Night of the Sirens

Night

The screams echoed as the Siren civilization was being wiped out. They came like a horde, a swarm of monsters. They slaughtered everything in their path. There was nothing left. The surviving members of their species tried fleeing their homes into the wilderness of Night. The lumbering monsters chasing them destroyed everything in their path so their masters can achieve their goals.

May 17, 2011

Earth

It was the middle of the night and the Doctor was installing his dematerialization circuit for what seemed like the millionth time and ran another test of the dematerialization. He closed the panel and sealed it. He kept muttering words in his native language hoping that that would somehow help. The Doctor pressed several buttons and pulled a lever. The wheezing sound of the TARDIS's cylindrical engines. The Doctor cringed. He was prepared for sparks to fly and everything to fly south, but it didn't. He checked the screens and monitors. He had to read it again to make sure. He face lit up and an enormous smile on his face. He started laughing and jumping up and down.

"I did it. I did it! I DID IT!" he cheered, "Now, I need to test it. Are you ready for a little ride Old Girl?"

The TARDIS whirred in response.

"I knew it. You are just as eager to go somewhere as I am," the Doctor said, "Okay let's go."

The TARDIS whirred again and the Doctor responded, "I'll come back. I have to. There is a Rift here, remember. It's pretty tame now, but it could open and when that happens, everything will come down."

The Doctor moved around and pulled another lever. The central column moved up and down. There was no grinding or sparking. The dematerialization was going perfectly. The Doctor watched the screen and jumped up in happiness. "We are in the Vortex! Now, time to set up temporal orbit to calibrate some things."

In the sub station, the sound echoed throughout the entire building, but no one was woken up. The napkins and other loose things went flying all over the place. After about a minute, the TARDIS had completely vanished into the Time Vortex.

May 18

Earth

"Only two and a half more weeks of this," groaned Alex as she came down from her room into the Russo's loft.

"Only two and a half more weeks of what, Birthday Girl?" asked Theresa as she was finishing making breakfast with Harper.

"Of school, duh," replied Alex, "And don't call me birthday girl. It's cute and annoying."

"Today is your birthday," said Theresa, "So that makes you Birthday Girl, if you like it or not."

"Okay, if you insist," Alex said rolling her eyes, "I'm going to go downstairs to get away from the birthday happiness."

TARDIS

Time Vortex

"Everything is checking out good," said the Doctor, "I definitely fixed you, Old Girl, but for how long? That's the question."

The TARDIS started to pick up on a transmission that was leaking into the Time Vortex. The Doctor noticed it and jumped up. He looked on the monitor on the control console and said, "That's a mayday. Where are you coming from?"

The Doctor watched as the TARDIS traced the signal to the planet Night during the 422,152 AD. The Doctor breathed in loud and said, "That's quite a distance in the future. What's the message connected to the mayday?"

The Doctor read it aloud, "Help. Anyone help. They found us. They are killing us over and over again. This is to anyone else who has survived the Slaughter and the following holocausts. We repeat. Help."

The Doctor stopped reading and his blood ran cold. Mainly for what the message said about the Slaughter. He had never heard of that event and then it said following holocausts. He should have known what it was. The Doctor was more worried about the fact that the message said they. It didn't name anyone, but it acted as though everyone knew who 'they' were. He didn't want to go to Night, but he had no choice. It was in his blood and he could go now that his TARDIS was finally fixed, but he had an obligation. His ship was time machine though, but he wanted to show Alex an alien world that was far away from any she had been to.

"Stop arguing with yourself!" the Doctor yelled at himself. He smacked himself repeatedly on the right side of his forehead. He added, "So many voices. All fourteen of them. Okay! That's it. I've decided. I am getting someone to talk to. Listening to all your voices, all my voices, is driving me nuts!"

The Doctor pushed a lever back up and the TARDIS control column moved up and down. The Doctor closed his eyes and listened to the beautiful sound of the TARDIS's vworping. "It's been way too long. Way too long."

May 18

Russo Loft

Alex was at the stairs when the air around her started moving. It was a feeling she felt before, but she didn't know where. Theresa and Harper felt it too and Theresa asked, "Alex, where is that coming from?"

