Doctor Eddin Krayner was running late for his appointment with the President, he'd heard that the man was a pretty laid back guy, so if he was a little late hopefully the President wouldn't be too mad. He'd also heard that President Loire was basically useless without his two aids, but he wasn't even going to mention that. After all he didn't want to hack off the President of Esthar.

It has taken some string pulling, calling in of favors and the likes but he'd finally been able to arrange a meeting, he had to go straight to the top because the company was so powerful only a world leader would have enough power to pull the plug on them, and the plug definitely needed pulling.

Stepping until the elevator he slid they level 1 visitors key card into the slot which would allow him access to the President's Office and tried to wipe his clammy hands on his lab coat without dropping the files, which lead to them scattering over the floor.

Dropping to his knees and scurrying to pick the sheets up, Krayner's hand stopped over a sheet of paper that was labeled, "Confidential: Advanced Nano Research."

As his eyes read the sheet over, hoping to find some proof he was wrong the elevator stopped and the emergency lights came on. Suddenly from behind Krayner heard a scurrying sound behind him and turned around.

Screaming at the sight before him, Krayner was silenced, whatever had attacked him left and all that remained in the elevator was the visitor pass. No files, no clothes, no Krayner.

Part 1: Fantasy

It was hustle and bustle as usual in Esthar's shopping district, people flooded the streets in an unorganized mess, it was noises as you'd expect a crowded place to be but just above the sound of daily life a new, out of place sound could be heard. It was like a whirring, grinding sound, steadily getting louder and louder and originating from an unfinished part of the new shopping district expansion, the only thing aside from the noise that was out of place was a blue light that came from nowhere and kept fading in and out of view in a steady rhythm. Eventually a wooden box with the words "Police Public Call Box" displayed at the top on all four sides appeared. Out of the box stepped a tall thin man in a brown pinstripe suit and a long brown jacket.

He was followed by a girl in a red jacket and jeans, with a hair style the man had only been able to describe as "pineapple-like."

"We're in a construction site," The girl told the man, she sounded throughly unimpressed,

"Well I can't park out in the open can I?" He replied, walking towards the busy main street.

"Well where are we?" The girl asked, excitement evident in her tone.

"This is the planet Gaia," The man told her, "and we, Martha Jones, are in the Capital City of Esthar on the Esthar continent."

"Hold up, Doctor. I've heard that word before, 'Gaia'" Martha said, "That's like... earth mythology isn't it? Spirit of the Earth, yeah?"

"Martha the universe is filled with literally thousands upon thousands of intelligent species, it's a little arrogant to expect yours to be the only one to come up with the word Gaia." the Doctor suddenly grinned, "Come on, let's go have a look around!"

"Alright! Thanks for letting me come on this mission with you Squally!" Cried Selphie cheerfully, pumping a fist into the air.

Squall waved at the cheerful girl dismissively, but couldn't help but smile a little. Whilst Squall was still a man of few words he'd opened somewhat and could at least pull more facial expressions then the default "frown".

"So 'Commander Squally', are you going to brief us on our mission?" Selphie asked, as she sat down, stretching her arms above her head.

"You know why we're going to Esthar," Squall replied, "President Loire... Laguna..."

Squall took a deep breath and tried again, "My father, has reported several members of his staff missing and yesterday a research from the Drawtech corp who was supposed to meet with him never turned up. All these people were investigating the rumor that Drawtech is conducting illegal experiments, now none of them can be found anywhere. Hey are you listening?"

Somewhere during Squall's speech Selphie had started staring out of the window of the train that was going to taking them from Fisherman's Horizon to Esthar, there was nothing but clear blue skys and calm blue ocean to be seen. Selphie's eyes snapped back to Squall and she blushed a little.

"Oh! I heard you. Sorry Squall, but the view is sooooo amazing!"

Squall sighed and rubbed his forehead then, lay down on the bed. They'd be there in about an hour and there was no point in going back to sleep, but at least the beds were more comfy then the chairs were.

"So... what are you going to say to your dad?" Asked Selphie,

"Well I'm going to ask for a list of the people who've gone missing, all the data they'd uncovered before vanishing..."

Selphie sighed and shuck her head,

"No not about the mission, about the two of you. I mean you guys said you'd talk more right?"

"Selphie, we're on a mission!" Squall protested,

"Doesn't mean you can't spend some quality time with your dad!" Retorted Selphie sticking her tongue out.

"Yes it does!" replied Squall exasperated,

"Doesn't!" Said Selphie with a huff as she folded her arms.

Something told Squall this next hour would take a long, long time to pass.

"Esthar is the most advanced civilization on the planet," Explained The Doctor, "Few years ago, there was this sort of Queen... the people of this planet called her a Sorceress. She basically declared war on the rest of the world, then she was over thrown by one man, who's the current President... of course there were all kinds of political problems, the nation of Galbadia had become power hungry and started expanding so they recruited a "sorceress" as their ambassador as a scare tactic, what they didn't know was she wanted that kind of power in order to kill Galbadia's leader and take over."

Martha look at the Doctor quizzically, whatever he had started out saying had been lost as he began explaining the history of Gaia.

"Anyway this all eventually lead to a time war, were a private army called SeeD ended up defeating this sorceress from the future who was possessing someone in the present in order to compress time so she could be the only living thing and recreate the universe in her own image. But like I said SeeD defeated her and got sent into their own past, where they implanted the idea of SeeD into it's founder's mind and created a Paradox, which really the Time Lords should of prevented but we were a little busy with the Daleks at the time..."

