In a big, dark and dimly lit room somewhere in a…whoever knew where, visible only because of a light directly above it stood the blue box that was the TARDIS, the Doctor's TARDIS, sealed and cordoned off by a blue transparent force field. How long it had been standing there was anyone's guess. Inside, the console was empty and quiet save for the regular and repeated idle hum of the TARDIS and its systems. Nothing to disturb the quiet emptiness that was the Doctor's absence. That is except for two flashing back and forth notifications on the scanner screen which read "Emergency: Designated Pilot Missing" and "Emergency Protocols Activated". Just then the hand brake lever went down on the console and the TARDIS began to dematerialise…

Shoreditch, London, 2015…

All through Clara's apartment a wheezing, groaning sound could be heard as the blue box appeared transparently in the room opposite Clara's room continuing it's *vworp vworp* before it made the *thud* as it became solid. It was 7.30am and Clara had been getting ready for another day of students at Coal Hill School when the TARDIS had landed in her apartment causing to stop what she was doing and peek through into the room opposite hers from her room. Immediately assuming it was the Doctor Clara went to the room in her apartment where the TARDIS had landed and went inside, however, to her surprise the Doctor wasn't in the control room waiting for her like he usually was.
'Doctor?' Clara said to the silence in the empty space in the control room as if the Doctor might be under the floor under the console or down one of the passage ways leading from the control room, but he didn't appear or emerge from anywhere nor did she get a response 'Doctor?!' she said out loud again, but still Clara didn't get a response nor did the Doctor show up at her call. Hmm ok, I definitely would've heard him come out of the TARDIS if he had done so and seen him… she thought, and so she decided to wait in the control room for a while in case the Doctor was busy elsewhere within the TARDIS and such to the point that he hadn't heard her.
Five minutes she waited thinking the Doctor might be along any minute. It was almost getting along to ten minutes now and Clara had neither seen him nor heard any sign of him, the Doctor talking to himself as he considered an intriguing mystery or problem or pondered where to go next while he did whatever the heck it was he did when she wasn't there or even making some noise somewhere in the TARDIS. That was when she decided to go and look for him.
As she wandered and made her way through the spaceship-like corridors and passage ways of the TARDIS Clara checked the Doctor's study, the swimming pool, the workshop, the wardrobe even the secondary control room and the engine room, but the Doctor was nowhere to be seen or found. Even when she went back to the control room the Doctor was still absent without a trace where the hell are you? Clara thought as she took one last look around the control as she wondered without any real purpose or direction where the Doctor would or could be, it wasn't like him to just leave the TARDIS unattended like this nor show himself and greet her upon landing in her apartment.
Ugh I don't have time for time for this to wait around for the Doctor to show himself, wherever he is Clara thought. That was when she left the TARDIS to get on with her day and head off. However, when she went to the double doors, which she had left open when she entered the TARDIS, they closed on her before she could leave through them and refused to open even when she tried to get them to do so 'what? No! What are you doing? Let me out! Let me out right now I have to go!' Clara said to no one and nothing in particular, except for maybe the TARDIS. With the TARDIS refusing to let her out Clara turned back to the console and went to scanner screen and the controls below it. That was when she saw what was on the screen "Emergency Assistance Acquired" which then immediately changed to "Emergency Protocols Active" both of which had red ringed exclamation marks on either side of them. Then, *thud* followed by the same wheezing groaning of the time engine as the TARDIS took off and dematerialised 'no what are you doing?! No, no, no, no, no I've got to get to work, stop!' Clara said as the TARDIS went to wherever it was going with her unwillingly along for the ride…

The Ninth Doctor opened his blue eyes to see blue sky above before he sat up, took in his surroundings immediately in front of him and where he was, a wide field of dry-looking long grass that stretched off down a slope into the distance with a forest of pine trees on one side, the Doctor's left, and another forest of trees on the other side that were completely bare and looked like the forest of Fangorn from the second Lord of the Rings film. fantastic film that one the Doctor thought as he looked at the forest and thought of the film. Off in the distance there was what looked to be a labyrinth with a sizeable fortress in the middle of it and some hills behind it. He then looked back behind him and saw a lake through the long grass.
Getting to his feet, and brushing off clingy strands of grass, the Doctor took a good look around where he was and the general surrounding landscape and immediate area he said out loud 'ok, this is different, this place I don't know' before he turned back to the lake and saw a pillar of energy streaming straight up into the sky through a small wad of clouds with four curved and arcing steel arms on the ground surrounding the stream of energy at 90o intervals. The Doctor's sense of location and bearing was, for once, well and truly off 'yep, for once I honestly, really have no idea where I am whatsoever' he then looked around as if searching for something in particular 'alright, three things, how did I get here? Where is here? And where is Rose' he said out loud to himself as he looked around for any sort of trace or sight of her.
Both his hearts skipped beats knowing that she would be on her own in a big hude pace that she didn't know and didn't really know how to handle herself in, he had been with Rose on the space station, Helicarnassus 7, and been about to show her the sights when everything had, just like that, gone white…and then next thing he knew he was here. Wherever here was. Worry and dread began to well and swell inside the Doctor like a deadly and extremely aggressive tumour and made him feel a bit sick inside as it ate at him I've got to get back to her… he thought almost desperately before he pulled himself and his thoughts together but first I've got to find my way back to the TARDIS... Looking up, the Doctor looked at the sky and noted that it was exactly like earth's, blue sky and slightly overcast but still enough sun for it to be a reasonably nice day. Except, there was something not quite right about the sky, it didn't look "natural". There was something about it that just made it look fake. Turning back to the wide field of long, dry grass below the Doctor looked to the labyrinth with the fortress in the middle and said out loud to himself 'ok, looks like that's where I'm heading' and with luck I might find someone who can tell me where I am, and then maybe from there I can find a way back to Rose, maybe call the TARDIS to my location...wherever I am he thought and started towards the Labyrinth.