TIME BOMB!
A Melvin Lazarus Story
A Harry Potter Universe/ Dr.Who Universe Cross-over Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Melvin's scientific and magical minds struggled to quantify his experience. It had been an explosion he was sure of it. Something, some sort of device had been inside of the pink pygmy puff he'd bought as a gift for Sasporilla Bucket. Thank goodness it hadn't harmed her. Had it harmed him? He didn't feel harmed?
There had been a sudden rush of light and wind. There had a feeling of stretching as one foes when apperating then darkness. A sense of calm and stillness. The calm before the storm. Everything around him began to churn and buffet. He was caught in the powerful pull of some form of energy vortex. It's discharges of bolts and plasma jets coming far to close for comfort. A noise screamed loudly in his ears. It sounded like a mechanical baby elephant crying for it's mother. Then suddenly Melvin Lazarus hit a solid floor. All went black.
Melvin Lazarus came to and sat up suddenly hearing the echo of a distant explosion. A man with curly dark hair, in a long coat and very long multi-coloured scarf sat cross legged on the floor before him.
"Hello." The man smiled. "Would you like a jelly baby?"
"Where am I?" Melvin asked taking a candy. He was always rather partial to the orange ones.
"Ah!" The strange man said his eyes widening. "You are in fact on the floor of my Tardis, stuck in the middle of dome sort of temporal explosion in the center of the time vortex! Pressing questions at hand are how did you get here and why are you still alive when you've absorbed as much Artron energy as you have?"
"Who are you?" Melvin asked.
"Forgive my manners." The man said hopping to his feet. "I am the Doctor."
Melvin noticed console the man stood next to was some sort of technology far ahead of what he'd seen in the muggle world. This was very advanced. It stood in the center of a relatively square room with white walls with inset holes in them.
"You're a doctor?" Melvin asked.
"Yes." The Doctor smiled with a broad wide smile as the the man shook his hand. "But not just 'A' Doctor, 'The' Doctor. I'm a time Lord. May I now ask who you are?"
"Oh yes, sorry." Melvin blushed, "Melvin Lazarus. I'm a fourth year wizard at Hogwarts."
"Wizard?" The Doctor scoffed. "Hogwash.
"No sir." Melvin corrected. "Hogwarts."
The Tardis shuddered as that same whining mechanical baby elephant sound echoed. A set of blue double doors formed on each wall as the Tardis went still and a bell began to ring deep from within it's infinite halls.
"Oh dear." The Doctor said. "This is very bad."
"What's happened?" Melvin asked.
"You must tell me the last thing you remember wizard." The Doctor demanded grabbing Melvin by the shoulder with a panicked sense of urgency.
"I was at Heathrow in terminal two." Melvin began. "I was trying to catch Sasporilla..."
"Sasporilla?" The Doctor asked.
"Sasporilla Bucket." Melvin smiled. "Most beautiful girl I've ever seen. She was leaving for university on the Avalon Shuttle. I bought her a Pygmy Puff from the old woman. Something was wrong with it. I, think it... exploded."
"Avalon, pygmy puff's, old women." The Doctor scoffed. "Your talking gibberish!"
"Not at all!" A young good looking man in a long brown coat said bursting trough one of the doors, holding up a strange wand with a glowing blie tip that made an odd pulsing whine. "Awe yes! You're a wizard! Seen you're kind before, not for a while though. Hello! I'm the Doctor!"
"Poppycock!" The large man with curly brown hair and the long scarf said. "I'm the Doctor!"
"Oh come on Doctor!" The Doctor smiled cheerfully. "You're the fourth Doctor! I'm the tenth Doctor and unless I miss my bet we've crashed together with a couple of more because of what ever's happened here!"
"Crashed together?" Melvin asked. "What exactly has CRASHED TOGETHER?"
"Our Tardis' the fourth Doctor smiled, eyes wide with what Melvin couldn't distinguish between genius or madness. Perhaps it was an equal amount of both.
"The question is," a rather grumpy white haired old man said walking in through another door.
"Mr.Filch?"; Melvin asked confused.
