Chapter 2

Up and down

A blue box faded seeminly in and out of existence unnoticed by the surrounding environment.

Though truth be told, a whole bunch of sand grains and an unconscious lion cub are rarely usefull witnesses when it comes to suddenly materializing blue police boxes in the middle of the savana.

However if a person with a consciousness had witnessed this very event, he would've let out a barely audioable:"How peculiar" as a fitting reaction.

However no such person was availlable and so the unspoken words died a never existing death.

Meanwhile inside the blue police box, or rather inside the four-dimensional transportation device, the doctor regained consciousness.

He took a deep breath as his eyes opened slowly.

Light came crashing into his pupils, resulting in him closing his eyes again.

He slowed down the opening movements of his eyelids as much as he could, It still hurt to see , but the pain started to fade away ever so slowly.

The Doctor sat up looking around, he was in the tardis console room.

Or rather a tardis console room.

"The tardis must have dun this while i was passed out."The doctor mumbled.

A few seconds of silence followed this sentence.

Then the doctor repeated one word from said sentence. "Dun"

In his mind the word he was looking for wasn't pronounced like that, it was something along the lines of "done".

Reopening his mouth he gave it another go: "Dun"

The synapses of the timelords brain spat out a thought to summon up the current situation:"Strange"

Standing up , the doctor looked around the console room for the scanner.

Said scanner was detected, activated and put to good use in a matter of seconds.

The scanners monitore flickered to life and was now displaying the area sourounding the tardis. "Lets see, where we are then".

Although his mind was now occupied with transforming the scanner data into usefull information, he still was wondering why his speech seemed ever so slightly different.

It had something to do with a word beginning with the letter a , he was very shure of that. "Anatomical correctness,Analyses,Alphabetical Ass kicking, Ancestry"

He keept muttering to himself while staring at the screen."Acne, Axe,Accent...yes that's it i've got myself an accent, that's fantastic."

Now, with this problem was out of the way, his mind was ready to get back on track.

"Alright, let's see. I'm on earth. That's good.I am in Africa, that's also good. I'm basicly in the middle of a dessert."

He was calmly puzzled "Believe me , i am always thankfull for beeing saved " The doctor said while gently patting the tardis console"but why did you bring me here of all the places ?"

Suddenly, as if the tardis wanted to answer him, the tardis doors swung open, letting massive rays of sunlight glitter into the tardis.

Confusion in his eyes , the doctor went to the tardis doors.

He looked outside shielding his eyes from the sun with his left hand.

Gazing of into the distance his eyes couldn't spot anything out of the ordinary, just sand and maybe a few vultures up above in the sky.

It was when he was about to turn arround again, he heard a faint sigh.

The timelords ears located the surce to be right before his feet.

In disbelieve the doctor looked down at what seemed to be a lion cub.

He observed the small furry creature."And who might you be?"

He pettted the feline. It seemed obvious to him that this cub would not last another day out in the dessert.

"Whoever you might be, i'm not gunna let you die out here. I 'm not gunna be the cause of anyones suffering anymore.

" It was with these words and watery eyes that the doctor carried the passed out cub into the tardis.

Humming. A slight humming barely audioable but deffinetly there filled Simba's ears.

Simba opened his eyes, greenish light entering his vision.

He lifted his head . Everything was still very blurry around him.

He concentrated and managed to get his vision all clear and sharp.

The legs upon which he intended to stand on were far to weak to properly hold him up.

He collapsed again.

Suddenly a voice , pesumably adressed at him, said:"Oh, you're awake. Now before you get scared, i ashure you that i am of no danger to you."

Simba moved his head towards the voice and froze for a few seconds before attempting to defensively roar, or rather failing at the attempt due to his physical condition.

Right next to him squattet a human being, at least he was shure that it was a human being.

" oh come on why do i even bother with assuring liveforms that i am not dangerous, most of them won't listen." Added the strange human with a lowered voice.

"Anyway"He was back to his previous volume.

"Here is a bowl of water and some raw meat , antelope i believe. Eat and drink"

The tall human said while placing two bowles made out of some sort of shiny silverish material on the ground.

One bowl contained unarguably water and the other probably meat.

The humans speech continued. "and then i tell you where you are and or anything else you might want to know."

Simba was still very confused and slightly hostile towards the human beeing.

Regardless of this however he was hungry and even more than that he was thirsty.

Yet , he was still hesitant towards the two bowls , afterall a human had filled them up.

"Now come on ,it's not poisened" Said the human while ripping a piece of meat of the relatively large lump and eating it

"It's delicious , you should try it. The water " He said while lifting up the bowle filled with water and taking a sipp "isn't dangerous either."

He put the bowle down again. Simba crawled towarts the water bowle and started to slurp up the water hastily.

"You see, what did i tell you ?" Simba fellt strength returning to his muscles with every sipp he took, he stopped drinking for a second and looked at the human.

"Who are you ?" He asked.

The human smiled and replied:"Oh so you do can talk. I am the doctor."

Simba rolled his eyes. "Of course i can talk. Where am i ?"

It was very satisfiyng for the doctor to see that the little cub was already back to defensively arguing.

"This, my feline friend is the TARDIS and before you ask why i can understand you and vice versa , well you can thank said TARDIS for that , she translates everything for everyone.

" The lion cub raised a brow. "Tard- what now ?"

The doctor smirked "Tardis : Time and Relative Dimensions in space"

Simbas confusion grew bigger. "Time and relentless digestion in what now"

The doctors smile grew wider." Don't worry, you don't have to remember that, however i am now curious about you. I found you close to death in the desert.

What's your name and were did you come from , maybe i can get you back there"

Simba froze. "I ...er ...iam from ...nowhere really. "

There where tears in the young lions voice. "It's alright " The doctor said while squatting down infront of the cub

"It's ok if you don't want to talk about it now, but maybe you just tell me your name instead." Simba's breath slowed down.

"My name is Simba".

"That cub is definitely very tense, but i think i know how to distract him from whatever it is that's bothering him" The doctor thought.

He stood up, went to the tardis console and flicked a few swithches and just like that the tardis started to emit a very relaxing sound.

The whatever it was in the middle of the tardis core beam began to move up and down.

This of course didn't escape the cubs attention.

He looked in amazement at the peculiar green beam. "What is that ? "

He asked "Oh that's just the tardis core regulator beam. Try saying that three times fast. But anyway. Simba have you ever seen the planet that you live on from above."

Now Simba was confused again "What's a planet ?"

The noise stoped and the doctor went to the tardis doors, opening them and revealing a giant blue and green ball accompanied by a far smaller grey ball to the right of the bigger ball.

Simba was astonished. " What is this ?"

"This my, furry little friend" Answered the doctor "is the earth".

End of chapter 2

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Chapter 3 Circles, Apples and Beyond