Strange helpers

Hi there everyone! I've been a fan of Dragon ball z and Doctor who for absolutely ages! I've had this typed up for quite a while, although it's not finished yet. I keep going back to it.

It's sort of a cross over; the Time Lord/Lady in this is my own character. She appears in my Transformers/Doctor who fic, Remembrance, as well, but in a different form.

Hope you all enjoy it! Please be nice when you review it! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not, under any circumstances, own Dragon ball z, the TARDIS or anything else from the shows. I only own Dagon, the Professor and the plot. If any of you wish to use any of my characters, please let me know so that I can arrange for them to be yours. Thanks!

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Something was happening on the Earth. What it was, no one knew. Not even Piccolo, the Namekian. It had all started when people started dying. Always during the night. What was going on? Everyone was on their guard, no one wanting to sleep for fear that they were next. Even the Z Fighters were on their guard, and it was beginning to take its toll on all of them.

Gohan tossed and turned in his sleep. He could feel things moving in the distance, but when ever he, his father and his friends had gone searching for the menace, they found nothing. Just people sleeping, and in the morning, people dead. He shot awake when he sensed something. Something close by.

A strange wind whipped up in the forest near to Gohan's home. It rustled the leaves and created small waves on the river. It was followed by an unearthly whirring as something materialised. It looked like a modern day phone box. A light on top of it flashed along with the object. Soon the whirring died to a hum as the object landed with a soft thump on the earth below, and then to nothing. The door opened and a figure strode confidently out of it, stopping only to lock the door. Then, it left.

Gohan got out of bed and walked to the window. Dawn was beginning to break, and already cries of mourning were breaking the silence. He hung his head, wishing that he knew something he could do. It was no use trying to fight an unknown, unseen enemy. He knew that. His father had told him that. Of course, getting Vegeta to listen was a different story. He smiled slightly at the thought of Vegeta acting like a spoilt child being told that he couldn't play. He sighed and turned to the orange gi that was hanging on his wardrobe. The 12 year old had taken to wearing a similar gi as his father's. He dressed quietly and made his way down the stares. He was surprised to see Chi-Chi up at this time of the morning.

"Mom?" Chi-Chi jumped when she heard her name. She turned to face her son.

"Oh, Gohan. It's you. What are you doing up at this time?" Gohan saw how she quickly turned her face away, but she wasn't fast enough. He could see that she had been crying.

"I couldn't sleep. Is everything ok, mom?" he asked, reaching out to lay his hand on his mother's shoulder. She nodded. At that moment, Goku came in from outside.

"Hey, son. Let me guess. Couldn't sleep?" he asked, smiling. Gohan knew his father well enough to know that the smile was a fake. Gohan nodded. All this stress was beginning to take its toll on even his father. He remembered what had woken him up.

"You didn't by any chance feel the same thing I did, did you dad?" he asked.

"Depends on what you felt," Goku smiled. Gohan smiled back.

"I felt something strange, something new. It was like something was opening and then shutting again."

"Yeah, I felt that, too. It's not like what's happening here at the moment. Perhaps we should go check it out?" Goku looked at his wife, who had finally turned to face them. She was too tired to argue, so she just nodded. Father and son looked at each other and left the house.

By the time they found anything peculiar, it was 10 in the morning. By this time, they had met up with Krillin and Piccolo. They were sitting (or in Piccolo's case, standing) next to the river not too far away from the Son house.

"So, what do you think it was, Goku?" Krillin asked. Goku lay back on the grass, looking up at the sky.

"I'm not sure, Krillin. I'm really not sure. But I do think it's somehow connected with all these strange deaths at the moment." Krillin lay back with him, looking from him to the sky. He could tell that Goku was thinking because of the serious expression on his face. Gohan sat nearer the lake, skimming the stones on the surface of the water. If there wasn't anything going on, he would have thought it was the perfect day to relax. Without realising, he threw each rock harder and harder, making the splashes higher. He threw the last rock the hardest, completely missing the lake and making it ricochet of another rock on the far side, which crumbled in the process, right back at him. He dodged out of the way and just managed to shout a warning to his father and best friend, who had sat up to see what the noise was, before it hit them. They dodged as the stone skimmed over head. They looked back at the 12 year old. Gohan put a hand behind his head nervously and smiled the famous Son smile.

"Oops, sorry." The stone only coming to a stop when it hit something. There was a loud clang of metal as it impacted with something. The four looked at each other and then back to where the sound came from.

"Clang? Did something just say 'Clang'? " Goku asked. Standing up cautiously, they made their way over to the spot where it hit. Gohan parted the bush and peered over the top of it. He was unsure of what he'd seen.

"Huh?"

"What is it, son?" Goku asked, peering over his shoulder. Everyone's guard was up.

"It…it's a phone box! But what's it doing out here!?" he exclaimed.

"A phone box? Lemme see!" Krillin said, almost pushing Goku out of the way. Gohan was right. It was a phone box. They looked at each other, Gohan finally coming to a decision. Without a word, he started towards it. He saw the stone embedded in the side.

'Oops, I must have thrown it harder than I thought. I hope no one sees it.' Goku and Krillin called for him to come back from it.

"Just a sec, I'm gonna get this stone out first…Aargh!" The moment he reached his hand out towards the box, a bolt of energy struck him square in the chest, sending him flying backwards. The others dodged out of the way as he flew past them, striking the ground and laying still.

"Gohan!!" Goku shouted, running over to him. He lifted his son in his arms. Gohan shivered slightly and woke up.

"Are you ok, Gohan?" Goku asked, setting him on his feet. Krillin had also ran over.

"Yeah, I'm fine, dad," he replied, leaning heavily on his father. Goku hooked his arm around Gohan's shoulders and steadied him.

"I think someone doesn't want us getting in." Krillin said. Gohan smiled weakly.

A young woman walked along the river towards the four fighters. She was clothed in a black, hip-length leather jacket, a brown tank-top covering a cream shirt, blue jeans and brown trainers. Her shoulder length blonde hair was pulled back into a ponytail and her teal- green eyes shone in the sunlight. There was some depth to her eyes, even if they were bright. She heard the commotion and quickened her pace, a serious expression crossing her features. She broke into a run when she heard the sound like energy being discharged at a high voltage.

'Oh, please no, please no, please no!' she thought. By the time she got to where she was heading, she saw two men kneeling near a boy, one of them obviously his father, as he had almost the same, messy, raven black hair and charcoal eyes. The other was a bald human in an orange gi and purple under shirt; in fact the three humans were all wearing more or less the same thing.

"Oh man, is he alright?!" she called as she came closer. Her presence had obviously not gone unknown as the two men looked at her. The spiky haired man shook his head slightly as she ran over.

"He didn't, you know, go near the box, did he?" she asked, fearing the answer. They nodded, shocked by her question. Did she know something they didn't? She pulled out a strange looking probe and activated it, a strange blue light emitting from it along with a high pitched whine. She noticed the man stiffen defensively, and she smiled to him soothingly.

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt him. I just want to see how bad he is," she explained. She swept the probe over the twelve year old's body and gave a sigh of relief.

"Oh good, it's not too bad," she said, deactivating the probe and pocketing it again. "He's just stunned. Give it two or three hours of rest and he'll back to normal." The adults looked at each other in shock. Goku was the one to break the silence.

"Who are you?" he asked. The woman thought about the answer for a moment.

"I'm…The Professor."

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So, what do you think? Please let me know if you enjoyed it! I have most of the other chapters ready, which I will post regularly; or at least try to. Please be nice when you review:-)