Doctor Who and the Tomorrow People
In
Replacement
By KKDW
Chapter 1
TIM had picked up something unusual. A disturbance in space and time, the exact place was somewhere in orbit around Jupiter. He went through this in his mind for a short while. He'd like to go and investigate. But being just a computer (yes a very advanced one and very different to other computers) he was unable to do it himself. Should he contact John, Carol and Kenny? No. It was nearly midnight and they'd all be asleep at the moment. Ah well, he'd just wait a few more hours, and maybe monitor the area where he detected it, see if anything else happened.
The Doctor slowly manipulated the TARDIS controls, wondering where they'd end up next and what major historical events they may witness. The end of the universe? The First World War? Man's first step on the moon? He didn't know, perhaps for once he may not find some major problem outside that he'd have to sort out. But if there was a problem he didn't mind, just as long as the Daleks weren't involved. Still, just as long as he enjoyed it he didn't really mind. Jamie and Victoria stood on the opposite side of the console to him, waiting silently for landing. The central column of the console started to slow in its rising and falling motion before finally stopping altogether. He looked up at his two companions, grinning stupidly.
"Well, we've landed," he announced, not really caring whether they knew this or not.
"Aye great, but where?" Jamie asked.
"Well how should I know?" The Doctor said turning on the scanner.
The scanner showed a long bare corridor, the Doctor frowned slightly at this.
"Oh how disappointing," he said to himself as he opened the door.
The Doctor hadn't noticed any of the security cameras in the walls around them, they were being watched.
"Activate security system 8," came the order from one of the security monitors, "Area 9, access code SM Hudson, 11840B."
He then sat back to watch his orders being carried out…
Alarms sounded around them, two walls slid into place blocking any exit from the corridor. The Doctor didn't look surprised at this at all, though Jamie and Victoria looked slightly worried.
"Doctor, what's happening?" Victoria asked a slight note of panic in her voice.
"I think we may have outstayed our welcome," the Doctor said staying very calm.
"I doubt whether or not we were welcome in the first place," Jamie commented.
Vents opened up in the walls releasing dense smoke into the corridor. On the other side of one of the blocking walls a group of security officers were waiting.
"Alright, stun darts ready," one of them ordered, this was followed by the sound of several guns being primed.
"Open security blockade," the same officer ordered and the wall in front of them slid back.
"Infrared visors down," was his last order before they entered the smoke and the wall closed behind them.
TIM had decided to investigate the area where he'd picked up the time-space disturbance so he'd sent one of the Tomorrow People's Watchdog 7 satellites to investigate. What he'd found there astonished him.
"Doctor, where are you?" Victoria called within the smoke.
She couldn't see anything, but she heard the sound of running footsteps. Then to her horror the sound of the TARDIS dematerialising. Just behind her one of the soldiers was aiming his gun. Victoria didn't hear it fire, she just felt a stab of pain in her back then she fell unconscious.
When the Doctor had opened the TARDIS doors some a lot of the smoke had got in, blinding them as much as they had been outside so they hadn't noticed that Victoria wasn't on board with them. At least until they managed to clear the smoke.
"Hey, where's Victoria?" Jamie asked noticing her absence first.
"What!" The Doctor replied in shock, "Oh no we must have left her behind."
"I think that might be a bit obvious," Jamie commented, "Is there anyway we can get back?"
"I don't know," the Doctor said, "We haven't been in flight for very long so I think we could get the TARDIS to materialise not to far away, and hopefully not long afterwards."
"Well I hope so," Jamie said as the Doctor began to prepare the TARDIS to materialise.
"I picked up the disturbance at about midnight," TIM explained, "I then detected another disturbance a few minutes later."
It was now ten o'clock in the morning and TIM was going through the events around what he'd discovered to John, Carol and Kenny. The three of them listened intently, wondering what this could mean.
"How big was the disturbance TIM?" John asked.
"Very small," TIM replied, "The first time I think whatever it was arriving at the area, the second time it was leaving."
"Interesting," John commented, "But what reason would someone have to do that in orbit around Jupiter."
"I don't know," TIM said, "When I sent the Watchdog satellite to investigate I found a vast space station there."
"What, the Saps haven't even got beyond the Moon yet," John said, "So how could it have got there?"
"Presumably it isn't a Sap space station," TIM said.
"You mean it was built by aliens," Kenny suggested.
"Yes," TIM replied, "Although I can't think of any reason to put it around Jupiter unless they lived there. Jupiter is not a solid planet, so it would be impossible for any normal species to live there."
"So where could they come from," John asked.
"Either from one of Jupiter's moons, or they could be a form of life that is very different to our own and could live on Jupiter itself," TIM said, "Or they could just be from somewhere else, using Jupiter as a basic outpost."
"But an outpost for what?" Carol asked.
"Invasion maybe," TIM suggested, "I hope it isn't, if it is then…"
"Then what?" Kenny asked.
"I've just picked up the time-space disturbance again," TIM said.
"Is it in the same place," John asked.
"No," TIM replied, "it is right outside the LAB."
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