I blinked my eyes sleepily and pulled a hand up to push the stiffness of sleep out of my limbs. I froze when my hand met cool metal with a solid thump that left my hand throbbing angrily. My eyes snapped open as ice flooded through my veins. There was a pale light illuminating the pod I was in. I tried to move my hands from my sides but my movements were severely restricted by the limited space. I tried to fight the rising wave of panic but it was quickly overcoming me. I pushed against the metal in front of my eyes with as much might as I could muster, which wasn't much with my arms pinned to my sides and no space to bend my legs.
As the terror built up all sense of logic left me. My breath came out in short quick burst that quickly dissolved into sobs. I banged on the sides of the pod screaming at the top of my lungs.
"Let me out," I sobbed, "Let me out!"
A quiet hum filled the chamber and I looked around wildly as screens filled my vision.
"Quiet down, will you? I was trying to recharge," a voice grumbled at me angrily.
"Hello?" I yelled, hope starting to shine through the heavy blanket of fear, "Is anyone out there?"
"Hey, I'm right here! Stop your yelling. My God, humans can be so stupid," an orange tom cat languidly wandered across the data filled monitors before coming to the one in front of my vision and settling on his haunches, glaring at me.
I stared at the images confusedly before a thought came to me. It must be an animated computer hard drive. It could get me out of here!
"Computer!" I commanded, "Open the pod, release me!"
"No."
My eyes widened with shock, "Excuse me? Open this thing!"
"I said no. What are you, deaf? No means no! And my name is not computer. How rude," the tom cat growled his tail puffing up defensively.
"Name?" I scoffed, "Computers don't have names. Now open the hatch!"
"Nag, nag, nag," he stretched out and yawned before laying down on his stomach, his tail flicking back and forth behind him, "I can't open the hatch yet. Don't you listen at all? I'm still recharging. We crash landed here after you'd been in cryo for… I lost track of how long. But who cares, we crashed here and I have to power back up before I can do anything."
"We crashed?" I breathed.
"Yeah," he conceded licking his paw with disinterest, "This planet pulled us into its gravitational field and then pulled us right down, the energy force was already so depleted by that point that I couldn't do anything, useless thing,can't even hold a decent energy field. Without the energy field to shield us the outside of the pod had some serious damage but the solar panels seem to still be in good working condition. Lucky!"
I stared at him breathlessly.
The cat sat up and picked up a paw with worry, "What? Is there something in my fur?"
"I'm stuck in this damn pod with a defective computer on some alien planet," I started shaking uncontrollably, smacking the pod angrily, "I'm going to die here and no one will even know!"
The cat's ear twitched to the side and then he jumped up looking to the left. His hackles rose and his tail puffed up again, his ears laid flat against his head, "Shut up!" the cat hissed, baring his teeth.
"You shut up, stupid computer!" I growled back.
The cat flicked an ear in my direction, "I'm serious! Something is coming! Be quiet! Don't say anything, don't do anything, and whatever you do, don't move."
A quiet tap came from the outside of the pod followed by the quiet murmurings of a voice. I spared a glance at the cat on the monitor who was tightly curled up, ears against his head with his teeth bared.
"Hello?" I yelled, "Is anyone there? Please, help me please!"
The cat's ears pricked forward in surprise, "You imbecile!" it spat.
"Screw you," I replied before banging on the pod and yelling louder, "Help me!"
I heard something press itself against the pod and yell something back that was definitely not english. I froze and looked at the cat, a ball of dread settling in the pit of my stomach, "What did they just say? Where are we?"
Okay, this story is set before the Doctor became the Doctor. It's like how he came to be the wonderful little alien we know him to be. If you have anymore questions then please ask! If I don't answer them its probably because they'll be answered later in the story. Also, I don't own Doctor Who, obviously. But I do own everything else. And if you enjoyed it then fill up that little review box! I love hearing from you guys. (: