Doctor Who Adventures/The Evil Healer

Kharzel is just an ordinary boy but in the middle of a war anything can happen, especially when the mythical Doctor pays you a visit that will change his life forever.

Story -- Segment 1
The air was thick of black smoke as Kharzel looked around his home planet. It was no longer like home as it had been turned into a war zone. A building further up the city fell as Kharzel stood with his mouth open as he saw the glass and metal rain down from the sky and could hear piercing screams from within the city. His parents were back in the house as they were shouting about probably searching for him.

“Get inside,” his father demanded as Kharzel nodded. He quickly ran back but then one of the drones hovered over him. It had two guns attached to either side of the sockets as it had one large eye which made up the bulk of the size.

“I’m sorry father. I should have stayed inside,” Kharzel felt ticks pricking at his eyes as his father leapt up into the air and grabbed the drone. The drone turned towards his father and fired several shots into his chest as the drone had almost been ripped a part. It quickly fell towards the ground as its eye went out. Much like Kharzel’s father as the boy ran towards him.

“Get the Doctor. Search for him. If you see a blue phone box then you will know it is him. Only he can save us now,” his father spat out some blood as his chest bled in bursts as Kharzel put his hands to his father’s chest and pressed down to try and stop the bleeding.

“I’m sorry,” Kharzel choked up. His mother now looked towards them as she saw the damage done to her husband “I’m sorry mum. Please forgive me.”

“We cannot stay outdoors,” Kharzel’s mother looked towards the ground as she saw something in the sky. Kharzel followed her gave. His father had now become motionless.

“A blue box,” Kharzel was unsure of how to feel as he could see the Doctor that his father had talked about so much. The Doctor looked straight at him and then pointed towards his mother. A drone came towards them as it shot Kharzel’s mother down. Kharzel looked back to the Doctor who had now went back into his blue box. Had the Doctor just ordered the execution of his mother? The only man who could save them was now destroying them, how could this be?

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“We need to get out of here,” the Doctor ran into the TARDIS console as he saw Shalek the only one there. He was eating some chocolate as he looked around himself “don’t eat too much of that. Despite you not being from Earth you still threw up when you ate too much of that.”

“You said we need to get out of here with a sense of panic,” Shalek pointed out as the Doctor sat on a chair looking as relaxed as he could be.

“Not panic. Any time is fine. Just some sort of outside threat that could trap the TARDIS in the void forever and make us never return to our home planets,” the Doctor tried as Shalek suddenly understood this as he put the chocolate down and went down the corridor of the TARDIS.

“We have to get out of here or we will all be trapped and will always have to see each other. You guys are great but I cannot tolerate you for more than a few days. Perhaps hours or when you are together it is minutes,” Shalek wondered off as Alfie and Alice got up and towards the console area. The Doctor already had the TARDIS door open as the others quickly ran through it. The Doctor looked out towards the three. He stayed within the TARDIS.

“Are you coming out then?” Alice asked “or is the Doctor going to be a bit over protective off his box when by the sounds off it something big is happening.” The Doctor then shut the door with himself still inside it as his three companions started hitting the front TARDIS door.

“Let us back in,” Alfie shouted as he grabbed Shalek’s sword from his side and hit the TARDIS with it. The Doctor then walked away from the door as he went towards the console area. He then flicked some switches and pressed some buttons as he could see the silhouettes of his companions. The TARDIS then disappeared as it went back into the time vortex. The Doctor stood at the console unsure of how to react as the TARDIS then jolted as it began spinning violently. The Doctor looked back to his sensors on the TARDIS as a wormhole appeared in front of him.

“Get away,” the Doctor shouted into the screen as a fuzzy face was beginning to flash on it. The TARDIS then went through the wormhole as it crashed to the ground. The Doctor tried to move the TARDIS but something was preventing him from doing so.

