Chapter 1
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS in jeans and a red polo shirt, without his red jacket. His shoes were white, not his yellow shoes. "Well this is different."
"What?" asked Jerry, "Why are you dressed like that?"
"I've had the TARDIS monitoring, well, everything to see if there is anything that I could do in the city," explained the Doctor, "I think I've got a hit so that's why I'm dressed like this."
"Hit on what?" asked Jerry.
"Anything out of the ordinary," said the Doctor, "Different from 'your out of the ordinary'."
"Like what?" asked Jerry.
"Some of my new coworkers are acting a little strange and usually when that happens and I'm anywhere nearby, it can't ever be good," said the Doctor.
"It can't?"
"Believe me, it can't," the Doctor said stoically.
"Well, good luck," said Jerry.
"Thanks," said the Doctor, "Well, I better be off."
"Don't you want something to eat?" asked Jerry.
"No, I had something from the TARDIS's kitchen," said the Doctor.
"Master," said K-9 rolling up to the Doctor, "What is this new job you are going to?"
"Teacher," said the Doctor, "But not physics, they didn't have an opening for that course. That was upsetting, but it doesn't matter, I'm an expert on several subjects, although this incarnation is not as musically inclined as some of my previous selves. K-9, you have to stay here until I need you."
"Yes, Master," replied K-9.
The Doctor stepped out onto Waverly Place and started walked to a secluded area and took out the transporter watch. Hopefully it wasn't going to be the Krillitanes. He didn't really want to deal with those bat things at all. The Doctor pressed the button and he vanished in a stream of blue light.
Back at the sub station, Alex, Harper and Max were all getting ready for their next year at school. Alex and Harper were going in for their senior years and Max was going to be a sophomore. Justin was in his freshman year of community college. The summer that changed their lives was over and the school year was starting. How would they handle having the Doctor and all the aliens and monsters that he fought, on what seemed like a regular basis, school, their wizard lives and everything else, including the Rift? They would make do. They would have to.
The Doctor walked into the doors of Tribeca Prep High School and made his way to the principle's office. The principle, Mr. Laritate, was out for a moment, but his secretary let the Doctor into the office. The Doctor looked around at all the western things inside.
"Oh, I have got to take this man on a trip in the TARDIS when she's fixed," he muttered to himself. The Doctor studied the room. He sniffed around and looked all over the place until he heard the door knob rattle. With Olympic speed and precision, the Doctor leapt over the desk into a guest chair. The door opened and Mr. Laritate walked in.
The Doctor watched him closely. He didn't know who to trust. This Mr. Laritate could have been a normal person, but the aliens might have changed him. The Doctor took several deep breaths in through his nose, smelling the air. After a while, he determined that the principle was not whatever he was looking for.
"Dr. Smith, I'm Mr. Laritate, the school's principle."
The Doctor jumped up and shook the man's hand. "I'm Doctor John Smith, but everyone just calls me Doctor."
"Ah, well then, Doctor, I see today is your first day."
"Yes, it is."
"Well, as the art teacher, there will some people who you will have to keep your eyes on."
"Like who?"
"Troublemakers. Certain troublemakers," Laritate told him, thinking about Alex Russo. "I'll let you discover that one out on your own."
"Surprises, huh?" asked the Doctor.
"You could think of it like that," said Laritate.
The Doctor smirked and shook Laritate's hand again before leaving to go to his room. He stepped out in the hallway and took out his sonic screwdriver. He hid it the best he could and started to scan the area of the school he was in for anything that shouldn't be there. Another teacher walked by behind the Doctor and heard the noise of the screwdriver.
"What is that?" she asked him.
The Doctor nearly dropped his screwdriver before getting it back in his pocket. "Whistling."
"What?" asked the teacher.
"I was whistling," replied the Doctor, stealing a line from his tenth incarnation.
"Whistling, yeah," said the teacher before she walked off.
The Doctor took his screwdriver back out and went to another part of the school, this time closer to his actual classroom and not where everyone walking in the school could see the strange man and his even stranger 'whistling'. The Doctor hadn't had any strange feelings about anyone he walked by at all. He was wondering if the TARDIS had given him a wild goose chase of an assignment.
He walked into his classroom and started to take out all of his things he was going to use out of his pockets. He took out a few pictures from the worlds he visited and the other times he traveled to. Someone was standing watching him do that from outside with a very confused face.
The Doctor saw that person and told him, "They're bigger on the inside."
The man just turned and walked away.
The Doctor felt a little strange about that man. He took out his screwdriver, but the man was too far away to be scanned. The Doctor put the screwdriver back in his pocket and closed the door to his classroom and continued taking things out of his pockets.
The man that had watched the Doctor walked to one of the teachers' lounges and the woman that had seen the Doctor earlier was there waiting for him.
"I think we might have a problem," the man told her.
"What are you talking about?" the woman answered.
"The new teacher, this Doctor John Smith, is a strange man and his pockets are bigger on the inside."
"The same man was using something to scan the area around him and told me he was whistling. I didn't believe him, but he did think I was one of these smelly little apes," the woman said.
"Did the scan reveal your identity?"
"No, but if we don't watch ourselves he will find out sooner or later and I prefer later when we off this rock."
"What are we going to do because I sensed he wasn't from this planet," said the man.
"Well, neither are we, but he have to keep ourselves hidden from him. If he is really from another planet, we can't have him ruining this. We've waited for so long and I am not going to have this intruder take this away from us. Kanta, will you?"
The man, Kanta, replied, "No I won't, Jazele."
"Good," replied the woman, Jazele, "We get this done and then we can leave. Get the others we have to tell them to watch out for this Doctor man."
The Doctor sat down in his chair, which sounded like it hadn't been oiled in years. He took out his sonic screwdriver and tried to fix the chair as best as he could. It worked better than he thought it would. The chair completely stopped squeaking and the Doctor sat there waiting for his first class. He jumped out of his chair when he forgot about something in his pocket. He took it out and it looked like a flying saucer from a 1950's science fiction movie. The Doctor pressed the button that was on it and it flew out of his hands and landed on the floor. It exploded silently in a burst of white light. It had put something in the floor. It was right beneath the surface of the hard wood floor. The Doctor smiled at the massive design on his floor, the Seal of Gallifrey.
From outside the classroom, another person was watching the Doctor's classroom and saw the white light. He took a tiny radio of out his pocket, turning his back to the door, and said, "Jazele, your suspicions were right, this man is not of the Earth. What do you want to do with him?"
The radio crackled and the reply was, "Krese, don't do anything. I don't want to reveal ourselves. We have to keep quiet for as long as possibly can, and besides, this man is not the reason we are here."
"But, Jazele."
"Krese, that was an order. Do nothing."
"Understood," said Krese. He put the radio pack into his pants pocket and walked off.
The Doctor's sonic screwdriver went off and he jumped out of his chair again and read the readings on the screwdriver. He read that there was a radio signal being broadcast from somewhere nearby and the signal was from Earth technology. The Doctor traced the signal and his eyes widened when it told him that the signal was originating from outside his classroom. The Doctor peeked around the corner of his door and saw another man standing there, talking into some kind of radio. The Doctor heard parts of the conversation, but not the whole thing. He heard that the man's name was Krese and whoever he was talking to was name Jazele.
Before he could think about it anymore the radio cut and the Doctor flew back into his room. The man turned around quickly, thinking he heard something. He snarled and rows of needle-like teeth appeared. He closed his lips and the teeth went back to looking like a human's set of teeth. The man started to make his way to the classroom, but the school's bell rang and the man stopped and walked towards his classroom. The Doctor was safe, but only for the moment.