Martin, Jules, and the three time travelers walked into the control room of the spaceship. The noise of their feet was met in shock by the turning of the other two already in the room.

Veronica asked fearfully, "Martin, Jules, who are those people?"

The Doctor smiled. "I'm the Doctor. I'm an alien, and it's ok."

Jules gruffly added, "He is, although completely unhelpful. The two women are his human companions, Rose and Martha. Long story." Jules had pointed at the opposite woman when introducing them.

Rose was rather annoyed with that and pointed while saying, "You mean I'm Rose, and that's Martha."

The captain walked over to them regally. "Captain Sam Andrews, pleased to be making first contact. I assume you've met my two crew members with you. Allow me to introduce our fourth member sitting over there, Veronica Taylor, our other technician." Veronica waved a welcome hello at them. Jules and Martin gradually both moved over to their stations and sat down, getting to work as the conversation continued.

The Doctor happily added, "Seems you're missing a doctor, and good for you, Captain Sam Andrews, I just happen to be a brilliant one."

Martha decided to add, "Make that two. Or rather, one in training."

"Splendid, two doctors. Rose, what do you do?"

The thought made Rose think. She was many years from being a shop girl. In the parallel world, she had a job title, but now all she really did was tag along. Rose would like to think that she was the one being the adventurer or explorer, but it was the Doctor that was. She was just his companion and not a doctor like Martha. The thought was a little humiliating, but she put it behind her. "I'm a traveler. I travel."

Sam laughed, "Aren't we all! But, the pressing matter at hand, I'm afraid, is that we're in the middle of space and just experienced an attack."

The Doctor became intrigued. "What kind of an attack?"

Veronica added, "Why don't you ask our radios?" She pressed a button and then suddenly the room was full of a faint, chilling, growling noise from the speakers. "It's been a constant sound on the radio since we were hit."

Martha asked, "What is it, Doctor?"

"Some type of communication by something out there, but I can't seem to figure it out."

Jules had become annoyed at the Doctor's showcase of expertise. "I'm sorry, Doctor, but where in the world is this growl coming from?" He pressed a few buttons on his computer in front of him and an image of the space around them was shown on the large screen still hanging from before. "There's nothing there! How can something be communicating if it doesn't exist. How?"

The Doctor was strangely silent as he realized even he didn't have an answer for that and that fact alone seemed to raise the fear of everyone in the room. Something was out there but it was nowhere to be found. Nobody knew what was out there while its sounds continued to reverberate through the room.

Suddenly there was a loud clang on the floor and just about everyone in the room jumped in fear. Martha yelled in annoyance, "Turn that noise off!"

Veronica gratefully pressed a button, and true silence fell in the room as everyone stared, not comprehending their situation while trying to figure it all out.

The Doctor's hands were rubbing his neck roughly on the back of his head like it had lice while Rose grabbed his shoulder to calm him down. "Hey, we'll figure it out. We'll be alright." If she was honest, she was more trying to calm herself down, but she at least was able to give the Doctor a little confidence.

The Captain turned to face the rest of his crew. "Whatever is out there growling at us exists. I know we can't see it, but we are not dreaming this. We are not going crazy and none of us have been in contact with a drug since we left Earth. There is something out there and sooner we can recognize that, the sooner we can confront it. Can we do that?"

Martin offered, "Maybe whatever it is, is just trying to get our attention. Maybe it's hurt."

Jules argued, "I'm pretty sure it would not attack us like it did if it was hurt, but I'll admit that there's at least something out there. The proof has been flooding our radios for the past couple hours."

Rose's eyes glazed over as she commented, "Whatever it is, IT isn't done. I can tell you that."

Veronica offered, "Perhaps we should…" She suddenly stopped as she stared at her screen, screaming, "25 miles away! Incoming!"

The Captain ran over to the controls to steer hoping he could pull a miracle as everyone stared at the sudden appearance of a giant asteroid hurtling toward the ship.

The Doctor muttered, "What are you?"

Captain Andrews madly tried to steer the ship, but could not dodge it as it struck the ship violently. Everyone that was standing fell, and those in chairs barely held on as the lights all turned off. To make matters worse, the radio was off but the growling began again with a source coming from outside the vessel…