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Summary: After Martha decides not to join the Doctor on his trips through time and space, he lingers in London for a bit and it doesn't take long before he finds more trouble when he stumbles onto a university opening doorways to both the past and future.

A/N: You may have see this story before...but as it says in there...we were waiting for our joint account to let us upload. Now it has. As soon as Wizzosis comes back, that one will disappear. So we haven't copied it. Its still our creation (see disclaimer). This is an alternate version of series 3. It doesn't have Martha and it's set in an alternate universe. You'll probably understand when you start reading it. All flames will be turned into molecule dust by the sonic screwdriver. Anyway, enjoy it….

Chapter 1

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"….and thus…that is what many people believe to be the cause of Hitler's fall. Does anyone have any questions?"

The sound waves vibrating from the headphones created a sort of barrier which made it impossible for other noises to enter the area inside. The owner of the headphones was a teenage boy around the age of 19, who snapped out of his thoughts when he heard a girl a few seats in front of him asking a question. The girl was his age, had brown-red straight, chin length hair, blue eyes and tanned skin. She was wearing a pair of dark grey Levi jeans and a dark blue top.

"But if that was the cause, that discounts the idea of the fact he gained so much support, which one is more accurate?"

"That is a good question Miss Homewood now if you could be so kind to—"

Before the lecturer could finish his sentence, somewhat disorientated footsteps were heard in the hallway, coming in their direction and a sort of uncomfortable silence swept across the room, as if someone was waiting for something to happen. The footsteps got louder and then the door slammed open loudly.

"You have to get out of here now," a frightened voice shouted. "All of you"

Katy Homewood looked from the stranger to her lecturer to her class mates and tried to figure out what was going on. She couldn't smell smoke and the alarm had not yet started ringing, nor could she see the other students running either. Was it some sort of a joke?

"What on earth?" Her lecturer began, removing his glasses from his face as he walked towards the stranger. "How dare you disrupt my lecture?"

"There's no time," the stranger said.

"What's happened?" The boy with headphones asked.

"There's—" A big crash was heard from out in the corridor. Katy stood up and decided to listen to the strange boy with blonde, short hair and blue eyes.

"Let's just get out of here; we can figure it out when we're outside."

Instinctively, everyone gathered their things without considering that there might be a bigger danger outside compared to inside. When Katy got to the corridor, the alarm started ringing and she saw the stream of panicked students coming from all directions, she found herself unable to push her way through the crowd because everyone was trying to be the first one out. She tried again to push her way through and when she couldn't, she gave up and decided to try to calm everyone down.

"Ok, everyone, you need to calm down," She shouted, there was little effect but she knew she had to stop the panic

"Tss…yeah like that'll help. Maybe you should try a different approach."

Katy turned her attention to a man who had dark brown, short hair and was wearing a long beige-brown trench-coat, with converse walking out from a classroom. He didn't seem to be panicked at all; he just looked around him randomly and then walked away, not towards an exit but up the stairs. It was as if the fact that there was a fire didn't bother him at all. Katy was intrigued by the man, and decided to try and find out what was going on, it was just too weird. There had been no sign of fire earlier and it had started off so quickly. It just didn't make any sense. Just as she was about to follow him she found herself falling to the floor.

"Oh, I'm sorry," a girl's voice said. "I didn't see you."

"Yeah…no worries…" Katy replied, glancing around for the man.

She looked at the girl in front of her, she seemed to be a little shorter than herself, maybe around 5"3, she had dark brown, curly shoulder length hair and coloured skin. She was dressed much like the other students, in just some faded jeans and a beige t-shirt.

"I really am sorry," the girl said, offering her hand. "Let me help you up. I'm Jasmine by the way."

"I'm Katy, although I hardly think this is the right time for introductions."

"You're right; we need to get out of here, even if that seems a little tricky at the moment."

"You carry on out of here, there's something I need to do." Katy turned around and started walking into the direction the man had walked off to and when Jasmine saw she wasn't trying to head out she was confused as to why she would want to stay inside.

"But wait! It's not safe, the alarm's still going!" She called, but Katy wasn't replying

"Then you had better get outside," Katy finally called back. Jasmine continued to look at the retreating figure.

