A/N: Okay, so the 'death' on Episode 9 was a bit of a shocker for me and to tell you the truth, while I was writing the first two chapters I totally forgot about Rory. So since this is a fanfiction, Rory is still alive in this story and he'll appear later. And no, there's no Amy/Doctor or Rose/Doctor here. No Romance got the most votes :D
Doctor Who: Parallel
Chapter Two: Welcome To Torchwood
"I really reckon you should see this" Amy shouted a reply.
"See what?" The Doctor was already beside her. Amy looked at him then with her right index finger, she pointed at something on the wall.
"A crack?" He looked at her with disbelief, trying not to laugh.
"Yeah a crack" She nodded.
"What's with the crack?"
"Well you know that crack, the time field the one that brings 'silence and the end of all things'" She replied. "The same crack on my bedroom years ago, the one that's been following us. You don't think…" She paused and thought for a while.
"Amy, Amy, that's nothing but an ordinary crack" The Doctor shook her from her thought then pressed his fingers on the crack found on the red brick wall to check on it and to ensure her that it really was nothing. That it was truly indeed an ordinary crack and nothing more, nothing like the Crack that had been following them all throughout they're journey. A mere disturbance on the surface caused by corrosion, shrinkage or expansion.
Amy whispered an 'O' then nodded at him. "Well, you know maybe the crack's the reason why we're here. I really…don't know…just guessing"
"This is the parallel world. Someone brought us here and I can't open the Tardis" The Doctor had ignored the last bit she said and soniced the wall, just in case. "We have to leave. We shouldn't be here".
"How are we supposed to leave when obviously the Tardis isn't opening for us or maybe for you. Hang on, maybe it'll open for me" Amy took the key from the Doctor and approached the blue telephone box.
"Okay, maybe I was wrong. It won't open for us" She told herself and handed the key back to the Doctor.
"I can't believe it's happening again," The Doctor spoke.
"What is happening again?"
"This thing…" He made some weird gesture. "This parallel world thing"
"Is there something you're not telling me?" She queried.
"2007. The Tardis malfunctioned while we were traveling through the time vortex. It brought us here in the parallel world" He answered.
"Did you just say 'we' and 'us'? Who is 'we'?" She had realized she never knew whether the Doctor had companions before her.
"Now is certainly not the time about that, Amy. We must do something to get out of here now"The Doctor didn't want to tell her about Rose, Mickey or anything about his past companions because he knew she'd question everything. He moved away from the red brick wall and walked down the street.
"Oi, wait for me" She followed him. "So tell me, what happened when you came to this parallel world years ago?"
The Doctor stopped walking then faced her. He looked at her for a minute his face getting more serious by the second then after a moment of thinking deeply in a low, soft voice he started to elucidating to her, "A lot of people lost their lives."
"There was a man named-" He paused to recall. "John Lumic, owner of the Cybus industries found in 1982. He is a very mental man, well of course he is, he's suffering from a terminal illness but that's not the point…Lumic created the Cybermen in this parallel world"
"What exactly are Cybermen?" Amy interrupted.
"Lumic takes homeless people on the streets of London and brings them to his factory. They use cyber conversion on them. They get their brains and implant it in a bulletproof metal suit."
"So they're like half-Human and half-Robot?"
"Not really because there's something special implanted to them, which prevents them from feeling any emotions and that is totally not being human at all" He said.
"So these Cybermen, there were a lot here? Attacking this place?" The Doctor nodded at her.
"And there was the Battle of Canary Wharf" He added.
"The battle of what?"
"There was a crack in the universe that allowed traveling dimensions more easily that it should be. The Daleks escaping into the void from the Last Great Time War caused the crack. The Cybermen of the parallel world traveled to our dimension, the real London, and infiltrated us."
"Wow, I feel like I'm in History class right now" Amy pretended to have a headache.
"Come on, we have to do something" The Doctor pulled her.
"Wait, wait," Amy paused. "I keep on getting this weird feeling that we're forgetting something? I've been having that feeling since we rode on that blonde woman's car" She turned around, as if trying to look for something. Her eyes searched everywhere on the streets then finally she stopped, looking at something posted on the lamppost. She moved closer.
"Missing…" She spoke as the poster flashed pictures and information regarding people missing in the city. A few flashes later, it flashed a picture of someone she knew.
"Rory! We forgot about Rory!" The Doctor proclaimed. "How can we forget about him? He was just behind me in the Tardis."
Amy's eyes grew wider and nodded. "But where is he? And why is he on this poster?"
"Missing: Rory Williams. Information unknown. Last seen 3 hours ago" The Doctor read the poster then looked at his Golden watch.
"How can he be missing? He was with us in the Tardis before it crashed. Why is he missing? Maybe that's not him, Doctor; maybe that's the parallel world version of him. Do you think he's trapped in the Tardis?" Worry, concern and a slight confusion was etched on her face.
