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Hmm - from the look of things someone has got transdimensional pockets!

Probably a standard part of Gallifreyan fashion design...

I wonder what he's planning to pull out of it, to deal with Rio...

Things are definitely heating up. Great work, Rich!

Now be careful, Rio! I don't trust TechRat. Sneaky race, the Time Lords.

LOL

Wait a minute! Is this the REAL Techrat? Or a Timelord who regenerated to look like him? The real Techrat would have said "Don't touch me!" when he got tackled by Rio.

Maybe he's got a big "And that's what you get for touching me!" zinger coming.

It figures that the 6th Doctor would hate climbing!

Looks like the Doctor was able to get the teleportation device to make one last short-range jump before Techrat's bomb did its work. The smugness field he was putting out when they arrived outside must have been huge!

While I can't deny the Doctor's generated smugness field (clashing and negating Techrat's gloating field), I was under the impression that the two groups were racing towards the others' starting location, and met at alleyway in the middle.

Yes, but Techrat's reaction implies that even if the Doctor, the Holograms and the Misfits turned and ran full tilt for any viable exit, they'd still be toast... and they certainly wouldn't be ahead of him, between him and the trap he was luring Rio into.

That said, as far as his reaction to Techrat's escape attempt, the Doctor hasn't liked climbing very much in any case. Though Ten was quite willing to climb a TV tower like a spider monkey, there's this quote from One, when Ian suggested a faster path. I admit, it may be a bit paraphrased:

Ian: "Why don't we just climb? It would be faster-"

The Doctor: "That may be, my boy, but I am not a mountain goat! And I prefer walking, in any case. I hate climbing!"

Admittedly, One had a better excuse, having truly lived over four hundred years in the same body, and was rather frail; Six has a burly and energetic (if heavy) young form. Perhaps he still had a bit of the same viewpoint, as a holdover?

I think we can safely say that Techrat expected that particular group racing at him to be dead from the big explosion he just witnessed (and had set up to happen).

He didn't know the Doctor had already found out about the bomb and knew to leave the building.

He was shocked that the Doctor was alive and leading a crowd of angry natives after him.


(Tho if you're still convinced the Doctor must have teleported everyone somehow, rather than debate endlessly about something that can't be proven .. we could always, ya know, ask Rich <g>)

Whoops, I went back and checked and - you're right. Techrat was on the phone - he wasn't even in the building! My bad.

I still stand by my statement on Six climbing, though - wassa matter, fat boy, too much like exersize? Shame about his tie, though.

No,it's a reference to his 4th regeneration after falling off the radio tower in "Logopolis".

Ouch, I can't believe I forgot about that! >turns in his scarf<