Chapter One- Into the Vortex
Space. A wondrous, tumbling, vast place where just about anything can happen, as long as the universe thinks it's not completely outlandish. And, as everyone knows, the universe is pretty lenient about these things, even if they're completely deadly and dangerous…
Out of nowhere, a small metallic sphere is expelled into the empty blackness, where it drifts about for a day. It has no mass, yet simply hangs there, not moving, waiting… but for what?
That question is answered as, a thousand kilometers away, a sun implodes on itself, creating a supernova. The particles reach out to this small sphere, not any larger than 10 meters, and, without warning, the sphere slowly collapses apart. The outside folds, revealing a seemingly insignificant ship, not extraordinary in any way- except for its color. The blackened outsides seem to exist for the sole purpose of obstructing light. A motor from within the ship begins to purr, and gradually builds up to a deafening roar. We move towards the ship, and to one of the windows on the outside to see a bustling hive of machinery hard at work- but no crew. The ship seems to be manning itself.
Dodging erratically between swinging robot arms, we coast throughout the ship's internal workings. Engines, central computer processors, faster, faster! We can now hear steady snatches of conversation, but it's too indistinct to hear. And now a pipe spews out a great cloud of steam, and- finally! Moving creatures can be seen. But- what is that? Are they cylinders…?
Whoosh! Out through another window, and now we speed up, faster again, until…
(Doctor Who theme music starts)
The TARDIS is tumbling through the time vortex as words appear on the screen.
DOCTOR WHO
Starring
David Tennant
More tumbling through the vortex.
Billie Piper
We now travel into a red vortex, and the words grow, filling the screen.
INTO THE VORTEX
By TheBigCat
The time vortex dissolves around us.
/DW\
"Ha!" crowed the Doctor, as he danced around the console of the TARDIS. "Did you see their faces when I picked up that torch?"
Rose Tyler laughed alongside him, quickly pressing a button to ensure that they stayed on the correct path. "Yeah, I meant to ask you, how did you get past the security? I tried, to get the Isolus pod into the torch, but they wouldn't let me in!"
The Doctor grinned widely. "Well, actually, I used the old stone diversion trick." Rose gaped at him.
"You mean, you just threw a pebble, and they ran after the noise?"
"Yup! You human can really be so thick sometimes, let me tell you…"
Rose dissolved into laughter on the console, while the Doctor regaled her with yet another one of his tall tales. They were enjoying themselves so much, in fact, that neither of them noticed when a red light started flashing.
"Wait," said Rose, pausing the Doctor mid-sentence.
"I know, right! Who would of thought that ol' Napoleon…" he rambled on.
"No, not that," murmured Rose, now frowning at the shaking console. "Why's the TARDIS…"
A huge tremor shook the entire ship, throwing them both to the floor. The Doctor struggled to stand up.
"What's going on?" yelled Rose.
"I don't know!" the Doctor yelled back. "Lemme just…" he hit a lever on the dashboard, wincing as it shocked him. "Ow. Okay, maybe…"
Rose was knocked against the central structure again as yet another shaking fit hit the TARDIS. The central monitor flickered on, and a view of the surrounding space could be seen. A black ship was cruising after them. And it seemed to be speeding up.
"Just great," groaned the Doctor. "All we needed. Yet another homicidal enemy trying to kill me."
"Wait, wait, back up," said Rose, holding her hands up. "Number one, what makes you think it's an enemy? And why can't I have homicidal enemies trying to kill me?"
"Well," replied the Doctor, now wrestling with a overly large switch on the side of the TARDIS. "You have enemies too, but they're just tiny ones. I, on the other hand, am more handsome, and therefore more jealous aliens have attempted killing me."
"You are not more handsome!" retorted Rose, quickly ducking to avoid some debris now smashing around the inside of the ship. "And you still haven't answered my first question."
This was proven to be inconsequential, as, at that moment, the black ship opened a communication link with the TARDIS. The Doctor glanced at the screen, and his gaze quickly hardened.
"Daleks," he mouthed to Rose, who nodded mutely.
"You-are-the-Doctor," the Dalek on the screen said tonelessly. "You-will-be-exterminated-"
"And how are you going to do that?" asked the Doctor, flicking switches and pressing buttons. "Hold this," he hissed at Rose, jabbing at a button, and ran off into the endless hallways. The Dalek ship began to shake, and a long, plunger-like extension slid out of the ship.
"Okay," muttered Rose to herself. "A ship, piloted by Daleks, that looks like a Dalek. I'm pretty sure that breaches at least one part of the Evil Overlord List."
Then, the ship started to fire. More shakes wracked the frame of the TARDIS, and Rose grasped the central console to stay upright. The Doctor dashed into the room, holding something that looked vaguely like a USB aloft. He ducked underneath the mainframe, apparently searching for something.
"C'mon, c'mon," he said, as yet more blasts emitted from the Dalek ship.
"Doctor?" Rose yelled from her position up above.
"Not now!" he yelled back. "Oh... gotcha!" He jabbed the USB into a port, tucked away from sight, and scrambled out. "Here... we... go!" he crowed, pressing the proverbial 'big red button'. There was a pause.
"Nothing happened," remarked Rose, still holding down her own button.
"You can let go of that now," he said absently. The Dalek ship kept on firing, and Rose was pretty sure that the TARDIS's defenses were about to break.
"Ah!" he said in surprise, as a purple light began to flash erratically. "Grab onto something! Or better yet, lie down on the floor. We're probably going to end up there anyway."
Rose frowned. "What?"
The TARDIS shook more than ever before, and was whipped into a different vortex- but instead of a steady red light, it was...
"Hot pink," stated Rose. She was beginning to feel dizzy, and maybe the Doctor's idea of lying down wasn't so bad.
The two passengers collapsed to the floor as the TARDIS wove its way through the vortex.
(A/N: Hello! This is my first Doctor Who fic, so please don't kill me!
I hope you like my (frankly pathetic) writing. I hope to update... once a week sounds good, if my parents permit it. :-)
~Kitty)
