"There she is," the Doctor said enthusiastically as he entered the control room. "Rose Tyler all dressed and ready and… leaving without me? What are you doing? We haven't picked a destination yet."

"No, it's sort of been chosen for us," Rose informed him as she continued putting in coordinates.

"Chosen for us? What does that mean?" he asked as he came up to check the time and place she was entering. She was a very good driver, but it took her a little longer to calculate and put in coordinates. "Who's chosen? No one chooses but us. America 2012? What's-"

"If you stop talking a second, I can explain. We just got a call-"

"A call?" the Doctor said irritably. "How many times do I have to tell you, 'stop answering the phone'?"

"I'll answer it if I want," she declared. "And it was Sarah-Jane. She said something's happened in America that's getting world-wide attention. She said that it looks like something we should check out."

"And just what is this something?"

Rose pushed the monitor in his direction and finished preparing the TARDIS for flight.

"Glen Henry High School goes missing? What do they mean 'missing'?"

"Keep reading," Rose instructed.

"Vanished suddenly. Witnesses say it was just suddenly gone. Patch of soil where school used to be. Police and scientists are baffled. Well, of course they're baffled! Schools don't just vanish," the Doctor spoke to the monitor.

"Not on their own, no. So someone or something did this."

"Glen Henry High School in Ohio. Let's have a look." The Doctor started pulling up maps and figures. "Small town in Ohio, positioned about halfway between Columbus and Cleveland. Oh, very small town. That school has only about 400 students total."

"That's still 400 kids that have gone missing. It's terrifying. Think about all the parents and everyone else in that town. It's like I said, our destination has sort of been chosen for us."

"Seems that it has. Alright, Ohio, here we come."

Rose pulled the lever and the TARDIS took flight. Once the ship materialized, the Doctor stepped outside first and looked around.

"Alright then, which direction?" he asked.

"One block East…" Rose looked around and realized that he didn't need to ask and she certainly didn't need to answer. They just had to look to their left to find what they needed. People were everywhere. There were the common citizens, news reporters and camera men running a line just outside the police tape, and then police and military just inside the tape. It was difficult to maneuver their way to the front, but Rose and the Doctor managed it.

"Excuse me!" the Doctor called out to a police officer, trying to be heard over all the noise. "I've got to get in."

"Sorry, but no one-"

"We've got permission!" Rose shouted over the crowd. She nudged the Doctor who then took out his psychic paper.

The Doctor showed it to the officer and then had a quick peek himself to have a look at their story.

"Dr. John Tyler and Dr. Rose Smith. That's us. Scientists sent to have a look at the site," the Doctor said with a smile. "So we're free to pass, right?"

"Scientists all the way from Britain?" he asked skeptically. "How'd you get here so fast?"

"We were already in the USA to give a lecture. This happened so we were asked to help out," Rose explained. "As you can see, it was signed by our prime minister and your president. We're supposed to be here."

"Yeah, but you're scientists? Doctors? You look a little young to be the experts this claims."

"And you seem to be a little-"

"Doctor," Rose cut him off before he could get himself in trouble. "I assure you that we're qualified. Best in our field. That's why we were asked."

"Fine, but don't you need those suits and masks and stuff?" The officer pointed to the other scientists on the site who were all wearing radiation suits.

"No, we already have a bit of understanding on what's going on here. Perfectly safe," the Doctor informed him. "Can we pass now?"

The officer lifted the police tape and Rose and the Doctor entered the site.

As soon as they were in the guarded area, the Doctor turned to the crowd and shouted. "Hello! Everyone! Is anyone here an eye witness? Did anyone here actually see the moment the school disappeared?"

The officer walked back over to them, looking cross. "I thought you were scientists. You're supposed to be over there doing experiments and stuff, not down here making a scene."

"We want an account of exactly what happened before we get started. There are millions of things to look for. If we can narrow it down a bit, we can finish our analysis much faster," the Doctor explained. He then turned back to the crowd and shouted his questions again.

