Disclaimer ~I do not own Harry Potter J.K Rowling does. Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures the BBC. The X-men (movies (20th Century Fox), comics (Marvel) or television programme (marvel)) or Buffy the vampire slayer created by Joss Whedon. Used extracts from Planet of the Dead, which I do not own.

ChapterOne

The Deserted Planet

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Kitchen of Grimmauld Place

"Where's Hermione?" Harry asked as they all sat down for a dinner at 12 Grimmauld Place, the former family home for The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black and the current Headquarters for The Order of The Phoenix since Voldemort return at the tri-wizard tournament earlier in the year.

However, nobody knew how to answer Harry's question as nobody knew where Hermione was. When Remus and Nymphadora Tonks (Tonks) went round to collect her but she was nowhere to be seen, and when they managed to get in contact with her parents, who were on holiday in France, they thought that she was staying at the Burrow. So when Harry asked this question, everybody was well and truly stumped.

"Yeah where is she? We haven't seen her all summer, and she hasn't returned any of our owls" Ron asked the adults at the table, but they just looked at each other not sure on what to do.

"You don't know where she is, do you?" Ginny said accusingly narrowing her eyes at the order.

"Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley said reprimanding her daughter.

"But is true isn't it?" Harry said as more of a statement than a question "That's why she not here, you don't have a clue where she is, for all we know she could have been taken by Voldemort" Harry said starting to raising his voice.

"Harry listen to me you need to calm down she…." Sirius had started to say but was cut off by Harry "Calm down! How can I possibly calm down when one of my best friends is out there missing possibly dead!" he shouted standing up from his seat.

"Unbelievable" Ginny muttered.

"Do you even care about her at all or is she just someone you can't be bothered with!" Harry said continuing shouting at the table getting worked up.

"Getting angry won't help Har.." Remus started to say but was interrupted.

"NO! We need to go and find her!" He almost roared. With that, he turned away from the table causing his chair to fall on the floor and stormed out of the kitchen, with Ron and Ginny hot on his heels.

"Harry!" Ginny whisper-shouted, "Harry!" she said again following him up the stairs to the first floor.

"What?!" he said turning around his face like thunder.

"Look," she said pulling him to the side on the first-floor landing "Getting angry isn't going to help anyone," she said raising her hand to stop Harry from interrupting "Hermione is mine and Ron's friend to, and we're just as worried about her as you are." She finished giving Harry a pointed look reminiscent of Hermione's.

"Sorry," Harry said staring at the floor.

"Anyway, for my birthday last year, she gave me a mobile phone to contact her in case of an emergency."

"What? ...Oh" Ron said joining the conversation "What's a mobile phone?" Ron asked puzzled "And why did you get one and not me or Harry?" he said with a tinge of jealousy.

"It's what muggles use to talk to one another over long distances," Harry told him.

"And probably because she knows that you'll either lose it, break it or just forget about it completely," Ginny told the boys who both had the decency to look away.

"But it won't work, muggle technology and magic don't mix," Ron said surprising them "What?" Ron said to a shocked Harry and Ginny "Hermione told me" he replied, and both Harry and Ginny nodded their heads in understanding.

"I know that," Ginny said, "But Hermione said that she had adapted it to be powered by magic."

So Ginny pulled out her phone to make the call to Hermione.

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Meanwhile in a desert on a planet far, far away

"Stuck in a desert, on an empty planet in over 30⁰c heat, with people we don't know, with our only way out of here stuck in the sand and a storm coming." The Doctor said enthusiastically.

"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Hermione stated.

The Doctor replied by grinning ear from ear.

"Great," Hermione said rolling her eyes.

"Uh, funny sort of sand, this." He said crouching down "There's a trace of something else." He said as he lifted some sand to his mouth to taste "Blah. Not good." He stated while standing up trying to rid the taste from his mouth.

"Well, it would' be."

"No, it tastes like. Never mind."

"Hold on a minute. I saw you, mate. You had that thing, that machine. Did you make this happen?" said a dark-skinned man walking towards The Doctor.

"Oh, humans on buses, always blaming me. Look, if you must know, we were tracking a hole in the fabric of reality. Call it a hobby. But it was a tiny, little hole. No danger to anyone. Then suddenly it gets big, and we drive right through it."

