The TARDIS shook again as it flew, and the Doctor nearly lost his footing that time. He didn't manage to save his hand from hitting the console, but he wasn't too worried. "What have you got in store for me today old girl?" he asked under his breath. Another tremor shook the room, but then things were still. He put on the brakes, just to be safe, and looked at a monitor displaying symbols from the alphabet of his home world, Gallifrey. "What?" he said, a look of confusion on his face. There was a small pop on the console, and smoke started streaming out slowly. "What?" he said again, this time louder, and with a much more confused expression on his face. He stood up and spun the rail suspended above the controls to another monitor, this one showing footage from outside the TARDIS, where a full scale battle between men and massive three-legged beasts was taking place. He looked up and shouted, to no one in particular, "WHAT!"
The Doctor was going over the calculations for the fifth time, and still ending up at the same conclusion: he was in an another dimensional plane. During the time that he spent doing math, the TARDIS started to spew smoke and fumes everywhere, so the Doctor decided that he should probably go ahead and explore where he landed.
While when he had first landed the area had a full scale battle raging, at the moment things seemed fairly calm. The area a valley, surrounded by small but fairly steep mountains and cliffs, and with a few buildings here and there, including a saw mill and a few houses. Every so often, the Doctor would come across a corpse of a soldier, or the carcass of a three-legged creature with two eyes positioned vertically, and cybernetic attachments all over its body. When the Doctor tried to scan it with his sonic screwdriver, no information would be given. "Probably too much organic matter." He muttered to himself, and pocketed his tool inside of his tan trench coat.
As the Doctor continued to walk around the valley, he spotted a large radio tower, and started to walk towards it. However, as he approached, he heard klaxons wailing and a voice saying "There are more striders on the way! We cannot let them reach the base!" As the voice called out orders, a loud thumping noise started to come from the area where the saw mill was located, and the voice called out, slightly frantic, "There's a strider coming from the sawmill!" as he said it, the Doctor looked around in confusion, and started running when he heard guns go off, and the wails of some sort of animal.
When he got to the sawmill, he saw a few soldiers standing with their guns ready, pointing to the direction of the noise. The thumping was getting louder, and soon the Doctor could hear the cries of a massive creature moving toward him. One of the soldier took a furtive glance around, and spotted the Doctor in his tan trench coat, and went through about twenty facial expressions in a matter of seconds. "What are you DOING here?" the soldier practically screamed. The doctor looked at him, pointed a finger at his own chest and said, "me?" "Yes, you!" replied to soldier. "Get back to the base before the hunters kill you!" The Doctor was about to ask what the hell was going on, until a man in a bright orange suit with a lambda on the front drove up in a beat up and stripped down muscle car, rocket launcher in hand. "You know," said the Doctor, looking at the man with mild interest, "that suit makes you look rather ridiculous." The man ignored the remark, and walked up to one of the soldiers who was standing guard. The thumps were getting louder still.
"Doctor Freeman." Said the soldier, a look of relief on his face, "I'm glad you're here. As far as we can tell, that's the last strider over there. If you can take it out with the Magnusson Device, we can deal with the Hunters." The man in the orange suit, Dr. Freeman, nodded and took a device from his backpack, which seemed to be a built in part of the suit. The Doctor had never seen something like it, so he moved closer, and started scanning it with his sonic. "Aren't you beautiful!" he exclaimed, much to the confusion of everyone around him, most of all Dr. Freeman. "using zero-point energy to lift object without any stress on the user? Oh, your designer was a genius- hang on. What century is this?" The men looked at him with a combination of confusion and total shock, and one of them was obviously about to answer, but someone yelled "STRIDER!" and everyone turned.
The strider was huge. At least three stories tall, with a body the size of a car and thin legs that made up the rest of its mass. Underneath its eye were a machine gun, and some kind of mounted cannon. Running towards the soldiers were smaller tripods, of the same species that the Doctor had seen lying on the ground dead before. As they ran towards the soldiers, they fired darts from their bodies that exploded after a few seconds. Doctor Freeman. Grabbed the doctor by his coat and shoved him behind the sawmill. He then proceeded to grab a large spherical object with spikes on it from the back of his car with the strange tool he was holding, and launched it at the massive creature that was steadily making it' way towards them. It latched onto the things body, and Dr. Freeman then shot the device with a pistol, causing to explode, instantly killing the beast. The remaining creatures were then killed with an excessive amount of machine gun fire. When everything was dead, the Doctor stood up slowly and said, "What. The Hell. Is going on here." Everyone just looked at him, and Doctor Freeman finally spoke, which he apparently did very rarely, because everyone looked shocked when he did. "I think we should let Dr. Kleiner explain." He said in a dark tone, before getting back in his car and beckoning for the Doctor to follow.