A friendly TV reporter turned to him, looking anything but friendly at that moment. "We're trying to do our job here and you're ruining our shot and audio. Keep-"

"Oi, we're allowed here," Rose argued. "We're doing our job, too. We're trying to solve the problem. That's a bit more important than dramatizing it to the world, don't you think? Now, is anyone an eye witness? Please?"

"Me," someone finally called out. Rose and the Doctor rushed over to her.

"Thank you. Are you a real eye witness? Did you see exactly what happened?"

"Yes." The woman looked near tears as she spoke to them. "My son was late for school because of dentist appointment. I waited in the car until he walked through the front doors. He didn't make it through the front doors. He was on the stairs leading in and the school just vanished. I mean, it was there and then it just wasn't."

"Oh god," Rose said miserably, realizing just how difficult it was for her. The woman was crying and Rose reached out to rub her arm consolingly.

"I wonder if you could tell me a bit more," the Doctor continued softly. "Was there anything strange that you saw before it vanished? Any flickering lights inside or outside? Anything above, below, or around that looked a bit off?"

The woman shook her head.

"Okay, what about noise?" the Doctor pressed. "Any crackling? A high pitch ring? A low rumble?"

"No, nothing."

"Sensation. Any vibration? Your skin tingle at all? What about movement? Did the school show even a tiny wobble?"

"No. Really, it was just there and then gone."

"Thank you very much. You really have helped. I'm sure you won't believe me, but I promise to bring your son back. I'll make sure we do," the Doctor vowed.

"Alright, Doctor, where do we start?" asked Rose. "There had to be something encompassing the school, but something you can't see? Something completely silent and undetectable?"

"I can believe silent, but not undetectable. It might not have been flashy, but it had to be airtight so it was a solid field. Completely transparent…"

"Well…" the woman said tentatively. The Doctor and Rose forgot she was right behind them and turned to look at her. "I did see sort of a glare. I really didn't think anything of it. It's like the glare on a window, but it was on the brick wall."

"Right against the wall or a little bit in front of the wall?" the Doctor asked.

"I don't know. I think it was right on the wall. It's like I said though, I didn't think anything of it so I can't be sure. Does it help any?"

"It does. Alright, Dr. Rose Smith. Let's go do some tests."

The Doctor and Rose walked up to the school ground and stopped to stare. The grass covered lawn looked neat and well maintained, but in the center of the lawn was a huge bald spot. It wasn't just bald though; it was a few inches deeper than its surroundings. It was a perfect cut-out of the school. Filling it, was a few inches of water, water that leaked out into the grass. The water line must have been severed, but it looked like it was turned off now.

"Well, I'm going to say that the energy field was definitely the shape of the school. It's a perfect cut-out," Rose remarked. "So, start with some readings?"

"Yes." The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and began walking a short distance along the edge of the indentation. After a few meters, he stopped and checked his readings. "A few kinds of radiation. Nothing serious. Definitely nothing that will do any harm, but I want exact numbers."

Rose removed some electrical equipment from the bag that the Doctor had requested her to bring, but when she looked up, he looked horrified. She looked at the little groups of scientists inside the school imprint. "What's wrong? They're doing something wrong, aren't they?"

"Hey! Science people! Everyone! Stop what you're doing and come here!" the Doctor called out. When they just looked at him funny, he continued. "I have a discovery! Come here!"

Slowly, everyone wandered over to him.

"Here goes. My Discovery: People are stupid! What is happening here? Have you looked around to see what other people are doing? That's the SDMP! Do you know their job? They're here to clean up the radiation! They're trying to decontaminate the radiation that you're trying to test. I don't even know how you got here. This isn't radioactive. This isn't dangerous radiation. Go away! And you guys with the hoses. You're taking away the water. Water isn't fun to work in, but since it's touched the affected soil, it's holding information that we need. You're ruining tests. How are we supposed to make calculations when half of the information is missing? Only scientists that are studying are allowed here now. Everyone else go away!"

