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The tunnel was dark, dank and wet. A shadowed silhouette was making its way towrds the end where a light was dimly shining and voices coud be heard. Rounding the corner opened up to a large room with graffitied walls and puddles of who knows what gathered in the corners. In the middle of the room stood a man facing a semi circle of 15 screens being projected into the air from tiny black boxes placed on the floor below the screens. Each screen had a different face taking up most of the sceen and only illuminated by the light cast from their own screens. Out of the 15 only 4 could have passed as human. The the others were all clearly alien with an array of different skin colours and other differences that would make them stand out in a crowd.
The man that was stood in the middle of the room stood with nervousness and held breath. He was standing in front of a machine that showed fast moving numbers that matched what was flashing across the projected screens, next to him leaning against a podium was large canvas of artwork that was depicting an unknown world being blown apart, with buildings on fire and ruin and people silently screaming for help with ash and debris floating around them and even more of it covering the ground all now immortlised forever.
The voices on the screens were getting louder and louder clearly arguing and all talking over each other trying to get themselves heard above the rest. They were bidding on this piece of artwork, all trying to outbid each other to win the piece that was presented in front of them. The voices were hitting their crescendo of noise as the bidding war was finally coming to an end, numbers were quickly flashing across the screen until one number flashed in red, the bid was over. There was a winner. The man standing in the centre of the room breathed a sigh of relief, grateful that it was all over. His artwork had been sold. On the machine in front of him the screen displayed the end bid and he was then prompted to put in his details for the money to be placed into his account. Once he clicked the 'complete' button a maeesage flashed up on the sceen 'money recieved in account'. Happy no that the transaction had gone through he walked over to the painting, lifting it off its stand and walked over to the screen of the bidder that had won. The winnin bidder was an alien with bright blue skin, four yellow eyes that stared so intentsly it felt like they were staing right through to your soul an ong big, green horn that was sticking out from the aliens face right in the middle of its forehead.
Behind him the dark siholuette quickly moved with silence and precision and shot the man who quickly fell to the floor before he could pass the paiting through the transmat that would send it straight to the bidding winner. All the screens and machines went dark as each one didn't want to be witness to what was happening, all that could be heard was the chattering and metallic noise that come from the many other siholettes that had appeard from the shadows to join the one that had shot down the auctioneer. They quickly walked away back down the tunnel away from the scene, taking the body with them. Little did they know that someone had witnessed all this while being unseen and unheard.
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The sky was blue with not a cloud in sight with a slight wind that brought with it the smells of freshly cut grass and cooked meat from the barbecues from people nearby. Yaz and The Doctor were sat on a picnic blanket in a large field surrounded by other people out enjoying the weather while it was good which was rare thing in England. They were back in Sheffild having a break from travelling, running and saving worlds while Yaz was visiting and spending time with friends and family. It was for this reason why they they were sitting in a field, surrounded by food and people, Yaz's friends had invited her out for a picnic but had left her The Doctor alone while they went to the shop to get more 'supplies'.
Yaz was looking around and taking it all in. It was rare these days that she got 5 minutes to just sit and appreciate everything around her and she smiled to herself because as much as she missed all this she couldn't give up travelling with The Doctor. Her gaze drifted over to The Doctor who let Yaz persuade to try some different clothes for the occasion. They had come to a compromise and she was wearing a long dress top that was in a similar style to her usual outfit - it was a deep purple, amost maroon with her signature rainbow stripes across the chest but it was longer with this version comig down to just abover her knees - she still had on her brown boots that were worn and rugged from all the places they'd been over the past 3 years, she had her shoulder length blond hair up (that was like sunshine yaz thought) up in a pony with her fringe and two strands down framing her face that was also styled by Yaz. She also had her usual stars and hands chain earring in but to accompany that she had another chain earring in the other ear, this one was two hearts joined with a chain leading up to an ear cuff with the moon phases of earth.