The Doctor stopped walking a moment, puzzled,

"Sorry, I forgot where I was going with that." He told Martha, who laughed lightly and shook her head somewhat.

"Oooh look, a train station! I love trains!" The Doctor said giddily,

"You've got the TARDIS, a machine that can travel through time and space..." Martha said cautiously, "you can go anywhere and anywhen, and you like trains?"

The Doctor looked at her a somewhat wounded look on his face.

"What's wrong with trains?" He asked

"You are such a kid!" Martha replied pushing him lightly, The Doctor just grinned and began walking towards the train station

Laguna stood at the train station looking through the crowd of passengers that were clambering off the train for his son and the other SeeD agent, he didn't know which one Squall said he was bringing with him. Laguna had decided he need to try and look as important as his position claimed he was, so he'd dressed up, suit and tie. The works, he'd even had a briefcase with him and had tied his hair back in a pony tail. Kiros had suggested that he get it cut, but there was no way he'd do that.

"..." Ward told Laguna profoundly,

"Ward is right," Agreed Kiros, "Squall's not mad at you, so there's no need to be nervous. He's just a little... stoic. Hard to believe you're related at all, really."

"What do you mean by that?" Laguna replied grumpily, he turned his head away from the train briefly and saw a man and a woman dressed in strange clothes enter the station, before Kiros calling to Squall and his team mate who was apparently, Selphie, brought him back to reality.

"Hi Sir Laguna, Sir Kiros, Sir Ward!" Selphie said cheerifully as she bounced to a stop in front of them.

"Hello, Miss Tilmitt," Said Kiros, "Come on, Ward and I will brief you while Squall talks with 'the President'."

"But Ward can't tal..." Laguna tried to object, whilst Squall rubbed his forehead in frustration.

"Sorry can't hear you!" Selphie replied, "The briefing is really loud!"

Squall and Laguna watched as the three disappeared to outside the train station.

"I hate those two sometimes," Laguna said with a heavy sigh, though he noticed Squall wasn't paying attention. His son had a glare in his eyes and Laguna followed that glare towards a metallic looking puddle that was... crawling across the station platform, suddenly it began to form a bipedal object until it looked humanoid and was walking towards Squall and Laguna, firing parts of itself into the crowd, killing innocents before returning to the main body. Laguna opened the briefcase to reveal a machine gun, which he picked up and began firing at the silver creature, the bullets whizzed through it harmlessly and indented themselves in the side of the train.

The man in the suit appeared between Squall and Laguna, the girl stood beside him.

"That's not going to work, run!" He commanded

Without thinking, Laguna turned and headed for the exit but Squall remained steadfast.

"Who are you?" Squall demanded,

"There will be time for that when you're not being attacked by a silver metallic creature, now move!" The man demand, and Squall in spite of his better judgment turned and ran, the man and girl close behind him.

Martha stopped when the Doctor did, watching him as he used his Sonic Screwdriver to seal the exit to the train station, it seemed that no matter where they went trouble found them. The Doctor couldn't even take her on a shopping trip without a silver monster attacking them.

"There, that should hold it for a little while," The Doctor stated

"Now who are you?" Demanded the young man with the scar across his face, but before either of them could answer Martha noticed the silver puddle seeping from under the door.

"Doctor... look," She whispered,

The Doctor looked down and saw what Martha had seen, the two glanced at each other.

"Let's go, now!" The Doctor's voice was full of authority

The Doctor and Martha dashed past two men, one large and round the other tall and lean, and a girl in a bright yellow dress. The two men they'd just met right behind them.

"Selphie!" Said the man with the scar, "Move, now!"

After what seemed like forever, the group finally stopped running. The Doctor did a head count, there was seven of them. The two men from the train station, the two men and the girl from outside the station and Martha and himself, they were back near the TARDIS, in a built but unfurnished shop.

"What was that thing?" Asked Martha, when she got blank faces... and a stern look from the guy with the scar, she decided the question would be better aimed at The Doctor, unfortunately he didn't get a chance to answer that.

"Never mind that for now," Said the scar guy, "who are you two?"

"I'm the Doctor and this is Martha," The Doctor said cheerfully, "Hello! And you are?"

"I'm Laguna Loire," Said the man with the long hair

"Laguna..." Said the man with the scar

"And this is Kiros, Ward..." He point at the skinny and large men respectively

"Laguna..." repeated the man with the scar

"and my son Squall and his friend Selphie." He pointed at the guy with the scar and the girl in the yellow dress.

"DAD!" Shouted Squall, that got Laguna's attention "You don't know who these people are and they showed up right when that creature did, now they know who you are!"

"Oh! Don't mind us, we're just sort of... passing by," The Doctor interjected cheerfully,

"And you decided to save the President of Esthar from a monster attack?" Asked Selphie, a huge grin beaming across her face, "That is sooooo cool!"

The Doctor tilted his head smugly

"Yeah, I am quiet cool, aren't I?" He said with fake modest,

"Don't encourage him," laughed Martha, "he's got a big enough ego as it is!"

Suddenly, the Doctor became all business again.

"That thing, what was it?" He asked deadly serious, he then turned to Squall and Laguna, "And why was it after you?"

Laguna looked at Squall, who returned the glance, now that Squall had mentioned it... could they really trust these strangers?

To Be Continued...

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