Ruby had often caught herself wondering why everyday of her life looked the same

Ruby had often caught herself wondering why everyday of her life looked the same. She wakes up, fixes herself some cereal, and then brushes her teeth. Then she puts on her uniform, and walks to her job at the local grocery store. After a six hour shift she goes home and eats a small, most likely microwave, supper. At night she goes to sleep without even the excitement of dreams.

It was another boring day in London, and Ruby was on her lunch break, outside in front of the store. While sitting on a bench she opened up a grubby paper bag and took out the same sandwich that she has been eating everyday, ever since she found this ruddy job. Peanut butter and jelly was her 12:00 torment. After she finished her miniscule lunch she went to go back inside to finish her shift, but a man jumped in front of her blocking her path.

"I wouldn't go in there if I were you!" The man had brown hair that seemed to stand up on end, and he was wearing a blue suit and a pair of bright red Converse. Even with his big hair, the man was taller than Ruby, which wasn't saying much. She was about 5' 3" and had hair that would change from a medium shade of brunette to a dirty blonde. Everyday it was a different color.

"Why can't I go in there?" she demanded.

"Bad weather." He threw a large piece of wadded up plastic at her and said, "Put that on if you really want to go in." There was a loud crashing sound coming from the inside of the grocery store and Ruby recognized that noise from so many rainy nights before. "They already started the storm! They couldn't have waited? No, of course not! Well are you going to put that on or what?" Ruby quickly opened up the plastic to discover that it was a poncho. She thrust it over her head and cursed the practically invisible armholes that left her trapped in the entangling plastic. She gave up and took the poncho off and threw it to the ground in frustration.

"Who exactly are you," Ruby asked, because this man puzzled her in so many ways, not to mention he seemed to be holding some odd glowing screwdriver.

"I'm the Doctor." He walked through the doors without another word, but Ruby wanted another word. What kind of joke was he pulling? She wanted to know his real name and what storm he was talking about, because that thunder crash couldn't have made sense. She ran in through the doors and even though the automatic doors opened up she was still ankle deep in water. With rain pouring onto her head it was like the water was trapped in the building. She ran forward through the unnecessary second pair of doors and saw "The Doctor" waiting for her by the shopping carts. "What's your name?"

"Ruby Solange. What's yours," she persisted.

"I told you, I'm The Doctor. Now tell me, where is your boss' office," he was demanding, but she was not that easily pushed over.

"Why do you need to know? Did you do this?"

"I didn't do this, and there's a good chance that the thing that did is in your boss' office." He was getting angry and he took out a wallet and flipped it open to a white piece of paper that told Ruby he was the police.

Something about this wasn't right but Ruby reluctantly used her keys to open a door with stairs behind it. By this time she was glad to be ascending because the water level had reached halfway up her calf. The Doctor practically ran up the stairs and pushed her out of the way. "Hey!" She ran up the stairs because she wanted to keep an eye on this Doctor so he didn't make the situation worse. The Doctor stopped at the locked door and pointed the weird glowing device that he was holding towards the doorknob, and in seconds he threw the door open to reveal one of the scariest things that Ruby had ever seen. It was like a robot, it was entirely metal and had a long stick-like protrusion from what looked like its face, with what looked like a suction cup on the end of it. Even though Ruby was scared she still had her personality rise to the surface.

"What is that around the bottom of it? Metallic bubble wrap? What is it anyway?" The Doctor looked at her and she caught the tiniest glimpse of a curious expression on his face, but it soon went back to being serious.

"They're called Daleks." He faced the dalek again and sort of started pacing around it. "So, what now? You've stooped so low as to attack grocery stores, and with what? A bit of rain?"

The dalek started to speak and for some odd reason Ruby quivered at the sound of it. "It is the Doctor. I must exterminate." Its raspy electronic voice did scare Ruby but it seemed that in every frightening situation she had to laugh. The dalek turned to her and so did the Doctor with even more curiosity in his expression.

"What's so funny," the Doctor asked.

"I think this dalek needs a cough drop," she smiled and the Doctor started talking again.

"But, really, why rain? Oh wait I see! You were hoping to create a massive storm around the entire planet and flood it and therefore drowning every human being on the planet." A smile creeped onto the Doctor's face and she waited for the explanation behind that smile. "But you did something. You did the most human thing of all. You made a mistake! Ha!" He jumped up and down. "Tell me, how did it feel to make a mistake? But you don't have feelings. God, how I wish you did, because then I could see this little mistake elicit the explosion of emotions that would radiate off of you. I would finally get to see you suffer." The Doctor was positively fuming and was staring right down the dalek's "face."

"Where was I though? Oh yeah, the mistake. What kind of mistake did you make, eh? Instead of it raining outside, it's raining inside of every single building on the planet, which means that people can get out. Right now there are people running out of this building in a frenzy of fright and will undoubtedly question what had just happened but will also do the one thing that humans have been doing for thousands of years. They will survive."

The dalek spoke once more, "The Weather Generator has been built wrong. It will be fixed."

"Weather Generator?! Weather Generator! Oh, come on! You've got to be more original! Hold on a second!" He paused and thought about something and then turned to face Ruby. "Can you swim?"

"Yeah."

"Good. Now swim down the stairs and go to the freezers, and once you pass through that door you'll find a very large machine. Look for a latch on it. Once you've opened that latch you can shut it down. Here take this." He handed Ruby the odd glowing wand that he used before to unlock the door. "It's a sonic screwdriver. Just press this button right here and you'll be able to unlock any thing and shut down the Weather Generator." Ruby stood there in shock until he yelled, "Go! I'll deal with him."

Ruby ran to the door and wrenched it open to find that the water level had risen considerably since she last was on this staircase. Four steps in front of her was water that she prayed to God was not cold. Her prayers weren't answered as she stuck her shoe in and the water soaked through to her toes, but she sucked it up and plunged into the water and swam down through the open door that led to the public part of the store. Ruby surfaced and looked around to see nothing but walls and swam to the area of the building where the freezers were. The water was at least ten degrees colder but she didn't turn back and kept a firm grip on the still glowing sonic screwdriver. Taking in as much air that was physically possible, she swam down under the water. Her face experienced an odd sensation underneath the water and she could here a soft metallic humming sound. She looked around for the large steel door and found it locked. Ruby pressed her thumb down on the button that resided on the side of the sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the lever that was firmly locked in its position to keep intruders out. In a matter of seconds the lever shifted out into its unlocked position and Ruby wrenched open the door. The water stung her eyes and bit along her skin with its ice like temperature. On the other side of the freezer she could see a large metal cube. It seemed too simple to be causing this much trouble. She swam near it and as she got closer the humming sound grew louder and louder in her ears and she looked around it for a latch. She found what looked like a latch and pointed the sonic screwdriver at it and it popped open to reveal an intricate weaving of wires and other odds and ends. She stuck the sonic screwdriver inside of the Weather Generator and left it there. She could feel her lungs practically shriveling as the loud noise of the box started to soften back down to a hum. When the humming finally stopped Ruby's vision became blurred as her weak arms tried to push herself towards the door. Her hand landed on the door and she couldn't push it open. She was too weak to do anything except knock on the door as loud as she could. Just before everything went dark, she felt a warm pair of hands grabbing her arms.