Ch 1. The heat is on. part one

AN. I will say this only once because I don't want to up the word count with this in every chapter. I DO NOT OWN HEY ARNOLD OR DOCTOR WHO, THEY ARE OWNED BY NICK, VIACOM, GREG BARTLETT AND THE BBC RESPECTIVELY. I ONLY OWN ANY OC THAT MAY POP UP IN THIS STORY. DAMN RIGHT SUPPORT THE OFFICAL RELEASES OF BOTH THESE SERIES… LIKE RIGHT NOW!

"You ever feel like you're missing something? Not just a little something but like a piece of you is gone and you don't know why. For the longest time I have had this feeling that something that should be there wasn't, that something important to me was … just not there anymore. I don't know why I have this feeling but when I saw him, something changed. Something felt right, something felt… like it was back. Of that I don't know why but I do know two things, one, I will stick with him to keep these feelings and two, I will give my all to find out why!"

-Helga G. Pataki

'Hot…' that was the thought going through Helga's mind right now. Though to be fair it was not just by her but probably everyone in Hillwood right now. She walked through the streets of Hillwood in a pink shirt, a pair of shorts, and a bright pink bow in her hair. The city was being hit with a major heat wave and everyone was feeling it. 'Why is it so damn hot! It's the middle of April not July, this is ridicules!' She looked around to see everyone just as miserable as she was. She was making her way to Slausen's Ice Cream Parlor to get some cool treats and get away from the heat for a while. 'Damn heat, damn air conditioner, damn…' She made it to the parlor only to see a sign on the door 'Closed, freezer broken' "…Damn it…"

Helga slowly started shaking with rage at this point. 'Geeerrrrrr…! Calm down Helga, you're a twenty year old woman, they will arrest you if you break that window…' She thought to herself as she slowly calmed herself. She turned a started walking away, grumbling and cursing at everyone and everything. She passed by a newspaper stand and glanced at the headlines 'Arsonist strikes again, forth building burned' "tch, if it wasn't bad enough with the heat some jackass has to go on a burning spree."

"Damn air conditioner breaking on one of the hottest day of the year, and on my firkin day off too!" She walks through the streets with no destination in mind. She didn't even realize she wandered into an older part of town, lots of old abandoned buildings with very few people walking around. Her phone started vibrating in her pocket, when she checked it to see it was from Phoebe, she answered her friend as nicely as she could considering the mood she was in "Hey Phoebs…"

"Hey Helga, just wanted to check on how the air conditioner is doing."

"Not good, and every place I called to come fix it said they were so backed up with calls. The earliest we can get someone to come fix it would be tomorrow, so looks like well be sleeping in hot rooms tonight."

"Great…" Phoebe said with an exasperated sigh. She was not looking forward to that. "So you doing anything. I'm in-between classes right now."

"Nah, just taking a walk around… town…" Helga started to break off talking to Phoebe when she saw someone a ways down the street. What made her notice this person, was they were wearing a long black cloak with a hood that obscured there face, looking back and forth before darting into a building. "Well if that wasn't suspicious as all hell…" Helga said while hiding behind a corner of a building.

"What was that Helga?" Phoebe questioned over the phone wondering what Helga meant.

"Oh nothing Phoebs… I'll see you later tonight ok" Helga said while watching the building the person went in.

"O…k Helga, I'll see you tonight, you want me to pick up some take out on the way home?" Phoebe questioned.

"Yea sounds good, anything's fine, later Phoebs." Helga said before hanging up.

"Now what are you up to…" Helga said to herself as she slowly made her way to the building on the end of the street. She crept over to the wall to peek into the window on the side of the old abandoned three story building. When she looked in all she could see was an empty room and dark hallways beyond that. She very carefully made her way to the door and slunk in after making sure no one was visible on the other side.

'Well let's see what you're up to mister cloak and dagger.' Helga slowly made her way through the building, making sure to watch her step as to not to make much noise. 'I don't think you're a drug dealer… not enough drugs in the world to make anyone think that 'long black cloak' in this heat would be a good idea. So who are you' she thought to herself as she made her way through the building. She heard some noise coming from a door at the end of the hall. Making her way over she peeked her head in to see it lead down to the lower basement area of the building. She made her way down to see… nothing. 'What the hell, I know I heard something down here?' She started looking around the room when she saw an indentation in the floor in the far corner of the room. She ran her hand over the indentation, 'It's a door!' she put her fingers in to lift the door open. Seeing a set of stairs that led even further into the ground. Also, she didn't know why they would be, but she could tell that these set of stairs were new, and made quickly by the look of them.

Making her way down she quickly realized that these stairs went down far… like really far. She didn't know how long she had been walking for but it seemed like forever. She knew that she had finally made it to the end of the stairs when she saw a red light at the end. There was also another thing she noticed all the way down, and that was the heat. 'Chimney is it getting hotter down here!' Where outside was hot, in here was scorching! It felt like a boiler in here. "Oh come on!" she said lowly through gritted teeth as she reached the end of the stairs to find that it ended in a room… with three doors.

But these doors looked odd, they were made of metal and had weird markings all over them. "The hell…?" She walked to the door straight in front of her and ran her fingers along the strange markings on the door. She slowly opened the door and heard more noise further down the hall, it sounded almost like what one would hear in a factory of some kind. This new hall was twisty and had more doors along it but it was a lot wider than the others she had been in. The sound she was hearing seemed to come from the end of this hall. Finally making her way to the end she peered into the room, what she saw made her jaw drop.

