The Doctor looked around the lift. He couldn't believe he'd been trapped so easily. Now, he, Amy and this guy, Jonathan, who had led them there, were stuck there at the mercy of someone who had claimed he fed on negative emotions. He kept looking for an exit before the visage of the man came up on a video monitor on the back wall.
"Oh, and here's our not-so-gracious host." The Doctor said before the man could get a word in edge ways "So, let's figure out where you're from. You have majorly advanced technology, you can stop the TARDIS with it's default abilities but not with the sonic screwdriver booster loop I did. You know about me generally playing the hero. You can manipulate timelines, and therefore I have to assume travel in time. And last but not least, you feed on negative emotions. I miss anything out there?"
"No, Doctor." The man said "Oh, I was wrong. You missed my knowing who you are and not just you play the hero."
"Right, so with your knowledge of all that, I can narrow down where you're from. Let's see, you're humanoid, to the extent you look Human. Or Time Lord, however you want to put it. Your knowledge of Time Lord Technology suggests you were involved in the war. You have a knowledge of me generically, but not of my devices, hence your inability to block the sonic screwdriver. Finally, there's the smell. You reek of genetic engineering, which puts it down to one thing, but that's impossible." The Doctor said "You can't be…"
"Can't be what, Doctor?" Amy said.
"See, there was this thing, this war, this time war." The Doctor said "Against these creatures whose only emotions were negative, so the Time Lords created these things. They called them fear eaters. They were made to be foot soldiers due to their feeding on negative emotions, but they were too rebellious. They had to be destroyed. However, there were rumours that some of them stole a collection of TARDIS-s and fled. I never thought it was true."
"Well, it was." The man said "And now Doctor, you will all die."
As he said that, the lift started to fall. The Doctor began to play with buttons, apparently in an attempt to get the lift to stop. As he did, Amy and Jonathan seemed to be in a state of panic, with Amy screaming.
"Amy, stop it!" The Doctor said "He wants you to do that, he can feed on that."
As he said that, the lift stopped. The man appeared on the monitor again.
"Oh, and there it is. So, you all know what I am, so let's see what you are. We have the little girl so far from her home, out of her time." He said "Then there's the little boy, so desperate for acceptance that he'll risk the lives of others."
The man paused for a minute before looking at the Doctor.
"And then there's the man who stands alone, the last of his race with no home to speak of." He said "The man who has nothing! The man who will never amount to anything, unable to keep things safe!"
"Oh, you're wrong." The Doctor said "I have so much. And as for the safety, well, you know who I am. And you know all about my exploits. The Daleks, the Cybermen, the Jagrafess, the Zygons, Davros, the Racnoss, the Slitheen, the Absorbaloff, Omega, the Master and even Rassilon himself! They all threatened this world and countless others, and I stopped them every time! I am the Doctor, and basically, if you want to survive, run, run far from here and never return!"
"Let me think about that Doctor…" The man said "No. I have you trapped, why would I run from you?"
"Because I know how to kill you. And you were never alive, so I won't have to feel bad." The Doctor said "So, you want to go?"
"Very well, I'll leave, but here's something I want to say." He said as he faded and the lift started moving back up "Look at the broken time piece…"
The Doctor looked puzzled. What had the fear eater meant by that? It wasn't something that would generally be said, but it seemed familiar. He thought about it and shrugged his shoulders. The thing had probably meant the TARDIS, since the Doctor had messed around with it to get there.
"Doctor, what did he mean?" Amy asked.
"Probably just talking about the TARDIS." The Doctor said, snapping his fingers "Speaking of, I need to find his. It needs to be sent away into the vortex. Oh, and Amy?"
"What?" She asked.
"Now I'm done!" He said, grinning as the doors opened.
He ran out of the doors, with Amy following him. As they did, Jonathan just stood there in the lift, reaching into his pocket and pulling out an old fob watch.