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The Twelfth Doctor hid behind a rock as the beast he had heard coming minutes ago sniffed the air and searched for him I have to get out of here fast this thing has my scent the Doctor thought as he looked around for a way to slip sway unnoticed or something that give him the start of a plan to do so. Fortunately for him the area he was in outside the labyrinth he had come across before he had encountered the beast was dotted with rocks for him to sneak from one to the other and hide from the beast so that he could get to the double-door entrance to the maze. Peering around from where he hid behind the rock the Doctor saw the beast looking the other way as if continued to sniff the air and look this way and that for him. The beast could tell that the Doctor was near, but another thing in his favour was that the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, the beast could sniff the air all it wanted but it would only get faint whiffs of the Doctor's scent IF anything. Knowing he was going to need to carefully time his movements the Doctor kept a very close yet subtle eye on the beast and when it lifted its head to sniff the air again after looking round some more the Doctor made a quick dash to the nearest rock closest to the double door gate. However, his footsteps seemed to be loud enough for the beast to hear as the Doctor only JUST got behind the rock no less than a split second before the beast turned its head in his direction.
Alert and more attentive now than before the beast stalked its way to the rocks where the Doctor was hiding and stopped as it eyes darted about and scanned the area for any sign or trace of him. After a few seconds it turned and kept searching in another direction. The Doctor breathed a bit of a sigh of relief 'this beast thing seems to have good hearing, that and it may just have some degree of intelligence' he said out loud to himself in verbal thought, the last part of what he said was what concerned him the most as it was probably going to make his plan to avoid it and get to the labyrinth somewhat difficult. He was going to have to lighten his footfalls somehow if he was going to successfully sneak past the beast without alerting it. Looking in the direction of the gate to the maze the Doctor noticed and realised the next rock on the way to the gate was closer and the gap between that one and the next with the gate not far from it was small.
Looking back around the rock he hid behind the Doctor saw the beast with its back to him and sniffing the air again, taking that chance and opportunity he made a dash for the next rock, but did so with the lightest possible footfalls without slowing down which took some effort. Once he was behind the next rock the Doctor peered back again to see where the beast was at just as it turned to look in his general direction as if it MIGHT have just heard him despite his effort to tread as silently as possible. The Doctor gave the moment several seconds to pass while gauging the short distance to the last rock.
Peering around again the beasts attention was elsewhere giving the Doctor another window of opportunity. He was just about make another dash when he noticed the beast look back his way again which made him quickly draw back. Listening attentively for a few seconds the Doctor heard no sounds of the beast coming his way, and so bracing himself for another look he saw the beast with its left flank towards him. If he moved now the position of the rocks he was dashing between would obscure him from view. Doing so with light footfalls the Doctor made it to the last rock where he stopped behind it. The double doors to the labyrinth were just ahead just one last dash and a quick sonic and he'd be on the other side and safe.
Making one last check for the beast the Doctor couldn't see it anywhere, listening carefully for any sounds or movement and looking all around it was nowhere in sight. The Doctor wasn't about to let his guard down yet, the beast was of some intelligence so for all he knew it might well be stalking him while keeping out of view like he had been with it. Stepping away from the rock he quietly dashed to the double doors and began sonicing them open. Figuring he'd only have less than half a minute before the beast heard the sound of the doors opening and came long and saw him the Doctor focused his attention on sonicing the doors open while keeping a watch out for the beast. Of course he didn't have to wait long as when the double doors started opening they made a sound loud enough to be heard throughout the area which made the Doctor look back. When he did so both his hearts skipped beats when he saw the beast coming right for him no more than 15 seconds away and closing in fast.
The Doctor frantically soniced the double doors while doing his best to keep his hand that he held his sonic screwdriver in steady. Much to his brief relief the double doors opened enough for him to ease through the narrow gap between them and emerge on the other side, but he didn't stop there he quickly turned back to the doors and soniced them shut as the beast tried to get its paw in to reach him but then quickly withdrew it when the gap between the double doors got too narrow. The Doctor took half a minute to recover from his narrow escape before straightening up and taking in the wide and long-ish passage way before him before he proceeded forward.
At some point somewhere in the maze the Doctor rounded a corner and then stopped in his tracks as he looked down the long and slightly sandy stretch of path ahead of him. He had noticed the door meters ahead, but that wasn't only thing had picked up on. The Doctor stood where as he looked from one wall to the other 'ahhh yes, there's something here, hidden from plain sight yet ready and waiting to strike' he said quietly to himself 'how I do I know? Call it a niggling hunch, or a gut-feeling'.
