And follow the ship they did. It was a bumpy ride. Amy and Aderyn clung to whatever they could get their hands on to stay upright.
They watched as the Doctor and Dr Song clung to the console, both pressing buttons and pulling levers. Dr Song stayed close to the scanner, watching their progress along the ships course.
"They've gone into warp drive. We're loosing them. Stay close." she shouted.
"I'm trying." the Doctor shouted back.
"Use the stabilisers."
"There aren't any stabilisers." The Doctor huffed.
Dr Song rolled her eyes "The blue switches."
"The blues ones don't do anything. They're just blue."
"Yes they're blue," Dr Song shouted, catching Aderyn as she tried desperately to stay upright "look they're the blue stabilisers." she pushed the blue buttons on the console. The shuddering and rolling stopped. Amy cautiously let go of the rail she had been clinging to and Dr Song released her grip on Aderyn.
The Doctor glared at her "Yeah. Well, it's just boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers. They're blue boring-ers."
"Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS?" Amy asked, sidling up to him.
"You call that flying the TARDIS? Ha!"
"Don't strop, it doesn't suit you." Aderyn said, peering round Dr Song. The Doctor glared at her.
"Okay. I've mapped the probability vectors, done a fold-back on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination, and parked us right along side."
Dr Song stood back looking pleased with herself. Aderyn looked impressed.
"Parked us? We haven't landed," the Doctor huffed. Dr Song raised her eyebrows at him " But, it didn't make the noise."
"What noise?"
"you know.." he did a poor imitation of the wheezing noise he was used to the TARDIS making whenever he landed her.
"It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on." Dr Song collected her shoes from where she had hung them by the heels over the scanner.
"Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise. Come along, Pond. Let's have a look." he said pointedly.
"Environment checks." Dr Song said quickly, turning once again to the scanner.
The Doctor, having reached the door, opened it and stuck his head out.
"We're somewhere in the Garn Belt. There's an atmosphere. Early indications suggest that.." Dr Song started.
"We're on Alfava Metraxis, the seventh planet of the Dundra System. Oxygen rich atmosphere, all toxins in the soft band, eleven hour day and chances of rain later." he cut her off. He raised an eyebrow at her.
"He thinks he's so impressive when he does that." Dr Song said, swanning towards the door.
" How come you can fly the Tardis?" Amy called after her.
"Oh I had lessons from the best," she said, turning back. She looked over at the Doctor who looked smug "Shame you were busy that day. Right then, why did they land here?"
The Doctor's smug smile didn't fade "they didn't land. You should have checked the Home Box. They crashed."
As soon as she had left the TARDIS the Doctor ran back to the console, preparing to leave.
Amy ran up to the Doctor "who is she and how did she do that museum thing?"
"It's a long story and I don't know most of it."
"Why are we leaving?"
"She's got where she wants to go, now we're going where we want to go."
"Wait is that a planet out there?"
The Doctor sighed, exasperated "yes it's a planet."
He looked up at Amy to see her staring at him "You promised me a planet." she said.
Aderyn walked over to them from the door, where she'd been watching Dr Song.
"We're not leaving yet." she said.
"Yes we are."
"Why?" Aderyn protested.
"Yeah why?"
"Don't you both start on me at once, that's not fair. Aderyn, you know she is part of your future and mine. It could be risky."
"Five minutes please?" Amy pleaded. "You Promised me a planet."
"And it's River Song. You can't drag me away just yet." Aderyn whined.
"OK five minutes. And Aderyn, I am not getting dragged into anything just because you fancy her." Both Aderyn and Amy grinned and ran for the door. The Doctor sighed and followed them. He just knew River Song was going to drag him into something.
