Post by Percy Jackson on Sept 9, 2011 17:04:23 GMT -5
(( i love momus & nike together so much that I decided to take their counterparts. For Momus that would be the Doctor of course and Nike...well I created a new character, Nicki Saunders. She's human but has that Nike way about her.
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Chapter One
The Doctor casually walked through the Galactic Amusement Park of Jordan, West Virginia. It was a tiny little town that seemed, over night, to have a jump in tourism. According to the city records the amusement park had only been built three months ago. And while that wasn’t exactly strange, there were a number of missing persons reported since the grand opening at the start of summer. This could be written off as a coincidence but the Doctor wasn’t so sure. The TARDIS had picked up a strange signal that the Doctor had trouble locating exactly except for the park.
Everything appeared normal. The park was full of family and groups of friends enjoying the summer and the space themed roller coasters and games. The Doctor smiled at a few of them almost forgetting that he wasn’t here just on holiday. Spotting a particularly bored looking employee at a tiny booth the Doctor wandered over. The employee--a young woman with dark hair--perked up only slightly upon seeing the Doctor come toward her. She stood up straight and seemed to place a smile on her face out of habit not will.
“Hello sir, can I help you with anything today?” the woman asked as if reading from a monitor.
“Hullo.” the Doctor said. He took out his psychic paper and flashed it in front of her face. “Health and Safety Inspector. You can call me the Doctor. I was wondering if you could tell me, Nicki.” he read off her name badge “have you noticed anything strange around here lately?”
Nicki’s brow furrowed, “Strange?” she looked the Doctor up and down. “You mean besides a man in a trench coat claiming to be from the health and safety department asking me questions? That paper is blank.”
The Doctor blinked. He glanced down at the paper and tried not to look impressed or even concerned. He just smiled and put it back into his pocket. “Oh, so it is. Yes, well I’m just here doing a story for the paper checking up on those disappearances.”
Nicki leaned forward on the counter and observed the Doctor with her calculating bronze colored eyes. “Oh yeah you’re one of those reporters again. First time anyone has asked my opinion about the matter. Where are you from though, England? You sound British. Don’t get me wrong, but how did you end up working in a town like Jordan?”
“I just transferred over from, London yes. It’s a long boring story trust me the details aren’t that great. Now, Nicki could you tell me when the first person went missing?” The Doctor replied. She was a curious one.
Nicki shrugged, “It was before I started working here. I got a job about a month back. From what I heard the first guy vanished opening day. No one knows what happened to him.”
The Doctor nodded, “How many have disappeared since you began working?”
“Three, I think. There were more before that but—hey you’re not gonna tell my boss I spoke to you are you? Cause I really can’t afford to lose this job. It’s gonna end up paying for my school books next semester.”
With a slight sigh and a smile that was growing ever more impatient the Doctor shook his head. “No.”
“Aren’t you a bit hot?” Nicki asked off topic.
“Sorry?”
“Your coat, it’s a bit hot to be wearing that in the heat of July. Especially in West Virginia.”
The Doctor leaned on the counter getting closer to Nicki. “Nicki, please I need you to answer my questions. Have you seen anything strange lately? Anything at all? If you could recall what happened on the day of the disappearances or something.”
Nick stood back and shrugged her shoulders, “It’s an amusement park, you see a lot of strange things but you pass it off. I mean, I think fanny packs are strange and still I count thirty-two people wearing them today so far. Eighty-seven was the highest count about two weeks back. Now tell me, is it strange for a grown man or woman to wear a fanny pack outside of the 1990’s? I think the answer you’re looking for is a big fat yes.”
The Doctor ran his hand through his hair and murmured under his breath, “Blimey this is going to be harder than I thought.” raising his voice again for Nicki to hear he said “I’m talking about strange as in suspicious. Any unusual characters or things?”
“Again, Doctor, I’m staring at the most unusual person I’ve seen to date. I mean really, aren’t you sweating in that thing? What’s it made out of couch upholstery?”
“Nicki-“
The Doctor’s voice was cut short by a loud bang and a collective batch of screams. Smoke rose from the other corner of the park and everyone stopped to stare. The smoke didn’t appear to be coming from a ride.
“What was that?”
But the Doctor was already running toward the explosion. Nicki, without hesitation, went after him.
The Doctor approached the sight where the smoke had been coming from. Crowds of people were being pushed away from the area by security, but the Doctor snuck around. The smoke had stopped by the time he arrived. A twelve-foot fence stood in his way with a great padlock. No problem. The Doctor thought. He took out the sonic screwdriver just as Nicki caught up with him. She stopped, breathing heavily.
“Anyone ever tell you that you run really, really fast?” She tossed her long ponytail out of the way.
The Doctor turned exacerbated. “No, no go back.”
Nicki scoffed. “As if, I’m staying with you, I’m involved now. Besides I want to know what that was. What is that thing?”
“It’s a sonic screwdriver.”
“A sonic what?”
The Doctor was aiming the tool at the padlock. The blue tip of the sonic lit up and hummed. Nothing happened. The Doctor groaned and dropped the heavy padlock from his hand.
“No good. Dead locked sealed.” he was now trying to examine the fence and the best way to scale it. Suspecting that scaling a deadlocked sealed fence would be too easy, the Doctor picked up a small rock and tossed it at the space above the fence. It collided with an invisible barrier and fizzled into dust.
“Right, no way of entering above, or through the front. I’d suggest tunneling but I have a feeling that won’t be very discrete. Better off trying to find the device that can undo the deadlock. Question is, where to start?”
Nicki watched in amazement. “Who are you?”
“I’m the Doctor.”
“You’ve said that before, but what does that mean? Doctor who?”
“I’m a Time Lord, I can travel through time and space. I came here because my ship picked up some kind of signal, and it was coming from this park. And with the missing persons and the not so friendly force field, I can only assume whoever is behind it all is not from this planet.”
Nicki stared. She had heard and comprehended what the Doctor had said but she was having a hard time believing it. The Doctor didn’t exactly have time for her to come to grips with the Universe being larger than she has previously imagined. He held out his hand to her.
“You’re not from Earth?”
“Nope.” the Doctor grinned his hand still waiting for Nicki’s own.
“And aliens are real?”
“Of course they’re real, are you real?” the Doctor said somewhat offended.
Nicki’s face stretched into great big grin. “This. Is. So. Cool!!” she took the Doctor’s hand and squeezed it.
The Doctor, seemingly re-energized by Nicki’s reaction, made a grin to match hers and held onto her hand. “Well then Nicki, since you’re ‘involved’ now shall we go find the source of the force field?”
Nicki beamed, butterflies tossing her stomach into a great mess. She lifted her chin and nodded at the Doctor.
“Hope you can keep up. Allons-y!”