Monsters [Doctor Who]

C H A P T E R E I G H T

Chapter Eight:

Augusta's POV

"So, what is it? What's wrong?" Rose asked as we stepped out of the TARDIS.

"Don't know," the Doctor frowned. "Some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course..." He looked at me, "Sorry Auggie, we might have to go see the stars some other time."

"It's okay," I shrugged, I didn't really care. We needed to be here anyway.

"Where are we?" Rose asked.

"Earth, Utah, North America. About half a mile underground," the Doctor answered easily.

"When are we?" I asked.

"2012."

"God, that's so close," Rose awed. "So I should be... 26." She grinned to me. "You'll be, what, 19?"

I blinked and scratched my head. "Yeah, I guess..." I don't really care, I probably wouldn't even live to be 19 anyway. I turned to the Doctor. "How old would you be? 907?"

He chuckled, "Time lords age faster. I'll probably be 1,000 by 2012." The Doctor found a light switch and turned it on, illuminating the room.

"Blimey! It's a great big museum!" Rose exclaimed, gawking at the room, walking around and such.

I turned and looked on the other side of the room, finding a big portrait. It was about 3x5 feet, with a golden rim, but sealed by a casing. The picture was interesting though. It was of a girl, with dark skin, shooting fire out of her hands. The ground around her was cracked and frosty white, but flames was shooting out of it. Her hair was waving around wildly, as if being blown by wind.

Surrounding her was a mass of bodies, all seemingly dead, but what caught my eye was a blue object in the corner, that I could've sworn was the TARDIS. The girl in the picture looked to be mad, and was fighting someone. At her feet was a girl with blonde hair, also apparently dead.

I squinted and looked closer, the man across from here wore a black jacket, and pointed a silver and blue stick.

Is that the sonic? I leaned in further, getting a closer look at the man. He... He looked just like the Doctor! The thing looking like the TARDIS would make sense now, and—!

Wait. Then, where was Rose? And who would be the girl? If that was the Doctor, then... Was the girl... Me?

The sounds of loud alarms blaring, yanked me away from my thoughts. I backed up quickly, stumbling into a object with a glass cover, making the whole thing shudder. Before it could fall over, the Doctor steadied it with his hands, just as a bunch of soldiers bearing guns came in.

"If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A," Rose muttered under her breath as the Doctor grinned.

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We were being led down a hallway, I could hear the conversation going on in the room where Van Statten was, they were talking about a artifact that they discovered. "... And this is the last... paid $800,000 for it," the British one, Adam I think his name was, said as we walked in. He was holding a black stone-like thing, with small ridges on it.

"What does it do?" He asked, taking it from him, as the three of us entered the room.

"Well you see," Adam began. "The tubes on the side must be to channel something, I think maybe fuel..."

"I really wouldn't hold it like that," the Doctor suggested, giving the trio a funny look.

"Shut it," the woman, Goddard, hissed.