Rose woke slowly, her head in a spin, she glanced around at her surroundings, to her it looked like she was in a Cinema neat rows of chairs were lined up face a giant screen. She looked behind her to see if she could see a projector but she was shackled to the chair, both her arms and her legs this is when Rose noticed she was not alone. Along the same row of chairs were more people all shackled to there chairs and all trying to free them selves, the sound of panic echoed around the large hall, Rose felt her heart beat kick into over drive, she gripped he arm rest tightly and tried to free her legs. When the lights in the theatre dimmed and what sounded like a old time projection wheel kicked in, Rose looked to the screen where a count down played on a battered real. A man, maybe in his late 30 appeared on screen, he had short hair, thick rimmed glasses and a long white lab coat.
"Greetings Travellers, and welcome to the Alphadalta Project, you are just a selection of the lucky few that will begin the new life of the human Race on planet Neptoria" a planet appeared on screen that looked just like the earth, before all the nasty gasses destroyed the Ozone layer "Neptoria is a remarkable planet that was found by the top Scientists of the Torchwood Institute less than 50 years ago. We have been working hard to mimic the exact air, warmth and light that planet Earth once possessed. Neptoria is just like Earth is every signal way but better, there will be no poverty, no crime, no bullying, everybody will have homes, jobs, education and much more so you may carry on your life's as they once were on planet Earth, and don't worry about your family and friends as they will be joining us shortly" The man smiled but there was something about all this that made Rose suspicious, "so if you please make your way to the double door exit and order your selves in a signal file lie so we may take your name and issue you a number, and we can move on to the cafeteria as Im sure all this space travel will have made you quite hungry. From all here at the Alphadalta project, have fun and Good Luck" the film ended and the lights came back on, Rose along with everybody else's shackles realised and they were hurried by armed soldiers in to a signal file line by the exit.
"Now Can I have your attention please!" called one of the soldiers "these wrist tags are nothing more than to show your number and personal details, please do not be alarmed by them, there just wearable data base's." two of the soldiers were walking up the line and slowly getting closer to Rose, one was asking questions and the other applying the wrist band.
"Name?" The two soldiers stood in front of Rose
"R… Rose Tyler"
"Hold out your right arm" Rose gingerly extended her right arm as a heavy, thick metal bracelet clamped around her wrist "You are number 621"
"Grate" Rose muttered as the Guards moved onto the next one, she looked down the line, there had to be 20+ people ahead of her, and she was roughly in the middle, they all looked quite worried and some were holding and rubbing there wrist as if they were in pain.
"Right guys lets moved out!" after the last tag had been applied the group of people were shunted out of the theatre and down a narrow dark hall way.
The TARDIS landed with a thump, The Doctor threw open the doors to see a large pile of crates; he had landed in the cargo hold of some sort of space craft. He locked the door to his ship and wondered aimlessly around the tacks of crates and boxes. Eventually he found a door with a key pad as he pulled out his sonic screw driver it was pulled into the door frame and stuck there. The Doctor pulled with all his might to free the screwdriver and it did not even move an inch, he charged it up to full blast and pressed a button, the key pad exploded and the screwdriver was freed, he stumbled thought it, he gazed around the dark hall way. As he wondered up the hall way he met another adjacent corridor with the heavy echo of foot steps heading towards him. He pressed his back against the wall and hid in the shadows, a group of soldiers lead a long signal line of civilians, one being Rose. He smiled as he watched Rose walk a head and the Doctor darted into the end of the line and followed them.
They arrived at a large set of doors, as one of the soldiers typed in a code on the key pad they slid open to a pristine crystal white cafeteria.
"You will each take one try, take what ever food you see and go up as many times as you want, but make sure you eat every last crumb. Enjoy"
A large lunch lady with blond curly hair in a hair net handed the Doctor a tray, he smiled and pushed his way through the crowd to get to Rose. She was in the line for the hot food, bangers and mash, jacket potato, pasta dishes of all kinds, pizza, burgers.
"And what can I get for you dear?" the lunch lady asked with a smile
"Oh it all looks so good" Rose looked to her right to see the Doctor licking his lips over the food "I think I'll have the jacket Potato with beans, coleslaw, tuna, cheese and chips and the apple crumbled please" He smiled as the lunch lady dealt his food on to a plat and handed it over to him, Rose shook her head and smiled
"And what about you love?" she asked looking at Rose "Burger and Chips please" she smiled as the lunch lady handed her a plate, she bustled her way through the crowd and noticed the Doctor sitting alone at a table on the far side of the cantina,
"I don't think much of the chips" he said with a mouth full as Rose placed her tray down in front of him
"Are you going to eat all of that?" she asked
"Not if the chips are anything to go by" he said sniffing the one on the end of his folk
Rose took a chip and ate one, he face scrunched up like she had just licked a very sour lemon,
"These are not tasty chips" she swallowed it and as she went to eat another the Doctor stopped her and took the chip out of her hand
"Oi! I was going to eat that"
He broke the chip in half and shone the sonic screw driver over it; the inside shone an apple green colour as if it was glowing, Rose feeling quite discussed looked at the chip and then at the Doctor
"There putting something in the food that's why it tastes a little off"
"What is it?" Rose asked pushing her plate away from her
He took a napkin and filled it with chips and half of Rose's burger and pocketed it along with his screwdriver. "Until I run a full analysis on it back at the TARDIS I haven't a clue, and where did you get that wrist band, not exactly fashionable"
Rose laughed "and you'd know about fashion? The soldier men gave us one each it says it has all our data on like names, addresses excreta"
"Then why it is magnetic?" The Doctor said, Rose looked at her wrist and noticed her knife was stuck to the bracelet, she pulled it off and looked puzzled at the Doctor, he whipped out his glasses for his inside pocket and examined the bracelet further,
"On the way in my screwdriver got stuck to a door frame, maybe it has some kind of magnetic charge, the same magnetic charge that your bracelets are admitting, and when you get two identical magnetic charges"
"They repel," Rose said
"Exactly, so if certain door frames are admitting the same magnetic field that means you can't pass through them, which means there's something that they don't want you to know or see" he whispered "Rose what happened when you arrived, what did they tell you?"
"They showed us a video, there taking us to some kind of planet" she said mimicking his whisper "like a new Earth but better,"
"That's impossible; they won't discover New Earth for another 40 odd years. I need to see this video, do you think you can take me to it"
"Yeah I think so, but what about my wrist dealy?" she said waving her wrist at the Doctor,
"Hold still" he took out his Screwdriver again and held it further enough away so it doesn't stick to it and shone it over the bracelet, he pocketed his screwdriver and held a folk next to it, and nothing happened it didn't stick, he tried the knife and that didn't stick either.
"Killed the magnetic charge" he said, now your free to roam" he smiled.
Rose watched as a man walked behind them sat beside them and begin to eat the food on his tray. He looked a little odd, his shoulders were slouching and he had a grey tint to his skin, his eyes were dark and cold looking and he stared in one space as he ate not even noticing Rose and the Doctors. They looked around the room and saw that every one else was exactly the same.
"There like Zombies" Rose said in a hush,
"We need to get out of here; we need to find out what this stuff is"
"OK guys! Time for me to show you our sleeping quarters," a soldier chuckled "signal file, now Move It"
They all got up at the same time and huddled into a straight signal filed line, the Doctor and Rose joined the end and as the group walked silently down the hall the Doctor grabbed Rose's wrist and pulled her down the nearest adjacent corridor, and headed towards the TARDIS.