The three of them ran outside and reached the side of the building, where the TARDIS was parked. Dani squinted at it a bit. The structure was the same, but it looked slightly bluish green now, rather than the darker blue it was when she'd first seen it. The Doctor noticed Dani squinting at it as she unlocked the door with the TARDIS key.
"It's a little different than last time." Dani commented.
"Just wait 'till you see the inside." The Doctor said excitedly, opening the door.
"It's so small, how are we going to fit into it?" Taylor asked.
"It's a little bigger than you think." Dani replied, following the Doctor into the TARDIS.
As Dani entered, she noticed a huge difference. Gone were the coral pieces, in their place were long, glowing orange pieces that reached to the ceiling, slightly resembiling spider legs. There was a giant orange crystal in the middle of the console, along with various buttons. The walls almost resembled the inside clockwork pieces.
"Y'know? I like it." Dani said, walking around. "It's different."
"What about you, Taylor?" The Doctor asked, turning to the teenage girl, who was completely speechless.
Dani grinned at the girl's incredulous expression. It was almost the look she had when she first saw the inside of the TARDIS. But, then again, any person would have that expression. You don't expect that much room in a small space. But hey, alien technology.
"It's, I mean, It's just." Taylor finally said out loud. "It's huge!"
"Should be!" The Doctor said. "Otherwise I wouldn't be able to travel."
"So, it's a spaceship?" Taylor asked, still in awe.
The Doctor was too busy rummaging through one of the open grates on the floor, so Dani answered for her.
"It's called the TARDIS." She said. "Time and Relative Dimension In Space." She said. "It can travel throughout time and space. But you might have figured that out by the name."
"That's amazing!" Taylor breathed, taking everything in.
In the few minutes that she'd been back in the TARDIS, she'd felt something inside of her. It was like a feeling of calm washed over her. When she had been traveling with the Doctor, she'd come to see the TARDIS like a second home. It was good to know that that hadn't changed. She felt a small tickle in the back of her mind and grinned.
"I missed you too." She said to the TARDIS, touching one of the walls.
"Found it!" The Doctor yelled jubilantly setting the box on the floor as she climbed out of the grate. "I knew I had a box in here for this occasion."
Dani looked into the box curiously. There seemed to be a lot of metal pieces in the box.
"You're telling me that you can build a device that tracks energy with all of this metal?" Dani asked, skeptically.
"Just trust the process." The Doctor said, grabbing the box, and shooing Dani and Taylor out of the Tardis.
She locked it up and joined them as they headed back inside the now quiet building. The only question now was where to build this device.
"Right. I'll need a large room with a table and some crystals." The Doctor said.
"Crystals? Really" Dani asked raising an eyebrow. "You're the last person I'd expect to use crystals."
"Scientific use, of course." The Doctor replied. "The atoms and ions in the crystals will help the energy tracking better."
"There's a conference room that might be big enough." Taylor said, and led the way to the room.
After getting the Doctor's approval, they all piled into the conference room. The Doctor spread everything out on the table, including a blow torch. Taylor left the door opened as both she and Dani stood out of the way of danger.
"Alright, let's get started." The Doctor said with determination as she slid a pair of googles over her eyes and started. Half an hour later, after fitting parts togther, screwing things, and welding everything together, she had finished.
"Well?" She asked expectantly to Dani and Taylor. "Think It'll work?"
They walked closer to take a better look. It was a three-pronged metal device with crystals embedded in the middle. Dani was impressed. She'd never gotten to see the Doctor build gadgets; he always seemed to have them on hand. So, for her, it had been an interesting process to see the Doctor create a gadget out of metal and crystal.
"Looks like it will." Taylor said, examining it.
Dani had to give the girl kudos, with everything that was going on, she was holding up remarkably well, considering. But, she also had a feeling that she was holding onto everything. She just had to stay strong.
Suddenly, the device started making a small whirling sound and the crystals started lighting up.
"I don't think that's half bad, myself." The Doctor said, satisfied. "Now, c'mon, let's go get your fiancé back and save the human race."