No one made to go anywhere. Most were glaring, but the glares went in every direction.

"Seriously," Rose commanded, "if you're not a scientist, get out of here. If you don't, our radiation discoveries can go right down to those news reporters and explain that you've ruined all our work. We're trying to solve stuff, fix stuff. So get out."

A few of the men could be heard talking about calling their bosses and started walking away.

"Alright," Rose said anxiously, "can we still do this, Doctor?"

"I might be a little harder now," he said in frustration. "Hopefully we can get enough energy from the air. I like soil samples better, but we should still be able to work with air."

The scientists began to scatter, still throwing the Doctor strange looks.

"Taking readings from the air. No spike then," Rose reasoned, putting a piece of the equipment back in the bag. "Light saber?"

"It's not a light saber," the Doctor began, readying a long explanation to correct her.

"I know, it's a scientific tool that tests radiation levels in the air… and it looks like a light saber," she teased. Reaching back into the bag, she took out a different extension to the tablet computer in her hands.

The Doctor took the small handheld device and Rose plugged it into the tablet. The Doctor turned it on and a long beam of green light came out of the handle. He started waving it up and down in long sweeps. He would take a few steps forward and do the sweep again.

"The force is strong with this one." Rose giggled when he glanced over his shoulder at her.

"Hush, you. I'm being brilliant. No poking fun at my genius. Alright, I think that should do." The Doctor turned it off and went to Rose's side. "What've we got?"

"Proof," Rose answered. "Zygma radiation."

The Doctor groaned. "I was sort of hoping I was wrong."

"It could be worse," Rose reminded him. "Much worse. I mean, we should be able to track zygma radiation. Sorry, zygma energy can be traced with the indicator, right?"

"What's zygma radiation?"

Rose and the Doctor whipped around to see a pair of scientists that had obviously been listening in.

"Oh, erm… It's not commonly known yet. Really hard to detect," Rose explained as vaguely as possible. "As you can see here, the levels are sort of high."

Rose showed them their findings. There were graphs and numbers for all the kinds of radiation, from complex zygma to the natural background radiation found all over the planet.

"You get all that information from your light saber thing?" the woman scientist asked incredulously.

Rose was shaking with barely suppressed laughter at the Doctor's indignant expression.

"Light saber? It is not a light saber. I'll have you know-"

"Relax, Doctor," Rose said calmly, "regardless of what you say, it's pretty similar looking. It's easy to see that it's not a toy. They're only curious."

"Okay then, the answer is yes. I get all those readings from my 'light saber'." The Doctor looked around in thought and then turned to Rose. "And yeah, I think there's just enough zygma radiation that we can track the energy. You didn't happen to bring the indicator, did you?"

"I did," she said with a grin.

"Good girl! Come prepared. That's the way," the Doctor praised her.

Rose put away the tablet and 'light saber' and pulled out another handheld gadget. The Doctor thanked her, turned on the gadget, and began walking the perimeter of the stolen school. Rose followed and felt a bit anxious when she realized she was being followed by the two scientists.

"So this zygma radiation, you said it's not commonly known, so who does know about it?" the male scientist asked.

"Erm, Doctor?" Rose asked. "I… I don't know what we can say."

"Tell them whatever," the Doctor said distractedly as he kept his eyes on his work.

"Right…" Rose said nervously. "Well, truthfully, just three people know about it right now. It's sort of a private study."

"Three?" asked the Doctor. "Who's number three?"

"Jack," Rose reminded him.

"Alright. Three."

"Three? That's it?" the male scientist asked dubiously.

"Believe me or don't," Rose said with a shrug. "Doesn't bother me. You saw our readings. Zygma was there and that's what we're studying."

"But what is it?" asked the female scientist.

"Sorry, but it's complicated and you won't believe me anyway," Rose answered.

"I'm a smart woman. Try me," she insisted.

"Doctor?" Rose whined.

