The Doctor blinked, he sniffed the air from the fish market as the trio walked by. He smiled and twirled on his feet, Amy rolled her eyes as he said "I love Japan! Modern culture and technology meeting ancient tradition. Amazing don't you think? Excellent chefs as well, I met a child of Asian heritage in my seventh incarnation named Lee, sadly I died and regenerated but he swiped my belongings and worked with the Master to kill me. He's fine now I suppose. I set him straight."
Amy opened her mouth to say something but then the Doctor stole the words from her mouth. "Rambling?"
"Rambling." Amy and Rory both answered at the same time, they glanced at each other and smiled. The Time Lord rolled his eyes as he saw the couple intertwine their hands and stroll happily away. The Time Lord walked after them, bouncing on his heels as he looked around the bright colors of Japan, an amazing city, he had to say. Amy glanced back at her Raggedy Doctor and said "Doctor, why take us here? I thought you hated the noise, superior Time Lord senses and all."
The Doctor shrugged "TARDIS dropped us off here and then I remembered the beginning of alien civilizations that started on these islands...this time period actually."
"Wait." Rory said with a doubtful shake of his head. "What?"
The Time Lord gave a sappy smiled as he said "Almost every species has visited this time before the Tsunami. They stay here for awhile and study the species and then a day before the Tsunami hits, they leave. Humans never have any memory of them being they use perception filters. Humans don't remember them being they're not accustomed to space and time travel yet, genius actually. Here comes one now actually!"
Before the two could do anything the Time Lord bounced away and jumped in front of a tall and skinny woman with dark brown hair. She blinked as he said in a language "I believe your perception filter is on dial two meaning you're not speaking the language you're hearing, not everyone knows Strados."
She blinked, fluorescent blue eyes widening as she glanced down at the piece of metal at her side, she switched the dial to four and nodded. "Thank you. You seem to have very keen eyes. Not even the Daleks saw through the disguise. What species might I ask?"
"Time Lord." The Doctor asked with a smile, green eyes twinkling as Amy and Rory crossed the streams of people towards the two aliens. "These are my two human traveling companions, Amy and Rory."
"Doctor?" The Woman asked as she cocked her head to the side, a smile of recognition tearing across her face. "Been a long time, you've new companions I see and a new body. Regeneration does you well I see."
"Alice, you're married!" The Doctor said in false horror, he broke off laughing while Amy and Rory seemed confused. The Doctor blinked and said "What are you doing here anyway? The Strados don't interfere with human affairs unless aliens from other worlds came here and are breaking Shadow Proclamation laws. Is something wrong?"
Amy blinked and said "So you're the space police basically?"
"No, don't get us confused with Judoon." She replied with a shake of her head. "We handle affairs that are out of jurisdiction. Apparently, humans and alien archaeologists are being murdered, quite brutally. We have been sent to investigate the matter. We've been trying to contact you for months."
The Doctor blinked and said "Sorry. What day is it? We arrived a few minutes ago and the salt is overpowering my sense of smell."
"Wednesday, March 9th 2011." Alice replied curtly as she glanced at the sky. "I'll take you to the headquarters. Eddie has been dying to meet the famed Time Lord...besides we need all the help we can get."
Rory froze, that was two days before the disaster. Alice smiled and said "Don't worry, I have a teleport on me."
She held up a silver spire and pressed a button and before anyone could argue the four were gone, lifted up off of the street in front of hundreds of people. Rory blinked as he became accustomed to his new surroundings. They were standing in a room painted tan with old graying carpet. There were in total seven alien walking around with desks and laptops that produced full color holograms. Alice yawned and she picked off her perception filter and suddenly her appearance change as if static had been hiding it.
The girl stood tall, skeletal horns curled up from her skull while her hands were skeletal claws and protruding from her back were what appeared to be long black pieces of bone that seemed to be like spider legs, except instead of four pairs there was only one. She smiled, pointed teeth perfectly aligned. "You have better reactions to my appearance than most of the others did."
"Used to it." Rory replied with a sly smile, the Doctor waved his sonic through the air, scanning some of the computers. "Care to tell us what's going on?"
Alice glanced past them at a taller Strados, the man was lean and lightly tanned with blue eyes to match his hair. "Eddie can tell you. He's in charge around here."
Eddie smiled, fangs glinting in the light. "That would be me. Well," he sat back down in his chair behind the desk as the trio glanced at them "murders have been popping up everywhere near the ocean line. History never recorded this so something has been messing up set time."
"Time can be rewritten." The Doctor said as he flipped his sonic screwdriver before slipping it into his coat pocket. "Probably just some natives from a water worlds or something. Venice never recorded vampire fish and no one was worried. What's so important about this?"
"This is a fixed point." Eddie replied sharply, blue eyes catching an icy glint. "Politicians are being murdered and so are important people and apparently the murderers left a note, written in the victims blood."
Before anyone could answer he tossed a tan file onto the desk and flipped it open. Pictures were scattered among the loose papers and instantly Amy and Rory were at the desktop, looking over the photos of the dead. She blinked and turned over a photo and her heart nearly stopped, the photo fluttered to the desk where Rory caught a glance at it. He felt his stomach churn but then the Doctor slithered forward, almost like a snake, and plucked the photo from the table.
It was in high resolution and perfect color, the Time Lord blinked in disgust at the body in the photo. A woman no older than twenty was lying on the carpet, eyes staring forward blankly while her stomach was torn open along with her throat, all of its contents spilled everywhere, staining the room with a red hue. The Doctor blinked and looked at the wall, in the victim's blood there were three words making the Doctor blinked in horror.
Doctor we're waiting.
"We've no idea what creatures are doing this." Alice said with a sigh as she held her head in one clawed hand. "Nearly impossible. Do you have a clue?"
Amy and Rory both shook their heads but the Doctor remained silent. Alice caught that and said "What's wrong Doctor? Have you found something?"
He nodded. "You lot missed something important. You never saw the way the person was murdered. Honestly it wasn't a murder, it was a forensic analysis. Someone took this person apart to know human defenses. I'm a Doctor, graduated from Earth and hundreds of other planets, I know these signs. Whatever did this has the ability to shape shift."
"But why write your name?" Eddie asked, the room had gone silent and many Strados had pulled up the photo. "It makes no sense."
"A Time Lord can live thousands of years longer than a human." The Doctor said with a shake of his head, causing his hair to flop around. "I'm the last, a single drop of my blood to an alien that feasts on living matter to decide its age span could let it live as long as I. Of course they want me."
Alice blinked and said "Do you know the-"
She never got to finish her sentence because a Strados ran in, eyes wide as she yelled "Sir! There's been another!"