The silence of the empty time lord construct was broken by a tortured grinding howl; it throbbed on and off like a mechanical heartbeat and a breeze disturbed the dust.
Out of a disused storage room emerged a man in a black coat; he poked his head through the door and looked around. Seeing the area was abandoned, he strode out into the corridor.
"Ok... interesting" he drew a small metal tool out of his pocket and began running it along the wall. "Time lords..." he whispered to himself as the little probe warbled away "had to be..."
He jogged to the end of the corridor, black sneakers squeaking on the polished floor, before he found himself in a perfectly proportioned cubic anteroom. With a zap and a wave of his sonic device, a burnished metal pedestal rose out of the floor with a tired hum and the man sauntered over to it, brandishing his probe eagerly.
"Excellent... let's get this show on the road!"
With a buzz the dark haired man was a flurry of activity, zapping things and muttering to himself
"Oh, brilliant! You are brilliant" he patted the console "an old containment bubble, I haven't seen one like you in..." he trailed off, realisation on his features "a lifetime..."
The Doctor half ran down the polished corridor, twisting around and walking backwards a few steps every twenty feet or so to look back at his entourage who were stolidly walking at a measured pace, the time lord was becoming increasingly agitated.
"Come on!" he yelled back to them
"We'll get there when we're ready" Rory yelled back
"But what if something's happening and I'm not there to see it?"
"Nothing's happening, we're completely-"
Amy was suddenly interrupted by a colossal sound; like a muted clock bell reverberating through the very walls of the structure in which they stood.
"AMY! ARRRGGHH!" the doctor yelled at her clutching his head in frustration "RUN!"
The narrow corridor flew by, the Doctor sprinting along in front waving his screwdriver in front of him, the Ponds, chasing in his wake and River, inexplicably powering down the corridor in her heels. After a short run the group emerged into a huge cubic chamber, in the centre was a large console covered in flashing red lights.
"something's shocked the system, might have been the other time stream... aaaahhhh! I don't know what to do, ummmmm... River! Amy! Rory! Ideas!" the doctor flew around the console sonicking here and there and brushing his hair out of his eyes.
"well I don't know! Turn it off and on again?" suggested Amy, flustered
"good try pond, but unfair question, I know what I'm going to do anyway!" the doctor flicked the end of his screwdriver out and looked at it "got you!"