Before she could answer, the vworping of the TARDIS could be heard. The TARDIS light at the top appeared and slowly the TARDIS materialized behind one of two chairs in the living room area. The TARDIS door opened and the Doctor popped his head out with the biggest smile any of the family had ever seen. He said, "She's fixed."

"I can see that, and you had to pop into my living room. That thing is fine downstairs, but in here it's just in the way," said Theresa.

"It won't be here for long," replied the Doctor, "I'm going on a little adventure to an alien world and all that."

"But why?" asked Theresa, "You'll miss Alex's birthday."

"No, I won't miss...wait, it's your birthday?" asked the Doctor, "You never told me."

"It's not something I'm big on," answered Alex.

"That's completely understandable," said the Doctor, "I'm sometimes the same way."

"Where're you going?" asked Alex. She was hoping she would be able to ditch school and go on a trip during her birthday.

"Night," said the Doctor.

"Night?" asked Harper, "You're going to go to the other side of the planet."

The looked at her and said, "No, my dear friend, Night the planet."

"There is a planet called Night?" asked Theresa, "That's not very alieny."

"Because it was named by humans. It was a human colony established during the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. After that empire fell, the planet receded back to the jungle world it was. It's in a proton star system. It's quite a beautiful planet."

"When are we going?" asked Alex.

"422,152," answered the Doctor.

"What?"

"That's when we're going. The year 422,152," said the Doctor, "We can leave right now if you want."

"She has school today. She can't go," said Theresa.

"It's a time machine, Mom," replied Alex, "I can leave and have a little fun and be back right after I left."

"I'll go with her and make sure nothing bad happens," said Harper.

The Doctor looked at Harper. He was surprised and asked, "You want to go to?"

"Why not?"

"I didn't think that you would want to go," said the Doctor, "You can go if it's okay to Alex."

"It's fine," said Alex, "I just want to go somewhere."

"Okay," said the Doctor. He looked behind Alex at Theresa. She nodded and the Doctor said, "Let's go then."

"Yes!" said Harper. She looked at the surprised faces of everyone in the room and she added, "I mean yeah sure, let's go."

The Doctor stepped out of the way and held the door open for Alex and Harper. They walked inside and the Doctor followed. Theresa ran up to the door and quietly opened the door and went inside.

The Doctor added the destination and the year into the TARDIS's systems and he pulled a couple levers and turned a sphere on the right side of the controls in front of him. The two on the stage looked at the center column move up and down and the familiar sound of the TARDIS engines. Theresa stared on from the door and walked into a sound room that was close to her. The two girls didn't notice her, but the Doctor did. He said, "We'll be there in bit. I need to go check something out."

He ran to the sound room where Theresa was. He walked in and stared her down. "What are you doing?"

"It was a spur of the moment thing and when I realized I shouldn't you had already done something."

"Well, Theresa, you're stuck with us," said the Doctor, "But I guess it's good because I got a transmission from the planet in the year 422,152. It was a distress signal. Something bad happened and I'm going to find out what it was, but I didn't want to go alone."

Theresa went from nervous to angry, "You tricked my daughter to go to another planet in the distant future just so you can go and find out what it is and you wanted someone to go with you."

"That's about the sum of it, yeah," said the Doctor, "Alex has magic though. She can defend herself. I didn't think about Harper going being a bad idea until just now. She doesn't have magic."

"What about me then?" asked Theresa.

"You weren't part of the trip. You snuk onboard," said the Doctor.

"I'll give you that one," said Theresa. Their conversion was ended by a big thud.

"We've landed," said the Doctor, "We'll talk about this later."

"Agreed," said Theresa.

The Doctor came out of the sound room and said, "We got company."

Theresa followed him out and said, "Hey, girls."
"Oh, Mom, why did you have to come?" asked Alex.

"Sorry," said Theresa.

The Doctor broke up the conversation, and walked outside. He walked to a drop-off outside the TARDIS and stared in awe and disgust at what he saw. The three came out and walked to where the Doctor was. They gasped at what they saw down below.

"Good God, who did this?" asked the Doctor. His anger was boiling over inside him. Down below, there was a massive city that completely ablaze. Buildings were still collapsing.

"Doctor, what's that smell?" asked Harper.

"Death, Harper. That's death. Countless bodies being roasted in that inferno. Who knows how many innocents. Who would do such a thing?"

The four of them watched as the fire licked the night sky on the planet Night.