Imagine working in a store in the evening shift. It is late and the last customer just left as you hear a strange noise from the warehouse. Believing it would be a child or a teen that got lost you go to the door and open it. The room is dark, no one seems to be there but you hear a noise, again! It sounds like someone is knocking on wood, hollow and dark. "Hello?", you say, hoping someone would answer and you could go again. But no, just another knocking. So you turn on the light and get ready to search for the source of the mysterious knocking noise.
Quietly sneaking through the shelves you look out for the knocking, it seems to come from the last shelve on the right side. Getting closer you again ask: "Hello? Is there anyone? Don't worry, I won't get angry if you just come out!". No answer! Just knocking. In a constant rythm the hollow sound continues, getting louder each time you hear it. The nearer you get to the shelve the faster and louder beats your heart, fear slowly overcomes you, disguising your thoughts. What if there is a monster? No was, how should there be? Monsters just don't exist, right?
*KnockKNOCKKNOCK*, you are there. And no human being seems to be there! The knocking comes right our of a wooden box, maybe just a toy? Or one of those balls for dogs which roll on their owne! Nothing to be feared of. Immediately you feel childish for being that afraid of the noise, just because you are alone in the store! Slowly calming down you take a deep breath to get the fear out of your body and open the box.
"Oh my god!!", you turn around and run! There was no toy, no ball, just a hand! A plastic hand, you hope! It looked so real! As soon as you opend the box it tried to get around your neck. Luckily you were fast enough to get away from it before the thing touched you. Getting slower at the door which would bring you into the store you turn around, being sure the hand won't be following you, and jump back, screaming in panic as the hand is right in front of you and jumps up to your neck. It grabs your windpipe through your skin and it seems like it tries to kill you! A single hand! With all the power you have you try to get rid of it, grabbing the thing and pulling it away, but it is stronger! The plastic hand doesn't let go and just when you are ready to accept your fate, to be okay with the fact that a toy hand kills you, there is a voice: "Run when I say three!"- "Ughh..!", you groan. "One... Two....THREE!!!", a manly voice screams and just as he says three the hand lets go, your neck feels as hot as if it was on fire but you run! Run away from that scary thing. "Don't turn around!", now the voice is just next to you: "Just run! We have to get out of here before...", and just that second you jump out of the store and hear a loud explosion. You black out.
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As you wake up you see a man looking down on you. The first thing you notice are his honestly large ears and nose. His friendly, warm, adventurous eyes look right into yours: "Hello! How are you? Hope the explosion didn't leave any harm on you? Do you hear me? With both ears?", he smiles worried. "I-I think so!", slowly you sit up, feeling the hard street under you. He must have carried you into a side-street by the store. "What did happen there? What was that... thing? It can't just be a hand, right?", you touch your throat and feel a stitch as you lay your fingers on the place where the plastic hand strangled you. "No, it was a Auton! An alien, if you will! And we were lucky to get out there alive, if you wouldn't have gotten in there I probably would not have found those bastards! The wood seems to hide them from my technics!"-"Okay... Right! Aliens! And you are... a martian, aren't you?", unbelieving you just have to laugh at this absurdity! "Well, not a martian, but yes, I am an alien, a timelord to be completely honest!", the man smiles at you with his big friendly teeth. How could this be true? But also, what else should that thing have been! And also.. "How did you free me from the.. Auton?"-"With my sonic screwdriver of course!", holding up a thing that just looks like a screwdriver with a few things on it he laughs proudly. Something is about this man that you just have to believe him, he looks like someone how went through a lot and knows what he is talking about. The longer you look at him the more you get the feeling like you could trust him, as if you have known him for longer then just a few minutes.
"Well then.. thanks for saving me, I guess!", you smile. "Sure thing!"-"And.. now? Shouldn't we tell someone about what happend? I mean, they will see the exploded building, won't they find out we were there?"- "What should we tell them? There were aliens and they would have killed hundreds of your mankind if I hadn't bring that building to destroy itself? Right, I let out the gas in the cellar and left on a fire a few meters away, don't worry, they won't notice you were there and nobody knows who I am anyway!". It is strange but what he tells you is logical, even you first didn't believe his story though you were there, being attacked by the alien!
"I will go now!", smiling the man helps you stand up and suggests to go away. "Wait! You didn't tell me who you are!"-"I am the doctor!"-"Doctor who?"-"Just the doctor!", with a mysterious grin he walks towards a blue telephone box. Just as he closes the door you notice the sonic screwdriver in your hand: "Wait!", running towards the closed door you scream for him to open the door. It seems like he didn't hear you when you knock on the blue door so you just open the door. "What the hell? It is so much bigger on the inside! How does that function?", and just as you close the door behind you there is a mechanic noise like you never heard before, light glims and the floor moves that much that you fall down.
"Why are you here? How did you get in here? What..?", the doctor stands in front of you and is visible astonished by your appearance. "Well, I don't really know myself! I just wanted to give you your screwdriver you left with me - and when I entered the telephone box I was here! Where am I even?" - "This is the TARDIS! Maybe you should be here! Yes, you are my new companion! I will show you places you would have never guessed exist! To times that haven't come yet and times that haven't come yet and ones that were long, long before you were! I will take you on the journey of your lifetime!"
