Note= Still none the wiser how the new Doctor is going to turn out, so I'm using my imagination again. This episode contains graphic sex scenes and body modification.
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The Doctor's ship had not been in the best of shape when he had taken it without permission all that time ago on Gallifrey. The TARDIS is capable of space and time-travel and has a built in 'chameleon circuit,' a type of camouflage that changes the exterior form of the ship to blend into the environment of whatever time or place it lands in. The Doctor's TARDIS always resembles a 1960's London police box, an object that was very common in Britain up until the 1980's. Due to a malfunction of that circuit, the ship became stuck in the same disguise.
When she had joined the Doctor as a traveling companion, Ruby Sunday had been in awe of the larger interior. Behind the doors of what appeared to be a police box was a large control room, at the center of which she saw a hexagonal console which operated the TARDIS. The Doctor explained the presence of a physically larger space contained within the police box as 'dimensionally transcendental.' with the interior being a whole separate dimension containing an infinite number of rooms, corridors and storage spaces, all of which can change their appearance and configuration.
"It's absolutely fabulous!"
On her request, her first trip had been to the past. The pair had gone to the Egypt of the year 58 BCE, which made the girl's day. Although they were not lucky enough to get an audience with Cleopatra.
Now, The Doctor promised to take the saucer eyed blonde far into the future.
"What's that, Doctor?"
The dark skinned Time Lord tugged on the lapels of his brown and black chequered jacket and peered at the display screen on the central console.
He found the computer crunching numbers and reading various power levels and energy readings. He did some quick mental calculations and saw a strong reading in the gravity wave spectrum. He set the computer to seek out the trajectory of a small planetoid or moon in the approximate region.
"I'm detecting some form of life in the close proximity."
Ruby watched him intently as he busied himself with tapping buttons, fingering a keyboard, and spinning a fine toothed wheel.
"It appears to be a derelict spaceship."
"Aliens!" Said an excited Ruby with her hand across her mouth.
"Quite," answered the amused Time Lord. He being an 'alien' himself.
On the scanner, both viewed the city sized ship in unsurveyed space.
"Derelict, and of origin unknown. Sensors indicate there is no life aboard ship. But there IS some signs of sentient intellect maintaining power on many areas of the ship. Whatever the reason for it's demise, we have a duty to investigate."
"Okay."
"Good girl. I admire your spunk."
The Doctor reset the coordinates. Quadrant six, WHI1212. 99904100.
"Hmm." The Doctor studied the vessel on the scanner when the TARDIS rematerialised and saw that the ship appeared to be intact. Approximately one kilometer in length. No signs of debris, nor any damage to the hull. I'm transmitting communication, but no answer as of yet."
"Is it dangerous?"
"As this ship is of unfamiliar origin, I would suggest a certain degree of caution. Having said that, I don't anticipate anything untoward. My computer has notified me of what appears to be a designed landing area near one end. It's raised up off from the rest of the main fuselage and isolated. I propose to set down there and check things out.
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"Crumbs! We're really going into space!" Gushed an excited Ruby as The Doctor directed the TARDIS to the selected coordinates.
Ruby had discovered the wardrobe of the TARDIS and stepped out in her Shearling denim jacket and ocean blue shorts, She also threw on a pair of tights and added a pair of Doctor Marten black boots.
"I believe there to be a way in here."
As they ventured outside, they looked up and down an extremely long corridor which was cold and empty. Some kind of luminescent globes along the cylindrical walls lit the corridor as far as the eye could see. The Doctor produced his sonic screwdriver.
"What's that? Looks like a vibrator."
"Sex on the brain. Dear me. My scanners cannot detect any life readings bar the two of us. Yet, though effectively sterile, the ship appears to be functioning normally, as if still manned by some sort of a crew. Speed and trajectory seem fixed, but as of yet I have no idea of its objective. Air is 73% Nitrogen and 23% Oxygen. 4% mixed others. Fuel unknown. Hmm. Could this be a transport? Ferrying a race to another world? Another destination? Is the ship returning from its completed mission?"
"There's some writing here, Doctor."
The cute slip of a girl pointed with her index finger to some script on a wall.
'&โฌ&;;,, >โ <โกโโกโใใยค{}{}{%โงโงโกโคโค"
Again, the newly regenerated Time Lord ran his special screwdriver along the strange wording but he had to admit defeat, totally mystified by the unusual language.
"I can speak many, many languages but this is new to me. Who or what is controlling this vessel? I need answers. Let's go down here."
Ruby Martha followed him as he led the way cautiously. Pacing down the clinical and empty passageway was just as scary to the teenage girl as trying to catch a cab at two in the morning on a Saturday night. She kept looking over her shoulder, harbouring a feeling that they were being watched.
Eventually they came to a large room with blank display screens all around the inner walls and two raised platforms opposite one another.
"Right," said he as he looked at Ruby with his big brown eyes. "We don't go in until. Hey!"
Without looking back, the blonde filly stepped into the room, feeling the metal floor beneath her boots.
At that moment, a loud klaxon sounded and sudden bursts of bright light from the once dormant computer systems rebooted.
"What the bloody hell! Doctor!"
Ignoring any personal danger, he leapt forward and grabbed the girl and hugged her close to his chest. Suddenly, they became illuminated by vivid halo's of green light which passed over their bodies.
It were as if they were being scanned as the room became lit by an eerie glow, leaving them both separated and isolated by the luminescent green halo's.
Then, starting at their heels, both of them began to wink out of the large room.
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Ruby slowly came to and tried to lift her head.