"You're right that they won't believe you. Too closed-minded." The Doctor still didn't look up, but directed his next comments to their two followers. "Don't get offended by that either. Everyone's too closed-minded for the concept. It's true. It's fact. But you're not ready for it yet."

"I said, 'try me,'" the woman repeated.

The Doctor waved dismissively.

"And what does that mean?" asked Rose.

"That means, 'Don't talk to me. I'm busy.' Like I said, you can tell them whatever you want. Tell them what it is or tell them to bugger off."

Rose sighed heavily and looked behind her. They were too persistent. They wouldn't stop following unless they got answers.

"Zygma energy is made up of double nexus particles, which haven't been discovered yet. It's a difficult concept just to imagine, extremely hard to discover, and very complex in construct and manipulation. In a double nexus particle, one nucleus is in the material world while the mirror nucleus exists outside of time and space. Something crazy happened here that manipulated those particles, creating the zygma energy that caused this school to vanish."

"Outside of time and space?" the man said incredulously.

"Told you that you wouldn't believe it. There it is though. So, erm… been nice talking?" Rose had hoped that dismissal was enough, but they didn't stop following.

"Look, I'm going to pretend like I believe you for a second. Are you saying that zygma energy can switch from the nucleus on the material side to that side outside of space and time?"

"Yes."

"So where is the school now?"

"We don't know yet," answered Rose. "That's what he's trying to figure out."

"Well, is it outside of time and space? Like a void?"

"No, whatever this energy did, it spit it back out into N-space, or the material world, whatever you want to call it. We're just not sure where. Once we track it, we can work on reversing the transfer."

"You realize how utterly ridiculous this sounds, don't you?" asked the man.

"Yep. Like I said, believe it or don't. It doesn't hurt my feelings."

The man turned and walked away but the woman still followed. "If you think you can reverse what happened are you saying that you can manipulate this energy? You can teleport things?"

"I think that this conversation might be getting a little too deep," Rose said nervously.

"No, it's not," the Doctor answered. "Excellent explanations, by the way. Yes, we can transport things. Not just around N-space, but through time. My readings are finished and… Rose, we've got to go…"

The urgency in the Doctor's last sentence worried Rose. "Oh no, where are they?"

"Wait, if this is real, if you can really teleport things, then how do I know you didn't do this in the first place? You said there are only three people that know about this."

"I said there are only three people who know right now. I also told you that people aren't ready for this yet," Rose reminded her. "This stuff doesn't get discovered until the 51st century. Someone did something here and we came to figure it out and fix it."

"Rose, we've really got to get going," the Doctor said again.

"Where and when?" she worried.

"Right here, but in the Cenozoic Era, more specific the Pliocene Enoch… about 3.823 million years ago. Not exactly the friendliest time in history."

"You've got exact coordinates, right?"

"Of course I've got coordinates. What do you think I was doing?"

"Well, you gave an estimated time. When do you ever give estimations? Doesn't matter. Let's go." Rose readjusted the bag on her shoulder and started off. The Doctor stayed back for a minute.

"Okay. You don't believe us," he told the woman scientist. "Or, I don't know, maybe you have this crazy idea that we might be what we claim. Whatever you think, I want you to try to do me a favor. I'm going to give this place time to clear out. Five days. I'll have that school right where it belongs with everyone still inside, in five days. The favor I ask is that you make sure no one is on site. Better yet, I'll shoot for 8:00 PM so it should be cleared out. I just ask that you make sure. I don't want anyone killed when the school shows up on top of them. Anyway, wish me luck!"

The Doctor waved and ran off with Rose.

I'm a little nervous about posting this story because it's not like my others. This is for my first prompt and it was pretty crazy! It was fun to write, but it feels different from all of my other stuff. I really hope you like it. The crazy prompt?

LoveMeTennant - "You said your running out of ideas and it scares me! I love your stories! You said you want ideas so how about this - a high school goes to the prehistoric times and Rose and the Doctor have to save them. I know it's crazy, but I thought it could be fun. If you don't want to that's ok. Just don't stop writing!"