Chapter 1

"Hello," The Doctor greeted happily, though he frowned briefly and looked at his hands, distracted about not being able to wave them around. "I'm the Doctor. This is my companion Aggie."

"Yeah, still doesn't mean anything." The woman said.

"Why do we have to explain anything?" Aggie asked.

"Because you're in the Underworld, and in my experience that means you're evil."

No matter how literal the term 'Underworld' was, Aggie doubted it was a good thing. "You didn't tell me we were in the Underworld." She muttered the Doctor.

He ignored her. "Oh come now. How many demons wear bow ties and travel around in big blue police boxes?" The Doctor argued.

"Stranger things have happened." The woman pointed out. Aggie couldn't argue that one.

"Yes, yes stranger things have. Including games that have living people giving everyone insane allusions. Which yes, that actually happened. Now we have to talk to the maker so we can get it unplugged. And yes, the maker lives here. And was that all the explaining I had to do? Usually I'm done with that part by now."

The woman looked at them skeptically for a moment. "Oh forget it." She said. She waved her hands and the Doctor and Aggie could move again. Aggie wobbled uncertainly for a moment, thrown off by the sudden ability to move again. "Where's this guy live? My sisters and I can vanquish him for you."

"Vanquish? No, no we're just going to talk to him." The Doctor told her.

"You don't talk to demons, they'll take the first chance they get to kill you." The woman said.

"Well then we just won't give him that chance will we?" The Doctor strode out.

The woman turned towards Aggie who shrugged helplessly and started after the Doctor. They didn't make it very far before another lightning ball came towards them. Aggie grabbed the Doctor's sleeve and dropped, dragging him with her and smashing his face into the ground harder than she'd meant.

Two more woman appeared around a corner. When a lightning ball came towards them one of them cried out "Energy ball!" The lightning turned into blue dots and zipped back towards their attacker.

The Doctor, now that the danger had relatively passed, was getting up. "The nose, Aggie." He said, rubbing it. "Try not to break it."

"Sorry." Aggie muttered. She took the Doctor's hand and let him pull her up. She tried to look at him resentfully. He obviously found this normal, but she didn't, and a little more information would've been nice.

"Uh . . . Piper," One of the women, the one who had turned the energy ball into dots, started. "Who are these 2?"

"Well," the woman who had been interrogating them earlier sighed, "Apparently he's the Doctor, and she's Aggie, and they're here to see some creator of an evil video game maker, but don't want us to vanquish him."

"No, absolutely not. We can handle this without killing him thanks." The Doctor interjected.

Aggie was thinking on different lines then the rest of them though. "How did you do that?" She asked. "With the orbs."

"Oh. We're witches." The one with the orbs explained. "I'm Paige, I do that. Piper freezes time."
"And I see the future." The last one added. "I'm Phoebe."

"The Doctor travels through time, I think we win." Aggie said.

"Hey, hey it's not a competition." The Doctor told her. "Of course if it was you're right I'd win." One of the women groaned. "Right, getting distracted." The Doctor said. He waved his sonic screwdriver in front of them and looked at it. "Nope. Definitely human. Probably a subspecies though, with abilities like that."

"Like Paige said, witches." Phoebe stated.

"Yes try to keep up." Paige added.

"What? No. I am keeping up. You might be, I was just, shut up."

Aggie covered her mouth with her hand so it wouldn't be too obvious she was laughing.

The Doctor seemed to huff. Then he grabbed her hand. "Come on now Aggie, we have places to go." And with that he half dragged her away.

The 3 women watched them go. Phoebe, stated, "That was weird."

"Yeah. . ." Piper agreed.

"Well, good thing I came prepared." Paige declared. "I've got some vanquishing potions and invisibility potions so we can follow them without being noticed. . ." She saw the look the other 2 were giving her. "What? Chris taught me to be prepared."

"Doctor, you were off in your aim weren't you?" Aggie asked as they walked through the underworld itself.

"What? No. Of course not. We're here right now." The Doctor insisted.

"Yeah ri. . ." Aggie stopped mid word as they turned a corner and the tunnel widened out into a dead end circle. There was a man sitting in the center of it, various bits of technology from another Polybius cabinet to a microwave. Wow, he actually found it.

The man in the chair at the center of the room leaned forward. "Doctor. You've changed faces."

Aggie briefly wondered what that meant, but so many weird things had happened in such a short time she'd given up on thinking too hard.

The Doctor rocked back on his heels and waved. "Hello." He greeted cheerfully.

The man smirked. "I know you're not here to be friendly. What do you want Doctor?"

"I want to know why you plugged Polybius back in. You tried that in 1980s and it didn't work."

"Yes, your fault too then I believe."

"Oh, so it was. I knew that game sounded familiar. . ." The Doctor looked off at nothing for a moment before snapping his attention back. "But I stopped you then, and I'm going to stop you now. So, get rid of Polybius."

Aggie started to lean back, pressing her hands against the wall. It looked like this was going to take a while.

The man smiled and shook his head. "Nope. I don't think I will."

"Then I'll unplug it and lock it up in my TARDIS."

The man waved his hand at the Polybius box behind him. Aggie tried not to shudder. "I've got more, in case you didn't notice."

"And I've got more time. All the time in the universe in fact. I can stop you as many times as I feel like."

"But will you?" The man raised his eye brow. "You like to go to different places if I recall correctly, and there are certainly more pressing things for you to do than stop me. I cause misery, others cause death. Are you really going to take time out of saving the universe to keep coming after me?"

The Doctor leaned in. "Yes."

"Well then. . ." The man turned around.

Because of where she was standing, Aggie saw what was going to happen before the Doctor did. "Doctor look out!" She cried. She pushed off the wall and leapt between the 2 as the man whisked around and pelted an energy ball at the Doctor. It hit her instead and she stumbled back. For a moment all vision and feeling went out of her and she thought for sure she'd died. Then her senses came back.

"What?" The man gasped in disbelief.

Aggie had to agree with him on that. She lifted her hands. Her vision faded out again, but not before she saw her hands 'glitch'. It didn't take much to figure out her entire body was doing it, and it wasn't something normal humans did. "Wh1t's h-ppe0ing to me?!" She screamed, panicking.

She heard the Doctor mutter something along the lines of, 'that wasn't supposed to happen' and whipped around. He had an expression that she could only describe as guilt on his face. "Doctor what happened?!" She demanded. Her body seemed to have stopped glitching but she was starting to feel pain in her stomach and chest area, to the point some of her screaming was more out of pain than panic. "What did you do to me?!" Okay forget thinking he had a guilty look before, this was definitely worse.

She opened her mouth again to yell 'tell me!' but all the came out was a generic scream as her knees buckled in pain and she started falling. The Doctor caught her. "Oh Aggie." He said.

Then the man who'd made Polybius, who up until then they'd forgotten about, started laughing. "Oh this is good. This is too good." He got up and started circling the 2. The Doctor brought Aggie a little closer to him. "She's a video game character, and not just any one at that. I'm willing to bet she's from Polybius."

"No." Aggie breathed, shaking her head. "No I'm human."

The man tipped his head back in laughter. "You know something Doctor, I think I will unplug that game. Because I really want to see what happens to her when I do." And with a blink he was gone, but not before throwing another energy ball. This one was aimed for the Doctor's head, too high for Aggie to reach.

"Got you!" Someone called out. They grabbed onto the Doctor and Aggie's shoulders and soon the 2, 3 technically, turned into blue dots and disappeared.