Estonia, an eastern european country on earth. Home to where Anime Girl invested her money, and, in an alternate dimension, still not blown up like the rest of Earth.
The space dwarves tracked down an Anime Girl in an alternate dimension earth, convinced her to pay up, but that was a small matter. The space dwarves, apparently dead, were now owners of their very own Chia Timelord. A.k.a rich. In the future.
And all it took was one job, fours deaths, and hunting a girl down across dimensions.
“Easy pay.”
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Dr vs Anime Girl you can’t kill me because I’m a girl.
The Doctor inspected his center console of the reTARDIS, laying Yarko’s [Yumicite] dagger down with the handle presenting.
“You knew her. That girl. She tried to kill you, but the both of you were working together. All an act?”
Anime Girl, principled, would never lie. “Not an act. We happened to know each other. She came after me. That’s all.”
“Then why are you here, in the reTARDIS? Her signal and yours lead me back here.”
“Yarko helped me get inside. I thought of taking the reTARDIS with me.”
“Steal this, from me?”
Anime Girl leaned her cheek on her palm. “I suppose. I wanted it. It can travel time and space, right? Who wouldn’t want one?”
The Doctor approached, grimacing. “Have you no respect for property rights?”
Anime Girl shook her head. She was born from Wizard’s spell, and he was a rabid torrenter of anime. Property rights were low on his principle list, and for Anime Girl the same became true.
“And what about me, would you leave me here?”
“I could literally come back anytime. Literally. It’s a time machine.”
The Doctor approached too close for comfort to Anime Girl, forcing her to step back to relieve herself.
“That’s not very nice. You sent Yarko to kill me, didn’t you?”
“Sure.” Anime Girl said.
The Doctor ran a hand across his face, anger twitching him.
“You just admit it like that?”
“Why not?” Anime Girl’s head tilted.
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“It’s murder. You plotted to murder me. You sent your goon after me. Tried to steal my ship! You’re a murderer and a thief, and it’s like neither of them matter much to you!”
“Um,” Anime Girl twisted her face in disgust as the Doctor neared her again. “Why wouldn’t I? And please, stop closing in on me, old man, I want some space.”
“Just steal and murder just like that?”
Anime Girl grimaced. He still felt the need to be in her face.
“I’m, in the middle of a war. It’s not murder. It’s self defense. And this ship, the reTARDIS, I could use it to help protect my friends. The 2D realm is a pretty dangerous place, how could an outsider like you understand?”
The Doctor shook his head. “I’ve ended wars. I’ve fought in them. You’ve no excuse to act like this just because it’s a war!”
Shouting at her now, Anime Girl winced.
“Woah, calm down.”
“Calm down? You tried to murder and steal from me!”
“Okay. And what are you trying to do about it, right now?” Anime Girl ducked back under a railing, putting distance between her and the Doctor. “I’m powerless. A girl, with a durable body, yes, but I have no connection to Wizard’s mana. You simply don’t matter to me. You won’t even tell me your name. If I had the mana, I’d knock you out of here, track down Yarko—”
“She’s dead. That girl is dead.” The Doctor told her.
“You kill her?”
“Self-defense.”
Anime Girl rested her chin in her hand. “Understandable. Anyways I’d—”
“No feeling whatsoever towards your dead comrade?”
“What are you talking about? If she’s dead, she’s dead. There’s no reason to be upset.”
The Doctor fell back. Reassessing, her puffed air out of his nose. “You’re not human.”
Anime Girl looked at the Doctor with growing curiosity. “How’d you kill her? I thought she was pretty strong, kind of -”
“That’s not the point! You’re not human!”
“Neither are you, again, what are trying to say?” Anime Girl shook her head.
The Doctor smashed his console. Gripping his device in his hand, he leaned over the [Yumicite] dagger, eyes shut, forearms bent to hold him up.
Anime Girl watched the silent Doctor in confusion.
The Doctor rose. A sigh burst out from his lungs, and a brief smile lit his face.
“Get out.”
He pointed at the door.
“What? Didn’t you abduct me so—”
He yelled. “Get out of my ship!” Anime Girl winced. She walked out of the blue box. The door shut closed, and it began flashing in and out of existence.
She watched the trees wave in the wind as she stood there, alone, years in the past on an earth she didn’t know.
~~~
Yarko’s final moments against the Doctor. Doctor Who, a specialist against using an opponents own abilities against them, found himself in a dire fight.
His physical ability wasn’t much better than a humans. Yarko’s strange attacks he barely dodged, sounding off his device with a strange sound to repel the girl if she got too close.
A veteran, he used many weapons in war. But, those days were long behind him. Or so he thought.
The [Yumicite] dagger stabbed into a nearby wall, just missing the Doctor, looked to be his only hope. Running from the brutal Yarko, he snatched the dagger, tossing it at her.
Yarko catched it. Then, the Doctor set off the right frequency from his device.
The sound resonated with the [Yumicite] dagger and Yarko’s mana.
“Feels… warm…”
Yarko fell to her knees, her mind blanking from the noise. The frequency of the mana from the dagger, and Yarko’s body, both of them resonated with the Doctor’s sonic attack.
The spell holding her body together began to unravel. Tentacles spun out from her body, grey and writhing, she began to return to her original form.
The Tentacle Beam spell. Her body expanded. The Doctor, in a panic, snatched the [Yumicite] dagger, stabbing it through Yarko’s head.
The dagger glowed blue grey. Light enveloping the area, Yarko’s body lost form, shooting into the dagger until there was nothing left.
Standing over an empty patch of dirt, the Doctor’s rattled breath, and the dagger gripped in his hand, became nothing to the wind rustling the trees.