“Did you really think leaving me to die would achieve anything?” A deep voice asked as a ripped off black face appeared onto the screen. The Doctor had already figured out who it was.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Kelprin. I should have made sure you did instantly,” the Doctor said as he looked out of the windows where he could see all blue. He then went towards the doors.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Go out of your doors. Something is coming for you,” Kelprin began chuckling loudly as the Doctor could hear a loud growl from within the TARDIS. He then opened the TARDIS doors and went outside as awaiting him was nothing as he began falling from the skies which were the blue he had seen earlier. The TARDIS was hovering in the air. The Doctor pulled out the sonic screwdriver as he pointed it towards the TARDIS as a worm hole was starting to form below him.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Stupid Kelprin. Using yourself to try to bring me out of the TARDIS and my sonic screwdriver still has your print on it so I can use your own ability to my gains,” the Doctor fell through the worm hole that he had formed as he crashed into another world hitting the ground hard but at least it was soft. It was a desert planet and the Doctor tried to form another worm hole but couldn’t as Kelprin was not within range for the Doctor to be able to use his abilities. The Doctor walked around as he wondered where he could be. He was breathing hard which at least proved that there was air on the planet. The sand flew in the air as it began to form a figure. It was a female as she smiled whilst still only a sand structure.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Hello Doctor,” Lydia revealed herself as she became fully formed. A gun was in her right hand as she held it up towards the Doctor. She slid the bottom out as the bullets fell the ground. Lydia then turned back to sand and disappeared back into the desert. The Doctor picked up the gun and bullets that were now on the floor. He reloaded the gun and could see little bits of sand moving about. A figure then appeared again as the Doctor shot at it twice. Lydia then full formed into her Time Lady form as the Doctor put two bullets into her head. Except he didn’t as they went straight through her as holes formed in her head revealing her insides to be sand.

<p class="MsoNormal">“How are you doing this? Have you become some sort of sand woman? Could be a terrific sand castle,” the Doctor chuckled as Lydia did not return the chuckle. Sand then started to spin around the Doctor as he tried to run through it but the sand blocked his eye as he bounced off it like it was sides of a trampoline. There had now become a mini hurricane of sand which formed around the Doctor as he covered his face. The sand began to rip his face a part as the Doctor tried to cover it but the sand batted his arms to his side as his skin began to burn.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Kharzel had now grown up. In his late twenties and a promising career as a thief and a reputation across the galaxy. He had started it out during childhood after his parents had died, his house had been almost completely destroyed by the robots that had invaded his home planet. He had been fighting the robots for years but had never gotten far as the robots would usually take off and leave. His robbing abilities were the only way he could eat and live and this is what he had to tell himself every day. He had once told someone about how the Doctor ordered the execution of his parents but had been laughed off by his then best friend Miles who subsequently had most of his possessions stolen from his home and even his cash card which was sold to a gambler.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I hate that gambler that stole my card. Now I have to travel with you around the galaxy,” Miles was sitting on top a hill looking down on a city that was wide awake at night. This was because it never want dark on this planet but on this occasion the sky was purple which was the darkest the planet had been for several centuries.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Gammoskam is a wonderful planet. Never dark and the easiest place to rob because they all leave their doors open and tonight is when they will learn that this was a mistake,” Kharzel chuckled as he looked down at the people who were going around the nightclubs which were called lightclubs on this planet due to the rareness of it actually being even remotely dark.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Wait a minute. It’s been a year since I was robbed and around that time I laughed in your face about the Doctor apparently making the order to execute your family and my stuff gets stolen only a few days after,” Miles turned to Kharzel who was chuckling at this “my robber friend is laughing in his best and only friend’s face.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“How has it taken you over a year to figure this out?” Kharzel laughed loudly as Miles suddenly viewed the city below as one of hopelessness “and our other friends were all destroyed by those robots. You were living off your parent’s inheritance so consider me your blessing in disguise.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“So you are going to act like some sort of Saint who happened to rob me of all my wealth and possessions. You are not the Earth’s Jesus you have no right,” Miles spat to the ground as he got up and went into his bag and grabbed his gun and pointed it towards Kharzel.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Technically Jesus made his disciples give away their wealth so that is one terrible comparison. Could you please put the gun down as looking down the barrel is giving me a mild headache,” Kharzel pointed out as Miles hand began to shake violently. He then pulled the trigger but nothing came out as he looked at the ammunition slot on the gun which was empty. Kharzel held up the ammunition slot “that is very disconcerting. My friend really wants me dead. Luckily I am always a step ahead.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Shut up,” Miles shouted as he chucked the gun towards the ground. Kharzel quickly scooped up the gun and put the ammunition case back in. He then put the gun back into his pocket.

