Puppet Who 51-60
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chapter 51 herk (herk227 )
Rose-puppet retreated around the corner and began to speed dial until her fabric hands began to smoke.
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"Romana? This is Rose we need help quickly. The Nesteen conciousness has her minions here too. They are almost as terrible as the floating coat thing."
"Be careful, I encountered them before and could win my brush as a trophy but those plastics are really dangerous, don't let them touch you. I'll come as soon as I sorted out the Leela-puppet washing machine disaster and I was able to get rid of Jack-puppet. At the moment he won't let go off my hand, which makes driving a bit difficult. But I'll be there ASAP, promise."
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"Sarah-Jane? Remember me? It's Rose. Say are you by any chance turned into a puppet? No? As a freshly turned mother of a teenage boy you don't have time for something like that? Well that's a pity - could have used you're help - Nevermind. Say can you give me the cell phone number of one Tegan? Oh thanks , yeah I'm going to have fun without you. Thanks."
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"Tegan? My name's Rose Tyler I'm travelling with the Doctor."
"THE DOCTOR?! This is his fault?! F***** Thi******. I'll******"
"Oh so you are a puppet, too? Seems to be pretty infectious. Me and Ace-puppet are trying to sort this mess out. We could use your help."
"Is he there?" the Australian puppet wanted to know.
"Yes all of him." puppet-Rose chose not to mention that she had lost most of him out of her sight for some time now.
"I'll be there in a few if someone can pick me up. I explicitly told him, that I didn't want to have anything to do with this. He hasn't heard the last of this."
"Just page Romana-puppet in the TARDIS, she'll come and get you."
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"Jo Grant are you a puppet?"
"Normally I would say that's a weird way to start a conversation but under this circumstances... I was just having tea with a young lady named Peri who's on a visit and suddenly we are both all plushie. Say do you travel with..."
"The Doctor, yes. Seems someone named dastardly Zodin brother to the terrible Zodin picked up the Doctor and most of his friends and turned them into puppets. And now we are attacked by B**** dolls!"
"Can we do anything to help?" Jo-puppet was as always eager to help her Doctor.
"Phone Romana, she'll give you a ride."
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"Mel?" Rose-puppet was a bit suspicious if it was a good idea to phone the carrot haired girl but what other choice did she have?
"Hello?" a very squeeky voice answered.
"My name is Rose Tyler, I'm travelling with the Doctor and at the moment I'm a puppet, that is attacked by several hostile plastic dolls. If you are toy-sized, too please come and help."
"I'm here already." Mel-puppet answered next to puppet-Rose. "I wasn't needed in any other fic, so I could drop in on a short notice. What should I do?"
Rose-puppet smiled satisfied when she saw Mel-puppet's clothes, an idea was forming in her mind.
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In the meantime Ace-puppet kept the mini Autons occupied with her Nitro-9 which worked surprisingly well. She had the time of her puppet life.
Four-puppet collected all parts of Nine-puppet and put them in a bundle made out of his scarf. "Never loose your head in a dire situation."
chapter 52 Bily
After all the female puppets had been mustered, the plush army gathered before the ranks of evil Barbie dolls. Why their names were *'d before, no one knows. But now, with their fully lettered names, they were at their most powerful.
"Must destroy everything ugly!" they cried in unison. "The Empire of Pink must rise! All ugliness must die!"
"Why did I agree to this?" asked Peri-puppet, whining as usual. "I wanna go home."
Meanwhile, the Barbie dolls were still chanting.
"Curse the colour blue!" they cried to the heavens. "Pink must overcome all. Pink shall rule."
"Is that all of them?" asked Tegan-puppet.
"Nope," replied Ace. "There's still the Empress."
"The God of all Barbies," said Rose-puppet, grimacing.
Just then, a rather large Barbie doll emerged from behind a very big rock, smiling that evil smile of hers.
"Fabulous!" she cried, her prissy and feminine voice echoing through the pit. "You've got style!"
The puppets frowned in defeat as the light bounced off the Empress's pink dress. This battle would most certainly end in all of them either dying or being ripped apart beyond repair. Both would suck.
"Let's do this," said Ace-puppet, and all of the puppets charged at the Barbie doll ranks.
chapter 53 herk (herk227 )
And then of course chaos emerged...
Tegan went into an one-to-one fight with Air Hostess Barbie.
