Oh it is this episode... *sigh* It isn't that I hate the episode I think it is quite a good one that actually made me wonder what was going to happen to the Doctor in the end because he couldn't stop the 'creature' himself. I didn't like the fact that there was not really much Donna (apart from the start or the end) and that the location stayed the same. Nonetheless I somehow managed to write more than the episodes I found to have more detail than this one; oh well it might just be the amount of dialog that made it so long. Without further ado here is the first part out of three, Midnight!

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"I said, no." Donna refused once again at the Time Lords request, the Doctor and the Stone huddled together with a public telephone between them somehow allowing them both to use it at once, the two of them trying to convince Donna to go on a trip with them.

"Sapphire waterfall." The Stone tried to convince her with the beauty of the destination. "It's a waterfall made of sapphires. This enormous jewel, the size of a glacier..."

"Reaches the Cliffs of Oblivion, and then shatters into sapphires at the edge. They fall a hundred thousand feet into a crystal ravine." The Doctor finished

"I bet you two say that to everyone," Donna remarked.

"Oh, come on." The Doctor groaned then glanced over his shoulder seeing the few people start to head onto the bus. "They're boarding now! It's no fun if we see it on our own. Four hours, that's all it takes."

"No, that's four hours there and four hours back." She protested. "That's like a school trip. I'd rather go sunbathing." She paused for a moment. "Plus you have the Stone with you when was the last time you both went anywhere nice just together?" She asked.

"Well, there was..." The Doctor tried to think.

"That one time..." The Stone added. "Er..."

"Exactly!" Donna exclaimed into the phone making them both wince and move the phone away from them for a moment. "You two go and enjoy yourselves!" She beamed into it happy to get some time away from them both, of course, they were her best friends but sometimes she felt like the third wheel with them, they never meant to make her feel that way and she knew that and fully respected them both but she needes the time alone. "It isn't every day you get to relax together without me following you two around." She laughed.

"You be careful, that's Xtonic sunlight." The Doctor warned sharing a worried look with the Stone.

"Oh, I'm safe." She waved them off. "It says in the brochure this glass is fifteen feet thick."

"Phew." The Stone whistled.

"All right, we give up." He groaned. "We'll be back for dinner. We'll try that anti-gravity restaurant... With bibs." He glanced at the Stone who was shaking her head remembering a time back in her previous body where they had both went to a restaurant similar to that not realising what it actually was, they ended up with more food over themselves than in their stomachs.

"That's a date. Well, not a date. Oh, you know what I mean." They heard Donna groan. "Oh, get off."

"See you later."

"Bye Donna" the Stone added.

"Oi." She stopped them. "And you two be careful, all right?"

"Nah." The Doctor shrugged. "Taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight? What could possibly go wrong?" He placed down the phone.

"Oh, you had to say that." The Stone shook her head linking her arm with his.

"Don't tell me you believe in getting jinxed." He laughed.

"No." She protested. "I don't, but knowing our track record with trouble something is bound to happen, you just made it worse." She shook her head the two of them stepping aboard the space truck.

"We'll be fine." He shook his head at her." The two of them taking their seats at the front right watching the other passengers take their seats.

"I have no idea how either of us will sit still for eight hours today." The Stone laughed resting her head on the Doctors shoulder. "You can barely go a single hour without running about."

"Hush you." He flicked her nose not able to beat her comment with anything. Smirking she shook her head making the Doctor raise a brow. "Comfy?"

"Yeah." She laughed at him.

The Hostess then started to wonder around the room. "Complimentary juice pack and complimentary peanuts." She handed the items to an older woman.

"Just the headphones, please." She smiled.

"There you go." She smiled back then moved over to the Time Lords and started to hand the items out. "That's the headphones for channels one to thirty-six. Modem link for 3D vidgames. Complimentary earplugs. Complimentary slippers. Complimentary juice pack and complimentary peanuts." She said. "I must warn you some products may contain nuts."

"That'll be the peanuts." The Doctor grinned seeing the Stone biting her lip in the corner of his eye trying not to laugh.

"Enjoy your trip." The hostess shrugged it off.

"Oh, we can't wait. Allons-y!"

"Now that's something you haven't said in a while." The Stone looked at him as the hostess frowned not understanding.