Yaz didnt realise how long she had been staring at The Doctor for when she registered a hand waving in front of her face "Earth to Yaz. hellooo anyone in there?" she heard The Doctor saying. Yaz blinked and noticed The Doctor staring at her, her brows slightly turned down causing that crinkle to appear that made her look like a kid trying to concentrate on a a task, "sorry just zoned out for a minute there". The Doctor no longer looking worried and more relieved let out a breath "good i thought you had been taken over by a shapehsifting robot and was rebooting. thought i was gonna have to plug you in to the tardis and have too reroute back to where i lost you" Yaz being used to the randomness that came out of the doctors mouth just let out a little chuckle with a shake of her head and then watched as The Doctor gave her a big smile "good because i am quite enjoying being here and meeting your friends, a bit bored of just sitting here but at least the company is good" her eyes met Yaz's and they both smiled at each other. Yaz moved over next to The Doctor and they both layed down to watch the sky not needing to talk and just being happy to be in each others company.
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Some time later they heard a scream and they both jumped up, alert and looking around, scanning the whole area to see who was in trouble but it was just Yaz's friends coming back from the shop and one of them had been shot by a young boy with a water pistol and was now wet with the little boy and his friends running off laughing. They both relaxed at this and even let out a laugh at how mundane and human the situation was. Eventaully the friends were back at the blanket and one of the girls called Dana was carrying a flyer in her hand and passed it to Yaz "you heard anything about this?" Yaz took the flyer and looked at the piece of paper she had been handed. On it was big letters reading 'MISSING' and below showed a picture of a man in his mid 20's smiling at somene that was behind or off camera. Yaz read the details below and saw the last time he was seen was 5 days ago. Yaz passed the flyer back to her friend "no I havent heard anything it's not really my department at work". Before Dana could put the flyer away The Doctor grabbed it from her "what's this then?" Dana looked at her "haven't you heard? he's just the latest in a string of disappearences over the past 2 months, this one hits home a bit though as i went to school with him and he was abit of a loner. I tried to be nice to him but he was one of those that like preferred to alone or somehing, he never really tried to make friends or anything. He just sat there with his comics and drawings of aliens" at the mention of aliens The Doctor suddenly had more interest "what kind of aliens? Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheen, Stenza, oof" Yaz had elbowed her in the ribs. Yaz then turned to her friends who all looked at The Doctor like she had grown a second head "Doctor is just a bit of a enthusiast you know, area 52, roswell incident, nasa and all that stuff". The friends still looked weird at them but was somewhat satisfied with the answer and then one of them got the supplies out the bag which was a few bottle of wine, a bottle of cola and some bag of crisps and everything was then forgotten.
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Yaz woke up the next day on the floor of a living room she didn't recognise. After a few moments when she finally come to her senses she realised it was in the Tardis but she had never seen it before but she could feel the time machine humming and felt the familiar presence inside her mind where it had formed a telepathic link to her. Sitting up she noticed her friends were with her all in looking as bad as she felt. She hadn't felt this hungover since she was back in college. She groaned how was she gonna explain this to them she thought, a box that was bigger on the inside than the outside and the outside looked like a police box from the 60's. She looked around and saw a door so she stood up and walked over, opened the door and saw it led to a corridor. She stepped out and quietly and gently shut the door behind her so she didn't wake her friends and then have to explain this all before she had even had a chance to work out what she was going to say or do. She slowly walked down the corridor not sure where it would lead but quickly realised it led onto a corridor she recognised as the one that leads to the hall that has the bedrooms. She walked through this to get to the main cosole room and she stood at the top of the small flight of steps and looked around in shock. It looked like a bomb had hit the place, there was mess everywhere! Bits of metal were strewn across the floor, wires were hanging down from the console and ceiling and were haphazardly trailing along the floor, panels in the floor had been opened (or ripped up she wasnt sure) but The Doctor was no where to be seen. "Doctor?! Dcotor you in here?!" she was eventually answered with a lond bang followed by a groan "Yaz is that you?" and Yaz saw The Doctors head poke up from where she was laying, hidden under the console on the opposite side to where Yaz was now standing. The Doctor stood up slowly while rubbing her head "my head proper hurts now" Yaz laughed "I dont think your head hurting is all down to you bangng it just now" The Doctor looked at her all confused "why wouldn't it be?" Yaz just shook her head, she would explain all about hangovers later but first she had to tell The Doctor about the situation down in the secret living room and how they were gonna fix it.