Fashion Fever Barbie tried to rip the clothes of puppet-Peri and vice versa.
Romana-puppet easily outwitted Nuclear Physicist Barbie. It was really no challenge at all, since Romana's head was stuffed with cotton wool while every Barbie's doll is like we all know completely empty.
Leela-puppet still on a soap high ripped of Island Princess Barbie and went on to fight with Gymkana Barbie.
Jo-puppet had her blue fur coat on and with that and her hair she shocked Red Carpet Barbie into oblivion.
Ace-puppet took out her tinsy-tiny baseball bat and beat the shit out of GI Barbie, who had nothing going for her other than her military clothes.
Nurse Barbie tried to repair the other dolls but was gently knocked out from behind by someone she had considered friendly.
Puppet-Tegan won her fight in the end, because she had the definitive advantage in hair pulling. And Peri-puppet was used to running around half-naked so Fashion Barbies attacks couldn't harm her.
Which left the imperial guard of her pinkness - the twelve princess Barbies and one Gymnastics Barbie.
The moment the puppets attacked and the princess Barbies ran forward as best as their gowns allowed, Gymnastics Barbie began to knock them out from behind, because....
She was of course Rose-puppet in disguise, she had 'borrowed' Mel-puppets clothes and infiltrated the ranks of the enemy. Puppet-Mel wouldn't have been of much use anyway.
In the end puppet-Peri saved the day - She was the only one immune to Empress Barbies bright shining colours, after travelling with The-Coat(-puppet) for all those years.
She ripped of the evil dolls head and ...
chapter 54 ClocketPatch (clocketpatch )
The league of extra-ordinary female puppet companions stood about surveying the damage. Plastic limbs, cotton stuffing, wool, fabric, sculpted torsos, and too-blond nylon hair were strewn about the darkened tunnel as far as the eye could see.
The winners would have been breathing heavily (if puppets breathed that is) their side had won, but there had been losses. The Empress Barbie had critically ripped Peri’s head off during the final battle, and though no one was overly sad about the loss, it did drive home the seriousness of their situation and just how close they had come to failure.
Puppet-Ten crawled out of the nook where he had been hiding.
“Well,” he said, dusting himself off, “Now that I’ve dealt with that threat…”
“Watch it pretty boy,” said puppet-Ace.
The league of extra-ordinary female puppet companions collectively grumbled about the unchanging egotism of the Doctor. The gossiping was finally broken by a annoyed cough from puppet-Ten.
“Moving on,” he said.
To which all of the girls giggled.
“This is serious!” he pouted.
“I agree,” said puppet Romana, “which is why you need all of us to look after you. If the Nesteen consciousness is in on this scheme with Zodin - and we all know how your last episode with the Nesteen went…”
More giggling.
Puppet-Ten was getting fairly pissed by this point. He was surrounded by beautiful puppet women who should have been falling head over heels to snog him. Except they seemed to be laughing about him instead, and, worse, they were competent.
He stalked away muttering something about finding a companion who had the decency to twist their ankle once in a while.
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Meanwhile…
The puppet Master and Zodin were engaged in a cackling contest with Lucy (the metaphorical puppet) as judge.
“Hehehehehehe!!!”
“Mawhahahahaha!!!!”
“The Master wins!”
“No fair! My cackle’s way better. I’d be winning if you hadn’t hypnotised her. We should have an impartial jury.”
“I disagree.”
“Cheater!”
“I resent that.”
“Smelly!”
“Possibly.”
“Lying politician!”
“True.”
“er… Smelly!”
At this point the Master got pissed and pulled out his TCE (aka laser screwdriver) and shrunk puppet Zodin down to the size of a mini-beanie baby.
“Can we go kill the Doctors now?” mini-puppet Zodin squeaked.
The Master cackled.
chapter 55 moonmonkey (moonmonkeylj )
Rose-puppet and Ace-puppet, by now firm friends and allies, were returning triumphantly from the battlefield, when two more girl puppets came rushing up,
“Hey, where’s the fight?” the first one called
“Did we miss it? Oh, no, don’t say we missed it..?”
Rose-puppet and Ace-puppet stopped,
“Sorry girls, it’s all over..”
“Didn’t you get the message?”
