A Companion's Story
opening: A one in a million meeting
"I'm leaving." Those were the words that flew out of my mouth on the best day of my life on a cool autumn evening. My parents stared at me with no shock on their face, I wasn't amazed that they reacted that way. I always talked about leaving now I was finally doing it. My life had fallen into a rut no job, no caring family, no friends, no more love. I had nothing to care about except my future life in London. I needed to make adventure for myself to be able to pull myself out of this monotonous world into a bright exciting new one.
When I arrived the first thing I did was get myself a car, something temporary, and as I drove down the unfilmair streets of London. It seemed as active as any other city I've been to but something, I could feel it was different. Too busy checking out the sites I forgot where I was going and then of course the crummy car I was driving broke down. I gripped the steering wheel tight , looked straight ahead cursed and slammed my head into the steering wheel. I just have the worst luck.
So I hopped out of the car and started walking nowhere. I stumbled upon what looked like a series of warehouses walking along I heard a man's voice.
" So the new Cult of Skaro wow that's an original name."
I raised an eyebrow and I let my nosy self step inside one the buildings where I heard the voice and walked in and hid behind a stack of boxes. I peeked my head around the corner only to see a tall man with long sideburns, wearing a brown pin-striped suit and on his feet are a pair of converse. I looked across the room a found four giant… well honestly I don't know what they are, but they quite honestly looked like giant salt and pepper shakers.
Trying to get a better view I happened to push up against the boxes toppling them over and me going with them. I struggled to get up and when I finally did I turned back around to see everyone staring at me. I felt totally awkward standing there with a blank look on my face. Feeling embarrassed I finally said something.
" So this 'new' cult of Skaro? What is it?"
One of the pepper pots spoke up.
" WE ARE THE DALEKS APPOINTED BY THE EMPORER TO THINK AND DISCOVER NEW WAYS FOR THE DALEK RACE TO EXTERMINATE THE UNWORTHY!"
" And what do you mean by 'unworthy' ? Unworthy of what?" the man questioned the Yoplait yogurts ( he he).
" YOU ARE NOT DALEK AND ARE INFERIOR BEINGS."
I piped in and asked " So let me get this straight, they're these alien things that are trying to take over the universe and you're trying to stop them?"
" Pretty much yea, you got all that just from listening to that bit of conversation?"
" I guess but it wasn't that hard to work out I mean these things that call them Daleks are obviously not earth made because we don't have the know- how to make such beings and they way they talk about us as if we don't matter and the fact that they want to ' exterminate' us is another clue that they want to take over."
" Oh… I thought maybe you would need a bit of assistance figuring it out. Well with that out of the way and considering the fact that these Daleks don't look to happy I think we should RUN!!!"
Without me paying much attention the man grabbed my hand and we ran out of the building with the Daleks hot on our trail. We ran into the building across the way and we ran down a corridor and suddenly stopped. The man looked around panicking.
" Oh yea that's right the lift…." He ran over to the lift that was diagonal from us and pushed the button when the doors opened he stepped back gesturing and saying " After you miss."
Well at lest he has manners I thought. He pulled something out of his pocket it looked like a metal stick with a blue bulb attached to the end of it. He pointed it at the buttons in the elevator, the doors shut, and the elevator seemed to travel down. The Silence between us was killing me so I started to speak up but he spoke first.
" Well, you're obviously not from here are you? American?"
" Yea well Pennsylvanian to be exact."
There was another long silence, I hated every second of it. The elevator stopped, the doors opened, and the man walked out first. About a minute later I stepped out after I was done asking myself why I was following him. When I stepped out I was standing in a strange room there were stacks upon stacks of books. I walked around in the room a little bit before walking into a big blue box. I stepped back a bit to get a better look at it under my breath I uttered the word.
" weird?"
" Oi! If you're going to put her down like that you can forget about coming with me!"
" What? Her?"
" Yep, she's my ship the tardis. That's T. A.R.D.I.S as in Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space. She's the best and bigger on the inside."
" No…. Way!"
" Yes way!"
He opened the door with his hip, I walked around into the doorway, and what I saw was…. beautiful. It was bigger on the inside!
" Well, are you gonna go in before this place blows up or what?"
" huh? Yea sure."
I walked into the tardis with a man whom I don't even know. Our adventures had only started………