Hour of Angels

Chapter 1

"So where are we going?" asked Alex Russo.

"I don't know," the Doctor told her, "That's the beauty of being a TARDIS traveler. You never know what is going to happen next. It could be amazing and wondrous or flat out terrifying and deadly."

"I prefer the amazing and wondrous over the terrifying and deadly," Harper Finkle said as she had a death grip on one of the chair as the TARDIS flew through the Time Vortex.

"Harper, it's not that bad," the Doctor told her, "It's actually quite amazing you know."

"Yeah, maybe, but I've never been a real big fan of magic," Harper said.

"Harper, this is not magic. This is technology. Granted to humans it seems like magic, but it is not magic. It is just some space and time technology."

"Oh that's it?" asked Harper. Her voice was higher than usual.

"Yes, that's it. It's really simple actually," the Doctor told her as he pushed some buttons on the TARDIS control console.

"Oh yeah, because time travel is so simple," said Harper.

"Harper, I'm a Time Lord. To me time travel is a cake walk, and if you don't stop complaining about this, I can take you home right now you know," the Doctor said and pointed at her.

Harper thought for a minute and said, "I'll get used to it."

"That's a good girl," the Doctor smiled.

Alex was the complete opposite of her friend. She had wanted to travel in the TARDIS for almost the entire year that the Doctor had the Old Girl in the Waverly Sub Station. Now she could travel with him as long as she wanted to. She was graduated from high school and had no obligations to hold her back from this crazy life of adventure in the stars. The Doctor had changed her in the last year and she found herself acting more and more like him everyday. She didn't care. She did not care at all. It was no secret that she had fallen for him, but she still hadn't figured out if he had the same feelings. The Doctor was such a hard read for her compared to others. She would just have to wait and see as the two of them traveled the stars and time together. Harper coming had complicated things, but not by much. Alex knew Harper saw the Doctor more as an older brother than anything else. The constant bickering that of the Doctor and Harper seemed to get into recently was funny, but the two did care for each other. Alex wondered how long this trio they had would last. Alex didn't think Harper would be able to last that long in the TARDIS, but she didn't think that Harper would actually travel with them to begin with so Alex couldn't predict what Harper would or would not do.

Alex's train of thought was broken when the TARDIS engines started to make the landing noise and the Doctor said, "We have landed."

"Where?" asked an anxious Alex. She was ready to see the world outside of the TARDIS.

"We've landed on a ship. By the designs the TARDIS is giving me, it is a space freighter that travels between the human colonies. This is the 31st century and several natural disasters have made the human race flee to colonies in space and abandon Earth. This space freighter is one of the ones that transfers supplies from colony to colony. It is more than likely booming with people out those doors," the Doctor. He put on his dark blue coat and asked, "Are you ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be I guess," Harper said.

"Of course I'm ready," Alex said.

"Great! Here we go," the Doctor said. He opened the doors to the TARDIS and walked out into the hallway of the freighter. To his surprise it was empty, there was no one in sight. Alex and Harper walked out right after him. The Doctor looked around and couldn't figure out where everyone was. This place should have been booming with people. It not only transferred supplies and equipment, it would also transport people from colony to colony.

Alex looked around and noticed it was empty to and said, "I thought you said this place would be booming with people."

"It should be," the Doctor said, "I don't understand what's going on."

The lights were flickering and it was eerily silent on the ship. Harper was nervous as it was and this was just freaking her out. Where were all the people that Doctor said would be on the ship. She didn't see or hear anyone. It was dead. The entire ship was dead. There was nothing. The Doctor noticed the silence and said, "There is something wrong. It's silent. Even though there are no people, we should be able to hear machinery. There's nothing. There should be something. Something is not right. We need to get back inside the TARDIS."

The Doctor tried to open the door to the TARDIS, but it wouldn't budge. The Doctor used his key, but the key wasn't working. He looked up and down the door and he wanted answers, but he didn't have any. Alex saw that the Doctor couldn't get the doors open and asked, "Doctor, what's wrong?"

"I don't know," he replied, "The TARDIS won't let me in. It's like she senses something is here, and I am the only one that can fix it."

"How do you know that?" asked Harper.

"This is not the first time the Old Girl has done this to me," the Doctor answered Harper.

"And let me guess," Harper started, "When the Old Girl does this, it's something very, very bad isn't it."