The Donna-puppet stamped her little fabric foot,
“Yes! Just now! We were having our monthly PWA meeting and we always switch off our phones, cos once we get going we don’t, we really don’t, like to be interrupted…”
Ace-puppet grinned,
“PWA? What’s that, Puppets With Attitude? Sounds like a laugh….”
“No,” says Martha-puppet, “Puppets who Walked Away…. It’s our support group… Me and Donna-puppet meet up once a month, get completely trollied…”
“And get mad…”
“Which is why when we got your message about a fight….”
“We came right over….”
“Cos when we’re in this state….”
“We’re really, really looking for something to tear to pieces…”
Which is why it was really so unfortunate for the Master-puppet and Zodin-puppet that, with the usual Time Lord co-ordinate mix-up, they chose that very moment to materialise, on that very spot….
chapter 56 herk (herk227 )
"I want to go home." A very tiny puppet voice said.
"You just have to wait to get de-puppified, Adric." Jamie-puppet replied. He was stuck with the little one since no one else had the patience for him.
"I'm not Adric." the little puppet sniffed. "We just switched clothes to play around and that lady in the white dress dropped him off instead of me. And I don't want to get de-puppified, Jamie-sir. That sounds horrifying."
"What?!" Jamie-puppet went into a panic fit. He knew that his kind heart would get him into trouble. Damn those stupid puppet-boys. *What to do, what to do...* "Doctor!"
Six puppet-heads turned his way (since neither coat-puppet nor spooney had a puppet head to turn and were locked away securely in the washing room anyway).
Puppet-Jamie ignored the lot of them and went directly to his Doctor while he dragged the puppet in Adric's clothes behind him.
Only Five-puppet was interested enough to join them. The rest found more interesting things to do, when they realized that seemingly Adric-puppet was involved.
When Jamie-puppet had finished explaining, Two-puppet looked at Not-Adric-puppet. "Why didn't you say something earlier, boy?" he asked in a friendly voice. There was no reason to terrify this harmless puppet any further.
"The Romana-lady wouldn't listen, sir. She talked something about an appointment with 'the girls' and said she was in too much a hurry for details. And when I tried to talk to some of you afterwards, everyone seemed to evade me."
"It's the clothes.", Five-puppet explained apologetically, "No one listens to Adric." He turned to puppet-Two. "We have to bring him home."
Two nodded his agreement. "I don't want to think about the damage that could be done, if Adric is de-puppified in that fellows puppet town."
So Two- and Five-puppet went to the console while Jamie-puppet was left to babysit a very frightened little boy.
Off to Toy Town...
chapter 57 Bily
Back at the battlefield, Martha-puppet and Donna-puppet were just finishing their rather gruesome fight with Master-puppet and Zodin-puppet.
"That's about all there is to it," said Martha, dusting off her jeans in satisfaction. "We're done here."
"I agree," added Donna, smiling. "A job well done."
At this, Ten-puppet stared, mouth agape, at what his companions had done.
"Now, for you, Doctor," said Martha, turning to Ten. But before she could get to him, she was hit over the head with a Barbie leg, and fell to the ground unconscious.
Behind her stood Rose-puppet, holding up the leg triumphantly, her peroxide blonde hair blowing in the breeze.
"Rose!" cried Ten, grinning excitedly. "You saved me!"
"Yep," she replied. "I decided you won the snogging contest. Winner gets to live."
"Oh. So what did you do with my previous self?"
"Oh, you mean Eight? Well, I didn't kill him. That would mean you not existing. I simply stuffed him in the washing machine with that rainbow coat."
At this, Ten's felt line of a mouth curved into a smile.
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Back in the TARDIS laundry room, Eight-puppet was swirling inside the washing machine alongside his past self's brightly coloured coat, cackling the entire time.
chapter 58 Bily
So, after all the events of the day, it was time to be de-puppified. And so the very large puppet TARDIS crew set sail for Zodin's evil lair, which happened to be located in the basement of Henrik's.
But, to their dismay, the lair was gone. It had been blown up.
"NOOOO!" Zodin, now in ten pieces, cried. "MY LAIR! WHO DESTROYED IT?!" Nine-puppet silently cursed himself.
And so the puppets decided to live their lives as puppets, and travel across the stars.
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Two weeks later, Ten-puppet and Rose-puppet got married, and left for their honeymoon on Fabrica 9. Their maid of honour was Ace-puppet, and their best man was the little boy who was originally wearing the blue hat, but was now wearing Adric's clothes.
