Jack Bond was walking down the main shopping street on a visit to his old hometown when
he saw, and heard, several shoppers run screaming out of the town's small supermarket. He
managed to catch the arm of one as he ran past, and asked what was going on.
"Monsters! Monsters in the store!" the man cried, as he torn his arm free of
Jack's grasp and ran, still screaming up the road toward the police station.
'Monsters, how silly,' Jack thought, 'still, might be worth a look, just in case it's
something that my department should be aware of. Probably just a publicity stunt, though.'
He approached the now silent store and glanced in the window. Everyone had cleared the
area around the stores, and even the adjoining shops had emptied. He pulled his head back
and thought about what he had glimpsed. 'Empty aisles, scattered shopping bags, hmmm, at
least one turned over set of shelving. Maybe not just a publicity stunt. One more
look...oh boy, a young woman (hmm, nice dress) and a man trapped inside and, oh shit!
Monsters!'
Again, he pulled his head back and braced himself on the wall beside the open door. He
pulled his Beretta pistol from its holster, checked the slide and made sure the safety was
off, then dived in through the doorway, rolling until he was hidden by one of the
displays.
"Get out, young man, we can handle this!" hissed the man with the ridiculous
long scarf. He did look familiar, though.
"What? No, it's all right, I'm with the, err, police," Jack whispered back.
"Hmm, with a gun like that, of course you are!" he returned.
Jack crouch-walked nearer to the strange couple, wow, was she ever beautiful, and
familiar, too!

"What's going on? What on Earth are those creatures? They look like, well, trolls
with weird guns!" Jack asked, keeping one eye on the creatures further in the store.
"Actually, they are like nothing on Earth, they're from a distant planet, and are
called Ogrons. They're quite stupid and slow, but are killers. Unfortunately, they are too
stupid to have gotten here by themselves. It's their masters we're here to deal with.
Romana and I, I'm the Doctor, by the way, we are going to..."
Jack interrupted him. "No you're not, this is all a publicity stunt, isn't it?
You're Tom Baker, and she's Mary Tamm! I remember now, I used to watch your show as a
kid...I thought you'd be taller."
"What? No, I AM the Doctor." He turned to Romana then. "Who's Tom
Baker?" he asked, puzzled.
The pretty woman just shrugged her shapely shoulders, then grabbed Jack as he started
to stand. "Don't be more stupid than you look; if the Ogron sees you, you'll be
dead!" she said.
Just then, a couple of local policemen stepped into the front of the store.
"What's goin' on 'ere then?" one said to the group, as the other marched up the
store toward the troll-like figures.
"Get down, you fool!" snapped the woman.
"Now, listen 'ere, missie," he started to say, when a scream came from his
colleague.
Everyone looked over to see the policeman lit up by an energy beam from the troll's
gun. He writhed and screamed for a few moments longer, then seemed to be eaten away from
the inside out, and finally disappeared with an audible 'POP'. All that was left of him
was the smell of burnt meat in the air.
"Oh, my gawd!" the standing policeman said, as he saw his friend disintegrate
just before Romana pulled him down. Jack realized that perhaps this was real, but it
couldn't be, could it?
"Come on," the Doctor said, "we need to find where they're coming
through."
He and the woman set off for the back of the store, keeping low and at least one aisle
between themselves and the Ogrons. Jack paused to show the policeman his ID card; one
glimpse of the MI5 logo gave him command of the situation.
"You go get help, seal off the building and tell your Inspector to call Division
for armed support. Tell them those things who killed your friend are apparently called
Ogrons, but they have bosses. I'm going to back those two up. We MUST find out what is
going on!"
"Yes, sir, good luck!" the policeman answered, as he started to crawl out of
the store, keeping as low as he could.
Jack set off after the Doctor and his friend, thinking, 'Can't be, HAS to be a stunt,
but that plod is definitely dead! There's no faking that, he's dead!'
A grunt ahead of him brought his attention back to the present; an Ogron had come
between the aisles ahead of him, behind the Doctor and Romana. He raised his ray gun and
aimed at Romana. Jack felt no qualm at shooting the thing in the back; it or one of its
fellows had already killed at least one person. He set his Beretta to triburst, aimed and
squeezed the trigger. The laser dot appeared just above the neckline, that costume could
have been armored, after all. He squeezed harder, and three armor piercing bullets
penetrated the skull of the Ogron. It's head slammed forward, and the beast slumped to the
floor.