"Well then where is it? Where it the whole? "Asked the driver "There's nothing. There's just sand."

"All right. You want proof? We drove through this." He said and threw a handful of sand into the air, and the air starts to shift and distort around the hole.

"That's a door?" asked Hermione.

"Yep pretty much."

"So what you're saying is, on the other side of that is home? We can get to London through there?" said the driver.

"The bus came through, but we can't." The Doctor corrected him.

"Well then, what are we waiting for?" the driver says as he runs towards the hole.

"No, no, don't," the Doctor told him.

"I'm going home, mate!"

"I said don't!" he shouted, but it was too late as the driver entered the 'door' a loud scream could be heard as he burned briefly and his smoking bones tottered out the other side of the tunnel before collapsing.

"He was a skeleton, man. He was bones. Just bones" said the dark-skinned man pointing at the doorway.

"It was the bus. Look at the damage. The bus it was protecting us. Great big box of metal." The Doctor told them.

"Like in a thunderstorm, yeah? The safest place is inside a car because the metal conducts the lightning right through. We did it in school." said a young man around the age of 22.

"Yeah but a Faraday cage needs to be closed, and the only way back is in that bus, which has been ripped wide open," said Hermione.

"Well, slightly different dynamics with a wormhole. But there should be enough metal to make it work, I think. I hope" said The Doctor.

"So we have to drive a nine-ton bus, currently buried in the sand, with nothing but our bare hands. Right? "Hermione questioned.

"I'd say nine and a half tons, but the point still stands, yes." he replied correcting her.

"Well we better get on the bus, stay out here any longer well will probably keel over," Hermione said heading back towards the bus.

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Bus

"If we're all going to be stuck here for a while I guess we better introduce ourselves," Hermione said from a seat at the front of the bus.

"I'm Hermione," she said with a smile "And this is The Doctor." She said nodding to him.

"Hello." he said and gave a wave from his position opposite Hermione.

"And you are?" she asked them.

"Nathan." said the young man in a seat behind the Doctor.

"I'm Barclay." said the dark-skinned man sat opposite Nathan.

"Angela. Angela Whittaker." said a woman in her late 30's with blonde hair two seats behind the Nathan.

"My name's Louis. Everyone calls me Lou. And this is Carmen" said a man sat with an arm around his wife towards the back of the bus.

"Great, so..Doctor?" Hermione said knowing the Doctor would take control.

"Right. So, the wormhole. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was just an accident." He told them.

"No, it wasn't. That thing, the doorway? Someone made it for a reason." said Carmen.

"How do you know?" The Doctor asked her.

"She's got a gift. Ever since she was a little girl, she can just tell things." Lou supplied.

"Tell me, Carmen. How many fingers am I holding up?" The Doctor asked her putting three fingers up behind his back.

"Three." He changes it to four.

"Four."

"Very good. Low-level psychic ability, exacerbated by an alien sun. What can you see, Carmen? Tell me, what's out there?" He asked her.

"Something, something is coming. Riding on the wind, and shining."

"What is it?"

"Death. Death is coming."

"We're going to die," Angela said getting upset.

"I knew it, man. I said so," said Barclay shaking his head.

"We can't die out here. No one's going to find us," said Nathan putting his head in his hands. "Will we be bones, like the bus driver?" he asked becoming distraught.

"Stop it, all of you. Everyone, stop it! Angela, look at me. Angela? Angela?" The Doctor said getting Angela to raise her head "Good now answer me one question, Angela. That's it. At me. There we go. Angela, just answer me one thing. When you got on this bus, where were you going?" He asked her

"Doesn't matter now, does it?"

"Answer the question."

"Just home."

"And what's home?"

"Me and Mike and Suzanne. That's my daughter. She's eighteen.

"Suzanne. Good. What about you?" he asked Barclay.

"Don't know. Going round Tina's".

"Who's Tina? Your girlfriend?".

"Not yet." he said smiling.

"Good boy. What about you, Nathan?" He asked him.

"Bit strapped for cash. I lost my job last week. I was going to stay in and watch TV."

"Brilliant. And you two?" he asked.

"I was going to cook." said Lou.