"That's the real Rory and he's not in the Tardis." He thought for a moment. "Something happened while the Tardis crashed. The poster says he was missing three hours ago. We're only here for two hours and forty five minutes…meaning, while the Tardis was crashing…"
"Rory was already missing" Amy finished.
"But how? I didn't notice him disappearing, did you?" The Doctor pondered.
"No, the Tardis was bumping around I can't even see what's going on" She said.
"We can't open the Tardis, Rory's missing and we're stuck in the parallel world. And unsurprisingly, I don't know what to do" The Doctor continued to walk.
"Back so soon?" Jones spoke as Rose Tyler came inside the Torchwood headquarters.
"Yup, it was just a short lunch" She replied sitting on her chair, facing her co-worker.
"So, when's the wedding?"
"Shut up!" She blushed. "I just got engaged last night, we don't really have a plan yet"
"Well, back to work" Jones decided not to go on with the topic.
"Yeah, there's a lot of people missing around London, don't you think it's time for Torchwood to investigate this? It seems a bit odd…" She put a folder in front of Jones.
" I know!" The Doctor announced after five minutes or so of silence. "Torchwood!"
"Torchwood? What is Torchwood?"
"Organization to protect Britain under alien threat. Started by Queen Victoria ages ago after I saved her from a werewolf but then she started seeing me as a threat and etcetera" He explained. "Do you remember what Jackie told me about Torchwood relocating?"
"I don't know, I remembered something about the underground?" She replied.
"Ah yes!" He said. "The London Underground" The Doctor now pointed to the entrance stairs of the Underground.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Come on! This is going to be fun" He excitedly.
Both Amy and The Doctor blended with the Londoners as they headed downwards the London Underground.
"We're looking for a headquarters, how are we supposed to know which way to go?" Amy asked.
The Doctor took his Sonic screwdriver and used it on the ticket machine since they can't get through the ticket platforms without one.
"Can't you just sonic the platforms?"
"No, everyone would wonder" He gave a ticket to Amy.
"Now what?" She said as she took her ticket back after feeding it to the platform.
"Let the screwdriver do its job" The Doctor held the screwdriver in front of him as its green diode flashes and mimicked a small beeping tone. "I'm detecting the whereabouts of Torchwood so just follow me"
A few minutes later, after going through the mass of people waiting for their train, the Doctor stopped in front of a locked Fire Exit door. He waved the Sonic screwdriver in joy. "And here we are!" After waving the screwdriver stupidly he soniced on the look and obviously, the door opened.
"Ladies first" He opened the Doctor for Amy.
"Thank you" She went in then he followed.
The Doctor and Amy found themselves in a lift. The lift had the size of three telephone boxes put in a 'two rows/three columns" position.
"Welcome to Torchwood London Underground Headquarters" A cool female voice spoke through the lift's speakers. "Please insert your Identification card and wait until you are scanned"
The Doctor soniced the card slot. A red beam appeared and started to scan his whole body then it went to Amy.
A few seconds later the cool female voice spoke again, "One human being and One Time Lord detected. Please type in the password" A small screen was projected in front of them. The Doctor used the screwdriver again. The lift accepted the password and brought them lower to the ground. There was a small ringing sound and the lift opened.
"Torchwood main office"
"Here we are, now we look for someone…who could help us" The Doctor looked around. "This is cool, Torchwood's better here. Alien technology, fantastic!"
"What do we do now?" Torchwood's underground headquarters amazed Amy. She had never been in a place like this. The walls seemed to be made of metal but with the thickness of a concrete wall. There were machines; mysterious machines that seemed to be too advance to be labeled as Human technology. The main office of Torchwood underground was like a cross between the inside of the Tardis and the laboratories of that American crime show CSI.
"We look for someone…" The Doctor said, still looking around.
Meanwhile a few rooms away from where Amy and the Doctor stood, Jones was reading something that the security system of Torchwood was reporting to his computer.
"This is strange…" He muttered. "Rose?"
"Yeah?" Rose looked at him from her desk.
"The security system reported to me about two new visitors inside the headquarters. Are you expecting anyone today?" He asked.
"No, only John but he's not coming here until after his last class" She replied.
"It says here there's two new visitors" He typed something on the keyboard, sending the information to Rose.
Rose opened the file and read the report.
Torchwood Security System:
Two new visitors detected, names unknown.
"Names unknown? How come they were able to get in? "Rose said
"Scroll down and continue reading"
She followed what he told her to do and gasped at what she read in the last bit of the file.
Visitor 1: Human being, Female
Visitor 2: Alien, Time Lord
"You don't think it's him, do you?" Jones asked.
"The Doctor…" She stood up from her seat having a weird feeling.
A/N: Read and Review! Sorry for a late-ish update, I'm starting freshman year in my University soon and I'm preparing stuff but that doesn't mean I'll stop updating! I'll still update though once a week or in two weeks :D Follow me on twitter: adriwadri