Jack crept forward, checking the cross aisles for others, then joined the Doctor and
Romana.
"Did you have to kill it?" the Doctor asked peevishly.
"Well, it was a killer and besides, it was about to shoot you two," Jack
replied shortly.
"And what are you, if not a killer, hmmm?" the Doctor replied, and started
forward again.
Romana put her hand on Jack's arm; it felt like he had been touched by an electric
current. "Thank you for saving my life. You must forgive the Doctor, sometimes he
forgets that the universe is a dangerous place, and one MUST kill to stay alive and
protect others. He just hopes for the best in everyone, even Ogrons!"
Jack, unusually for him, was tongue tied by the touch of the beautiful woman. 'It can't
be real, Mary Tamm must be in her fifties by now, a little older than me; this woman in
front of me looks to be about twenty to twenty-five.' He thought.
They continued after the Doctor, through the doors separating the shop from the storage
areas. Thankfully, all the Ogrons seemed to be in the main store, not around the area
though which they crept. The Doctor signaled, pointing up a flight of stairs. "That
way, I'll lead, you next. Romana, you follow what's his name."
"My name's Jack, Jack Bond. Nice to met you, too!" he muttered.
"Shhh!"
The three of them went up the stairs, to see a long empty warehouse stretching ahead of
them, whilst to the left, there was a set of doors, all open with light streaming from the
middle one. They crept past the first, the female staff toilets; the next looked like it
had been the staff canteen before whatever it was happened.
The Doctor slipped past the door, then signaled for Jack to take a look. He did so,
gasping in surprise. There was a swirling vortex at the end of the room, where a ramp had
been set up. There were two Ogrons next to the vortex, just standing there as if guarding
it, but from what or for who, Jack didn't know.
"Hey, what's your name, can you shoot them both quickly enough for the second not
to shoot you?"
"It's Jack, my name is Jack Bond, and yes, I should be able to!" he replied.
"Okay, I know you have to kill them, there's just no talking to Ogrons, nor their
masters, either. Do it, and quickly. I've a bad feeling about this place," the Doctor
instructed.
Jack settled himself into a shooter's stance, bracing his pistol on his left arm,
squeezing the trigger to activate the laser sight, then quickly took his first shot. He
fired three rounds into the furthest Ogron, again just above the neck, then swiveled
smoothly to the nearer, which was staring at its fellow dropping to the ground. Squeezing
the trigger again sent another triburst into that one's head, too. Strange, though;
although the bullets entered, they should have gone straight through and out, but they
didn't.
Jack entered the room. Kneeling by the first Ogron, there was no pulse as far as he
could tell, always assuming they had a pulse. Its skin felt like well-cured leather. He
looked up. The Doctor and Romana stood ready to enter the vortex.
The Doctor looked down at him. "Well, as much as I dislike involving locals in
this sort of thing, you and your gun might come in handy. Are you up for a little
trip?" he asked.
"This is an invasion, isn't it? Some sort of extraterrestrial attack?"
"Oh, yes."
"Okay, I'm in. What do we do now?" Lance asked.
"Right, I'll lead, you come next, don't shoot me, but be ready for anything on the
other side. Romana, you follow what's his name."
"Jack."
"Okay, Doctor."
The Doctor stepped into the vortex and disappeared. Jack stepped forward, with Romana
right behind him. Jack thought, 'Here goes nothing, but if this is real, then my name
is...
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They exited the vortex at quite a speed. Fortunately, there was nothing there to
threaten them, as it was pitch black.
Jack landed heavily, and immediately felt very off balance. Something wasn't right,
either with his head or wherever they were. Everything felt wrong, but it was too dark to
see. From this side, the vortex was black, and gave off no light to illuminate the room.
There was a click, and as his eyes adjusted to the brightness, Jack saw the Doctor
standing by a door, having turned on a light switch.