Yaz found herself and The Doctor standing in the middle of the living room looking around and wondering how they were going to pull this off. She noticed The Doctor was back in her usual clothes now and was mumbling something about angles and the force that will be needed because according to The Doctor you could lift anything with the right equations behid you which Yaz seriously doubted. Their plan was to let off a kind of smoke bomb that would keep her friends asleep, then they would drag each of the friends out and place them around Yaz's room and then try to pass it of as either a dream or an illusion because of the alcohol.
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With all her friends now safely in Yaz's room and them still fast asleep Yaz and The Doctor were in the kitchen of the Khans place siting at the dining room/kitchen table both with a large mug of tea in front of them. Also on the table was another missing person poster which right now had Yaz's full attention "its said isn't it, after all we've seen and experienced that simple things like a person going missing can still get to you" The Doctor nodded "thats becase you are human and humans have compassion and empathy and they feel emotions and a missing person sparks those emotions. It's perfectly natural" but Yaz was lost in her own thoughts "Dana said he was the latest in a string of disappearances, do you thnk they could all be related?" she looked across at The Doctor who was chewing on her lip "maybe but without more infomation who knows". Yaz reached and picked up her phone and typed into Google 'Missing Peole in Sheffield' after scrolling past the first few results that were surrounding conspiracy theories, she clicked on a site that listed all the mising people, when and where they went missing and other details that coudld be useful. She looked up and over at The Doctor "theres been 28 disappearnces in the last 3 months within a 5 mile radius, dont you think thats a bit high? yeah some are probably not related but still thats a lot" she passed the phone over so The Doctor could see what was on the screen "mmm a lot of them went missing within the same area too, might be worth a look you know make sure theres nothing extra terristial going on". Yaz felt guilty that she felt happy about the fact that they could be off on another adventure and would be leaving her friends and family behind again but the thought of being with The Doctor and investgating something possibly alien filled her with excitement.
"How much did i drink last night?" the voice interrupted Yaz's thoughts and she looked up to see one of her friends Laura standing in the hallway to the kitchen, "cos I think im going mad. I swear we went inside one of those old time police boxes that my gran used to talk about but get this, it was bigger on the inside!" The Dcotor and Yaz just loked at each other and laughed. Yaz stood up to make a tea for her friend as her friend sat down at the table next to where Yaz was sitting, Yaz turned to her friend "yeah i think you did drink a bit too much bigger on the inside how is that even possible?!" she passed the mug of tea to her friend "here you're definitely gonna need that" she looked at The Doctor and just raised an eyebrow as she sat down, The Doctor passed her her phone back and on the screen it said the words 'i think we got away with that' Yaz wasn't so convinced, that was just one friend and there was 5 more to go.
