Chapter 2: The Arrival

In the outskirts of Cardiff, inside a small park we see a large bulky man who looked to have fallen on hard times, as he laid on the park bench, newspapers over his face and a dirty sheet covering his clothes that had holes in them as a half empty sealed bottle of scotch was being tightly gripped under the sheet and clenched tightly so no one could rob him of the few little items he was able to possess. Suddenly, a sound started to echo throughout the park, as a slight breeze turned into a blowing wind awaking the tramp as he struggled to hold onto his sheet and paper that was covering his face as he turned to look to his left.

At first he thought he was dreaming, as he saw a dark blue box type shape come into view from nowhere as he looked on. He raised his hands up to his face as he rubbed his eyes, hoping this would actually make him see sense as the sound started to become louder as the blue box became more reality as it finally appeared in blue form and the light at the top of the box started to dim out with the sound echoing away from the empty park. He climbed to his feet as he walked over to this amazing, and yet unusual blue box that had appeared out of nothing as he walked around the box before looking up to see the words describing what it was, "Police Box".

Suddenly, without warning as the tramp stood there, the door opened to his side as out stepped a man, with a mixture of light and dark brown hair which didn't look like it had been brushed in a few good days as a small piece of hair came down over his forehead. This unusual individual, dressed in a dark blue suit and wearing what seemed to be red trainers which was strange for someone who was so smartly dressed, while over this he was wearing a large light brown coat.

"Oh, hello." the Doctor said to the tramp who stood in amazement of someone exiting this police call box. "Hello?" the Doctor tried again, but in vain as the tramp just stood with his mouth and eyes wide open in utter shock at what he was witnessing. "All righty then."

Suddenly, he was followed by the assistant who had been travelling with the Doctor for several months now, as out walked a beautiful young girl with curves in all the right places wearing blue jeans, a red leather jacket, unzipped at the front, and a t-shirt underneath which had the words "I saw the universe and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" as Martha Jones stepped out of the blue Tardis onto the green grass of Planet Earth once again. "Finally, I take it we're home then, I mean home as in Earth, as in Cardiff, as in 2007 Doctor?"

"Well, either that or this individual is a Slitheen in disguise!" he said to Martha, a joke he finally realised she wouldn't get as she looked on raising her eyebrow wondering what the Doctor was talking about.

"Never mind, wrong girl!" the Doctor immediately said after his remark hoping not to upset Martha, after all he had talked about Rose Tyler a lot over the few months they had spent together and still missed her incredible smile as he would turn to face her, but this was no Rose Tyler, this was a totally different human he had taken on board. "Well according to the Tardis this is Cardiff, April 15th 2007 I believe, of course, I have been known to be wrong before."

"What about him, have you asked him?" Martha asked the Doctor. "Of course, but I think he's suffering from shock of seeing us appear out of nowhere. That's the problem you see, I never know where we are gonna land. Maybe one day we'll land on some green witch and you can take her shiny shoes to wear!" claiming to Martha with a smile on his face, as she smiled back, almost laughing at thinking of the film 'Wizard of Oz' and the way Dorothy arrived and killed the Wicked With by crash landing on her. "I didn't know you liked that film?" Martha asked the Doctor not realising that he may have liked some human customs. "Oh yes Martha, classic film, you know ol' Frankie boy who wrote it, I was the one who gave him the idea of the flying monkeys, well I say me but in fact it was the pesky little Monktrillion who had hidden inside the Tardis one day when I visited it's home planet. You know it took me almost a month to clean the smell of him out of the Tardis after I returned him home, never again Martha."

"Now then" the Doctor turned to look at the tramp still looking at this amazing blue machine in front him. "Oh, come on, snap out of it" as the Doctor snapped his fingers but nothing seemed to work as he waved his hand in front of the Tramp's face as well. "I know!" the Doctor said with great enthusiasm, as he pulled out a pair of dark glasses and handed them to Martha. "Put these on will you!" Martha took a hold of the glasses and wondered what the Doctor was up to. "What are these for?" she asked in vain, hoping he'd give a sensible answer to his usual mathematical excuses he would often come out with. "Just put them on and I'll show you."

The Doctor then pulled out a pair for himself as he placed them over his eyes and then brought out his sonic screwdriver as Martha placed hers on as well. He raised the screwdriver in front of the tramp as he switched it on and a blue light appeared to flash. "Now" as he removed his glasses and Martha followed suit realising it must be ok as the Doctor seemed to address the tramp. "You have not just seen an amazing flying machine appear out of nowhere, you did not see me or the girl appear from out of this amazing flying machine. What you will do though is walk out of this park and forget everything that has taken place in the last, oooh, say 3 months of your life. Ok, that should do it."

Martha looked on, "Your kidding right, who do you think you are Tommy Lee Jones or something?" The Doctor turned to face Martha and grinned at her "Well, I was more a fan of Will Smith myself!" "You, Will Smith, dream on, your not as fit as he is!" Martha snapped back in remark quickly amazing the Doctor still at how witty and yet quick she could think. "Oh, that hurt Martha. I think for someone who's over 900 years old I've still got the looks!"

"Well what did you just do to that guy?" Martha asked, inquisitive as usual to everything the Doctor did and impressed her open mind. "Oh, I just erased the last 3 months of his memory and made him forget what he just saw that's all. Amazing what the Sonic Screwdriver can do isn't it. Now then!" The Doctor tried to walk off but Martha stood there, refusing to move for a moment as the man just stood there still looking at the blue box. "Wait Doctor, what about him?" The Doctor turned to see the tramp still standing still and in shock it seemed. "This always happens!" as he walked over to the tramp again and looked into his eyes. "You can now leave this park and vow never to return, oh, and you have amazing self belief in yourself and will find yourself a job within the next hour, now go on, off with you!" as the tramp seemed to snap out of it and just turned to walk off.

"Now then, I think it's time we took you home for a while don't you?" the Doctor turned and walked off leaving Martha stood for a moment as she saw the tramp walk off out the park before turning and running to catch up with the Doctor as they walked towards the exit gates of the park they arrived in.