"What?" The old man said. "No. I'm the Doctor. THEE Doctor! The original and as I was asking what caused this explosion in time?"
"I have a theory!" A young woman in a beige coat smiled bursting in from the last door. "Ah hello everyone. Nice yo see me all again."
"A woman?" The first Doctor scoffed. "Impossible."
"Well not impossible." The tenth Doctor smiled and rubbed his hair.
"Hello." The fourth smiled trying to exert a certain creepy charm. "Would you like a jelly baby."
"Oh yes please! Love these!" The newest Doctor smiled grabbing a green one and taking a big gobby bite. "Awe... just heaven!"
"You were saying you had some idea what caused the time explosion young lady?" The old Doctor said tersely.
"I did?" The young Doctor said.
"Yes." The fourth Doctor said. "I do believe you did."
"You said you had a theory." The tenth Doctor said taking more readings with his sonic screw driver and checking them against instruments on the Tardis console. "You really do have to update these."
"Don't touch that!" The fourth Doctor said. "It's very Delicate advanced technological equipment."
"Yes I know." The tent Doctor smiled.
"WE ALL KNOW!" the first Doctor barked.
"Excuse me," Melvin asked the strange young woman who now stood with a crumpled nose trying to search her memory, "but I think the explosion had something to do with the pygmy puff I bought?"
"Yes!" The lady Doctor smiled. "Of course! You! Where a wizard is and time issues happen...?"
"A time turner is involved!" The tenth Doctor said. "We are brilliant!"
"Bloody things are a menace!" The fourth Doctor said. "But what caused the time turner to explode and how did you figure it out?"
"You said a what exploded?" The newest Doctor asked Melvin very seriously.
"A pygmy puff." Melvin said. "I bought it off a trolley in terminal two in the Avalon Shuttle area for a gitl I wanted to see off to University."
"I'd say the devise was inside the Pygmy puff." The old Doctor said. "An act of terrorism most likely."
"Or a targeted assassination attempt." The fourth Doctor mused.
"Me?" Melvin gasped. "Who would want to kill me?"
"Any number of people possibly!" The young woman smiled. "You're very famous."
"Is he?" The first Doctor asked?
"I can't believe I didn't recognize you!" The tenth Doctor said. "But without that beard of yours."
"Well of course." The fourth Doctor said. "You were older and I was younger when we met but yes of course!"
"Did I have a girl in my life in the future? A wife maybe? With pink hair perhaps?" Melvin asked dismissing the recognition of fame. He'd gotten quite use to being seen as Vinny Lazar these days.
"Future, past, present." The fourth Doctor mused. "It's all relative, isn't it?"
"Right now we have two problems, to resolve as I see it, before we return our guest to his proper time." The first Doctor said. "One, we have to separate our Tardis' and two, we have stop this explosion in time."
"What is a time turner made from?" The fourth Doctor asked.
"A series of gold plated magnetic Ferris gyroscopic rings, interconnected at ninety degree angles." Melvin said. "With a magical hour glass inside a balanced center piece."
"You've a sound scientific mind it seems?" The first Doctor said both surprised and impressed at the boys knowledge. "Do you know much physics and engineering?"
"I have a basic working knowledge sir." Melvin answered honestly. "There is so much more I need to learn though."
"Good answer." The fourth Doctor smiled.
"A lot more humble than I remember him?" The young tenth Doctor smiled.
"I remember!" The young woman shouted happily catching everyone by surprise. "If was a time turner that caused the explosion then a time turner thrown into the center of the blast should be able to, in theory, reverse it!"
"But I haven't got a time turner!" Melvin said.
"Then we will build one!" The old Doctor smiled. "Tell me more about the center. I suspect that is our true active bit."
"Yes." The Doctor with long scarf smiled. "The rest is likely show, flash and window dressing. Hmmm????"
"Well," Melvin began, "the center of the one I saw once was a gold plate with cut out stars and moons balanced on either side and a small hour glass in the center. In the hourglass was sand of some kind. It glinted like crushed glass and glowed a bit with a bluish energy. Does that help?"
"Does that help?" The fourth Doctor asked with angered seriousness and broke into a wide smile shaking Melvin’s young hand. "I think you've solved our problem."
