SciFi

No matter how far they walked, the boundaries of  the city always seemed so far away. They could see the building they were heading for - but it was as if the city was in a bowl, as if the outer buildings towered over the ones in the centre. They stopped at the top of a small hill in the city and Donna, after being so happy to find a civilsation after recent events, was suddenly uneasy.

The hilly rock they were standing on was red and sandy, like the barren landscape all around them, bar the city beneath. That was barren, sure,  but it was also majestic, almost glowing, with tall towers, chimneys, domes  - all at the centre. It looked like a silent civilisation, burning with life and knowledge, but no sound. No hum. Not what it should sound like.  Why couldn't they hear antything?

'Why's it so quiet?' whispered Donna, still staring at the metropolis below.

'Hm? weeeelll, could be abandoned, could have missed the date by a few thousand years - Tardis does that on occasion, when she's feeling a bit cheeky. You could be looking at archaeology here, Donna, one of the Universe's mysteries - I mean, why did they leave? Was it the dying suns? Was it the lifestyle, was it the food? Too many cheeseburgers? Was it...'. ..Donna left the Doctor ramble on as usual, fascinated by his own insight as he often was (and voice, if Donna were to admit the truth). She knew something was wrong. Quite sure. The unnerving feeling that although it was quiet - as though you could hear a pin drop - things were still moving. Not in the city, but out of the corner of your eye, in the distance behind. A shadow. A movement. Was it her imagination?

'It's not your imagination.' Said the Doctor, suddenly back with Donna. 'There's something out there. And it wants to get there.' He pointed.

'The city?' asked  Donna. 'But why?'

'Well.' The Doctor stretched his back and checked his pocket for the one thing that was sure to get him into the city where other scary silent moving-in-the-shadows aliens couldn't.

He made sure the Tardis was locked and they went down the hill.

Tonight I start writing an episode of Doctor Who which I will open for other SciFi Group members to continue with the hopes we might write a best seller. Anybody interested?

The Sands of Time

Part One

The TARDIS seemed a hive of activity as the Doctor struggled with the controls, Donna just stood there perplexed by his urgency. "What's 'appening"? she gasped.
The Doctor resisted answering her preferring to concentrate on the matter at hand.
With an abrupt halt the TARDIS came to rest throwing Donna on her behind.
"What's 'appening"? she repeated. The Doctor turned to her and with a wry smile said "I don't know, want to find out"?
The TARDIS doors opened and the interior was bathed in very bright light.
With the Doctor leading, they stepped out onto an alien landscape.

The twin suns, one a red dwarf, shone down on the barren sandy soil, which glistened like mica. Considering all things it wasn't that hot, in fact it was quiet bearable, as the pair climbed a steep outcrop of rock.
Reaching the top the Doctor and Donna looked down at the expansive city that lay before them for as far as the eye could see.