- "You'll have to pull the vortex loop when I say now, got it?" explained the Doctor.
- "Got it."
- "OK... allons-y!"
- "Along what?" inquired the Londoner.
- "Come on and pull the vortex loop, you have to pull the vortex loop now! The vortex loop!"
The redhead pulled the lever in front of her, and the vessel emitted the strangest sound she had ever heard. Was she doing it correctly?
- "Oh, I don't believe it, not the dimensional stabiliser but this one, like I explained to you already", said the alien. "Hurry up and pull!"
Exactly what she had been dreading; Donna made haste to select the correct lever.
- "Not both of them at the same time!" yelled the Doctor, pulling his brown hair which remained standing up on end, while the TARDIS let out a horrible screech and explosions grew around them like multicoloured fireworks until the time vessel bumped against something and stopped moving.
- "It's not as easy to get a driving license on this kind of vessel as I remembered," laughed the Time Lord as he picked himself up off the floor. "Don't worry. Well, we have arrived where or whenever." He took a look at the scanner. "Brilliant, Hamburg, Germany, June, 2010. Ohhh, we're in the Storehouse City! That's not bad at all. You will like that one!"
Donna couldn't care less. The only thing she did care about was that she hadn't been scattered into space dust, until a new worry entered her mind. "Did I break anything?"
The Doctor stroked the control panel. "I'm sorry, but you did... what's wrong with you, ey?" He danced around the hexagonal console like a northern light fingering buttons here and there and a lever and dial or other. He bent underneath, silver sonic wand in hand. He said: "Well, that can be fixed without any trouble. Back in a tick!" and he took off through a door leading inside.
Donna looked through the door after him, but the only thing she saw was a long corridor with lots of doors to each side, and even more corridors in the distance. There wasn't head or tail to be seen of her friend.
- "Oy, Spaceman!"
Echoes were her only answer.
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