A/N- Again, I'm SO sorry for the delay, I'll try to be a more faithful writer in the future! Hope you like it!

Chapter 3-

Once they were back in the TARDIS, Rose found she had some questions about the whole affair that they had found themselves in. "So Doctor, who exactly are these alien things that we're looking for?"

The Doctor, not looking up from the controls he was fiddling with, said "They're Utarians, from a planet far from Earth called Utaris. The species who made the spaceship were probably Kanifids, the most advanced species on the planet. They were one of the last races to discover space travel, except of course for you stupid apes." He said, grinning a mischievous grin at Rose, waiting for her reaction to his last sentence. She poked her tongue at him. "Go on."

"Well, need I say any more?" He said, pulling down a lever, making the central column rise and fall. "Help me with this, will you?" He shouted over the sound, trying to hold onto five different buttons and levers at once. Rose hurried over and held them down while trying desperately to remain on her feet.

"Yeah, so if they only discovered space travel less than a century ago, they would hardly have been able to travel to somewhere on the other side of the Universe, would they?" He said, running around to press other buttons.

"Doesn't seem likely, no." Rose replied, trying to keep hold of the levers as the TARDIS rocked and shook.

"Of course, I don't know much about Utaris, so it may be possible that they advanced hugely in a short amount of time." He said, and with one last, humongous lurch the TARDIS landed, and the Doctor and Rose were thrown off their feet and dropped onto the floor in a heap. The Doctor sprang up onto his feet again and dusted off his jacket. "I highly doubt it though." He said, and helped up Rose who was finding it hard to get up in her 20's dress and high heels.

"You'd be better off changing into something else, you know." He said, marvelling at the fact that, in his nine hundred years of existence, he had still not been able to comprehend woman's love of fashion. "It doesn't look too comfortable."

"It's alright." She said, picking up her hat and fixing it back on her head.

"Suit yourself." The Doctor shrugged, and made his way to the TARDIS door. Rose hurried forward and blocked the doorway. "One more thing," she said, "exactly how alien are they?"

"Oh, you know, they've got stone skeletons, purple eyes, but other than that nothing too dramatic." He said, and reached behind Rose to open up the TARDIS door.

Outside the world was terrifying, yet strangely beautiful. Rose was reminded of Earth in the Victorian era, but there were obvious signs of advanced technology, and, looking around, there were no signs of any life. The sky was a brilliant blue, but even though they could see no one, the Doctor and Rose had that horrible feeling that they were being watched.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me." Said the Doctor, looking around in disbelief.

"What?" asked Rose, the feeling of eyes upon her intensifying. The Doctor stepped further out into the open and looked out at his surroundings. "This isn't Utaris." He said, clearly astonished. "I can't believe it, we've gone to the wrong planet again! Stupid, stupid TARDIS!" He exclaimed, stamping his feet on the ground in annoyance. Rose cringed at the racket he was making; in the complete silence that surrounded them any kind of sound felt to her as if they would be caught and punished by some strange life form.

"Okay, great," said Rose, barely talking, "Can we leave this place, then? It's kinda giving me the creeps." But the Doctor hushed her up, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion again.

"Wait a moment," he said, looking again at his surroundings, "Where are we?"

"What, don't you know?" Rose asked, taking it for granted that he knew every planet in the Universe.

"No, I don't." He said. "I've never seen anything like this before. I mean, there's some things here that are common on other planets, but it certainly can't be any of those, and this," he said pointedly, walking over to what looked like a purple vine, growing through the cracks of the brick in the ground, "this is something I've never ever seen before, not once! Blimey! I wonder what the people look like?" He added as an afterthought.

"Well I'm sure they'd look really crazy and all, but there's people's lives that need saving, remember? On Utaris? Let's go back there, yeah?" Said Rose, finding herself shivering despite the warm weather.

"Wait, before we do that I need to go back to the TARDIS and find out where this place is. Won't be long." He said, hurrying back to the TARDIS.

Rose was more than willing to accompany him back inside as well, and was just turning around when something caught her eye. She looked back, but saw nothing. While she was staring at that place, however, something else caught her eye, just out of her focused vision, and she looked around at that place too.

The third time this happened, Rose became completely unnerved, and turned and ran straight to the doors of the TARDIS, when from behind her a strong hand shut over her eyes, and she could only let out a short shriek that pierced the silence like a knife before another hand, as strong as stone, covered her mouth. She squirmed and fought, but her abductor was many times stronger than she, and she could feel herself being dragged away from the Doctor at an alarming speed, her high heels scratching the brick.

The Doctor heard Rose shriek from within the TARDIS and whipped around, hurrying to the doorway, his hand reaching for his sonic screwdriver. When he was outside again, he saw no one in sight, the silence threatening to engulf him again.

"Rose?" He called, his two hearts pounding in his chest. When no sound of her answered him he groaned. "Typical." He grumbled, and strode fast in the direction that he hoped she would have gone.

But while he walked the silence was interrupted again, not by a scream, but of a faint whirring sound…

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The Doctor looked around in the direction of the sound and saw the same spaceship that they had seen on Earth materialising on a flat space in between a bakery and a butcher. He stopped walking and hid behind a wall covered with the same vine, peering out from behind it.

The door of the spaceship opened silently and from it came five beings in black Victorian suits. They looked too tall to be human, yet apart from that there seemed to be nothing different about them. The Doctor, however, recognized the race at once. But what are they doing here? He wondered, as the aliens marched soundlessly up the street they were parked on, away from the Doctor. The Doctor let out a sigh of relief that they weren't heading his way.

Soon there was more movement from within the darkness of the ship, followed by a woman in a red dress and high heels, walking from the spaceship and then moving in the same direction as the aliens. After her came a horde of humans in the same kind of 1920's attire, all silent, all expressionless.

The sight of all those people still sent shivers up his ancient spine, but the Doctor couldn't help grinning at the humans they had been looking for. "Fantastic." He said under his breath. The Doctor made a mental note to say thank you to his beloved TARDIS for taking them to the correct place when, or if, he returned to it, before deciding to follow the people from behind.

When he made to move, however, he found that he could not move his leg. He looked down, annoyed, and saw that both his legs were tightly bound by the same vines that stuck to the wall behind him. The Doctor struggled to free himself, but the vines held tight to his legs, and even as he struggled, the vines crept quickly up his legs, pulling his hips to the wall.

The Doctor, panicking, tried to reach for his sonic screwdriver, but the vines had already grabbed his fingers and entangled them in their ferocious grip. He tried to wrench himself apart from the vines, heaving with all his strength, growling with the effort, but all that seemed to do was make the vines hold tighter to him.

Unbeknownst to the Doctor who was busy getting away from the vines, the horde of humans had all left the spaceship and had walked away. The last to appear out of the spaceship was five more aliens, who shut the door from behind them and followed the rest. Before they got that far, the aliens were alerted by an unearthly noise, and they all turned around to find the source. They spotted the Doctor, still struggling, and made their way towards him.

When the aliens came within the Doctor's vision, he stopped fighting and stared at them, breathing heavily for the vines pressed against his chest. They too were expressionless, and for a moment they just stared back at the Doctor. Then at the same time, the aliens all in unison, all with monotonous voices, said "You have been detected."

The Doctor, whose patience was wearing very thin, managed to gasp out a very, very naughty word at the aliens, before passing out at the lack of air.