Once the TARDIS had materialised in a small looking store cupboard, the three occupants stepped out. "I don't know what's wrong though. She's sort of queasy. Indigestion, like she didn't want to land." The Doctor stroked the blue police box.
"Oh, if you think there's going to be trouble, we could always get back inside and go somewhere else." Rose replied before the three burst into fits of laughter.
Once the laughter died down a bit, Sarah Jane turned to the Doctor. "Doctor, I think we may have landed in some sort of cupboard."
"I think you're right. Here we go." The Doctor headed to the door, turning the big wheel in the middle of the door to open it. As the door opened a computerised voice spoke, "open door 15" as they went through onto more of a corridor this time. "Some sort of base. Moon base, sea base, space base. They build these things out of kits." The Doctor told his two friends as the computerised voice spoke over him "close door 15."
"Glad we're indoors, sounds like a storm out there." Commented the young blonde as they through another door, the computerised voice speaking again to say the door had opened and closed.
"That voice is already getting annoying and we've only been here not even 10 minutes." The older brunette complained.
"Human design. You've got a thing about kits. This place was put together like a flat pack wardrobe, only bigger. And easier." The only male of the three rambled as they made their way through a third door. "Oh, it's a sanctuary base. Deep Space exploration. We've gone way out. And listen to that, underneath. Someone's drilling."
"Welcome to hell." Rose read off the wall behind them.
"Oh it's not that bad." The Doctor protested."No, Doctor, I think she means that." Sarah pointed to words painted on the wall in big block letters and an alien script directly beneath. The Doctor walked slowly towards the wall with the alien scriptures.
"Hold on, what does that say?" There was a small pause before he spoke again. "That's weird, it won't translate."
"But I thought the TARDIS translated everything, writing as well. We should see English." The blonde stated.
"Exactly. If that's not working, then it means that this writing is old. Very old. Impossibly old."
"And there I thought you were impossibly old." The brunette joked lightly in which the Doctor returned a smile.
"We should really find out who's in charge." He started to open another door as he spoke again. "We've gone beyond the reach of the TARDIS' knowledge. Not a good move. And if someone's lucky enough..." the door opened to reveal aliens with tentacles hanging from where their noses should supposedly be. In their hands they carried glowing globes. ""Oh! Right. Hello. Sorry. I was just saying, er, nice base." The Doctor told them hesitantly.
"You were what? Just saying 'nice base'? Because that sounded not very believable." Sarah whispered frantically.
"We must feed."The alien spoke.
"You must what?" The older woman asked thinking she heard them wrong.
"We must feed." It repeated.
"Yeah. I think they mean us." Rose grabbing the other two back with her as she grabbed a chair, the Doctor and Sarah pointed their sonics threateningly as the aliens advanded on them menacingly, chanting "we must feed. We must feed. We must feed." As the lead alien reached them it stopped as did the chanting. It tapped it's globe before speaking again. "You, if you are hungry."
"Sorry?" The Doctor was the first to find his speech as the other two just stood frozen.
"We apoligise. Electromagnetics have interfered with speech systems. Would you like any refreshment?" It asked kindly taking them all off guard as they had thought the aliens were hostile at first.
"Er..." The Doctor started before the computer spoke, "open door 18" signalling someone had just entered the room.
"We haven't been here that long and I already want to shut that computer up." Sarah half joked, but only loud enogh for her friends to hear as they both laughed quietly.
"What the hell? How did-?" This time it was a humanoid who spoke. He had wrinkles and his hair was greying. The aliens had all parted to make a path for him to walk through. He speaks into his wrist, assumably to speak to other members on board. "Captain, you're not going to believe this. We've got people. Out of nowere. I mean, real people. I mean three living people, just standing right in front of me." As he spoke the travellers could tell that whoever occupied this base wasn't used to visitors.
They heard the assumed captain's response, "don't be stupid, that's impossible."
"I suggest telling them that." The man eyed the three of them curiously, like as if he couldn't quite believe what his eyes were seeing which immediately set off the red flags for their curiosity.
"But you're a sort of space base. You must have visitors now and then. It can't be that impossible." Rose said, trying to understand. Something just didn't sit right with any of them.
"You're telling me you don't know where you are?" He questioned in disbelief. Surely they should know where they are, how could they not.
"No idea. More fun that way." The Doctor mused.
"You would've thought that you'd have learnt to find out where we are. It may be more fun but it's also more dangerous." Sarah scolded him. The worst thing about travelling with him was that because he didn't know where they were or they landed in the wrong place or time it always ended up worse on their end with a lot of close calls.
