AN: Hey everybody! This is the first Doctor Who and +Anima crossover ever! Trust me to pull something like this. I've managed to choose two fandoms that only I would dream of mixing up. I really hope someone reads this. If you do, could you please review? I want to know if there are any errors in my writing. I reeeeally want to know. Anyway, this takes place after the Big Bang 2 in Doctor Who and sometime after the Sailand arc in +Anima.

Disclaimer: Itried to steal the rights to Doctor Who and +Anima, but the TARDIS dematerialized too fast and Cooro flew away with his while pelting me with apple cores. I don't own either of them. Sorry.

The Big Blue Box

It was a big blue box. It was a big blue box. It was a big blue box. It was a box that was big and blue. You could put the emphasis on any of the words, but it didn't change the fact that there was a big blue box where no big blue box had ever been before.

Senri blinked. He was certain that the box hadn't been there last night. It hadn't been there a few hours ago when he'd woke up to the sound of Husky tripping over his own pack. Again. And it definitely wasn't there when Cooro, Husky, and Nana had left this morning to go back into the town they'd left yesterday, to see if they could trade the fish that they (Husky) had caught last night. But now there was a big blue box in the middle of their camp, and he was the only one there to do anything about it.

Senri blinked again, and set down his armful of mushrooms. They were going to be for lunch, but this blue box had landed, rather inconveniently, on top of his cooking fire. Now he'd have to start a new one. And he'd need more firewood. He bent down to examine the base of the strange box. Hopefully it wouldn't catch on fire. That wouldn't be good. He wouldn't be able to explain how a flaming blue box had burnt down the camp to the others.

As he examined the bottom of the box to see if he could move it off of his fire and possibly still make lunch, the door swung open. It whacked him in the head.

"Oh! I'm sorry, didn't see you there!" came a cheerful female voice from inside the box. The door closed and Senri watched as the box made the strangest noise and faded away. It reappeared in the same manner, but this time a few yards to the left. The door swung open again and a strange man wearing strange clothes and a particularly strange hat stepped out. A red-haired woman and an average looking guy with brown hair and a frown followed him.

"Hey there!" The strange man looked around and focused his gaze on Senri. "Is this the Paris World's Fair?"

./

Amelia Pond thought she'd be used to it by now. The Doctor would announce that they were going to some crazy, wonderful place and they'd climb into the TARDIS and they'd go there. Most of the time. Then there were those other times when they wouldn't. The first part would happen all right, but they'd end up in a totally different place and time with no idea why they were there. Amelia, Rory, and the Doctor had been going to see the Paris World's Fair in 1889. Now they were who-knows-where, who-knows-when, in the middle of a forest. And Amy had really wanted to see the opening of the Eiffel tower. She'd been the one to open the door into that kid's face. She felt kind of bad about that.

After moving the TARDIS the Doctor, propeller hat firmly on his head (he'd announced that it was his fair-going hat and that propeller hats were cool), had bounded out the door, clearly excited to be wherever it was that they were. Amy followed him, with Rory close behind. This definitely wasn't Paris, much less the World Fair. They had landed in a clearing. In the woods. Some place other than where they were supposed to be. Again.

The boy she'd clobbered with the door had stood up and was looking at them with a blankly confused expression. He wasn't so much a boy; he had to be around sixteen. He had grey hair with blue beads in a few of the clumps. The guy was wearing clothes that looked tribal, a fringed poncho made of some kind of animal hide and pants and boots made of the same stuff. But what called Amy's attention was the eye patch. There was a black band of cloth tied over his left eye. It made him look a little like he was glaring at you. Actually, he really could be glaring at her. She had smacked him with a door.

"Hey there!" the Doctor called. "Is this the Paris World's Fair?" The grey-haired guy looked at him blankly. "Uh, I'll take that as a no…" The Doctor tried again. "Are we in France?" Another blank stare. "How about Great Britain? Is that were we are?" The guy didn't even blink. "Europe? North America? Iceland? I'd settle for Iceland, it's lovely this time of year." Now the poor kid looked really confused.

"Let me try." Amy insisted. She turned to the boy. "Do you know where we are?" He blinked. A long moment passed. Then, just as the Doctor tried to say something else, he replied.

"Astaria." Then he turned and started poking at the ground near where the TARDIS had first landed.

"Astaria? Where the heck is Astaria?" Rory turned to the Doctor, obviously lost by the turn of events. Amy chimed in.

"I've never heard of Astaria. It's not on any of the world maps is it?"