And the puppets lived happily ever after.
Until they met Fred the pizza delivery boy.
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Meanwhile, in some far-off town in the middle of nowhere, poor Adric-puppet was sitting alone in a strange household, being constantly hugged by strange people, and told how cute he was.
"You are so cute, George," they said. "You're so lovely."
George, eh? He could deal.
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THE END. Well, not really.
chapter 59 moonmonkey (moonmonkeylj )
And back in the laundry room, the spin cycle finished, the beeping started and the washing machine door clicked open….
And out of the little round porthole, there climbed the result of the Eight- / Coat-puppet hot wash.
The colours of the coat might have muted in the hot water, but the charisma hadn’t. The new puppet slowly unfolded himself, gracefully shaking off the last slight dampness that the spin hadn’t quite got rid of.
He flicked back his tousled locks, smoothed down his lovely velvety now tastefully multi-toned coat. He adjusted his silk cravat and his previously optimistic outlook.
Eight-puppet’s looks and charm, Six-puppet’s dark nature and twisted sense of humour.
Evil Eight puppet opened the laundry room door and set off to conquer the universe….
chapter 60 herk (herk227 )
In the console room Five-puppet tried to get Turlough-puppet and Tegan-puppet to stop fighting. He felt like in an episode of 'Beverly puppets 90210'.
"Oh come on Tegan, we destroyed the crystal, Turlough is one of the good puppets again."
"He's still a brat." puppet-Tegan answered, poked her little fabric tongue at Turlough and left the room.
Jack-puppet watched her with interest. "Nice bum for a puppet." he commented.
"I thought you liked my puppet-bum?" puppet-Peri whined in that annoying little voice of hers. Getting her head sewn back on by Rose sadly hadn't helped with it.
"Oh I do sweet-pup." And then he kissed her, because Peri-puppet was real cute (as long as she held her mouth shut).
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In one of the other rooms Martha- and Donna-puppet tried to teach Jo- and Mel- puppet some character. After two weeks Donna was tired of shouting "Grow a spine!" every two hours, but luckily for puppet-Mel and -Jo Martha was more patient. Otherwise the two puppets would have joined the great fabric heap in heaven a long time ago.
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Romana-puppet was in her room, brushing Leela-puppets wild hair. She had found out that a little dose of lavender scented soap kept the addicted puppet nice and tranquil, so now she was easy to handle. (Her brain was on a constant little high nonetheless, so she never grew very coherent).
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Four-puppet sat in his room (the TARDIS had adapted so every puppet had its own room - otherwise the Doctors wouldn't have been very happy).
"Finished" he said.
"Thanks." the newly repaired Nine-puppet said.
"I'm afraid I'm not as talented with a needle as Miss Tyler but, it'll have to do."
"I think it's Mrs. Doctor now." Nine gloomily said. "But don't worry about the stitches, some new scars don't matter."
"I'm perfectly sure young Rose-puppet loves you, too - and me and Eight and.... She's just bright enough to see, that her future lies with the newest model. Imagine the chaos that would've broken out if she'd married you. Than she would've been your wife, and his wife too - automatically." Four-puppet tried to balm the wounded puppet heart.
"Forget about her. I think we've got bigger problems. Somehow everyone seems happy with our puppet version of 'little TARDIS in the prairie'. In the moment we're existing in some kind of knitted pocket of the space-time continuum, but if the strings unravel (which undoubtedly they will) and we're knot - eh not - de-puppified and back in our right time, the whole..."
"Universe will collapse." Four-puppet continued. "You worry too much. Of course we will have to get back to our own time, but all in its own time. There is no immediate need to hurry. Watch at it as a holiday. You don't have any hurry to turn into Ten, have you?"
"Hmm no." Nine-puppet admitted.
"See as long as we're puppets that won't happen, that's great isn't it? So we keep our eyes open - naturally since puppet eyes won't close. And if the chance comes we at least will be ready."
"Maybe we'll find out who is the true master-mind behind this."
"But Zodin confessed..." puppet-Four began.
"He's just a puppet." Nine waved dismissively.
"You mean?"
"Yeah someone..."
"Pulled his strings."
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Ten-puppet and Rose-puppet were enjoying their honey-moon and therefore they won't join our little story again until later - MUCH later.
