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This, decided Fred, was probably all just a hallucination, so he might
as well go along with it. He let his putative sister lead him over to the
two women sitting at a bar. Not surprisingly, they were both beautiful,
and both identical in appearance although one was wearing flashier
clothing. Next to them was a more normal-looking woman with
brown hair.
"Who's this?" asked the brunette. "I think I vaguely remember him from that author meeting..." "That's Lord Fred," said the redhead on the left. "Oh, right," said the brunette. "I'm sorry, it's just I haven't written an episode with him in ages. I'm Betty and these are Ragan"-- pointing to the one on the right, next to her "and Melissa, the Twins of Doom." "Episode?" said Fred, confounded. "And are you two the same person?" "No," said Ragan. "But I am sort of the same person as Betty. Don't ask. Anyway, we need you to help us fight the Daleks." "I remember the woman who called herself Astra telling me about them. She said that they were going to destroy the Earth. What are they?" "The Daleks are a race of very dangerous alien conquerors," explained Melissa. "And they're not actually going to destroy Earth after all. We thought that when they first appeared here, but they're really just humanized Daleks who are trying to steal our beer." "Humanized Daleks?" "Some time ago, the Doctor tried to cure the Daleks of their evil by inducing 'the human factor'--what separates humans from Daleks," said Ragan. "But in some cases, it kind of backfired. Some of the Daleks became overcome by their passions and started acting like alien frat boys. For centuries, bands of them have been traveling throughout the multiverse, crashing parties and stealing beer. One of these bands arrived here a few hours ago. They stole our beer-- we have lots of beer, because some of our guests are dwarves--and barricaded themselves in a nearby cave chamber. We need your help to get our beer back. We're especially worried that they might try to crash the party later on. We've got kareoke, and I'm sure you don't want to hear drunken Daleks singing kareoke." Fred didn't really know what a Dalek was in the first place, or even what kareoke was (some sort of mystical rite perhaps?) but he knew this meant a chance to get out of this cave, and he was very glad of that.
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