THE SCAVENGER HUNT
Chapter Thirty Six The Rose Cybomat smirked when she heard the cloister bell. "Oh, I'm sorry, am I hurting you?" she said with sickening sweetness. She was standing at the console, the front of her body open and a metal cord plugged into the TARDIS. After subduing it, she decided to drain off the TARDIS's energy into her body so she could become more powerful than she ever dreamed. Now the TARDIS was dying as he power drained into the Cybomat. "I sense you're dying but don't worry, I'll let you live, although I'll drain off enough energy to weaken you and keep you under my control. Then with the rest of the energy, I'll use it to conquer all of time and space." "Thank you, now that I know what you're doing, I can stop you." Rose Cybomat jerked her head around when the Doctor strolled through the back door. "You're damaging my ship, you know," he said. He noticed Rose was staring at the blue bathrobe he was wearing and pointed to it. "Now see, I didn't have time to get properly dressed because of you, I had to run to the wardrobe room and put this on. Bit drafty but beats standing around in the altogether. Anyway, as I was saying, you're hurting my ship and I'd like you to stop it, otherwise we might get this relationship of our started off on the wrong foot." "You can't stop me!" Rose Cybomat said, pointing to the cord. "I have the energy of your ship inside me and I'm more powerful than you'll ever be, you pathetic soppy Time Lord!" "Soppy? You and your friends are the one running around my ship creating weird scenarios involving me and my companions. Having sex and pinching each other bums and boobies and staging weird cooking programs which actually sounded quite amusing. As I told Donna, and I mean the actual Donna, you lot do have imagination. However, I will not having you turn my TARDIS into some sort of perverted porn theater. And I certainly won't let you have my ship's power so unplug that cord before I do it for you." While the Doctor was talking to Rose Cybomat, the others were just inside the back door, standing in the corridor listening to the conversation. Lungwei was resting nearby. They had decided to try to lure the Rose Cybomat to the door so Lungwei could attack her. Donna was nearest the door while Martha stood behind her and Rose stood at the rear. All of them were so intent in listening to the Doctor that they didn't see someone coming up beside Rose. Rose felt a hand on her shoulder and gasped as she turned around. "Easy," the Ninth Doctor said, holding up his hands. "It's only me." Rose was speechless at seeing the former incarnation of the Doctor and she fought the emotions rising within her. Donna came up beside her friend. "Who are you?" Donna said. "I'm the Doctor, who are you?" Nine retorted. "I'm Donna, I'm the Doctor's companion." "No, you're not, I never let you into this TARDIS," Nine said. "Whatever, are you one of the TARDIS robots?" Donna said softly. "I'm the Doctor and yes, this is my TARDIS. What'd ya mean, robot?" he said. "Never mind," Donna said. "Can you sort out what's wrong with the TARDIS so she won't die?" "Dunno, I haven't taken a look at what's going on. I've been dispatching robots and I turned the corner and saw Rose standing here so I thought I'd come over here and make sure she was okay. Are you okay, Rose?" Rose swallowed hard, her eyes misty as she nodded. "Good, so what's going on and why is there a bloody great dragon behind me?" The three companions quickly and quietly explained the situation. Nine nodded and when they were finished, walked past them. He took a quick peek out the door and then he stood ramrod straight and closed his eyes. The companions watched in confusion while he stood there with eyes closed. Then a few moments later, he opened his eyes and took another peek out the door. He looked at the women. "I telepathically told the TARDIS to tell my other self to position this fake Rose so her back is towards the door. And he did it. And by the way, that's what I regenerate into? What the hell happened to my hair, did I get hit by lightening just before I died? Anyway, you lot stay here and mind the dragon so it doesn't leave building sized feces on my floors, I'll sort this out." Before they could say anything else, the Nine robot slipped out the door. Once he was gone, the women took up their positions at the door so they could watch. They watched while Nine crept towards the console while Ten kept Rose Cybomat's back turned and chatted with her so he could keep her distracted. Martha glanced at Rose and saw her wet cheeks. "Hey, you okay?" Martha whispered to her. "Yeah. Just got a bit emotional. He's the first version of the Doctor I traveled with and it took a long time to get used to our Doctor so I still miss him a bit. I'm fine." Martha nodded and patted her on the shoulder. They went back to watching the Nine Robot and noticed he was almost to the console. Rose Cybomat sighed. For the last five minutes, the Doctor had been trying to sweet talk her into surrendering to him and she was getting annoyed. "My patience is wearing thin, Doctor," she finally said, cutting him off in mid sentence. "I'm just saying that you and I could make a terrific team, love," the Doctor said. "Why kill me when you could be partners with the greatest Time Lord in the universe?" Rose Cybomat snorted at that and shook her head. "Your ego is unbelievable," she said to the Doctor. "And yours isn't? You're standing here siphoning all the power of the TARDIS into yourself. Do you know what happened when the real Rose tried to do that? It wasn't pretty," the Doctor said. "Besides, if I'm going to be your slave we might as well make this arrangement work, eh?" "Who said you were going to be my slave? You and your idiot companions are going to die." "Now, now, it doesn't have to come to that. I'm sure we can work something out. After all, you and your friends seem to like sex, right? I mean, you've been running around my TARDIS being perverted so…you and me? I have had many lovers throughout the centuries, everyone from Boudicca who was a bit tense and combative in bed to Cleopatra who had a fetish for snakes to Lizzy the 1st who smelled a bit but incense helped with that and…" He trailed off when he noticed the confused look on Cybomat Rose's face. He smirked at her. "Something wrong, love?" he said sweetly. "The power source, I feel it draining back into the TARDIS," she replied. "Oh really? Wonder why that's happening then," the Doctor said. Rose Cybomat stared at the innocent look on her face. Then her head slowly turned to the right and her eyes bulged when she saw the Nine robot standing on the other side of the console. "Hello," Nine said, giving her a cheerful wave. "While my other self was chatting with you, I noticed that the TARDIS's power seemed to be draining away so I busied myself and fixed it so you didn't have to be pulled away from your conversation." "You!" Rose Cybomat growled at him. "I should have ordered all the TARDIS robots dismantled the moment we got inside here." "Aw, now Rose, is that any way to talk to me?" Nine said. "After all we've been through, you can't even say a polite little hello? And you want to dismantle me? I'm hurt." Suddenly, Nine's face darkened and he moved slowly around the console. "And speaking of being hurt and dismantled," Nine growled at him. "I think it's time for you to land up on the scrap heap."
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