Second Doctor Who fic, and I tried to do my homework on it, but I don't know the ins and outs of the Doctor Who universe, so I might make some mistakes. If you spot them, could you let me know? Thanks! Enjoy! :)

Vworp.

Vworp.

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"Oh, my gosh, Phineas. What is that?"

Isabella Garcia-Shapiro clutched her crush's hand. One minute they had been innocently lost in a corn maze, the next, a ghostly blue outline had appeared before them, making strange metallic sounds and growing more solid with every passing second.

"I don't know," Phineas said, reaching out to touch it.

"It's a phonebox," another, green-haired boy said. "A phonebox from the nineteen fifties."

"What's it doing here?" Phineas said, laying his hand on the now-solid blue panels.

The Doctor was having a day off. Or, so he thought. So he hoped.

He was just beginning to believe he might actually get away with not saving the universe for an afternoon, when the TARDIS started bleeping out a distress signal. The sound was coming from the computer screen on the spaceship's main control panel.

"Oh, what is it now?" he said, and dragged himself over to the screen, hoping the distress signal was from some lonely bit of space junk he could ignore.

He was in a bit of a mood.

But it only took one look at the screen to startle and intrigue him out of it.

"That - that is a - an - amazing..." he drew his glasses from a pocket in his jacket and set them on his nose.

"All right, you win," he told the screen. "Take me wherever this signal originated."

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And so the TARDIS hurtled toward Danville.

The Doctor popped his head out of the TARDIS door, causing a red-headed child to jump back from the blue box.

The Doctor's hearts skipped a beat each, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he surveyed the other children gathered around his TARDIS.

Another kid who looked terrifyingly familiar - from his green hair to his big, dark blue eyes - and a black-haired girl in a pink miniskirt he didn't recognize.

"Are you in trouble?" he asked.

The redhead retreated to where his friends were standing. "Uh - we're just lost. It's a corn maze, though, so we're sort of supposed to be lost."

The Doctor exited his ship, and held out his hand. "Could I see that remote you've got there... what was your name? Phineas?"

The redhead looked down at the remote control he was holding, then handed it over.

The Doctor examined the remote. It was small and nondescript, with a single purple button glowing in its centre.

"What does this button do?" he asked, without taking his eyes off it.

"Well," Phineas said, "It calls for help. We were really lost in this maze, and we figured we could use a little help from our friends."

"This was just designed to call your friends?" the Doctor said. "Phineas, do you realize - this was transmitting all the way into outer space? Where did you get all the power? Technology like this won't be around for hundreds of years."

"Um -" Phineas traded looks with his companions. "Batteries me and my brother made. No offense, dude, but WHO are you?"

"Oh, sorry," the Doctor said. "Rude of me not to introduce myself. That's me, rude and not ginger. But I see you don't have either of those problems."

He handed the remote back to Phineas. "I'm the Doctor."

"Nice to meet you, Doctor. Can I ask you something?"

"Ask away." The Doctor put his hands in the pockets of his trench coat.

Phineas swallowed. "How did you know my name?"

And THAT is my first chapter. The Doctor's character might be really hard to pin down, especially since I SUCK at characterization... so, please tell me if he's OOC. I felt like he was slightly cardboard in this one...? But it's my first time writing his character and, well, live and learn.

I appreciate thoughts and feedback so...

review?

THANKS :D

And thanks for reading this!