“Take this,” The Doctor said urgently, handing Krusty a dark object with a long black handle, “and let’s go catch us a dinosaur!”
“Wow”, krusty thought, “The Doctor’s new body looks amazingly good.”
“NO!” the voice in Krusty’s head blurted, “You cannot think that!”
“What in the hell is this thing?” Krusty asked out loud.
“That is the negative polarity portion of a stasis field generator, basically you’ll have to get on one side of the dinosaur, I’ll get on the other. When we are both in position we push the buttons on top and BAM, we capture the dinosaur in a stasis field and take it back to it’s own time!”
Krusty looked the doctor in his bright smiling eyes. “Right! Let’s do it!”
“Oh my god,” the voice complained “Would you shut up, your talking about a dinosaur, you are going to get us eaten!”
Krusty followed The Doctor as he ran out the door of the TARDIS. They were in a vast field that was dotted with large boulders and hills of stone. The hills were honey combed with caves.
“I can see it, I know it’s there”
“What was that?” The Doctor leaned toward Krusty. “I didn’t quite catch that.”
“I didn’t say anything?” Krusty looked confused.
“I can see it, I just need to find it.”
The Doctor and Krusty turned toward the voice. It issued from an elderly woman who wandered among the rocks, tapping with her cane and searching through the crevices between the stones. She ignored our approach, merely repeating the same phrase over and over while she searched.
“I say, have you seen any large reptiles around here?” The wind carried her reply away from krusty’s ears, but The Doctor looked unhappy with what he heard. The old woman turned an looked at Krusty, revealing her weathered face and dead eyes for only one intense second before returning to her tapping and chanting.
A monstrous roar echoed from the other side of the hill.
“Right, you go that way,” The Doctor pointed around the right of the hill, “and I’ll go the other. When we get the beast cornered we’ll hit the stasis field and be on our way!” They ran off in opposite directions.
On the other side of the hill the dinosaur was waiting. It knew they were coming, and it was set to ambush! Krusty came first, and the dinosaur lept out of hiding and swallowed him whole! He barely had time to scream, but the scream was enough to warn The Doctor who suddenly appeared on a ridge above the dinosaur.
“Right!” Screamed the doctor at the roaring dinosaur, “There’s no help for it now. Open Up and get ready for desert you big bloody beast!” The Doctor leapt head first into the roaring maw of razor sharp teeth!
Something happened inside the dinosaur! There was a visible pulse of energy and the giant beast collapsed with a scream. A second pulse issued forth and the creature convulsed in pain and writhed on the ground in a twitching heap. With the third and final pulse the beast was turned to stone! The Doctor and Krusty were still inside!
Inside a cluttered cave The Doctor and Krusty lay in disheveled piles of themselves, each holding a burnt and smoking piece of the stasis field generator. Somehow there is just enough light in the cave for them to be able to see, they are each breathing quite heavily.
“He is my hero.” Krusty thought to himself, looking with admiration at the man who had just saved his life.
“No!” the voice in Krusty’s head screamed, “you can’t think that!”
“And he smells good too!” Krusty thought, obviously trying to agitate the voice.
“We have to get out of here!” The voice screamed!
“I can see it,” the old lady’s chant was barely audible through the stone, “I know it’s there.”
“Help us!” The voice inside Krusty screamed! “Help us out of here!”
I suddenly realise that I am the voice in Krusty’s head! I am not merely viewing this dream, I am an active participant! I am laying in the cave with Krusty, who is me, and with The Doctor, who looks a lot like I did fifteen years ago, and they’ve known I was there the whole time, but they weren’t acknowledging me because they knew I didn’t know I was there! My mind is a jumble of confusion. I am terrified. I look up toward the wall the old woman’s voice is coming from and I press my forehead hard against it and I scream “Help Us! Help us get out of here!”
I close my eyes and continue to scream. It takes me a minute to realize that with my eyes closed I Can see through the rock, though the vision is only a small circle of surrealistic blurred reality it is in fact real! On the other side of the wall the woman stopped her chant and turns toward me. She taps her way up to the wall and smiles a broken toothed smile.
“There you are.” She puts her forehead on the other side of the stone, directly across from mine, “I’ve got something for you!”
My mind is flooded with images, they come and go to fast for me to see them, I begin screaming again, but the images do not slow down.
After a minute the old lady says something that I do not hear over my own repeating screams for help. She then stands and begins to walk away.
At this point I am awakened by my daughter knocking on my bedroom door…..
I wonder what that all means?
I’ll have to try to analyze it later, I just wanted to get it written before I forgot it…