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And what Two-puppet and Jamie-puppet did in their room is totally left to Clocket-patches imagination ;)
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chapter 51 herk (herk227 )
Rose-puppet retreated around the corner and began to speed dial until her fabric hands began to smoke.
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"Romana? This is Rose we need help quickly. The Nesteen conciousness has her minions here too. They are almost as terrible as the floating coat thing."
"Be careful, I encountered them before and could win my brush as a trophy but those plastics are really dangerous, don't let them touch you. I'll come as soon as I sorted out the Leela-puppet washing machine disaster and I was able to get rid of Jack-puppet. At the moment he won't let go off my hand, which makes driving a bit difficult. But I'll be there ASAP, promise."
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"Sarah-Jane? Remember me? It's Rose. Say are you by any chance turned into a puppet? No? As a freshly turned mother of a teenage boy you don't have time for something like that? Well that's a pity - could have used you're help - Nevermind. Say can you give me the cell phone number of one Tegan? Oh thanks , yeah I'm going to have fun without you. Thanks."
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"Tegan? My name's Rose Tyler I'm travelling with the Doctor."
"THE DOCTOR?! This is his fault?! F***** Thi******. I'll******"
"Oh so you are a puppet, too? Seems to be pretty infectious. Me and Ace-puppet are trying to sort this mess out. We could use your help."
"Is he there?" the Australian puppet wanted to know.
"Yes all of him." puppet-Rose chose not to mention that she had lost most of him out of her sight for some time now.
"I'll be there in a few if someone can pick me up. I explicitly told him, that I didn't want to have anything to do with this. He hasn't heard the last of this."
"Just page Romana-puppet in the TARDIS, she'll come and get you."
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"Jo Grant are you a puppet?"
"Normally I would say that's a weird way to start a conversation but under this circumstances... I was just having tea with a young lady named Peri who's on a visit and suddenly we are both all plushie. Say do you travel with..."
"The Doctor, yes. Seems someone named dastardly Zodin brother to the terrible Zodin picked up the Doctor and most of his friends and turned them into puppets. And now we are attacked by B**** dolls!"
"Can we do anything to help?" Jo-puppet was as always eager to help her Doctor.
"Phone Romana, she'll give you a ride."
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"Mel?" Rose-puppet was a bit suspicious if it was a good idea to phone the carrot haired girl but what other choice did she have?
"Hello?" a very squeeky voice answered.
"My name is Rose Tyler, I'm travelling with the Doctor and at the moment I'm a puppet, that is attacked by several hostile plastic dolls. If you are toy-sized, too please come and help."
"I'm here already." Mel-puppet answered next to puppet-Rose. "I wasn't needed in any other fic, so I could drop in on a short notice. What should I do?"
Rose-puppet smiled satisfied when she saw Mel-puppet's clothes, an idea was forming in her mind.
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In the meantime Ace-puppet kept the mini Autons occupied with her Nitro-9 which worked surprisingly well. She had the time of her puppet life.
Four-puppet collected all parts of Nine-puppet and put them in a bundle made out of his scarf. "Never loose your head in a dire situation."
chapter 52 Bily
After all the female puppets had been mustered, the plush army gathered before the ranks of evil Barbie dolls. Why their names were *'d before, no one knows. But now, with their fully lettered names, they were at their most powerful.
"Must destroy everything ugly!" they cried in unison. "The Empire of Pink must rise! All ugliness must die!"
"Why did I agree to this?" asked Peri-puppet, whining as usual. "I wanna go home."
Meanwhile, the Barbie dolls were still chanting.
"Curse the colour blue!" they cried to the heavens. "Pink must overcome all. Pink shall rule."
"Is that all of them?" asked Tegan-puppet.
"Nope," replied Ace. "There's still the Empress."
"The God of all Barbies," said Rose-puppet, grimacing.
Just then, a rather large Barbie doll emerged from behind a very big rock, smiling that evil smile of hers.
"Fabulous!" she cried, her prissy and feminine voice echoing through the pit. "You've got style!"
The puppets frowned in defeat as the light bounced off the Empress's pink dress. This battle would most certainly end in all of them either dying or being ripped apart beyond repair. Both would suck.
"Let's do this," said Ace-puppet, and all of the puppets charged at the Barbie doll ranks.
chapter 53 herk (herk227 )
And then of course chaos emerged...
Tegan went into an one-to-one fight with Air Hostess Barbie.
