The Doctor had crossed the threshold of the TARDIS, followed by Sam and Dean, his multicolored scarf dragging on the ground. The TARDIS was bigger on the inside; it was a basic off-white color with large fluorescent golden circles on the walls. A control console stood in the middle of the main room of the TARDIS, with a transparent piston in the center with tubes on the inside of it, they were red because the TARDIS was in motion. The hexagonal console was riddled with different buttons, levers, switches and small monitors, the Doctor had never even pressed some of these buttons before. There was a coat rack on the other side of the room and there was a large monitor that faced the doors to the old time machine. Next to the console was a small robot that resembled a dog.
"Uh, Doc, what the hell. This place is bigger on the inside!" Dean said, he was bewildered by the TARDIS as he had never been inside of the TARDIS, neither had Sam, who was also floored by the concept of a place that's bigger on the inside.
"Yes, yes it is," The Doctor said with a big smile and his British accent as he flipped switches and pressed different buttons on the console and strange noises occurred whenever a button was pushed. The Doctor was always delighted with the reactions that people have when they see the TARDIS' interior. The little robot switched on automatically and went up to the Doctor. The robot had a trapezoid shaped body with a regular dog shaped head, a little antenna on the back for a tail and the robot dog had four little wheels to get around on.
"Master, Master, Sam and Dean are in the TARDIS!" exclaimed the little dog in its mechanical sounding voice. It was bumping into the Doctor's leg.
"Yes I know K-9, I let them in," the Doctor said. The TARDIS was making those whizzing and wheezing sounds now and the Doctor walked up to Sam and Dean, smiling.
"So, how do you know us at your age if this is the youngest we've seen you?" Sam asked. Both Sam and Dean were both extremely confused.
"Well, Sam, you see, it might be a bit complicated for you. I know you because I've seen you both in a later time period, this is just the first time you've both seen me this young, and I meet up with you in the wrong order. It's rather simple actually," The Doctor said as he moved his hands across an invisible timeline.
"I see, well that helps things a little bit. What are we doing? Where are we going? And why is this place so big on the inside?" asked Sam with the upmost curiosity. The Doctor moved in close to Sam and Dean.
"First, I need to take you away to someplace more, away from everything to talk about what we're doing, I need your help. Secondly, we aren't going anywhere specific, I just need to take you somewhere more secure." the Doctor said quietly. "Thirdly, the fact that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside is a bit hard to explain, I can barely understand it myself!" The Doctor said. He walked away and the TARDIS's main monitor came on. One of the members of the high council of Gallifrey was calling. He wore a golden skin tight cap on his head; he also wore green robes with shimmering golden bordering with a large collar that flared up from the rest of his robes. He was a younger looking, burly man with a tan tint to his skin.
"Doctor, you aren't showing up in the scanners, we can't find you anywhere in the Universe, I'm your friend, I don't want the rest of the council getting on your case for going outside of the Universe," said the Council Member.
"Wait, who might this be?" the Doctor asked. He looked kind of confused and then the council member lifted his hand to the screen and showed a strange tattoo of a snake. The snake curved to its tail and appeared to be eating itself.
"The Cossette, I see you've regenerated since the last time we've met, you look good, and you're on the council!" The Doctor said with an excited tone in his voice. "Right, I need to take these two outside the Universe for just a little while, can you please cover for me while I am away?" The Doctor asked gesturing to Sam and Dean.
"Alright, but don't be long, the rest of the council will figure it out eventually. Also, thank you, I haven't gotten a chance to really see what I look like yet, but thank you! Tell me, is it an improvement?" The Cossette asked curiously.
"To be honest, I think I liked your last regeneration better, you were absolutely beautiful." The Doctor said. Sam and Dean exchanged weird looks.
"Well thank you Doctor, I'll do my best to cover for you for sure. Just, be quick about whatever you three are up to," the Cossette said, K-9 made a noise. "And how could anyone forget about K-9," The Cossette chuckled. The monitor shut off and the Doctor looked back at Sam and Dean.
"I should explain, the Cossette used to be a female, a rather attractive one too," he said as he went back to the console.
"Well that explains one thing, but outside of the Universe? What are you up to Doc, tell us right now," Dean said. He was getting rather upset and Sam put his hand on Dean's shoulder.
"Oh, well we're going to leave the Universe, it takes a massive amount of energy, the TARDIS will be drained for a few days and the nothingness will get to us. Don't worry though, the TARDIS will charge back up before we go completely insane," the Doctor said with a completely calm and normal tone in his voice whilst Sam and Dean looked worried and Dean was getting even more angry.
