The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

The Lady & the Giant Pt. 10

Feeling like he's in a black comedy where he's laying traps trying to stop a murderer from successfully ripping him a new one, Theodore wished he only had to deal with the Wet Bandits, at least they're manageable, and they're not dangerous compared to Annika.

Dealing with them would've gone better, Theodore thinks, they're just bumbling idiots, nothing more, easily dealt with.

Annika, however, not so much, and she's already on a warpath, tearing up every room she gets into, looking for Jimmy.

Furniture turned into splinters, bottles shattering into pieces, liquid of different colours splashed against the wooden floors and the navy-blue walls. She torn apart every room she's able to get into, looking for Jimmy, and her immense strength caused her to tear open walls with her own bare hands, rather than open the doors.

Doors torn off the hinges, thrown into walls, causing holes, as she's tearing through the floor looking for Jimmy.

Theodore's in the master bedroom, near the last trap, he's prepared for Annika tearing through the door at any point, and as he's hearing the commotion outside the door, he plots his escape.

There's no tears or rifts for him to use, haven't felt their presence at all in this time, so he prepared one that'll simply disperse the moment he's done.

No harm, no foul, no chances of it reopening long after the

When in doubt, risk going into a negative zone, and that's what Theodore planned.

If all fails, at least he'll die instantaneously once the negative zone collapses, compared to what Annika planned for Jimmy, but she'll do to Theodore once she finds out he's behind the traps.

He reached out to Lila, she didn't respond for a few minutes, but when she did, she's panicking, saying that Annika's coming down the stairs.

"What?" Theodore's confused as he stated that he heard her practically outside the master bedroom, she should've broken through by now, but Lila informed him otherwise.

Alerted, Theodore asks where Lila and the others were, and Lila says she and Kira hid with Jimmy behind one of the hidden rooms.

There's a passage leading to the outside, but it's behind the walls, and they don't want to move without alerting Annika.

Chewing on his inner lip, Theodore reached out to Al, asking him what's his status, and he replied that he'd taken the painting as asked.

"Al, can you reach them?" Theodore quickly asks him, before he answered he could, but that'd leave little wiggle room for rescuing Theodore without risking his conductor coils burning out further.

After that, he's only got one match for getting them home.

Thinking, Theodore told him that he wanted Lila and the other two out of the house, he'll figure out another way getting out, but he couldn't risk Annika finding them.

"What're you doing?" Al worryingly asked Theodore his plans as the aloof giant's rapidly thinking about what his options before he said that he's going to do something completely stupid.

Al inquired with worry in his voice, "Oh no, you're going to do what your old man did, aren't you?"

Thinking on his feet, throwing plans together when they fall apart, change everything out when they don't work, glue them together if he must, he'll have a plan worked out.

"Al, have a little faith in me, would you?" Theodore asks for the time machine's confidence in him, but Al said that it's in his nature worrying about him, his father would've had his neck if he let his son end up dead.