Part three, I'm still working on the next chapter should be posted sometime maybe in the morning or afternoon. Enjoy.
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"Okay!" The doctor clapped his hands. I had long since, finding out our "minor problem", took seat in the beige chair close by. "Something wheeled us in, like s fish on a fishing pole. A magnetic beam to pull the Tardis off course would require a huge amount of power."
"Maybe it was an accident, you know someone was testing a giant magnet just as we jerked over it and we got pulled in." I stated off handedly, patted my hand on my shorts to clean off the blood from the reopened scraps. "Do you have any bandages?"
"Nope."
I ignored his popping 'p' sound and raised an eyebrow at him. "Then what kind of doctor are you?" I asked.
"A good one, I've never really known a bad kind of doctor." He stated walking over.
"Really, what about Dr. Jonathan Crane?" I asked, hiding my hand.
"Never heard of him, now let me see." He held out his hand, morphing my face into a look of wonder. Slowly, I held out my hand and let him see it. "Ah this won't hurt a bit." He held my hand still as he ran his sonic screwdriver over it. "Neat trick huh?"
I looked at my hand all traces of the scratches where gone, "Yeah…" It was hard to believe. "So, what now?" I watched him stand.
"We take a look outside, something called me here for a reason. I intend on finding out why." He said, turning his face bore a large grin. "Are you coming?"
I stared at him, "I swear you are crazy, so very crazy." I told him, but never the less hopped out of the chair and stretched. "But you are not leaving me here alone."
"Yes! Then let's have a peek huh?" He walked over to what I supposed could be the doors and cracked them open. Quickly I jogged over to him, and slipped under his arm to get a peek. Cold air hit my face, and the smell of snow hit my nose. "Ah snow, the deadly beauty of it all."
I laughed and pushed past him to run out into the white wonderland. "It's snow, like on earth." I said spinning and falling down to create a snow angel.
"Lot's of planets have snow, some more than others." He said, approaching me. I could hear the crunching snow under his converse. "But you should change before we wonder out here, you'll freeze." I sat up and stuck my hands out.
"Help me up?" I asked him, he helped to pull me up. I turned to look at my lopsided angel, "Guess you're right, I was cold on earth here it seems colder." I said, following him back into the Tardis.
"30 degrees cooler to be exact." He said closing the door, the heating in the ship cause me to shiver. "It's different though you won't even feel the cold here till it's to late. Part of the danger of this planet." He stated like a second thought.
I sneezed, "You couldn't have mentioned that before I did a swan dive into the snow?" I asked, annoyed and freezing.
"Didn't think of it earlier." He walked up the staircase and out of the main room and disappeared from my sight.
"Doctor?" I questioned, taking a cautious step towards the stairs.
"Incoming!" Was all the warning I had before fabric hit my face.
"Oh!" I pulled the fabric away from my eyes, and over looked it, but my sight was obstructed again by more clothing. Finally the assault stopped and I was left standing there with a full outfit and a jacket. "Doctor, these are men's clothing." I said laying the clothing out over the chair. "In case you haven't noticed, I'm not."
"I know, but whatever brought us here won't wait forever, gotta start out. Those are the first clothes I came across that seemed like they'd fit." He said coming down the stairs. Shooting him a glare, pulled on the clothes over my own. Lucky enough they weren't that wet from the snow. The final piece was a large bubble jacket, silver and puffy.
"This jacket makes me feel like a metallic marshmallow." I told him, still holding my glare.
"Well at least you won't be a frozen marshmallow, now let's go so much to do." He said, all but skipping towards the door. He's way to excited.
"What about mittens?" I asked following him out into the snow again.
"Keep your hands in your pockets." He laughed, I just shook my head and buried my face deeper into the jackets collar.
"Anyone ever tell you you're bossy?" I asked, trying to keep up with his stride.
"Anyone ever tell you you're demanding?" He fired back.
I just laughed, "All the time." I Jogged up ahead, "Is that smoke?" I pointed out to the horizon, where I could see small wisps of smoke rising. "Looks like smoke that'd come out of a-"
"Chimney." The Doctor cut me off.
"Hey I was-"
"That'd mean there's a town that must be where the beam came from." The Doctor continued.
"Would you stop cutt-"
"So we head there and ask around, it'd be kind of hard to miss a giant beam shooting up towards the sky. Well unless you're blind I guess." I made a noise in the back of my throat, and shoved him. He laughed and started running down the hill. Shaking my head, I took off after him.
After a mild jog though the freezing cold, we reached the village. The place seemed dead; I could hear the wind whipping around the houses creating a whistling sound. "Should we try knocking on a door?" I asked, shivering as the wind drifted up my jacket.
"What are you doing out here? Get in here!" I jumped and spun around to the voice. A middle aged man stood bundled up on a porch. "Are you hard of hearing? Come on, it's almost time!" I looked to the Doctor, who shrugged and reached out to grab my hand and tug me along.
The man ushered us into the house, which compared to outside was a heat box. "What did you mean but, it's almost time?" I heard the Doctor ask, as I shed my coat and moved closer to the fireplace.
"You must not be from around here, those clothes and now this you must be outsiders. It's coming though always does bout this time. The first time it happened caught most of the town off guard lost half of them to it." The man took a seat at the table, "Would you like any tea? Something to eat?" He dragged the conversation off track.