Over a tannoy a woman's voice could be heard. "Stand by, everyone. Buckle down. We have incoming. And it's a big one. Quake point five on its way." None of them knew what it meant exactly but they knew it wasn't good.
The man had rushed to the door he had came through. "Through here, now. Quickly, come on! Move!" They all ran through the corridor as the man kept yelling at them "move!" He remided Sarah of UNIT if they were training (AN: I don't know if they trained at UNIT or if she saw them but let's just go with it.). Eventually, they make it into what looks like the control room filled with more crew members.
"Oh, my God. You meant it." The black man replied, presumably the captain.
"People! Look at that, real people!" The young blonde woman exclaimed. The three travellers began to realise there was something definitely wrong about this base as they were all shocked to see people.
"That's us. Hurray!" The Doctor cheered amused and onfused.
"Yeah, definitely real. My name's Rose, he's the Doctor and she's Sarah Jane." Rose introduced them pointing at each of them in turn.
"Come on the oxygen must be offline. We're hallucinating. They can't be. No, they're real." Another dark haired man came up to them and examine them.
"Come on, we're in the middle of an alert! Danny, strap up. The quake's coming in! Impact in thirty seconds! Sorry you three, whoever you are. Just hold on, tight." The captain ordered as the dark haired man, Danny, strapped himself in his seat, as did the other members.
"Hold on to what?" The three asked frantically. There was nothing to hold on to.
"Anything. I don't care. Just hold on. Ood, are we fixed?" The captain adressed the aliens for the last question.
"Your kindness in this emergencyis much appreciated." The alien, the Ood, answered politely.
"What's this planet called, anyway?" The Doctor asked them.
"Now, don't be stupid. It hasn't got a name. How could it have a name? You really don't know, do you?" The older woman crew member asked incredulously.
"How can a planet not have a name?" Sarah Jane asked back yet before she could get an answer the captain called out to everyone. "And impact!" The whole base shook causing the three travellers on till their nuckles were white. The shaking died down for a few seconds.
"Well, that wasn't that bad." As soon as the Doctor finished his sentence the base began to shake again, much worse. The quake caused the Doctor to fall as he had let go after the first quake. The consoles in the room burst into flames.
Once the quake had stopped the captain called out to everyone. "Oky, that's it . Everyone alright?" No one spoke. "Speak to me, Ida?"
The older of the two women answered, "yeah, yeah!"
"Danny?" The captain called out as if he were calling out a school register.
"Fine." The young dark haired man replied.
"Toby?"
"Yeah, fine." The young blonde man answered this time.
"Scooti?"
"No damage." The young blonde answered.
"Jefferson?"
"Check!" The man they first met on the base answered last.
"We're fine, thanks for asking." Sarah Jane spoke sarcstically.
"The surface caved in." The captain said, ignoring Sarah Jane's sarcastic comment. He looks at the schematic of the base that projected from the main console. "I deflected it onto storage fivethrough eight. We've lost them completely. Toby, go and check the rocket link."
"That's not my department." Toby argued.
"Just do as I say, yeah?" The captain told him. Toby storms out of the room, unhappy.
"Oxygen holding. Internal gravity fifty six point six. We should be okay." Ida informed them all.
"Never mind the earthquake, that's, that's one hell of a storm out there. What is that, a hurricane?" Rose questioned.
"You'd need an atmosphere for a hurricane. There's no air out there. It's a complete vacuum out there." Scooti answered the blonde's question.
"Then what's making the roof shake?" Sarah asked this time.
"You're not joking. You really don't know. Well introductions. FYI, as they said in the olden days. I'm Ida Scott, science officer." She then pointed to the captain, "Zachary Cross Flane, acting Captain, sir." Then she pointed to Jefferson. "You've met Mister Jefferson, he's head of security." Next she was pointing to Danny. "Danny Bartock, Ethics committee."
"Not as boring as it sounds." Danny interrupted, causing the three to smile slightly.
"And that man who just left, that was Toby Zed, Archaeology, and this is Scooti Manista, Trainee maintenance." Ida pointed to Scooti before continuing and walking up to a lever of some sort on th wall. "And this? This is home." She pulls down the lever causing the ceiling to begin to open.
"Brace yourselves. The sight of it sends some people mad." Zach warned them. Overhead the shutters on the ceiling fully open revealing a black hole.
I will try to make sure to update within the next week. Thanks y'all for reading. Hope you're all staying safe during the coronavirus.