Chapter 3: Smith and Jones

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The Doctor was lying in a hospital bed pretending to be a patient as a doctor and some medical students surrounded the bed.
"Now then, Mister Tyler, a very good morning to you. How are you today?" Said the main doctor.
"Oh, not so bad. Still a bit, you know, blah." The Doctor told him.
"John Tyler, admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains. Jones, why don't you see what you can find? Amaze me." The main doctor asked the medical students.
"That wasn't very clever, running around outside, was it?" Said a pretty dark skinned Doctor,
"Sorry?" The Doctor asked,
"On Chancellor Street this morning? You came up to me and took your tie off." She informed him,
"Really? What did I do that for?" He asked,
"I don't know, you just did."
"Not me. I was here, in bed. Ask the nurses."
"Well, that's weird, cause it looked like you. Have you got a brother?"
"No, not any more. Just me and my daughter,"
"As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary, Miss Jones." The rude main doctor said to her,
"Sorry. Right." The medical student listened to the Doctor's chest, and (of course) heard the two heartbeats. The Doctor winked at her.
"I weep for future generations. Are you having trouble locating the heart, Miss Jones?" The rude Doctor said.
"Er, I don't know. Stomach cramps?" Miss Jones hypothesised.
"That is a symptom, not a diagnosis. And you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patient's chart." The rude Doctor said before getting an electrical shock from the metal clip on the patient chart.
"That happened to me this morning." Miss Jones told the rude Doctor.
"I had the same thing on the door handle." Put in one of the medical students,
"And me, on the lift." Put in another,
"That's only to be expected. There's a thunderstorm moving in and lightning is a form of static electricity, as was first proven by. Anyone?" Asked the rude doctor
"Benjamin Franklin." Answered The Doctor.
"Correct."
"My mate, Ben. That was a day and a half. I got rope burns off that kite, and then I got soaked."
"Quite."
"And then I got electrocuted."
"Moving on. I think perhaps a visit from psychiatric. And next we have..."
Miss Jones and The Doctor exchanged grins as she moved away.

"That's our inheritance she's spending, on fake tan. Tell you what, I'm not that far away, I'll drop by for a sandwich and we can draw up a battle plan." Said a voice from Miss Jones' phone "No, but it's like in cartoons. You know, when a man's got a cloud over his head."
"Yeah, but listen I'll tell you what we'll do." said Miss Jones to her phone she saw the Doctor walk past wearing a dressing gown.
"We tell Dad and Annalise to get there early, about seven thirty, and we tell Leo get there at the same time so we can do all that birthday stuff. We tell Mum to get there for about eight thirty, nine, and that gives me time to have a word with Annalise, and" Miss Jones continued talking into her phone when a medical student called Swales touched Miss Jones' arm.
"What?" She asked,
"The rain."
"It's only rain."
"Martha, have you seen the rain?" Martha's (aka miss jones) sister said through the phone,
"Why's everyone fussing about rain?" Martha asked
"It's going up." Her sister replied, "The rain is going up."
Thunder boomed and lightning flashed, and the building tilted from side to side. Finally it stoped.
"What the hell was that?" Martha asked to no one,
"Are you all right?"Swales asked
"I think so, yeah. It felt like an earthquake, or"
"Martha? It's night. Look. It was lunchtime."
"It's not night."
"But it's got to be. It's dark."
"We're on the moon."
A half Earth hung in the black sky over a cratered surface.
"We can't be." Swales insisted,
"We're on the moon. We're on the bloody moon."
Staff and patients looked out of the windows. The electricity was still working as people switched lights on. Then the people panicked.
"Have you seen?" An old lady asked Martha,
"I'm sorry, I can't. All right now, everyone back to bed, we've got an emergency but we'll sort it out. Don't worry."
The Doctor drew the curtain around his bed as Martha and Swales got to the window.
"It's real. It's really real. Hold on." Martha stated,
Martha reached to open the window.
"Don't! We'll lose all the air,"
"But they're not exactly air tight. If the air was going to get sucked out it would have happened straight away, but it didn't. So how come?"
The Doctor had gotten dressed behind his curtain. "Very good point. Brilliant, in fact. What was your name?" He said
"Martha."
"And it was Jones, wasn't it? Well then, Martha Jones, the question is, how are we still breathing?"
"We can't be." Said Swales
"Obviously we are, so don't waste my time. Martha, what have we got? Is there a balcony on this floor, or a veranda, or..."
"By the patients' lounge, yeah."
"Fancy going out?"
"Okay."
"We might die."
"We might not."
"Good. Come on. Not her, she'd hold us up."
At the Patients' lounge balcony they opened the glass doors and stepped out. Each took a deep breath.
"We've got air. How does that work?" Martha asked,
"Just be glad it does."
"I've got a party tonight. It's my brother's twenty first. My mother's going to be really, really..."
"You okay?"
"Yeah."
"Sure?"
"Yeah."
"Want to go back in?"
"No way. I mean, we could die any minute, but all the same, it's beautiful."
"Do you think?"
"How many people want to go to the moon? And here we are."
"Standing in the Earthlight."
"What do you think happened?"
"What do you think?"
"Extraterrestrial. It's got to be. I don't know, a few years ago that would have sounded mad, but these days? That spaceship flying into Big Ben, Christmas, those Cybermen things. I had a cousin. Adeola. She worked at Canary Wharf. She never came home." (You think you lost someone, important he lost his wife, also your cousin is partly at fault she helped Torchwood)
"I'm sorry."
"Yeah."
"I was there, in the battle."
"I promise you, Mister Tyler, we will find a way out. If we can travel to the moon, then we can travel back. There's got to be a way."
"It's not Tyler. That's not my real name."
"Who are you, then?"
"I'm the Doctor."
"Me too, if I can pass my exams. What is it then, Doctor Tyler?"
"Just the Doctor."
"How do you mean, just the Doctor?" (as in he is referred to as 'The Doctor')
"Just the Doctor."
"What, people call you the Doctor?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'm not. As far as I'm concerned, you've got to earn that title." (He certainly has you silly girl)
Well, I'd better make a start, then. Let's have a look. There must be some sort of..." he threw a ball of the balcony and it bounced back,"Forcefield keeping the air in."
"But if that's like a bubble sealing us in, that means this is the only air we've got. What happens when it runs out?"
"How many people in this hospital?"
"I don't know. A thousand?"
"One thousand people... suffocating."
"Why would anyone do that?"
"Head's up! Ask them yourself." Three massive columnar spaceships passed overhead, then landed nearby. Columns of marching beings came stomping out.
"Aliens. That's aliens. Real, proper aliens."
"Judoon."
In the Hospital reception the Judoon marched towards the hospital.
"What are they doing?" A patient asked
They passed through the forcefield and into the hospital. The people there screamed and ran, hiding behind the chairs in the waiting area. The leader took off his helmet to reveal that he was in fact a two horned rhinoceros. He spoke in his own language.
"Blos so folt do no cro blo cos so ro."
The other Judoon drew their weapons.
"Er, we are citizens of planet Earth. We welcome you in peace." Said Morgenstern, a med student,
The Judoon pushed him against the wall and shone a blue light in his mouth.
"Please don't hurt me. I was just trying to help. I'm sorry, don't hurt me. Please don't hurt me."
The Judoon played a recording of Morgenstern on his blue light device, then plugged it into his armour.
"Language assimilated. Designation Earth English. You will be catalogued."
He shone a blue light onto Morgenstern's forehead.
"Category human."
He marked a cross on Morgenstern's right hand.
"Catalogue all suspects."
The process was repeated on all the people by the other Judoon.

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