"Alright we need to build an active time turner. We need, one, an our glass, smaller the better! Think I have one in my pocket!!!"
"Two," The female Doctor said, "Xion crystals like the ones from a tardis time rotary column! Have some in the bin from after the accident. Don't ask."
"Three a ready supply of Artron energy." The first Doctor smiled placing is hand on Melvin’s shoulder. "We have someone radiating it right here."
"I'm irradiated?" Melvin asked.
"Yes my boy." The old Doctor said sadly. "But unlike those on your planet who die of nuclear radiation, painfully and quickly, yours is a different fate."
"You were blown into the time vortex." The wild eyed fourth Doctor smiled as he pulled some wires from the bottom of his Tardis console. "It's only by the miraculous wizards physical constitution that you poses that you survived at all!"
"Found it!" The tenth doctor grinned placing a small egg timer wood and glass three-minute timer hourglass on the console. "You absorbed so much Artron radiation that you will regenerate wounds and live in very good health for a very long time."
"That doesn't sound so bad?" Melvin smiled.
"Some think it blessing my boy." The old Doctor smiled.
"Ya well," the blonde doctor in the pale trench coat frowned as she walked in with a small brown paper sack, "I knew a fellow named the face of Bo that'd argue that point!"
"Ya well a million years or more will tend to wear on you." The tenth doctor smiled as he cracked opened the top of the egg timer and poured out the sand.
"I always wondered how his head got so big?" The fair haired Doctor asked as she poured in crushed Xion crystal that was fine as sand.
"What did you do to my Tardis?" The old Doctor gasped?
"Oy!" The young female Doctor protested. "It's my Tardis! Things happen! You stole it! You lot crashed it how many times? You have the nerve to ask me what 'I' did to it? BWAW!"
"ENOUGH!" The large curly haired doctor with long scarf yelled. "We need to free our Tardis' from each other and the time explosion and your Bickering isn't helping! Boy stand here by my door. You, tenth me, Give him the time turner. Each of you pull your secondary temporal redundancy circuits and couple them to lines running between the boy and your dimensional energy in-flow capacitors. NOW!"
The Doctors pulled wires from their consoles as Melvin stood by the front doors of the fourth Doctors Tardis. With a twist of a knob and flip of a lever the doors opened. Melvin found himself standing on the threshold of the time vortex. Looking into it's depths and mysteries from the relative safety of the Tardis. A spark filled ball of energy and flame sat still at its spinning heart.
"That is your target." The Doctor said wrapping a large insulated cable around Melvin’s waste and tying it off while handing the boy the small egg timer filled with Xion crystal dust.
"You don't expect me to jump out there carrying a time turner do you?" Melvin protested as the tall curly haired Doctor walked away.
"What?" The fourth Doctor stopped suddenly shocked, "Obviously not! Though that would be an immense help to us, it would do nothing for positive for your situation! No what I expect you to do is stand there, draw your magic stick, staff, wand or what ever you have and wait for my order. When I tell you too, empower that device with some of the Artron energy you absorbed from the time vortex with some sort of spell or incantation. Some mumbo jumbo."
"I can't just make something up?" Melvin laughed.
"You're the greatest wizard who ever will or has ever lived," the Doctor said grabbing the boy by the shoulders and looking him in the eyes, "FIGURE... IT...OUT!!!"
Three Doctors came back carrying cables from their own Tardis consoles. The fourth Doctor, the most technologically adept of the lot, connected them into his central console. All was interconnected and just awaited the right moment for Melvin to do his thing. Melvin Lazarus, the greatest wizard that would ever be? Melvin couldn't seem to get that through his head. Who was he? He was just a third rate rock star, and fifth year Hogwarts student! He was just a kid. Ya a kid being forced to grow up fast. Time did fly.
"Now!" The Doctor yelled.
"Time flies!" Melvin said pointing his wand at the egg timer casting "TEMPEST FUGIT!"
Blue energy flowed from Melvin through his wand into the make-shift time-turner. The crystal dust absorbed the energy and pulsed with temporal life as the figure eight, infinity shaped glass began to glow.