"Look, why don't we just make sure everyone else is out? Then you can go insane and get yourself killed."

Katy sighed slightly annoyed and decided now was not the time to get into an argument with someone she didn't even know. She turned around and started walking back towards Jasmine and still wasn't sure of how they were going to get everyone out because there was so much panic. Sirens were heard outside which meant that at least help was on the way, although just as Katy was about to open her mouth to speak, an explosion was heard and the girls were almost thrown to the ground.

"We better hurry, if someone's trapped" Katy said, trying to keep her balance as the ground shook slightly

"Okay, what was that?" Jasmine asked, moving towards the nearest classroom, she looked inside, but no one seemed to be in there. On the other side of the corridor Katy was doing the same.

"An earthquake?"

"In London?"

"It's possible."

The ground shook again and both girls looked around them wearily. Most of the students and teachers were outside and Katy started thinking about the fact that an earthquake as sudden as that was, well, a bit odd.

"On the other hand it's pretty unlikely" Katy stated

"Or it could be another invasion." Jasmine half joked, moving back towards Katy, but loosing her balance as the rumble continued.

They had all seen the weird monsters that had fought a war on Earth not long ago, the 'ghosts' that turned out to be robots of some kind against the other, scarier monsters. The world had suffered after that invasion and it was just healing its wounds. Now there was another attack? Why was all of it happening? It didn't make any sense at all. When Jasmine got up onto her feet, there was a stillness in the air which made her feel incredibly uncomfortable and she had a feeling something wasn't as it should be.

Then all of a sudden, the sound of a door opening was heard and the two girls heard footsteps coming in their direction. They glanced at each other and backed down the corridor a little, Katy unconsciously stepped in front of the other girl and they waited for whatever was coming. 'It's probably just another student,' she thought to herself. Then, before the two girls could react, both of them were grabbed and pulled into a room. Katy was about to open her mouth to speak again but when she saw who the person in front of her was, she went silent.

"Who are you?" Jasmine whispered, sensing now was not the time to raise her voice.

"Me? Oh I'm the Doctor." The man replied

"Doctor who?" Katy asked

"Just the doctor. Now let's see what we've got here. You two seem to have gotten yourselves in quite the mess. Why aren't you outside?" Jasmine and Katy exchanged glances and neither of them could understand how this doctor person could act so calm in a situation like this one.

"I saw you…and then we bumped into each other," she explained, indicating she meant Jasmine. "We were checking to see if anyone was stuck inside." Katy said, confused.

"What's out there?" Jasmine asked, determined to change the subject slightly, she could tell an argument was brewing.

"Well you can have a look if you like. I'm not stopping you." The doctor told her.

Jasmine glanced from the Doctor to the door and decided to have a quick look at whatever was out there. Her curiosity was stopping common sense from reaching her brain. She walked over to the door and opened it slightly.

"Oh my God," she breathed. Outside was what could only be described as a monster.

It was vaguely human shaped, but it was too tall to be normal. Its head was deformed and covered in a red sort of liquid which was almost bloodlike. Jasmine quickly shut the door again, as quietly as she could and slunk back to where the Doctor and Katy were crouched. Katy looked at her expectantly.

"It's…. it's not human." She told her lamely

"They're the Tor from the planet of Skarta. They're a scavenger race." The Doctor explained to the girls.

"But why are they here? What do they want?" Katy asked

The Doctor peaked through the window but quickly hid when he noticed one of the aliens looking their way. He turned around to the two girls who were looking puzzled at him. "Quite simple really, Earth has resources." He started

"So they're here cos their planet sucks?" Katy asked.

"What?" She asked as Jasmine shot her a look. "I was just saying"

"So what do we—" Jasmine started but when she turned around she saw the Doctor on the other side of the room, standing on chair knocking on the wall.

Katy followed Jasmine's gaze. "What are you doing?" She asked.

"How old is this building?" The doctor asked, not replying to Katy's question

"Um, I think it was built in 1882, why?"

"1882, have I been there? Ah, here we go." The doctor removed chairs out of the way and knocked a bit harder on the wall which suddenly opened

"What the-" Katy started, and then stopped as the Doctor darted into the passage. "Should we follow him?"

"Do we have a choice?" Jasmine countered.

"I guess not, lets hurry."