She had finished quickly, and now had nothing to do. Bored out of her mind she began wandering the Castle corridors aimlessly.

This isn't right, the voice in the back of her head told her, mother never had any down time.

I guess I'm just lucky, she thought back, annoyed.

Then, out of nowhere, came a voice.

"Alice" it whispered

She turned around, only to find no one there.

"Alice," it said again, louder this time. "Listen to me!" The tone in the voice was urgent.

"Who are you?" she asked to thin air, receiving no response. But she didn't need a response. Something else, deep down inside of her, knew that voice. And it was crying out for joy.

In the blink of an eye, the Queen was gone and Alice had returned. "Doctor!" she cried gleefully.

"Alice, listen, the world you are in isn't real!" the Doctor said, his voice coming out of nowhere. "It's just virtual reality. Whatever you're seeing isn't real! It's fake!"

At this point, the Doctor was beginning to think that this was useless. But then Alice slowly mouthed the words:

"I knew it"

He broke into a grin. "That's my Alice!" he said "All you have to do is wake up and we can get out of here!"

There was a moment of complete silence as the Doctor waited. The machinery that was attached to her skin fell away and the straps holding her down released. The Doctor grinned and hugged her.

"What happened?" she asked, a bit groggily.

"I'll explain later" the Doctor said, "right now, we have to get the heck out of here!"

They ran to the door

"Uh oh!" Alice said, "people!"

They darted into a nearest to room to hide and waited for them to pass. As soon as they did Alice couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

Something made a noise behind them. Alice and the Doctor looked at each other, eyes wide, and then slowly turned around. Standing there was the team that had been working on the new virtual cell prototype.

"Yes! Now we can test it" one of them said, the happiness in his voice scary.

The Doctor quickly tried to open the door, but it had locked itself.

"We're stuck" he whispered

"What about your sonic screwdriver?" Alice asked

"Lost it"

"What do you mean you lost it?"

The Doctor didn't have time to respond. Two of the workers had grabbed him by the arms and started dragging him over to the chair that was the heart of the machine.

Alice screamed. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!"

But it was too late. The Doctor had already been restrained and hooked up to the machine.

Alice, who was extremely mad, shoved all the workers out the door. It locked automatically. On the bright side, the workers had probably no way of getting in. But that also meant that she was trapped in here.

"What do we do?" one of the workers asked

"Leave her" another said "she'd die sooner than leave him."