"It's his turn tonight. Then I clear up." Carmen supplied.

"What's for tea?" The Doctor asked.

"Chops. A nice couple of chops and gravy. Nothing special." said Lou shrugging his shoulder.

"Oh, that's special, Lou. That is so special. Chops and gravy, mmm. Chops and gravy. Watching TV. Mike and Suzanne and poor old Tina." The Doctor said.

"Hey!" Barclay interrupting him.

"Just think of them. Because that planet out there, all three suns, wormholes and alien sand, that planet is nothing. You hear me? Nothing, compared to all those things waiting for you. Food, home, and people. Hold on to that, because we're going to get there. I promise. I'm going to get you home." The Doctor said giving them hope.

"Good so first things, first Nathan, Barclay pull up the seats from the bus, Angela get behind the wheel." The Doctor said "Carmen relax and tell me if you see anything and Lou, please stay with her" He finished walking off the bus.

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Desert

"So," Hermione said following him off the bus "Do you think there is anything out there," she said nodding toward the horizon "I mean no planet can be completely empty right?"

"It's possible, but I don't know something's not right," he said looking at the sand again.

"It never is," Hermione said looking out.

"Here we go," Barclay said getting off the bus with seat and Nathan in tow.

"That's my boys." The Doctor said and took the seat off him "See, we lay a flat surface between the bus and the wormhole, like duckboards, and reverse onto it."

"In that case, I would let some air out of the tyres. Just a little bit. It will spread the weight of the bus and give it more grip against the sand." Hermione said.

"Oh, that's good." The Doctor said grinning.

"Yeah, but those wheels go deep," Barclay said pointing out the obvious.

"Then start digging." The Doctor said.

"With what?" he asked looking around. Hermione quickly excused herself and got back on the bus and headed towards her beaded bag near the front of the bus, she picked it up and walked upstairs to what was left of the top deck. And placed her bag on the floor, checking no one could see what she was, she reached in and pulled out her wand before transfiguring a small shovel and an axe then placing her wand in her boot, taking the axe, shovel and bag downstairs.

"With this," she said walking off the bus and handing him the shovel. "Try that. It might help with the seats," she said passing Nathan the axe

"Thanks," Nathan said and headed back inside.

"I can't find the keys!" Angela shouted from inside the bus.

"Oh no, buses don't have keys. There's a master switch, then it's one button to start, the other one to stop, yeah?" The Doctor said walking towards the doors of the bus.

"Right. Hold on. Oh, I've got it. Here we go. Ding, ding." she says and starts the engine. When it starts to make a coughing and spluttering sound so quickly she turns it off.

"Ooh, that doesn't sound too good." the Doctor says, and he and Hermione look at the smoke coming out of the engine from the back. "Oh, never mind losing half the top deck. You know what's worse? Sand. Tiny little grains of sand. The engine's clogged up." he said.

"Anyone know mechanics?" Hermione asked.

"Me. I did a two week NVQ at the garage. Never finished it, but..." Barclay said but was cut off by the Doctor "Off you go, then. Try stripping the air filter. Fast as you can. Back in two ticks." he said and walked off.

In the distance, on the horizon, there was an outline of an alien with the head of an insect and pincers watching him walk away from the bus with Hermione not far behind.

When they were far enough way, Hermione asked him "Tell me. If Carmen's right if that wormhole's not an accident, then what is it? Why would someone do this on purpose?"

"I don't know, but every single instinct of mine is telling me to get off this planet now."

"Do you think we can?"

"I live in hope." he said as they crest another dune.

"Ah, don't like the look of that," he said staring at the hazy horizon.

"Storm clouds. Must be hundreds of miles away."

"But getting closer."

"If that's a sandstorm, we'll get ripped to shreds."

"It's a storm. Who says it's sand?" he said, and they started to run towards the bus.

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Bus

"Closer, and closer, and closer." Carmen chanted.

"Where is it?" The Doctor asked running on the bus.

"There. There on the seat. Why do you need it?". Hermione asked picking it up her bag and reaching in for her phone.

"I need to call somebody."

"Who?" she asked.

"UNIT" was all he said.

"Wait, how are you going to ring somebody there is no signal, where on another planet," Barkley asked.

