an alien."
"Then why don't we ask the Professor himself?" Daisy suggested when she saw a familiar face across the street. Flash and Twilight were confused by what she meant until they looked to where she was looking and saw the Professor leaning against a pole with both a smirk and a brow at them.
"Well he's a complete nut bag!" Blitzo complained as he, Moxxie, and Millie walked out of the building and over to the company's van. "I mean seriously, what does that even mean he's an alien when he looks exactly like a human?"
"Well sir, he does sound like an old man so I guess he was exaggerating a bit." Moxxie mentioned as they entered the van with Loona already sitting in the front seat, only she had a weird grin on her face while there was something off about her fur and hair.
"Maybe, I am really curious as to how this Professor guy knows about hell being real." Millie said before Blitzo's phone rang and he instantly picked it up.
"Hello?" He asked before his eyes widened from whoever was calling on the other end. "Oh great, look Verosika, I'm not in the mood for any-What?" He stopped when he listened to what she was saying. "You're kidding right? We just talked to someone who knew the Professor in the human world. No, really. You want to talk it over with some drinks? All right then come on but you're buying." He hung up the phone before he looked at his employees and adopted daughter. "Looks like we're going for a round of drinks."
"Drinks…" Loona said before she started stuttering as she repeated the word.
"With your ex?" Millie asked with a brow. "I mean this is the first time she ever called you and stuff even though you both broke up."
"Yeah, yeah, let's just see what she wants to talk about." Blitzo mentioned before he started the van and drove off.
They soon arrived in the lust ring as they were at a bar with Verosika as all five of them were sitting at a table. "So, why exactly did you bring us out here?" Blitzo questioned her as she let out a sigh.
"Look, I just can't get that Professor guy out of my head." Verosika told them. "Not only did he blow up my car along with that mall, but he also knew we weren't human. Earlier today I met a sinner that knew him when she was alive and everything. She told me some weird things like him being an alien and when he almost died he comes back to life but with a different face and everything."
"Funny, that's exactly what Slasher told us." Moxxie mentioned.
"So, you two along with three human teens met this Professor at the mall?" Loona questioned both Blitzo and Verosika.
"Yeah, we already established that." Blitzo told her before looking at Verosika. "The guy said he was here, and we even saw a picture of him. He looked completely different from the guy we saw."
"And the sinner who told me about him said he was wearing a long coat and a scarf when she and her sister first met him." Verosika replied. "I think she said it was somewhere back in the 70s or 80s…"
"That far back, really?" Millie asked her in surprise by this news.
"You know, if I was someone like this Professor guy, I would have a motive for being there for a reason." Loona mentioned. "Besides blowing up an entire mall."
"Well, that just sounds ridiculous." Verosika replied. "Can we please just not talk about the mall thing? Because I know this is going to sound crazy, but this Professor guy sounds dangerous to me."
"Huh, what do you know, something we both can agree on." Blitzo spoke up.
"Well who knows what he is, boss. Leader, commander, daddy…" Loona's voice started to sound weird like a malfunctioning robotic voice before she smiled. "I mean if we are talking about him, you can tell me about what the Professor is planning."
"How the fuck should we know, we only met the guy just yesterday." Blitzo replied.
"And are you feeling okay, Loona?" Moxxie questioned with suspicion before someone walked up to them with a bottle of champagne.
"Your champagne, ma'am." A familiar voice said as he offered it to Loona.
"We didn't order any champagne, dude." She told the guy as he just walked around the table. "Where's the Professor?"
"Sir, your champagne." The man offered Blitzo the champagne as he stood between him and Verosika.
"Look, it's not ours." Blitzo told him without even looking at him.
"But just hold it for later." Verosika told the guy before looking at Blitzo. "Why is your hellhound so interested in this guy?"
"I need to find out how much he knows, that's all." Loona quickly replied.
"But why?" Millie asked her.
"I just do, now where is he?"
"Doesn't anyone want this champagne?" The guy questioned as he was still standing next to Blitzo and Verosika.
"Look pal, none of us ordered any…" Loona was going to scold him before she finally looked up and saw the Professor standing between them with the champagne bottle. "Now I got you." She said with a grin as the Professor was rapidly shaking the champagne bottle while the four demons finally noticed and were surprised by him.
"Oh don't mind me, I'm just here to toast the happy family." The Professor told them before he aimed the cork right at Loona. "And it's on the house!" He declared before he popped the cork and the cork was sent flying at her forehead before it literally went right into her head. They watched as her head was stretching around before she spit the cork out of her mouth. "Plastic."
"My turn." Plastic Loona said before she stood up and both her claws transformed into blades which she used to cut the table in half. Verosika, Blitzo, and his two employees quickly stood back from it before Flash and Twilight, both wearing hoodies over their heads, grabbed Plastic Loona by the arms.
"We got her, Professor!" Flash called out as she struggled to get free of the two. The Professor then quickly grabbed her into a headlock as it looked like he was trying to pull her head off. After a bit of jerking with her head, the Professor soon pulled her head right off her body as it fell to the floor when the two teams finally let go of her arms.
"Don't think that'll slow me down." She told him as an imp screened when they had talked before her body got back up. Suddenly the fire alarm was set off before a familiar voice shouted at the other demons.
"Very one, get out now!" Daisy shouted as every demon scattered and ran away from the plastic headless hellhound.
"You four, with us!" The Professor told the three imps and the succubus as all of them started to move towards the back of the building while the plastic creature started smashing things around it. They told any staff in the kitchen to get out while they continued to make their way out the back. Twilight uses her levitation magic to knock down a few shelves in front of it to slow it down before the into the back door and quickly close it behind. The professor quickly took out his device and used it to lock the door as Moxxie went over to a gate and tried to get it open.
"It's locked!" He shouted as it wouldn't budge.
"Hey you, Professor whatever, use that techno dildo thingy!" Blitzo called out.
"It's a sonic screwdriver, not a dildo." The Professor told him casually.
"Whatever, just use it!" Verosika shouted.
"Nope, let's go in here instead." He told them as he and the three teens locked up to the brown box before he took out a key.
"I'm not hiding inside of a box that's small, especially with a skank like her!" Blitzo mentioned as he pointed at Verosika.
"The feeling is mutual!" She spat back as the Professor unlocked and opened the door.
"It's better than staying out here where that thing can get you." Flash mentioned before the plastic creature started banging on the back door.
"Trust us, you want to come inside this thing." Twilight told as the four of them entered the box.
"Now hang on just a second here, you can't just rip the head of my daughter off and expect us to do whatever you say!" Blitzo shouted at them as he went into the box but instantly came out with a shocked look at his face. His two employees and Verosika then saw him go around and jump on top of the box with a baffled look on his face.
"What's wrong, Blitz?" Millie asked before he jumped down and looked at them.
"You have got to see this." He told them before the plastic creature managed to chop through the door before all four of them went inside the box.
"Won't nothing follow us in…?" Moxxie asked but trailed off when they saw that the inside of the box was much bigger than it was on the out. Not only that, but it looked very much advanced as well.
"Oh, don't worry about that." The Professor told them as he used his sonic screwdriver on the head before placing it on the console. "The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't break down that door. Believe me they tried. Now be quiet for just a minute while I'm working." The four demons still couldn't believe their eyes before Daisy walked up to Verosika with a surprised look.
"You really are a succubus." She mentioned before Verosika nodded in response. "One of my favorite pop song singers is a succubus from hell."
"And you're a human who managed to get to hell without even dying." Verosika pointed out without even looking at Daisy.
"So, why did you take her head off?" Twilight questioned the Professor as he was hooking up the plastic head to some wires on the console.
"Well, the arm was too simple, not enough to track the signal." He replied. "But the head's perfect, especially one that was imitating a hellhound. I can use it to track the signal back to the original source, the one that's been controlling the plastic." Once the plastic head was hooked up, he turned to the three imps and succubus with a smile. "Now, where do you all want to start?"
"The…The inside of the small box is much bigger than it is on the outside." Blitzo mentioned.
"Yup."
"So, you really are an alien?" Verosika asked him.
"Yup."
"It really surprised us too when we found out." Flash told them.
"Is that okay with you?" The Professor asked them.
"Kinda…" Blitzo replied.
"Sorta…" Millie answered while scratching the back of her head.
"Maybe?" Moxxie guessed.
"I don't know." Verosika spoke up. "I mean the four of us are demons and even I'm having a hard time believing this. Is this like your spaceship or something?"
"It's called the Tardis, and yes." The Professor answered. "That's T-A-R-D-I-S. That stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space." None of them spoke a word as they still had shocked looks on their faces. "That's okay. It's just culture shock. Happens to the best of us."
"Look, just answer me this: did they kill her? Loona, my adopted hellhound daughter." Blitzo asked him. "Did those plastic things kill her? Is she dead or alive?"
"Oh…I didn't think about that."
"You didn't…?!" Blitzo was about to shout before he took a deep breath and let it out. "She's my adopted daughter and you pulled off a plastic head of her. They made a copy of her, and he didn't even think that she's dead or alive?!"
"And add to it you're just going to let the head melt?" Verosika added.
"Melt, what are you talking about?" The Professor questioned her.
"Professor, the head's melting!" Twilight called out as the plastic head was slowly melting on the console.
"Oh no, nonononononono! Don't melt on me yet!" The Professor shouted before he started pressing some buttons and flipping switches around the console.
"Now what are you doing?!" Moxxie asked him as the thing inside the tube in the center of the console started moving up and down while they heard a noise coming from it.
"I'm following the signal!" He answered as he continued to flip switches. "While the head is melting, the signal is fading! Give me a minute." He then started to look at a monitor while the place felt like it was shaking. "Nonononononononono! Come on come on we're almost there girl! We're almost there! Here we go!" Suddenly the place stopped as the Professor quickly ran towards the door.
"Wait, the thing is still outside!" Millie called out before they followed him out but saw they were no longer in hell, but somewhere in the city of London.
"Great, I lost the signal and I was so close!" The Professor complained in frustration.
"We…We're in…" Verosika stuttered in shock. "How are we out of hell?!"
