Every Star, Every Planet [4/5]
Fandom: Young Justice
Crossover: Doctor Who/Young Justice
Characters: YJ team, 11th Doctor, Amy, Rory, Batman
Summary: It started with a blue box....
Chapter 4: Toh
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“Bats you okay?” Robin looked up at his mentor who had been strangely quiet.
“I am trying to decide if it a good idea to let you and your teammates continue interacting with The Doctor,” Batman explained. He glanced at the Doctor.
“Why? He seems to be a good person,” Robin asked.
“ 'Seems' and 'is' are two different words. I’ve never met him, but there are stories everywhere about him, reaching far back into the past and future, across the galaxies. J’onn has mentioned him at least once. People have given names like The Oncoming Storm, the Destroyer of Worlds, the Bringer of Darkness, and the Lonely God.”
“Titles are titles,” Robin remarked. He shrugged. “People call you the Dark Knight and you are not a bad person. Megan said he’s both Savior and Destroyer. Maybe all those ominous titles are from the people he stopped.”
“You’re taking this remarkably well,” Batman noted.
“Well yeah, he just saved us from a giant six-legged green horse. You telling me he’s the most feared being in the entire universe, well, I had time to adjust already.” Then Robin snorted. “Plus the guy wears a bowtie and wants a fez. I doubt he’s planning to kill us all.”
“Brilliant!” Batman and Robin looked to see the Doctor holding onto a map of the United States of America. He was standing next to the computer and to their surprised, he had hacked his way into it. On the computer screen there were pie charts and graphs displaying.
“What did you find?” Amy asked.
“There have been an increased of blackouts this year,” the Doctor stated. He held the map up.
“That’s not terribly unusual,” Robin said. “We get blackouts every year.”
“Ah ah! But you see, there has been an increase of them in the East area of America within the last week. In fact you had more blackouts across this area then you had in the entire last three years added together,” the Doctor explained.
“What do the blackouts have to do with anything?” Megan asked. She floated over to where the Doctor, Amy and Rory stood. The rest of the team gathered around the three strangers as well.
“Everything,” the Doctor said with a glint in his eye. “As I said earlier, the Noillats are capable of storing electricity. I’m willing to bet that they’re the cause behind the blackouts.”
“What are Noillats?” Batman asked.
“The giant six legged green horse, I told you about,” Robin answered.
“I see,” Batman said with one eyebrow raised.
“There blackouts are across the states,” Kaldur pointed out.
“Are you saying there is more than one giant green horse running around?” Artemis asked. She placed her hands on her hips with an annoyed look on her face.
“Well yes, probably,” the Doctor said. “But they’re not the problem here.”
Superboy frowned. “You just said they were cause behind the blackouts. How can they not be the problem?”
“The problem is their owners.”
“Noillats have owners?” Amy asked.
The Doctor nodded. “Yes. See the Noillats are nothing but wild animals. They can be tamed but due to their electricity most species don’t even want to attempt it, except for one. It’s a small species called Toh. They’re small tiny little creatures that looked like little goblins, complete with tiny little horns. Tohs’ love the Noillats, especially for their electricity. This is because where there is high levels of electricity, there are high levels heat. Tohs feed off heat. It’s their source of food. Without it they starve. There most likely was a Toh hiding in your generator back in Mount Justice.”
“So is there just one Mount Justice? What do we do? Go back there and catch it while trying hard not to be trampled to death by a giant green horse?” Wally asked.
“Well, yes we could do that,” the Doctor started. “But judging from the blackouts, there’s quite a few Tohs that have latched themselves to generators across the country.” He turned at looked at Artemis. “You!” Then he stopped and paused. “Hmm… I haven’t gotten your name yet, terribly sorry. Who are you?”
“Artemis,” she replied, eyebrow quirked.
“Right, Artemis!” the Doctor said with a clap of his hands. “Point me to the generator room.”
Artemis blinked and looked at Batman. The Dark Knight sighed. He supposed it was useless to fight. The stories about The Doctor always held a few patterns. Namely, it was best to just help the Doctor along because he was going to do it anyways.
“Go out the door, turn left, last door on your right will take you down a flight of stairs. Go all the way until you reach the bottom and it’s the first door you come across on,” Batman instructed.
