Flight 346 to Miami
9:03pm October 24th 2015
"This is your Captain speaking," a voice came through the speakers of the plane, "We apologise in advance for the small amount of Turbulence and ask you to remain in your seats until we are clear" he said.
AIR STEWARDESS (VERA'S) POV
I found myself wandering down the cabin, watching over the many sleeping passengers of the plane, double checking they were all ok before heading towards my own seat to strap myself in, just like the captain had asked.
I made it to my seat and after locking myself in firmly and tightly, I watched through the curtains to check on the passengers of the plane. The plane shook majorly and I let out a little yelp before clinging on to the belt for dear life as if the plane was going down, however luckily for myself and the other passengers it was just strong turbulence.
I lessened my grip from the seatbelt and relaxed. I closed my eyes and imagined I was somewhere else for the course of the turbulence.
Suddenly an almighty bang and a little yell came from inside the toilet beside myself, my eyes shot open and I looked towards the toilet door and noticed the 'Occupied' sign was on, fearing the passenger may need help, I undid my seat belt and hurried towards the door.
Frantically knocking away, I hoped for an immediate response of reassurance that the passenger was ok and not in need of any drastic medical help.
"Hello?" I murmured as I knocked a little bit louder on the door.
"Are you hurt? I heard a bang and I just wanted to check you were ok" I said, before going to head down the cabin hallway to find another stewardess.
Suddenly, very quietly a murmur noise came from inside the toilet, and I launched myself against the door, pressing my ear firmly against it.
"I'm...fine...Please go away" came a voice from inside the toilet.
The voice was crackly and not reassuring at all, however I had to respect the passengers wishes and so I retreated from the closed door and headed towards my seat. Suddenly, like the first time, another scream came from the toilet, and I rushed over again, frantically knocking.
"You're not ok are you? Look bare with me, I'll find a way in" I yelled through the toilet door.
I scattered through cutlery drawer on the plane and find a knife, I hoped to twist the door lock open from the inside.
Heading towards the door I firmly pressed the knife inside the lock and started to twist.
"What in the name of sanity do you think you are doing?" said another stewardess who had wandered down the first class cabin and through the curtain.
"There is somebody hurt... I'm trying to help them" I explained, hoping my explanation would lessen the harsh look on her face.
"You're the new girl right?" she asked, I was confused by her need to ask such a question now but did not want to be rude.
"Yes?" I answered "Why do you ask?"
"You're a woman who lacks initiative and carries to much emotion and fear, we don't need people who fear, we need bravery" she said, her voice by the final word sounded almost robotic and crackly like the person in the toilet, I become very puzzled by her words.
Suddenly from behind me, the toilet door flung open, and with the curtains shut, nobody saw what I saw. I turned around and let out an almighty scream at the thing before me. It was something not of this world.
The stewardess previously questioning me, grabbed my arms and held them behind my back, offering me freely to the creature in front of me. I screamed yet nobody seemed to notice, the sound of the thunder and turbulence drowned out my voice and suddenly, I felt a warm breath on my neck, and the air stewardess whispered "Times up Sweetie, we only want the best, so I guess we'll have to crush that fear out of you, and make a soldier in the place of your emotionless corpse".
The creatures hand released a metal snake like creature, and as the air stewardess let out a roaring cackle, I screamed at the top of my lungs.
It wrapped around my body and let out a shocking pulse.
My hands went numb, my eyes felt weak, and then I felt it as my heart slowly stopped beating, I let out a final breath before falling to the ground.
As my eyes shut for the last time, I saw the snake like monster slither into the cabin.
4 Days Later at UNIT HQ
October 27th 2015
The TARDIS materialised in the pale white hallways of UNIT HQ. She made a roaring sound that echoed throughout the hallways.
The sounds of footsteps filled the hallways of UNIT and a flurry of soldiers hurried towards the TARDIS doors.
Aiming their weaponry at the doors of the blue time machine, the soldiers had expressions of excitement and horror.
