4. Cave

Alice shone her flashlight at the symbols at the wall above the entrance of the cave.

'One who didn't make the mistake of killing their own kind will be the one who is save from the forces' Alice read in the symbols. She heard voices in the distance but chose to ignore them. She focused on the words, what were they supposed to mean… what forces?

"Amy, it's dangerous. Go back to Rory in the TARDIS!" Alice heard a voice say.
"No way, Because Rory wants a relaxing day in the TARDIS doesn't mean that I want one too. I want an adventure!" A woman voice said.

"Who are you?" Alice heard the first voice say, she realized they were talking t her. She turned around towards the two people. The man was wearing a bowtie en the woman had ginger hair.

"Amy, TARDIS NOW!" The man suddenly yelled at the woman.

"Ow it's just you" Alice deduced. She turned back towards the cave. Of course the Doctor would travel with a human companion.

She decided to enter the cave ignore the symbols above the entrance. Then she heard a yell, Alice quickly turned around . The Doctor had followed Alice into the cave but his companion Amy couldn't follow him.

"Doctor, a force field is stopping me. I can't enter" the girl exclaimed slightly panicking. The Doctor walked out the cave and started to inspect the symbols above the entrance.

"One who didn't make the mistake of killing their own kind will be the one who is save from the forces" he read out loud.

"What does that mean?" His companion asked the Doctor.

"Amy, I told you about the Timewar when.. I.. uh" The Doctor began.

"Yes"

"You have never killed someone from your own kind, the force field protects you from the forces by not letting you enter the cave. Sadly I'm one of the few who doesn't get the protection. What I don't understand is how you can enter the cave" The Doctor said angrily pointing at me.

Alice shrugged as if it's nothing.

"I'm lucky I suppose" she mumbled as she continued her walk further into the cave. She heard the Doctor tell his companion to go back to the TARDIS before he joined Alice as they walked further into the cave. After a while the Doctor decided to break the silence.

"How could you walk into this cave?" he asked.

"I think we both know the answer to that" Alice said annoyed. They decided to ignore each other again. Alice hadn't expected it to go any different the Doctor hated her and she hated him.

They found a big room with a big sculpture of a skull in the middle. Alice walked towards it curiously. She grabbed her sonic screwdriver from her pocket and started to scan the skull. The Doctor did the same. They didn't get any readings from the skull what was weird.

Then a green fog came out the eyes of the skull. The Doctor and Alice backed away not knowing if the fog was dangerous. Alice started to feel really dizzy. She tried to walk out the room but she discovered that it was really difficult to walk. She noticed that the Doctor also had trouble walking. The Doctor leaned against a pillar for support. Alice felt the ground slide away from her feet. Then her vision went black and she went unconscious.

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Alice shot up and looked around confused. The last thing she remembered was that she tried to leave the room. She stood up and looked around the room searching for any clues about what happened.

The green fog had disappeared but that was not where she worried about because on the floor a few feet away she saw herself lying on the ground.

Wait where was the Doctor? He was here when the green fog came out the skull. Then Alice realized something… why was she wearing a bowtie? She looked at her hands, those weren't her hands! She was in the Doctor's body, that's gross.

She kneeled down next to her body that laid on the ground. It was weird seeing herself lying there.

She carefully shook the body trying to wake it up.

"Ow" the body mumbled slowly waking up. The eyes opened and looked confused at Alice before the body shot up.

"Ew, this is gross" The Doctor in Alice's her body exclaimed disgusted. "Give my body back" he demanded.

"As if I don't want my body back. This isn't my fault" Alice angrily yelled at the Doctor. The Doctor looked like he was thinking about something before he grabbed Alice her arm ( or his own arm because it was still the Doctor's body where Alice was in) and he started dragging her with him out the cave.

"Doctor, what are you doing? I can walk you know" She informed the Doctor annoyed but he ignored he as he continued dragging her along. It was weird for Alice to see the Doctor in her body dragging her along. She was relieved to find out he wasn't angry he seemed annoyed but not angry.

When he dragged her out the cave he finally released her.

"You are going with me to my TARDIS. Don't do stupid things" he demanded.

"So long as I get my body back"

Alice followed the Doctor back to his TARDIS, it was still disguised as a blue police box. He opened the doors and entered his ship follower by Alice.

"Amy we have a problem!" He exclaimed. Amy who looked like she waited for the Doctor gave the Doctor a confused look and looked at Alice. She didn't know that Alice and the Doctor had switched bodies.

"Doctor who is this?" Amy asked Alice.

"Amy! She isn't the Doctor, I'm the Doctor! We switched bodies!" The Doctor said getting frustrated.

"Amy, this beautiful girl right here is an old acquaintance of mine. Sometimes she says weird thing so just ignore her." Alice told Amy with a grin. The Doctor looked at her in shock while Amy looked between Alice and the Doctor with a raised eyebrow.

"NO! Liar, Alice tell her the truth!" the Doctor yelled at Alice.

"Okay okay! Amy that's the Doctor. I'm Alice good to meet you" Alice introduced herself to Amy.

"How did you two switch bodies?" Amy asked curiously.

"Good question, I'm going to the library to find a solution" The Doctor said before he turned towards Alice. "You. Don't do anything! Don't talk don't walk just stay there" He ordered Alice before he left the room.

Alice pulled the bowtie from around her neck while Amy stared at her.

"What are you doing?" She asked curiously.

"The Doctor looks stupid with his bowtie, I'm improve his look by removing it" Alice explained. She put the bowtie into the Doctors pocket before she walked into a corridor. Amy followed the woman.

"So what is the Doctor for you?" She asked.

"stranger, acquaintance, rival, enemy, opponent. " Alice shrugged, she opened a door and discovered that it was a kitchen. She entered the room with a smile, she was hungry.

"You're not a human aren't you?" Amy asked her. Alice grabbed some cookies from a shelf and sat down on a chair.
"Nope, I'm a Timelord.. or Timelady what you prefer" She informed Amy eating a cookie.

"But the Doctor told me that he's the last of his kind. How is that possible?" Amy deduced. Are humans always this curious?

"The answer is simple. When the Moment was stolen on Gallifrey. I was teleported away to earth because the Timelords wanted to keep me save. I didn't even know I had a device in me that could teleport me." Alice explained.

"What's the Moment?"

"The weapon that the Doctor used to destroy Gallifrey" Alice told the Doctors companion.

"How did you meet the Doctor?" Amy asked grabbing some of the cookies Alice grabbed in the first place.

"Long story" Alice shrugged putting another cookie in her mouth.

"We have the time, we're in a time machine!" Amy grinned, Alice gave her an annoyed look. But she decided to tell Amy the story, otherwise Amy would keep whining about it until she gave in.