Hello! Welcome to my second ever fanfiction! I am already finished with this one, so updating should be pretty good. I'll try to update every day. Please review! :D

This story takes place after the first TimeRiders book and the 11th Doctor is in it.

Sal, Maddy, Liam, and Bob were sitting in the archway. Well, actually, only Liam and Bob were sitting. Maddy and Sal were cooking dinner. For once they weren't buying takeout. Maddy was just putting the carrots on the stove when she was hit with a wave of dizziness.

"Did you feel that?" she asked Sal.

"Yeah. It felt like a time wave."

Maddy walked over to the window and pressed the button to raise the shutters. She looked out into the street. Liam walked over to see too.

"Looks the same. But I can't really be sure. You should check, Sal."

Sal walked over and looked out the window.

"Looks the same from here."

"Maybe we should go out and check if it's the same everywhere else," said Liam. "That felt like a pretty big wave, I can't believe nothing changed."

The TimeRiders went outside and walked to the corner. Everything was dead silent. They could hear the wind. It looked deserted.

"It's definitely not the same," said Sal. "Look at the cars. Everything looks really old, but also new, like it's never been used before."

"So everyone just left?" asked Maddy. "What happened to them? Do you think there's been another zombie apocalypse? The last one was bad enough."

"Only one way to see!" Liam walked over to a store door and opened it. "Not even locked." He stepped inside.

Maddy and Sal walked over and joined him in the store.

"Shaddyah! Everything is so old!"

"Yeah! Look at the people!" exclaimed Maddy. "Ugh, who would ever wear that?"

Liam walked over to the counter. "1983. That's the date on this calendar."

"That would explain the terrible fashion sense," said Maddy.

"What do you think happened?" asked Sal

"I don't –"

Suddenly, their conversation was interrupted by a loud whistling and hissing and banging and overall just really hard to describe sound. The TimeRiders ran over to the open door and looked out. A strangely dressed man stepped out of a weird blue box thing that they could swear had not been there minutes earlier. He turned towards them and said, "Hello!" He had a bow tie and a weird glowy pen thing, which he pointed at them and frowned.

"Uh, hello," said Maddy. "Who are you?"

"I'm the Doctor," the man answered.

"Doctor who?" Maddy questioned.

"Just the Doctor. Anyway, what are your names?"

"I'm Maddy, this is Liam, and Sal. How did you get here?"

The Doctor gestured vaguely towards the blue box.

"Who are you?" he asked back. "Why are you the only people here?"

"That's what we're trying to figure out." Liam answered.

"It seems like something happened in 1983 that caused all the people to disappear." Maddy explained.

"Hmm. Well, I guess we need to go to 1983 then. Ooh, I love the 80s!" the strange man said.

"How are you going to get to 1983?" Sal asked.

"In my Tardis!" the stranger exclaimed happily.

Liam asked, "What's a Tardis?"

"It's my super awesome time and space travelling blue police box!" The Doctor explained.

Maddy looked at him skeptically. He noticed and invited them inside. They accepted and went in.

"Shaddyah!"

"It's bigger on the inside!"

"Woah! How does it work?" Maddy the ever-geeky technology nerd asked.

"Some Time Lord technology. There are –"

Liam interrupted what was likely going to be a really long and technical description of the mechanics of the Tardis.

"We have a time machine too."

The Doctor silenced and turned towards him.

"Can I see?"

"Um, sure!" Liam replied.

The TimeRiders took the Doctor into the archway.

"This is our time displacement machine." Maddy explained.

"How can you time travel with such primitive and simple technology?" The Doctor asked. He pushed some buttons. He pointed his glowy pen thing at the displacement machine.

"Uh, it uses tachyon energy to make a portal that we can walk through. It goes through another dimension." Maddy answered.

"Weird," said the Doctor. "How do you get back?"

"Someone has to always stay here to activate the return windows."

"Oh. My Tardis can transport itself. We can all go to 1983 in her."

"We might as well go now," Maddy said. "We can take this Tardis thing. Bob can stay here."

They introduced the Doctor to Bob. The Doctor looked at him curiously. He looked at the rest of them a bit sadly. Then he walked out the door. They rushed to catch up with him. He walked into the Tardis. They hesitated outside the door. "Well, come on then!" the Doctor yelled out at them. They walked in.

"Are you sure about this?" whispered Sal. "We don't even know who he really is."

"No," Maddy answered. "But we'll still have Bob to give us a return window if we really need it."

"Hold on!" the Doctor yelled.

They held on. The Doctor pulled some levers and pressed some buttons and the Tardis made a horrible grinding noise. The Tardis shook around, and even Liam was unable to hold on. They fell off and crashed into the walls.

Finally, the Tardis stopped shaking. The Doctor got back up and went to the control panel. He looked at the screen and pressed some more buttons, mumbling incomprehensible things under his breath.

"What happened?" asked Liam.

"I'm not sure…" the Doctor said. "Something sucked all the energy out of her. We'll have to stop for a few days to reenergize."

"Are we at least in 1983?" asked Maddy.

"We should be." The Doctor walked over to the door and peered out. He turned around and said, "Yep!"