Some egg-citing adventure! (part 2)

I saw one egg moving, then a crack runs trough it. “Look Master”, I cried. “One had made it.” 

He stepped back. “Get away from it, don’t you know birds are mostly used to follow the first being they see.” “But why?” I could not stop looking at the egg.

The crackle, the little beak coming out, then the head, the huge eyes, a big crack, a little cry and it was free and it looked at me and I looked back. I swore we liked it other instantly. 

“Great Dickens”, the Master yelled angry. “Can’t you never ever hear, what I tell and simply OBEY ME!” “Dickens, that’s it” I smiled. “Hi Dickens!” 

The little feathery thing gave out a thin yelling and walked onto me and tipped his small beak at my shoe. 

I took him up. “You are not wanting to take that with you?!” Masters voice was harsh. 

“Oh, I will, I am his mum now, don’t you see!” He looked up to the sky. “As if I did not see that coming. Tardis turning into the ark. Just absolute great.” “Leave him, leave me”, I can be stubborn if necessary, you must know!

Master sighed. “So it be. But I swear, if he shits only one time on the control desk, I remind myself that I am a very nasty guy!” “Won`t be happen!” 

Dickens father was nowhere to be seen, so I had no trouble. May be it`s not in his interest to look after his children.

Back in the Tardis I introduced little Dickens to the cats. 

I used the old trick, gave the two their favourite feed and the dodo a huge bowl of porridge with raisins. Certainly I made a quick meal for Master too! 

Now things were fine. Master had his precious egg, I had a new pet. 

I heard him grumbling something while eating, Master I mean, neither cats or Dickens. They were all lucky having their dinner. Master too but I think that sort of making friends thing doesn’t work for him. 

Anyway I felt a little sad watching little Dickens eating and looking at me, eating again, looking at me and I gave some cluck, cluck sound that seems to delight him.

Well at least, one dodo was saved from distinction. Maybe some day we could find a nice mate for it, but that thought better would be kept in my mind. 

I was sure Master would not love the idea of having a family of happy birds walking around him.

After Master made the egg ready for the delivery, he set the directions to that planet of collectors. 

A whole planet with beings that collect things. Great Scott. 

I wonder, who will make sure that the collections are always fine and clean, mind you, to clean cabinets is a very difficult thing. They had to be without any nasty stripes, I learned that working in some museum. But I am a quick learner, no one ever made any complaints!

When cats and dodo were filled up, I put them all together in a nest of pillows, under Dickens I put a big towel. After all, he was still a baby and had still to learn to put his, ahem, things at the right place, the cat toilet. 

I was not happy to leave him alone but he seems to see the cats as his siblings, so fur and feather will stuck together! But Master insisted that I came with him. To carry the box. 

He told me, that the people on that planet are used to have servants, who carry their things and one without a servant would be looked at as a kind of dirty peasant. Master always looks after his personal appearance! 

So okay, I obeyed!

We stepped out and what I saw was a little city. 

The sky was yellow and the sun was green but the houses looked like some big English cottages, others like Chinese temples, Greek temples, Sontarian huts, and many others. 

White streets gleaming under the sun run between the houses, in the distance I saw huge mountains with snow. 

“You know what,  it`s like Switzerland, well, it`s so clean and the mountains with that bright snow.” 

Master looked at me. ”Bye the way, why are you carrying your backpack?” 

“I always took it with me, you now that. Might be helpful. You never know, after all!” 

Master rolled his eyes. “Some day you shall get a new one.” 

“No!, I shook my head. “I love my old backpack, I know it looks as it had made its way through a thousand battles but I will not get a new one.” “Sometimes I really don’t understand you, Tardiscleaner. “ He sighted. “Anyway, lets go. The coordinates heshe gave me …” 

“Heshe?” “These people are both genders together.” “That is very practical, no need to have query love affairs with broken hearts and tears and all.” “Indeed. Now let’s go”. 

“Oh, one little thing”, I looked to the ground. “With the feeding and all I had not the time to get something in my tummy. And I forget to put some cookies back in the backpack. All feed to the dodos.” 

Master mumbled something. “Well, I think it can wait until we are back in Tardis.” 

I looked him straight in the eyes. “I am sorry but I really am hungry and that makes me mean.” 

I stood still and crossed my arm. “Are we having a little rebellion here?” the Master gave my his ANGRY glance but I was hungry and ignored it. He leave me behind, who would clean his Tardis anyway?! 

Humph?! He sighted. “Good, let’s found a place to get you something. But don’t expect cookies!” 

My eyes went round. “Why not Cookies? I have found cookies on many planets. Tell you something, I am sometimes thinking about starting a cooking company, well, certainly only when I am too old to be a Tardiscleaner any more.” 