"It disappears there and reappears here." Twilight told the four as she, Flash and Daisy stepped out of the TARDIS. "Surprised us too when you were no longer at our hometown and ended up in hell."
"And none of you would understand if I explained it to you." The Professor added.
"But if we're up here, what about the headless thing that's still on the loose in hell?" Millie asked.
"It melted itself along with the head." The Professor told them as he walked past them. "Are you just going to keep asking questions all night and day?"
"Great…I can't believe she's gone…" Blitzo mentioned with disbelief before the Professor looked at him with a confused look. "Loona, my daughter. Can't believe you forgot about her when I literally told you about her not too long ago!"
"He really is an alien if he doesn't care." Verosika mentioned with her arms crossed.
Look, if I did forget some pup called Lulu..." The Professor started.
"Loona!" Blitzo quickly corrected him.
"...it's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape on this planet, all right?!" The Professor finished.
"Okay one, hurtful about the ape thing." Daisy told him. "And two, she seems really important to him."
"She is!" Blitzo shouted.
"Well so is this planet!" The Professor told them.
"Well if you are an alien, how come you're able to speak English?" Moxxie questioned him.
"Oh please, it's a very basic language to learn." The Professor replied.
"But what about the box thing?" Verosika asked while gesturing to the TARDIS. "What's that all about if it's your ship?"
"We were actually wondering that too." Flash mentioned.
"Well, it's a chameleon circuit, it disguises the TARDIS but it broke a long time ago and it stuck like this." The Professor told them while he smiled at his TARDIS. "And I actually like it like this, I really do."
"Okay, now can you tell us about the living plastic thing?" Twilight spoke next. "What does it have against us?"
"Oh it's got nothing against all of you." The Professor simply replied. "It actually loves you. You got such a good planet, lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air. It's perfect for it. Just what the Nesting Consciousness needs."
"Is that what's controlling the living plastic?" Flash asked him.
"Yes, its food stock was destroyed in the war, its protein planets rotted away." The Professor added. "So, it came to Earth to make it its dinner."
"Well, let's find this thing and take it out." Blitzo suggested as he and his two employees pulled out weapons.
"Those things won't work on it." The Professor told them before he pulled out a vile of some sort of blue liquid. "But this will, antiplastic."
"Antiplastic?" They all questioned him.
"Antiplastic." He repeated well tapping the tube. "But first, I've got to find it somewhere. And since we are close, it's somewhere in this city. How can you hide something that's so big in a city so small?"
"Wait a minute, hide what exactly?" Verosika asked with a brow.
"The transmitter the Nesting Consciousness is using." The Professor instantly answered. "The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic on this planet, and apparently both in heaven and hell, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."
"So what does it look like?" Flash asked him.
"What a transmitter of course!" He answered as he started pacing around. "It would be round and massive, somewhere smack dab in the middle of London. It would be a huge, metal, and circular structure like a dish, or a wheel, radial, it's probably close to where we're standing." He told them as he stopped and stood in front of something he was describing across the water. "It must be completely invisible so that way I wouldn't be able to find it." The seven of them were looking behind him as he was confused as to what they were staring at. "What? What are you looking at?" They pointed behind him and he turned around but couldn't see what they meant. "Seriously, what are you looking at?"
"Look again and think for a moment." Twilight told him before he turned and saw the giant ferris wheel that fits perfectly what he was describing earlier.
"Oh, that's incredible." He said with a grin before they quickly made their way over to the giant ferris wheel.
"All right, we're here." Blitzo said as they arrived just beneath it. "Now where the fuck is this thing?"
"I just think about it." The Professor told them. "Plastic all over the world, including hell and heaven, every artificial thing waiting to be alive. Every window shop dummy, phones, wires, and cables."
"Even breast implants?" Millie asked.
"Millie!" Moxxie exclaimed.
"What? We were all thinking it!"
"Still, we found the transmitter." The Professor mentioned as he was looking at the giant ferris wheel. "The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath it." An idea then came to Flash as he quickly pulled out his phone and turned it on. "What are you doing?"
"Well, if this Consciousness is using that Ferris wheel to transmit its signal, then it must be interfering with phones and stuff." Flash explained as his phone was making a gurgling noise while he was moving around. "So I just thought that if I have my phone on and if I move closer to where the Consciousness is hiding…" He said as the noise got louder when he moved closer to the water before looked down and saw a hatchet near the stairs. "...it would lead us down there!" The others rushed over and saw the hatchet as the Professor smiled at him.
"Well aren't you being clever tonight." He told Flash before they went down the stairs to the hatchet. Once they got down, the Professor turned the valve to open it up as they saw some sort of orange red light emanating from inside. They carefully climbed down the ladder as they followed the professor when he opened a door and entered a big room where they saw a big vat of some sort of substance. "The Nesting Consciousness. There it is, inside the vat, a living plastic creature."
"Well what are you waiting for? Daisy asked him. "Take out that Antiplastic stuff and let's get out of here."
"I'm not going to kill it." He told them. "I'm here to negotiate with it, give it a chance. The Antiplastic is just in case." They started to walk down some steps before he looked over the railing and down at the vat. "I request audience with the Nesting Consciousness under peaceful contract according to Convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation!" They heard gurgling coming from the vet as the professor smiled. "Thank you! If I have permission to approach!" Blitzo then noticed a familiar hellhound at the bottom of the staircase as she looked a bit shocked.
"Loony!" Blitzo called out before he rushed down the steps and over to her as the others followed behind him. "You're okay! You're alive!" He exclaimed with relief as he quickly hugged her.
"Shut the fuck up!" She whispered harshly to him as she grabbed his lips. "The thing down there… It…It can talk…"
"I can't believe that thing didn't kill you." Verosika mentioned.
"Yeah, I thought that was a possibility, it needed her alive to maintain her copy." The Professor mentioned when he walked past them and continued down.
"You knew that and you didn't tell us?" Daisy questioned him.
"Do you think we can keep the scolding outside, thank you?" He asked before he went down as they looked over the railing when he walked closer to the vat where the nesting consciousness is. "Am I addressing the Consciousness?!" They heard gurgling coming from it as the plastic started to rise up a bit. "Thank you! If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warp, shunt technology! So, may I suggest with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?!" The Consciousness growled at that pun before shaking its head. "Don't give me that! It's an invasion, plain and simple! Don't talk about constitutional rights!" It started making more noises before the Professor started shouting again. "I am taking here! This planet is just starting! These stupid little people have only just learned how to walk! But they're capable of so much more! I'm asking you on their behalf, please just go!"
The others listen to what he was saying before Daisy saw plastic mannequins coming up behind him. "Professor, behind you!" She called out but it was too late as they grabbed him. He struggled to get free from them before one of the mannequins pulled out the vial of the Antiplastic.
"I swear I wasn't going to use it!" The Professor told the Consciousness in a panic. "That was just insurance! Honest!" It started growling again as he struggled to get free. "I wasn't going to attack you! I'm here to help you! "I'm not your enemy, I promise!" It growled again as a worried expression appeared on his face. "What are you talking about?!" They looked up and saw that they had his TARDIS down here with them. "No! No, no, no! Please, no! Yes, that is my ship!" It growled again as it sounded angry before the professor looked at it with a solemn expression. "That's not true! I should know because I was there during that time! I fought in the Time War! It wasn't my fault! I couldn't save your world, I couldn't save any of them! Not even my own!"
"Professor, what is it doing now?!" Twilight called out.
"It's the TARDIS!" The Professor shouted. "The Nestene Consciousness' identified it as superior technology! It's terrified! And now it's going to the final base! It's starting the invasion! Get out of here, all of you! Run now!" Twilight quickly took out her phone and texted her friends to be careful and help others that might be in trouble while Daisy took out her phone and called someone.
"Mom?!" She called out when her mother picked up.
"Oh, there you are. I was just about to call you Dude you can get compensation, I told you so. I got this document thing off of the police, don't they meet just yet--"
"Mom, where are you right now?!" Daisy quickly questioned.
"I'm in town right now."
"No, go home right now!" She quickly told her. "No time to explain it, just go home now!"
"Honey, your…up…I'm ju…a bit gonna…shopping…I will…at ho…" The call was breaking up before the call ended.
"Mom? Mom!" Daisy shouted with a worried tone before they saw electricity coming from the Nestene Consciousness before it went up and through the ceiling.
"What is that?!" Verosika exclaimed.
"That's the activation signal!" The Professor answered with a worried tone. "It's transmitting now!"
Above ground, the activation signal surged through the ferris wheel before it started to spread across the sky with wavelengths. In a store, the plastic mannequins started moving before it broke down the glass window and moved towards the people. One mannequin aimed its arm right at a man before its fingers went down and shot him in the chest, killing him. People started screaming as the plastic mannequins started to go on a rampage. A few of them were about to kill a woman with ruby red skin and pink hair before a familiar blur zipped in and got her when the mannequins started blasting.
Rainbow Dash then placed the woman behind a large vehicle before a diamond shield dome was placed over them and a few other people. The rest of the Rainbooms were checking to see if everyone was all right as the mannequins started blasting at the dome. "What in tarnation is going on here?!" Applejack exclaimed.
"I don't know, but it looks like Twilight was right to inform us about being on alert." Sunset mentioned with a worried tone. "Where is she right now?!"
Back in London, the Professor struggled to get free before he looked up at the group. "Get out of here!" He shouted at them. "It's not safe here! Just go!" Soon the ceiling collapsed and blocked the way up the stairs.
"We can't! The stairs are blocked!" Twilight called out.
"And we can't use our crystals to get out of here because we have no idea what effect they will have on humans!" Moxxie shouted before the group ran over to the TARDIS.
"It's locked!" Flash shouted when he couldn't open the door. "The Professor has the key!"
"We're all gonna die!" Millie cried out in a panic as they saw there was no way out. The Professor continued to struggle to get free as Daisy, Twilight, Flash, Blitzo, and Verosika looked around as they thought for a moment.
"TiMe LoRd!" They all heard the Nestene growling as they looked at the Professor. Some plastic mannequin was closing in on the group before Verosika clenched her fist in anger. When one of them was close enough, she suddenly spun around and kicked its head off before knocking its body into the others.
