Chapter 5: Our First Destination

Author's Note: I apologize for having you all wait a month. But I've been in a bit of a funk. As well Grad prep has taken up some time. But since it's Spring Break, I thought I would spend time writing chapters. I hope to have all of Beast Below up before I'm back in school on Monday for you guys. Since I owe you that much. Thank you all for reading this!

I don't own Doctor Who whatsoever BBC does, and I'm just a fan with an idea.

RECAP: "Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, cause it's important, and one day, your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box." The Doctor said as he grinned broadly at her until she does, then he laughs and she laughs too. He turned and started to dart around the console. I grinned wider than the both of them. He jams down a lever and we cling to the console as the TARDIS began to dematerialise, we were all laughing the whole time. And soon enough, we were off. We were off onto our next adventure!

Avery's POV

I watched as Amy floated outside of the TARDIS, I just had my turn. Last night, the Doctor came back for us. I was so happy and mad at the same time. But forget the fact he left us for 12 years, come back for one day and leave again for two years! He came back and we're in his spaceship. "Come on, Pond." The Doctor said as he pulled Amy back inside "Now do you believe me?" He asked Amy.

"OK, your box is a spaceship. It's really, really a spaceship. We are in space! Whoo! What are we breathing?" Amy asked

"I've extended the air shell - we're fine." The Doctor saw something below us, and squats at the door." Now, that's interesting." I came over and looked out, I saw a spaceship. "29th Century. Solar flares roast the earth," We walked to the console "and the entire human race packs its bags" He worked at the controls "and moves out till the weather improves. Whole nations..." He told us.

"Doctor?"Amy said, from somewhere.

"...migrating to the stars." The Doctor continued as if he didn't hear Amy.

"Doctor?" Amy said again. I looked around as I saw Amy wasn't with us. I walked back over to the door where Amy was outside clinging to the roof of the TARDIS. "Isn't that amazing?" The Doctor finished off, still not noticing that Amy wasn't inside the TARDIS and I wasn't next to him.

"DOCTOR!" I yelled, he looked up from the console to see that neither of us was there. He pulled Amy down, and said "Well, come on. I've found us a spaceship." We walked back in, after I closed the doors to the TARDIS so no one got sucked out again. The Doctor pulled up the spaceship that we were above on the monitor of the TARDIS. "This is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland - all of it, bolted together and floating in the sky. Starship UK. It's Britain, but metal. That's not just a ship - that's an idea. That's a whole country, living and laughing and...shopping." Amy chuckled "Searching the stars for a new home."The Doctor said.

"Can we go out and see?" Amy and I asked.

"Course we can but first, there's a thing."

"A thing?

"An important thing. In fact, thing one –"He looked through a magnifying glass "we are observers only. That's the one rule I've always stuck to in my travels. I never get involved in the affairs of other peoples or planets. Ooh! That's interesting."The screen showed a little girl sitting alone crying.

"So we're like a wildlife documentary, yeah? Cos if they see a wounded little cub or something, they can't just save it - they've got to keep filming and let it die."We watched the little girl "That's got to be hard. I don't think I could do that. Don't you find that
hard - being all, like, detached and cold?" We then saw the Doctor pop up onscreen with the crying girl, who then ran away from him. "Doctor?" Amy said, the Doctor looked into the camera and waved for us to join him. I smiled and ran out of the TARDIS to join him.

I exited the TARDIS to find myself in a market. Above me was an arched glass ceiling which I could see the stars through it. The market was a series of stalls and booths very similar to a contemporary marketplace back on Earth. Amy stepped out just behind me, she looked around in wonder and said "I'm in the future. Like hundreds...of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries."

"Oh, lovely. You're a cheery one." The Doctor said as he popped up beside us. He took Amy by the arm and me by the hand. "Never mind dead, look at this place. Isn't it wrong?"

"What's wrong?" I asked

"Use your eyes, notice everything. What's wrong with this picture?" He replied

"Is it... the bicycles?" Amy replied pointing at the rickshaw. I shook my head, I knew the Doctor was right. It wasn't right, not normal. There was a girl crying and no one was even bothering to ask why. Something was up, I didn't see it before, but I noticed it now that the Doctor pointed out that there was something wrong with the place.

"Says the girl in the nightie." The Doctor said to Amy.

"Oh, my God! I'm in my nightie." Amy said once again, I shook my head at her. This is why I always wore a baggy t-shirt and shorts to bed. Just in case he ever came back and swept us away in the middle of the night, like he did. Or if I was called into work immediately, which doesn't happen often but happened often enough.

"Now, come on, look around you. Actually look. Life on a giant starship, back to basics. Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps. But look closer. Secrets and shadows, lives led in fear. Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state. Excuse me. " The Doctor said, before he ran over to a table outside a cafe, he took a glass of water from one of the people sitting there. He set it gently on the floor and looked at it intently. He set the glass back on the table. "Sorry. Checking all the water in this area. There's an escaped fish." He tapped the side of his nose and rejoined us. "Where was I?"

"Why did you just do that with the water?" Amy asked

"Don't know. I think a lot. It's hard to keep track. Now, police state - do you see it yet?" The Doctor replied

"Where?" Amy asked again

"There." The Doctor snapped and pointed at the little girl sitting alone on a bench crying. Everyone walked past, ignoring her. We headed towards her and sat on a bench facing her.

"One little girl crying. So?" Amy said

"Crying silently. I mean, children cry cos they want attention, cos they're hurt or afraid. When they cry silently, it's cos they just can't stop. Any parent knows that." The Doctor replied knowingly.

"Are you a parent?" I asked curiously, he looked startled at the question I asked but didn't answer.

"Hundreds of parents walking past this spot and not one of them's asking her what's wrong, which means...they already know, and it's something they don't talk about. Secrets. They're not helping her, so it's something they're afraid of. Shadows - whatever they're afraid of - it's nowhere to be seen, which means it's everywhere. Police state." The Doctor said, she got up as the lift bell rung and a figure in a nearby booth turns to watch her. I looked at the figure confused, what was it?

"Where'd she go?" Amy asked

"Deck 207, Apple Sesame block, Dwelling 54A. You're looking for Mandy Tanner. Oh," He reached into his pocket pulling out an ID wallet "this fell out of her pocket when I accidentally bumped into her." He handed Amy the wallet "Took me four goes. Ask her about those things - the smiling fellows in the booths. They're everywhere." The Doctor said

"But they're just things." Amy said

"But they're not. There's something off about them, like they have a sinister side to them. They give me the chills." I replied and leaned my head against the Doctor's shoulder.

"They're clean. Everything else here is battered and filthy - look at this place. But no-one's laid a finger on those booths. Not a footprint within two feet of them. Ask Mandy, "Why are people scared of the things in the booths?"" The Doctor said as he patted my knee.

"No. Hang on - what do I do?" Amy asked then added in a whisper "I don't know what I'm doing here and I'm not even dressed!"

"It's this or Leadworth. What do you think? Let's see. What will Amy Pond choose? Ha-ha, gotcha!" He checked his watch and added "Meet us back here in half an hour." He replied

"What are you going to do?" Amy asked

"What I always do. Stay out of trouble." He stood up as well helping me up. "Badly." He leaped over a bench and started to walk away. Amy got up and faced him.

"So is this how it works, Doctor? You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there's children crying?" Amy said as I caught up to the Doctor.

"Yes." The Doctor replied as he took my hand, we walked away to whatever the Doctor had in mind. I had a feeling it had to do with the engines.