"Where exactly are we Doctor," Rose asked as they continued making their way through the vast jungle.
"To be honest I don't know," the Doctor said.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Rose asked surprised.
"Well I can't be expected to know the names of every planet in the universe," the Doctor explained.
"Well you can certainly pronounce names that other's can't without taking lessons," Rose commented, "Are there any people on this planet or is it just squawking animals?"
"Well so long as there isn't any hostile intelligent life I don't mind," the Doctor said.
They both chuckled, none of them noticing the group of soldiers that were hidden in the trees watching them.
The Captain sat in his quarters in the battle cruiser thinking about everything that had been happening recently, receiving a distress call from a passenger cruiser and then pursuing it to this planet. What would happen next? Then the communication screen came into life to reveal one of the officers from the bridge.
"Captain we've received a report from Colonel Jilkins's squad," the officer said, "They've sighted four people in the jungle, identity unknown."
The Captain took all this information in before deciding on a course of action, considering different tactics to use and possible consequences, and then he made a decision.
"Tell Colonel Jilkins I want them brought here," the Captain said.
The Doctor pushed back a large branch that was blocking there route and saw a few metres in front of him the dead body an animal. The Doctor approached it cautiously, looking round the area they were in. Mike, Rose and Anna came towards where the body lay to have a look at it. It looked like a small red dragon, except without any wings. It had four limbs each with either a hand or a foot at the end, it was hard to tell, each hand or foot had three clawed digits. The Doctor turned the body over to look at its belly, there was a hole burnt through it.
"Well I think this is probably the creature that's now in Mike's head," the Doctor said.
"That thing," Mike said surprised.
"Yep," the Doctor said, "It looks like a fairly ferocious predator so that could account for the violent swings."
"So how did this end up in Mike's head?" Rose asked.
"No idea," the Doctor said, "I think we'd better get back to the TARDIS."
They all started walking back through the jungle, then a soldier came out from hiding in the foliage and started following them, gesturing to the other hiding soldiers to do the same.
The creature was in a state of shock. It had just seen its own dead body. That would have shocked anybody, even perhaps the bravest man in the whole of creation. It decided that if it got control again it would have to remain in control, nothing else mattered, nothing.
The Doctor could see the TARDIS just in front of him, he pushed aside a few branches and walked towards it. But then the soldiers jumped out in front of him, some had been hiding in amongst the plants, some had come out from behind the TARDIS, the rest had been following them. They were surrounded, all the soldiers were pointing large rifle like weapons at them.
"What was I saying earlier about not wanting to encounter hostile intelligent life," the Doctor said with a sigh.
"Alright, where's the other one?" one of the soldiers asked.
"Sorry," the Doctor said.
"There were four of you," the solider said, "Where's the other one?"
The Doctor looked round at the others, Rose and Anna were still there but Mike wasn't.
"Great, where's Mike gone?" he asked.
"I dunno," Anna said, "I didn't see him go."
"Same here," Rose said.
"Oh no," the Doctor said.
"Why what's wrong?" Rose asked.
"I think that creature has got control again," the Doctor said.
The Doctor was right, the creature had got control. And Mike was now making his way through the jungle towards the wreckage of the space ship. There were weapons on board that ship, weapons used by the security guards. The creature thought had decided that this body wasn't the sort of body that could carry out unarmed killing, but its previous one hadn't been the sort that could use a weapon. The creature didn't like weapons, mainly because it found killing by itself much more satisfying.
"Right, you're going to come with us back to our ship," the soldier said, "There you will explain to our captain why you are here."
"That's nice," the Doctor said, fiddling with the sonic screwdriver in his pocket, "But could you tell us why you're here first."
"That is not important," the soldier said, "All you need to know is that…"
The soldier never finished getting the words out because at that moment his rifle exploded. The Doctor pulled out the sonic screwdriver and increased the power aiming it at four of the soldiers that were between hem and the TARDIS. There rifles exploded as well. Rose and Anna ran towards the TARDIS while the Doctor took out a few more of the rifles before the soldiers started firing. Rose opened the door with her own key, and the Doctor followed her and Anna inside. Then he closed and locked the doors.
Outside the soldier that had been talking to the Doctor got up and pulled out a hand held communicator.
"Jilkins to command," he said, "We've found those people, they've barricaded themselves inside a small box."
He looked round as a few of the soldiers started battering against the TARDIS door.
"We're trying to get into the box but without success, over," he added.
"Message understood Colonel," came the reply, "I'll inform the captain of what has happened then contact you with his instructions. Over and out."
Colonel Jilkins put the communicator away and looked at the TARDIS, waiting patiently for the door to break open.
"What are we going to do know?" Anna asked.
"Well we're going to make a temporary departure," the Doctor said and set the TARDIS controls to dematerialise.
The soldiers stopped battering the TARDIS as the sound of its engines started up, they all stood back in shock as it dematerialised.