"That's for making him blow up my car!" She shouted as Blitzo took out a few guns and shot a few others back while Twilight used her levitation magic to look a few of them up and throw them across the room. Flash and Daisy quickly went over to some rope as he tossed Daisy an ax.
"Great ready, because this is payback for destroying our job and trying to kill us all." Daisy said as she chopped off some chains before pulling them down and doing them to flash. He then used the chains to swing over as the Professor flipped the mannequin that was holding him into the vat just as Flash knocked the mannequin holding the vial down into it with it. The vial of Antiplastic soon landed onto the Nestene Consciousness and Spilled Out onto it. It squealed in pain as Flash swung back and landed next to the Professor.
"Now we're in big trouble." He mentioned before they quickly regrouped with Moxxie, Millie, and Loona just as the entire place was exploding and the transmission started to fail.
Back in Canterlot City, Rarity struggled to keep the shield up as the mannequins continued firing at it but they suddenly noticed the mannequins were struggling to stay up before they each fell to the ground.
The Professor soon took out his key as they all entered the TARDIS. Soon the TARDIS was making some sort of whooshing sound as it was fading away until it was gone just as the entire place exploded.
The TARDIS soon reappeared in a park in Canterlot City before the door opened up and Loona ran out to get some distance from it before sitting down on the ground. The others then walked out as Daisy had her phone out and called her mom. "Mom, are you okay?" She asked when her mother picked up.
"Daisy, whatever you do, don't go outside, it's not safe!" She heard her mother warned with a worried tone as Daisy had a relieved smile on her face."There are things, they were shooting and these girls with some sort of abilities just saved us but we weren't going to hold out for long and…" Daisy hung up the call as Blitzo walked over to Loona.
"It's okay, Loony, you're safe now." He told her before she punched him in the face.
"I'm fine, I just need some time to breathe, okay?! She shouted as the Professor stood in the doorway of his TARDIS.
"Nestene Consciousness, easy." He said with a smile and a snap of his fingers.
"Hey, we did all the work while you struggled with a mannequin." Flash pointed out. "You would be dead if it wasn't for us."
"Yeah, I would be." The Professor agreed with him. "All of us were if it wasn't for the five of you. Thank you."
"Yeah, just promise to never blow up any other buildings that have my ride in it." Verosika told him with a brow.
"Okay, I'll be off now." The Professor told them before he gave another look at them. "Unless of course… I don't know, you all would like to come with me?" He offered before placing a hand on the door frame of the TARDIS. "This box isn't just a box they can just disappear and reappear anywhere in the world you know, it goes anywhere in the universe. Plus it's free of charge."
"And get myself probed or kidnapped again?!" Loona questioned before flipping him off. "Fuck that!"
"Plus you don't even know what's out there." Moxxie added.
"I think this whole living plastic thing was enough for one day, thank ya." Millie mentioned.
"Those three are not invited." The Professor told Blitzo, Verosika, and the three teens. "What do you think? I mean you could stay here if you like. You know, feel your lives with work, food, sleep, or you could go… well anywhere."
"Is it always this dangerous?" Twilight asked him.
"From time to time, yeah."
"Yeah, I think I'll pass." Flash told him. "Got stuff to do."
"Me too." Twilight added.
"Plus me and her still have to find a new job." Daisy mentioned. "Plus I have to find my mom and stuff."
"And I've got a business to run and stuff." Blitzo spoke up.
"Yeah…and I got my whole pop star career so…" Verosika told him.
"Well, okay." The Professor said with a shrug. "I guess I'll see you around." He went back inside his TARDIS as he closed the door behind him. The wind then swirled around it as the light on top of the TARDIS lit up as it started fading out of existence before it disappeared.
Verosika then looked at the three human teens. "You're not going to tell anyone about us, are you?" She asked them.
"Even if we did, I doubt they'll believe us." Twilight mentioned. "Especially about what happened today." They each were about to go their separate ways before they heard a familiar sound before they turned to see the TARDIS coming into existence and reappearing in the same spot.
The Professor then opened the door as he looked over at them. "Did I forget to mention that it's also a time machine?" He asked them, which really piqued their interest before he went back inside but left the door open. They thought for a moment before Twilight pulled out her phone and texted her friends that she's going on a trip and asked Fluttershy to look after Spike for her.
"Moxxie, you're in charge until I get back." Blitzo quickly told him before he, Verosika, Twilight, Flash, and Daisy quickly ran over to the TARDIS and went inside before closing the door behind them. The TARDIS then started to phase out of existence before disappearing, beginning the start of a grand journey with an alien known as the Professor.
Author's Note
Here is what the Professor's Sonic Screwdriver looks like:
And if you all want to know what the exterior of his Tardis looks like, the cover image is his TARDIS. And the reason why I put characters from Hellva Boss in this it's because I really enjoyed the YouTube series and I thought it would be a very nice touch to add in.
Chapter 2: The Day the Earth Burned
Twilight, Flash, Daisy, Blitzo, and Verosika entered the TARDIS as the Professor was standing next to the console with a grin on his face. "So tell me all of you, when and where do you want to go first?" He asked them. "Backwards or forwards in time? Your choice. What's it gonna be?"
"I just want to know you're not pulling our legs here and this is really a time machine?" Blitzo spoke up as the Professor nodded in response.
"Okay, then only one way to find out and that's to actually go forwards in time." Daisy suggested before the Professor started flipping some switches on the console.
"How far forward?" He quickly asked them.
"Shit, uh… one hundred years from now?" Verosika asked with a shrug. He then turns a wheel before stopping it before pulling up a lever and twisting a knob. The centerpiece of the console then started moving as they felt the TARDIS shake a little before he twisted a knob to make it stop.
"There we go!" He declared with a grin. "Step outside that door and you'll be in the 22nd century."
"You're joking?" Twilight asked with an excited look.
"Yeah, you're right, that's way too boring." The Professor told her before he had a grin on his face. "Do you want to go further?"
"Sure, why not?" Flash asked with a shrug before the professor started to use the controls again and the TARDIS started moving again. He looked at them with a smile before he made it stop.
"Okay, now we're ten thousand years in the future." He told them as a laugh escaped Verosika's mouth. "Not joking, you step out and it's the year 12005. The new Roman Empire."
"You think you're so impressive, don't you?" Verosika asked with a brow and her arms crossed under her breasts.
"I am impressive!"
"Yeah right!" Blitzo said with a slight chuckle.
"Okay, that's it." The Professor said as he started to use the controls on the console again. "You've asked for it. I know exactly where to take all of you. Hold on tight!" They felt the TARDIS rumbling harder than usual as it seemed to be going faster as outside of it it was going through some sort of vortex. The Professor then flipped a switch before hitting a bell on the console and he grinned at them.
"Okay, when are we this time?" Flash asked him before the Professor gestured to the door. "What's out there and what are we going to see?" He only gestured to the door with a wide grin on his face before the five of them walked over to the door.
They soon stepped out of the TARDIS before they found themselves in some sort of room before the Professor followed them out. "So, when and where are we exactly?" Twilight asked as he took out his sonic screwdriver and started to use it on a control panel next to a door. They soon walked towards some steps before they saw some sort of panel going down to reveal a window that showed them the planet Earth and the Sun just outside it. "Whoa…"
"You humans…" The Professor spoke as he looked at the Earth. "You always spent your time thinking about dying. How you're going to get killed by eggs, beef or global warming, or even asteroids. But none of you ever took the time to imagine the impossible. That maybe you'll survive. We are in the year 5.5/Pineapple/26. Just about five billion years in the future, your future. And this is the day…" He stopped to press the watch on his wrist before the center of it split open and revealed a hologram projection of the year and time. "Just a second…" They then saw the sun suddenly expanding as it looked more red than yellow. "This is the day the sun expands. Welcome to the day Earth burns."
"Holy…shit…" Blitzo breathed out in awe.
"Oh my Satan." Verosika gasped as the three humans couldn't believe what the Professor just told them. "And we're on some sort of space station?"
"Shuttles five and six now docking." A computerized voice was heard. "Guests are reminded that Platform One forbids the use of weapons, teleportation, and religion. Earth-death is scheduled for 15:39, followed by drinks in the Manchester Suite."
"That answers your question?" Professor asked before all six of them walked out of the room and walked down the hallway.
"So, when it says 'guests', does it mean like actual people?" Daisy questioned him.
"Well, that depends on your definition of people." He replied.
"She means like people." Twilight explained. "What do you mean by people?"
"Aliens, of course." The Professor answered as they turned a corner.
"But what are they doing on board this space station and what's it all for?" Flash asked him as the Professor took out his Sonic Screwdriver when they stopped in front of a door with a panel next to it.
"It's not really a space station per se, it's more like an observation deck." He explained as he was using his screwdriver on the panel. "The great and the good are all gathering here to watch the planet burn."
"Okay, but why?" Twilight asked as the door opened when he was finished.
"For fun." He quickly replied as they went into a room. "And when I said 'the great and the good', what I meant is the rich."
"Oh, no surprise there." Blitzo spoke up with an eye roll. "A bunch of wealthy fuckers comes to see a whole planet just being burned by its own sun."
"But, didn't they explain this on the Space Channel?" Daisy questioned as they entered a room with a large window that went up to the roof. "The sun expanding, which takes hundreds of years."
"Millions, actually." The Professor corrected before they all looked out the window. "But the planet's now the property of the National Trust. They've been keeping it preserved. You see that down there?" He pointed outside to something floating in space. "Gravity satellites holding back the Sun."
"But the planet looks exactly the same as ever." Verosika pointed out. "I mean, shouldn't the continents have shifted a little or something?"
"Oh they did, and the Trust shift 'em back." He told them. "That's what you might call A Classic Earth. But now the money's run out, nature has taken over."
"How long exactly does the Earth have?" Twilight asked before the Professor looked at his watch.
"I say about half an hour." He answered her. "Then the planet gets roasted, all nothing but rocks in space."
"Okay, but what about us?" Blitzo asked as he gestured to himself and Verosika. "You know, every demon and sinner that's like in Hell and stuff. What about them?"
