The Creatures of Time
"You have brought me to a hole!" Amy snapped at the doctor as they stepped out of the tardis. "A hole? This is no hole. This is the 2043 asteroid impact site. This hole is a symbol of what humanity is capable of, in a good way" The doctor smiled as he tugged on the lapels of his tweed jacket and walked from the tardis out into the dusty floor of the crater.
"Ok, so not even a just a hole. But a hole on Earth. You told me all of time and space and you bring me to a dusty hole in the middle of nowhere on my own planet 30 odd years later than what I already know" Amy smiled. She knew by now that she could annoy the doctor ever so slightly by saying certain things and she loved doing it. "Stop calling it a hole, it's a crater and an important one at that" He replied turning to see a cheeky smile across Amy's face. "Important eh? Amy asked as she kicked the duct up from the ground, the stone bouncing along the rugged rocks and falling into one of the many cracks and crevices in the ground. "Yes important. The asteroid that made this crater was big enough to kill every form of life on this planet in a few hours but it didn't because the human race stopped it" He smiled, "With a little help from me" He laughed as he turned to see Amy had lost interest in what he was saying and had began walking along the sides of the crater, touching the jagged edge rock walls. The doctor walked up behind her silently and took out his sonic screwdriver and used it on the rock wall making a small section of rocks fall in front of her. Amy jumped and turned around glaring at the doctor. "Wondering off were we" He smiled as he saw Amy panting to get her breath back. "Thanks for that" She laughed back as she turned and walked back with him.
The doctor explained to her how the human race had saw the asteroid coming and knew where it would hit so they had cleared the area and waited for the impact then covered the area in an air bubble, the explosions were captured and left to settle before they began to clear up the area. "Leaving this, the biggest crater on the planet, filled with new life and minerals." He said as he picked up a small rock and inspected it. "So if this place was cleared, where are we?" Amy asked. "In your time you call it Russia, although now it is the United conglomerate of eastern Europa of the new world." He replied as he continued to stare at the stone. Amy paused for a second. She was only a few years into the future and the human race was so different. For all she knew she was out in that world somewhere married to Rory, with kids, and a new house and maybe no doctor. That future scared her to her core. For now it was all about the present, well the future. "Why are you looking at a stone?" Amy asked, "Is it interesting?" She continued sarcastically. "It is actually. On this stone there are tiny micro organisms, which are taking in the solidified plasma from the asteroid and turning it into polycarbonmangenate. Which, in about 10 years will be discovered as the perfect treatment for heart problems?" The doctor smiled, placing the stone back on the orange rock ground. "So why can't we" Amy started, "Take it back to the present day, and give it to the UN and save millions of lives?" The doctor said, finishing her sentence. "Yeah" As responded sadness in her voice. "Because it doesn't work like that" The doctor stated. He said it so sternly and certain that Amy did not dare to question him about it.
A small cracking noise echoed around them. A few rocks fell from high up above them. They were so deep underground that the top of the crater was barely visible. But don rolled just a few stones, cracking and smashing as they cascaded down the rock face and down onto the ground next to the doctor and Amy. The doctor stared up above them with a look of fear in his eyes. "See what I didn't tell you was that I landed the tardis one day before the air bubble was opened. Meaning..." He started. "That there sound be nobody else in here" Amy said, this time she was finishing the doctor's sentence. As Amy said the last word the same crack and falling of rocks happened over on the other side of the crater out of sight. "We need to get back to the tardis" The doctor said as he turned and looked for the blue police. There it was, standing bold and blue in the middle of the orange rocks. He grabbed Amy's hand and ran towards it. "Come on Pond!" He shouted as they ran, skipping over the rocks on the floor, kicking up a cloud of orange dust as they ran. The doctor reached the doors of the tardis opened them and let Amy inside as he stepped into the doorway he heard a thud behind him. He turned to see somebody standing in front of him. They had jumped from the rockface; the dust had circled around them. As the dust cleared the mysterious figure was revealed.