"I'm sorry?"

"It's French," they both replied, "for let's go."

"Fascinating." She forced a smile then walked up.

"She thinks we're crazy." The Stone whispered watching the hostess move behind them, both handing out items to the bold older man with the young woman behind them.

"We are crazy." He grinned at her.

"You more so than me." She laughed kissing his cheek.

"Someones cheeky." He raised a brow at her.

"Says you." she retorted the two of them then glanced back at an older man their ears catching their attention onto the man who was talking to the young woman next to him. "They call it the Sapphire Waterfall, but it's no such thing." He said not noticing the TimeLords listening in on the conversation, "an aluminium oxide, but the glacier is just compound silica with iron pigmentation."

"...Complimentary juice pack and complimentary peanuts." The hostess continued to hand items out, this time she was in front of a man and woman who looked around their 40's, the two of them looked pleased with themselves.

"Thank you." The blonde woman thanked the hostess as she moved on.

"Have you got that pillow for my neck?" The man behind the TimeLords asked.

"Yes, sir."

"And the pills?"

"Yes, all measured out for you." The young woman handed them to him. "There you go."

"Hobbes." He lent over the seat shaking hands with the Doctor noticing them both. "Professor Winfold Hobbes."

"I'm the Doctor. Hello."

"I'm the Stone." The TimeLady warmly smiled shaking the mans hand after the Doctor had.

"It's my fourteenth time."

"Oh. Our first." He nodded at the Stone.

"And I'm Dee Dee, Dee Dee Blasco." The young woman lent over shaking the Doctor and the Stones hands.

"Don't bother the man and woman." Mister Hobbes hissed at Dee Dee. "Where's my water bottle?"

"...Complimentary slippers, complimentary juice pack, and complimentary peanuts. I must warn you some products may contain nuts."

"Don't be silly." The blonde sitting beside her husband scoffed. "Come and sit with us. Look, we get slippers." She held them up looking over at a boy who looked around to be in his late teens.

"Jethro. Do what your mother says." The man ordered.

"I'm sitting here." He hissed at them both pressing himself up against the wall.

"Oh, he's ashamed of us, but he doesn't mind us paying, does he?" The man groaned rolling his eyes.

"Oh, don't you two start." She groaned. "Should I save the juice pack or have it now? Look, peach and clementine."

The Doctor and the Stone glanced around the rest of the Crusader the two of them seeing the older blonde woman who was alone, she was reading a book and glanced up seeing the TimeLords they sent her a warm smile only to be returned with a slightly disgusted look as if to say 'why are you looking at me.' The Doctor glanced at the Stone who shrugged at him before they both turned slightly seeing the hostess walk up the empty gap from earlier walking towards the front. "Ladies and gentlemen, and variations thereupon welcome on board the Crusader Fifty. If you would fasten your seatbelts, we'll be leaving any moment." She waited a moment then glanced around, "doors." The doors then closed. "Shields down." The passengers all glanced around as the noise of all the window shields shut. "I''m afraid the view is shielded until we reach the Waterfall Palace. Also, a reminder. Midnight has no air, so please don't touch the exterior door seals. Fire exit at the rear, and should we need to use it, you first. Now I will hand you over to Driver Joe."

The woman stepped aside as a projector moved down showing a map. "Driver Joe at the wheel. There's been a diamond fall at the Winter Witch Canyon, so we'll be taking a slight detour, as you'll see on the map. The journey covers five hundred kliks to the Multifaceted Coast. Duration is estimated at four hours." He said as the map showed the route. "Thank you for travelling with us, and as they used to say in the olden days, wagons roll." The shuttle shook slightly as the engines turned on the Doctor and the Stone glancing around for a moment before the shuttle stopped shaking.

The hostess then stepped forward again. "For your entertainment, we have the Music Channel playing retrovids of Earth classics." A screen then dropped slowly out of the ceiling of the shuttle showing an old music video of a woman. "Also, the latest artistic installation from Ludovico Klein." The hologram on the projector then switched to a video of Betty Boop. "Plus, for the youngsters, a rare treat. The Animation Archives. Four hours of fun time. Enjoy." She smiled walking away. The TimeLords glanced at each other the racket echoing in the shuttle, they looked up and noticed the woman reading looked quite unhappy. Sharing a look the Doctor sent the Stone a wink then pulled out his sonic, the protector switched off and the screens returned to their docks. The Stone smirked at the Doctor shaking her head before they both looked at the woman reading who stared at them both.

