A strange sound filled the badlands and echoed off the canyon walls. If anyone had been around to hear it they may have described it as the sound of the air being wrenched apart. Or, if they really listened and didn't try to romanticized it, the sound of a badly asthmatic lorry reversing. A pair of deer who had been resting in the shade of a rock overhang scrambled to their feet and fled as a rather large blue box phased into existence.
The door of said blue box flew open and a rather ruffled looking man in, what appeared to be, his late thirties swaggered out.
"Earth!" he declared as he stretched and stiffed, "Canada!" he sniffed again and tugged the jacked of his brown pinstriped suit back into place, "20 what...? 2013. What are we doing here? Nothing happened this year! Well, North Korea threatened to declare war on America but that didn't go very far. Oh! And there was a meteor in Russia," he turned back to the box and yelled inside, "Donna you coming?"
A female voice exploded from within, seeming to come from farther away than you would think was possible. Judging by the size of the box in question.
"Oi! I'm coming! Keep your shirt on!" the source of the voice appeared. It was a woman in her mid-thirties with ginger hair and an expression that didn't quite match her voice at the moment, "you could get lost in there! What are we doing here, Doctor?
"I dunno..." the man, seemingly called the Doctor paused, "but the TARDIS doesn't usually drop us off somewhere for no reason," he suddenly grinned an infectiously, "let's go take a look then, shall we?"
With that, he whirled and began racing around like a caffeinated five-year-old.
"Look at all this sedimentary rock!" he ran an appreciative hand over the face of the canyon wall, "think of how many years it took to get all these layers. It's fascinating!"
Donna had wandered off in a different direction, obviously less than pleased at where they had ended up. Then she stopped, a look of horror slowly moving across her face.
"Doctor...?"
"And the stuff that must be preserved in there..." the Doctor trailed off as he ran a silver wand with a glowing blue end over the layers in the rock, "what I wouldn't give to see some of those. Though I could probably just go back in time and..."
"DOCTOR!" Donna's call was louder this time, finally breaking through, "look..." her voice failed and she simply pointed to the ground at her feet.
The Doctor rushed over, concern wrinkling his brow until he saw what she was pointing at, and then he too stood still.
Laying there, on the canyon floor was the blackened body of a child.
"Oh dear..."
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(A.N. Ladies and Gentlemen - The Doctor Who Theme Song {also, I hope you'll forgive me, I wrote this originally to be a screenplay but I decided to make it into novel format for you people but I'm not sure how exactly its going to turn out! [also, sorry for the short first part but this felt like where the break needed to go!]})