Fashion Fever Barbie tried to rip the clothes of puppet-Peri and vice versa.
Romana-puppet easily outwitted Nuclear Physicist Barbie. It was really no challenge at all, since Romana's head was stuffed with cotton wool while every Barbie's doll is like we all know completely empty.
Leela-puppet still on a soap high ripped of Island Princess Barbie and went on to fight with Gymkana Barbie.
Jo-puppet had her blue fur coat on and with that and her hair she shocked Red Carpet Barbie into oblivion.
Ace-puppet took out her tinsy-tiny baseball bat and beat the shit out of GI Barbie, who had nothing going for her other than her military clothes.
Nurse Barbie tried to repair the other dolls but was gently knocked out from behind by someone she had considered friendly.
Puppet-Tegan won her fight in the end, because she had the definitive advantage in hair pulling. And Peri-puppet was used to running around half-naked so Fashion Barbies attacks couldn't harm her.
Which left the imperial guard of her pinkness - the twelve princess Barbies and one Gymnastics Barbie.
The moment the puppets attacked and the princess Barbies ran forward as best as their gowns allowed, Gymnastics Barbie began to knock them out from behind, because....
She was of course Rose-puppet in disguise, she had 'borrowed' Mel-puppets clothes and infiltrated the ranks of the enemy. Puppet-Mel wouldn't have been of much use anyway.
In the end puppet-Peri saved the day - She was the only one immune to Empress Barbies bright shining colours, after travelling with The-Coat(-puppet) for all those years.
She ripped of the evil dolls head and ...
chapter 54 ClocketPatch (clocketpatch )
The league of extra-ordinary female puppet companions stood about surveying the damage. Plastic limbs, cotton stuffing, wool, fabric, sculpted torsos, and too-blond nylon hair were strewn about the darkened tunnel as far as the eye could see.
The winners would have been breathing heavily (if puppets breathed that is) their side had won, but there had been losses. The Empress Barbie had critically ripped Peri’s head off during the final battle, and though no one was overly sad about the loss, it did drive home the seriousness of their situation and just how close they had come to failure.
Puppet-Ten crawled out of the nook where he had been hiding.
“Well,” he said, dusting himself off, “Now that I’ve dealt with that threat…”
“Watch it pretty boy,” said puppet-Ace.
The league of extra-ordinary female puppet companions collectively grumbled about the unchanging egotism of the Doctor. The gossiping was finally broken by a annoyed cough from puppet-Ten.
“Moving on,” he said.
To which all of the girls giggled.
“This is serious!” he pouted.
“I agree,” said puppet Romana, “which is why you need all of us to look after you. If the Nesteen consciousness is in on this scheme with Zodin - and we all know how your last episode with the Nesteen went…”
More giggling.
Puppet-Ten was getting fairly pissed by this point. He was surrounded by beautiful puppet women who should have been falling head over heels to snog him. Except they seemed to be laughing about him instead, and, worse, they were competent.
He stalked away muttering something about finding a companion who had the decency to twist their ankle once in a while.
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Meanwhile…
The puppet Master and Zodin were engaged in a cackling contest with Lucy (the metaphorical puppet) as judge.
“Hehehehehehe!!!”
“Mawhahahahaha!!!!”
“The Master wins!”
“No fair! My cackle’s way better. I’d be winning if you hadn’t hypnotised her. We should have an impartial jury.”
“I disagree.”
“Cheater!”
“I resent that.”
“Smelly!”
“Possibly.”
“Lying politician!”
“True.”
“er… Smelly!”
At this point the Master got pissed and pulled out his TCE (aka laser screwdriver) and shrunk puppet Zodin down to the size of a mini-beanie baby.
“Can we go kill the Doctors now?” mini-puppet Zodin squeaked.
The Master cackled.
chapter 55 moonmonkey (moonmonkeylj )
Rose-puppet and Ace-puppet, by now firm friends and allies, were returning triumphantly from the battlefield, when two more girl puppets came rushing up,
“Hey, where’s the fight?” the first one called
“Did we miss it? Oh, no, don’t say we missed it..?”
Rose-puppet and Ace-puppet stopped,
“Sorry girls, it’s all over..”
“Didn’t you get the message?”
The Donna-puppet stamped her little fabric foot,
“Yes! Just now! We were having our monthly PWA meeting and we always switch off our phones, cos once we get going we don’t, we really don’t, like to be interrupted…”
Ace-puppet grinned,
“PWA? What’s that, Puppets With Attitude? Sounds like a laugh….”
