Prologue:

It wasn't long before the lonely Time Lord regretted his choice, he always wanted to be free of any one who he would put at risk ever since Amy was taken by the Weeping Angel... But his curiosity over one girl forced him to take her in, and now she was hurt too. He left her and has been hiding in the corners of space for a few weeks, the loneliness has eventually grown into a type of madness. He just sat around all day and all night watching the monitors for signs if trouble... Or maybe just someone who can fully be with him. The TARDIS was getting pretty peeved at him lazing around and was desperately trying to find him someone who can help fill the hole in his heart. It wasn't until the TARDIS found signs of a dangerous alien on a mars type planet that the Doctor finally looked excited about adventure.

Chapter one: DNA

"Data log 589, it has been 2 weeks since the alien invasion started and our numbers have diminished almost completely, out of the 200 we had with us in the base we are down to a scattered 15. They seem to be looking for something but not us, they just kill us because we are in their way. My name is Emily Fronce, I am the head researcher at this facility." A woman in her mid 60's stopped the recording on her watch and slunk back into the shadows as a patrol group walked the corridors and passed the room where her and 3 other facility residents where hiding, they where starving and where not able to get to the food storage cause the enemy destroyed that part of the facility.

"Why do you insist on doing reports during this horrible time director?" A young boy spoke up as Emily crawled through a hidden hole in the wall and jumping down into a small closed off sewer. "Because if we ever get rescued or we die and they find our bodies, I want them to know what happened here." She shifted into her small corner and started to continue a few scribbles on the wall, glancing at the middle aged man asleep in the corner opposite of her. "You know we are doomed to die here... There is no way we can escape and we are sure to be found eventually..." Emily whipped around to the boy and spoke in a harsh tone, dropping her small white stone in her rage. "Tommy that is enough, we can survive and we will get out of here, and I will be damned if we turn into experiments." Tommy whimpered under her anger as she turned back to the wall and continuing her scribbles after finding her stone.

The TARDIS materialized in what seemed to be small lab, the bottles and tube spilled around, their contents soaking the marble white floor. As the Doctor stepped out he fixed his bow tie and smiled with a great sense that this rescue may actually go well. He ventured into the hall and looked up and down the dark broken walls, not noticing the red flashing dot right above the door. He snuck through the dark passage using nothing but his screwdriver to light the way, not noticing the small shadow slinking behind him with brown and green feral eyes glaring at him. He turns the corner and sees another hall, sighing he walks normally down the seemingly never ending hall, he turned the corner and saw yet another hall. Getting frustrated he starts to walk quickly, the shadow still following as he went turn after turn in the never ending labyrinth. Eventually he stopped and looked around, the shadow now gone around the corner in order to stay hidden. "Just my luck... I would get lost in this place, why would you even drop me here old girl?" He spoke to himself, not noticing the shadow slink past him and float down a right turn.

He lifted his screwdriver up and started taking a left turn when something silver flew past his head and delve itself into the concrete beside him, looking at it he saw a throwing knife with a small yellow paper attached to what looked like a copper wire. He slipped the note off and looked at the writing on it, gasping as he saw the writing was in his language. "Turn right." He folded the paper and stuck it in his pockets while grabbing the knife from the wall and slipping it into his left coat pocket, he ran right and continued down the hall until another two way turn showed up, this time with a knife and note saying 'Go left'. He spent 30 minutes following the notes until he came across a red door with a Gallifreyan set of wording causing him to read and re-read the words, speaking aloud as he read in the dim light. "The area beyond this door is closed down for the safety of anyone traveling through the halls of infinicy. Enter at own risk. If you stay in the halls beware of the Shadow." Just as he finished reading a growl was heard behind him, the confused alien looked over his shoulder and saw a pair of the same brown and green eyes look at him from down the hall with a large white and red toothy grin. It howled and charged towards him, making him jump as he pointed the screwdriver at the door knob, he muttered curses at the screwdriver and flew the freshly unlocked door open as the beast roared and pounced, the second he stepped into the other room a bright light came on, cascading its soft glow down the hall making the beast stop and back away from its invisible enemy.

The Doctor closed the door behind him and looked around the white walled bright room, taking in the serene calmness of it, he leaped from the door as the beast scrapped its claws against the metal, wanting nothing more than to rip the Doctor's throat out. He walked to a small computer beeping away in a corner of the room where he quickly pointed the driver at the screen and selected the video footage that was last taken.