"Throw it into the blast Me.." the Doctors were yelling in tandem, "... lin."
The young wizard, engulfed in a glow of blue Artron energy, his eyes burning with blue flame through the time turner out the open Tardis door and watched it fly towards the heart of the temporal explosion, as the Doctor closed the Tardis doors.
Energy flowed through the wires into the Tardis consoles as all four Doctors attempted to power up their drives, as the time-turner reached the blast. Chaos and violent turbulence turned to a sudden stillness and calm took hold of Melvin as he floated like a null point in time and space. Peace. Melvin saw himself standing before the shuttle holding the Pygmy puff. Saw the explosion. He saw the old woman’s laughter turn to anger when she realized she had missed her target. The old woman transformed to reveal that the was really the witch Queen of Avalon. The witch Queen had planted the bomb but hadn't meant to kill him. Her target was his precious Sasporilla Bucket. Sassy?
The thought of the pink haired witch pulled him back across time and space where he found himself flying from one Tardis and thrown through the doors into another Tardis as the four time capsules ripped free of each other. Melvin struck the floor hard as he landed.
Melvin Lazarus caught a look of the old Doctor smiling down at him as consciousness faded.
"Don't worry lad." The first Doctor smiled. "I know just where to drop you."
It was a mixture of cool fall air, the smell of an early autumn forest, and the sound of children yelling that woke Melvin Lazarus from his unconscious state. The boy wizard sat up beside a dirt cross road just inside a colour changing forest. A boy no more than eight stood before a bushel basket of apples on a cart, another boy, possibly just a bit older lay knocked to the ground injured. A tall thin young man, dressed in fine clothes with a rapier stood, before the boy. The tip of the thin bladed sword precariously close to the child’s throat.
"Give me the apples." The young man insisted.
"Go to hell Vortigern." The young boy said defiantly. "They're a surprise for our father. Auri and I worked hard to pick them!"
"And he will get them." The young man smiled. "Only Constans and I will give them to your father. They will find you murdered and that unlucky traveler over there will be executed for your deaths!"
Melvin had heard enough. With a quick draw of his wand he cast "EXPELIARMUS!" knocking the sword from the young mans hand. "FLIPPENDO!" Through the young man through the air landing hard on his behind.
Like most cowards he didn't wait for a third spell. The young man picked himself up and ran off over the hill. Another boy, hiding in the rocks. A stout boy, a bit younger than the young man ran after him. Melvin walked over to check on the two boys. Hungry he picked up an apple and took a big bite.
"Are you alright?" Melvin asked, his mouth full of apple.
"Yes." The younger boy said grabbing the fallen rapier and holding it up to defend his brother. "We are fine wizard and I ask you do not harm us. I warn thee I will not hesitate to defend my brother or my apples."
"I won't harm you, I promise." Melvin laughed taking another bite. "I'm not a dark wizard. My intent was to protect you and your brother, not harm you. Who was that?"
"That was my brother Constans friend and adviser Vortigern." The boy said.
"Don't tell me." Melvin smiled. "The chubby boy hiding in the rocks was your older brother Constans?"
"Yes." The boy said. "He doesn't like me or my brother very much."
"Why?" Melvin asked.
"He see's us as a possible threat to his claim to our fathers throne." The boy said hanging his head.
"Throne?" Melvin asked. "What are your names?"
"This is my brother Aurelius." The boy smiled helping his slightly older brother to his feet. "And I'm Uther."
"Uther?" Melvin asked.
"Uther Pendragon." The boy smiled. "Son of Constantine the third, King of Britannia, year of our lord eleven thirty six. And what is your name kind wizard?"
Melvin looked around for the old time lord and realized he'd been left here in the past. In a place he was obviously always meant to be. A place where he would be come the most powerful and famous wizard that would ever live.
"Merlin." The young wizard gulped.
And all he could think of was the face of the girl with the pink hair.
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I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, donate to J.K.Rowling's charitable foundation LUMOS! Link below! ( https://www.wearelumos.org/ )
I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, donate to J.K.Rowling's charitable foundation LUMOS! Link below! ( https://www.wearelumos.org/ )