They exited the room, and followed the sound of the device. Eventually, the whirling sound got louder as they ended up at the door leading to the outdoors. There was a lake out there that people could swim and boat on. Right now, however, the lake was still.
Dani was starting to get increasingly worried when they couldn't find Andy. She kept biting her lip as they walked towards the lake. Actually, she started biting her lip and walking around in circles on the grass.
"He's not here. What if he's in the lake?" Dani asked, fearfully.
"Don't think so." The Doctor said confidently. "They need him alive. And you really need to stop walking in circles. You're starting to wear the grass out.
Dani looked down, and sure enough, she'd made a small circle of dirt where grass used to be.
"Whoops." She said sheepishly.
"But there should be something here. It led us right out here." The Doctor said, starting to get worried herself. Suddenly, she noticed a shed next to the lake. She pointed the device at the shed, and it started whirling again.
"Well, looks like we found what we needed." The Doctor said, to the relief of Dani.
They slowly walked towards the shed. Dani held on to hope as the Doctor used the now working sonic to unlock the door of the shed. They walked into the dark shed, their eyes adjusting to the light, as they saw a figure lying prone on the ground Dani noticed it was Andy and almost cheered. Her relief was short-lived as she realized he wasn't even responding to them coming in.
"No. No No No No!" She said, starting to tremble. "They can't do this! They just left him here! I don't even know if he's dead or not!" She might have been overreacting, but this was her fiancé. She was worried.
"Dani, You need to calm down." The Doctor said, putting her hands on her companion. "Like I said, they need him alive. It's not sunset yet. Breath.
The Doctor started breathing in and out as Dani started repeating her breathing, until she was much more calm.
"There we go." The Doctor said, cheerfully. "But I am gonna check to make sure he is actually alright."
"I'm sure he will be" Taylor said, trying to cheer up Dani.
The Doctor knelt down and placed her head on his chest, checking his heart beat. It was beating, thank goodness.
'What the heck?" Andy said, faintly, 'Why is there a woman laying her head on my chest?!"
"Well, he's really not dead." The Doctor said, quickly removing her head and standing back up.
Dani quickly ran over to where he was laying and hugged him fiercely and kissed him all over.
"Ok, ok. Babe, I love you and I'm glad that you're glad I'm okay, but you're hurting my already bruised ribs. Andy groaned, trying to gently get Dani off of him.
"Oh, sorry!" She said, standing up. "I'm just really glad you're ok."
"I will be even more once you help me up." He said. Dani grabbed his arms and helped him stand.
He stumbled a bit as he stood, but Dani held him steady.
"So what happened?" She asked, as the Doctor scanned him with the sonic to make sure he was fine.
"The last thing I remember was that weird fairy looking woman, which I'm now guessing is an alien, somehow knocking me unconscious."
"So nothing about where they were headed or what they were doing?" The Doctor asked.
"Nope." Andy said. "Sorry."
"Oh well." The Doctor sighed.
"Wait, weren't we also looking for the knife too? It should be here because this is where we tracked it, right?." Taylor asked.
"Nice thinking! Now you're getting the hang of this." The Doctor said, grinning at Taylor, who blushed. "Gold star for you!"
They looked all over for the knife, but didn't find it. To say that Dani was miffed was an understatement. She was more than miffed. She just wanted to find Faenia and get everyone back to normal, but that was proving a lot harder since she kept eluding them. Really, all she wanted to do this weekend was to get a massage and a facial. Maybe get a nice little meditation session in. But that wasn't happening. She sighed and kicked the wall, much to the amusement of everyone else.
"Did that make you feel better?" The Doctor asked.
"No." Dani said sullenly. Then, after a beat. "Maybe a little."
"C'mon everyone. Let's just see if we can still find them." The Doctor said.
Dani opened the door, only to be stopped by the group of women standing in front of them.
"Uh, don't think we need to find them anymore." She said nervously, glancing behind her to see everyone else in shock.