The TARDIS landed once again, and a young, blonde girl stepped out.
"Doctor?" she asked, through the slim gap between the doors.
"Yeah?" someone replied.
"Where the Hell are we?" She looked out to the wilderness ahead of her.
It was night, she guessed. They were in a forest, in the middle of a clearing.
Everything looked grey. Whether it was the climate, or the lack of light, or just the particular alien species of tree, but it looked... weird.
Rose looked back towards the TARDIS, and strained her eyes. The blue looked even more vibrant, and the lights even brighter, against the dark sky.
The Doctor's head popped out, making Rose jump. He smiled at her, reassuring her.
"I set the controls to random. So Hell knows." Rose smiled at him, unconvinced.
"Come on, Rose. When do I let you down?" Nine smiled, holding her hand.
"That mutated Dalek thing, bringing me home a year late, and putting me into situations where I'm almost certainly going to die."
Nine pointed at her.
"You're no fun."
"Doctor, this place freaks me out." she moaned.
"I know." the Doctor sniffed. "It's something in the air."
"It's gross."
"I know. But it could be the only form of life on this planet."
"A stinky, thick, foggy, gassy thing?"
"You've met the Gelth, remember? There are loads of gas-based-life forms. As many as there are solid based, and liquid based."
"Alright. It still stinks though."
Nine smiled, and they walked away from the TARDIS.
Jack teleported into a storage room, and yelled in pain. "Gaaarrrgggghhhhh!"
A few moments later, he looked around.
"Where the Hell am I?" he asked himself. He flipped open his vortex manipulator.
"Do a scan for alien tech.. or anything alien at all, really." He waved his wrist gadget in the air, and it started to emit a pulsating bleep.
The Captain looked at it, and pressed some buttons.
"Basic humanoids..." he titled his head and squinted, trying to get a look at the clearer image.
A number appeared.
"9" Jack announced. "Anything more specific?"
He pressed a few more buttons, and smiled.
"A Time Lord! Brilliant! And with two Humans with residual Artron energy" Captain Jack looked up, thinking. The Doctor. I haven't seen him in a while! Must have brought someone with him! However, he also knew that the Doctor could change his face. He could be somebody completely different. He could have changed again. Or, because of the randomness of time travel, he could be the Doctor when he first met him. He didn't know, but he didn't want to cause a paradox by meeting him before he should, before the Blitz and the Nanogene trouble.
Harkness' manipulator bleeped again.
"So, the Doctor, and two companions. Who else?" He looked at back down.
"Two other Humans. Doesn't look like there's anything up with them. And..."
He pressed a few more buttons.
"Oh, no! No.. not them!"
Suddenly, the lights in the storage room started flickering and going out. Jack looked around, as and Jack could instantly feel something stinging him.
Jack winced. "What the Hell?"
Jack eventually managed to shake off whatever was bugging him, and with a blast of a pistol, and a kick of his foot, and knocked the door down.
This made someone yelp.
After the door fell, a woman stepped into view.
"Who the Hell are you?" the woman asked, her blondish-brownish curly hair bouncing behind her.
Like most Humans (and some aliens) he'd met, Jack instantly fancied this woman.
He went up to her, and smiled, shaking her hand.
"Captain Jack Harkness. And who... are you..?" Jack asked, flirtatiously.
"Doctor River Song. Now get the Hell out of here, or help us." River replied, sternly.
"What's happened?"
"The two deadliest species in the Universe. If you don't count Daleks."
"You've met Daleks?" Jack wondered
"Have you?"
"Unfortunately." Jack sighed. "So what are these others?"
"The Vashta Nerada... and the Weeping Angels."
"Don't blink..." Jack stated.
"And stay out of the shadows." River agreed.
Jack nudged his head towards the end of the corridor, and he and Song marched off.