Night was falling fast the sun was beginning to sink behind the large tower block as the two travellers walked down a semi deserted street. The shops were all shut for the night, the Doctor sighed as they passed a chip shop called Fryer Tuck Chippy, a sign hung in the window that read 'closed. Due to understaffing' "that's not fair" the Doctor sulked "they did really nice chips, I'm hunger are you hungry?"

"Do you ever stop thinking about food?" Rose joked

"Yeah, when I'm not hunger" he smiled

There was a small alleyway beside the chippy, a noise like a glass bottle hitting the hard concrete ground echoed in the small dark alleyway. Rose looked down the passage hoping to see cat or some kind of animal, but to her surprise there was a cloaked man stooping over some cardboard boxes, she nudged the Doctors arm, he had been pressing his hands up against the glass of the shop window so he could get a better view inside. The Doctor poked his head around the corner; the man was still stooping over some boxes, he and Rose gingerly made there way towards him.

"Hi there, are you alright?" the man looked at them, even though they could not see his face,

"Are you hurt? Do you need help?" Rose asked that as she stepped forward, she placed her one hand on his shoulder it felt icy cold. The man turned sharply and walked away from the pair quickly, Rose looked on in shock as she realised that his cloak was in her hand. Instead of a man standing there, there was what only looked like a robot. It had all the features of a human, one head without facial features like nose or eyes, a torso, two arms with individual fingers and 2 legs, a hard metal shell protected his inner circuits. The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver to examine the robot but it raised its arm to its head and grabbed his own wrist, what looked like a blue force field surrounded the robot and with a flash of light and a loud crack, it had vanished.

"What was it?" Rose asked

"A Slave Droid, it was built to take orders. I haven't seen one in years," the Doctor said bewildered

"Do you recon there linked with these disappearances?"

"It's quite possible, perfect even. A robot doesn't leave DNA at the scene so there would be no way to tracing them…"

"Or there owner" Rose added

"Exactly, now if we can find out who's controlling them then maybe…"

"We'll find who's kidnapping all these people" Rose finished as she wrapped the robots cloak around her waist

The Doctor smiled "what would I do with out you. Come on lets get back to the TARDIS,"

As the walked along the darkening court yard, Rose started to feel a little light headed, she was trailing a few paces behind the Doctor, he opened the TARDIS door

"Doctor!" Rose yelled, he looked back to see the same blue force field surround her like it did the robot; he grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her inside the TARDIS and slammed the door. The force field vanished instantly. Rose took a few steps inside and felt her knees buckle and then darkness.

Rose collapse "Rose!" the Doctor caught her just before her body hit the steel meshed floor of the TARDIS. The Doctor carefully picked her up and lay her across the seats opposite the TARDIS console.