If He Was Not Alone

The Doctor: Omega Peleus

"So first, Jane Austen and then I was thinking Elvis!" Exclaimed the Doctor as he pulled on the levers on the Tardis console. He was running around the six sided console from where a huge column sprouted up reaching all the way to the ceiling. He was pressing buttons, twisting knobs, making sure the coordinates were set in, but Donna was still sure they were not going to end up where the Doctor had planned to. Donna was leaning against the metal railing, scanning every bit of the sensational structure. The TARDIS was a universe on its own with infinite rooms and corridors all branching out from the console room. The place where all the exciting things happened.

Donna was still new to travelling with the Doctor and still had many things left to be surprised with. On one of her recent adventures with the alien she ventured to Pompeii in Italy on volcano day where she saved an entire family from death. Although it had been the Doctor's ship that had gotten them out of Pompeii before the lava reached them, Donna had been the one to persuade the stubborn Time Lord to take them with the Doctor and her in the first place, so technically, Donna was the one who saved them.

"Elvis Presley!? The king of rock and roll!? Can we see him first?" She asked excitedly.
"Okay then! Maybe he'll remember me, I'm not easily forgettable." The TARDIS made a wheezing sound, shaking its passengers vigorously. The Doctor held onto the console with a big smile on his face while Donna, still getting used to the turbulence, was gripping the railing for dear life, being thrashed from side to side.

"So you've met Elvis before?" Donna asked him once they had landed. The Doctor grabbed his coat from the chair and ran towards the door. "Oh yeah! I was at his first concert. We call now and then. Oh, and don't tell anyone I gave Elvis Presley a cellphone. Actually, knowing Elvis, it's probably not a secret anymore."

He swung the door open and let Donna step out before him. She had expected a crowded concert with blasting music that broke people's eardrums but actually is was remarkably quiet. There was only a low thrumming noise in the background. The Doctor closed the door of the TARDIS, a dark blue police box as big as a wardrobe. Well that's how it seemed from the outside. It's bigger on the inside. Donna still didn't understand how a space as huge as the TARDIS could be crammed into a police box. But then again, that wasn't for her to understand. The only problem right now was that Elvis wasn't singing and people weren't  screaming in her ears.

"I know we've just arrived, but this doesn't look like an Elvis Presley concert to me."

"Maybe it is," said the Doctor, "maybe they're just being really, really quiet."

"Or maybe we're not at Elvis's concert at all. Ooh! I know what this looks like!" They had landed in room with white walls and a white table with white chairs. In the centre of the room there was a donut shaped desk, empty and as white as milk just like the rest of the furniture in this place. "This is a spaceship! I've seen them in movies all the time! All white and shiny with robot servants and teleports. I'm right, aren't I?" Donna said, looking proud of herself.
The Doctor, on the other hand, had his sonic screwdriver in his hand, a small silver stick with a blue light at the end. It was whirring away noisily as he waved it around the room like a wand.

"You're right. We're in a spaceship. But-oh-hang on, that's weird."

"There you go again! As soon as you make that face, it means we're about to get eaten by giant cockroaches or people who shoot lasers out of their noses! What is it this time?" Donna may have sounded irritated but actually she was as excited as she always was whenever she was with the Doctor. With the Doctor she wasn't just Donna. She had saved people. The Ood sang songs about her and the Doctor. In the TARDIS she didn't have her mum constantly yelling in her ears to get a job or to get married. With the Doctor the boredom she felt back at home was like it had never been there.

"We're inside the Omega Peleus galaxy." The Doctor aimed his sonic screwdriver at the table in the centre causing a massive holographic screen to come on display. The screen presented a map of the galaxy which was almost completely empty except for what looked like a few small planets and asteroids. "The Omega Peleus was destroyed ages ago leaving nothing but bare planets. There's nothing out here. Not the tiniest microorganism. A virus wiped out all life centuries ago. But for some reason we are entering it and landing there." The Doctor pointed to a red marker on the smallest planet remaining in the galaxy.
"Well, there must be people on board. Why don't we ask them?"

"Hello,' said a voice behind them. The two turned around sharply to find themselves faced with a creature with white hairless skin in a blue jumpsuit holding an orb connected to what Donna assumed was the mouth.
"Ood," whispered the Doctor to Donna.
"Doctor, they tried to kill us last time! Is this one...you know, like them?"
The Ood raised the orb and as it glowed, words sounded in their ears. "Stowaways must be taken to the captain."

"Yes-yes that's us. Good old stowaways. So, take us to your leader!" The Ood did as the Doctor had said. It turned around and walked back through the corridor, expecting the Doctor and Donna to follow him. "I've always wanted to say that!" The Doctor muttered as they went after the Ood.