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The Doctor finally hit the right button on the oddly shaped device in his hands and it powered to life, little blinking red lights flashing repeatedly on, at random, all over it.
"Aha! That's more like it" he cried out in triumph, as he'd finally gotten it to work after a few frustrated minutes of trying.
"Well, what's it saying?" asked Amy.
"Well, it's definitely saying something's been here," he said, holding the device up and moving it around in the air in front of him. "Whatever's making that signal is close," he said. "Very close," he added. He then twisted some of the dials on the device before practically jumping out of his skin as Spidey landed on a desk right in front of him with a loud thump, crouching there, lenses staring at his hands with interest.
"So, what is it that's close?" Spidey asked him, curiously.
"Well, whatever it is that did this," he explained, motioning with one hand around the room, while the other continued to work with the device.
Spidey continued to watch the Doctor with interest.
"Ok, so what does that thing do?" Spidey asked, nodding at the device which was now also beeping.
The Doctor looked up into Spidey's face, surprised he was showing interest, and rather glad he wasn't as angry with him anymore.
Happy with this development, he began to explain things enthusiastically as he worked.
"Well, it's designed to track foreign alien signals, specifically, ones that don't belong here, more specifically, the one I picked up earlier in my ship (err, the blue box)," he said, looking briefly up at Spidey from his work before continuing. "I made it so that if we follow the beeping, it'll lead us straight to the source of the trouble," he informed.
"I guess at least, that's the plan," Spidey answered, slight amusement evident in his voice.
"Err, well...yes," the Doctor replied, slightly surprised Spidey had caught on so easily.
"Hmm, and what's this signal you speak of? Something I should know about?" Spidey asked, wanting more information.
"Oh, some sort of alien signal that really shouldn't be here, coming from somewhere in this building, I'm not sure what it is yet, but I intend to find out," the Doctor reassured.
Spidey just nodded. "Ok, let me guess, more aliens then?" he asked.
"Ah, yes," the Doctor replied, hesitating slightly.
Spidey nodded again. "Right, and do these so-called "other aliens" (other than your great self, I might add) happen to pose any sort of threat to this city?" he asked, in all seriousness.
"A possibly rather large threat yes, depending on who they are and what they want," the Doctor answered.
"Then I'm coming with you," Spidey stated with a nod, hopping off the desk and standing next to the Doctor.
"Oh no no no, I'm not having you come with us, it's far too dangerous, just, go back to whatever it is you do and let me handle it," the Doctor responded, placing a hand on Spidey's shoulder and giving him a smile, before stepping past him with the beeping device held out in front of him. "Come on Amy, Rory," he said, "it's this way," he added, strolling over the mess towards the open door.
"Hey, I thought I was the one who was telling you that this was too dangerous just a few minutes ago, and now you're going to try and tell me the same thing. I don't think so," Spidey protested, walking up behind them with the intention to follow.
The Doctor just stopped and turned to look at him, studying him for a minute. "There's no stopping you, is there?" he finally observed.
"Nope," Spidey replied in defiance. "Plus, I'm sure you could use the extra hand. I am a superhero remember, I can handle myself. Plus, I'm offering to help," Spidey said, sincerely.
The Doctor just continued to look at him.
"If people are in danger, then I'm not going to just sit back and do nothing, while some "alien" I've just met deals with it," Spidey added, growing more determined, and making little inverted commas with his fingers in the air as he said the word alien.
"Oh alright, fine," the Doctor gave in, "just, don't cause any trouble," he added.
"Aye, aye sir," Spidey unexpectedly replied, while lifting his hand up to his forehead in a mock salute, rocking backwards and forwards on his heels.
The Doctor just gave him a look of uncertainty, before turning back out the door into a hallway, following the direction given to him by the beeping device, with Amy, Rory, and finally, Spidey, following after him..., with Spidey crawling along the ceiling.
"And no Spidery nonsense," the Doctor called over his shoulder. Spidey silently dropped down from the ceiling to walk along in the middle between Amy and Rory, and the Doctor silently grinned to himself.
"Oh, and by the way," Spidey suddenly piped up, "that never was actually explaining how the device works," he said smugly.
The Doctor just paused for a second, before continuing on.
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They continued walking down winding corridors in silence for quite a few minutes. The entire floor seemed to be empty, as everyone had obviously evacuated the area in a hurry, leaving all the doors wide open in their haste to escape.
They took a glance into each room as they passed; finding the same every time, empty. And the growing sound of sirens building in the distance could be heard as they walked.