The doors creaked open and a tall figure in a magician like coat, scurried out of the doorway and into the soldiers firing lines.
His face dropped as he stared at the soldiers, before letting out a irritated sigh.
12TH DOCTORS POV
"Guns? What do you need guns for? Were you expecting some sort of mad man to pop out of the box" I exclaimed as I placed my palm over the barrel of a soldiers gun and pushed it down.
"Well, it's been a while since a mad man came to visit but we have to be on full alert sir," explained one of the soldiers to me.
"Well in that case soldier its your lucky day... I'm much more than a mad man," I joked, without even cracking a smile.
After my playful comment with the soldiers, I searched around, "Kate Stewart and Clara Oswald? Where are they?" I asked.
"Follow us, they are waiting for you in the Black Archive," said one of the soldiers before guiding me down the hallways.
As I wandered down the hallways I found they went on forever, starting with a dozen soldiers on my tail I found myself losing more and more soldiers as I went further into the heart of UNIT.
"Since when was it just the two of us?" I asked the remaining soldier as he nodded towards the doorman of the Black Archive.
"UNIT's security is obsolete, only the best of the best can be trusted near the Black Archive, it just so happens we are trusted."
"Slight error of judgement there soldier," I said "They don't trust me, they just have to."
I walked inside the Black Archive and witnessed Kate and Clara standing on the other side of the room. Kate was wearing an all black pant suit while Clara was sporting a short patterned dress and leather jacket, I knew she'd just finished up at Coal Hill for the day. Kate cracked a smile at me while Clara let out her usual witty remark, "Thought you'd never arrive."
The pair stayed silent after that comment and waited as the soldier rushed out of the room. "Good to see you again Doctor, its been a while since your last visit" Kate uttered before shaking my hand and guiding me towards a metal table with a selection of gadgets spread across it.
"Kate Stewart, Clara" I murmured as I wandered over and did the generic kiss on each cheek, "Its lovely to be here again, but lets cut the chit chat this isn't an episode of Loose Women, you asked me here for a reason, you weren't specific on the phone Clara, which means its either very important or you called by mistake".
Catching my breath I quickly glanced over at the table before spluttering out an ingenious sarcastic comment once more, "Are we missing somebody? Inspector Gadget perhaps? ALSO, since when has UNIT had to go through Clara to contact me"
"Always so inquisitive Doctor, the less you know about this mission were going on the better" Kate teased.
"Mission? Surely you have enough soldiers to not require me as part of your extraterrestrial A Team" I asked, confused by my presence at said gathering.
"Consider it a school trip Doctor" she said before grabbing a gadget from the table that resembled a more hi-tech version of a vortex manipulator.
While strapping said tight black bracelet around my wrist, I clocked that both she and Clara were sporting the same gear.
"Try not to struggle, apparently you should just let it take you" Clara said to me as Kate fiddled with her device, causing all three of our bracelets to light up.
"Let what take me? I'm not a man who likes to be kept in the dark about things you know?" I said, sounding worried and threatened by Clara's instructions to me.
"Do as your told" joked Clara before a bright blue light flashed and suddenly, where the two of them were standing now lay nothing but Clara's burnt Coal Hill ID Card, sizzled by the teleportation beam. Suddenly a similar blue light flashed around myself and I found myself in a haven of blue light before becoming present in front of both Clara and Kate once again.
UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION
October 27th 2015
12TH DOCTORS POV
The room we were present in shook often and I felt and looked fearful at both Kate and Clara, uncertain of why I had been brought here.
"Fourteen plane disappearances in the past 10 months, no parts found, no passengers found, almost like they vanished from thin air" Kate uttered to me.
"Oh I'm sorry, are we chit-chatting now? I thought we were keeping hush about this mission you've clearly kidnapped me into attending" I yelled.
"I'm sorry Doctor but you're a stubborn man and we knew you wouldn't voluntarily use teleport over your TARDIS, and we definitely couldn't risk bringing that up here. Clara knew you'd trust her and so thats why she's present up here as well" explained Kate
"Not following? UP here? Also since when do plane disappearances come under extraterrestrial happenings?" I asked, skipping over the part where I was called stubborn as my ego couldn't take an explanation.