"Oh you all are okay." The Professor said with a shrug. "About a few thousand years back, both demon and Angel races have made themselves known to humankind and have been living in peace since. I would tell you how it happened but that would be spoiling it."
"Okay, so is that why you brought us here?" Flash asked him. "I mean, is this what you do when you travel? You just jump in at the last minute and save the Earth?"
"I'm not saving it, time's up for it." The Professor told him.
"Now wait a minute, what about all the people?" Verosika asked him. "You know, normal fire doesn't hurt us demons, and hellfire can really hurt us really bad, but a blast from the Sun could literally vaporize demons as well."
"Oh don't worry about that, the Earth is empty." The Professor assured them. "They're all gone, all left the entire planet."
"So…it's just us?" Daisy questioned him.
"Who the hell are you?" They hear a male voice questioned before they turn to see some sort of alien with blue skin, a deep blue gem on his forehead, markings around his eyes, and wearing robes walking up to them.
"Oh well, hello to you too." The Professor greeted the alien.
"How did you all get in?" The alien questioned them. "This is a maximum hospitality zone. The guests have disembarked! They're on the way any second…"
"No, it's okay!" The Professor interrupted the alien as he pulled something out of his pocket. "That's us, we're guests. Look, I got an invitation." He held up some sort of small piece of paper that looked blank but the alien saw it was an invitation. "See? It's fine. 'The Professor and party.' I'm the Professor and this is my party: Twilight Sparkle, Flash Sentry, Daisy Glimmer, Verosika Mayday, and Blitzo Buckzo. Is that okay?"
"Well, of course." The alien replied. "My apologies, etc cetera. If you're on board, we'd better start. Enjoy." He then walked over to a podium as the Professor showed them the paper.
"This is psychic paper, it shows whatever I want them to see." He explained it to them. "It sure saves a lot of time."
"That guy is blue with a gem in his head." Flash pointed out.
"Yup."
"Okay…" Blitzo muttered before he looked at Verosika, who just shrugged her shoulders.
"We have in attendance, the Professor and his party!" The blue alien announced. "Thank you. All staff to their positions." He then clapped his hands as short aliens wearing helmets quickly came and walked around the room. "Quickly now! Thank you! Move as fast as we can, come along now, come on!" They soon stood at attention at their prospective positions as the alien continued. "And now come on might I introduce the next honored guests: representing the Forest of Cheem, we have trees. Namely Jade, Lute, and Coffa!" Soon the doors opened to reveal three aliens then had humanoid figures only their skins and heads look to be made out of tree bark. All three of them were wearing clothing as two of them were male and one was female. "There will be an exchange of gifts, representing peace. If you could keep the room circulated, thank you."
"Wow, they're actually trees?" Verosika whispered to the others in surprise.
"Next, from the solicitors, Jolco and Jolco, we have the Moxx of Balhoon." The alien introduced as a short chubby alien in a floating chair came into the room. "And next, from Financial Family 7, we have the Adherents of the Repeated Meme." The alien introduced as he continued down the list while more aliens came into the room. "The inventors of hyposlip trouble system, the brothers Hop Pyleen! Thank you. Cal 'Sparplug'... Mr and Mrs Pakoo… The ambassadors from the City State of Binding Light…"
The others kept on looking at the many different aliens coming into the room just as the trees walked up to them. "The gift of peace." The female one said as one of the male trees handed them a small pot with a small tree in it. "I bring you a cutting of my grandfather."
"Thank you, very much." Professor thanked before taking the pot and handing it over to Verosika. "Now our gift… um…" he cleared his throat as he thought it over before finally coming up with a perfect gift. "I'll give you in return air for my lungs." He then blew some air towards her as she took it in.
"How intimate." She said with a smile.
"And plenty more with that came from." The Professor said with a smile.
"I bet there is." She said before walking away.
"Was that her flirting or something?" Flash whispered to the others who just shrugged in response.
"The sponsor of the main event, please welcome the Face of Boe." The alien announced just as a big cylinder that carried a big head was being brought in and they saw this head had tentacles on the back of it.
"Damn that's a big face." Blitzo whispered after seeing the Face of Boe.
"The Moxx of Balhoon." The Professor said as said alien came up to them.
"My felicitations upon this historical happenstance." He spoke with an elderly voice. "I bring you the gift of bodily saliva." He then spat right into Verosika's eye, which caused Blitzo to let out a quick laugh before he got a spit in his eye as well.
"Thank you very much." The Professor replied as the two demons were wiping the spit from their eyes before a group of cloaked individuals walked up to them. "Ah, The Adherents of the Repeated Meme! I bring you air from my lungs as a gift of peace." He told them before he exhaled his air.
"A gift of peace. In all good faith." One of them said as it lifted up its claw that held a metal orb in it. The Professor happily accepted the gift before he passed it to Twilight and the alien at the podium spoke up.
"And last but not least, our very special guest." He announced. "Ladies and gentlemen, trees and multiforms, consider the Earth below. In memory of this dying world, we call forth… the last human. The Lady Dusty De' Spark the Seventeenth." The doors opened up to reveal some sort of hot pink skin with a face on it strapped in some sort of stretcher while two men wearing white suits carrying sprayers walked in behind it.
"Oh please, don't stare." It spoke with a female British accent. "I know, I know. It's shocking isn't it?" Twilight, Flash, and Daisy gave a weird look at the thing that was called the last human. "I had my chin completely taken away and looked at the difference."
"I think she removed more than just her chin." Blitzo whispered to Verosika, who was trying to hold back her laughter at Dusty.
"Look how thin I am. Thin and dainty." Dusty mentioned. "I don't look a day over 2,000. Moisturize me, moisturize me." She told the two men as one of them sprayed her while Daisy slowly walked around to see how flat Dusty is. "Truly, I am the last human. My father was a Texan, my mother was from the Arctic desert. They were both born on Earth and they were the last to be burned in its soils." She sounded sad as she continued. "I have come to honor them and say goodbye." The other guy took out a tissue for her. "Oh, no tears, no tears… I'm sorry. But behold! I bring gifts!" Soon as a short servant was bringing in one look to be an egg. "From Earth itself, the last remaining ostrich egg." The aliens around them whispered in awe at the egg before she continued. "Legend says it had a wingspan of 50 ft! And blew fire from its nostrils. Or was that my third husband?" They all laughed at that little joke.
"What…?" Twilight whispered with disbelief as that is not what an ostrich looks like or can do.
"Oh, please no, don't laugh, I'll get laughter-lines." She told herself as two more rolled in a jukebox. "And here, another rarity. According to the archives, this was called an iPod. It stores classical music from humanity's greatest composers. Play on!" One of the short servants put in a quarter and pressed a button as an old record player was put on and the song Tainted Love was being played.
"The refreshments will now be served." The Blue alien told the guests. "Earth death in 30 minutes." Flash, Twilight, and Daisy looked around the room and couldn't help but feel out of place with so many different aliens in the room, especially both Blitzo and Verosika considering they were demons from hell. Daisy decided to leave the room before the group saw her and began to follow her.
"Professor." The female tree walked up to him as she had a device and it looked like it took a picture. "Thank you." He gave her a strange look before following after the others as the Meme walked up to the blue alien and held up a metal ball they gave to the other guests.
"A gift of peace in all good faith." One of them told the blue alien.
"Oh uh, no thank you, you're very kind but I'm just the steward." He told them.
"A gift of peace in all good faith." It repeated as it still held out the metal ball.
"Oh right, thank you." The steward said as he accepted the gift.
"Identify species." The female tree told the device that had the picture of the Professor on it. The device gave out a chirping as it was taking a bit to do her request. "Please identify species. Oh come on, stop that." She told it as it gave out a whistle. "Identify his race. Where is the Professor from?" It soon gave her the information as she looked at it with a surprised look. "But that's impossible…" As the guests were chatting amongst themselves, one of the spear orbs suddenly opened up as some sort of robotic spider with four legs came out of it and started to crawl around.
Daisy soon walked down a hallway before stopping in front of a window to look out and down at Earth. Flash and Twilight soon caught up with her as they knew what's on her mind before a female blue alien wearing a uniform watch around the corner and saw them, which caught their attention. "Oh uh…sorry, are we not allowed to be here?" Twilight asked the alien.
"You have to give us permission to talk." She told the three.
"But you just…nevermind, you have our permission?" Flash told her.
"Thank you, sir." She replied with a smile. "And, no, you're not in the way. Guests are allowed anywhere."
"Okay, thank you." Daisy told her as the blue female alien went up to a key panel and started pressing some keys. "What's your name?"
"Raffalo." She answered.
"That sounds like a nice name." Flash complimented.
"Thank you, sir." Raffalo replied before she continued to press keys on the wall. "I won't be long, I've just got to carry out some maintenance down here." She told them before she nailed down to an air vent. "There's a tiny little glitch in the Face of Boe suite. There must be something blocking the system. He's not getting any hot water."
"So you're the plumber for this place?" Twilight questioned.
"Yes ma'am." Raffalo replied as she was unscrewing the screws in the vent.
"So they still have plumbers?" Daisy asked in surprise.
"I hope so, or else I'm out of a job." Raffalo said with a joking smile.
"So, what planet are you from exactly?" Twilight asked in curiosity.
"Crespallion." Raffalo answered before she looked through the small holes of the vent as she heard something moving around inside.
"Is that really what your planet is called?" Daisy asked as they had never heard of a planet like that before.
"No, Crespallion's part of the Jaggit Brocade, Affiliated to the Scarlet Junction, Convex 56." Raffalo explained. "And where are you three from? If you don't mind me asking, that is."
"Oh no, not at all." Twilight assured her before they thought about how to answer her.
"Well, to be completely honest, it's a very long way from here." Daisy told her. "Us and two others sort of just hitched a ride with this man… Now that I think about it, we never really thought about it before. We don't even know who he is. Only know about him from people who knew him from the past, but he's a complete stranger to us. Anyway, don't let us keep you. Good luck with your work." She told Raffalo before walking away with Twilight and Flash following behind her.