"Well, that's a mercy." Mister Hobbes muttered.

"I do apologise, ladies and gentlemen, and variations thereupon." The hostess rushed in from her compartment at the back. "We seem to had a failure of the Entertainment System."

"Oh." The TimeLords looked at her pretending to look slightly upset.

"But what do we do?" The blonde woman sitting next to her husband asked.

"We've got four hours of this? Four hours of just sitting here?" The man groaned.

"Tell you what." The Doctor and the Stone turned round in their seats. "We'll have to talk to each other instead." They both flashed a grin.

--------------- 98 Kliks later ---------------

The Doctor and the Stone were lent over two of the seats listening to the husband and wife they learned to be called Val and Biff who were telling the groups stories. "So Biff said, I'm going swimming." Val started laughing trying to hold it in as she tried to speak.

"Oh, I was all ready. Trunks and everything. Nose plug."

"He had this little nose plug. You should have seen him."

"And I went marching up to the lifeguard. And he was a Shamboni. You know, those big foreheads?"

"Great big forehead." Val's eyes started to water from laughter.

"And I said, where's the pool? And he said..."

"The pool is abstract." Val and Biff both said holding onto each other as they laughed the TimeLords listening to the conversation.

"It wasn't a real pool."

"It was a concept."

"And you were wearing a nose plug." The Doctor and the Stone started to laugh both gesturing to their own noses.

"I was like this." He held his nose showing them. "Ooo, where's the pool?"

--------------- 150 Kliks later  ---------------

The TimeLords stood in the galley talking to Dee Dee who handed them both a drink each as she explained to them how she got here. "I'm just a second-year student, but I wrote a paper on the Lost Moon of Poosh, Professor Hobbes read it, liked it, took me on as researcher, just for the holidays." She explained the two of them nodded at her listening to the young woman speak. "Well, I say researcher. Most of the time he's got me fetching and carrying. But it's all good experience."

"And did they ever find it?" The Doctor asked after taking a sip of his drink.

"Find what?" Dee Dee frowned.

"The Lost Moon of Poosh." The Stone said the Doctor nodded as he took another drink.

"Oh, no. Not yet." She shook her head at them.

"Well. Maybe that'll be your great discovery, one day." The Doctor smiled raising his cup. "Here's to Poosh."

"Poosh." The Stone and Dee Dee both held up their cups making a toast.

--------------- 209 Kliks later ---------------

The Stone sat next to the older blonde woman who was reading at the start of the journey while the Doctor lent against the Stones chair practically sitting on the arm, the three of them unwrapping their meals. "No, no, we're with this friend of ours, Donna." He explained to her that it wasn't just the two of them. "She stayed behind in the Leisure Palace."

"Insisted that we had time to ourselves, I think she just wanted an excuse to get away from us." The Stone laughed. "The Doctor can be quite a handful sometimes." The Stone smirked as the Doctor playfully glared at the TimeLady.

"I'm not that bad!" He protested.

"No, you're right." She nodded. "You're even worse." She grinned.

"If I didn't have my hands full I would poke you right now." He shook his head at her.

"I'm so scared." She joked rolling her eyes. "Anyways enough about us what about you?" The Stone raised a brow at Sky.

"No, it's just me."

"Oh, I've done plenty of that." The Doctor nodded. "Travelling on my own. I love it." He then glanced at the Stone who nodded slightly understanding what he meant, even she took her family's TARDIS at one point and traveled alone, that was back when she had to return to Gallifrey due to one of her sisters weddings, of course she didn't stay for long stole her family's TARDIS to escape. "Do what you want, go anywhere."

"I think it's more enjoyable with the Doctor even when he is a handful." She smirked. "It is quite nice though." The Stone added nodding slightly in thought.

"No, I'm still getting used to it." Sky shook her head. "I've found myself single rather recently, not by choice."

"What happened?" The Doctor asked.

