18
Staying near the back of the room the two of them looked at the crowd gathered. They all looked totally confused still. It was like someone just walked out of the building and pulled random people into the building. Yet some of them seemed to know each other despite looking like complete strangers.
Derek stood mingling as well, Doctor and Phil eyed him with sceptical looks, he didn't look like he was the one to build the object in the center of the room. He was slightly shorter than Doctor and only a few inches taller than Phil. He was wearing a rather plain black suit and a tie, Doctor had already muttered that bow ties were cooler and wearing one could improve his suit, this just made Phil laugh. Out of all people she couldn't take fashion advice from him seriously, it seemed rather odd that he even gave out fashion advice to a complete stranger.
"So plan of action?" Phil asked while Doctor watched Derek intently, she waved a hand in front of his face. He seemed to snap out of his thoughts and looked down at her.
"Well we have to see what that thing actually does and then interrogate him."
"Interrogate," Phil nodded and then looked up at him. "For real?"
"Yes..well...no I'm not to good at interrogating but I'm good at asking questions!"
"They're more or less the same thing."
"Stop pointing out the obvious Phil!" Doctor exclaimed and nudged her, Phil nudged him back and the two childishly glared at each other before Derek shushed everyone. Turning their heads to look at the man they stood up straight and looked at him seriously.
"Ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for attending this evening," Derek said, Phil frowned, despite obviously living in London his accent wasn't one from around here. He sounded more Irish which was slightly confusing. Why would an Irishman come to London to build that thing?
Rummaging in her pocket Phil took out the drawing as Derek saw fit to start explaining what it did. Doctor looked down at the picture too and shook his head, Phil looked up at him confused. Seeing her confused expression he pointed to the picture, "It isn't possible." Was all he said, she nodded happy with that.
Derek jumped to start typing on some of the keys, he was proposing that it would be used as a teleporter of some sort. This obviously annoyed Doctor because in the past he hasn't wasted any time in complaining about teleporters. It was then that everyone discovered that Derek was into selling holidays to people and this could be used as a doorway to somewhere else.
"Great he's a travel agent reaching to new lengths." Phil muttered and folded the drawing back up, Doctor beside her shook his head.
"This is bad Phil."
"Why?"
"Because he's talking about creating a doorway. Doorways aren't one way are they? You can step through but so can something else. By looks of things there's nothing there which can protect whoever steps through." Doctor paused, "That and it's a teleporter, it's ripping a hole in time for the sake of enjoyment."
"But then why does it look like the TARDIS?"
"I don't know." Doctor said annoyed, it was something he was still trying to figure out. Waving his hand at her Phil took out the drawing and gave it to him. "It just doesn't make sense! Like there's nothing which he is suggesting which would need it to look like her. Other people who have done similar stuff created wrist bands, or your watch for example." Doctor glanced at her, she nodded following what he was saying. "But this is big, it is heavy and clumsy. Not to mention dangerous because a human has built it, a human who is from the 1980's. At this point in time technology is so hit and miss, for all we know that could be more of a bomb than a doorway."
"Should we do anything?"
"No."
"What?"
"No leave him to it," Doctor smiled and patted her on the head when she looked up at him utterly confused. Not to mention slightly scared, it was the effect that the word 'bomb' had on people. It went silent then in the room, everyone looked towards Derek as a white doorway shape appeared behind him.
"And here it is ladies and gentlemen! A way to get to another place with less hassle an-" Derek got cut off when there was a odd noise. Phil frowned trying to think what the noise was similar to, the only noise that she could think of which sounded even remotely the same was the light sabre noises in Star Wars.
Derek fell forward and everyone stood confused, Doctor's expression went from laid back to suddenly shocked, Phil looked around confused much like the other people in the room. "We have to leave," Doctor said while putting his hands on her shoulders and pushing her towards the door.
"But why? What happened?"
"Not now Phil we really have to-" Doctor got cut off thanks to something emerging through the doorway. He stopped moving and frowned towards the things coming through the doorway. Phil looked up at him confused and then at them.
They were about the height of a person, some a goldish brown in colour and others a black metallic colour. With the appearance of them everyone panicked, "Time to move Phil!" Doctor exclaimed and grabbed a hold of her hand and pulled her out of the room, he pulled her into a side room and the two stayed against the wall as they heard the thundering noises of the groups footsteps.
The footsteps however got cut out and the odd noise from earlier happened, soon followed was noises of things falling to the floor. Phil put her hands over her ears trying to drown the noise out whereas Doctor looked blankly up at the ceiling.