"Ah, I could go for a good cup of tea." The Doctor said, seating himself at the table. "Four sugars and milk." I watched him with raised eyebrows."
"And you lad?"
"Huh?"
"Tea, do you want tea lad?" I just stared at him; I could hear the Doctor holding back his laughter.
"No thanks, ah more of a coffee person." I said, glaring past the man and to the Doctor. As the man left the main room and went to the kitchen, I flew to the Doctor's side and shoved him. "You could'a helped me out you know this was your doing." I hissed out in a hushed whisper. He just continued to laugh under his breath, "You…you…brat!" I smacked his arm, but couldn't help but to laugh a bit at the confusion.
"That's a new one, brat. But we have bigger concerns then your gender confusion." The Doctor started.
"Tea, I never got your names. I'm Brad Conners." Brad sat back down at the table.
"I'm the Doctor and this is Allie. When does this thing come?"
"It comes at dusk, it always does. It looks like a large gust of blowing snow, but people who go into it never come back." Brad paused, hunched over the table. "There's nothing ever left, no bones or bodies. The people they just disappear. It took half of the town the first time, after that we learned to stay inside. But there still are casualties, mostly the youngers, they lose track of time." I stared at the man while I slowly lowered myself into a chair. People just going missing, I thought that thing chasing me was bad. I couldn't bear to meet his eyes; I looked to the worn wooden table. "We've only been here for two months, but already over half of our town has been taken. There's no one to call for help, we're on our own."
"You weren't born here meaning you must have a ship to get away from here right?" The Doctor asked.
"We where dropped off here by a transporter, we where to explore and colonize. The ship has a set return date in six months." Brad paused to sip the steaming cup. "The scavengers will collect any video recordings and info discs. But we won't be allowed back unless approved by the highers."
The Doctor was silent, which seemed odd for him. "What planet did you come from?"
"Earth, and this is colony Alpha seven." Brad spoke, "You must be from pretty far away not to know that. It was all over the news."
"Yeah, we're not from around here." I responded quickly.
"Brad have you seen anything odd shooting up into the sky?" The Doctor downed the last of his tea. "Would probably look like a giant, wavy beam of light."
"If you're looking for the cause, it wasn't here. We where mining but nothing that consisted of what you speak of." He looked to the window. "It's starting Doctor, if you want to see then go to the window." The Doctor stood and walked over to the window. Biting the inside of my cheek, I slowly rose and followed him over.
"Doctor, what do you think is doing this?" I asked in a hushed tone, no need for Brad to overhear.
"I don't know, but I intent to find out." I looked at the Doctor. I couldn't help but to stare, for once he sounded serious. This was the first time I've ever seen him serious. Shaking off my sudden nervousness, I let my eyes turn back to the window.
I saw it. It began in the distance, like a dust storm. White over took the horizon, hiding what was left of the sun. Like white out spilled on a black piece of paper it just spread and grew. As it got closer, I could see the twirling snow. It danced and spun as it grew closer, I couldn't take my eyes away. "Doctor, what is that?" I asked, not able to look away. My hands found their way to the glass, the coolness shocked me slightly. I watched it engulf the farthest houses, seconds after I lost the town. I couldn't even see the railing of the porch. "It must be like being stuck under a heavy blanket out there, not being able to see centimeters in front of you. I even imagine it would be hard to breathe out there; suffocating."
"Brad, how long does it take to pass?" The Doctor asked.
"Minuets."
"Does it always come from the west?"
"Yes, it's never changed." Brad's voice sounded curious.
"Allie, put on your jacket. Once it passes we're going to see where it comes from." The Doctor said, never removing his eyes from the window.
"Yes, alright." I peeled my eyes away from the window and slipped into the jacket.
"You can't go out there alone; this planet's deadly at dark." Brad said standing in protest. "Listen, there's something else. After the first attack, we only mined in the daylight, but there's a cave out to the northwest. We never touched it, to far to get to for daily mining."
The Doctor turned, "Do you have a map?" Brad hurried off, only to return with curled up paper. Moving back to the table he set the tea cups aside he flattened out the paper.
"There Doctor, all the caves where circled. We had planned on exploring them all and taking samples to find where the minirals where but with the storm…"
"Yeah yeah got it with the storm eating people. There're at least four caves in that area." The Doctor put on his glasses again and leaned in closer to the map. I moved in closer.
"How did you get this map if you've never been over there?" I asked while watching the Doctor examine the map closely.
"The ship that brought us here did a round a bout while taking images." I nodded along. "It's over now." I looked back to the window and saw it clear as when we had first arrived.
"Alright then Allie let's go, best get a start now." I nodded and zipped up my jacket.
"I'm ready Doctor."
"Wait Doctor, I shouldn't do this. But if you can make this stop then here take them." Brad took a set of keys out of his pocket and held them out to the Doctor. "They're keys to a Storm bike, obviously winter edition. They were meant to help us reach the mines, but I think it'll help you more. It's parked in a shed around back. And here take these." He handed me two pairs of goggles.
"Thank you." I said, offering a small smile to Brad. "For everything."
"We'll be back." The Doctor spoke with his normal smile. "I'll get everything sorted out."
"Hopefully you come back in one piece, now go. Just remember dusk." Brad said, we both nodded and headed out into the cold again.