The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

Born From A Wish Pt. 2

Only silence in the zone greeted the two as they've arrived, not even a bird in the trees, though Nikita, or N as she's called in these tours, heard stories that at night, the silence breaks with either echoes or specters roaming the area, capable of taking anyone unfortunate enough coming across them away into a realm that's incomprehensible to the human mind, breaking victims in ways that are better left unsaid.

No one ever agreed to a tour in the night, not even if it meant they didn't risk capture by authorities, or even a lavish amount of money, precisely because the zone becomes a dangerous force at night, unless reality alters and day swiftly becomes night, but otherwise, it's a dangerous place at night.

Oh, Nikita's heard stories of time ceasing in the zone, not only weather, but the very fabrics of reality becoming warped, to the point that unfortunate people ended up caught in the disturbances often don't return home, if they somehow managed, it wasn't because they're lucky, not when it breaks their minds and reduces them to blubbering sobs who witnessed things that nobody ever encountered before.

It's common finding hideaways around the zone, placed there by people who needed a safe spot for a time, when reality or time turn turbulent.

Even though there's hideaways, it's never wise blatantly going through them without thoroughly checking.

The zone gives, but she takes.

Sometimes, things seep in.

Safe hideaways becoming unusable in minutes because reality changed them, that when some sob enters, they're instantly disintegrated by a force that's akin to being flattened by walls of cement, a hideaway where people were known to turn into skeletons instantaneously because the air became improbably acidic that it ate away at their flesh before they even registered their flesh from their arms' missing.

With the threats of the liquid that gotten Hugo, everyone who spent time in the zone always checks puddles in the ground, even streams risks being the infamous liquid, were known to seep into the hideaways, consuming everyone who mistakenly gotten into them without checking first.

Scientists have come to the zone and taken samples of the liquid for their own uses, Nikita never hosted tours with them, but she heard from those in the profession that did, say that the liquid harvested ate through most containers the scientists used to house it.

Couldn't find out more, those scientists weren't keen on sharing all, but they know for sure that the liquid gave them more trouble than it's worth.

Vladimir, one of the seasoned hosts, said his marks ended up losing their arms when they hopelessly tried to prop up a door after the liquid broke down the hinges, as the liquid poured out of the containers, and seeped into the room, like a river.

It's a miracle, but a terrible one, as he said.

"Is it true there's even monsters?" V inquired as Nikita guided her through the area, cautiously observant to any sudden changes in the atmosphere, the moment so much as a tree moves, Nikita's prepared to flee with her mark.

She thinks it over before replying to V's question, that there are animals in the zone, those that weren't purged, that evolved in the unnatural world, not with benefits in mind.

Some die out because they're unable to cope with the unnatural changes, some survive, some simply mutate, and they mutate with horrifying effects.

Nikita had her share of encounters, due to the tourists causing them, otherwise, she's cautious, indiscriminately killing the animals, though they'd surely prefer death to the agonizing life they lead, isn't wise with the zone.