Suddenly, they came to an abrupt halt as the Doctor stopped in front of them, shaking the tracker and giving it a few wacks.
"It seems to be coming from the floors somewhere above us, if the signal's correct," the Doctor mumbled, while looking up. "Come on!" he suddenly yelled out over his shoulder as he bounded up the flight of stairs in a hurry, the others all quickly moving to catch up.
"And it would be so much easier if he'd just used the lift," Amy moaned.
"Ah don't worry, a little exercise never hurt anybody," Spidey said, just before coming to an abrupt halt again as they nearly collided with the doctor's back. He'd stopped suddenly at the top of the stairs, moving the tracker around.
"This way!" the Doctor yelled again, as he moved to run up the next flight of stairs.
"Then again..." Spidey mumbled, as they quickly made to follow. He could sense this was going to become a repetitive cycle. "Is he always like this?" he asked.
"Pretty much," Amy replied.
"You get used to it," Rory added, before they came to the top of yet another flight of stairs and had to run to catch up to the Doctor who had already moved on to the next one.
"So," Spidey spoke up, trying to make conversation, "how did you two end up with him?" He motioned his head towards the Doctor as they ran after him.
"Well, that's a long story actually," Rory replied, noticeably puffing. "He ran off with my wife here on the night before our wedding," he informed.
"Hey, I came back didn't I?" Amy responded harshly, with Spidey now looking at her in alarm.
"Yes well, it was a bit of a shock. He burst through my pre-wedding cake and told me you kissed him," Rory complained.
"Yeah well, it's not my fault the Doctor's an idiot," Amy said in defence.
"Well, long story short, we both ended up travelling with him through space and time in the TARDIS, got married, and still travel with him today," Rory summarised.
"Yeah, well, and we both died several times," Amy deadpanned.
"Yeah... and there was that," Rory replied.
"Plus, he was plastic at one stage and waited over 2000 years to protect me," Amy said, if not rather proudly.
"Anndd there was that too," Rory stretched out.
"And the universe exploded," Amy added, almost as an afterthought.
"Ah, yeah," Rory replied, out of responses.
"2000 years, wait, plastic, universe exploding... what?" Spidey said, utterly confused.
"Yeah, the universe is weird like that, all wobbly and ridiculous. Don't worry your pretty little head over it, bug boy," Amy puffed.
"I am not... anyway, let me get this straight. You too are... semi-ordinary human beings who, travel with this Doctor through time and space in his spaceship.., which is a tiny blue box," Spidey said, trying to work it out.
"That would be correct," Amy replied, as if he'd just completed a great puzzle.
"And, we're also from another universe entirely," Rory said. "You see, we accidently crash landed here in your universe, from ours, so we don't normally belong here," he tried to explain.
"And umm, has this got anything to do with what you said before about, me being fictional?" Spidey swallowed.
Rory looked over at him. "Well, yes. You're a very popular superhero comic book character back where we're from, and I'm sure a lot of people would actually be quite excited if they found out you were real," Rory said, trying to word it in the least most frightening way possible.
"Well, that's, something," Spidey said thoughtfully.
"And, I guess I'm kinda guilty of looking up to you, too, when I was a kid, and am a huge fan," Rory then added shyly.
"Oh, well, thanks," Spidey replied. "It's an honour to meet you Rory," he said warmly, holding out a hand while running.
"You too Spider-Man," Rory replied as he shook it, letting out a silent breath of relief when that had not gone badly.
"Just a shame it had to be under such circumstances," Spidey joked.
Rory laughed. "Yeah," he replied, before coming to an abrupt halt at the top of the stairs where the Doctor had finally stopped.
"Well, the signal seems to be coming from somewhere in here," he explained, before strolling forwards along the corridor.
Unfortunately, now having stopped running, the few people wandering around on this floor all paid attention to them as they strolled past, giving them funny looks. The other levels in the building had obviously not yet been as conveniently vacated as the ones where the trouble was.
"Hello, sorry, don't mind us, just passing through," the Doctor said cheerily, giving them a smile.
"Spider-Man?" someone asked, uncertainly.
"Yes, it's alright, we're just investigating what happened downstairs, no need to worry," Spidey replied, reassuringly.
The people up here seemed to accept this, and finally began to ignore them as they carried on.
"So, this is the top floor. Wherever it is, it can't be much further," the Doctor said, as he pulled to a halt in front of a door. "The signal's coming from in here," he said, turning a dial on his device and pocketing it, before carefully moving to one side of the door, preparing to open it with his sonic, as Spidey pressed himself against the wall on the other side.
They all held their breath, as he opened the door.
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