A woman about the same age as James fell out of the box and lay on her back panting. James jumped up and ran to help her, he made a mental note to leave the box lower down on his priorities than a possibly dyeing woman.
"My grandfather" She muttered and pointed at the box. Somehow the door had closed itself, although, again, it was lower on his priorities.
"There's no-one in there. It's just a box." Logic was only half here right now, and that was the half he was siding with.
"Yes there is. He hit his head. Go. Look." She motioned towards the door and it opened slightly.
"Fine." He got up and went to the door. "What am I doing?" He muttered before opening the -strangely hot- door.
The room inside was massive. It was a large white room with small hexagons surrounding the walls and in the centre was a console, also white, with a column sticking out the top slightly.
"Bloody hell" He was going to continue although immediately noticed an elderly man lying on the floor, obviously her grandfather.
"Have you found him?" The woman's voice called and he simply nodded to himself, before quickly replying.
"Yeah. I have." And he rushed to help the man, careful not to cause any more harm than whatever had already been done. He helped the man upright and stood him against his side. "What happened?"
"I have just hit my head a little. I'll be fine." The man stubbornly replied and tried to walk away. He took 2 steps then almost collapsed and was caught by James.
"Stupid old man." He muttered, earning a glare from the grandfather.
"Ignorant child." The elderly man continued to glare as they left the box, a hint of pain on his face.
"Grandfather!" The woman's face lit p with joy and she took him from James' arms and helped to support him instead. "how badly are you hurt?"
"I'm fine now, Susan. This young man has helped me and now I believe we should be going." He tried to stand again although repeated the last try and collapsed back on Susan.
"but grandfather, we came here to get you either some medical care or a calm place for regeneration. If we leave you'll get neither of those and the Daleks may catch us in the time-vortex." She almost pleaded to him.
"Re-what?" James couldn't help but ask what they were talking about.
"Regeneration. You see, when our species is close to death we. Well, we change into a newer and better body. Although it's a bit 'iffy'" She nodded her head to her grandfather. "My grandfather, the Doctor, once knew someone who changed every single thing about them, even their gender."
"You expect me to believe all this nonsense?" James scoffed.
"Well, you saw the TARDIS didn't you. Bigger on the inside, you haven't invented that yet." the Doctor motioned towards the blue box.
"I need a cup of tea." James held his head as he tried to make sense out of the mess in front of him. Time-Vortex? Daleks? TARDIS? Regeneration? What have I gotten into.
Although his thoughts were cut short as the Doctor gave a loud whimper of pain and collapsed, a hand clutched to his chest.
"Grandfather!" Susan caught him just in time and helped him lay on the floor. "Please, no. Not now, no. Please!" She cried slightly as she pleaded the Doctor to stay alive.
"I can stop the regenerative process." He muttered quickly and they were both listening at once. "i need a substitute body. Anything living, I keep a group of cells on my sh- AAAH!" The man's whole face and arms lit up in a bright white light before dimming down. This obviously caused him a lot of pain since he nearly shed a tear, "It's starting, no time."
"You need a body. Right?" James asked as quickly as he could.
A nod
"Then look at me. Here, me, a body. You're probably more important than me so literally fire away." James forced the man up and stood a few feet away from him.
"I will only give as much as I have to into your body. That way you have a larger chance of survi-" His face screwed up in pain, "Survival. About 0.12%"
"Reassuring." He looked at Susan then back to the Doctor. "3,2,1"
There was a pause as the Doctor stopped resisting it and the man almost collapsed from the effort it seemed.
The Doctor glowed the bright white light before except this time it engulfed his whole body. Then it formed a small link between him and James and enveloped the human. James let out a small cry of fear before he was completely engulfed by the light. Quickly the Doctor was released and all eyes were on him. Well, both eyes were on him, Susan was the only other person who probably wasn't dead.
The Doctor stood there exactly the same, perfectly fine with a huge smile on his face, "That was a success!"
"Doctor, I think you sh-" Susan tried, although was cut off by:
"Might have liked change."
"Doctor behind-"
"How is he not finished yet?"
"DOCTOR!" Although it was too late as the metallic being had already took aim and was ready to fire.
2 lone beacons on it's head lit up-
"EXTERMINATE!"
