Chapter One: Coal Hill School
The staffroom at Coal Hill School. Friday 1st July. A normal secondary school in 2013.
The staffroom was a fairly small and run-down place, with ripped chairs littered around it and various notices regarding school events or notes about problem pupils. All in all, it was a rather unremarkable room. Until a strange wheezing noise filled it, causing the papers on the noticeboard to rustle furiously and attempt to fly away. Eventually, a blue box came into view and slowly began to become less and less transparent, until the wheezing suddenly stopped and the box was still.
A man in a long coat and a suit stepped out, looking around the room frantically for someone else. A ginger-haired woman stepped out after him, shutting the door of the blue box and looking around as well, although in a much calmer way.
"Look, Doctor," she began, crossing her arms and leaning against the box. "Why are we 'ere anyway? You take a glance at your psychic paper and then you're rushing us out of Venice and to…a ratty old staffroom?"
"Why aren't they here? I'm not usually this late…" muttered the Doctor, looking at his psychic paper in his hand and then looking back up. "They should be here by now…"
"Who should be here? Who are we waiting for anyway? Are you going to parents evening or something?"
The Doctor walked over to Donna and showed her the psychic paper. On it, it read:
Captured by UNIT. Code Scarlet.
-11
"Who's 11?" she asked, her brow furrowing as she read. "And what does Code Scarlet mean?"
"It means," explained the Doctor, putting the paper in his pocket. "that somebody is messing with time. In a bad way. Probably something to do with being captured by UNIT. And 11 must mean my eleventh incarnation. Only one of me would know of Code Scarlet, which is the code among my selves for time meddling. He sent it to me because only my last incarnation and I have psychic paper, so I sent it on to the other eight. They should be here soon. Understand?"
"…No." responded Donna, shaking her head in confusion. "What d'you mean 'my selves'?"
The wheezing sound filled the room again, causing the papers to rustle. And then another added to the noise. And another. And another. The noise in the room got louder and louder, until it was deafening and Donna had to clap her hands over her ears, as her hoodie blew furiously in the wind.
"DOCTOR!" she screamed over the cacophony. "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"
"ME!" the Doctor called back, as nine TARDISes, all the same TARDIS, materialized and were still.
And then nine doors opened, nine doctors poked their heads out, along with their companions and stepped out, looking gravely at each other, understanding why they were here. The companions, meanwhile, were pretty confused and there was more noise as they asked their respective Doctors a whole host of different questions.
"Grandfather, why are we here?" asked Susan, looking around at all the people she did not recognize. "Wait a minute! This is my school!"
"Professor!" whined Ace. "Tell me what's going on!"
"Hey, Doctor…" grinned Captain Jack, looking over at the Tenth. "Who's the guy in the brown coat?"
"Stop it." the Tenth said, giving Jack a hard stare before turning to address everyone. "Alright, everyone! If all of the humans and…dogs and such could shut up for a second, we need to work out what to do!"
"Do we know who it is?" asked the Sixth.
"No. Not as far as I know. All we know is that Eleven has been captured by UNIT for some reason. I think someone is messing with the time streams, causing UNIT to view all of us as a threat."
"Who in the Seven Systems is UNIT?" queried the First, Susan, Ian and Barbara nodding in agreement.
"Unified Intelligence Taskforce." answered the Tenth. "Now, what I suggest we do is…"
Suddenly, the door was blown off its hinges and every Doctor and companion dived to the floor, as they were showered with wood and glass. They all slowly looked up to see the terrifying figures of three Daleks standing in the now destroyed doorway.
"SOURCE OF ARTRON ENERGY SURGE DETECTED." announced one, as everyone slowly got to their feet.
"SCANNING…" said one Dalek, as it emitted a small beeping sound. The room was quiet and tense for a while, before it said again, "ALL LIFEFORMS AND ONE ARTIFICAL CONSTRUCTION MATCH UNIT DATABASES. WE HAVE FOUND THE DOCTOR AND SEVERAL OF HIS COMPANIONS."
"Wait a minute!" the Third noticed, pointing at the Daleks. "They've got UNIT colours!"
Every Doctor gasped in shock as they saw the Third was correct. Each Dalek was a camouflage green and had a UNIT logo on their casing.
"Why do you have UNIT logos?" asked the Fifth, still staring in shock at them.
"DALEKS ARE CONSTRUCTED BY UNIT FOR INFANTRY OPERATIONS. WE ARE HIGHLY EFFICENT WITH A 100% SUCCESS RATE."
"Daleks don't work for UNIT! They attack UNIT, they…they have killed UNIT soldiers!" stuttered the Third, unable to believe what he had just heard.
"THIS CONVERSATION IS IRRELEVANT. YOU WILL COME WITH US. NOW."
"We're not going anywhere with you!" the Ninth nearly shouted, stepping towards the Daleks, much to the fear of Rose and Jack.
"THE DOCTORS AND THEIR COMPANIONS WILL ACCOMPANY THE DALEKS OR THEY WILL ALL BE EXTERMINATED. MOVE."