Child of Nowhere

Rose and Terra

The sun had set, and I was ready.

The month had gone by slowly, almost like my first month of college. I had all of my gear together for my travels, and I was so proud. Stuffed into my bag at the ready was; food and water in case of emergency, extra blankets, a new lantern, my wallet, my phone, my portable phone charger, my HP, laptop charger, spare clothes, and my bow staff.

You're probably wondering how I can carry all of that in my bag and not keel over. My bag is actually an Infinity Bag, given to me by a the grandmother from Halloweentown. It looked a lot like a normal tan messenger bag, but it was bigger on the inside. Okay, I use the term normal loosely. On the flap I had put a large number of buttons on it, each representing a place I jumped to.

It was awesome. Most of the buttons had the show's funniest quote, or most iconic thing. Psych had a white logo for the show over a green pineapple silhouette, Criminal Minds had TEAM REID in block red letters, and there were too many Disney movies to mention. I loved it, and I took it with me everywhere.

The bag had been slung over my shoulder. It was there so much it had almost become a part of my body. Maybe I had become used to the weight, or maybe it was the magic keeping it that way, but it felt light.

I stood in front of Henricks Department Store, surveying the building as various people left the store for the night. By the doors, I saw a security guard give Rose a plastic bag. I almost nodded as the show went on as normal. It gave me time to set up to the bomb.

Most people think that when you break into a building, you have to walk in the front door and avoid alarms. That's just one way of doing it, and I liked a little variety in my break-ins.

I walked up to the side of the building, hidden by the dark of night and the deep alleway. There was a firescape on the side, I noticed in on my visit here. It was low tech, and simple. Perfect, as I did not want to waste time hacking into the mainframe to disable the alarms. That might leave a footprint for the police to follow, and that required a second person so that they could maintain the alarm system. My job needed complete focus, and not walking around with an HP.

The firescape was easy enough to climb. I was on the roof before I knew it. There was a relay signal stuck to the roof, with tech way too complex for humans. I smirked, shaking my head at the aliens. They definitely had plastic for brains.

I ran to the side, pulling my make-shift bomb from my bag. It should be easy to hook up, maybe some difficulty. I had made multiple test versions of this bomb, each one worked as planned, but I had lived in enough cartoons to know that it could go wrong at any moment.

Meaning, I had to work fast.

The whole setup took maybe three minutes, sticking the various wires and things to the strange alien tech.

I stuck the last of the explosives, and got ready to set the timer to blow. This was why I used a lot of clocks, they made for the best timers.

The door nearby burst open, revealing the Ninth Doctor. I turned to him, seeing him for the first time in real life.

He was tall, maybe half a foot taller than me. I was 5'7, so that made him about 6 feet. He had cropped brown hair on his head, making his ears stick out. His nose was no better. He had bright blue eyes. You could see the age in them, all nine hundred years.

He was wearing the maroon shirt, I liked that one more than the green one. The leather jacket was a bit tattered though only by a few years, the same for his baggy jeans and black boots.

Ninth had to be my second favorite Doctor. Come on, how do you hate a guy with ears like Dumbo?

"What are you doing here?" He asked me, sounding a bit angry. That shook me out of my fan girl moment. "You need to get out!" He pointed out the door.