DOCTOR WHO: DAY OF THE CORPSES
Chapter 1
THE M1 MOTORWAY, Present Day
The Summer Sun was on out on just an ordinary day in the lives of Amy Pond and Rory Williams as they were on their way back to Leadworth from a jolly jaunt down in London. Rory's red Mini had struggled all the way to London and was struggling now on the way back on the M1 Motorway as the traffic was barely moving.
"Oh come on!" said Amy impatiently. "It's hardly as if there has been an accident! Move it!"
"Calm down, Amy..." said Rory commandingly as the traffic came to a complete halt once more. The queue seemed immense and neither of the Ponds could wait for what was becoming an eternity. Amy hates travelling in Rory's Mini mainly because its too small for her own liking and secondly because its too red.
"It just is ok!"
"How can a Car be too red?" asked Rory perplexed.
"It just can!" retorted Amy angrily. An awkward then silence fell between the pair now and the only noise around them was the increasingly common horns of impatient drivers wanting to get home. To cut out the awkward silence, Rory turned the radio on.
"This is the Travel News with Logan Tyne..." began the broadcast.
"Oh, why put this on, Rory? He's so smug..." but before Rory replied, the severity of the hold-up became apparent.
"The entirety of the United Kingdom's Motorways are in complete gridlock. No explanation has been given for the nation-wide hold-ups, but what can be confirmed for certain is that Britain is not moving..." Amy was furious as was Rory to some point but they both held in their anger for now. The ferocious noise of car horns got louder and louder and then suddenly it stopped. In the corner of Amy's eye, she saw a bright flash. She quickly turned around as did Rory and were horrified at what they saw.
"What the hell is that?" asked Rory nervously.
"I don't know..." said Amy. "But were about to find out..."
THE CONTROL TOWER, THE PLANET KYREK, PRESENT DAY
"Wakey, wakey, Doctor..." called a deep voice from the grubby, dank, horrid control room from the Planet Kyrek. The planet had been known for the greatest mass of Holograms in existence but they were cut down in their prime due to the Human-Hologram War, and the control tower what was remained of the former Hologram dynasty.
"Where am I?" said the Doctor sleepily as he awoke to find he was handcuffed to a metallic holding plate, the kind that were very rare nowadays. "Heloooo? I asked where am I?"
"At the viewing of the end of something great..." said the deep voice in reply.
"And who might you be?" said the Doctor with that whimsical smile of his.
"Mr. Ulvercrest dear Doctor...that is my name and you will obey me..." replied the deep-voiced Man who when it view of light paraded round a Pinky-purple Suit resplendent with appropriately coloured walking stick. Mr. Ulvercrest then made his way slowly to a monitor in the control tower and switched it on. Before him and the Doctor was a image of a Motorway.
"Are you a traffic reporter?" asked the Doctor sarcastically. "If not, you have the look for it, a very odd look, but a look..."
"Shut up, Doctor!" commanded Mr. Ulvercrest.
"How do you know who I am?"
"A certain Doctor let me know..." came the reply. Mr. Ulvercrest then made his way over to his desk, picked up a letter and showed it to the Doctor. It was a short letter, only containing two words, and the Doctor wasn't too shocked at all.
"Hello Sweetie?" he said with raised eyebrows.
THE M1 MOTORWAY, Present Day
"Get down!" called a voice as Amy and Rory hid for cover in the Mini. Amy quickly looked up and in the back passenger seat was River Song looking as much of an action girl as ever. Her curly hair, her risque clothing and her gun were all present, this was most certainly River Song.
"You are kidding me, right?" she said brimming with confusion and anger at the same time.
"Hello Amy...and you too Rory...how are things?" smiled River calmly.
"Fine..." said Rory nervously. "Well, until that thing over there..." he added as he pointed at the ever-approaching flashing light.
"Do you know what it is?" asked Amy quickly. River looked behind her and then looked back at the Ponds.
"Oh that...ofcourse...its a Neutron Flow Energy Circularisation Beam, designed by one-eyed Shrimps on the planet Narvoss in the year 3467 and it can kill any life form within seconds. So, yes I do know what it is!" she beamed beautifully.
"It's going to kill us?" shouted Rory.
"Well..." deliberated River. "We're about to find out...DUCK!" and all three of them did as the Neutron Flow got closer and closer. Everyone else on the Motorway froze still as they saw it nearing them. No-one dare ask what it was and everyone tried to scramble to safety but they were fixated on the Neutron Flow as it got Bluer and Bluer in colour as it neared. A hissing noise developed with it too and it got louder and louder and screeched with immense power. Then it passed and all fell silent...
THE CONTROL TOWER, THE PLANET KYREK, PRESENT DAY
"River Song is working for you?" asked the Doctor totally unsure to Mr. Ulvercrest who by now was sitting down as the little bit of walking he'd done earlier had tired him out.
"No..." replied Mr. Ulvercrest. "She was with you! The pair of you arrived in that Blue Box of yours, my guards handcuffed the pair of you to these holding plates and when I came in a little while ago, she'd just got free and the left the note for me to show you..."
"Ok...but why don't I remember..." asked the Doctor inquisitively.
"Something about a memory transfer if I recall rightly...she took away this memory and replaced it with something else..." The Doctor then tried to remember and as he tried it turned out River had not just put one new memory in, but many others too.
"Wearing just a Bow-Tie..." he murmured to himself. "Oh Dr. Song..."
"DOCTOR!" interrupted Mr. Ulvercrest. "Have a look at the monitor over there if you would please, I think you may be pleasantly surprised." The Doctor looked over and was horrified at what he saw.
"A Neutron Flow Energy Circularisation Beam!" he said shocked.
"The very same..." replied Mr. Ulvercrest simply.
"Every life-form down there will be killed in an instant...why are you doing this?"
"Killed?" said Mr. Ulvercrest doubtfully. "I'm not that obvious Doctor...you'll just have to wait and see what happens next..."
THE M1 MOTORWAY, Present Day
A car door opened nervously and out from the car came Amy. Glass was broken all around her and it crunched loudly beneath her feet. Rory soon got out from the car too and was just overcome by the event so far.
"What happened?" he said.
"The Neutron Flow killed everyone..." said River softly as she got out of the car. "Well, all except us three...well, that's my scanner says..."
"Why haven't we died?" asked Amy.
"I don't know..." replied River. Suddenly, something caught her attention. It was in the car opposite Rory's Mini. She quickly made her way across and opened the door. Amy and Rory soon followed and Amy immediately had to look away as what she saw made her feel ill with just a quick glance. Rory tried not to look but he couldn't help it. Before him, Amy and River was a car full of corpses. They had been melted, burnt and charred beyond belief, it was a horrid sight indeed. River checked over the bodies with the scanner.
"No..." she said as it beeped. She soon checked the other bodies and she couldn't believe what was happening.
"What's wrong..." asked Rory as River checked frantically at the bodies and checked other cars too.
"These bodies aren't human..." she replied ominously. "None of these bodies are human, not a single one. The Neutron Energy Flow didn't kill the Humans...it's replaced them...with dead Aliens..."