The Doctor slowly opens his eyes, his view a ceiling above him. He sits up slowly, still disoriented from his regeneration. He hears sounds coming from the kitchen behind him. He rises from the couch he was resting on and walks cautiously toward the kitchen. As soon as he crosses into the other room, he bumps into a young girl, who jumps back with a start.
"You're awake!" says the young girl.
"Where am I?" the Doctor replies.
"This is my home in London."
"You take a strange man into your home without question?"
"You looked like you needed help. Name's Jennifer."
The Doctor shakes her hand with a mixture of confusion and intrigue on his face.
"I'm the Doctor."
"The Doctor of what?"
"The Doctor of...helping people."
"Well that's redundant."
The Doctor pauses for a moment, trying to jump-start his memory of the events that had previously unfolded.
"Jennifer, was it?"
"Yep."
"Jennifer, I have an extremely important question for you. All of space and time may depend on this very question, so I'm going to need you to hold nothing back and give me the complete and honest truth. Do you understand?"
"Uh...I guess…?" she replies, fearful of the pressure that the Doctor just bestowed upon her.
"Am I ginger?"
"Are you what?"
"Am. I. Ginger?"
"You don't know the color of your own-"
"Please! Just answer the question."
"No, it's sort of a...brownish color."
"Gah!" the Doctor grunts in reply. "Every time! What do I have to do to be ginger for once!?"
"Are you alright?"
"I have to go. I must be getting back to my TARDIS."
"TARDIS?"
"It's my vehicle of sorts."
"Is that an acronym?"
"Yes actually. It stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Wait, how did you know that?"
Before she can reply, the Doctor and Jennifer hear a rustling in the living room. They look to see a silver dot dart across the room.
"What was that?" asked Jennifer.
The rustling continues and they both see the silver dot streak up the stairs like a bullet.
"Oh yes." the Doctor says, smiling with glee and anticipation. "I'm this kind of Doctor."
The Doctor and Jennifer walk upstairs into her bedroom. They hear a beeping sound and see her closet door slightly shaking.
"Stay back." the Doctor exclaims. He pulls out his trusty old sonic screwdriver, ready to stop the beast lurking through the door. "On three. One. Two. Three!"
The Doctor yanks open the door as the creature darts out from under it. He attempts to use his sonic to stop it in its tracks, but it fails. At the same time, Jennifer dives on the ground and snatches the silver dot with her bare hands.
"C'mon, you piece of metal!" the Doctor shouts at his sonic.
"Got it!" Jennifer yells.
The Doctor widens his eyes in surprise as he sees the creature squirming to break free of Jennifer's strong grasp.
"Very impressive." he replies. "You are one very interesting girl Jennifer."
"What is this?" she asks.
"No, no, this is not good" the Doctor replies. "This is really not good. This is a Cybermat."
"A what?"
"A Cybermat. They are small cyborgs used to guard, carry, and steal anything they are programmed to. Sometimes they can be used as scouts to monitor. They belong on Mondas though, not here. What are you doing here?" the Doctor asks the Cybermat inquisitively.
He tries to scan it using his sonic screwdriver, but soon remembers it's malfunctioning.
"I could scan if it weren't for this bloody old thing!" The Doctor throws it on the ground, only for it to light up in response.
"Haha yes! Batteries must have been loose. It happens all the time." he says with a grin. The Doctor scans the Cybermat with his sonic, its familiar whirring a comfort for him in this new, regenerated body. He flicks the sonic to read the data it gathered.
"I don't understand. This is from Mondas."
"Sorry, what's Mondas?" Jennifer asks.
"Its home planet. And it's a long way away. If I can acquire its signal, I should be able to trace it back to its origin." The Doctor scans the Cybermat once more.
"Looks like the signal originated from Earth. Close by too. Not a long walk." He pauses distractedly, thinking to himself for a moment.
"Well, I must be going. Thank you very much for helping me and have a nice life." The Doctor dashes out of the room, ecstatic to continue on his first mysterious adventure as a new man.
"Doctor wait! What am I supposed to do with this thing?" Jennifer asks with worry on her face, still holding the squirming Cybermat between her hands.
The Doctor runs back into the room, embarrassment strewn across his face. "Right, sorry. I'm going to need that." He pulls out his sonic once more and disables the Cybermat. He takes it from her hands and pauses.
"Bye!" The Doctor dashes out of the room once more.
"Oh no, no, no. Where do you think you're going? I'm coming with you." Jennifer argues.
"It's too dangerous."
"I live for danger." she says with a smile.
"Do you? Well, try to keep up then!" The Doctor races out of the room for a final time with Jennifer in pursuit, both excited and relieved to have a companion by his side once more.