"Oh, the usual." She shrugged. "She needed her own space, as they say. A different galaxy, in fact. I reckon that's enough space, don't you?"

"Yeah." They both nodded at her. "We had a friend who went to a different universe."

"Oh, what's this, chicken or beef?" Sky frowned eyeing the meat on her fork. The Doctor held a piece of his own meat up frowning. "I think it's both."

"For once you're not going to lick it to find out?" The Stone chuckled shaking her head. "I think it might be chicken though."

--------------- 251 Kliks later ---------------

"So, this is Midnight, do you see." Professor Hobbes pointed to the screen at the front of the bus showing them his presentation explaining the area. "Bombarded by the sun. Xtonic rays, raw galvanic radiation. Dee Dee, next slide." He looked at the woman who pressed the button from the projector. "It's my pet project. Actually, I'm the first person to research this. Because, you see, the history is fascinating. Because there is no history. There's no life in this entire system. There couldn't be. Before the Leisure Palace Company moved in, no one had come here in all eternity. No living thing."

"But how do you know?" Jethro, Val and Biffs son asked. "I mean if no one can go outside..."

"Oh, his imagination." Val cut him off looking at the others. "Here we go."

"No, no." The Stone shook her head. "He does have a very good point."

"Exactly." Professor Hobbes nodded at the TimeLady. "We look upon this world through glass, safe inside our metal box. Even the Leisure Palace was lowered down from orbit." He explained. "And here we are now, crossing Midnight, but never touching it."

"You know." The Stone whispered to the Doctor who sat beside her. "For some odd reason, Professor Hobbes reminds me of your second self."

"Really?" He blinked at her frowning slightly.

"Oh yeah." She nodded. "Might just be the blue eyes, something else as well..." She started to trail off in thought then shook her head. "I don't know."

"You're starting to ramble." He smirked at her.

"Oh don't start." She rolled her eyes before the shuttle made a loud noise violently shaking before it became silent, the TimeLords looked up glancing around the bus.

"We've stopped." Val looked at her husband. "Have we stopped?"

"Are we there?" Biff looked around at the other passengers.

"We can't be." Dee Dee shook her head. "It's too soon."

"They don't stop." Professor Hobbes shook his head. "Crusader vehicles never stop."

The Doctor and the Stone shared a glance observing the other passengers the Stone whispering to him. "And I was hoping to have a 'normal' trip."

"I thought you hated normal?" The Doctor retorted looking at her.

"Once in a while, it's... Nice, even if we do get bored out of our minds after an hour of it." He laughed at her comment shaking her head.

"If you could just return to your seats." The hostess instructed. "It's just a small delay." She tried to reassure them while moving over to an intercom phone.

"Maybe just a pit stop." Biff tried to think of an excuse for the situation, something that the TimeLords both knew was not true as they overheard the hostess quietly hissing into the intercom phone. "What's going on?"

"There's no pit to stop in." Professor Hobbes said. "I've been on this expedition fourteen times. They never stop."

"Well, evidently we have stopped, so there's no point in denying it." Sky snapped at them.

"We've broken down."

"Thanks, Jethro." His mother glared at the boy.

"In the middle of nowhere." He started to grin.

"That's enough." Biff snapped. "Now stop it."

"Ladies and gentlemen, and variations thereupon." The hostess said sending the group reassuring smiles, something that didn't work on either of the TimeLords while they slightly narrowed their eyes. "We're just experiencing a short delay. The driver needs to stabilise the engine feeds. It's perfectly routine, so if you could just stay in your seats." Both thinking the exact same thing the Doctor and the Stone walked towards the driver door as the hostess walked over to them. "No, I'm sorry, sir, ma'am, I..." She stuttered as they ignored her. "Could you please?"

The Doctor took the Stones hand while flashing his psychic paper at the woman. "There you go. Engine experts." He said opening the door. "Two ticks."

"I'm sorry, sir, ma'am." She protested again as they walked in eyeing the multiple controls in the small room with only two chairs where two men sat. "If you could both just sit down. You're not supposed to be in there..." She repeated as the doors shut behind the TimeLords.

"Sorry. If you could return to your seat, ma'am, sir." One of the men turned around seeing the Doctor and the Stone standing there.

