"A dock, 3 ships, carrying hundreds of cargo crates, warehouse D, warehouse C, the road joins another, some houses, terraced, and a pub. People inside, people outside, having a party, celebrating, football probably, fun sport I won a game once. Anyway… football… 48 people inside eyes fixed on the television, 21 people outside drinking, all except one. Just one, one person watching, but what is she watching, certainly not the football. She's looking for something, someone. And I think she's found it."
The Doctor span around rapidly, wobbling on his spindly legs, startling River and the Ponds.
"What? What is it?" asked River, already frustrated with her Doctor.
He quickly turned around a few times, looking at every inch of the surrounding docks, it was dark and quiet. The water gently lapped at the edge of the dock... but no one was there. It was just the four of them.
"She was there. I know she was! Right behind me, but not really..." The Doctor rubbed his chin quizzically.
"Uh, he's not making any sense." Said Rory.
"You've travelled with him enough, does he ever?" asked River as she admired The Doctor
"Where are you…?" The Doctor asked the air, seemingly not paying any attention to them. He licked his finger and stuck it out in front of him, as if he was testing the direction of the wind, "You were here, right behind me in fact. Or left behind me… But where are you now…?"
"Right behind you." A voice said.
The Doctor turned again but this time he was face to face with a woman with her eyes closed. She had short red hair tied back in a ponytail and shaved at the sides.
"Whoa!" shouted Amy as she Rory and River noticed the woman, "Doctor, who is she? Where did she come from?"
The Doctor wouldn't take his eyes off of the woman as he gestured at Amy, Rory and River to stay back, "Perception filter…" he said.
"Ok Doctor, I know you'll have questions, but please just listen! I haven't got much time, you just have to trust me." The woman said.
"Who are you? What are you doing here? How do you know who I am?" The Doctor asked.
"Doctor? Who is she?" asked River.
"You're from his future aren't you?" replied Rory, "Shouldn't you know?"
"I don't… and that's worrying me." Said River, her eyes fixed on The Doctor.
"I need to tell you something but you have to be listening!" the woman said, sounding increasingly worried.
"Why are your eyes closed?" The Doctor asked, getting agitated.
"Don't try to find me, well… you probably will– but if you do, just leave–!"
"Show me your eyes!" he reached out to her face but his hand went straight through her and she flickered like a hologram, "Ah, now that's new…" he said.
"I'm guessing that you just tried to touch me… So I should probably answer something for you. This is a message from the future, I know you can see and hear me, but I can't." she opened her eyes.
"No…"
Her eyes were glowing, a glow that The Doctor recognised all too well.
"I took in the heart of the TARDIS so I could get a message to you, a message across time and space. There's a lot I can't explain, some I can… but only vaguely…" she cried out in pain and put her hand on her forehead, "I haven't got much time left."
"No! Hold on, I can boost the signal!" The Doctor pointed his sonic screwdriver at her it buzzed and she looked up at him.
"I can see him, he must have boost the signal. Oh wait, that's not..." she looked around at them all and a single tear rolled down her cheek, "Dammit! I'm so– but wait… of course! That's it!" She wiped the tear from her cheek, "I'm so sorry, you're in this now and I know that's my fault. But that might actually change everything! If you find me, when you find me, when they come, you've got to stop me–"
She disappeared, mid-sentence, in a cloud of pure energy, golden in colour and gone almost as quickly as it appeared.
"Doctor where did she go?" asked Amy.
"And what did she mean they?" asked Rory.
"And why is it so difficult for her to get a straight sentence out?" snapped River.
"I don't know…" answered The Doctor, "But I guess we're going to find out!" He paused for a second and turned again, he strutted off to the TARDIS. "Come along Ponds! River!" He beckoned them to follow and they hurried alongside him, "First, back to the TARDIS. Then Ponds, I'll drop you at home and River! Back to prison…"
"What?" shouted Amy, "You're kidding, right?"
"We came here to find a signal and we found it. Whoever she is, she has my TARDIS she could be dangerous."
"But you have the TARDIS. It's right here? Unless she's inside!" said Rory, starting to panic.
"No, she somehow gets hold of it in the future–"
"Then how was she talking to us?!" shouted Amy.
"Just think timey-wimey," The Doctor said frustratedly waving his hand at Amy, "She said she used the heart of the TARDIS to send a message and that must mean that I'm not there with her, and if I'm not there and she is, something bad must have happened. We're going in blind and I have no idea what could happen, it's very dangerous and I can't let anything happen to you."
"Oh you say that about everything!" Amy crossed her arms as she sulked into the TARDIS, "She said we were all in it now. Whatever it is!"
"Come on sweetie," said River, stroking The Doctor's shoulder and straightening his bowtie, "How about we just stay here, in the TARDIS? And if you find anything, we could just keep surveillance… you know, in case it's a trap?"
"Kind gesture River, but I know that's a lie." Said The Doctor removing her hand from his shoulder and winking at her. He walked over to the control panel to set a course for Amy and Rory's but the controls locked up, the panel sparked causing The Doctor to jump and the TARDIS to jolt violently. Everyone was knocked over and fell from side to side.
"Doctor! Where is she taking us!" shouted River as she held on to the rails and slowly made her way to The Doctor.
"I don't know!" he shouted back.
"Why don't you check the thing!" cried Amy also clinging to the rails, her long red hair falling in her face.
"What are you talking about!?"
"Ok just calm down everyone!" Shouted Rory clinging to Amy, "Shouldn't we brace ourselves or something?!"
The TARDIS suddenly stopped moving. The Doctor looked up and ran to the door; he put his ear against it.
"We've landed…" he went to the control panel and read off the screen, "Apparently we are at a facility named Sanctum orbiting the gas giant Oberon in the Gamma Delta quadrant. Nobody really knows what went on here it was all very private, all hush hush need to know basis. It was run by humans but there doesn't seem to be any life signs now… probably due to the fact that nobody's been here in hundreds of years… Oh! And the facility itself is being sucked into the huge raging storm on the planet below…"