"Sontar-HA! Sontar-HA!" The words echoed across the landscape as the Sontarans marched in unison. Their boots smashing on the rocky floor created a loud steady beat, pounding through the air. A cloud of dust surrounded their feet, making it seemingly impossible to see the ground. Instead of weaving through the strange trees that cropped up every few feet, the Sontarans blasted them down, creating a straight path through the small forest.

9, 11, and Mickey walked along, surrounded by their captors. One of them shoved 11, who took up the rear, because he wasn't moving fast enough. He almost crashed to the ground, but 9 quickly steadied him, and they continued on their way. Behind them, several muscular Sontarans carried the TARDIS in the air, following orders from the Sontaran without his helmet. He carried it in his arms, leading the group away from where Rose and Martha had disappeared. The men didn't think the Sontarans even realized that they were missing two people.

9 thoughts were not on their predicament, or the hundreds of Sontarans leading them to a prison as prisoners of war in their endless battle against the rutans, but on Rose (and Martha). She was too young. They had to find her (and Martha), before it was too late. It was ironic. He just got her back, just to lose her again.

A small group of buildings were coming into view. They had been difficult to see through the trees, but the Sontarans cut the last of them that had been in their way down. From far away, 9 could see that the buildings were built by the Sontarans. They looked exactly like the establishments on their home planet, Sontar. But there were a few others as well. These ones were made out of wood and stone. He didn't know exactly what held the wood and stone together, but if he had to guess, he'd say that sap from the strange trees all around them acted as a binding agent.

The buildings seemed to get larger as they approached. Only one floor could be see above ground, but it could have been possible that the place continued to go underground. The Doctor hoped not. Rose (and Martha) was underground. He couldn't risk the Sontarans finding her (and Martha).

After a few more minutes, the lead Sontaran (the one without his helmet) stopped. In response, the rest of the troop froze. The door to the building was only a few feet away, and the Sontaran motioned to it.

"Bring the prisoners to the cells," he said to the nearest Sontarans. The Sontarans obeyed wordlessly, leading the Doctors and Mickey away from the troop. "I'll question them later," the General added with a hiss. The Doctors and Mickey disappeared into darkness. They prayed the girls were okay.

Martha was falling. That was all she knew. She was going down, down, down into darkness, and nothing was stopping her. Wind whistled in her ears and slapped her in the face. Her heart pounded so loudly that she thought she could hear it echoing through the cave she was falling down. She screamed loudly as everything got darker and darker. She thought she heard a rumbling sound, and suddenly she was in pitch blackness. The crack must have closed. The air was quickly rushing out of her lungs. The oxygen in the cave seemed to get thinner as she fell deeper. She gasped and squealed as she fell and fell and fell. Then suddenly, she wasn't falling anymore.

Her arm was nearly wrenched out of its socket as something sticky grabbed her hand. She screamed in surprise as the thing threw her upward into the air. Something else grabbed her and tossed her higher still. She cried out in terror as she began to fall again, but something grabbed her by her ankle, swinging her across the abyss. It let her ankle go, and she screamed, expecting to plummet again, but instead, she found herself landing on solid ground.

It hurt.

She groaned, rubbing her head, slowly sitting up. A light suddenly shone in her face, causing her to go blind for a moment. Then she realized it was a burning torch. A hand gripped the bottom of it, glowing in the light of the flame. The light slowly approached the face of the creature, and Martha saw it clearly for the first time.

A few years ago, Martha would have started screaming her head off at the sight of this, but after her travels with the Doctor and her work at UNIT, aliens didn't scare her anymore. She scanned the alien's face, which was orange. Strange things sprouted out of the alien's head. They almost looked like Christmas bells. The alien had bad teeth. It's breath stunk when it spoke, and it spoke in a high pitched voice.

"Is female ok?" the orange creature asked. It spoke as if English was its second language, which Martha thought it probably was. Martha nodded in response to the creature's question. She had a feeling it wasn't any threat to her.

"What's your name?" Martha asked slowly. She could tell speaking slowly helped, because the orange man looked rather confused as it worked out what she said.

"I, Kalaflaflajaja," the creature said.

"Kalaflaflajaja?" Martha repeated. The creature nodded. "Can I just call you Kala?" Kala nodded. Martha realized Kala was standing up straight; he wasn't that tall.

"Come," Kala said, sticking a slimy looking hand out. He had three fingers, with large lumps on the end. Martha hesitantly took his hand, and Kala helped her Martha stood up, she saw the opening of where she had been thrown through. All she could see was darkness. She shuddered and looked away.

Martha's head brushed the ceiling, forcing her to stoop as she followed the little orange man. He couldn't have been more than four feet tall. Kala hurried down the tunnel, his lit torch bobbing up and down. Martha quickly followed him, not knowing where he was bringing her. She hoped she was being brought to Rose. Who knows what happened to her?