“Excellent!” The Doctor turned and headed out the room. Not wasting a moment, everyone else followed after him. Within a matter of minutes they had reached the generator room.
Slowly the Doctor opened the door and peeked into the room. Behind him the teens and Batman had their weapons out and armed, ready to pounced if need be.
All was quiet.
The Doctor pulled his sonic screwdriver. He pressed a button and began scanning the generator.
“What is he doing?” Kaldur asked, looking at Amy and Rory. They all stood near the entrance, observing the Doctor.
“And what is the device he keeps on using?” Wally asked.
“It’s a sonic screwdriver,” Amy explained. “It has a lot of different functions. He uses it to scan things. I think he’s checking out your generator.”
“AH HA!” the Doctor shouted. He pulled open a panel and reached inside. Out from the generator, he pulled out a small tube device the size of a pencil. “Found it!”
“What is it?” Robin asked.
“This,” the Doctor said, “is an Energy Converter and Transporter. What it basically does is that it takes all the all the heat this generator is going to create and transport it back to their ship.”
“Then why are the Noillats here?” Megan questioned with a frown on her face.
“One of two things, to either increase the output of electricity or restore their own reserves,” the Doctor said. He tilted his head. “Or it’s entirely possible that they’re the mode of transportations and food source for the Toh while they install this thing.”
“Either way, that will put an enormous strain on the generators,” Batman remarked. “Such a strain could result in a cascading failure that could put the entire Northeastern in a blackout, or worse, the entire country.”
“Which is why we’re going to prevent that,” the Doctor said. “You silly humans and your dependency on electricity. I can’t blame you, but always knew one day someone would figure out how to turn it against you.”
They headed back to the library. As they walked into the room, the Doctor announced, “Right! So let’s get on our countermeasures no? Let’s see I need someone to go back to Mount Justice and check that generator for this little beauty and the rest of you to check the as many power plants as possible.” He tilted the tube up the light. “From the looks of it, we only a few hours.”
“What are you going to do?” Amy asked.
The Doctor grinned. “Simple, I’m going to trace back their signal and do some tweaking to their little device here.”
Batman immediately took charge. “Miss Martian, Artemis, you’re both with me. We’ll head back to Mount Justice. Miss Martian, you’re in charge of retrieving the device from the generator. Artemis and I will keep the Noillats distracted. Aqualad, Superboy, and Kid Flash, you three will head toward the nearest power plant. It is located just on the outskirts of DC. Stick together and don’t do anything reckless. Robin stay here and help the Doctor trace back that signal. Understood?”
The teens nodded.
Before they could leave though, a red streak burst into the room. “Bats!” Flash came to a stop in front of the Dark Knight. Then he noticed that there were other people in the room. “Err why are the kids here and who are these people?” he asked pointing at them.
“It’s the Flash,” Rory whispered to Amy.
“You’re such a comic geek,” she teased.
“Yeah but I’m your comic geek.”
“You two need a room,” Artemis sniped. She rolled her eyes at the lovely dovey couple in front of her.
“That man is the Doctor,” Batman said in a nonchalant voice.
Flash looked at the man with the bowtie. The Doctor waved at him. “Him?!” he said in disbelief. “That guy is the Doctor. THE Doctor.” Barry knew all about the stories about the Doctor. It was one of the many files tagged by Batman that everyone in the league needed to read at least once.
Batman nodded.
“Why is he here?!”
“He’s trying to stop an alien invasion. I allowed him the leeway,” Batman said. “Now that you’re here though, you can assist us. Take Kid Flash and check the Northridge Power Plant up in New York. Hit every other power planet you can. You’re looking for a small cylinder tube about the size of a pencil.”
Flash stared at him still in shock. Wally walked over to his uncle and grabbed his hand. “C’mon Flash,” he said. “I’ll explain it on the way there. There isn’t a lot of time.”
“Err… alright.” The two speedsters disappeared.
“We will be back shortly,” Batman said. He shared a look with his protégé.
Robin nodded and waved. “Good luck guys!”
His teammates disappeared into the Zeta Beam. Robin turned to the Doctor. He interlocked his fingers and stretched. “Alright then. Let’s get to work.”
