Companion of Death - A Doctor Who Fanfiction (Thasmin)

Chapter 2: Picnic at Asgard

Proper chapter again. Not so much action, though. Hmm...

Also, I'm writing another Doctor Who fanfiction at the moment, so I apologize if I occasionally forget about this one.

My working title for that one is Chameleon Arch, but that's subject to change.

The Thirteenth Doctor and her accidental human companions have just traversed the deadly planet of Desolation to find the TARDIS. Little does the Doctor know that a time traveler with a Vortex Manipulator had teleported to Earth but landed meters above the planet and crashed onto the TARDIS just as it dematerialized.

Enter Onyx Stone, also known as Agent Cat. You know, the time traveler who landed on the TARDIS. He has strange abilities and the Doctor is immediately suspicious of him, but he blends into new times and places much better than she can.

Naturally, the Doctor has to stick her beak in and find out who he is. That is the only reason why she takes him along.

But it turns out even he does not know who he is.

And that's the story description. Sorry for neglecting this fanfic because of it.

The Doctor ran around the console, fiddling with the controls. Finally, she stopped, placing her hand over the big lever. "Do the honors, Echo?" she asked, looking over at me.

I shrugged, not getting it. I didn't know what the lever did or why it was an honor at all. But she was still looking at me expectantly, so I went over to the lever and slammed it down, causing the TARDIS to start shaking and shuddering. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Missy flick a couple of switches, and the shuddering stopped.

"What did you do?" the Doctor asked accusingly, glaring at the other Time Lady.

"Used the stabilizers," Missy smirked.

"It doesn't have stabilizers!" the Doctor protested.

"The blue switches," Missy told her, rolling her eyes.

"Well, the blue switches don't – " the Doctor began, cutting herself off. "Wait, I've had this conversation before!"

(AN: Sorry, I love River.)

The TARDIS made a whooshing noise, indicating that we've landed. This time it also served to abruptly stop the Doctor's train of thought from going down wherever it was going to go.

"Where are we?" Yaz asked, going over to the doors.

"I set the TARDIS for random," the Doctor replied happily, plunking a tatty wizard hat on her head.

"Stupid," Missy muttered.

"The settings or the hat?" I sassed, quietly enough that I was unheard.

Yaz opened the doors, revealing an alien landscape. We were on another planet. I had to admit that was pretty cool. But then again, the TARDIS was a spaceship. It could take us anywhere in the universe. And anyway, the fact that it was a time machine was cooler. I always saw space travel as something that would happen, given another century, but time travel as the stuff of scifi. The fact that this machine made it possible was, quite frankly, awesome. And if the Doctor knew I thought that, I'd never hear the end of it.

"Asgard!" Yaz crowed, snapping me back to the present. "It's Asgard!"

"Asgard is a myth," I snapped, revealing too much of my hatred of mythology. It focused too much on gods that didn't exist and completely disregarded anything scientific.