The nodded and made a face as he said, "Yeah, it's never good."

"Oh, this is just great," Harper said, "So where do we go from here?"

The Doctor took out a flashlight to get more light in the hallway. All doors were locked and sealed, but there was one door open and the Doctor said, "We go that way."

"Why?" asked Alex.

"It's the only door that's open," the Doctor said.

"That's kind of creepy," Harper said.

"Yeah, it is," the Doctor said. His hair was standing on end. There was something onboard this ship that was causing him subconsciously to become nervous. Then you add that there are no people or there is no sound on this freighter, things are looking bad. Something bad is on the ship. He could never get an off day. There was always some bad thing going on and he would land right in the middle of it. Sometimes he loved and others time, well, he could live without it.

The three of them walked down the only path they could find. It was a mind boggling maze of twists and tunnels. In most parts of the ship, the lights were completely out. They still hadn't run into any people yet. There were creaks and other noises that sounded like they were following the three of them. The Doctor held his sonic screwdriver with the flashlight. Alex had her wand and was ready to use it. Poor Harper was defenseless when it came to the other two.

They walked for a good while before they stumbled upon a giant room. The room had a massive window as the wall and everyone could see out into space. The Doctor instantly recognized the room as the ship's bridge. The Doctor read the name of the ship on the captain's chair. It was the Aragon. The Doctor heard of the Aragon. It was a legendary space freighter that vanished without any explanation and all the search and rescue crews sent to find the ship were lost as well. The Doctor had always thought that just a story, but he had to change his mind when he was actually standing in the ship itself.
"Doctor, what happened here? Where is everybody?" asked Alex.

"I have no idea," the Doctor said, "But I know the name of the ship. It's called the Aragon and it has its own legend. It goes something like this. It's said that the Aragon was lost in the 31st century and was never found by anyone. It vanished without a trace and all the search and rescue groups who went to go an find the ship were lost as well. No one ever returned, but there were stories from people who were supposedly on the ship and escaped. They wanted to live in peace and solitude for the rest of their days. They said that the ship was attacked."

"Attacked by what?" asked Alex.

"Of all things, angels," the Doctor.

"Angels?" asked Alex, "I thought angels were the good guys."

"Generally, yes, but even in Judeo-Christian beliefs not all angels were good. There were the fallen angels that followed Lucifer during his rebellion. I use that example because it was the best one that would relate to you, but the point is not all angels are good. The majority are, but not all," the Doctor explained.

"So which angels do you think they were that attacked this ship?" asked Alex.

"Well, no one knows if angels or just something that looks like an angel," the Doctor.

"Like an angel statue," Harper added. She was looking out the window.

"What are you talking about?" asked the Doctor.

Harper turned to look at the Doctor. She pointed at the window and said, "That statue."

Alex looked at the statue and said, "That is the scariest angel thing I have ever seen."

"What do you mean?" asked Harper. She looked at Alex and said, "It was one of those angels that were crying."

"Not anymore look," Alex pointed to the thing outside the window.

Harper looked up at it and said, "It's moved."

The Doctor looked and saw the angel, "Harper, did you saying it was crying?"

"Yes," said Harper.

"A Weeping Angel," the Doctor said, "You two look at it and do not take your eyes off of it!" The Doctor ran to the controls and used his sonic screwdriver and used it to close the armor over the glass. As the metal shut over the glass, the Doctor kept staring at the angel. When the metal shut, there was a thud that came from the window.

"What was that?" asked Alex.

"Think of the worst possible thing and double it. Now add another suitcase of bad and you still don't have the Weeping Angels. We need to get out of here!" the Doctor said. He opened the door to the hallway and was staring face to face with another Weeping Angel. "ALEX! HARPER! LOOK AT THE ANGEL!"

The two of them jumped when they saw thing and its evil face. The Doctor backed up and with lightening speed he slammed the door shut. The Angel beat on the door and started to dent it. The one on the outside started doing the same thing from outside the ship. The from another door there was more banging. The Angels were going to get in if the Doctor didnt' find a way to get out of here. He took out his sonic screwdriver and primed it for its laser usage again. He looked at Alex and said, "Alex, get your wand ready. Harper, just look at them. They can't move if you look at them."

"Okay," both girls said in unison. After that, one of the doors collapsed inside the bridge and the thing behind the door entered into the bridge.