Chapter 1
"What?!"
Shannon breathes heavily as she awakens from her sleep and she is sweating more than she has ever sweat in her life.
She wasn't just in a dream, but in a freakishly real dream that seemed so familiar yet so far from possible.
She gets out of her bed and tangled sheets, and steps on her cold wood floor. It sends chills down her back as if she just stepped into a blizzard in her pajamas. Quickly hopping across her bedroom, she reaches her bathroom, where she looks into the mirror and feels her face as if she expected herself not to be there.
In the mirror, she sees a super skinny 16 year old girl with green eyes and super messy dirty blonde hair.
"Okay" she says to herself, "I'm okay..."
After taking a deep breath, Shannon dashes to her bed and just before covering herself in blankets to try to get back to sleep, the time read 4:00am
"What?!"
"Where am I?"
"Who are you?"
Shannon turns about herself and takes in her new surroundings. Around her was a field of grass, and nothing else. Just a field stretching infinitely on all sides. No trees, no animals, just Shannon and a man who was staring at her in awe.
"Well... That was pretty neat what you just did there" He says.
"Who are you! What's going on?!" Shannon panics as she looks around more carefully. The sky is black, it's as if the sun is shining because it's so bright that she has to squint to see.
"That doesn't matter right now", He says, "Just run!"
Looking into the sky, he yells, "They're coming! Hurry up" and he begins to run away from Shannon.
As if on cue, a dark shadow appears in the sky in the shape of a spaceship that looked like it was crashing.
Suddenly a swarm of sand starts to emerge from the grass and surround Shannon and try to whisk her away as if it was alive. As it encircles her, she notices that it is alive and she hears buzzing... "Bees" she thinks.
Shannon begins thrashing and trying to break free of the swarm, but their buzzing gets louder and Shannon's ears begin to throb from the amplifying sound.
Suddenly, she feels a sharp pain in her outer thigh and she begins to cringe and weaken. The bee had stung her but it did not feel like any ordinary bee-sting. As she continues to fight her way out, more and more bees take aim for Shannon's bare skin, which she had a lot of since she was just wearing her pajama shorts and a t-shirt. As more bees stung, she felt like she had been shot, and soon she felt very tired and dizzy.
"Run!", the man yells from the other side of the bee tornado, "It's coming!"
A boney cold hand shoots through the wall of bees and Shannon grabs onto it. It yanks her out of the buzzing cloud, but out of drowsiness, Shannon doesn't want to move away, she just wants to lay down right in the middle of the commotion and take a long nap.
Shannon's eyes begin to blink slower and slower as she begins to nod off into sleep.
"Oh no you don't!" The man says as he pulls as hard as he can to get Shannon out of the swarm.
Finally, he frees her from the tornado and she comes hurtling at the man from the force of his pull. She smashes into him and nearly knocks him over, but he recovers quickly and pulls Shannon further away from the storm, running as fast as he can.
She realizes that she isn't helping the man, and is probably making his situation more difficult. So she regains some of her strength and runs as fast as her wobbly weak legs can handle. Shannon begins to wheeze and cough from her exhaustion, but she continues to run because for the first time in the last twenty minutes or so, she realizes that something bad is probably going to happen.
The man stops and Shannon stops with him and bends down to try to catch her breath.
"What is- is- that?" She says, struggling to speak from her lack of oxygen.
The man seemed to not hear her because he was so focused on the object falling from the sky.
"It's gonna blow!" He yells over the loud noise of the spacecraft nearing.
The large object crashes into the ground and a huge fiery mass of red, yellow, and orange explode from the wreckage. The man and Shannon were just far enough to not get hit with any debris.
Shannon begins to feel faint and dizzy again and she sits down and holds her head in her hands.
"What's wrong?" He asks.
"I don't know, I feel like I'm going to pass out"
"When did you start feeling this way?"
"When I got stung" Shannon replies.
"Oh… those weren't ordinary bees…" He trails off and begins to look extremely worried.
"What were they?!" Noticing the fear in his eyes, Shannon begins to panic.
"Those were Vicibines, mutant bees with deadly venom…" He pauses, "We need to get you back to the TARDIS!"
"The what?" Shannon says using the last of her strength, "Who are you?"
"I'm the Doctor" He says as she begins to fall. And just in time, he catches her and she falls limply into his arms.