Chapter One

Running to the TARDIS, Susan Foreman panted then stopped at the doors, placing her hand into the pocket of her coat. Taking the gold key out of her pocket, she used the gold key to open the doors when she ran inside and closed the doors behind her. Locking the doors, she ran to the console when she started flipping levers, turning switches and pushed buttons. Pulling the main lever, she felt the engines humming around her while the TARDIS vanished and she looked at the view screen, trying hard not to cry.

"Rassilon, please let me find them in time!"

Jamie McCrimmon walked next to his new friend, the second Doctor, as they walked along the dusty path and Jamie straightened the sporran around his waist. He never thought, in all his years as a piper in the Scottish highlands, he would be going on such grand and strange adventures but the second Doctor assured him that he was going to be fine and he amazed at what he had seen.

"I say, that was interesting," the second Doctor said, dusting the dust off his jacket.

"What was that thing again?" Jamie asked.

"That was a terratollo," the second Doctor said when they stopped and he frowned. "Susan?"

Susan walked closer then hugged him and he lightly grunted. She let go as the second Doctor smiled at her and Jamie blinked.

"Who are you?" Jamie asked.

"This is my granddaughter, Susan. Susan Foreman, this is James Robert McCrimmon from the year seventeen forty-six."

"Hullo," Jamie said with a bow.

"Hello," Susan said.

"Susan, what are you doing here?" the second Doctor asked.

"I need you to come with me!" Susan said as she pointed to the TARDIS and the second Doctor looked at it.

"Why?"

"I'll tell you once I gather the others."

"What others?" Jamie asked.

"Please, Grandfather, we must hurry!" Susan said and the second Doctor nodded. They headed for the TARDIS when she opened the doors and they went inside. The air hummed as the TARDIS vanished while they looked at the main view screen and the second Doctor frowned, wondering what was going on.

The first Doctor walked along the semi dark tunnel as his cane tapped on the stone and he looked around. He felt very foolish about getting lost as he sighed and sat on a rock.

"Well, my dear fellow, this is what happens when you don't look where you're going," the first Doctor said when he got up and started walking again.