Reaching into his internal coat pocket, the Doctor brought out his sonic screwdriver and scanned the walls on either side ahead of him 'just as I thought' he said as he flipped his sonic screwdriver in the air, put it back in his internal pocket and began to step forward 'as soon as I cross a certain threshold along this path...' the Doctor began as he slowly edged his shoed foot forward. Seconds later, as fast as a blur, big rectangular blocks came out of the walls, one on either side directly in front of the Doctor, and thudded hard against each other which made his abruptly step back in shock even though he had been anticipating it or…expecting something, followed by another two about two hand lengths from the first two. The Doctor considered for a moment what had just happened before he edged his foot forward again, stopped, then forward once more. Sure enough as he expected the large blocks came out of the walls on either side and thudded against each other the last two a split second after the first two. Immediately putting his foot in the same spot as before the Doctor waited one...two...and a half seconds before the same big blocks came out of the walls in the same fashion.
The Doctor stepped back and turned to consider for a while is next move. After fifteen seconds, during which he looked back down the path as he thought about and considered his move, he stepped back to the same spot he stood before the hidden threshold and readied himself. After a couple of seconds the Doctor quickly stamped his foot in the same exact spot as before but stayed where he was, but only for about a second before he, after the first of the big blocks made their move, dashed forwards and ran as fast as his feet could propel him forwards.
After two and half seconds the first of the big blocks came out the walls again at a blurring speed before more quickly followed in their wake. The Doctor didn't stop as the whole trap system began to gain on him, in fact after running a few more meters his coat was in danger of getting caught as it trailed behind him while he ran for his life and halting him in his tracks. But then the Doctor skidded a bit to a halt and stopped, as did the trap system when the last few blocks thudded hard and loudly against each other before quickly receding back into the walls. The Doctor sighed a bit 'it's going to take more than that to take me down' he said before he continued on to the door. As the Doctor got within a few feet of the door he halted in his tracks again in surprise as a familiar man in black work pants and shoes, black leather jacket and a green t-shirt appeared from around the corner...
The Tenth Doctor cautiously strode his way through a forest when his sonic started bleeping 'oh hello what's this?' he said as he brought out his sonic screwdriver from his internal suit jacket pocket, when he looked at it his eyes widened in surprise 'ohhh I've never seen that before' he said. Rapidly turning back and forth on the spot the Doctor held up his sonic screwdriver to get a fix on the signal he was getting. When he did he took off from where he stood and ran in the direction of the signal …strange that my sonic screwdriver would be getting a signal like that, whatever it is, in this place he thought as he went bounding over bushes and fallen logs and stumps. Finally he dashed his way through some thick tree leaves, still holding his sonic screwdriver, to find a young twenty-something man in a tweed jacket sporting a bow tie standing next to a mini control console with something familiar in his hand, a green-tipped sonic screwdriver, surprised familiarity beginning to cross the young man's face…
The Eleventh Doctor was striding along through a bushy forest when he stopped in his tracks and took a few steps back to look at something down a path to his left that went towards the lake's edge in the near-distance which had caught his eye 'oh that's looks interesting, what's that doing there?' the Doctor said out loud to himself. Stepping towards the object he had seen the Doctor stopped just a few feet from it and reiterated his question to no one in particular 'what are you doing here eh? What are you here for? Why here?' he said, bringing out his sonic screwdriver the Doctor scanned the small control panel and scanned the immediate environment around him with the energy signal fix his sonic screwdriver now had from having scanned the control panel 'oh whatever this thing controls its near, very near, close by, in fact I'm standing almost right beside it' he said. After turning this way and that the Doctor began to slow his on-the-spot turns as he slowly stepped around while scanning, after several more seconds he stopped as he pointed out at the lake surface 'something underwater, submerged' he said. Lowering his sonic screwdriver the Doctor then pointed it at the control panel and sonicced it could be a trap, you can't be too careful he thought. What happened next took him a bit by surprise. Bit by bit what looked like a steel frame rose from out of the water, dripping as it did so as water flowed off it, and settled into place level with the lake shore where the Doctor was.
Just about to put away his sonic screwdriver and step toward the bridge to stand directly before it, it was in that moment that a man in a blue suit, red trainers and long overcoat with sticky-uppy hair came bounding from between two bushy trees. The Doctor's hearts each skipped beats as he recognised the man now standing no more than several feet away also with an expression of surprise…