Chapter Two. Chit Chatting at the TARDIS

"What?! You never told us where you got a new sonic screwdriver!" Tegan exclaimed to the Doctor, "and mind if I ask, why didn't you use it against the Mara when I was possessed and we were on Manussa?"

Adric slightly shuddered at the memory of seeing the Mara's true form along with Nyssa seeing it for the first time, but he decided to brush it off, mainly to help Tegan be calm.

"That...I forgot it and it was an honest mistake, and it won't happen again from here on out." the Doctor replied as he picked up the sonic screwdriver, "I got it while Nyssa, Adric and I were at the library. A lady who called herself River gave it to me. She said I would need it in the future. It proved to be quiet useful when she used it."

Adric looked over to see Tegan was feeling down, still traumatized from being possessed by the Mara.

"You would not be the first person who was not themselves while traveling with the Doctor." Adric told Tegan, "There is a time when I was a stow a way during the first travels with the Doctor, we were still on E Space. I was nearly tempted by vampire rulers, brainwashed by one of them, about power, immortality. Romana woke me from the hypnosis power I was placed under and the Doctor saved us both."

"See, Tegan?" Nyssa chimed in, "You are not alone. It happens to the best of us."

"I suppose you are right." Tegan sighed, amazed that Adric was trying to cheer her up.

"Where are we off to now?" Nyssa asked the Doctor.

"After all we have been through with the Mara," the Doctor stated, "I say we need a much needed relaxation. It is going to be something unusual, that is for sure."

The Doctor then proceeded to look at the console to see where their destination would be located at.

"Hard to believe that you of all people...actually never mind." Nyssa began to speak.

"Never mind what?" Adric asked.

"Before our ordeal with the Mara and after we got Tegan back in the TARDIS," Nyssa answered, "all three of us were victims of a vampire cult and the Doctor had to save us. So that would make twice that you had to deal with vampires."

"Oh yeah that is right of course."

"Please!" Tegan exclaimed, "Do not remind me!"

"Sorry." Nyssa and Adric replied at the same time.

"This is odd." the Doctor stated.

"What is odd, Doctor?" Adric asked.

"We arrived at the city of Blakewood, Missouri in the year 2023." the Doctor announced.

"In the far future!" Tegan exclaimed, "Not like it would be the first time we have come across the far future."

"With that snap Thanos did back in 2018," the Doctor explained, "it created a gap between all our realities and...there is no telling who we will find in this time, but I do know that there is a fall festival at a local school. It sounds like a lot of fun!"

"Why don't we check it out." Adric suggested.

"I second that." Tegan chided, "Something fun to do on Earth for a change."

"I guess it is unanimous." Nyssa nodded, "A little fun to keep our minds off of the recent events that have happened to us."

The Doctor, Nyssa, Adric and Tegan all left the TARDIS, as they were unaware that they were about to embrace on a major adventure.