"Company insurance." The Doctor flashed his psychic paper. "Let's see if we can get an early assessment. So, what's the problem, Driver Joe?" The Doctor read off the mans name from his uniform.

"We're stabilising the engine feeds." He explained. "Won't take long."

"But that's the engine feed?" The Stone raised a brow lightly tapping it. "That line is completely fine, normal." The two men in front blinked at her. "It's a micropetrol engine, so stabilising wouldn't do anything to it." "Doesn't really make sense, does it?" The Doctor raised a brow smirking at the look on their faces at how the Stone suddenly walked in and saw right through the lie.

"Sorry. I'm the Doctor, this is my fiancée the Stone. I'm very clever, she's even cleverer." He grinned, the Stone rolled her eyes at him, as flattering as it was she didn't like being constantly reminded. "So, what's wrong?"

"We just stopped." The man next to Driver Joe. "Look, all systems fine, everything's working, but we're not moving." The Doctor scanned the controls with his sonic and frowned slightly. "Yeah, you're right. No faults. And who are you?"

"Claude. I'm the mechanic." He said before adding. "Trainee."

"Always handy to know about mechanics." The Stone muttered. "Nice to meet you."

"I've sent a distress signal," Joe said. "They should dispatch a rescue truck, top speed."

"How long till they get here?" The Doctor asked.

"About an hour."

"Well, since we're waiting, shall we take a look outside?" He asked slightly grinning. "Just lift the screens a bit?" The Stone shook her head slightly having a bad feeling about it.

"Doctor..." she tried to convince him not to before Joe cut her off gasping at his idea. "It's a hundred percent Xtonic out there! We'd be vaporised."

"Nah." The Doctor shook her head. Those windows are Finitoglass." He raised a brow smirking. "They'd give you a couple of minutes."

The Stone shook her head not liking the idea at all, but the temptation was too strong she wanted to see it as much as he did. "Go on, live a little."

"Well." He looked at them both seeing the grins on their faces and raised the front screen showing tall, beautifully sparkling rocks.

"Wow." Joe looked out at the view the four of them sharing the same facial expression of awe.

"Oh, that is beautiful." The Doctor looked out gleaming.

"Look at all those diamonds. Poisoned by the sun." Claude said. "No-one can ever touch them."

"Joe, you said we took a detour?" The Doctor asked not looking away from the beautiful view.

"Just about forty kliks to the west."

"Is that a recognised path?"

"No, it's a new one." He explained. "The computer worked it out on automatic."

"So we're the first." He beamed like a child. "This piece of ground. No one's ever been here before. Not in the whole of recorded history."

"Did you just?" Claude frowned shaking his head and leaning forward. "No, sorry, it's nothing."

"What did you see?" The Stone snapped her head in the mans direction as the Doctor did the same the two of them showing a worried look on their faces.

"Just there." He pointed out in a direction. Both the TimeLords followed his arm in the direction with her eyes, looking around the area of the glistening rocks sparkling in the light. "That ridge." He said. "Like, like a shadow. Just, just for a second."

"What sort of shadow?" The Doctor looked at Claude a moment before there was a beeping sound,

"Xtonic rising!" Joe exclaimed pressing a couple of buttons, the shield then slowly moved back down. "Shields down."

"Look, look!" Claude pointed as the shield moved down. "There it is, there it is!" He moved down looking at it. "Look, there!"

"Where?" The Doctor and the Stone looked at him slightly concerned. "What was it?" The Doctor asked, the shield then shut.

"Like just something shifting." Claude looked at them. "Something sort of dark, like it was running."

"Running which way?"

"Towards us." The Doctor glanced at the TimeLady beside him seeing the slightly concerned look on her face.

"Right, Doctor, Stone, back to your seats," Joe ordered. "And, er, not a word. Rescue's on its way. If you could close the door." He nodded as they stepped out. "Thank you."

They both walked back in to see the passengers scattered around worrying talking to each other, Sky stood beside the door as they walked out. "What did they say?" She asked them both. "Did they tell you? What is it?" She asked. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, just stabilising." The Doctor shook his head the Stone nodding to make the story more believable. "Happens all the time."

"I don't need this," Sky muttered angrily. "I'm on a schedule. This is completely unnecessary."

