The Doctor pushed the door of his Tardis open and stopped in the doorway muttering 'Oops'. He had accidentally parked his ship inside the shop in a corner, the shop looked cramped and packed enough without a big blue police box cluttering the place. Vince popped his head over the Doctor's shoulder to have a look before pushing past him.
"Ah brilliant, no need to re-straighten my hair." He grinned nodding towards the window, it was pouring with rain, the Doctor simply cocked an eyebrow in reply while closing and locking his ship. Vince was already calling out some names and searching through the back room of the shop before coming back "No one's here."
"Is that an unusual thing?"
"Yeah, the shop's open and no one's in. Normally Naboo or Howard are always here." He hung his coat up on the hanger by the wall and wandered back into the backroom.
The Doctor pushed his glasses back up his nose and stuck his hands behind his back, he strolled round the shop gazing and analysing all the strange things that were for sale.
He wandered over to a shelf where a box was sat, it had caught his eye the moment he stepped out of the Tardis, it seemed odd and even managed to stand out in this strange little shop.
"Sugar?" Came a sudden voice making him jump and stand up straight.
"Uhh…No. Thank you." He replied after realising Vince was talking about a cup of tea. He took one of the mugs on the counter and took a mouthful without noticing the hot liquid had burnt the roof of his mouth off, he was too fascinated with the strange box.
"You alright?" Vince asked suddenly.
"Yes…That box…" He began quickly nodding his head towards the shelf "What exactly is it?" He noticed the confused expression on his new companion's face, had he just said that right? Had he called Vince a 'companion'?
"I've never noticed it before." He replied quickly.
"You're lying."
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are." The Doctor taunted in a child like voice.
"So what if I am? Look, you can have it, I don't care. I'm gonna call Howard." He wandered off yet again into the back room leaving the Doctor alone again.
The Doctor set down his half empty mug of tea and approached the box carefully, he removed it from the shelf and placed it on the counter.
"What's the obsession with polos?" He muttered to himself examining the various sizes of minty polos stuck to the sides of the box. As he ran a hand over it he heard a voice echo in his head, it begged him to open it but he declined sensing danger. He flashed the sonic over it and it hummed irregularly, he had never heard it buzz like that before "Strange." He whispered, he heard the voice again, it was louder. Screaming at him to open it, he put the sonic away and removed his hand from the box. The screaming stopped and it was silent once again, until of course Vince came shuffling into the room singing to himself.
"Driving along on the plastic dream…Heart beats fast like a tiny machine, I am electro bo-" He stopped when the Doctor stared at him with his arms folded "Sorry." He smiled.
"Any word from your friends?"
"Not answering their phones. What are we gonna do? What if they've been kidnapped?"
"Ok just calm down." He waved his hands at the Electro boy "Something weird is going on with this box, when I scanned it the sonic buzzed strangely, your friends disappearance may have something to do with this box." He picked it up hearing the nagging voice again "Hold this." He passed it over "Hear anything?"
"It's him."
"What?"
"The guy who was in the shop before I turned up in your Tardis." The Doctor flashed a toothy grin and snatched the box back before bounding over to his ship and sticking the key in the lock "Where are you going?"
"We are going to get your friends back!"
Thank you once again for the kind reviews and I'll try to make the chapters a bit longer from now on!