"Thank you, and thank you for the permission." Raffalo told them as it got their attention. "Not many people are that considerate around here." They nodded with a smile before walking off, letting her get back to work as she removed the plate and looked into the vent. "Okay, what seems to be the problem?" She asked herself before she pressed some sort of communication on her uniform. Control, I'm at Junction 19. I think the problem is coming from somewhere in here. I'm going to go inside and have a look around." She then heard something moving inside the vent before she saw the robotic spider coming around the corner. "What's that? Control, there's something inside the vent." She mentioned before she saw it coming up to her. "What are you?" She asked it before it ran away from her. "Wait, come back! If you're an upgrade, I just need to register you, that's all!" She called out but it didn't come back, letting her let out a frustrated sigh. "Guess I'll just have to do it manually then, and also report this to the control."
She then closed up the vent as she didn't notice it was coming back around the corner and came on with a few more behind it. They seem to be doing something in the vents as they cut through the ventilation and crawled through the hole they made.
Meanwhile, the steward returned to his office with the metal ball he was given and a high tech tablet before he set the ball on the table. He then sat down at his desk as the computer beeped. "What was that?" He asked the computer as it beeped again. "Well how should I know what it is?" After It beeped again, he activated the PA system as he spoke through it. "Would the owner of the brown box in private gallery 15 please report to the steward's office immediately. Guests are reminded that the use of teleportation devices is strictly prohibited under peace treaty 5.4/cup/16. Thank you." He didn't even notice the ball opening up and the robotic spider climbing out of it as it climbed down the table and up a wall.
"Earth death in 25 minutes."
The three teens with the two demons were sitting at some steps as Flash was tossing around the ball while Verosika continued to hold the potted small tree in her hands. "Thanks for the update, computer voice." Blitzo said sarcastically with a bored tone. "Anyone else feel a little out of place here? You know, with all these uptight rich alien fuckers around."
"A little bit, yeah." Flash answered as he set the ball down behind him.
"I bet you feel out of place, since you're a little tiny tree that was once alive of some other tree's grandfather." Verosika told the small potted tree. "And now I feel weird just for saying that."
"Are you seriously talking to a tiny twig?" Blitzo questioned her with a brow.
"Don't judge me, prick, it was a rehab thing…" Verosika told him. "And sometimes it's a forced habit when I am at home and stuff…"
"It all feels so weird." Twilight spoke up. "We're traveling with a guy we know nothing about who is an alien, his box is smaller on the outside while it's bigger on the inside, and it can travel through both time and space. Now here we are, on an observation deck with other aliens, waiting for our home planet Earth to get blown up by the sun."
"What feels even more out of place, we're far into the future where our families and friends are all gone." Daisy mentioned as none of them noticed the metal ball opening up and a small robotic spider climbing out of it. "It makes me feel bad for running off without telling my mom where I'm going."
"Same." Flash agreed as the robot spider climbed up the wall.
Meanwhile, the TARDIS was being moved by the workers as they were grunting while moving the big box. "Hey now, be careful with that, park it nice and properly!" The Professor told them. "I don't want to see any scratches on it." One of the workers walked up to him and spoke in an alien language as it handed him a ticket that had the words 'Black Wolf' on it. He took the ticket and looked at it for a moment as he didn't even notice a few robotic spiders claiming across the wall.
In the air vents, the robotic spiders kept on crawling around as if they were doing something for me inside, and what that is cannot be good.
"Are you guys in there?!" The Professor called out before he used his Sonic Screwdriver to open the door and walked into the room where the rest of them are. "I was wondering where you all went. What do you think, you know, about all this?"
"Great/fine/okay…" They each gave him an answer.
"You know, once you get past the psychic paper thing." Daisy spoke up as the Professor chuckled a little. "They're just so alien! The actual aliens are so alien. I mean, we have both an imp and a succubus with us and you think you could get used to something like that but the aliens…"
"Oh hey, I'm with you on that." Blitzo told her. "You look at them for just a moment, and they're alien and stuff. You would think I would get used to it considering I'm literally from hell but, this is just a whole new level of…I don't fucking know…"
"Hey, watch the language." The Professor quickly told him with a look.
"Getting used to?" Verosika asked.
"Then maybe it's a good thing I didn't take you all to the Deep South then." The Professor mentioned.
"But, where are you from, Professor?" Twilight asked him.
"All over the place." He answered.
"But how come if they're different aliens, how are they able to speak English?" Flash questioned.
"They're not, you're just hearing English." He told them. "It's a gift from the TARDIS. It's the telepathic of the field, gets inside your brain and translates different languages into English."
"Your box is literally messing with our brains?" Verosika asked him, feeling a bit disturbed by that.
"Well, in a very good way."
"Your ship, the TARDIS, gets inside our heads?" Daisy questioned in disbelief. "It gets inside and it changes our minds and you don't even ask about that if any of us are okay with that?"
"Well, I didn't really think about it like that." The Professor mentioned.
"No you didn't, because you were too busy thinking about cheap shots about the Deep South!" Daisy responded before she gave him a look. "Who are you then, Professor?"
"You know, now that I think about it, that consciousness thing that was controlling the plastic back in the past, it called you a Time Lord." Verosika mentioned before she raised a brow at the Professor. "Is that what you are, a Time Lord?" He didn't say anything as he just kept quiet. "Oh come on, you at least got to tell us if you are or not. And if not, here's a little something you want to know about me and Blitz-O, here."
"Oh Christ on a stick, here we go." Blitzo muttered with annoyance.
"He and I dated before a certain someone ran off to leave someone else to pay for a hotel room, steal their car and run three rings to Wrath before maxing my credit card on shity horse riding lessons!" Verosika shouted as Blitzo copied what she was saying in the last part.
"For fuck sake, whore, would you let that go already?!" Blitzo exclaimed before he looked at the Professor. "Now what kind of alien is a fucking Time Lord anyway?"
"I'm just a Professor." He told them without even looking at them.
"But from what planet are you from?" Twilight asked him.
"Ah, it's not if you would know where it is."
"But what is your planet you're from called?" Flash questioned him.
"What does it even matter?"
"Just tell us who you are." Daisy demanded.
"This is who I am!" The Professor shouted. "Right here, right now! All right? All that counts is here and now, and this is me!"
"Yeah, and we're here too cuz you brought us here!" Verosika shouted back. "Just tell us who you fucking are!" The Professor only walked down the steps as he didn't answer them and looked out the window. He didn't see anything as he had a look on his face that tells him he did something he wasn't proud of.
"Earth death in 20 minutes."
"Look, is the reason you don't want to tell us is because of this 'Time War' thing you mentioned before?" Blitzo asked but the Professor didn't respond as he didn't even look at them. "Oh shit, it is."
"What are you talking about?" Flash asked him, as the rest of them wondered the same thing.
"Look, he said the Consciousness' planet was destroyed and he said he was there during a Time War." Blitzo reminded them. "He said he was there during it and he said he couldn't save its planet or any others. That might include his own home planet. Am I right, Professor?" He didn't respond as he just looked down at the floor. They then walked over to him as they now felt bad for bringing it up.
"Okay, if you don't want to tell us, that's fine." Daisy told him with a sincere tone. "We just wanted to know you better, is all. As my old friend, Wheels, used to say: 'Don't argue with your designated driver.'" She then took out her own phone as she gave it a look. "Can't exactly even call a taxi here. There's no signal anywhere."
"Here, give me that." The Professor told her as he took her phone before he opened it up. "With a little bit of jiggery-pokery and whatnot."
What is that, a technical term or something, 'jiggery pokery'?" Blitzo questioned as the Professor took out some sort of device.
"Yeah, I basically came first in jiggery-pokery." He replied he placed the device into the phone before closing it back up and handing it back to Daisy. "And the rest of you, your phones." They each gave him their phones as he opened each of them up and placed the same device in each of them before closing them up and giving them back. "There you go. Give it a try."
Daisy was the first to use her phone as she dialed up her mom before putting her phone up to her ear as it rang. After a bit, someone picked up on the other end and it was a voice Daisy knew all too well who it was. "Mom?" She asked in Surprise as she heard her mom talk about laundry and stuff and she let out a relieved chuckle. "Nothing mom. Are you okay though?" She asked as the others were surprised she was talking to her mom at this moment. "What day is it right now? Wednesday? Okay, I just wanted to make sure and let you know I'll be late coming home. No, nothing's wrong Mom, everything's fine. I love you." She soon hung up the phone as she had an amazed look on her face.
"If you all think that's amazing, just wait until you see the bill." The Professor mentioned.
"She called her mom, who was five billion years ago in the past." Twilight mentioned before she looked at her own phone. "They're dead now, our families and friends. But you managed to modify our phones to be able to call them from anywhere in time."
"I can tell you're going to get a degree in college." The Professor told her before each of them started to call someone they know. Then suddenly they all felt rumbling on the place as he had a confused look on his face. "That wasn't supposed to happen… Be right back." He soon left the five of them alone as four of them were talking to the people they knew. Flash to his parents, Twilight to her's, Blitzo to Loona, while Verosika had her back towards them while she called someone.
"I just called to check up on you guys and to tell you that I might be gone for a while cuz I'm on a trip with some friends." Flash told his father on the phone. "I will be back soon, I promise."
"I hope Spike is behaving, I really miss you guys." Twilight told her mother on the phone. "I'll be back soon, and I'll have some really interesting stuff to tell you, but I don't know if you'll believe me when I tell you. Love you."
"Great to know you're still okay, Loony." Blitzo mentioned with a smile. "And it's good to know that this is good down there. You won't believe the stuff I'm seeing right now with this Professor guy and I really wish you came with us. I'll see you when I get home, bye!" The three of them hung up their phones before he noticed that Verosika still had her back towards them. "Are you really going to do that while you're talking to someone on the phone?"
"Shut up, Blitzo, or else--" Verosika whispered harshly to him before whoever she was talking to started asking a question. "Yeah, it's him mom…" She said, while Blitzo had a look on his face that said 'he should have kept his mouth shut'. "No… no mom, we're not back together! You know what he did he- Mom, no I…" She let out a frustrated sign before she looked at him. "Okay, fine Mom." She then offered her phone to him. "She wants to talk to you."