"No, it's not." The Doctor then rushed back into the TARDIS and searched 'Astaria' in the database. Nothing came up. "We'll have to broaden the search then!" The Doctor hit a few buttons and the thing that looks like a sea anemone. The search still brought up nothing. He tried it again. This time he twisted a knob and jiggled the anemone and bingo! He got a hit!

"Astaria," he read off, "is a large country on the 5th planet that circles the star Purasu. Its inhabitants are almost identical to Earth's, as are its ecosystem and wildlife. It is a very low-tech planet and is currently in its own version of Europe's Middle Ages. The only established country to border Astaria is Sailand, which is mostly desert. They are separated by a mountain chain. Not much is known about either country."

Rory looked over at the screen. "Is that it? Shouldn't there be more?" Then it hit him. "Wait a second, we're on a different planet?"

"Problem with that?" the Doctor asked.

"No…just give me a minute. I may need to sit down."

"Aw, I forgot! This is your first time off-planet!" Amy squealed. "This is so exciting!" She dragged him up from his seat on the stairs. "C'mon, let's go look around!"

"An excellent idea!" the Doctor agreed. "I've never been here before!" Both Time Lord and ginger ignored Rory's protests and exited the TARDIS, itching for a chance to see something new.

./

Senri looked up as the group of newly arrived people stepped out of their box. He had no idea how they all fit in there, it must be very cramped. Of course, that was their problem. He wouldn't interfere. The woman and the man with the funny hat dragged the man with the frown off into the woods, the first two chattering excitedly, and the third protesting.

He turned back to the fire. It had been completely put out by the arrival of the weird box and he was starting a new one. After the kindling caught, and the logs started to burn, he set up his small pot so that it would get warm while he prepared the rest of the ingredients.

It didn't take very long, and soon he had a sort of rabbit stew made. The mushrooms, along with the few potatoes he'd saved and some carrots had also gone into the pot with the rabbit that had been caught in one of his snares. He took a deep sniff, and stepped back, satisfied with his cooking.

Senri pulled out a couple of plates from his pack so that they'd be ready when Cooro, Husky, and Nana came back. Looking over at the blue box and then back to his pot, he realized that he'd made enough food for the strangers to be able to eat too. Senri shrugged. What the heck, if they were going to eat with him he might as well pull over a log so they could sit down.

While he was waiting for either group to come back his gaze wandered over to the mysterious box. It was such a pretty blue color. He'd never seen anything so intensely blue before.

./

Rory was being dragged through and alien forest (not that it looked any different from Earth's forests), by an overexcited alien and his wife (not necessarily in that order), who were ooh-ing and ahh-ing at alien trees (not that they looked any different from Earth trees), and he wasn't enjoying a minute of it (aren't you getting tired of parentheses?). Actually, he'd already tripped over a tree root three times and been smacked in the face by a tree branches twice. The Doctor and Amy were jabbering away, but he had nothing say on the subject at hand. Frankly, being on a whole new planet felt just like being on Earth.

"Wow! The atmosphere is so clean here! I have to say, you humans sure messed yours up."

"It seems a little hot, what time of year is it here?"

"I'd say spring or early summer, and the days must be a little longer, by about an hour I'd say than normal Earth-time."

"So you think they've got any weird animals here?"

"No, they should be really similar to anything you'd see normally. You know, on Earth"

"Look, a squirrel!"

"They do tend to live in forests you know. I wonder what the natives look like."

"Probably like that guy I hit with the door. Do you think we should go back and talk to him?"

"I don't see why not! He can give us the lay of the land, so to speak." And so the little group turned around and headed back through the forest towards Amy's door-hitting victim.

Rory sighed. He was hungry. It had been mid-morning when the Doctor had shown up wearing his fair-going hat and offering to take them to Paris. Now it should be about noon, and all he'd had for breakfast was a granola bar and some orange juice. Just being with the Doctor was tiring, and after traipsing through the forest he was ravenous. Maybe he could raid the TARDIS fridge while Amy and the Doctor got into trouble.

Wait, got into trouble? Actually, now that he though about it, every time they went somewhere with the Doctor, something weird happened. And Amy really did get into trouble everywhere she went anyway. Ah well, it would only be a matter of time now before the nearest anomaly sought them out. Rory resigned himself to his fate and decided that if there was going to be a whole lot of running later on, he wasn't going to be running on an empty stomach.

Soon enough (but not for Rory's stomach), the trio from a different planet(s) arrived back in the clearing where they'd left the TARDIS. With a little bit of surprise, they noticed that the native boy was right next to the TARDIS. He wasn't touching it, but rather, looking at it very intently. When they stepped into the clearing he turned around and stepped way from the box that had so captivated him. He made a gesture at a log that had been shifted into the middle of the clearing, fairly close to where they had first seen him. As he gestured again Rory realized that he meant for them to sit down, like on a bench.

