Mind The Author

The day had started like any other, with the exception that there were no available missions for the European team. Out of boredom, Entity and Sub-zero had decided to bring Phantom (Who was now awake and fully recovered) and Shadow on their first trip in the TARDIS.

Phantom, being a long-time fan of the television series 'Doctor Who', almost fainted when she'd stepped into the TARDIS for the first time. Shadow just kept making amazed remarks and commenting on the impossibility of the internal dimensions.

After the initial shock had worn off, they searched for a destination. It was at this time that it was discovered, due to it being created by Entity's mind, it had the ability to travel through dimensions as well as normal time and space.

This trait was not shared with the TARDIS's television counterpart, so there was a great deal of excitement over the prospect of being able to go, literally, where ever the hell they wanted to go.

"I have an idea," Sub-zero interrupted, leaning back on the support rails behind him, "You see, I've been writing this story... so I'm wondering... is it possible for us to go into a story dimension?"

"So long as you don't decide to change anything about your story world while we're there. It's very dangerous to be inside a creation of someone else's," Entity explained, beginning to operate the console (more comfortably then he had done previously.

"I promise not to change a thing... God, this is gonna be so cool...," Tom began thinking through the things they could do when they arrived.

"Wait, we're going into his story? I'll have to write about a land filled with a never-ending supply of chocolate sandwiches, then we have to go there," Steve joked, licking his lips and laughing slightly.

"Yuck... I despise chocolate spread...," Jess commented, pulling a face as she thought about being surrounded by the chocolate monstrosities.

"One at a time, please," Tom called, grinning.

"Right, so what's in your story? Anything we ought to be worried about?" Entity asked as the room began to shudder and the time roto began to oscillate.

Tom had to raise his voice to be hear over the engines, "No! It's basically just all elves, dwarfs and dragons and stuff!"

Entity's expression changed for a moment upon the mention of dragons, but nobody noticed, and he just carried on with the controls.

"Hold on! Dimensional travel takes a lot of power!" Entity called above the now roaring temporal engines.

"If we die, I'll kill you!" Jess yelled across the room, joking, but still slightly anxious.

The room slammed to a halt and the four mutants were shunted to the ground.

"This room needs padding..." Steve complained, picking himself up and dusting himself off.

"Agreed... I could've broke something," Jess said, massaging her wrist.

"Okay Tom, outside that door is your dimension. I'm not going because I have other things to do but be back here in an hour," Entity ordered, releasing the door locks and indicating towards them with a nod.

"Why aren't you coming?" asked Jess, tilting her head.

"He wants some quality time with the TARDIS," Stephen joked, battering his eyelids and sighing in mock appreciation.

"Awww, TARDIS lover boy! We'll see you later, if your date doesn't take longer then an hour," Jess continued the joke, following Stephen out of the door.

Entity smiled as Tom left, mainly because Tom rolled his eyes at the others before leaving, but also because he found their antics to be amusing.

Alone, Entity opened a communication channel back to their home dimension. He hadn't realised before, but someone had been trying to call him before they left. Entity hopped around the console, trying to open an inter-dimensional communications frequency. It took a lot of power, but eventually, he got one open.

"Farsight? And to what do I owe this pleasure?" Entity asked the screen's image of an older boy.

"I thought I'd let you know, concerning your previous call, you have very little time left...," he said in a low voice.

"I know," replied Entity, blankly, "They're coming."

Another short chapter, practically pointless but allowing a display of the new TARDIS's capabilities along with another, growing, mystery. I hope you enjoyed.