Crossover: Doctor Who/Young Justice
Characters: YJ team, 11th Doctor, Amy, Rory, Batman
Summary: It started with a blue box....
Chapter 4: Toh
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“Bats you okay?” Robin looked up at his mentor who had been strangely quiet.
“I am trying to decide if it a good idea to let you and your teammates continue interacting with The Doctor,” Batman explained. He glanced at the Doctor.
“Why? He seems to be a good person,” Robin asked.
“ 'Seems' and 'is' are two different words. I’ve never met him, but there are stories everywhere about him, reaching far back into the past and future, across the galaxies. J’onn has mentioned him at least once. People have given names like The Oncoming Storm, the Destroyer of Worlds, the Bringer of Darkness, and the Lonely God.”
“Titles are titles,” Robin remarked. He shrugged. “People call you the Dark Knight and you are not a bad person. Megan said he’s both Savior and Destroyer. Maybe all those ominous titles are from the people he stopped.”
“You’re taking this remarkably well,” Batman noted.
“Well yeah, he just saved us from a giant six-legged green horse. You telling me he’s the most feared being in the entire universe, well, I had time to adjust already.” Then Robin snorted. “Plus the guy wears a bowtie and wants a fez. I doubt he’s planning to kill us all.”
“Brilliant!” Batman and Robin looked to see the Doctor holding onto a map of the United States of America. He was standing next to the computer and to their surprised, he had hacked his way into it. On the computer screen there were pie charts and graphs displaying.
“What did you find?” Amy asked.
“There have been an increased of blackouts this year,” the Doctor stated. He held the map up.
“That’s not terribly unusual,” Robin said. “We get blackouts every year.”
“Ah ah! But you see, there has been an increase of them in the East area of America within the last week. In fact you had more blackouts across this area then you had in the entire last three years added together,” the Doctor explained.
“What do the blackouts have to do with anything?” Megan asked. She floated over to where the Doctor, Amy and Rory stood. The rest of the team gathered around the three strangers as well.
“Everything,” the Doctor said with a glint in his eye. “As I said earlier, the Noillats are capable of storing electricity. I’m willing to bet that they’re the cause behind the blackouts.”
“What are Noillats?” Batman asked.
“The giant six legged green horse, I told you about,” Robin answered.
“I see,” Batman said with one eyebrow raised.
“There blackouts are across the states,” Kaldur pointed out.
“Are you saying there is more than one giant green horse running around?” Artemis asked. She placed her hands on her hips with an annoyed look on her face.
“Well yes, probably,” the Doctor said. “But they’re not the problem here.”
Superboy frowned. “You just said they were cause behind the blackouts. How can they not be the problem?”
“The problem is their owners.”
“Noillats have owners?” Amy asked.
The Doctor nodded. “Yes. See the Noillats are nothing but wild animals. They can be tamed but due to their electricity most species don’t even want to attempt it, except for one. It’s a small species called Toh. They’re small tiny little creatures that looked like little goblins, complete with tiny little horns. Tohs’ love the Noillats, especially for their electricity. This is because where there is high levels of electricity, there are high levels heat. Tohs feed off heat. It’s their source of food. Without it they starve. There most likely was a Toh hiding in your generator back in Mount Justice.”
“So is there just one Mount Justice? What do we do? Go back there and catch it while trying hard not to be trampled to death by a giant green horse?” Wally asked.
“Well, yes we could do that,” the Doctor started. “But judging from the blackouts, there’s quite a few Tohs that have latched themselves to generators across the country.” He turned at looked at Artemis. “You!” Then he stopped and paused. “Hmm… I haven’t gotten your name yet, terribly sorry. Who are you?”
“Artemis,” she replied, eyebrow quirked.
“Right, Artemis!” the Doctor said with a clap of his hands. “Point me to the generator room.”
Artemis blinked and looked at Batman. The Dark Knight sighed. He supposed it was useless to fight. The stories about The Doctor always held a few patterns. Namely, it was best to just help the Doctor along because he was going to do it anyways.
“Go out the door, turn left, last door on your right will take you down a flight of stairs. Go all the way until you reach the bottom and it’s the first door you come across on,” Batman instructed.