“Heaven help us”, Master raised his hands. I cocked my head. “Hey, you can rule the universe and I gave out the cookies!” He grumbled: “Let’s find something to eat, so your mouth is filled.” 

“If we only could ask someone”, I looked around. “Such nice clean houses and streets but no one around.” “May be that’s the reason, they are clean.” Master grabbed inside the pocket of his tuxedo and looked at a little tablet computer. “Let’s see.” He typed at it and then pointed out. “That way”. 

Okay, that way, hope it would end with something like dinner. And indeed, at the end of a small road we saw a huge house, flat as a pancake, with one big window, on his rove words in rainbow colours running round. Swell, let’s say, there were symbols but I read it, as gift of following a Timelord, one can read and understand every language in the whole universe. Its very practical. 

Anyway its said: “Best meals in town, nice and easy.” Easy? Whatever. 

“Lets get a chair”, I cried and started running. 

As I came nearer I saw through the windows at a giant room, a dozen or more metal balls in the shape of beans where hanging in the air. Coming nearer I saw that they were filled with beings. 

They all were humanoid beings with large faces and huge heads, big eyes, very big eyes and small noses and mouths. They had plates flying in the air before them, filled with very little, funny shaped and funny coloured things, which they grasp with small, very long fingers. But the fingers had big knobs at the end. 

The eating things stuck onto the knobs and were put to the mouth. 

They looked funny, reminded me to fairy dragons, we once meet. Cute things, I thought until they began to get nasty and I reached Tardis only in time before things got ugly. 

But nice or naughty, time to get something to eat. 

I entered the room, at the end of it was a huge desk, and behind the desk stood the ugliest thing I ever saw in my whole life and travelling times with the Master. Even uglier than the thing from the red button adventure and that meant a lot.

It was huge and looked like a mixture between a jellyfish and a octopus and it got so many little green eyes spread over his yellow glowing body, that it made me nervous. 

Like a bus full of tourist staring at you. 

Tentacles were moving around, some arranging food on that plates, others stuck in the hundreds of holes in the wall behind it. 

“Its not gentlemen like to run.“ Masters voice was in my ears “ He stood beside me. 

“Some time I had to teach you some manners.” “I will remind you. But first I am still hungry.” 

“Then let’s get to the head chef over there and order something.” 

"The chef?" He meant that thing. Hoped that the dinner would not be like the cook. 

Bravely I stepped forward, the thing worked along. 

Suddenly I heard a voice in my heads asking me very politely what I like to have? The voice was so nice and  warm that I could not believe it. 

“Well, I like to have”, I looked at the things on the plates and pointed on some. “Nice choice, my friend”, the voice said. “We love to see alien visitors and hope you and your companion will be satisfied. If not don’t hesitate to say so.” 

Tentacles filled two tablets, one for Master, one for me. I put my hand out to take them but the voice told me that they will follow me. “Well”, I pointed at the empty floor. “Seats would be nice!” 

“At your command”, the voice said and two chairs appeared from the floor. They looked cosy. 

I laughed. “Say, that’s great. Thanks!” “You are welcome, relax and enjoy!” “I will!”

We took seat, I put the box on the floor and the tablets followed us and stood still in the air before us. 

“Hem, let’s se, what did we have here”, I looked at the tablet filled with many funny shaped and coloured things. I took one, looked like a blue banana und took a bite. 

I was first struck by a rough sharp taste then a sweet taste followed and mixed up to something, well very good. “Hey, great taste” I looked at Master. “I am so glad you are satisfied.” His voice was cold but with a light undertone. Amusement.

After all, he can be nice, you know. So I started some conservation.

“Master, I really can’t believe that you ruled earth two times and that each time that Doctor Who stopped you.” His eyes became small. “Better you don’t speak about that and him.”

I put my hand out for a round shaped thing in yellow. “Wonder what I would do if earth was mine. Cleaning it, I think. Hem. What would you think if I would exchange Tardises and went with that Doctor?” 

Master took a tiny thing in red. “He is always travelling with companions and surely had no need for a Tardiscleaner, Tardiscleaner!”

My mouth turned round. “Travelling with companions? That sounds nice. Are we companions too?” 

He stroked with his hand trough his hair. “Surely NOT. You got paid.”

“Paid? Hadn’t seen a penny in a while” “And what is about your free shopping tours?!”

I looked down. “Okay, I agree, I forgot about them, just so rarely and not much to shop and anyway…” “STOP COMPLANING or I forget my good manners as a bad Timelord”

Well, you see, conservation with Master is sometimes very difficult, so I went on eating. Yummy! 

And so we had a great dinner and my tummy felt yummy and I told it to the head chef and he/she/it was quite delighted.

See, it`s nice to go to other planets, you meet so many kind creatures and learn so much new things.