Though she struggled greatly, Jane could not help but be forced through the toy room door by the Transformer robot. But instead of entering the foggy place she and the Doctor had come from, they now ventured into a dimly-lit, grey-walled hallway. It pushed her down the hall until they came to a darker grey panel set into the wall. Switching its grip so that it was holding her with one plastic claw-hand, the Transformer reached out with the other and touched the panel. It slid aside, revealing itself to actually be a door, though on the other side was nothing but black.

'What's in there?' Jane wondered aloud. She twisted around slightly and looked up at her captor. 'I don't see anything. Is just, like, an empty room or something?'

The Transformer said nothing. Its electric blue eyes merely glittered with a lifeless tint, like the screen of a computer. Then it turned back to the door and pushed Jane inside.

She tripped forward and landed with her hands outstretched, on knees and toes. When the girl looked up, she saw that the room was dark, small, and windowless. It was lit mainly by neon orange glow-in-the-dark stencils of some distant planet on the walls; a planet with towering mountains, wide seas of grass, and two suns, a citadel-like city perching elegantly on a hill, overseeing everything…

On either side of the room, parallel to Jane, were low benches, and on her left, the girl soon noticed, another young woman rested on the bench. Jane looked up at her, mouth slightly agape. 'Erm… hi.'

The young woman rolled her large eyes. 'Useless. Utterly useless!' She held out a hand to help Jane up.

Gratefully, the human girl accepted her hand and stood up, dusting herself off. 'I missed something. What exactly is so useless?'

'You.'

'Oh.' Jane wasn't exactly sure how to respond. '…I'm sorry?'

The young woman's eyes became slits as she peered up at Jane. 'Humph.'

They waited for the other to say something. Finally the young woman sighed, annoyed. 'Well?' she said, gesturing at the bench across from her. 'Aren't you going to sit down?'

'Oh!' The other girl looked down at the seat behind her. 'Yes. Um, sorry.' Quickly she sat down upon the bench. The moment she did, Jane was surprised to feel the room start moving with a jolt. 'This is an elevator?' she exclaimed.

'Well, yes, obviously.' The irritation had not left the young woman's voice. 'What did you think it was, a pretty, glowing closet?'

'No!' Jane answered defensively. 'I mean, how am I supposed to know? I thought perhaps it was a jail cell?'

'Why would it be a jail cell? The Toymaker said you would be going to play his games-'

'Ah! The Toymaker! That… that…' Jane let out a cry of frustration.

'…Yes.' The young woman watched her with low eyelids. 'Anyhow, I'm Amelia. I'll be your guide on this game.' She put out a white-gloved hand for Jane to shake.

Jane took her hand and shook it apprehensively. 'Guide? You mean you're going to help me?'

'No, I'm going to tell you the rules and monitor the game to make sure you don't cheat.'

'Fantastic.'

'I knew you'd like that.'

There was a moment of silence as Jane studied Amelia. She appeared to be only a little older than Jane, but was dressed up as a Victorian-era little girl all in white, from the ribboned hat to the poofy dress and apron to the neatly buckled shoes. Amelia was very strange looking with porcelain skin, pupil-less blue eyes, and long silver hair that pooled on the bench behind her. It took Jane several minutes before she finally realized that Amelia was a china doll grown-up, come to life, and given a nasty attitude adjustment.

'What are you staring at?' Amelia asked rudely after several long moments.

Jane was startled, mildly. She sat back on her bench. 'Nothing, nothing,' the girl replied nervously.

She searched for a topic to cover herself. Looking up at the ceiling, hands pressed between her knees, Jane suddenly noticed that the direction the lift was moving in was down. She looked to Amelia for confirmation. 'We're going down?'

This time, Amelia answered with less annoyance than she had previously. 'Yes. We're going down to the arena.'

Those words made Jane even more nervous. 'The… arena?'