“Excellent!” The Doctor turned and headed out the room. Not wasting a moment, everyone else followed after him. Within a matter of minutes they had reached the generator room.
Slowly the Doctor opened the door and peeked into the room. Behind him the teens and Batman had their weapons out and armed, ready to pounced if need be.
All was quiet.
The Doctor pulled his sonic screwdriver. He pressed a button and began scanning the generator.
“What is he doing?” Kaldur asked, looking at Amy and Rory. They all stood near the entrance, observing the Doctor.
“And what is the device he keeps on using?” Wally asked.
“It’s a sonic screwdriver,” Amy explained. “It has a lot of different functions. He uses it to scan things. I think he’s checking out your generator.”
“AH HA!” the Doctor shouted. He pulled open a panel and reached inside. Out from the generator, he pulled out a small tube device the size of a pencil. “Found it!”
“What is it?” Robin asked.
“This,” the Doctor said, “is an Energy Converter and Transporter. What it basically does is that it takes all the all the heat this generator is going to create and transport it back to their ship.”
“Then why are the Noillats here?” Megan questioned with a frown on her face.
“One of two things, to either increase the output of electricity or restore their own reserves,” the Doctor said. He tilted his head. “Or it’s entirely possible that they’re the mode of transportations and food source for the Toh while they install this thing.”
“Either way, that will put an enormous strain on the generators,” Batman remarked. “Such a strain could result in a cascading failure that could put the entire Northeastern in a blackout, or worse, the entire country.”
“Which is why we’re going to prevent that,” the Doctor said. “You silly humans and your dependency on electricity. I can’t blame you, but always knew one day someone would figure out how to turn it against you.”
They headed back to the library. As they walked into the room, the Doctor announced, “Right! So let’s get on our countermeasures no? Let’s see I need someone to go back to Mount Justice and check that generator for this little beauty and the rest of you to check the as many power plants as possible.” He tilted the tube up the light. “From the looks of it, we only a few hours.”
“What are you going to do?” Amy asked.
The Doctor grinned. “Simple, I’m going to trace back their signal and do some tweaking to their little device here.”
Batman immediately took charge. “Miss Martian, Artemis, you’re both with me. We’ll head back to Mount Justice. Miss Martian, you’re in charge of retrieving the device from the generator. Artemis and I will keep the Noillats distracted. Aqualad, Superboy, and Kid Flash, you three will head toward the nearest power plant. It is located just on the outskirts of DC. Stick together and don’t do anything reckless. Robin stay here and help the Doctor trace back that signal. Understood?”
The teens nodded.
Before they could leave though, a red streak burst into the room. “Bats!” Flash came to a stop in front of the Dark Knight. Then he noticed that there were other people in the room. “Err why are the kids here and who are these people?” he asked pointing at them.
“It’s the Flash,” Rory whispered to Amy.
“You’re such a comic geek,” she teased.
“Yeah but I’m your comic geek.”
“You two need a room,” Artemis sniped. She rolled her eyes at the lovely dovey couple in front of her.
“That man is the Doctor,” Batman said in a nonchalant voice.
Flash looked at the man with the bowtie. The Doctor waved at him. “Him?!” he said in disbelief. “That guy is the Doctor. THE Doctor.” Barry knew all about the stories about the Doctor. It was one of the many files tagged by Batman that everyone in the league needed to read at least once.
Batman nodded.
“Why is he here?!”
“He’s trying to stop an alien invasion. I allowed him the leeway,” Batman said. “Now that you’re here though, you can assist us. Take Kid Flash and check the Northridge Power Plant up in New York. Hit every other power planet you can. You’re looking for a small cylinder tube about the size of a pencil.”
Flash stared at him still in shock. Wally walked over to his uncle and grabbed his hand. “C’mon Flash,” he said. “I’ll explain it on the way there. There isn’t a lot of time.”
“Err… alright.” The two speedsters disappeared.
“We will be back shortly,” Batman said. He shared a look with his protégé.
Robin nodded and waved. “Good luck guys!”
His teammates disappeared into the Zeta Beam. Robin turned to the Doctor. He interlocked his fingers and stretched. “Alright then. Let’s get to work.”