“No,” says Martha-puppet, “Puppets who Walked Away…. It’s our support group… Me and Donna-puppet meet up once a month, get completely trollied…”
“And get mad…”
“Which is why when we got your message about a fight….”
“We came right over….”
“Cos when we’re in this state….”
“We’re really, really looking for something to tear to pieces…”
Which is why it was really so unfortunate for the Master-puppet and Zodin-puppet that, with the usual Time Lord co-ordinate mix-up, they chose that very moment to materialise, on that very spot….
chapter 56 herk (herk227 )
"I want to go home." A very tiny puppet voice said.
"You just have to wait to get de-puppified, Adric." Jamie-puppet replied. He was stuck with the little one since no one else had the patience for him.
"I'm not Adric." the little puppet sniffed. "We just switched clothes to play around and that lady in the white dress dropped him off instead of me. And I don't want to get de-puppified, Jamie-sir. That sounds horrifying."
"What?!" Jamie-puppet went into a panic fit. He knew that his kind heart would get him into trouble. Damn those stupid puppet-boys. *What to do, what to do...* "Doctor!"
Six puppet-heads turned his way (since neither coat-puppet nor spooney had a puppet head to turn and were locked away securely in the washing room anyway).
Puppet-Jamie ignored the lot of them and went directly to his Doctor while he dragged the puppet in Adric's clothes behind him.
Only Five-puppet was interested enough to join them. The rest found more interesting things to do, when they realized that seemingly Adric-puppet was involved.
When Jamie-puppet had finished explaining, Two-puppet looked at Not-Adric-puppet. "Why didn't you say something earlier, boy?" he asked in a friendly voice. There was no reason to terrify this harmless puppet any further.
"The Romana-lady wouldn't listen, sir. She talked something about an appointment with 'the girls' and said she was in too much a hurry for details. And when I tried to talk to some of you afterwards, everyone seemed to evade me."
"It's the clothes.", Five-puppet explained apologetically, "No one listens to Adric." He turned to puppet-Two. "We have to bring him home."
Two nodded his agreement. "I don't want to think about the damage that could be done, if Adric is de-puppified in that fellows puppet town."
So Two- and Five-puppet went to the console while Jamie-puppet was left to babysit a very frightened little boy.
Off to Toy Town...
chapter 57 Bily
Back at the battlefield, Martha-puppet and Donna-puppet were just finishing their rather gruesome fight with Master-puppet and Zodin-puppet.
"That's about all there is to it," said Martha, dusting off her jeans in satisfaction. "We're done here."
"I agree," added Donna, smiling. "A job well done."
At this, Ten-puppet stared, mouth agape, at what his companions had done.
"Now, for you, Doctor," said Martha, turning to Ten. But before she could get to him, she was hit over the head with a Barbie leg, and fell to the ground unconscious.
Behind her stood Rose-puppet, holding up the leg triumphantly, her peroxide blonde hair blowing in the breeze.
"Rose!" cried Ten, grinning excitedly. "You saved me!"
"Yep," she replied. "I decided you won the snogging contest. Winner gets to live."
"Oh. So what did you do with my previous self?"
"Oh, you mean Eight? Well, I didn't kill him. That would mean you not existing. I simply stuffed him in the washing machine with that rainbow coat."
At this, Ten's felt line of a mouth curved into a smile.
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Back in the TARDIS laundry room, Eight-puppet was swirling inside the washing machine alongside his past self's brightly coloured coat, cackling the entire time.
chapter 58 Bily
So, after all the events of the day, it was time to be de-puppified. And so the very large puppet TARDIS crew set sail for Zodin's evil lair, which happened to be located in the basement of Henrik's.
But, to their dismay, the lair was gone. It had been blown up.
"NOOOO!" Zodin, now in ten pieces, cried. "MY LAIR! WHO DESTROYED IT?!" Nine-puppet silently cursed himself.
And so the puppets decided to live their lives as puppets, and travel across the stars.
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Two weeks later, Ten-puppet and Rose-puppet got married, and left for their honeymoon on Fabrica 9. Their maid of honour was Ace-puppet, and their best man was the little boy who was originally wearing the blue hat, but was now wearing Adric's clothes.