There was the guy with the cloak… and about four of his buddies all standing around a strange machine. They were looking to the machine and to each other, speaking in deep graviley voices, "Sites one through four have been prepped and are ready for the final phase, only one site remains…"

Helga glanced around to notice what looked to be a map on the screen of the machine they were using. It had five points marked on it, four points were red while the fifth one was black. After some some quick time to think she soon realized what the four red spots on the map were, 'Those are the same spots as the fires that the arsonist hit!' She realized in a panic. She now realized she was in over her head and slowly started to back away. 'I need to get out of here and call the police!' Never taking her eyes off the room infrount of her she found herself backing into something, something hard… and something that was breathing! Turning around faster than she ever has before, she came face to face with another of the cloaked figures… only without the hood up, and what she saw made her question her sanity. She was looking into the face of what could only be described as a monster, with a face that looked to have pieces of rock in it with bright red skin between. The eyes were uneven and it had no nose, its mouth seemed to be peremetly twisted into a snarl. It let out a high pitched cry when Helga turned around that alerted the others in the room, who quickly spun around and wipped off there hoods to reveal identical looking creatures as the one standing before her.

"… Don't suppose we could talk this out…?" she asked with all the courage she could muster at the sight of these creatures. The being in front of her let out another cry. "Didn't think so…" She quickly ducked under his arms when he took a swipe at her and she ran back down the hall away from the room as fast as she could. She could hear the six coming after her before she noticed some of the doors opening around her and more of these things were coming out. Helga's adrenalin kicked in overtime as she dashed to the door at the end of the hall. She reached the door and quickly spun around to slam the door on the creatures. She turned around to run up the stairs when she stopped in her tracks. There were another four of those creatures in the room, they had clearly come out of the other doors and they were blocking the way to the stairs out.

She started to ease her way along the wall, neither her nor the creatures taking their eyes off each other. Her pase and heartbeat quickened as they mad there way toward her. She could not help the fear running through her at that moment. 'what… what do I do… how can I get out of here!' The creatures slowly made there way toward her. 'Someone… please help me.' She closed her eyes waiting for them to reach her when she hears a whooshing noise along with a sudden pinging. Her eyes shoot open to see a can looking object between her and the creatures. Both her and the creatures look down to see the can let loose a stream of white fog out of its ends. Helga noticed real quick that the fog was really cold. Where it wasn't too bad for her… the creatures seemed to be in pain from it. They moaned and moved away from the fog like it was poison to them. With her eyes on the creatures she didn't notice as a figure made its way quickly through the fog and grab her hand.

She turned her head when she felt the contact and time itself seemed to stop. The man who grabbed her hand was about two or three inches taller than her, with piercing green eyes that seemed to look straight through her, wearing a long green coat with a brown vest that had a red and yellow plaid button up shirt under them with a brown tie. But what was his most notable thing about him was his oblong shaped head with his bright blond hair that was slicked back. He said with a thick English accent to her just one word, one word that Helga didn't realize now, but would change her entire life from here on out.

"RUN!"

He turned around while holding her hand and dashed to the stairs where they ran up them as fast as there feat could carry them. They were still a long way up but at her speed along with the adrenalin they didn't seem as long this time. The man dash out of the basement door followed not even a second later by Helga. She turned around to see the guy slam the door and quickly shine some kind of stick around the edges of the door.

"What the hell was that! What were those thing! What are you doing to the door! And WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!" Helga yelled at the top of her lungs wanting an answer to all the things she had seen.

"That was my freeze can, those things are called Magmatites, I am using my sonic screwdriver to seal the door to hold them back… And for who I am…" he finishes what he was doing with the door, he stand up straight and turns around to face Helga "I'm the Doctor!"

"… What, just the Doctor?" Helga asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes!" He said with the biggest smile on his face. They then heard pounding on the floor door. "But we can discuss this later, away from here!" Helga didn't need to be told twice as they dashed out of the building and down the block till the building was out of sight.

We both had our hands on our knees and were breathing hard from the run. "Well…that…was fun…" Helga said through gasps of breath that she tried to make as sarcastic as possible.

"I know…right!" Helga gave him a look but he either didn't notice or didn't care because he just went on. "I mean I haven't seen the Magmatites in quite some time, distant cousin of the Pyrovile, thought they were long gone but poof there they are! I mean, I have no idea what they're doing here, but oh I can't wait to find out!..."

"HEY!" Helga suddenly shouts at him.

"Oy what?! You didn't have to shout!" The Doctor said while rubbing his ears.

"Can we please focus here on the task at hand." Helga said after gaining her breath back.

"your right, we need to figure out what there doing, we should probly go someplace to think this out." His tone making it seem like it was the most obvious thing in the world… which it was.

"… Fine come on, I know where we can go." She starts walking off

"Oy where we going, your place?" The Doctor asks Helga.

"Pfffftttt, hell no, like I would bring some loon to my apartment who has some hand in the activates of monsters…"

"Aliens actually, not monsters."

"Whatever, either or I've seen enough movies to know if I brought you there they would probably find you and wreck my place."

"… Not going to lie that may have happened… once or twice… Also I must say you are taking this whole aliens thing extremely well, most people I've met for the first time when I mentioned aliens they'd give me a look."

Helga just stopped and turned around to blankly star at him.

"YEA just like that!" He said in an excited voice.

"Lets just go." Helga said in a tired voice.

"Right let go… you know you never told me you name?"

"…Helga, my name is Helga."

"That's a lovely name, well Helga it's nice to meet you, like I said I'm The Doctor, now where are we going."

"A place around here I know we can get a second to sit and think."

To Be Continued…