"'Completely insane', what do you mean 'completely insane'?" Dean asked with a fiery tone.
"Yes, I mean, we will all be just fine! I promise, you might start seeing things though, nothing major though," The Doctor said matter-of-factly.
"Dean, just calm down, we've trusted the Doctor with our lives before, why don't we now?" Sam stated.
"Because, Sam, we don't know him this time!" Dean yelled.
"Well the future versions of me must have done something in order for you both to trust me, so I will do the same!" The Doctor said happily despite the negativity practically pouring from Dean like a full cup that's just spilt water. The console room was silent except for the strange sounds of the TARDIS. All of a sudden, the room was shaking, as if they were standing on the epicenter of a level ten earthquake. Lights began going out and a very loud siren was going off in the console room. The Doctor managed to turn on the monitor which showed whatever was outside. Blue, fluorescent lights, millions and millions of them, going vertically, diagonally, and horizontally engulfed the TARDIS on all sides and shook it wildly, as if they were trying to keep it from getting passed them.
"Doctor what the hell is this?" Sam yelled from across the console. He was holding onto a bar that extended out from the side of the console and so was the Doctor and Dean.
"I don't know! My best guess is that we're at the edge of the Universe," The Doctor was shouting over the noise of the alarm, loud crashes and bangs of the TARDIS slamming into what sounded like rocks and the now franticly loud and fast whizzing and wheezing of the TARDIS. "My best guess is that all those blue lights is, well, I don't know if you'd understand the phrase, let's just call it stardust," shouted the Doctor once more as he let go of the bar and frantically started pulling levers and pushing buttons to stabilize the TARDIS.
"Well if all of that is just stardust, why aren't we just passing through like nothings there?" cried Dean who was being jerked and whipped around in mid air because of the such rough turbulence, everyone was being thrown around, K-9 was helpless as he flew across the room screaming and smashed into the wall. The Doctor's attempts at stabilizing the TARDIS were useless, every time he made it back to the console, he was just thrown across the room again, he had a bloody nose and mouth, and he had multiple scratches on his face and forehead. He eventually gave up and grabbed the handle bar as he put a heavily beaten and battered K-9 who looked like he just went twelve rounds with Muhammad Ali and lost, into a secret compartment in the floor to protect him from any more harm.
"Hold on tight, the only thing we can do is wait it out!" the Doctor announced. "To answer your question, Dean, that's the thing, we aren't passing through stardust, we are passing through a rift that contains metals, rocks, elements and minerals that humans and Time-Lords alike have never even discovered yet; remnants of the Big Bang as humans like to call it. Each one of the little particles that we see on that monitor has billions and billions and billions of everything that I just named in it. Imagine how dense this stuff is, how hard and solid, stronger than the Dark Gemonitus Crystals on Corpunis-Six. I'm sure you don't know what that is but still! Anyway, billions and billions of little particles more dense than the most dense gem ever to be identified in the Universe slamming into the TARDIS at unimaginable speeds, that might create some turbulence. Then, imagine the most complex maze you've ever tried to figure out in your entire life, but a billion times harder to figure out. The TARDIS is trying to navigate through a maze full of this stuff. However there is no visible path, only less and more dense areas, all of which are constantly changing." The Doctor explained above all of the noise and confusion. "Measure the average density of the impassable areas of Terrasolarplaxiplanicidimus," The Doctor commanded the TARDIS. The monitor of the TARDIS showed green numbers that read 1671.89 g/cm3. "See that would cause a huge more amount of turbulence now wouldn't it?" The Doctor said. All of a sudden, the tremors stopped and the TARDIS's noises had calmed down significantly.
"Where are we?" asked Sam, his eyes moving across the room and breathing heavily. Just then, the lights of the TARDIS went out and were replaced with green, reserve lights. Dean's hands were still grasping the handle bar when it slowly retracted itself back into the side of the console. Sam walked around the TARDIS and then slumped down against the wall and the Doctor had retrieved K-9 from the little compartment in the floor and began to repair him. "Doctor," Sam called out.
"I believe that we are outside of the Universe," said the Doctor as he was laying on his stomach with a buzzing mechanical stick pointed at K-9. "And if my assumption is correct, that means that I can tell you what I've taken you out here for," The Doctor said as he ran up to the TARDIS doors and swung them wide open.