"Back to your seats," the hostess walked past the three of them. The Doctor took the Stones hand the two of them heading back to their seats, "thank you."

"I don't have a good feeling about this sweetheart."

"No, me neither." He lightly rubbed his thumb over her knuckles seeing the anxious look in her soft green eyes.

"Excuse me, Doctor, Stone." Dee Dee looked over and between the couples seats. "But they're micropetrol engines, aren't they?"

"Now, don't bother them." Professor Hobbes scolded her.

"My father was a mechanic." Dee Dee ignored the older man. "Micropetrol doesn't stabilise. What does stabilise mean?"

"Well." The Doctor glanced at the blonde beside him for help.

"It's nothing to worry about." The TimeLady cut in sending the young woman a reassuring smile. "Don't worry yourself over it, they're sorting it out."

"So it's not the engines?" Professor Hobbes questioned her.

"It's just a little pause, that's all." The Doctor spoke up.

"How much air have we got?"

"Professor, it's fine." The Doctor tried to calm the man.

"What did he say?" Val spoke up.

"Nothing."

"Are we running out of air?" She worryingly looked at her husband.

"I was just speculating."

"Is that right, miss?" Biff asked the hostess as she exited the compartment. "Are we running out of air?"

"Is that what the Captain said?" Val questioned the woman.

"If you could all just remain calm." The hostess tried to calm them all.

"How much air have we got?" She continued badgering on.

"Mum, just stop it."

"I assure you, everything is under control." The hostess tried to smile.

"Well, doesn't look like it to me." Biff huffed at her.

"Well, he said it." Val pointed at Professor Hobbes.

"It's fine." Dee Dee tried to tell the group as they all spoke over each other. "The air is on a circular filter." The TimeLords raised a brow as the discussion became more of an argument.

"Shush." The Doctor tried to stop them. "Shush shush." Rolling her eyes the Time Lady shook her head muttering something about humans throwing the blame on each other under her breath, not that she or the Doctor had not done that before but not as much as humans did. She stood up on her seat as the Doctor curiously watched before the Time Lady loudly whistled making the group stop their arguing and wince at the noise. The Stone sent the Doctor a sympathetic look as he rubbed his ears. "Sorry sweetheart Donna's been teaching me how to do that." She grinned jumping down from the seat.

"Well then." He nodded at her thinking that he was going to get the redhead to teach him that later on as well. "Those lessons are paying off but please warn me next time." He whined. She shook her head at him before he turned back to the rest of the group staring at the two. "Now, if you'd care to listen to my good friend Dee Dee..." The Doctor looked over at the woman who stared at him before slowly rising from her seat. "Oh. Er, it's just that, well, the air's on a circular filter, so we could stay breathing for ten years." She explained.

"There you go." He nodded. "And we're spoken to the Captain." He gestured to the Stone and himself. "We can guarantee you everything's fine." He said before two loud thumping noises were heard from the ceiling of the bus.

"What was that?" Val asked stepping closer to her husband.

"It must be the metal." Professor Hobbes said. "We're cooling down. It's just settling."

"Rocks." Dee Dee nodded. "It could be rocks falling."

"What I want to know is, how long do we have to sit here." Biff looked at the hostess before there were two more hits on another part of the bus making the group snap their heads in the direction of the noise.

"What is that?" Sly looked around the group for answers.

"There's someone out there." Val gasped shaking.

"Now, don't be ridiculous." Professor Hobbes hissed.

"Like I said, it could be rocks." Dee Dee repeated again.

"We're out in the open. Nothing could fall against the sides." The hostess said the Doctor and the Stone frowned ever so slightly their eyes scanning the walls of the bus before darting to one of the sides hearing the thumping on the bus again.

"Knock, knock." The Doctor muttered quietly.

"Who's there?" Jethro joked.

"Very funny there Jethro." The Stone looked over at him her eyes fixed on where the knocking came from.

"Is there something out there? Well?" She said after there was no reply. "Anyone?"

Another two knocks made the group apart from the TimeLords jump again. The Doctor and the Stine continued to stare at the areas the knocking came from trying to think of what it could possibly be.

"What the hell is making that noise?"