Maria traced the claw mark with her finger, her back turned. River stood silently behind her, her mind going 90 miles per hour. From what River has seen of Maria, it seemed like she knew what she was doing. If these other people Maria wanted to find were associates of Sarah Jane, they should be able to take care of themselves. It looked like that wasn't the case.

River watched Maria flipping the torn wallpaper inside and out, as if trying to find something she hadn't seen before. She couldn't even begin to guess what was going on inside her head. Maria was silent for a few minutes as she slowly walked away from the claw mark and deeper into the attic. She bent over and picked up a purple stone and placed it on the shelf next to her.

Maria finally broke the silence by turning to the chimney. The chimney was a strange thing. Steam has been bursting out of it whenever Maria called for Mr. Smith, whoever that was.

"Mr. Smith, I need you, NOW!" Maria shouted, anger appearing in her voice. More steam came out of the chimney, and, to River's surprise, it opened up, revealing a giant screen. An image of a blurry blob floated around inside it, and complicated looking controls appeared beneath it, popping out of the wall. It came out with a slight grinding sound, which Maria winced out. That must have not been normal.

"Hello, Maria," came a voice. It was slightly garbled and nervous sounding. Maria hurried to the controls, but didn't do anything to them. She began talking to the screen.

"What happened to Luke, Rani, Clyde, and Sky?" she demanded. "They were just here!"

"On the contrary, Maria, they haven't returned to the attic in a long time," Mr. Smith replied, still sounding garbled. Despite all she had seen, Mr. Smith still stunned River. Something about a computer like this in this century just was just shocking.

"Something clearly attacked them," Maria told the computer, sounding very annoyed. "What was it?"

"Slitheen."

That was a word that both Maria and River recognized. River had visited countless planets that had been devastated by that family. Just hearing the computer say, 'Slitheen' made River realize how serious this situation was.

Maria stiffened, then sighed, exasperated. "Them again?" she asked. "Why are they here this time?"

"I picked up an incoming signal of a crashing ship," Mr. Smith said, his voice beginning to become clearer. "Luke, Rani, Clyde, and Sky went to investigate. They came back about a half an hour later, and a Slitheen attacked. It wrecked the attic while trying to grab them."

"But are they alright?" Maria asked, desperately.

"The Slitheen managed to knock them out, and carried them out of the attic, but not before temporarily disabling me. It just wore off."

River regained her senses and launched herself into this bizarre conversation. "Do you know where the Slitheen are?"

"Mr. Smith, this is River Song," Maria put in.

"Pleased to meet you," Mr. Smith said. The image on his screen became clearer the more he spoke, and his voice sounded like a normal human being. "The Slitheen are at 14 Bakersfield Road, about 16 miles from here. I don't know how long ago the Slitheen attacked."

"Thank you, Mr. Smith," said Maria. She didn't say anything else as she hurried towards the attic door. She disappeared.

"Maria, where are you going?" River called. Maria didn't answer. River jumped as the supercomputer retracted into the wall, leaving River by herself in the attic.

River quickly followed, hurrying down the attic stairs after the sound of Maria's retreating footsteps. She almost bumped into Maria in the hallway. Maria was swinging keys around her fingers and heading towards the door. She glanced back at River.

"Are you coming?" she asked. River didn't respond right away. For some reason, River just couldn't find her voice. That was very unlike her. Maria's face turned hard and she continued to walk out the door.

A woman from across the street called for Maria. She hurried over the road, waving.

"Hello, Maria, Rani didn't say you were coming."

"Hiya, Gita," Maria said. "We're kinda in a hurry right now." She used the key to unlock a little green car that must belong to Sarah Jane. Gita's eyebrows furrowed.

"You're taking Sarah's car?" she asked.

"She told me I could," Maria replied. "I've really got to go." She got into the drivers seat of the car. That was when Gita noticed River for the first time.

"Who are you, love?" she asked.

"My name is River," River replied, hurrying to the passengers seat of the car. Gita's eyes followed her.

"River?" she repeated. "That's an interesting name." Gita received no reply. She stumbled to the side as Maria drove Sarah Jane's car around the corner and out of sight.

About an hour and a half later, 10 was still fiddling with the scanner, attempting to get it to work. Conversation between Amy, Rory, and Donna had come to a close, and they sat in uncomfortable silence. The air was filled with the sounds of 10's tinkering, which was frankly getting on Rory's nerves.

Sarah Jane was still out of it. She had gone to sleep practically the moment Rory had left. Rory had confirmed it was just a migraine. She should be waking up soon.