"Thanks, Doc, that's better..." Jack's voice trailed off, as it wasn't his
voice! The Doctor's eyes opened wide in surprise, too.
"What for?" Romana said, behind Jack.
Jack looked down at himself, or rather, herself! He was a she, a seriously well endowed
she, at that! No wonder he had felt unbalanced, he now had breasts, massive ones! They
must have been 48D at least! She couldn't see her waist, it felt so small in her hands,
and she felt lower. Nope, no penis or anything else, except, Oooohh!
She looked at the Doctor. "Doctor, what has happened to me?"
Behind her, Romana said, "You must have been thinking about whoever she is as you
went though the vortex. The vortex's defenses have changed you to this person. It's
probably programmed in to confuse the Daleks' enemies."
"Why are you answering my questions, Romana? I was asking the Doctor...oh, no.
You've swapped bodies, haven't you?" Jack said as the penny dropped.
"Yes, I'm the Doctor, and Romana is in my body," Romana/Doctor said.
"But...but, but you seem to be taking it so calmly. Does this sort of thing happen
to you a lot?"
"Well, not quite like this, but you see, we're from a race of people called Time
Lords, and we change bodies as our current ones wear out. Usually WE control the effect
and timing, not like this. Our body change is what we call regeneration and normally, we
stay the same sex as before, though it has been known to swap sexes from time to time.
Doctor, check out my left back pocket, there should be a mirror in there somewhere. Lance
might like to see how she looks now," the Doctor/Rowana said, as he walked over to
support her.
"Hmmm, do we have time for this?" Romana/Doctor said peevishly. "I
suppose if she doesn't, she'll be looking for a mirror to see herself at a bad time. One
where she should be watching out for the Ogrons or their masters." She felt about in
her pocket as directed, a smile crossing her lovely face from time to time as she brushed
some part of her own new body.
"Behave yourself, Doctor," the Doctor/Romana said, "I want my body back
in the same condition I left it!"
"You mean we can change back, somehow?" Jack said.
"Well, we should be able to by returning through the vortex, thinking about the
person we should be. You see, my last thought was about Romana, following you, whilst hers
was agreeing with me. You, on the other hand??????" the Doctor/Romana said.
"Oh, God! Let me see that mirror," Jack said, as Romana/Doctor brought a
mirror out of her pocket.
She looked in amazement at the reflection in front of her. She was now quite stunning
looking. Her face was definitely female, thick pouty lips, high arched eyebrows and the
eyes, she felt she could drown in them, they where so deep. She knew who she was
immediately, of course; she had pretty much guessed after the Doctor's explanation. She
used the mirror to look below the massive breasts; she was dressed in the trademark grey
jumpsuit, tiny waist, complete with utility belt, pistol strapped to her thigh, and her
grey overcoat bulging with magazines and hidden extras. It swirled sexily around her
curvaceous body as she moved it around.
'I'm Lara Croft, in the flesh! Thank God I was thinking of the
Angelina Jolie version, not the PC game version!'
"Well, have you finished admiring yourself, yet? We need to get on and see about
saving your world, yet again!" Romana/Doctor said bad temperedly.
"Oh, absa-fragging-lutely!" Jack found herself saying.
"Now listen, whats-your-name, when we go though this door, I don't know what
we'll find, but stay alert, and be ready for anything!" Romana/Doctor started to say.
"Don't worry, Doc, I saw all the programs. So if we are facing Ogrons, then their
controllers are going to be Daleks, right? And my name is Ja..., er, LARA. Just call me
Lara!" Lara/Jack said.
"Doc? My name is The Doctor, don't call me Doc! Well, you seem to know what we're
up against, so let's go. What we need to do is find the control room, destroy that, defend
ourselves against any Daleks we meet. Probably have to fight our way back through Daleks
and Ogrons and return through the portal BEFORE it closes, once we destroy the controls.
Okay, Lara?" Romana/Doctor said.
"Shhh!" whispered the Doctor/Romana by the door. "I think something's
coming."
Lara quickly swept her coat clear of her holsters, pulled a pistol free, and with her
other hand, slipped a silencer out of its pocket. She hurriedly screwed it onto the barrel
of her gun and waited, poised to strike, gun aimed at the doorway.