'Isn't that what I said?' Amelia snapped. 'For the first game you will be playing. It's-'

Suddenly the lift stopped, and to Jane's right, a door slid open, opposite to the first one she was tossed in through. Bright light shone through it, and for a moment, Jane couldn't see.

'Ah. Here we are,' she heard Amelia say. She then heard the sharp sounds of the china doll's heels on the floor as she stood up and went outside the lift. Though Jane was blinded, she stood up and followed.

Stepping outside, her vision was restored.

Though Amelia continued to speak, in Jane's ears the words trailed off. She simply stared sourly at the sight of the solar system before her. For that's where they were: standing on a platform, facing the sun, where all the stars and colours of the Universe were visible to her.

Behind her, Amelia was standing on a raised step, rummaging around in a cupboard at the bottom of a wooden podium. Finally, she found what she was looking for and withdrew a small cardboard-looking box from the cupboard. Standing up, Amelia shut its door with her foot, then stepped down from the podium and walked across to the other end of the platform.

At Amelia's passing, Jane shook herself out of her angry musings. She looked around, noting the podium, and empty rack in front of it, and an open door next to that. There was a little bit of wall, and then another, identical door. Beside that was more wall, and it was before there that Amelia stooped, reached into her box, and sat a little doll on the floor. She edged over, and pulled out another.

'What're you up to there, Amelia?' Jane asked. she couldn't really make out the dolls.

Having put four out, Amelia now found her box empty, so she stood up and went back to the podium, setting the box down beside it. Once she was standing at the podium, Amelia looked down and searched its surface until she found what she was looking for. Glancing up towards the dolls, the china figure answered simply, 'Your opponents,' and then tapped a button on top of her podium.

A shudder ran through the four dolls simultaneously, and then they suddenly shot up, growing in size until they were no longer just toys, but full-sized people. Full-sized people that Jane would have recognized anywhere.

She took a few hesitant steps forward, studying each face carefully until she was positive she knew exactly who they were, though she had been pretty certain beforehand. Jane could scarcely believe who she was seeing- Mr Roberts, her history teacher; Miss Poacher, her English teacher; Mrs Kusakawa, her sign language teacher; and Mr Jones, her maths teacher.

'I… I have to play against my teachers?' Jane asked disbelievingly.

'Yes,' Amelia answered from her place at the podium. 'You will be playing against them in the first round of your first game: laser tag.'

As she said this, Amelia tapped a different place on the podium, and a laser tag vest, with the gun hooked onto it, appeared on each teacher, as well as one for Jane on the rack. But the girl wasn't putting it on just yet. 'I have to play a game of laser tag four-to-one against my teachers? That isn't fair!'

Amelia shrugged. 'That's the way it is.'

'Uh, no, I don't think so,' Jane said firmly. 'You tell your buddy the Toymaker that I get teammates, now. This unfair game thing will not happen.'

Her "guide" stared at her for a minute, then pressed a third spot on the podium. She froze strangely for a minute, as if listening to something, then looked back at Jane. 'Who will your partner be?'

'What? I only get one?'

'Yes, you thickhead,' Amelia snapped, her previous irritation creeping back into her voice. 'Take it or leave it.'

'Take it!'

'Then give me a name, already!'

'Okay, okay…' Jane backed off, and began to think. Who would she want by her side for the most badass game of laser tag in the history of its invention?

Then it dawned on her - her very best friend, Tobi. Who else could it possibly be?

With a smile forming on her lips, Jane turned and faced Amelia decidedly. 'My best friend, Tobias Jean.'

Again, Amelia tapped the podium. She waited a moment, then reached down into the box she had taken the other dolls from and pulled from it a short little doll with the same wild brown hair, red flannel shirt, and dirty white trainers as Tobi.

Amelia held out the doll for Jane to take, but the human girl cringed a little and stepped back. 'I'm good, thanks.'

This made her guide roll her dull eyes and sigh. 'Because I have to do everything myself,' she muttered, stepping off the podium for a moment, and setting the doll next to Jane.

