Spiders, Time Lords, And Timey Wimey Mischief

Chapter 8

Spidey instantly spun around the door frame and raised his wrists upwards with his fingers resting on the padded triggers on his palms, ready to shoot webbing at a moment's notice, while the Doctor raised his sonic and pointed it threateningly into the room.

Although, they never actually did attack anything, as instead, they both lowered their 'weapons', and stared at the strange looking advanced machine that now stood in front of them in a dark storage room.

"Well, that's certainly a city level threat "alien"," Spidey said sarcastically, while looking around.

"Now, that's not right," the Doctor observed, as he slowly began to make his way towards the humming machine in the middle of the room.

"There's no one else here," Spidey informed, his spider-sense not alerting him to any other presence.

"What's not right? What is it Doctor?" Amy asked, as she and Rory snuck in behind them.

"This is an extremely advanced teleportation machine, made from scraps of Earth technology. No one should have the knowledge to build such a thing, I haven't seen technology quite like this in a long, long time," he said, fading off at the end, while hesitantly touching the device and beginning to scan it with his sonic.

"What exactly does that mean?" Spidey asked, with slight concern.

"Well, I don't know, but this is definitely the device I picked the signal up from. It's designed to travel to and from parallel and other universes. Usually impossible, my people were some of the only ones who ever managed to invent this stuff. Nowadays, it's very difficult to pull off," the Doctor explained.

"Well, who are the other races who managed to invent them? Could we be dealing with one of those?" Rory asked, questioningly.

"Could be, but whatever it is, it's obviously got itself stuck here and is trying to get back," the Doctor said, while stroking a hand over the smooth, silver surface.

"So, we're not the only people who have crash landed here then?" Rory asked.

"No, it appears not," the Doctor replied, seeming to be somewhere off in his thoughts.

"Could it be another one of your own people?" Spidey suggested thoughtfully. The Doctor just seemed to go into a gloomy place at this, and both Amy and Rory looked down.

"No, no it couldn't," the Doctor replied simply, with no explanation.

Spidey just accepted this though, and began to explore the room.

He was walking around the other side of the machine, when he came across an odd pile of scattered junk.

"Hey, what's this?" he asked curiously, as he knelt down to get a closer look. The Doctor was by his side instantly, waving his sonic over the pile and checking the readings.

"A pile of computer bits, along with pieces from many different appliances. By the looks of it, we've found whatever was taken from that office room." the Doctor said, as he started rummaging through the pile. "Whoever they are, they haven't settled for just building a machine to get home, they're trying to build something else as well," he said, with a look of worry on his face.

"Well, what is it?" Spidey asked, looking over at him from his position (half knelt on the ground), with expectation.

"Can't be sure, there's not enough of it for me to be able to tell, although, it could be one of many things. But whatever it is, something tells me we shouldn't let its maker finish the job," he said seriously.