Blitzo let out a gulp as he reluctantly accepted the phone before taking the call. "Uh, hi Mrs. Mayday…" He spoke into the phone before he quickly pulled it away with a cringe face, expecting a very angry mother screaming in his ear.
"Hello Blitz, good to hear from you again." He heard a soft gentle voice respond as he was surprised by this and brought the phone closer. "You know, I heard about your own business and I must say you really mean your way up in the world."
"So… you're not upset about what I did to your daughter?"
"A little bit, but I have a feeling that you did it for a reason." Verosika's mom responded."Whenever you came over with my daughter, you had this look on your face and I could tell that something was bothering you. You are scared of something and you didn't want my own daughter to get involved with it because you were scared she would think differently of you, am I right?"
"Uh…y-yeah, I guess…" Blitzo responded which made Verosika raise a brow in confusion.
"Was it because you were afraid of how my daughter was dating an imp, they would make fun of her and you didn't want that to happen. Plus, I did a little background check on your family and I know about the fire." Blitzo was shocked about this news. "I have a feeling there's more to it than what others say, and I'm so sorry about what happened to your mother. If you're afraid that if she finds out what happened, she'll treat you just as your family did. But I can tell you that my daughter is not like that because she also lost someone very important when she was young. I hope this little trip you all are on, will not only help melt her heart, but it will help you both as well. Good luck, Blitz."
"Uh thanks…" Blitzo responded before she hung up and he gave the phone back to Verosika. "So… that was a little surprising even for me."
"You two need a moment?" Flash asked as the two demons realized that the three teens were still with them.
"Oh no, we…uh, hey, let's find out what that rumbling was about because it sure had the Professor confused!" Blitzo exclaimed before he made his way out of the room.
"Well, what was it?" The steward asked the computer in confusion. "I'm just getting green lights on my end." He then turned on the PA system before speaking into it. "Honored guests may be reassured that gravity pockets may cause slight turbulence. Thank you." After turning it off, he looked back at his computer. "The entire place shook, for crying out loud! I felt it! I hosted all sorts of events on platforms one, three, six and fifteen and I have never felt the slightest tremor in any of them! I'm warning you now, if all of them decide to sue us…"
He then started to type something into the computer. "I'm gonna scan the infrastructure. See if anything is happening there." The computer started beeping as he saw something odd on it while a robotic spider crawled across the wall. "What's that? Control, I don't want to worry you, but I'm picking up readings… They're sort of similar to what the plumber had informed us about." The computer beeped in response. "I have no idea what they are! They're small. The scans say they're metal… Raffalo was the one who saw it, so I don't know what they look like!" He then saw the robotic spider climb up on his desk as he had a scared look on his face. "Although, I imagine they might look something like that. You're not on the guest list. How did you get on board?" He questioned the robotic spider as it appeared to be scanning him. It then went up to the keyboards and pressed on one of them. "No, don't touch that one!" He cried out in horror.
"Sunfilter deactivated." The robotic voice inside his office said as it appeared that the window behind him was letting in the enormous heat of the sun. He cried out in terror as the rays of the sun were getting in from above. "External temperature 430°." He tried to cancel it but the controls wouldn't respond as he screamed out in terror when the sun rays vaporized him.
Back in the main room where all the guests were talking amongst each other, the Professor and the others walked in before he went up to a control panel. "That wasn't a gravity pocket that shook the place." He told them as he messed with the control panel. "I know gravity pockets and that's not what they feel like. What do you think, Jabe?" He asked when he turned around to see the female tree walk up to them. "Listen to the engines, they're pitched up about Hertz. Is that odd or what?"
"It's the sound of metal, that doesn't make any sense to me." Jabe responded with a shrug.
"Where's the engine room?" The Professor asked her.
"I don't know." Jabe responded.
"I can take you there." Raffalo told him when she entered. "Something's gone wrong and I can't get in touch with the steward. We can take the maintenance duct, it's just behind the guest suites."
"Do you mind if I come along?" Jabe asked the Professor before looking at the rest of them. "Along with your friends and wife?"
"Oh, none of them are my wives." The Professor told her.
"We're his traveling companion party." Flash told her.
"Yeah, so you go and pollinate or something with little miss blue here." Blitzo told the two while gesturing to Jabe. "We'll just stay here and, I don't know, catch up with the fam?"
"Yeah, and I think I'll have a quick word with the so-called 'Last Human'." Daisy mentioned as she gestured to Dusty on the other side of the room.
"Don't any of you start any fights." The Professor told them before offering an arm to Jabe. "Shall we then?" She gladly accepted his offer as they followed Raffalo.
"And we better expect you home by midnight!" Daisy called out jokingly.
"Earth-death in 15 minutes."
The robotic spiders were in between the walls as they were doing something to the wires before they quickly scattered when the Professor, Jabe, and Raffalo entered. "Who's in charge of Platform One anyway?" He questioned Raffalo as they followed the wires. "Does it have a captain or something?"
"No, it's just the steward, me, and the staff." Raffalo told him. "The rest of it is controlled by the metal mind."
"You mean the computer?" The Professor asked. "Well, who controls that then?"
"The Corporation, of course." Raffalo answered. "They move Platform One from one artistic event to another."
"Well, there's no one from the Corporation on board?"
"They're not needed." Jabe told him. "This facility is purely automatic. It's the height of the Alpha Class. Nothing can go wrong."
"Unsinkable?" The Professor asked with a brow.
"If you like to put it that way." Raffalo replied. "The nautical metaphor is appropriate."
"You're telling me, I was on board another ship once." The Professor mentioned. "They said that was unsinkable and yet it was sinkable. I ended up clinging to an iceberg. It wasn't even half cold." He then looked at Raffalo. "So, when you're both saying if we get in trouble, there's no one to help us out?"
"I'm afraid not sir." She replied while shaking her head.
"Incredible." The Professor said with a smile.
"I don't understand, in what way is that incredible?" Jabe questioned him.
Meanwhile, as Twilight and Flash were having a nice conversation with some of the aliens to get to know them and their home planets, and while Blitzo was just minding his own business, both Daisy and Verosika were with Dusty. "Soon the sun will blossom into a red giant, and my home will die." She told the two as they looked out the window at the Sun. "That's where I used to live, when I was a little boy. Down there."
"Uh, did you just say you were a little boy?" Verosika asked in confusion considering Dusty was speaking with a female voice.
"Yes, and both my mommy and daddy had a house built into the side of Los Angeles Crevasse." Dusty told them before she let out a sigh. "I'd have such fun down there."
"But what exactly happened to the rest of the humans?" Daisy questioned her. "Where did they all go?"
"Well, they say mankind has touched every star in the sky, with the help of both demons and angels." Dusty told them.
"So you're not the last human if the humans are still out there?" Verosika asked her with a brow.
"I am the last pure human." Dusty mentioned. "The others, let's just say they mingled with other species. Oh, they call themselves new humans, proto-humans, Digi-humans, and even Human-ish. But you know what I call them? Mongrels."
"Okay." Daisy said with a look. "But you stayed behind?"
"I kept myself pure." She told the two.
"Just how many operations did you have that made you like…this?" Verosika asked while gesturing to all of Dusty.
"Just about 708." Dusty answered. "Next week is 709. I'm having my blood bleached. Is that why you wanted to talk to me?"
"Eh, I just got bored." Verosika replied.
"Well, you and your friends could be flatter as well." Dusty told them. "You've got a little bit of a chin poking out."
"I'd rather die as I am." Daisy mentioned.
"It's all painless, honestly."
"No, seriously, I would rather die." Daisy told her. "It's better to die as you are than to live like you, a talking trampoline."
"Oh, well, what would you know?" Dusty questioned with an eye roll.
"Me, Flash, and Twilight were born on that planet!" Daisy replied with a look. "And so were our parents and Friends. That makes us, officially, the last three humans in this very room. And you want to know why, because you're not even human anymore."
"Whoa, remember what the Professor said, don't start any fights." Verosika reminded her before she looked at Dusty. "She's obviously a little stressed out because of the trip we had here. Why don't we listen to some music to relax?"
"Oh a very fine suggestion, anything but that horrid music made by Vertram Mayday." Dusty said with an eye roll before Verosika gave her a glare.
"What was that?!" She hissed through her teeth.
"Honestly, what kind of music does he think he did back then?" Dusty questioned with a slight chuckle. "He was obviously tone deaf if his rhymes were terrible. 'Flame of my Heart' is just terrible."
"That song was for my mother, he wrote it just for her." Verosika told her with much venom in her tone. "You have no right to say that his music was terrible, because he inspired me to become a singer myself! And right now, Daisy is right about you, you're not human at all. You had yourself all nipped, tucked, and flattened till there's nothing but a face on a trampoline, you bitch ass fuck face. Anything human you had left was thrown into the trash. You're nothing but skin, lipstick and skin, bitch!" Verosika then walked away from her as tears started to form in her eyes before Daisy followed behind her. Blitzo overheard what she said and couldn't help but feel bad for her and wondered how he was going to comfort her before the two left the room.
"So, tell me Jabe, what's a tree like you doing in a place like this?" The Professor asked as the three continued to follow the wires.
"Respect for the Earth." Jabe replied.
"Oh please. Everyone on this platform is worth zillions." The Professor pointed out.
"Well, maybe it's a case of having to be seen at the right occasions." Jabe mentioned.
"In case your share prices drop or something? I know you. You've got massive forests everywhere, roots planted everywhere. And there's always money in land."
"All the same. We really do respect the Earth as family." Jabe told him. "So many species evolved from that planet. Mankind is only one. I'm another. My ancestors were transplanted from the planet down below and I'm a direct descendant of the tropical rainforest."
"We're here." Raffalo told them as she stood in front of a control panel. "Now the only problem is, I don't have access to this."
"Allow me." The Professor said as he took out his sonic screwdriver and started working on the panel.
"What about your ancestry, Professor?" Jabe asked. "Perhaps you could tell your story or two. Perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left." The Professor said nothing as he was focused on the panel. "I scanned you earlier. The metal machine had trouble identifying your species. It refused to admit your existence and even when it named you, I wouldn't believe it. But it was right. I know where you're from. I'm sorry for intruding, but it's remarkable that you even still exist. I just wanted to say… how sorry I am about what happened to you." She then placed her hand on his arm while he's trying to hold back his tears before he looked at her. His tears ran down his cheek as he held onto her hand before he continued to work on the panel.