<p class="MsoNormal">“We have a restaurant to rob from,” Kharzel got up and began walking down the hill; towards the city as Miles grudgingly followed him.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Give me the gun,” Miles ordered as he held a hand out. Kharzel hesitated as he tried to read what his friend was up to as he went into his pocket and handed him the gun “and the ammunition case,” Miles remembered to check this time.

<p class="MsoNormal">“As long as you do not pull the trigger at me again. We could be very wealthy after this spree. Much more wealthy than you ever were before,” Kharzel handed the ammunition case over as Miles nodded in agreement.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Fine. But if you try anything similar I will have to kill you,” Miles warned which prompted a slight nod from Kharzel. They walked down the hill and then entered the city with buildings that spiralled in multiple directions and hundreds of young people walking around, often drunk from all the lightclubs.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Understand. Brain will go splat if I steal your non-existent inheritance,” Kharzel brought out a knife from his pocket as he fiddled with the blade making sure the angle was just right for what he was about to do. They pushed past many young people who were often shouting in a slurred fashion “the youth really do not know how to hold their drink. It turns them into baby Giraffes with all the staggering around.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“We are only in our late twenties and you are talking as if we are the old ones here,” Miles looked around as he could not see anyone within a few years of his age.

<p class="MsoNormal">“In this place we are the old ones here. Gammoskam has three different universities within a mile of each other it is a miracle that everything has not been smashed to pieces,” Kharzel saw the restaurant that he wanted to take the money from. There had been small lines at the Café Rossu due to one customer finding a worm in his coffee although the owner Rossu repeatedly claimed that it was a new species of worm that formed from the special coffee beans that he used but in actuality it was a bored working trying to see if anyone would noticed, the worker was sacked soon after.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Café Rossu. A posh upmarket place with hardly anyone going in the past week but contacts say that there is plenty of money in the tills,” Miles remembered from what Kharzel had told him a few weeks ago.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I was the one who told you that. You don’t need to tell the genius the plan,” Kharzel opened the front door as Rossu quickly walked up to them. He was a small green alien with four arms and a chef’s outfit on. He had liked Earth tradition and used it as the basis for his restaurant.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Welcome to the wonderful restaurant of Café Rossu with rave reviews from all critics and the best Human based restaurant that can be found on Gammoskam,” Rossu then showed them towards a table. There were only three others in the restaurant which was made to fit 50 people and would usually be full with reservations taking weeks to get and if you were lucky you could be able to book the restaurant for a year in advance but now it was a near ghost town.

<p class="MsoNormal">“That man has a very similar face,” Kharzel looked towards a man who had blood slowly going out of him. He had scratch marks all over his body as his clothes were slightly worn out “and he has sand in his hair. Very beach like in a restaurant that serves worms and slugs.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“We do not serve those it was just a new type of slug that forms in the coffee beans that we get shipped in from another planet,” Rossu tried to explain as he looked towards Kharzel in a hateful manner.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know that someone put a slug in there,” Kharzel chuckled as Rossu stopped wiping a table and looked up which for him meant bending his neck to some degree. His four arms were now crossed together as his green appearance made him look like the opposite of what the Hulk was supposed to be like “because I was the one who put it in there.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Really? I must tell you to leave the restaurant and call a few off my contacts to get payback for all this lost business that you have caused me over the past week. Everyone is cancelling their reservations,” Rossu shouted as he began walking towards Kharzel who put a hand out.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Not really. But you did just admit that you know that someone put the bug in there. Now give me all the cash from the cash machine or I will tell everyone. This whole conversation has been recorded and could completely destroy your business,” Kharzel pointed out as Rossu went to the till and opened it. Miles had the gun trained on Rossu. Kharzel looked to the man with all the scratches and suddenly recognised him “pass me the gun Miles.” Miles looked around making sure the wallpaper of the restaurant which was currently showing a live feed off the restaurant was still working. This made sure no one could see into or out of the restaurant.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why? You do know I can shoot,” Miles added a little bit of an acidic edge to this as Kharzel was completely serious as Miles reluctantly handed the weapon over. Kharzel pointed the gun at the man who looked up in mild amusement.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Can I help you?” The man asked as Kharzel was breathing heavily. He checked the ammunition slot and put it out and put another in.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I swapped the ammunition slots for an empty one,” Kharzel looked over his shoulder as he said this “and yes you can help me. You are the killer of my parents and call yourself the Doctor,” with that Kharzel pulled the trigger multiple times towards the Doctor.

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