"Using this," The Doctor said pulling out his sonic screwdriver.

"What's that?" Nathan asked the Doctor.

"Sonic Screwdriver," Hermione said before the Doctor could get a word in "But you already used the sonic on it so it can phone anywhere and anywhen when in the universe," Hermione said confused.

"Yes but it can't receive calls can it" the Doctor replied knowingly.

"Wait so you're telling me that people might have been trying to phone me but can't because I'm 'out of range' Hermione said unbelievably using quotation marks.

"Sorry about that" The Doctor said taking the phone off Hermione sonicing it after he had finished the phone it started to ring everybody looked at him "It's not me" The Doctor said.

Hermione grabbed the phone of him and was shocked, to say the least, and then nervous " It's Ginny I was supposed to stay with them for the summer, what should I do?" Hermione said starting to panic.

"Answer it," said Barkley.

"Yeah and say what. Sorry I'm late, but I'm kind of stuck on another planet, yeah she'll believe that won't she" Hermione huffs annoyance. She takes a deep breath before heading towards the doors of the bus. "Here goes nothing" she mutters and walks off the bus answering the phone.

"Hello?" Hermione asked answering the phone.

"Hermione where are you? We've been trying to call you for over half an hour" asked Ginny slightly worried.

"Yeah sorry about that I haven't been able to get a signal" Hermione replied scowling at the bus "Wait, you said we who's we?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, I'm here with Harry and Ron," Ginny told her.

"So where are you?" Harry asked.

"Oh, am I on loud speaker?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah," Ginny said, "So where…" Ginny started asking but was cut off due to the muttering coming from the phone.

"Do you know what this is? Good then you know that you need to shut up!" Hermione whispered loudly.

"Come on though just let him use your phone" Barkley slightly pleaded.

"How about he uses yours" she replied her voice rising "It's dead; Nathan doesn't want his phone wrecked, Angela left hers at home and Carmen and Lou phones won't work, the Doc mumbled about the conductivity their phones, " he told her.

"Well you're going to have to wait I'm busy" her voice hinting with anger.

"Come on its way more important than whatever else there doing," Barkley said.

"Barkley," Hermione said.

"What?" he asked.

"Shut up!" she snapped.

"Uh…Hermione where are you? Aannnd who was that you were talking to?" Ron asked puzzled.

"Um I'm just out, with... some people I know," Hermione said stumbling on her words.

"It sounds like you have been in an accident," Harry said.

"Nope, no problem we're fine… " Hermione replied hoping she sounded convincing.

"Are you sure? Because we can come and get you" Ginny said.

"Positive" she replied.

"So when will you be home?" Ron asked.

"Not quite sure," she said but in the background they could hear shouts "Hermione I really need the phone," the Doctor shouted "Yes well just wait a minute" "Hermione!" he shouted again.

"I should be home by tomorrow?" Hermione said sounding unsure of herself, "Which is the…?" she trailed off not knowing the date.

"10th," Ginny said slightly confused as to how she could forget the date.

"Of…?" Hermione again trailed off.

"August" Harry supplied with his a frown on his face.

"Yes right the 10th of August," she said shakily with a laugh.

"Hermione, why did you tell your parents you were staying at the Burrow and us that you were in France?, You've been missing all summer. When Remus and Tonks called them…" "Sorry," the Doctor said as he took the phone from Hermione cutting off Harry "She'll have to call you back later" he spoke into the phone "Doctor!" they hear Hermione shout then the phone went dead.

"Sorry but I really need to make that call Allons-y" the Doctor spoke to Hermione then walked off.

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Kitchen of Grimmauld Place

"Well that was weird," Ginny said.

"Yeah, I wonder who that Doctor bloke is and Barkley," Harry said wondering.

"What I don't get is why she wouldn't tell us where she was going?" Ron hurt that Hermione didn't tell them.

"Probably because knowing you two you would do something stupid and rash be too worried about her, I mean come it's Hermione she wouldn't do anything she is not sure of, and she has saved all our lives at least once," Ginny said reassuringly.

"I guess," Harry said scratching his head.

"Look we better tell them that she'll be home tomorrow so they can go round to make sure she's okay," Ginny said to Harry and Ron.