And the puppets lived happily ever after.
Until they met Fred the pizza delivery boy.
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Meanwhile, in some far-off town in the middle of nowhere, poor Adric-puppet was sitting alone in a strange household, being constantly hugged by strange people, and told how cute he was.
"You are so cute, George," they said. "You're so lovely."
George, eh? He could deal.
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THE END. Well, not really.
chapter 59 moonmonkey (moonmonkeylj )
And back in the laundry room, the spin cycle finished, the beeping started and the washing machine door clicked open….
And out of the little round porthole, there climbed the result of the Eight- / Coat-puppet hot wash.
The colours of the coat might have muted in the hot water, but the charisma hadn’t. The new puppet slowly unfolded himself, gracefully shaking off the last slight dampness that the spin hadn’t quite got rid of.
He flicked back his tousled locks, smoothed down his lovely velvety now tastefully multi-toned coat. He adjusted his silk cravat and his previously optimistic outlook.
Eight-puppet’s looks and charm, Six-puppet’s dark nature and twisted sense of humour.
Evil Eight puppet opened the laundry room door and set off to conquer the universe….
chapter 60 herk (herk227 )
In the console room Five-puppet tried to get Turlough-puppet and Tegan-puppet to stop fighting. He felt like in an episode of 'Beverly puppets 90210'.
"Oh come on Tegan, we destroyed the crystal, Turlough is one of the good puppets again."
"He's still a brat." puppet-Tegan answered, poked her little fabric tongue at Turlough and left the room.
Jack-puppet watched her with interest. "Nice bum for a puppet." he commented.
"I thought you liked my puppet-bum?" puppet-Peri whined in that annoying little voice of hers. Getting her head sewn back on by Rose sadly hadn't helped with it.
"Oh I do sweet-pup." And then he kissed her, because Peri-puppet was real cute (as long as she held her mouth shut).
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In one of the other rooms Martha- and Donna-puppet tried to teach Jo- and Mel- puppet some character. After two weeks Donna was tired of shouting "Grow a spine!" every two hours, but luckily for puppet-Mel and -Jo Martha was more patient. Otherwise the two puppets would have joined the great fabric heap in heaven a long time ago.
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Romana-puppet was in her room, brushing Leela-puppets wild hair. She had found out that a little dose of lavender scented soap kept the addicted puppet nice and tranquil, so now she was easy to handle. (Her brain was on a constant little high nonetheless, so she never grew very coherent).
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Four-puppet sat in his room (the TARDIS had adapted so every puppet had its own room - otherwise the Doctors wouldn't have been very happy).
"Finished" he said.
"Thanks." the newly repaired Nine-puppet said.
"I'm afraid I'm not as talented with a needle as Miss Tyler but, it'll have to do."
"I think it's Mrs. Doctor now." Nine gloomily said. "But don't worry about the stitches, some new scars don't matter."
"I'm perfectly sure young Rose-puppet loves you, too - and me and Eight and.... She's just bright enough to see, that her future lies with the newest model. Imagine the chaos that would've broken out if she'd married you. Than she would've been your wife, and his wife too - automatically." Four-puppet tried to balm the wounded puppet heart.
"Forget about her. I think we've got bigger problems. Somehow everyone seems happy with our puppet version of 'little TARDIS in the prairie'. In the moment we're existing in some kind of knitted pocket of the space-time continuum, but if the strings unravel (which undoubtedly they will) and we're knot - eh not - de-puppified and back in our right time, the whole..."
"Universe will collapse." Four-puppet continued. "You worry too much. Of course we will have to get back to our own time, but all in its own time. There is no immediate need to hurry. Watch at it as a holiday. You don't have any hurry to turn into Ten, have you?"
"Hmm no." Nine-puppet admitted.
"See as long as we're puppets that won't happen, that's great isn't it? So we keep our eyes open - naturally since puppet eyes won't close. And if the chance comes we at least will be ready."
"Maybe we'll find out who is the true master-mind behind this."
"But Zodin confessed..." puppet-Four began.
"He's just a puppet." Nine waved dismissively.
"You mean?"
"Yeah someone..."
"Pulled his strings."
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Ten-puppet and Rose-puppet were enjoying their honey-moon and therefore they won't join our little story again until later - MUCH later.
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And what Two-puppet and Jamie-puppet did in their room is totally left to Clocket-patches imagination ;)
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