Yeah I'm back with another chapter, finals are done and now I'm on break. Again, sorry for the author's note but I had to get it off my chest. I mean all the reviews for whatever you wanted to talk about from your hatred against Moffet, repeating stuff over and over, nothing helpful at all. And if you had noticed I deleted a lot of reviews as well. So please stop spamming and if you like the story, then create an account and favorite it.

Now, this chapter is going to be short but the next chapter will be longer, hopefully.

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Witnessing History

It was a bright day in an area that was dominated by trees, grass, and the sounds of the wildlife, and something else in the distance A new sound soon took over the area and the materialization of the TARDIS was heard in a clearing of the forest. The TARDIS was then fully there and a minute later, the doors opened and The Doctor looked out. She placed a finger in her mouth, took it out and walked out. Mia and James walked after her. They looked around in awe, wondering where they were and what was waiting for them. Mia looked at The Doctor, and gave her a confused look.

"Doctor, what are you doing?"

"Just checking."

"Checking what?" James asked.

"Checking the weather. And if you want to know: slightly humid, mid afternoon… around noon, small chance of it being overcast."

She then jumped in place for a second.

"Slightly rocky terrain around the area. And I also checked where we landed as well and it's smashing." The Doctor exciteldly said with a maniac grin.

Mia and James looked at each other, both wondering where they were and why The Doctor was so excited. The Doctor's excitement was contagious and made them both wonder more on what was going on. Before they could ask, there was the sound of an explosion and the both of them ducked and hit the ground.

"What the heck?!" James yelped in fright.

The Doctor on the other hand, just stood, with her hands in her pockets, acting as if nothing was happening. She shook her head in amusement and offered her hand to her new companions.

When she remembered the term companions, she immediately thought of everyone who had traveled with her over the centuries. She had great memories with them all, and she considered them as her family, and they all felt the same way. But she knew that with Mia and James, she didn't know what they'll end up as. Sooner or later they could get sick or maybe fearful of traveling with her, due to them not handling some of the stressful sides of traveling with her.

And the one thing she hoped to never happen was one or the both of them dying. It was her greatest fear, but, she casted those thoughts aside, she needed to focus on the present, not the future.

Mia and James grabbed her hands and they got back up. But they looked around, trying to find the source of the explosion. They stopped when they saw The Doctor walking away to a certain direction. They then ran after her until they were walking side-by-side.

"Doctor, what was that explosion, and how come you were so calm?" Mia asked.

"And where are we exactly?" James asked.

"All will be revealed once we go over this small ridge." The Doctor enigmatically said.

As they were walking, the sounds of people, machinery and other things were heard. As Mia got closer, she started to smell the scent of gunpowder; she only knew that because her dad had taken her a couple of times to the gun range. She was a decent shot, but wasn't much into guns.

When the trio got to the edge of the ridge, they looked on at something quite interesting. People working on what is assumed to be a train track, some people were standing by a cave, which looked like no one was going into. And it was big enough to allow a train to go through. Rocks and boulders were being pick-axed and then thrown into a pile nearby. Others were laying down tracks or hamming in nails to keep it steady. A couple of others, who looked important and some had horses near them, were talking about something and looking at a map of sorts.

"Wow, what's going on?" James asked.

"Mia Blackwell, James Griffin, you are witnessing the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad." The Doctor said.

"So… where are we exactly?" Mia asked.

"Well, what I read on the monitor, we're in the Sierra Nevada, near the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Sometime in the mid to late 1860's, American Civil War has ended, and during that time, many able bodied workers worked to build the railroad that would connect the railroads in San Francisco to Nebraska and the rest of the country." The Doctor explained.

"So, we're at Donner Pass then?" James asked.

"Yes, how did you know that?" The Doctor asked.

"Learned about it in History Class. And also went to the Train Museum in Sacramento that detailed the whole thing." James said with a shrug.

The Doctor blinked and said," Are you and Mia still in School?"

"I graduated from the local college a year ago. Majored in Art, I do drawing on the side, and I opened the store 3 years ago." Mia proudly said.

The Doctor smiled and said," Impressive for your age. And what about you James?"

"Still in college, went local community and transferred to another college in the city. I'm into engineering."

The Doctor nodded and said," Well then, that's brilliant! So what-"

"Hands in the air and turn round!" A gruff voice said.

The trio stiffed, and did what the voice said. They turned around to see 4 men with Rifles pointed at them. The most noticeable thing about them, was that they were wearing Army Uniforms.

"What you folks doin here? This area restricted." The lead man said, and there was stripes on his shoulder to indicate he was a Sergeant.

The Doctor shrugged nonchalantly and said in a stereotypical cowboy accent, "Just passin through gentlemen, or how some people vigorously want to say 'gentlepeople'. Admirin them here sights."

Mia giggled while James rolled his eyes.

"The three of you are comin with us, now." The leader said.

The Doctor lowered her arms and said in mock seriousness," Then... take us to your leader."