The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

The Missing REAL TV Star! Pt. 2

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It was all a blur, by the time Lila's mind caught up to her, she realized that the TARDIS's no longer in the kitchen, not only that, Ben's inside the console room with her!

He's standing by the console with a befuddled look and by the time it caught up to him, Lila's trying everything to rationalize what happened.

"How... what?" Ben's unable to properly speak as he's looking around, seeing the cream-coloured console room as he's processing what happened.

Lila, aggravated, asks angrily him, "Do you muck about where you don't belong?!"

Theodore hates when even if someone goes up to the console without permission, he's fickle when he lets even Lila use it, the fact that Ben used it without permission's already going to drive the aloof giant mad!

Defending himself, Ben stated he didn't touch anything, he swore he heard a phone going off, and went to answer it out of habit, opening the door in the kitchen, where it was coming from, there he found... wherever they're in, now.

Exhaling sharply as he tells her, Lila shook her head as she chewed her inner lip, before telling him, "Yeah fine, you didn't touch it, and yes, it does that. No, it doesn't even have a caller ID half the time."

Lila couldn't hide the fact they're standing in the middle of the console room, not with Ben mingling near the console.

"What... is this...?" Ben wanted answers on what they're standing in and Lila's forced into telling him that they're in the TARDIS, because at this point, hand waving it away's not going to work, and the fact that the TARDIS turned on by itself and took them.

Looking up, Lila called out to Al in an annoyed tone, "What did I tell you about giving us thirty-minute warnings?"

It was an agreement!

Al gives them a thirty-minute warning when they're needed for an adventure, allowing them to prepare beforehand, he couldn't just kidnap them whenever he likes, anymore.

Appearing before her, Al insisted it was an honest mistake, causing Ben to walk over to him, his blue eyes wide.

"Dean Stockwell?" Ben looked at him in awe.

This caused Lila to go, "You know Dean Stockwell?"

Didn't think someone except the gaggle of people to know Dean Stockwell on this side of the pond.

Nodding as he stared at Al confusingly, Ben expressed that they got "Quantum Leap" over here, too.

Well, good to know!

Al tilts his head at Ben before correcting him, "Um, I'm not... I'm not Dean Stockwell. Good eye, though. Good eye."

Staring at him with his blue eyes, Ben inquired why Al's smoking cigarettes, he remembers him smoking cigars, to which the AI tells him that he preferred cigarettes.

"Bad habit," Ben commented on the sight as Al snorted, pointing towards Lila, saying she said similar.

Staring at him, Ben's unable to process what's going on, and Lila asks if Al could take them back to the flat, only frowning when Al said he couldn't.

"Who was calling?" Lila looked at him as he smoked his cigarette.

Puffing smoke as it disappeared into the ether, Al says that he's not sure, but whatever the call was, it's enough to pull him into action.

Groaning, Lila rubbed her throbbing lobe as Ben's aghast that Al won't take them home, but Al says that if they can find the source of the call, maybe they can get somewhere, and go from there.