Rory began to tap his foot, waiting for something to happen. He waited for either someone to start conversation again, for the Doctor to fix the scanner, or for Sarah Jane to wake up and join them. It was just too quiet (even with the annoying sounds of 10's tools). That's why he was relieved when Amy broke the silence.

"What I want to know is how I ended up in Russia with a completely different Doctor," she murmured. "I went down that hole, and ended up in Russia. Last time I checked, it was impossible to go through the center of the earth."

"Er-I don't think Russia's on the other side of the earth from England," Donna put in awkwardly. 10 ignored Donna as he answer the question. He had split the scanner in half and was working on its interior with his sonic screwdriver.

"The most logical explanation is that the 'hole' you went through was a wormhole."

"Wormhole?" Rory repeated. "They exist?"

"Of course they do," 10 replied, not looking up. There was a tiny spark as he connected two wires. "They're rare, of course." He didn't say more, he just pulled a few wires out of the scanner and rerouted them.

There was silence for a few moments, and Rory thought that they were going to be enveloped in awkward silence once more, when Donna said something.

"How did I end up with River, Rory, and that other Doctor?" Rory leaned forward. He wanted to hear this one.

10 opened his mouth to respond, but gasped, jerking away from the scanner. Rory jumped up.

"Did you fix it?"

"No," said 10. He put his finger in his mouth. "The wires just burned me." Donna groaned and Amy rolled her eyes. Rory sat back down and leaned back impatiently. This was taking too long. They needed to find the others. Who knew what trouble they could be in?

Donna repeated her question, and 10 glanced up. That was a mistake, because as soon as he looked away, a spring bounced up and bonked him on the chin. Amy started laughing, then tried to hide it behind her hand. It wasn't working well. Donna rolled her eyes again.

10 glared at Amy, and said, "When you fell out of the TARDIS, you went into the time vortex. The age winds should have killed you, but they didn't." Donna flinched at that. "You fell out of the vortex and into the time and place we were passing, which happened to be where Rory was."

Donna and Amy nodded in understanding, and then Amy said, "The Doctor I was with said he tried to send Rose to the TARDIS, but something went wrong. Then she ended up with you. How did that happen?"

Perhaps 10 just didn't want to make eye contact, or maybe he didn't want a spring to attack him. Either way, he didn't look up. He murmured, "The teleportation device that was used to teleport Rose was set to the TARDIS. Since she was in Russia at the same time I was in Hartford, the teleporter tried to send her to me. When the Dalek shot her, it must have scrambled the teleporter and sent her to Hartford too early. Luckily, Jack took care of her."

For someone who was travelling with 10 while all that occurred, that would have made complete sense. But for them…

"Shot by a Dalek?!" Amy repeated, jumping to her feet, her mouth falling open. "But she was alright when we saw her!"

"Who's Jack?" Rory asked.

"And what's a Dalek?" Donna said. Amy and Rory turned to her and stared.

"You don't know what a Dalek is?" asked Rory. Donna shook her head, and Amy sighed.

"They're these weird things that look like pepper pots. Their weapons are a plunger and a cooking whisk, and they have an obsession for shouting 'EXTERMINATE!'" she told her. Donna's eyebrows furrowed, but she thought best not to say anything.

Their questions never ended up getting answered, because that was the moment 10 got the scanner to work. There was a loud beeping sound, and 10 cried out victoriously. He pressed the two halves of the scanner together and used the sonic screwdriver to make them stick. Rory, Donna, and Amy scurried over to him to see what the scanner was showing.

At first, the scanner wasn't giving them a clear picture, but after a few seconds, the static cut out. What they saw was not what Rory was expecting.

There were tons of trees, all of which looked like normal trees on earth. It was a rocky terrain; the TARDIS landed in a canyon, and tall mountains stretched to the sky. There was a clear way out of the canyon; one side of the canyon had a clear ramp stretching to the top. The sky was a clear blue, and there was a giant green sun shining high above the clouds. Rory didn't bother asking why the sun was green; in space, you could find anything.

"Where are we?" Donna asked. 10 shrugged.

"I have no idea," he said. "The TARDIS is still malfunctioning. I think we need to give it a day or so to cool down."

"What caused that anyway?" Amy asked, out of the blue. "Why did the TARDIS go bonkers?"

10 was quiet for a moment, lost deep in thought, chewing on his lip. After a few seconds, he nodded. "It must have been three TARDISes attempting to land in the same place at the same time."

"That makes sense," said Rory. "The TARDIS doesn't like paradoxes."

10 opened his mouth, perhaps to say something, but Donna suddenly interrupted him. "What's that?" she asked, pointing to something on the screen. The four of them looked closer, and Rory gasped.

"Someone's out there," he said. "And they look hurt."

Sorry for the late chapter. Sometimes life gets in the way. Assassins Creed: Brotherhood is also a very strong distraction...