Doctor Who: Return to Earth

by Dusty Old Qrow

Chapter 4

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"Where the heck is Twilight? She should be back by now!" Spike says, with a mix of irritation and worry in his voice. The Doctor scans the area for her bio-signature, but it seems she's not in withing a two mile radius of the TARDIS. The Doctor keeps trying though, but every time comes up with nothing.

"Either she's gone shopping with a new friend, or Jack's gotten hold of her." The Doctor says, still scanning for her.

"How can you be so sure?" Derpy asks, just outside the open TARDIS doors. The Doctor again scans, but finds nothing. He hits the screen with anger, and sits down in the middle of the floor. "Doctor?" Derpy looks inside to find the Doctor sitting down playing with a Rubik's Cube.

"Hm? Oh! Yes! Twilight. Ripper. Bow tie." The Doctor says as he throws the Cube over his shoulder, unknowingly hitting Spike on the head, who responded with a loud howl of pain. "Sorry! Anyway, if Twilight's been captured by Jack, then we need to hurry. I won't like it if she's one of the un-canonical murders." The Doctor says has he walks out of the TARDIS, locking it when Spike and Derpy are outside with him.

"Okay, here's the plan... We need to come up with a plan." The Doctor says with a serious expression on his face. Derpy just stared at the Time Lord, and Spike let out a chuckle. "What? We do need to come up with a plan." The Doctor says again.

"Uh... We go searching for Twilight?" Derpy says, and the Doctor jumps with excitement.

"Ha ha! That's brilliant! Best plan I've ever heard!"

Derpy has a dumbfounded look on his face. "... Uh... Okaaayyy....."

The Doctor snaps his fingers, and the TARDIS locks itself. "Let's go find the Ripper!"


RRRR!!! RRRR!!! RRRR!!!! RRRR!!!

The Doctor rushes out of the TARDIS with the Sonic Screwdriver glowing and whirring in his hand, the green glow lighting up the dim night of Whitechapel. It had begun to rain, though it was only a drizzle. Spike had tried several times to breath fire and warm up a little, but being a human kid he was unable to.

"We're getting close. Hold on, Twilight!" The Doctor says, with a half-smile on his face, he runs a little faster in the direction the Screwdriver told him. They ran for several minutes, passing a park, a church and a few homeless families. Being nice, the Doctor gave them the leftover money from dinner.

They kept on running, getting ever so closer, when the Screwdriver stopped. "What?!" The Doctor exclaims. It had never done this before, why was it doing this now? "Work, you piece of junk! Work!" The Doctor says in a mix of fright and anger. If the Screwdriver had stopped working, then they couldn't find Twilight.

"Come on! WORK!!" He yells, and throws it against a nearby wall. He sits down on the wet road, and places his head on his knees. Spike walked up to the Screwdriver, and picked it up. He shakes it a little, and it turns on. The Doctor sees the green light, and grabs it from Spike.

He looks form the metal rod to the Human Dragon. "How did you- Spike- What?!" The Doctor looks at Spike for a long while. "There's something different about you, Spike..." The Doctor once again scans for Twilight, and find that's she's just around the corner.

"YES!!! Derpy, Spike, let's go!!!!" The Doctor runs off for Twilight, with Derpy and Spike behind him.

"Something different about me...?" Spike questions. They soon arrive at a nice looking house.  It had a few windows, a patio, all of the basics. The moon in the night sky reflected off the windows. The rain had stopped, and raindrops fell from the edge of the roof.

"According to my Screwdriver, yes."

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