Anda Dane sat in the snow, worrying "Where is Thresh?" she thought, he had promised to meet her here at least 30 tregs ago! But Thresh was never late! It was a stupid idea to come out here by herself; they had all been warned that it was dangerous to go out of the village boundaries in a group smaller than three. Maybe the reason Thresh hadn't turned up was because he had been taken like the others! Or at least Anda assumed they had all been taken, everyone else used the word "disappeared" but it was too much of a coincidence for ten people to go missing in the space of a month! Anda sighed, stood up and was turning to head home when an unnatural rushing, grating sound filled the air. Her tail swished from side to side and her eyes grew even wider than normal as a blue box materialised in front of her.

Amy Pond walked down the stairs to the TARDIS control room, where the Doctor, an eleven hundred odd year old Time Lord, and her husband Rory Williams were rushing around the console, pushing buttons and flicking leavers. "Pull the Wibbly Leaver!" the Doctor shouted at Rory

"Errrm which one's that again?" Rory cried back

"The one with the long silver bit on!"

"Aah yes, got it!"

The TARDIS gave a sudden lurch and then settled; Amy grabbed the handrail and shouted down at the two men "You let Rory fly the TARDIS, why can't I have some lessons?"

"Because," the Doctor retorted "Rory told me what happened when he let you drive his car!"

"It was only a few scratches!"

"Errrm no it wasn't," Rory called back "I had to get a brand new car, remember?"

"Yes, well…where have we landed anyway?" Amy said, changing the subject. The Doctor stared at them both with a boyish grin on his face "Let's take a look shall we?" he said, as he ran to the other side of the console and switched on the scanner. The first thing Amy noticed was that the planet outside was totally and utterly covered in bright, white snow. The second thing she noticed, was the fact that there was an alien staring straight at them. She had large, dark, round eyes, rough white skin, and, rather than hair she had three thick head tails, two came over her shoulders on either side and the third ran the length of her back, all three were tipped in red (Or at least Amy assumed they were as she couldn't see the tip of the one that ran down the alien's back). Also the alien had only four digits on each hand and a tail that burst from the lower part of her back. Amy was surprised when she saw the alien's clothes; she would have thought that with the planet being snow covered the people here would be wearing thick fluffy coats, but this young looking female was wearing only a thin green top, tight blue trousers (which extended up the tail) and a thick brown belt around her torso. She also had a hunting knife strapped to the belt on her hip, and had a thin, woven bracelet wrapped around her wrist.

"Sooo," Rory said "can you tell from the alien-standing-outside-and-staring-directly-at-us what planet we are on?"

"Well…. I'd suggest we're on Halo." The Doctor answered "Want to go say hello?"

Anda stared at the box for, what felt like, ages (but was really only one Earth minute), until the door of the blue box opened and out stepped a rather young, wild looking man with a very prominent chin! But something wasn't right with him, he had no tails of any kind and there were too many fingers on both hands! Anda stared. And then two more young people stepped out of the box, a male and a female, both of them had the same things wrong with them the man had, their skin was too smooth, too pink.

"Hello!" cried the man at the front "I'm the Doctor; this is Amy and Rory. Lovely planet by the way, very cold!"

"Hi," responded Anda, she felt woozy and she knew she was going to faint.

"What year is this?" the stranger asked.

"3456" Anda told him.

"Aaah" said the Doctor and turned to his friends "this planet has never seen an alien race before, they live in a solar system with very little life,"

That did it. Anda began to fall backwards, "Doctor" shouted the young man behind him, he raced forwards to catch her just as she blacked out.