Returning to the podium, Amelia repeated the same process that had made the SHS teachers life-sized, and in a minute, Jane's best friend was again at her side.

Slowly, Tobi opened her eyes, blinking a lot, like someone who has just been woken up. She looked over at her best mate. 'Jane…?' Tobi murmured quietly.

'Oh my stars, Tobi! You're okay!' Jane leapt forward and wrapped her arms around Tobi in a momentous hug.

That woke her up the rest of the way, and she squirmed to get loose, as she always did upon finding herself in the clutches of one of Jane's hugs. 'Um, yeah, okay, you can let go now, Jane…'

'Sorry.' Jane stepped back. 'It's just, I was really scared for you, but you're okay, you're here with me now and I can see you and it's all a bit better-'

'Hold on,' Tobi held up a hand to stop her. 'You were scared for me? How come? As a matter of fact, what's going on here? And-'

This time Tobi cut herself off, for she had just peered around Jane's shoulder and seen the fantastic view of space that Jane had, by now, grown accustomed to. 'Oh, holy pants… What in the name of… Where did the sky go?'

Jane laughed. 'Er, yeah, about that-'

She was cut off again, only this time by Amelia. 'Look, are you gonna play, or what?'

The two girls looked around just in time to see the back of Mr Roberts disappear into the maze of an arena.

'Oh, jeez, we gotta go, huh!' Jane dashed forward, reaching for the rack, which now had two vests hanging from it. She grabbed one and lobbed it to Tobi, then started to put on the other one herself.

'Uh, yeah, you'd better get a move on,' Amelia answered dryly.

Though confused, Tobi began to buckle on the vest. 'Jane, what the hell is going on here?'

Sapping the last bit into place, Jane adjusted her vest. 'I'll explain when we get in there. C'mon!'

She grabbed Tobi's hand and started to drag the other girl into the maze.

As they went through the first door and into the arena, Jane suddenly heard the Doctor's voice in her head. 'Be careful, Jane,' he warned. 'The Toymaker is a power for evil. He manipulates people and makes them into his playthings.'

'Don't worry, Doctor, we'll be fine,' Jane answered. 'At least, I hope so…'

0-0

I hate cooking. XD

I had to cook supper last night, and in doing so managed to pour boiling water on my left hand. It hurt really bad for hours yesterday, but not near as much this morning. I'm glad I wouldn't let Mum take me to the emergency room. Though I must say, washing my hair this morning was difficult. But so far I seem to be able to handle typing. Good thing I'm right-handed.

So! The weirdness continues! This is seriously just what came out of my head and I wrote it down and where do you get off naming a girl "Tobias", Marty? I simply don't know. Maybe her parents wanted a boy. I used to know a woman whose name was Aaron. Spelled the bloke way because her parents wanted a boy instead. Who knows. Anyhow.

Written before I knew about Amelia Pond, hence le china doll with bad attitude being called Amelia. It just seemed to fit. An old-fashioned name to go with an old-fashioned doll? I'm not changing it now, in any case, cos the name still fit.

I could have ended this in several places, but I chose here so that the next and final chapter (of what I have written so far) will be entirely laser tag. And on that subject, yes, laser tag! The Toymaker plays games, doesn't he? A 21st century game to catch up with the modern era. Or something. :P But of course, it'll be a lot harder than normal laser tag. Which I really, really love. XD

Which brings me to something important, something I need you readers' help on! See, Jane's challenge will be to play three games. Now, you know the first one, and I have a second one (as well as maybe something for the Doctor; don't worry, the story isn't entirely about Jane). But I can't think of a third one! So if you guys have any ideas of something I can adapt for Jane to play, it would be a huge help! A playground game, a board game, anything. I've tried to think of something that would work, but nothing comes to mind. I know you guys can think of something; you're awesome! And thanks for the reviews, while I'm at it!

So, how about that Christmas special? Amazing, yeah? Blew my mind. I loved it! And I can't wait for the next series! It's going to be incredible.

Also, badgers. XD