Once he got through, a door opened up and the three of them entered a large area with a walkway and three giant fans in front of them. They looked around before he looked at the two aliens. "Is it me or is it cold in here?" He asked them.
Meanwhile, both Verosika and Daisy were walking through a hallway as the former was shedding tears from her eyes. "Are you okay?" Daisy asked as Verosika nodded slightly in response. "Does it have something to do with your dad?"
"Not that it's any of your business, but my father died when I was just a little girl." Verosika told her. "He was in some sort of car accident and he didn't make it."
"At least you were a little girl when you lost your dad." Daisy mentioned. "I lost mine when I was just a baby so I don't remember much about him." As the two of them turned to walk down a corner, they saw the Meme walking towards them before two of them raised their claws and knocked them out with just one hit. They then dragged the two unconscious bodies away for something either bad or terrible.
"It's great air conditioning though." The Professor mentioned as he looked at the big giant fans while he walked over to another panel. "Sort of nice and old fashioned too. But they call it retro." He used the screwdriver on the panel before it beeped. "Gotcha." He opened it up before one of the robotics spiders came out and scurried across the floor.
"Wait, I saw that thing in the air vents when I was trying to figure out the water problem for the Face of Boe." Raffalo mentioned, as the robotic spider started crawling up the walls.
"Well, what is it?" He asked her.
"I don't know."
"You mean it is not part of the 'retro'?" Jabe asked.
"I don't think so, give me a sec." The Professor aimed his Sonic Screwdriver at the robotic spider before Jabe extended a route to grab it and bring it right to him. "Hey, nice liana."
"Thank you." Jabe replied with a smile. "Not supposed to show them in public."
"We won't tell anyone." He told her before he looked at the small robotics spider in his hand. "Now, who's been bringing their little pets on board?"
"What is it and what does it do?" Raffalo asked.
"Sabotage…" The Professor replied.
"Earth death in 10 minutes." After hearing that announcement, his eyes widened with realization.
"And the temperature upstairs is about to skyrocket. Let's go!" The three of them soon left the place as they made their way back up.
Meanwhile, Blitzo came back to the room where the other guests were as he had a confused look on his face. "Did you find them?" Twilight asked him.
"No, and I looked all over the place." He told Twilight and Flash. "And trust me, this fucking place is bigger than it looks."
"So I'm not the only one who has a bad feeling about both Daisy and Verosika just disappearing?" Flash asked the two.
"The planet's end." Dusty spoke up to get all the others' attention. "Please, gather around! Bid farewell to the cradle of civilization. Let us mourn her with a traditional ballad." One of the workers turned on the jukebox and the classic song 'Toxic' was playing.
"Come on, let's find the Professor and hope he knows where they went." Twilight told Flash and Blitzo before they quickly made their way out of the room. It didn't take that long to find him as they turned a corner and saw smoke coming from a room where a bunch of workers seemed to be in a state of grief just as the Professor, Jabe, and Raffalo came around the other corner. "Professor!"
"The fuck is going on here?" Blitzo asked after seeing the smoke.
"Okay everyone, get back!" The Professor told the workers as he went past them and used his sonic screwdriver on the panel next to the door.
"Sunfilter rising. Sunfilter rising." Soon the bright light in the room died down as Raffalo recognized the door to the room.
"This is the steward's office, why was the sunfilter down?!" She asked in a worried tone.
"Is he still in there?!" Jabe asked the Professor.
"You can smell him, can't you?!" He questioned as he saw another problem coming up. "Wait a second, there's another sunfilter programmed to come down."
"Where?!" Flash asked him.
"No time, you three, follow me!" He told the two teens and the imp before he quickly erased down the corridor.
In another room, both Daisy and Verosika regain consciousness as they hold their heads when they sit up. "Wh-What happened…?" Daisy groaned as she looked around the room.
"Sunfilter descending."
"The fuck does that mean?" Verosika questioned when they heard that before they saw a bright white light coming from the window and quickly panicked as they quickly ran for the door. "It won't open!!"
"Hello! Anyone out there?!?!" Daisy shouted as the sun rays were getting close to them. "Let us out of here!!!" The Professor and the others quickly ran to the room where they could hear both Daisy and Verosika calling for help as they were banging on the door.
"Daisy, Verosika, hold on!!" Twilight called out as the Professor quickly took out his sonic screwdriver and used it on the panel.
"Open the door before we're fucked!!" Verosika shouted from behind the door.
"Hold on, just give me a second or two!" The Professor exclaimed as the sun rays were getting closer. Soon he managed to reverse the sun filter and make it right back up. They all side in relief before the computerized voice switched from the 'sunfilter rising' to 'sunfilter descending.' "Great, just what we need! The computer is getting smarter!"
"The fuck are you talking about?" Blitzo questioned.
"It means the computer is fighting back! He replied as he was trying something else. "Whoever sabotaged the computer with those spider-bots really thought this through!"
"Just open the door and let us out!" Daisy called out before the two of them got lowered to the ground to avoid the sun's rays.
"What do you think I'm trying to do?!" The Professor shouted.
"How come you both can't get out?!" Flash called out.
"Someone melted the locks!" Verosika replied as the Professor was working on the wires on the panel before he jammed his screwdriver deeper into the panel. "B-Blitzo, before I die, I you to know that--"
"Sunfilter rising. Sunfilter rising." The two of them saw that the sun's rays were coming back up as the sun filter was being put back up on the window.
"Nevermind!" Verosika shouted before the both got off the ground and went to the door.
"The door's jammed, I can't open it!" The Professor told them.
"How did you end up there?!" Twilight asked the two.
"We were just walking and talking through the hallway before the Meme came up to us and I guess they knocked us out!" Daisy answered.
"Okay, you both stay there and don't move!" The Professor told the two.
"We're locked in here, where the fuck are we supposed to go?!" Verosika questioned as the four went back to the room where all the guests were.
"Earth death in five minutes."
"The metal machine confirms…" Jabe told the other guests as she was holding the robotic spider in her hand and the device in the other. "The spider device has infiltrated the whole of Platform One." The other guests gasp in shock just as the Professor and the others walk in.
"How is that even possible?" Dusty questioned. "All of our private rooms are protected by a coded firewall. Moisturize me, moisturize me." She ordered her two men as they sprayed her just as the Professor took the robotic spider.
"Someone summon the steward." The Moxx of Balhoon suggested.
"I'm afraid the steward is dead." Raffalo informed them, causing them to gasp in shock. "These things overrated the system in his office and put the sun filter down."
"Well, who killed him?" The Moxx of Balhoon asked.
"May I remind you that this whole event was sponsored by the Face of Boe!" Dusty reminded them. "He invited all of us." The Face of Boe shook his head.
"There's an easy way of finding out who did it." The Professor spoke up as he held up the robotic spider. "And that's to find the person who brought their little pets on board. So let's send this one back to its owner." He set it down on the floor as it screwed across and went over to Dusty for a moment. The Professor looked at her for a moment before he saw her gaze was looking at the other side of the room. The robotic spider beeped as it screwed away from her and over to the Meme.
"The Adherents of the Repeated Meme, j'accuse!" Dusty shouted.
"David did say that they ran into them before they were knocked out. Twilight mentioned before the Professor walked up to the Meme.
"That's all very nice and very obvious." He mentioned with a grin. "But if you all stop and think about it…" He then grabbed one of them by the arm when they tried to hit him and ripped it off to reveal it to be a robotic arm. "A Repeated Meme it's just an idea. That's all they are, an idea." He then pulled the wire of the robotic arm as they suddenly fell to the floor. "They were remote control droids, full cover for the real troublemaker in the place."
"So, if they were just the robot grunts, who's the real culprit?" Flash questioned.
"Why don't we ask little Spidey here?" The Professor asked before looking down at the robotic spider. "Go on, go to your real home." He gave it a little shove as it screwed across the floor and back over to Dusty.
"I bet you were the school pet who never got kissed." Dusty mentioned with a look.
"Now it makes sense." Blitzo spoke up with a glare on his face. "I overheard your little conversation with both Daisy and Verosika, both of them insulted you because you're not human. So you had your little robot trying to kill them without letting anyone know it was you."
"Well, you're clever then you look, little imp." Dusty insulted. "At arms!" Her two helpers then aimed their sprayers right at everyone.
"Oh what are they going to do, moisturize us to death?" Blitzo asked with a chuckle.
"With acid." Dusty told him.
"Oh, well, that is good information to know." He said with a nervous chuckle.
But it won't matter because you're too late anyway." Dusty mentioned. "My spiders have control of the Mainframe. You all carried them as gifts, tax-free, past every coded firewall."
"The metal balls your androids gave us." Twilight said with realization.
"I'm not just a pretty face."
"And you're not human if you kill someone and try to kill two of our friends just because they insulted you!" Flash told her with a glare.
"So you sabotage a ship while you're still inside it, does anyone else think that is incredibly stupid?" The Professor questioned with a brow.
"I'd hope to manufacture a hostage situation." Dusty explained. "With myself as one of the victims. The compensation would have been enormous."
"Over five billion years and it still comes down to the money." The Professor said with a look.
"That's why you're doing all of this?!" Twilight questioned her. "You're trying to get richer by sabotaging an entire ship?!"
"Do you really think it's cheap looking like this?" Dusty replied. "Flatness costs a fortune! I am the last human, Professor. Me, not those two, freaky little boy and girl over there, all that insufferable girl with that succubus."
"Arrest her!" The Moxx of Balhoon ordered. "The infidel!"
"Oh shut up, pixie!" Dusty told him with a glare. "I still got my final option."
"Earth death in three minutes."
"And here it comes. You're just as useful dead, all of you!" Dusty told the guests. "I have shares in your rival companies and they'll triple in price as soon as you're all dead. My spiders are primed and ready to destroy the safety system of Platform One. How did that old Earth song go again? 'Burn baby, burn.'"
"But you'll end up burning with us as well." Jabe pointed out.