"Since the last plane, on route to Miami, made contact with ground control, and the pilot spoke of 'snakes' and 'suspicious deaths' of passengers" explained Clara, she'd clearly been run through the mission before my arrival.
"Sorry, Snakes? Snakes?! Like little slithery creatures with venomous tongues? Snakes?" I asked, amused by the pudding brain's explanation.
"Yes Doctor, Snakes. Though we have reason to believe the snakes aren't as reptilian as they normally are, and 'suspicious deaths' and 'Snakes' on the same plane journey, it just screamed danger to us, Doctor."
"How do you know the pilot wasn't under the influence or completely delusional, or that it wasn't just a hijacking? Why do you immediately suspect alien foul play when its more than likely JUST a snake?" I questioned.
I knew my theory had probably already been checked out but still I prayed for some sort of realisation from Kate, UNIT had better things to investigate than reptiles on a plane. Unless of course it was a silurian. But silurian's weren't snakes, and Kate's face showed genuine growing concern.
"Its a possibility Doctor, but considering the call took place at exactly 9:43pm on October 24th, we are fairly certain their is some alien reasoning behind the pilots raving allegations."
"I'm sorry. Doctor, confused. What does the timing have to do with the allegations made?" I asked.
"Flight 346, the plane that pilot called from, went missing at 9:44pm on October 24th" said Clara, confusion overtook me, while it was very suspicious the plane went missing a minute after the allegations, it was still not enough proof that aliens were involved.
"The plane went missing exactly a minute after the call was made, and the plane itself, vanished from not only the sight of ground control, but from all records".
Kate's analogy of the situation went from barmy to impossible in a matter of seconds, I felt a rush of excitement flow through me, I loved a good disappearing act, it was like 'Snakes on a Plane' meets 'A Lady Vanishes'.
"As far as records and data goes, Flight 346 and the other 13 planes that went missing just like it in the past 10 months, NEVER existed."
"Thats not possible? Completely erased from records? Like it just...fell out of time?" I asked, rubbing my hands together in excitement as I bit my tongue from showing to much joy in the undeniably terrible circumstances.
"Like it just fell out of time" Kate repeated to me, she shared my excitement at the mystery before us..
"Ok so I'm understanding now, but theres still one thing you haven't answered?" I said, as the whole room shook slightly.
"Whats that?" Kate asked me as she gave me a look of confusion.
"You haven't explained where we are, where you teleported us too" I explained, the plane story made sense but our need to travel was still a mystery to me.
"Oh of course, well I told you, we are going on a school trip Doctor, nothing better than a bit of first hand research" she said grinning. Clara wandered over to a curtain inside the room and pulled them open for me to walk through.
I wandered through only to find myself standing in the cabin of a busy plane full of everyday people.
"But...I...First hand research? Kate Stewart what the hell are you up to?"
"Welcome to Flight 563 Doctor, the next suspected aircraft to become victim of the disappearances" said Kate.
"Now we can find out first hand just what has been happening onboard these planes."
I gave a horrified look towards all the people onboard, knowing the danger they were suddenly in, it all become a lot more real being present.
"and if we don't find out whats causing it in time?" I asked them.
Looking at me with a very unpromising smile, Kate answered "Well then theres a good chance that us, this plane and its passengers will suffer the same fate as all the other planes, and nobody will be able to explain it, it'll be..."
"...Like we've just fallen out of time?" I interrupted, sounding both excited and conspicuously worried at the same time.
"Like we've just fallen out of time" agreed Clara before directing a smile my way!
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CHAPTER TWO COMING SOON! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS AND I APOLOGISE FOR ANY MISTAKES. THIS IS MY FIRST TIME WRITING AND PUBLISHING DOCTOR WHO WORK. PLEASE LEAVE REVIEWS. :)