"Romana, turn the light out, and get clear of the door," she whispered.
"Ohh, aren't you the bossy one." Still, the Doctor/Romana did as Lara said,
the room returning to darkness, and his boot steps could just be heard as he moved away
from the door.
They waited in the darkness for what seemed like forever, but was in reality only
seconds. The door opened silently, sliding into a hidden recess, two hulking, hairy Ogrons
silhouetted in the light from the hallway.
As they stepped inside, the door started to close, and Lara squeezed the trigger, a
silent triburst taking first one, then a second burst taking the other Ogron down.
They waited a moment, then with a whispered command, the Doctor/Romana moved back to
the doorway and turned on the light. Lara knelt easily in this new body,
Jack's old
injuries long gone, to check the Ogrons' pulses, nothing. They where quite dead. Lara and
the Doctor/Romana pulled them out of the way of the door, hiding them in the darkness
behind the vortex.
"Okay, let's go save the planet! I've always wanted to say that!" Lara said.
Turning the light out again, they moved to the door which again, silently slid into the
wall. Lara peeked along the wall to her left, then to the right, all clear. She stepped
out and kept watch as the other two exited the room.
"Which way, Doc?" Lara asked.
"Let's try to the right, and hope it is. And don't call me Doc!"
Romana/Doctor said peevishly.
Romana, in the Doctor's body, stifled a giggle as the Doctor's own tactics were thrown
back at him by the transformed human.
With Lara leading the way, the Doctor in Romana's body following and with Romana in the
Doctor's body last, things looked weird enough for a Sixties TV Show, then they got
weirder!
"HALT! MOVE AND YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" a metallic voice rang out from
behind them.
The trio turned, almost as one, to see a grey Dalek maneuvering around a
corner at the end of the hall.
"Lara," the Doctor and Romana both said together, "aim for the eye
stalk, then about two feet off the floor!" Then they both dropped to the floor,
giving Lara a clear field of fire.
As instructed, she aimed for the eyestalk. Her first triburst shattered it, blinding
the Dalek. As it started to call for help, she switched to full auto and held the trigger
down, aiming at the position that her two companions had specified.
The gun rapidly emptied itself, and whilst the first few bullets simply flattened on
the Dalek's casing, the majority of them penetrated, causing a small explosion,
cracking the casing and killing the obscene creature inside.
Lara released the trigger, automatically releasing the clip with her gun hand, a new
clip already rising in her other to engage smoothly, recharging the gun ready for its next
use.
"Oh, my God, it really is a Dalek! A real one. Oh, my God!" Lara could not
believe it all. Even after what had happened to her, she still was having trouble
comprehending it all.
"Well, it's good to know that your gun can kill a Dalek, not much can do that. The
last time we fought the Daleks on your planet, it took a whole troop of UNIT Soldiers with
Antitank weapons to do that," the Doctor/Romana said.
"Ah, but don't forget, that was in the Sixties, we humans have come a long way
with improving our armaments," Lara said.
Both the Time Lords had to agree sadly with Lara's comments.
"Let's move on, that Dalek may have managed to get a warning off. Let's try the
way it came from, we may get lucky."
The trio moved off down the hallway, checking for more Daleks or Ogrons as they went.
As they passed the smoking remains of the Dalek, Lara couldn't resist looking inside the
exposed casing, and promptly wished she hadn't. She gulped a couple of times, trying to
settle her stomach, then gave up the effort and retched and vomited over the contents of
the casing. It didn't make much difference, she decided, as she wiped her mouth on the
back of her sleeve.
"Down here," the Doctor/Romana said, "there's a glass door with some
computers, and Daleks working on them."
"There's too many for me to take them all out quickly, or quietly for that matter,
not with just a couple of guns," Lara said. "Let me see if I've got anything
else of more use in this coat." She checked the various pockets in her voluminous
coat, finally coming up with a couple of TDX grenades.
"Wow, if these work as 'R' promised, we should have a chance. He said that they
would explode horizontally, so should cut through most materials. All I have to do is set
the height off the floor I want them to explode at, press this button and toss them. Then
two seconds later, BOOM!" Lara said to the Doctor, or was it Romana?