"Oh I think not." Dusty replied. "I know the use of teleportation is strictly forbidden, but… I'm such a very naughty thing. Spiders, activate!" They felt the whole place rumbling as the sounds of something being short circuited was heard as each spider was being blown up in the vents. "The force fields are gone, with a planet about to explode… At least it'll be quick for all of you. Just like my fifth husband… Bye-bye, I'll be sure to make funerals for your home planets." Soon she and her men teleported away as a computerized voice was alerting them that the heat levels were rising.
"Quickly, reset the computer!" The Moxx of Balhoon called out.
"Only the steward would know how to do that!" Raffalo told him.
"No, we can do it by hand." The Professor spoke up. "Blitzo, Flash, you two are with me. Twilight, Raffalo, you both stay here and make sure everyone in this room stays alive! There must be a system restore switch!" He quickly ran out of the room with both Flash and Blitzo following behind, while Jabe followed them as well.
"What are we going to do?!" Raffalo questioned in a panic while Twilight was looking around the room to figure out a way to survive the sun's rays. She then noticed the large columns in the room and the shadows that they cast.
"The shade, we can use the shade!" She told all of the guests. "They'll keep us away from the sun's rays while also keeping us alive long enough for the Professor to reset the computer! Everyone, find some shade! Share if you have to, but make sure there's enough room for all of us!" Every alien in the room quickly did as she suggested as they quickly went behind some pillars and out of the sun's light.
"Earth death in two minutes. Heat levels critical."
The Professor led Flash and Blitzo into the large area with the walkway and giant fans while a light was flashing red. "Okay, where the fuck is that switch?!" Blitzo asked him just as Jabe caught up to them.
"Three guesses where." The Professor replied as he looked forward across the walkway and passed the giant fans to see the switch that needed to be pulled to reset the computer. "Okay…" He went to the wall behind them and ripped off the panel to reveal a switch before he went to another wall and ripped off another panel to reveal a second switch. "Blitzo, I need you on this switch, Flash on the other." He told them as they did what he said before he went to the third wall and ripped off the panel to reveal a third switch. "Pull!" Each of them flipped the switch and that managed to slow down the fans. But the moment he walked away from the switch, the fans started to speed back up. "Okay, that complicates things."
"External temperature 5,000°." Without even being asked, Jabe quickly grabbed the switch the Professor flipped and flipped it down. The other three saw this and the Professor shook his head.
"You can't do that, the heat's gonna vent through this place." He told her with much concern.
"I already know." She replied.
"Jabe, you're made of wood."
"Then stop wasting time and do it, Time Lord." She told him before he looked at the other two as they nodded. He smiled just as they heard that the heat levels were rising.
Back with Twilight, she got all the aliens to hide in the shade as they saw the shields starting to crack and they prayed that the Professor would hurry.
With the fans slowed down, the Professor timed it right before he quickly moved past the first one before stopping in front of the second. Watching the fans move, he had to wait patiently before moving forward.
Verosika and Daisy had stayed low to the ground as they saw the shields beginning to crack as well and hoped they would survive. But then they saw the sun's rays coming through the cracks as it slowly began to nearly hit them.
The Professor looked back at Jabe with a concerned look before he looked back at the fans and quickly moved forward when he saw an opening. He had only just one more fan to go and not enough time. Blitzo then started to sniff the air as he smelled smoke. "Do you smell something burning?" He asked before they saw Jabe's arm was on fire.
"Professor, Jabe's on fire!" Flash called out as she began to scream in pain before she let go of the lever and they saw her begin to burn to ashes. With the third lever back up, the fans began to speed up again before the Professor looked back at the third and final fan. He knew at its current speed, he would never be able to get past it. He could hear both Flash and Blitzo calling out to him and they heard the computerized voice begin to count down from ten for the Earth's explosion.
He soon tuned out both their voices and the countdown as he had his eyes closed. He then relied on his instincts and remembered the other lives that were at risk before he slowly walked forward. He opened his eyes and saw that he was on the other side of the third fan before he rushed over to the control switch and flipped it down. "Raise the shields!" He shouted.
Soon the shields on Platform One were back online just as the Earth began to burn up by the sun. The Earth soon exploded into millions of pieces by the sun just as everyone on board were relieved that they were alive while they heard the computerized voice saying the exoglass were being repaired.
The Professor walked back to Flash and Blitzo before they looked down at the sizzling ashes of Jabe. Flash and Blitzo saw him clenched his fist at the side of it before they went back to the others.
Twilight and a few of the workers were making sure the guests were okay before both Daisy and Verosika walked into the room. Twilight quickly ran up to them as she gave both of them a comforting hug. "I'm so glad you're okay!" She said with relief before Verosika awkwardly patted her on the head.
"Yeah, we're glad we're not roasted too." She mentioned before they looked around the room just before the Professor, Flash, and Blitzo walked in.
"You did." Twilight told them before the Professor walked past them and went up to the two trees to deliver the bad news. "What happened to Jabe?"
"She… sacrificed herself to help us save everyone here." Flash answered with grief.
"All because that bitch of a trampoline wanted to get rich so she could stay flattened." Blitzo mentioned with a glare.
"So Dusty was behind all of this?" Verosika questioned, not sounding too surprised as she placed a hand on her hip. "I knew there was something I didn't like about her besides her trashing my own father and his music. So where's that bitch so I can give her a piece of my mind?"
"She teleported out of here." Twilight told them just as the Professor walked up to them.
"Are you okay?" Daisy asked him.
"Yeah, I'm just fine." He answered with a look. "And right now, I'm full of ideas. I'm just bursting with 'em! Like idea number one, teleportation through 5,000° needs some kind of feed. Idea number two, this feed must be hidden nearby." He walked over to the fossil egg Dusty had brought before cracking it open to reveal a device inside. "Idea number three, if you're as clever and smart as me then teleportation feed can be reversed." He messed with the device before they heard a familiar voice enter the room.
"Oh, you should have seen their little alien faces…" They heard Dusty say as they saw her materialize in front of them. The moment she saw herself back on Platform One, she knew she was in big trouble. "Oh dear…"
"The last human." The Professor said with a glare at her.
"So, um, you passed my little test." Dusty said with a nervous look. "Bravo! This makes you eligible to join, uh…the Human Clube."
"Save it, we saved this entire place including the people that are on here." Twilight told her with a glare.
"Not all of them." The Professor spoke up. "Two people have died here, you murdered them Dusty."
"Well that depends on your definition of people." Dusty mentioned. "And that's enough technicality to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries."
"I shoot her?" Blitzo asked as he was about to reach into his jacket to pull out his gun before the Professor stopped him.
"Not yet." He told him as they could hear some sort of noise coming off of Dusty.
"You can take me to court, Professor, and watch me smile and cry and flutter."
"And creak?" Verosika asked Dusty with a brow. "Because that's what we're hearing from you right now."
Dusty heard the creaking herself as she began to panic. "I'm drying out! Oh, sweet heavens! Moisturize me, moisturize me!" She pleaded as she was grunting. "Where am I surgeons?! My lovely boys! It's too hot!"
"You're the one who raised the temperature." The Professor reminded her.
"P-Please, have pity!! Moisturize me!! P-Please, Professor!!"
"You have to help her." Daisy told him.
"Everything has its time and everything dies." He said with a look before he looked at Blitzo. "Now you can."
"Finally." Blitzo said as he pulled out his gun and aimed it right at Dusty. "By the way, it's not cool dissing on dead relatives, you trampoline whore." He told her with a dark tone before pulling the trigger and shot her right in the face, which tore the entire skin to pieces. They all got a notification that Platform One will be closing down for maintenance just as they all departed.
The Professor was waiting by the entrance of the room as the rest of the group looked down to where Earth was and only saw rocks floating in space. He went up to them as he could tell they were a bit lost for words by it. "The end of the Earth, right before our eyes." Daisy said with disbelief. "It's really all gone."
"We were all too busy saving ourselves, no one even saw it go." Twilight mentioned. "All those years, all that history, and no one was even looking."
"It's just…" Flash muttered before they looked at the Professor.
"Come with me." He told them before he looked at Blitzo and Verosika. "You two better put on your human disguises."
"I would, but I didn't bring my crystal." Blitzo mentioned before Verosika pulled out her crystal from between her breasts.
"We can both use mine." She mentioned before they all went back to the TARDIS.
The Professor soon took them back to their original time as the two demons were in their human disguises when they walked out of the TARDIS to see a bunch of people minding their own business. He walked out with them as the rest of the group couldn't believe that all this is going to be over in so many years. "You think it'll last forever, people, cars, and concrete." The Professor told them. "But it won't. One day, it'll all be gone. Even the sky." He said as he looked up at the sky. "My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned, like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust now. Before its time even came."
"Was it destroyed during that war you mentioned?" Daisy asked with a sincere tone.
"Yes, there was a war and my people lost." He replied with a look.
"Who were your people fighting against?" Twilight asked him but he didn't reply.
"What about your people?" Flash asked next.
"I'm a Time Lord, the last of the Time Lords to be exact." The Professor told them. "They're all gone and I'm the only survivor. Left traveling on my own cuz there's no one else."
"Boy, do I know how that feels." Blitzo muttered quietly as he knew the feeling.
"But there's us." Daisy mentioned as she gestured to herself in the others.
"You all saw how dangerous it is." He mentioned. "Do any of you want to go home?"
"Well I don't know about them, but I'm not sure myself." Verosika admitted as she rubbed the back of her neck. They each took a moment to think it over as they saw what the Professor goes through but he's all alone with his people gone.
"Uh hey, maybe we can talk about this over some fries?" Blitzo suggested.
"Yeah, that sounds good." The Professor mentioned with a smile. "Let's get some fries. But I should let you know that I don't carry money with me."
"It will be on me." Verosika offered. "Let's go, we've only got five billion years till it's all gone anyway." They couldn't help but chuckle at that remark before they went to have a nice meal together. They can tell that this is only the beginning of what's to come when traveling with the Professor, the last of the Time Lords.
Author's Note
If you are all wondering, this is the watch the Professor is wearing on his wrist: 