The Doctor thanked him as he sat down, and Amy sat on his left with Rory on her other side. The boy turned around and busied himself with something. Then he spun around and thrust a plate of food and a fork into Rory's hands.

./

Senri had been examining the box when the group of weird strangers returned. They stopped at the edge of the camp as he turned around, looks of vague surprise evident of their faces. Hoping that he hadn't offended them, he stepped away and over to his fire. They came farther in and he gestured for them to sit down. They just stood there. He gestured again at the log and the man with the strange hat got the message and sat down, taking his companions with him.

He turned and filled a plate. After grabbing a fork he walked over to the brown haired man on the end and gave him the plate. The man took it and eyed it for a minute while Senri turned to fill two other plates. The red-haired woman and the man with the strange hat soon received their plates too. He watched the three look at their food before the man with the strange hat dug in. He looked over at the other two and said,

"Come on Amy, Rory, you should never turn down free food!" The red-haired woman and brown-haired man chuckled and started eating as well. Senri watched them eat for a moment before he filled his own plate. There was silence in the clearing except for the scraping of forks on plates. It was a peaceful moment as everyone enjoyed the meal, just the way it should be, thought Senri.

"This is really good!" The red-haired woman looked at him. "Did you make this yourself?" Senri nodded. "That's good, there aren't that many guys out there that can cook very well. This guy for example," She elbowed the brown-haired man next to her, causing him to almost drop his plate.

"Hey!" he said. "Watch it!"

"can't cook at all." She continued, ignoring his exclamation.

"Can to." the brown-haired man muttered. "I just choose not to."

"Suuuure you do. Don't think I don't remember the birthday cake incident. I didn't know that cake could be soggy and charred at the same time."

"There was something wrong with the oven." defended the brown-haired man. "Besides, it's not like your cooking skills are very good either."

"Oh ho! A lovers' quarrel! How exciting!" His friends glared at the funny hat man. "Um, anyway, what's your name?" He directed his question at Senri, who chose, as usual, just to gaze steadily until the subject was dropped. "Is it something embarrassing?" pressed the funny-hat man. His gaze was just as intense as Senri's, and something about it made him want to look away. A small part of him wanted to answer the man, but it was quashed by the rest of him that stubbornly remained taciturn.

Before the strange man and his strange companions could press the subject any further, Senri heard the noises made by a group of people tramping through the woods. Was he going to have more strange visitors today? He looked towards the sound, waiting for the noisemakers to come into view.

Unbeknownst to him, his whole body had tensed up and he was intently watching the forest. His sudden head movement had startled the three off-worlders and they puzzled over his rapid change in demeanor. The oddly silent kid who had fed them was now on guard, his hand hovering over a rather large knife at his side. He was almost-but-not-quite-glaring at something, and had reacted to a signal that none of the others had heard.

The Doctor was the next to hear them. He was surprised that the grey-haired boy had heard the noises that the approaching party was making before he had, Time Lords had better ears than humans, or in this case, human-like aliens. There was a group of people chattering away and walking in a very non-stealthy manner right towards the camp. Looking back at the silent boy, he saw him catch something in the noise and visibly relax, his hand moving away from his knife.

In the distance, Senri could hear Cooro singing. It was just Nana, Husky, and everyone's favorite crow returning from town, hopefully with the items they'd gone to trade the fish for. He relaxed, smiled slightly, and started to get out some more plates. He'd used the three plates he'd set out for his young friends on the strangers, so now he had to get three more from his bag. The woman with the red hair watched him prepare for their arrival, and commented,

"More guests for lunch, hm?" She grinned at him. "Do you feed just anyone who comes along?" Senri blinked at her, and returned to his task. Just a minute or so later, Cooro came bursting into the clearing with a grumbling Husky and an annoyed Nana right on his heels.

"Hey Senri! We're baaack!" Cooro, ever hyper and with a tendency to end most of his sentences with exclamation points, ran right over to where Senri was, and poked his nose into the pot. "We get stew for lunch? That's great! Husky, we ge-" Cooro, excited about the prospect of any kind of food at all, had turned to tell Husky of his discovery, and was cut off at the sight of three strangers, three very oddly dressed strangers, sitting on a log in the middle of the clearing. Husky and Nana had already noticed them and were staring at the newcomers. There was a long moment of silence, until it was shattered by Husky's question.

"Who the heck are you?"

End of Chapter 1

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