Hello again! Here is chapter 2! :D

The Doctor and the TimeRiders walked out of the Tardis. They stopped, wondering where to go now. The Doctor continued forwards and walked up to a person.

"Where is this?" he asked.

"Uh, Seattle…" the stranger answered.

"What day is it?"

"It's Monday…"

"Ugh, I hate Mondays. But I meant the date."

"Oh, it's –" he consulted his watch, "April 7."

"Thanks!"

The Doctor walked back to the TimeRiders. "It's April 7, 1983. And we are in Seattle."

"Okay," said Maddy. "We should look at some newspapers, maybe they will say something about the contamination that happened here."

They walked towards the nearest newspaper stand.

"I've never been to Seattle before! It's cool!" the Doctor exclaimed happily. "I love the 80s. The music is great. And the first video games! But not the fashion," he said, looking warily at a passerby wearing a leather jacket over a neon shirt and some shoulder pads. "The neon is cool, but not really the earrings and shoulder pads. Not to mention the hair." He shuddered.

"Yeah… but I like Monty Python. It's one of my favorite movies." Maddy added.

"Oh! I love that movie!"

Sal and Liam, the only people who had actually been paying attention to where they were going, stopped to look at the newspaper. The headings seemed legit. '$14000 Damage Done by Dam Burst'. 'Tacoma Protests Continue'. Nothing fishy here.

They turned back to the other members of their group, who were now in a heated discussion about which band was better, Rush or Schoolhouse Rock. (Schoolhouse Rock defended valiantly by the Doctor.) They slowly walked back to the Tardis and sat down in front of it.

"Well," said the Doctor, "I'm afraid there's not really much we can do until the Tardis is done reenergizing, or until we figure out what happened. So we will be stuck here for a few days."

"We can go sightseeing." Liam said. "There's a needle thing that they were talking about in the newspaper."

"It was called a Space Needle, I think," Sal added.

The Doctor walked up to another random person and asked, "How do we get to the Space Needle?"

"Uh, you can go straight 3 or 4 blocks and then turn right and you will be able to see it. Then just walk towards it. It's only about a mile or so."

"Okay, thank you!"

"No problem."

The Doctor turned back to the others. "Let's go!"

They followed the man's directions and went straight, then turned right. Then they walked straight some more, until they were right under the Space Needle.

"Wow," Liam said, "It's big."

"Let's go up!" the Doctor exclaimed.

They waited in line for the tickets. The line was really long. Apparently it was a popular tourist spot during spring break. They sat on a rock, while Maddy stood in line.

Suddenly, a scream rang out. Someone screamed again. The Doctor got up and ran to the source of the screaming. The TimeRiders followed.

It was a woman in the McDonalds. She was surrounded by a group of people who were comforting her, and some customers who looked very confused.

"What happened?" asked the Doctor.

"I was cooking the food, and there was this weird buzzing noise. -snif- Then I heard Mike yell, and I turned around to see why, -snif- and there was a really nasty pile of body parts -snif- all fused together and -snif- I screamed too and then I ran out."

The Doctor and the TimeRiders ran into the back.

Uh oh, Maddy thought.

There was a crowd of people. They pushed their way through and saw two people merged together. It was not a pleasant sight. They yelled at everyone to leave, and then examined them further.

One of the men who had gotten fused into the other one was obviously from the 80s. He must be Mike, the other McDonalds worker. The other one looked more modern. It was hard to tell.

"Irresponsible time travelers. This must be the source of the contamination." Maddy said.

"What did you say happened?" the Doctor asked.

"Someone didn't check before they opened a portal, and they opened one right inside of another guy."

"Hmm," said the Doctor. "We should probably move them somewhere where people won't see them. It's pretty disturbing."

"Yeah. But where?" Liam asked.

"Uh, on second thought, I don't want to touch them. They're fine where they are."

Their strange conversation was interrupted (yet again) by a scream. They ran into the other room. A person had collapsed on the floor. The Doctor ran up to him, and started to shake him. He checked for a heartbeat. There was a very quiet heartbeat.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Uh, he just sort of collapsed," one of the customers replied. "There was sort of a shadowy thing over him, but maybe I just imagined it."

"No, you didn't imagine it…" the Doctor said ominously. The TimeRiders turned towards him. "It's right there."

They looked where he pointed. It was a Seeker.

"Oh no, not these again!" Maddy exclaimed in frustration. "We only just finished dealing with the last one!"

"What is it?" asked the Doctor.

"Seekers," Maddy clarified. "They live off of sucking the emotions and thoughts out of people, which kills them."

"How do we get rid of them?"

"They usually fade away if they can't get any energy from anyone. But I don't think that is going to work here, what with all the people everywhere."

"Where'd it go?" asked Liam, looking closer at the patch of floor. "It was just there!"

"Huh. It was." Maddy sighed. "It went somewhere, I guess. It can't be too far away."

"Since we have no idea how to face these things, we should maybe head back to the Tardis," suggested Sal. "Maybe there will be something about them there."