The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

On Midsomer's Nightmare Pt. 7

If Theodore had a coin every time, he ran his mouth thinking an adventure goes smoothly, he'll have enough coins to mint his own, if not cause economic instabilities along the way.

The shambling man came towards them with his head limp, his eyes hidden behind the darkened glass visor, and the way he shuffled towards them, made him look like a puppet.

"Be a good time for any good ideas," Lila looked up at Theodore for any thoughts as he looked at the shambling man.

Chewing on his inner lip, Theodore admitted he didn't have an idea, other than trying his hand at talking with it.

Looking at him like he's got two heads, Lila breathlessly asked him how that's going to help them and he reminded her that he didn't have anything else coming to mind.

"And what exactly are you going to ask him, how's the weather?" Lila pointedly asked Theodore what he planned to ask the shambling man that evidently's not going to answer.

Shushing her, Theodore inquired if there's ever doubt about his abilities as the Doctor.

"Well, you almost got us killed by the Judumbs when you accidentally insulted their leader," Lila thoughtfully answered of an incident where Theodore's linguistics failed him and made Judoon irate with him so much they almost obliterated the entire block they escaped from.

Shirking in his spot, Theodore replied it wasn't his fault that the language of the Judoon remained complex. It wasn't like they dealt with them on enough occasions that he's able to talk to them confidently. Not to mention that he's doing good in comparison, besides that, nobody's made a handy Judoon translation book for him to skim just in case they run into them during an adventure.

"So, what about the book, David wrote?" Lila inquired what's different about the book David wrote about the Judoon language and Theodore reminded her that it's filled with primary insults.

Not exactly something that they needed, though it'd be nice to toss some insults back at them once a while without risking their lives.

"Fair point," Lila notes that Theodore wasn't wrong, despite their troubles in the past, nothing paled having Judoon chasing them down to the ends of the universe after calling them insult after insult.

Returning to the problem at hand, Theodore took a deep breath and stepped forward, forcing Lila behind him, as he stared down at the lurching man coming towards them at a snail's pace.

"Who are you?" Theodore calls out to the man as he shambled towards them like a zombie without the gurgling groaning noises as zombies known to produce as they lurch in the darkness.

Silently, Lila watched as the man slowly stopped moving, standing in one place, as he seemingly processed the question.

For a little while, he remained this way, before Lila heard a grotesque response, guttural, wet, and inhuman.

"Eh-vee-ree-one," replied the guttural man as his vocal cords sounded rough, like wet metal coils rubbing against each other.

The vagueness in his response confused the two, but Theodore continued and asked him another question, "What happened here?"

Lila caught sight of the man's eyes, as his head lifelessly moved as he answered Theodore's second question, still shadowed by the glass and the muddy hair stuck to his forehead, but Lila sees vacant cloudy eyes with a rough sheen on them.

There's a guttural response, "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaar."

Within seconds, Theodore's mind becomes overwhelmed by an intruding thought that briefly blinded him, when he recovered, he found himself in the hallway, it looked different somehow, but as he searched around, he notices that Lila's nowhere.