Stepping out of the TARDIS, Paul glimpsed their new surroundings, it was hard seeing in the darkness, glancing up he didn't see the moon or stars.

Turning around, only light came from the opened TARDIS as Taylor stepped out, curiosity in her emerald eyes as she glimpses around their new surroundings.

Darkness only greeted them, gnarly a light anywhere except what the TARDIS produced.

Reaching into his pocket, Paul brought out his trusty Sonic Screwdriver as he lit up the area around them.

In the blue light, they made out outlines of buildings with no windows.

There was no one out, nothing really, except for the couple, as they moved forward trying to find their way around their new surroundings.

From what the TARDIS told them, they're on a planet that has become ensnared in a recent phenomenon that caused devastating effects.

No one was sure what transpired, only that it started off as normal, until natives noticed it continuing to stay darker longer than normal, before they knew it was perpetually dark outside.

The shift had caused a massive change to ecology that while the natives haven't adapted, the animals and plant life have, and even evolved to take advantage of the perpetual darkness.

To a terrifying degree that in a bid to survive, the natives have withdrawn into their dwellings, frightened by the outside, and all that became endowed by the darkness.

Since, it's been a cat-and-mouse game of survival for the natives trying to survive, with scientists struggling to find a conclusive reason for the perpetual darkness that hung over the area.

…And the couple were outside in the darkness vulnerable to all and any that roamed it.

Huddled close to Paul in the blue light, Taylor struggled to see beyond what the Sonic Screwdriver lit up as they slowly moved through their new surroundings while attentively paying attention to so much as a pebble scrapping across the ground because of their shoes.

Keeping her close, Paul assures Taylor that the TARDIS wouldn't put them in danger the moment they stepped out, Taylor slowly nodding as she tried to have faith that the TARDIS would know better.

Though she couldn't overlook the times this wasn't the case, but Paul remains firm in his belief.

With that, they set out on their darkened adventure, while looking for any signs of life.

It didn't take long as they heard whooping noises and Taylor tenses up as Paul pulled her behind him as he wielded his Sonic Screwdriver outward towards the direction, they heard the noises.

"What in the frackity frack are you two doing out here?!" Someone shouted aloud as the couple were greeted with bright lights pointed down on them as they heard footsteps coming towards them.

A man wearing tactical gear stepped forward with the lights behind him as he grew agitated seeing the two out in the open.

Turning off his Sonic Screwdriver, Paul asks, "Who are you?"

He heard back, "I'm a Jabberwocky! Now get on before the beasts spot you!"

Ushering them towards other people wearing similar gear, the couple followed them as they returned to the safety of indoors.

Upon stepping through the threshold, they're blinded by bright lights as they see the group clearly.

Once the doors sealed and everything accounted for, the leader spoke with Paul with disdain for being careless.

"In all my life! You've any idea what's out there?" Lordon shouted at Paul.

Meekly, Paul replied, "No, sir, I don't."

Pointing at him, Lordon goes, "No one knows, that's why it's dangerous!"

Taylor meditated the angry Lordon by coming up with a story that he bought, and he cooled before expressing that he hated people breaking the quarantine.

He's well-aware that people were having cabin fever being stuck indoors perpetually, but there were inherent dangers lurking outside in the darkness that it was best if they chew on their breads.

"Forgive us, sir, but what exactly is a Jabberwocky?" Taylor inquires more about what Lordon reversed himself as and he explained that a Jabberwocky was someone who willingly went out into the darkness for supplies.

It's dangerous work, but anything's better than starving to death.

"How long has it been like this?" Paul wanted to know from Lordon.

As he took off his gas mask, exposing his purple face, Lordon tells Paul that it'd been too long, that they now have children who don't know what the sun was or looked like.

Before Paul could ask anything beyond what he knew, Lordon says the only person that could explain more in depth was the old scientist.

"And for god's sake, don't go out there without proper gear, again!" Lordon shouted at the couple for nearly risking him and his team's life.

Having gotten their ears shouted off, the couple were allowed through the corridors finding refugees escaping the darkness huddled close to the light sources they could find, as it was revealed by Lordon that everything outside adapted to the darkness, but forgotten what light was as a consequence, that in a pinch scaring anything attacking them with quick flashes of light bought time.

Though it also meant revealing their location, so it was better to use it if there was no other choice.

The generators had to be brought indoors because of the 'beasts' outside attacking them because of the noise they generated and the rooms that housed them were modified considerably to deal with potential exhaust fumes generated as they worked to keep the lights on.

There are several slits that exhaust the fumes outside at whatever nose levels the beasts were to spite them.

As they walked, Lordon gave them more context on what he and the people that found them were.

People who become Jabberwocky are tasked to find resources such as gasoline and bring them back to be used in the generators, but the scientist had been working on finding ways around the issue, hoping to find an alternative that would reduce the risks stemming from gas powered generators and having them brought indoors.

Before it became perpetually dark, they had hours to prep and come morning run through known areas retrieving resources before the darkness came.

Now, they had to prep and pray they come back.

"It just happened?" Taylor asks if Lordon remembered anything unusual happening just before the phenomena started and as he scratched the side of his purple face, Lordon replied that he remembered there was a storm.

It was massive, took out power for weeks at a time, and afterwards it started off subtle.

Everyone thought it was just their circadian rhythm being thrown off because of the outages, but once they checked the clocks and calendars, they started noticing it stayed darker longer than normal.

"And it wasn't like this before?" Taylor continued as Lordon brought them through the restricted area where the scientist and the others were.

Shaking his head, Lordon stated that he remembers when the sun was starting to rise at six in the morning during the springs and seven in the winters, but now he forgotten what time progression looked like.

Further curious, Taylor inquired, "Was there anything leading up to the storm?"

Once more, Lordon shook his head as he affirmed that nothing seemed out of place.

Everyone went through the efforts of trying to find that out when they started noticing the darkness, but no one was ever sure, but by then the darkness had become perpetual, and they noticed the wildlife had adapted to the darkness far quicker than expected with devastating results.

"Since, we've been struggling to survive," Lordon summed that ever since, he and the other Jabberwocky had been working hard trying to find supplies necessary for everyone's survival, but even then, he wasn't lying to himself, that there will be a time when they've run out on everything they can find.

Pointing them to the door leading into the laboratory, Lordon told them that the scientist spent much of his time in his lab, before heading back to regroup with the other Jabberwocky as they planned their next run.

"Environmental?" Taylor turned to Paul with curiosity in her emerald eyes.

Rubbing his chin as he listened to Lordon, Paul replied, "I don't know, luv."

They enter the laboratory and as Lordon expected, the scientist was inside working on finding answers.

He noticed them entering right away and came around the table with his hand outstretched like he was greeting an old friend.

"Hello, Doctor!" Ollie smiled at Paul.