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It was early evening and Yaz found herself standing at the entrance to a subway tunnel that allowed people to walk under a busy road, wathing The Doctor walk to and fro each side sonicing as she went. "what exactly are you looking for?" Yaz asked. Without stopping or even looking up at her The Doctor replied "im scanning to see if theres any traces of anything unusual like residual energy, teleportation devices, rifts because this tunnel is the last place a lot of those missing people were last seen so logical solution would be they were taken from here. They are seen going in but never coming out". The sonic then started lettng out a continous loud humming noise "bingo!" The Doctor shouted as she ran off into the tunnel with Yaz sprinting to catch up to her, but she didn't need to because her friend wasnt running for long as she had stopped about half way through the tunnel and was just staring at the wall. The noise from the sonic was even louder now and Yaz didnt know if it was from now being inside the tunnel so it echoed or if it had found what The Doctor was looking for but judging by The Doctors face it was the latter. "There's strong energy traces here but traces of what im not sure but Yaz you were right there is definitely something strange going on here". She brought the sonic up to her face as if she was reading something from it but Yaz knew there wasn nothing there to read from, she then watched as The Doctor shook the sonic and pushed the button on it "im trying to recalibrate it to fix in on the signal" as she said this she thrust the sonic out infront of her like a fencing sword and the end lit up and the huming noise continued again but this time the pitch was different. They both watched as a part of the wall in front of them started shimmering and going translucent "AH! it was hidden!" Yaz looked at The Doctor and then looked past the wall that had just disappeared and she was looking into a large circular room that was dimly lit from somewhere Yaz couldn't see and that had graffitti on the far wall in a language she didn't recognise but after a few moments the Tardis had translated them and she could read that they said 'BEWARE, 'Don't Be Fooled', and 'Don't Be Greedy'.
The Doctor went in through first with Yaz quickly following. They walked through the arch that now led to the new room and as they passed the threshold Yaz felt it. It was a feeling like when you go down a rollercoaster or go over a hump in the road too quick and for a second you feel weightless and you get the sensation your stomach is turning on itelf. Yaz looked over at The Docor and just by the look on her face she knew she had felt it too. "A transdimensional portal" The Doctor muttered and even though Yaz wasn't exaclty sure what it meant she understood portal and that was enough for her to work out what had happened. "So are we still on Earth or have we just travelled to some unknown planet?" The Doctor stuck out her tongue then licked her finger and put it up in ther air, she then sniffed the air for few times "yep definitely still on earth, just shifted to the side a bit" this somewhat reassured Yaz and she put her police skills into action and started looking around to see if she could find any clues as to what this place is for and why it connects to the missing people. But apart from some puddles on the floor which she didnt even want to think about what they were made of and the grafitti on the wall the room was empty. She turned to face The Doctor who was also pacing the room looking for clues "why would someone hide and disguise an empty room?". The Doctor stopped and faced her "maybe because its not always empty" she then quickly put a finger to her lips to motion Yaz to be quiet. Yaz listened but she couldn't hear anything, her human ears were obviously no match for The Doctors Time Lord hearing. She stood still in silence even holding her breath and then she heard it, a distant metallic squeaking like hinges that need oiling. She looked over and noticed The Doctor had started to slowly move back towards the archway which they had come through so Yaz followed, making sure she was as quiet as she could be.
When they had gotten level with the arch they backed up against the wall beside it while still being inside the circular room. Yaz could hear the noise now more clearly so whatever it was that was making it was getting closer to them. The closer it got the more she realied it sounded like a robot walking, the squeaking being its legs moving. She looked over and saw the doctors lips silently moving as she calculated and planned to herself, she then lifted up the sonic ready to get whatever was coming for them and she jumped out of the room and into the tunnel. It took Yaz a moment to work out what she had done and she went to follow but before she could there was a very loud and very high pitched siren that filled the whole tunnel and room. It made Yaz's bones hurt and she covered her ears to try and block out as much noise as possible but it was no good. There was a pressure building inside her head and every part of her body was vibrating and aching. She felt something wet drip down her face and she rubbed a hand over it and her hand came back red and covered in blood. She felt her face and there was blood coming from her eyes, nose and ears. She could feel panic bulding and she kept telling herself to stay calm but it wasn't working. She then heard screaming and she was looking around for The Doctor but she couldnt see her anywhere, panic rising she tried to move forward to search for the doctor because if that was The Doctor was screaming then it wasn't good but she couldn't move. She felt a pain in her throat and that was when she realised it wasn't The Doctor screaming it was her! Both of her hands were now away from her hears and she was getting the full force of whatever that thing was emiting. The last thing she remebered was seeing The Doctors boots as she came running towards her and then everything went black and she fell to the floor with a heavy thud.