Space Bound [1] ✅️

Bad Wolf

"What is it? What's happening?" The Doctor falls out of a small spinning cupboard. a blonde girl looks at him "Oh, my God! I don't believe it! Why'd they put you in there? They never said you were coming."

The doctor just looks confused "What happened? I was-" he trails off not remembering.

"Careful now. Oh! Oh, mind yourself! Oh, that's the transmat. It scrambles your head. I was sick for days. All right? So, what's your name then, sweetheart?" The Doctor is very unsteady. "The Doctor, I think. I was, er. I don't know, what happened? How"

"You got chosen."

The doctor is still confused "Chosen for what?"

"You're a housemate. You're in the house. Isn't that brilliant?!" Over by a pink screen with a stylized eye on it, a young man in a t-shirt is not amused. "That's not fair. We've got eviction in five minutes! I've been here for all nine weeks, I've followed the rules, I haven't had a single warning, and then he comes swanning in."

The dark-skinned young lady in the pink shirt joins in. "If they keep changing the rules, I'm going to protest, I am. You watch me, I'm going to paint the walls."

"Would the Doctor please come to the Diary Room?"

***
The Doctor goes through a door with the stylized eye on it and sits in a comfy chair. "You are live on channel forty-four thousand. Please do not swear."

The doctor closes his eyes for a moment "You have got to be kidding."

***
Kayce wakes up on a studio floor. A dark-skinned man is bending over her. She looks confused she grabs her head "Ah my head what happened?"

The dark-skinned man Rodrick looks at her "It's all right. It's the transmat. Does your head in. Get a bit of amnesia. What's your name?"

"Kayce" she looks around the room still confused "But where's the Doctor?" Rodrick looks at the original "Just remember do what the android says. Don't provoke it. The android's word is law."

Kayce still having no clue what's going on looks at Rodrick "What do you mean, android? Like a robot?"

A woman calls out instructions. "Positions, everyone! Thank you!"

"Come on, hurry up. Steady, steady." Rodrick helps Kayce up. She is wobbly on her feet, too. "I was traveling, with the Doctor and a man called Captain Jack. The Doctor wouldn't just leave me."

"That's enough chat. Positions! Final call! Good luck!"

Kayce looks at Rodrick "I'm not supposed to bloody be here" Rodrick looks at the brunette female original "It says Kayce on the podium. Come on." Kayce takes her place next to Rodrick.

"Hold on, I must be going mad. It can't be. This looks like the-" she gets cut off by the floor manager "Android activated!"

Kayce rolls her eyes "Oh, my God, the android. The Anne Droid. Yep exactly what I thought this was."

"Welcome to The Weakest Link!"

***

"Here we go again. We've got our work cut out for us."

"I don't know. He's sort of handsome. Has a good lantern jaw."

"Lantern jaws are so last year."Another pair of droids - one tall and thin, one short and curvy - have Jack lying on an examination couch. There is a rack of clothes nearby. "Sorry, but, nice to meet you, ladies, but where exactly am I?"

"We're giving you a brand new image." one of the androids tells him.

Jack remembers what happened before he woke up there "Oh, hold on, I was with the Doctor and Kayce. Why, is there something wrong with what I'm wearing?"