"Fine, set them for two feet. When you're ready, we'll open the door and you toss
them in. Then we duck, okay?" Romana/Doctor said.
"Actually, I suggest we drop to the floor, then get ready to mop up any that the
grenades miss. Okay, open it!"
The Doctor/Romana waved his hand over the opening panel, and Lara pressed the activate
button on both TDX grenades, then threw them inside. The door closed as the three dropped
to the floor. Moments later, the floor shook with the force of the explosions, and plaster
dust showered onto them.
Lara jumped up, her breasts bouncing with the effort. In the back of her mind, Lara
tried to enjoy the sensation, but she was too psyched up with adrenaline, and got her
hands around the now warped door and pulled.
She looked in as the door opened enough for her to squeeze in; not a Dalek was still
intact. There were a few Ogrons scattered around the room, literally! All over the walls.
"The vortex controls have been destroyed, the vortex will be destabilizing
shortly. We need to get back through to your own planet and time, not to mention our own
bodies," the Doctor/Romana said as Romana/Doctor heard heavy footsteps approaching
from down the hall.
"I'll lead," said Lara, as she flung herself out of the door to land on the
floor, looking up at a group of four surprised Ogrons clumping down the hallway to see
what the noise was.
'Like shooting fish in a Shooting Gallery' she thought, as she opened fire on the
bunched up Ogrons. They didn't stand a chance against Lara Croft, even one that only hours
ago had been a highly trained (male) MI5 operative. By the time her gun was empty, the
Ogrons were dead and the only one which got a shot off had fired so high, the scorch mark
on the wall was above Lara's head, even had she being standing.
"Okay, Doc, Romana, let's move it. The way's clear for now," Lara commanded,
as she got to her feet.
The threesome hurried back up the hallway to the room where they had come though the
vortex. Opening the door, they found the vortex starting to destabilize and flicker.
"Quickly now," the Doctor/Romana said. "Think of who you should be, and
jump through. Remember to look out for any Ogrons still on the other side, you'll need to
deal with them when we return."
"Okay, Doc, go, I'll cover you both, then follow."
"I am the Doctor," Romana said, as she stepped through and disappeared.
"I am Romana," the Doctor said, as he stepped through and likewise
disappeared.
The vortex started to whirl faster; it looked like time was running out for
Lara...Jack, to make it back.
Lara stepped back, tensed herself and, taking a run and jumping into the vortex, said,
"I am..."
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The three landed back in the wrecked canteen of the store, one after another. The
Doctor caught Romana as she came through.
"Thank you, Doctor."
"My pleasure, Romana. Now, where is what's his name?"
"I don't know, I hope he hurries, the vortex won't last much longer, and I think I
can hear an Ogron approaching," she said worriedly.
The vortex was almost gone now, then an Ogron appeared in the doorway, its plasma gun
aimed at the Doctor. Its stumpy digit pressed down on the activator, then released as the
Ogron was thrown backwards by an almost silent burst of bullets entering its head.
"Oh, well timed, young man," the Doctor said, he turned to greet
Jack, only
to find Lara standing in front of him, her coat swirling in the last gusts of wind from
the vortex.
"What?" Romana said. "Oh, Jack, you must have left it too late, the
vortex must have been too weak to change you back by the time you came through. Oh, I am
sorry."
"Don't be, Romana,
this is how I want to be. When I came back, I thought of Lara Croft, not my old self. This
is exactly how I want to be, superfit, well endowed, and definitely female," Lara
corrected her.
"You would not believe the ribbing I took from the department when I joined,
imagine, an actual British Secret Agent called Bond! Who knows, looking like this, I might
even get asked for Angelina Jolie's autograph. Wouldn't that be cool!"
"Now, let's go clean up the rest of the Ogrons!" Suiting words to actions,
Lara Croft strode out of the room, and very quickly, the two Time Lords could hear her
guns, now unsilenced, dealing with the remaining Ogrons.
"Well, Doctor, did you see that coming? I thought he would return to his old
self," Romana asked.
"Why should he, we both decided not to swap at the last minute, either, didn't
we?" the Doctor asked, as she raised her exquisite eyebrow at her old body.