Chapter 2
"Hi… Um… I'm Rory…" Rory said, "um… but I'm not in charge. That would be the Doctor." Rory pointed at the Tardis behind him.
"Yes, I know," replied Rose, "I need you to come with me. It is very important that the Doctor doesn't know about me."
She grabbed Rory's hand and dragged him away from the Tardis.
"Um… I'm sorry, who did you say you are? Do I know you?" Rory asked. He ran to keep up with the energetic girl.
"I'm Rose Tyler, but I'm nobody important. Remember, the Doctor must not know about me," she repeated.
Rose turned a corner, and the Tardis disappeared from Rory's view. Even though they were out of sight of the Doctor, Rose continued to hurry. She ran past normal looking shops and led Rory into a tall, plain, unmarked building. Just before they entered, Rose pulled out a small gun.
"Hey, what are you doing?" asked Rory. Without explaining, Rose grabbed Rory's hand and pulled the trigger. Rory felt a sharp stab of pain, but didn't see anything on his hand. Then Rose opened the doors for Rory.
Rory walked in and saw something completely different from what he expected. From the outside, the building had looked like a completely normal office workplace. But inside, everywhere he looked, there were weapons. People were walking around holding giant guns, and there were floating screens and maps pasted all over the walls. Rose walked past everything like it was normal, but Rory could not help but stare that the weird things that were all around him. It looked like a military base in the middle of the city.
They walked across the giant lobby, and went into an elevator. As soon as the doors closed, a cool woman's voice said, "Welcome to Torchwood. Please press the floor you wish to go to."
"Its activated only by members of Torchwood. We have a signal coded into our skins that keeps the alarms from going off. That's what I injected into your hand," explained Rose, pointing at her left palm. "Its so much easier just keep track of the people who go in and out than post security guards."
"Oh, yeah," he just replied, trying to keep up.
Rose pressed the button for the highest floor, and they whooshed up the uncomfortably fast moving elevator. They reached the top floor, and the doors opened to a room with several desks and a big blank wall.
Meanwhile, Amy and the Doctor were busy, trying to power up the Tardis.
"Alright Amy, we just need to plug the red cord into the electric generator, and give the Tardis a shock, open the rift that we rode through, use the rift energy to recalibrate the Tardis and start it back up, eat some jammy dodgers and milk, and we'll be off! See, I told you everything was going to be fine." The Doctor spun around as he said this, and stumbled over.
"Alright, Doctor, but you've put me and Rory through some pretty dangerous situations, isn't that right, Rory?" Amy turned around, looking for her husband. "Rory?" she asked, a little louder. "Rory, where are you?"
"What's happened to Rory?" asked the Doctor. He looked up from the mess of cables he was trying to untangle. "Did he get lost somewhere?"
"I don't know, but we have to find him. Come on Doctor. There's no point in fixing the Tardis if Rory's not here, we can't leave without him," said Amy. She grabbed the Doctor's arm and pulled him away from his technology.
"But-" the Doctor protested, pointing at the dark control panel of the Tardis.
"Come on, Doctor, something could have happened to him!" Amy pulled harder.
"Alright. We'll find Rory, but once we find him, we are going to go back right away. I don't know what this place is, but it seems dreadfully familiar."
Amy rolled her eyes at the Doctor, then pulled the Tardis door open and stepped outside. She looked around and shouted "Rory!" She waited a few seconds, but there was no response.
"Oh, where has he got to? Doctor!" she called, turning her head. "Hurry up!"
Just as she turned back around, something caught her eye. The sign on the Tardis door was different than she remembered. As she read the words "Bad Wolf," all the words disappeared and came back to normal. Amy blinked, then rubbed her eyes. She squinted and stared at the sign again. Everything was normal.
"Alright Amy! Are we ready to go Rory hunting?" asked the Doctor. He stepped out of the Tardis wearing a red fez. The sight of the ugly headwear made Amy forget about what she just saw.
"No, Doctor, you are not wearing that. I am not going to travel around an alien planet with a weird fellow wearing a fez," Amy scolded.
"Why? I like fezzes. Fezzes are cool," the Doctor replied as he straightened his bowtie.
Just then, with a bang, something shot the fez off of the Doctor's head. It blasted into pieces and burned up before it hit the ground.
Both Amy and the Doctor turned around. There stood a woman with frizzy hair and a particle gun.
"Hello sweetie."