Chapter 20

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"HOLY SHIT DUDE!" Exclaimed Bill when they entered the Tardis.

"ITS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE!!"

"Heard that one before" the Doctor smirked, "Ow" Rose elbowed him.

"Uh what did you say your name was?" Asked Ted

"I'm the doctor" said the Doctor

"Doctor who?"

"Just Doctor"

"Okay. Doctor? It's bigger on the inside!!" He exclaimed and the rest of the companions rolled their eyes dramatically.

"Does everyone say that?" Sighed Gerard

"Pretty much" the Doctor chuckled.

Bill and Ted leapt and ran about the Tardis, marvelling at all the complex mechanisms and levers that powered the machine. Ray ran after them, excitedly showing them how everything worked even though he barely knew himself. Mikey and Rose close behind him, grinning at the teenagers' over enthusiastic reactions.

The Doctor was leaning against the back of the door, looking on with an expression Gerard couldn't quite make out. Gerard and Frank stood either side of him.

"What's on your mind Doc?" Asked Frank

The Doctor looked down at him and shrugged "I dunno, still a bit shocked that there's another time lord around, you know?"

"Sure" said Frank, nodding.

Gerard contemplated on this for while.

"Doctor?"

"Hm?"

"Does it ever make you lonely? To think that you're the only one out there"

"I guess" he sighed "I just-"

"DUDES WHAT DOES THIS THING DO?" Bill appeared out of nowhere holding the Doctor's sonic screwdriver

"Christ, you scared the living shit out of me man!" Said Gerard to the teenager

"Oi how did you get that" the Doctor took back the screwdriver and turned it on and off quickly to check that it worked.

"Sorry Doctor!" Called Ray from the other side of the room "I tried to tell him not to touch it!"

Rose and Mikey smothered a fit of giggles and Ray rolled his eyes.

"So uhh, this Rufus fellow..." the Doctor looked questioningly at Bill "Has he told you much about himself?"

Bill's eyebrows crinkled into a frown "Hmm" he murmured "I know he's from the future... I think he said it was like 700 years or something? He said- oh yeah! Me and Ted and those prehistoric babes from England are like uhh... We're like music gods in those time ya know dude? Coz of our bodacious band"

The Doctor gasped, momentarily forgetting about his potential fellow timelord, rufus.

"Of course! Wyld Stallyns! Now that you mention it, that band was the foundation for an entire earth utopia in the late 2600's! Which is... yeah, around 700 years from now! They also did manage to create a type of machine that could access certain Galifreyan time wormholes, until I had to shut it down of course, in the 2700's. But if what you say is true... that means there's still one floating about!"

"I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about but get it I guess" said Frank with a nonchalant shrug.

Bill nodded his head, which might have been in agreement with Frank or with what the Doctor had said. It was hard to tell if he was actually paying attention to either of them.

The Doctor then gave a dramatic sigh and shook his head defeatedly.

"Of course" he said "that would mean that Rufus isn't a time lord"

"I don't understand" said Ray, leaning around the control panel to join in the conversation "are you saying there's other possible ways to time travel without being a time lord? And this Rufus guy is using one?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying Raymond!" Exclaimed the Doctor, jumping up and pointing at the curly haired man.

"It's just Ray" said Ray sheepishly "Also did you say that their..." he hesitated, wondering if he could call the odd cacophony Bill and Ted made with their guitars a band "... music group is the basis of a whole utopia or something?"

Ray shook his head in disbelief, not wanting to offend the teenagers but finding it hard to believe their music could create anything- except for a headache.

"Absolutely!" The Doctor smiled, his disappointment of Rufus not being a time lord all but disappeared.

"Right!" He clapped his hands "What now? Wow another time traveler, even if it isn't a time lord this is still exciting!" He looked around eagerly at them all.

Everyone was silent

Doctor... are you sure you're not disappointed? I mean that Rufus wasn't a time lord" Gerard raised a sympathetic eyebrow at him

"What?" The Doctor laughed, brushing it off "of course not! I shouldn't have been so stupid as to think so anyway!" He looked around for agreement but everyone looked away.

"I wouldn't blame you if you were dude" Bill put an arm on the time lord's shoulder.

"I'm no- what, why would I be? What's the matter with you?" He tried to make himself sound lighthearted but it came out angrier then he intended.

"Jeez sorry man" Bill stepped away

"No no I-" the Doctor shook his head apologetically at Bill "I'm sorry I'm sorry I just-" he put his head in his hands "uggghhh"

"Gerard put his arm gingerly around the time lord.

"This sucks doesn't it"

"Yup"

"Right well!" Said Rose trying to lighten up the mood "Where do we want to go?" She was already flicking and twisting the controls. Mikey stood next to her, his hands by his sides, staring helplessly at the confusing mass of buttons and switches and levers.

Ted spoke up, "Uhhh can we go to the year 69 lol"

"Uhuhuh nah can we go to the year 420" said Bill

"Nah nah what about planet Ligma"

"Whats planet Ligma?"

"Ligma balls!"

"Shut up Ted!"

"Hahahahah"

"SHUT UP TED!"

Rose shrugged "The year 69 sounds good. Doctor, how do I work this thing?

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