In The Realms of the Unreal

Chapter 34

The next thing Mulder, Jerry and Emma knew, they were standing in a very familiar room. Specifically they were standing in the TARDIS control room.

"What the hell is going on?" Jerry asked

"Oh don't worry. You're perfectly safe"
The Doctor then stepped out from behind the TARDIS console followed by the rest of the group's friends

"Mulder!" Scully exclaimed and rushed over to her long time partner

While the two FBI agents embraced happily, Jerry and Emma looked at the Doctor confused

"Would you mind telling us what on earth just happened?" Emma asked

The Doctor grinned "It's really quite simple. After I got help replacing the TARDIS Xion crystal from some rather friendly natives on the planet Mesklin, I simply homed in on where you'd been sent to in the timestream and pulled you back into the TARDIS"
Jerry rolled his eyes "Yeah... that totally makes sense"
"Well what ever you did, I'm just glad you did it when you did" Emma told the Doctor "Another couple of seconds and we'd have had our brains splattered all over the wall"

"I'm sure your friends feel the same way" The Doctor gestured to behind the group. Turning around, they were met with a group of five lying in a heap on the TARDIS floor.

"Who the fuck are you guys?" Mcclane asked

"They were with our friends in Germany" the Doctor explained "I simply latched onto a nearby time fissure and used it to teleport everybody in here"
Mulder, Jerry and Emma looked at the characters on the floor

"But that's impossible!" Mulder said "The people we were with were Nazi stormtroopers!"
The Doctor grinned "A psychic projection, much like what we've seen before."
He then turned "Isn't that right?"
One of the figures groaned "Fuck. I guess you've worked it out, haven't you?"

"You mean these people are the same as the Monks we saw in the Abbey of the Rose?" Scully asked"
The Doctor nodded "And the villagers we saw in Bangalla. Now explain! Why were you trying to stop us from getting the runes?"

One of the figures, a bald man wearing sunglasses began to speak

"We were trying to prevent the resurrection of Shub Niggurath. We'd heard from our own people that somebody was trying to revive her and bring her to earth, so we were doing everything in our power to stop that from happening."
"But we stopped you thinking we were working for the good guys and you were the bad guys right?" Jerry asked

"Yeah" the man replied

"Nice fucking going there" said another one of the figures, a young man with a slight scouse accent who couldn't have been older than 21 "If you'd fucking listened to us, we'd all be safe and the world wouldn't be fucking doomed! Nice fucking job ending the world there!"

"Now now" the Doctor gently chided "Where there's a will there's a way and the fact that world hasn't ended yet would suggest there's still time to stop Mater from unleashing Shub Niggurath upon the entire earth"
"You sure?" asked the bald man

"Of course" the Doctor grinned "And we'd be happy to help you. It's the least we can do to fix our mistakes"
"Then I suppose we've got no choice" The bald man stood up, walked over to the Doctor and shook his hand "I'm King Mob and we're the Invisibles"

"Names Jack Frost" added the young scouse

"My name is Fanny, darling" said another member, a rather glamorous women who looked strikingly like a man in drag

"I'm Boy. Nice to meet you" added a young african american woman

"And I'm Ragged Robin. I'm nuts" said the final member, an odd looking woman whose makeup and general appearance made her look like a child's doll
"Great to meet you all" Mcclane replied

"Just curious" Jerry raised his hand "What were you doing in Germany anyway?"
"Jack here, sensed your temporal wake when you landed" King Mob explained "Since we had no other leads, we followed you there using psychic projection"

As the Doctor began working at the TARDIS controls, he turned to the Invisibles
"So if I wanted to revive Shub Niggurath and bring about the age of darkness, where would be the best place to do it?"
The Invisibles thought for several seconds

"Well I suppose there's that ancient city in Antartica..." Robin said

The Doctor nodded "Yes I think I know the place. It always used to give off such a dark and oppressive air"

He then worked away at the controls until the TARDIS was in flight

"Get yourselves ready" he told everyone aboard "We're about to head into one of the most terrifying and dangerous places on the face of the Earth!"

Notes

The Invisibles are from Grant Morrison's graphic novel of the same name

Shub-Niggurath is from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos