Suddenly, the TARDIS stopped shaking and screeching. The distinctive noise of the TARDIS materialising flooded the control room, distracting Amy enough that The Doctor could gently push her to one side and get up. He climbed up the rails to look at the control screen, trying to work out where they were. But it was dead.
"Oi!" She shouted after him, "Come back down here Doctor!" But he was already pressing buttons and pumping levers and typing frantically on the keyboard and the console, desperately trying to get the screen back on, but nothing worked. The power to the screen was gone.
"Well, there's only one way to find out," He said to himself under his breath, "Amy, stay in here," He called across, "I can't tell where we are until I go outside, but I don't want you in harm's way if something's going on outside. Okay?" And before she could answer he was off, running like a schoolboy towards the big blue doors. She tried to argue, but he was gone.
He burst through the doors, stepping out into a road. Surrounding the road, two lanes wide in both directions, were trees as far as he could see. Tall, thin trees, with few leaves. It was dark above him, but because of thick cloud cover, although he could not tell if it was day or night. He guessed night. He was wrong.
There was a brisk, cold wind, driving down the road at high speeds, but it was eerily quiet. He could here no planes, no cars, not even the birds that should've been in the trees. He began to have a sickly feeling in the pit of his stomach, but he couldn't tell why. He couldn't explain the sudden feeling he had to run away, back to the TARDIS and go to some far off land. He felt in danger, he felt scared. But this was definitely Earth; he could smell that it was friendly, homely Earth. He still felt in danger, he still felt scared. His fingers wrapped around the TARDIS' door handle, but he realised that what was waiting for him in the TARDIS could be just as scary. What was happening with Amy? Suddenly he had all the questions, and she had the answers. What would he find when he opened the door? He'd soon find out.