A young woman showed up on the screen, yelling something but the audio was cut out, she seemed frantic as she constantly looked over her shoulder to a few colleagues who where holding the door that led to what the Doctor believed was the rest of the base. The woman turned around and ran to the door before a knife similar to the ones the Doctor found in the halls was ground into her neck, causing blood to spill over the floors and counters. The colleagues turned and looked like they where looking for the assailant when the door flew open. Medium sized beetle like creatures that walked on 2 legs stormed in shooting everyone with guns that looked like it was made out of Dalek tech. Eventually the humans where dead and the "Beatles" turned to go before a large sword suddenly appeared out of the air and was swung into the leg of a "Beetle" causing it to drop as blood suddenly covered an invisible pair of boots, the sword was thrusted forward and was homed in the gut of another and made the others turn and fire their weapons at the open air around the master of the sword. The sword handle was suddenly pinned to the ground as the head of the bleeding and dying "Beetle" was twisted off, boot marks appearing on the sides of the head on the "Beetle" ahead of him as the second head was crushed. The blood suddenly started floating on what looked like a trench coat, the few remaining "Beetles" turned and ran, squashing their allies, making blood splatter on the front of the coated figure. The footage looked like it froze for a few seconds until the figure whipped what looked like the coat off, the invisibility device turning off revealing the slim frame of a young woman, she was wearing what looked like an baggy pair of army pants with a silver utility belt that had multiple knifes. She wore a black hoodie with sleeves and Gallifreyan inking on the back, the Doctor looked at the writing but wasn't able to make it out with the crappy quality, he used the sonic to clear up the quality so that it looked like he was really in the room. The woman turned and looked at the camera of the computer, letting the Doctor see her full face mask which looked like a ski mask with black slick glasses. She held up her gloved hands and started writing Gallifreyan in the air, tracing the circular words so fast that the Doctor had a hard time reading what she was trying to say, once she finished she held a thumb in the air before throwing a knife into the camera. But when the Doctor looked at the camera on the computer it was perfectly fine, and there was no blood on the ground or walls. He played the video a few times, slowing down when she wrote the words and jumped back when he realized what she said.

"You are in a mind room, get out now!"

He took a knife and broke the computer, making the walls start to break away, the more he broke the computer the more the real room started to show itself, eventually the room was back to normal with blood everywhere and the two doors open and a light broken. He looked out the door to the halls and saw the room where he parked the TARDIS, out the other door was a green glow on the hall wall. He grabbed the knife and ventured out, not seeing the floating pen twirl in the air behind where he once stood.

Emily finished her scribbles and sat back, taking in the sleeping body of her friend and the sleeping body of her younger pal. She looked out the peek hole and saw the Geminit, the scientific name she gave them, drag the body of her fellow colleagues including the body of a woman with a knife in her throat. She took her rock and wrote the names of the fallen down, "6 left..." She whispered as she kept watching the Geminit remove the blood and organs of the fallen and put them in a silver canister before setting the bodies ablaze, leaving the bodies behind they left and closed the door to the room trapping the three in the room with everything quickly catching ablaze. Emily shook everyone awake and rushed them outside, making them help her in trying to open the door but to no prevail. "The stench is absolutely horrible!" Cried the older man as he held Emily close. "I know... But we can't get out!"

The flames have already engulfed almost the entire room, smoke filled what was left of the smoke as the survivors started choking, but then a kicking sound was heard on the door as it started to break under the force. The trio jumped out of the way as a black boot kicked away the door, causing it to fly into the inferno. A gloved hand reached in and grabbed Emily and pulled her out of the room with the older man and Tom following close behind. Smoke billowed out of the room as the three coughed and hacked, letting real air into their lungs, Emily looked at her savior only to see Geminit's rushing towards them and a small figure holding a sword prepping to fight them off. A hand landed on Emily's shoulder causing her to jump and turn towards the person, "Run!" The Doctor shouted as he led the trio away from the oncoming brawl and leaving the girl behind. The four ran towards where the Doctor parked his TARDIS, ignoring the shrieks and clicks of pain as the Geminit where massacred. They where 2 halls away from the TARDIS when Geminit blocked their way, prepping their guns making them stop in fear. Turning back they saw more Geminit run... Or skitter... One of the two towards them, Emily sobbed certain her fate will be the same as her friends when Tommy charged forward and swung a fist at a Geminit who dodged and bit his arm, ripping it off in one fluid motion. Tommy yelled and fell back, as the same Geminit lunged forward to bite his head off.

Emily covered her face with her hands as blood covered her and her friend, the Doctor was facing the other way warding off the Geminit with his sonic screwdriver. A few second passed before Emily removed her hands, Tommy was sitting there in fear as the young girl stood over top of him, guarding him as the headless Geminit behind her twitched before collapsing to the ground. "Tommy! Oh thanks god," she said as she rushed forward and hugged the trembling young boy, "I though you where gonna die!" The older man reached into his lab coat and pulled out a gun, aiming it at the Doctor who still had his back turned. He squeezed the trigger and fired, making a bullet go into the Doctor's right heart.

The man blinked and saw the Doctor standing there perfectly fine, a hand covering his face and a hand holding his wrist that was in the pocket of the gun. With a squeeze the girl broke him skull before grabbing a few knifes and throwing them into the brains of the Geminit facing the Time Lord. The Doctor turned and looked at the girl as she whipped the brains off her hands. "What do you think your doing?! You just killed an innocent man!" The girl turned to Emily and Tommy who where sobbing at the sight of their dead comrade. "?,?" A voice was heard in the three's minds, it rang of danger with a note of daring properties. "?,?,?" The Doctor stood confused, why wasn't the TARDIS translating what she is saying? "Why... Why are you speaking like that?" He demanded, stepping forward and getting dangerously close to the girl. "?,?" She sighed as she set her bloody hands on her hips. She reached up and touched the doctor's head, gently probing into his mind, a she looked for something for a few seconds before pulling away and looking at him again. "I said that man wasn't innocent, he was going to shoot you. My mission is to ensure the sleeping one doesn't wake up, you're lucky I saved these two." She turned to the scared humans before walking past the Doctor and continuing down the hall. "Wow... If she was older she would be one damn fine woman..." The Doctor though as Emily and Tommy got up and stood behind the Time Lord. "I don't think we have properly met, I am Emily and this is Tommy." The Doctor held out his hand and smiled at the sudden kindness of the elderly woman. "Call me the Doctor."

End of Chapter one.