Convergence on Lawndale - Part 13

 

“Which was?” Quinn asked quietly.

 

“Like, I was sensing something,” Stacy answered.

 

“Do you think someone was trying to talk to you?” the Doctor asked.

 

“Probably, but I’m not sure,” Stacy responded. She looked at Quinn. “You don’t think I’m crazy, do you?”

 

“No, Stacy, I don’t think you’re crazy,” Quinn answered. “You wouldn’t believe most of the things I have seen while travelling with the Doctor.”

 

“I can’t say much more,” Stacy said.

 

“We need to tell Kim and others we found her,” Ron said.

 

“Kim?” Stacy asked.

 

“Ron’s friend and also Daria and a robot named Kaelyn,” Quinn answered.

 

“A robot?” Stacy asked.

 

“A long story,” Ron answered.

 

 

Daria, Kim, Kaelyn and Brittany searched the last bathroom. “She has to be in a courtyard somewhere,” Daria said. “I hope the others have found her.”

 

“I think I know where,” Brittany said as she twirled a pigtail.

 

“You do?” Kim asked.

 

“I have seen her there before,” Brittany said.

 

“Why didn’t you say this before?” Daria asked.

 

“You didn’t ask.”

 

“Of course not,” Daria groused. “Lead the way.”

 

 

Stacy was still going over what was happening when Daria, Brittany and two others arrived.

 

“Brittany?” the Doctor asked.

 

“Hi, Doctor,” Brittany said.

 

‘She travels with the Doctor too?’ Stacy wondered briefly.

 

“I see you have got involved in this too,” the Doctor said to Brittany.

 

“Yes. I wanted to help Daria, as well as find out what’s up with Stacy.”

 

“As compassionate as ever,” the Doctor commented.

 

“Thanks,” Brittany said.

 

“So, what now?” Daria asked.

 

“There is something responsible for the portal device and the flicker,” the Doctor said.

 

“But they are unlikely to be the same thing,” Daria said.

 

“Or they might be,” the Doctor said.

 

“Most often it is,” Quinn said. “But that doesn’t mean that’s the case here.”

 

“There’s a portal?” Stacy asked.

 

“Yes,” Quinn answered.

 

“Kim and I came through it,” Ron said.

 

“From a town in Colorado in 2003,” Kim added.

 

“The future?” Stacy asked.

 

“Yes,” Kim answered.

 

 

“So, we have a time portal, which we accidentally activated,” the Doctor said.

 

“And a Time Lord,” Quinn added.

 

“Time Lord?” Kim asked. “Are you alien?”

 

“Yes, I’m a traveller through time and space. As I was saying. We have the portal which connects Lawndale to Middeton through time.”

 

“And myself,” Kaelyn added. “My family may not be responsible for the portal, but given my artificial nature…”

 

“A robot,” the Doctor added.

 

“And whatever is affecting Stacy,” Daria added.

 

“That is also affecting Lawndale’s electricity,” Stacy said.

 

“Are they related, is that what you’re asking?” Peter asked.

 

“It could be someone, or something I have faced before,” the Doctor answered.

 

“That could be anything,” Quinn said, clearly thinking of what she had already faced.

 

“That’s true,” the Doctor considered.

 

 

Daria thought about what Quinn had told her about her travels with the Doctor. The thought of any of the more strange, evil or powerful things being in Lawndale was frightening, She looked at the time. “We’ll have to get back to class soon.”

 

“Don’t remind me,” Stacy said.

 

“We’ll keep investigating Lawndale,” Kim said.

 

“Like, we have enough trouble with our own school,” Ron said.

 

“Ron!” Kim said.

 

“It’s true,” Ron added.

 

“I’ll continuing investigating too.”

 

“Cool, then we can go to the TARDIS, and scan Lawndale again,” the Doctor said. “We should be able to find something about the flicker that the sonic alone can’t.”

 

“Isn’t it still in our back yard?” Daria asked.

 

“Given that your parents are both at work, it shouldn’t be a problem,” the Doctor said.

 

“Then we’ll meet up at the pizza place after school?” Brittany asked.

 

“If there really isn’t a Bauno Nacho, it will have to do,” Ron said.

 

“Sounds like a plan,” Daria said.

 

 

The Doctor, Kaelyn and Team Possible left the school grounds as the bell for the next period rang. “So, your TARDIS is in the Morgendorffers’ backyard?” Kim asked.

 

“It must be small to fit in a back yard,” Ron said.

 

“You’ll see,” the Doctor said.

 

 

Quinn watched Stacy as they headed to class. She seemed like her usual self, but she knew that strange things could affect people. She shook her head, she didn’t want to think of some of the things she had encountered with the Doctor.