"I'm sorry, but the light out there is Xtonic. That means it would destroy any living thing in a split second." Professor Hobbes hissed. "It is impossible for someone to be outside."

Another two knocks came through.

"Well, what the hell is that, then?"

The Doctor stood up moving over to the door with the Stone, he placed the stethoscope on the door one of the buds in his ear and the other in the Stones whose head was pressed up against his allowing them both to hear.

"Sir, ma'am, you really should get back to your seat." The hostess warned. The pair ignored the woman listening quietly.

"Hello?" The Doctor said before more knocking now at a faster pace hit the walls.

"It's moving," Jethro said as they all looked up, the knocking stopped above the emergency exit before it started to rattle.

"It's trying the door!" Val gasped jumping back.
"There is no it!" Professor Hobbes snapped. "There's nothing out there! Can't be!" The rattling continued before it stopped, there were then two thumps on the roof before it started on the entrance, the Doctor stepped back slightly tightly holding the Stones hand both of them tensely watching the entrance door.

"That's the entrance." Val shakily pointed at the door. "Can it get in?"

"No." Dee Dee shook her head staring at the door. "That door's on two hundred weight hydraulics."

"Stop it." Professor Hobbes growled at her. "Don't encourage them."

"What do you think it is?" Dee Dee looked at the TimeLords. Biff then started to move forward towards the door.

"Biff, don't." Val pleaded for her husband to come back away from the door.

"Mister Cane." The Doctor warned. "Better not."

"Nah, it's cast iron, that door." He nodded at it. The Stone shook her head at the mans ignorance. He knocked three times and waited a moment before jumping back at the three identical knocks in reply.

"Three times." Val gasped. "Did you hear that?" She looked at her husband. "It did it three times."

"It answered." Jethro stared at the door.

"It did it three times!" Sky cried out.

Seeing the panic the Doctor stepped forward holding up his hands still lightly holding the Stones. "All right, all right, all right." He calmly said. "Everyone calm down."

"No, but it answered." Sky shook her head. "It answered. Don't tell me that thing's not alive. It answered him."

There were three more knocks. "I really must insist you get back to your seats." The hostess urged them starting to panic herself.

"No, don't just stand there telling us the rules!" Sky snapped. "You're the hostess. You're supposed to do something!"

The Doctor started to move before the Stone had a chance to pull him back, neither of them knew what could possibly be outside the bus, it could be harmless or dangerous, they didn't know what it was and it terrified them both, it didn't help that the Doctor was now beside the door where the knocking was coming from. He knocked on the door four times before there was a long pause, the Stone closely watching the door for any movements before there were four knocks repeated as if it was an echo.

"What is it?" Sky pleaded for an answer. "What the hell's making that noise? She said she'd get me." She started to back up as the knocking continued. "Stop it. Make it stop. Somebody make it stop." She begged. "Don't just stand there looking at me!" She snapped at them. "It's not my fault. He started it with his stories!" She pointed at Professor Hobbes as the hostess moved over to the inter-comm.

"Calm down!" Dee Dee shouted at the woman.

"And he made it worse!" She then pointed at Biff.

"You're not helping," Val growled at Sky who looked scared to death.

"Why didn't you leave it alone?" She hissed at him. "Stop staring at me! Just tell me what the hell it is."

"Calm down!" Dee Dee shouted again as Sky continued to back up.

The knocking now turned into loud thumping on the roof of the bus. "It's coming for me." Sky cried moving into a position close to the floor. "Oh, it's coming for me." She pressed herself up against the drivers door. "It's coming for me. It's coming for me. It's coming for me." She cried and then screamed. The Doctor and the Stone reached across the seats.

"Get out of there!" They both shouted before the bus frantically rocked, sparks began to fly from the sides as the lights cut out, the Doctor and the Stone were thrown from side to side just like the other passengers, the pair of them managing to hold on to each other as they were thrown into a row of seats the Doctor landing on his back with the Time Lady beside him. 

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I didn't want the start to be so full of me just talking so I decided to put this down here instead.

Thanks to @rubies_gems The first book in the Parallel Series (TPS) just reached 200 votes! I've never even imagined having 200 votes yet alone over 2k reads especially when that is the first book I actually completed. Thank you so much I have placed a message on your profile but I thought one here would be nice as well. <3