A/N: This chapter is for anyone who wants to know what actually happened between chapters 15 and 16 of Forest of Shadows when the TARDIS crew head to a planet made of chocolate. Well, here it is...Go get your spoons, because there is an awful lot of melted chocolate to be had...

Deleted Scene: The Horrors of Chocolate

Spinning on a circular orbit around a red star was the planet Cacao, which was, believe it or not, a planet made entirely of chocolate. Hot, molten chocolate made up the core, while layers of heavily compressed milk and dark chocolate formed the crust. The mountain ranges were over 85% cocoa solids, which made them full of anti-oxidants and very good for you in small doses. The planet was capped with white chocolate polar icecaps, and even had its own weather systems.

The TARDIS materialised halfway up a white-capped mountain, screeching in protest at the Doctor's choice of parking space. The Time Lord in question completely ignored his ship's annoyance, being too busy showing off to the others. He stepped out of the TARDIS into a field of minty fresh grass. Jack, Sandra and Brittany followed, all a little tentative at first.

"The planet Cacao!" the Doctor cried, frolicking around in the mint-scented air. "A world made completely of chocolate, with whole worlds of minty fresh trees!"

Sandra looked around in wonder. "You mean, I'm standing on a different planet? An actual real different planet?"

"Oh yes!" the Doctor shouted, already fifty, metres away and getting ever more distant. "Although this should be tourist season. I wonder where everyone is?"

"Never mind that," Brittany said happily. "We're on a planet made of chocolate." She eyed a nearby boulder greedily.

"Now, you don't know where it's been," Jack pointed out with a chuckle, watching as the Doctor began to skip once he was one hundred metres away. "We better catch up with him, he's having far too much fun."

The Doctor was indeed having fun; he felt carefree and happy to be alive. He had brought Donna here, and knowing her, she hadn't truly appreciated it, but for the Doctor, this planet held no bitter memories. The only thing that was bothering him was the tourist, or rather, lack thereof. It should be the height of tourist season, and yet, the place was deserted. Sure, there was a whole planet to visit, but there wasn't one straggler in sight.

The three humans and one alien were halfway down the mountain when the first faint rumble reached them. The Doctor was the only one who felt the initial shockwave, but when he pointed at the top of the so-called 'mountain', the other three began to worry.

"Umm, Doctor," Jack said rather nervously, watching as thick, brown smoke billowed out of the top of the mountain. "Do you remember what I said to you when we first met about setting your alarm clock?"

The Doctor nodded slowly as the smell of super-heated chocolate reached them. "Yes. Volcano day."

Brittany and Sandra glanced at each other. Oh dear…

There was a moment of silence, where the world just seemed to stop. Then the top of the mountain blew up. Chocolate fountained up out of the, spraying outwards like a superheated viscous geyser. Molten chocolate began to pour down the sides of the volcano, swamping entire fields of minty grass.

The Doctor watched in horror. So that's why there were no tourists. He should have listened to the TARDIS's warnings when they landed. "The TARDIS!" he realised, and, against all common sense, he began to run up the volcano. "She's still up there. We need to get in!"

Crazy though it was, the three humans followed him, mainly because the TARDIS was their only way out, but also because they had done things far crazier earlier today. Or tonight. With time travel, it was difficult to tell.

The TARDIS was sitting where they had left it in the field of grass, seemingly not worried about the oncoming deluge. They were one hundred metres away from the spaceship, but so was the chocolate, and it was moving much faster than they were.

"Back!" the Doctor shouted, spinning on his heels and bolting back down the hill. They were never going to get away, but running would at least buy them some time.

The chocolate was an unstoppable elemental force, sweeping up the TARDIS like a piece of driftwood dancing on the crest of a wave. The Doctor slowed when he 'felt' the TARDIS swept up over the telepathic link, and that proved to be a very bad move.

The surge caught him first, sucking at his ankles before pulling him deep into the thick liquid. Everything was dark, he couldn't see, chocolate filled his mouth and ears, then he surfaced, gasping and choking for breath. Brittany was spluttering barely five metres away, and he made for her with strong, steady strokes. Swimming through chocolate was like swimming in slow motion. He expected that swimming through maple syrup would be a similar experience, and he had been meaning to go to the Syrup Swimming Contest on Terra II for a long time.

He clung to Brittany as the torrent of chocolate roared down the slope. Jack and Sandra were off to his right, the captain pulling the woman along with a strong freestyle swim.

"I've changed my mind Doctor," Brittany gasped, treading chocolate, "I never want to see chocolate ever again."

"Come on," he replied, spotting the TARDIS bobbing along in the tide. He started to swim towards it, arms burning with the effort of pushing him through the thick liquid. Brittany couldn't keep up, and he was forced to drag her along behind him.

After what seemed like an eternity, they reached the TARDIS and found Jack and Sandra already there, clinging to the blue box just to stay afloat. The Doctor reached into his pocket, looking for his key, and was dismayed to find his pockets full of chocolate.

While the Time Lord was busy trying to find his key, Jack glanced over his shoulder at the top of the volcano. "You know, when I normally think of volcanoes, I think 'burning agonising death'. I thought we would have been fried by the chocolate," he mused, flicking a piece of said substance at Brittany. "Why weren't we?"

The Doctor paused, and pointed at the top of the volcano. "Because this is just melted chocolate. Chocolate melted by that, in fact."

While the chocolate they were floating (stretching the term a bit there) in was a normal chocolately brown colour, the new wave coming down from the top of the volcano was glowing cherry red, evaporating the normal chocolate before they even touched.

"Faster!" Brittany shouted, wishing that she had a key of her own. "I don't want to die by molten chocolate!"

"I'm trying!" The Doctor withdrew a small key from his pocket, and flourished it in triumph. "Ah-hah! Gotcha!" He started to fumble with the lock, struggling to fit the chocolate covered key into the chocolate filled lock. The magma/chocolate was coming closer, towering over them in an arching wave.

"Got it!" the Doctor cried, a wave of chocolate sweeping him and the three humans into the console room. As soon as they were inside, Jack and the Time Lord forced the door shut, preventing anything else from getting inside. Then, the Doctor leaped at the console.

"Hold on to something!" he shouted as the world tilted crazily. Jack grabbed the hatstand by the door as the wall became the floor, legs dangling out over empty space. He was glad that at some previous point in time, the Doctor had decided to make his hatstand TARDIS proof. Brittany caught the railing around the console as she fell past Jack, while Sandra hugged one of the organic orange pillars, as if her life depended on it.

The Doctor's leap carried him through the air before gravity took hold, but he managed to catch his fingers on the edge of the console. He crawled up the round structure and sat atop it, setting the coordinates with a few quick presses from his toes. "Hold on," he instructed as he released the handbrake. All four of them went flying across the room as gravity returned to the norm.