The Beast Below Part One
I sit in my room playing with my dolls, my brother's playing on his own and my older sister is at thr park. I think my mum is in thr living room. My dad's at work, I think. My body starts to hurt, It's not bad at first but the pain soon gets worse. I squeeze my eyes shut and wait for the pain to go away.
When the pain goes away, I open my eyes and let out a sqeak when I look around me. Where am I? This isn't my bedroom. I don't know where I am. I look around the room and I see two grown ups by the doors. The lady is flying and the man is holding onto the lady's ankle. Am I dreaming? He pulls the lady inside the room.
"Now do you believe me?" He asks the lady.
"Okay, your box is a spaceship. It's really, really a spaceship. We are in space! What are we breating?" she asks the man.
"I've extended the air shell. We're fine." They both lean out of the room and look down. "Now that's interesting. Twenty ninth century. Solar flares roast the earth, and the entire human race packs it's bags and moves out till the weather improves. Whole nations." The man says before he turns to face me and stops.
He slowly walks up to me, he crouches down in front of me before saying, "hello there. How did you get here?"
"I-I don't know. Where's my mum?" I ask him.
"I don't know. What's your name?"
"Isabella."
"Isabella, I have a friend with that name. That's a bit of a coincidence, what's your last name?"
"Stone. Isabella Stone."
"You're her! You're my Izzy!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Sorry. I'm not making any sense, am I?"
I shake my head no at him.
"Izzy, you will go home, but first I need you to be big and brave and come on an adventure with me because I need you." He tells me.
"Why do you need me?"
"Because you're special. You're the most important person in the universe."
"Really?"
"Yes really."
"I don't know who you are."
"Oh. Right. I'm the doctor and you're my Izzy and as usual, I nees your help."
"How can I help?"
"You can always help, you will helpe save the universe."
I just stare at him, before a smile creeps onto my face. The doctor runs over to the thing in the middle of the room and the doors close.
"Doctor?" I hear the lady call. I try to look for her but I can't find her anywhere. Her voice is coming from outside. My eyes widen.
"Migrating to the stars." The doctor says not noticing the lady calling for him.
"Doctor?"
"Isn't that amazing?"
I go over to the doctor and try pulling on his clothes to get attention but he doesn't notice.
"Doctor!"
He finally hears her and runs over to the doors, he opens them to find the lady hanging onto the room. "Well, come on. I've found us a spaceship." he tells her become walking over towards me. He stops in front of the thing in the middle of the room, he turns his telly on and a spaceship is on it.
"This is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland. All of it, bolted together and floating in the sky. Starship UK. It's britain, but metal. That's not just a ship, that's an idea. That's a whole country, living and laughing and shopping. Searching the stars for a new home." He tells us.
"Who's this?" the lady asks the doctor.
"This is Izzy."
"Not the same one I met.."
The doctor cuts her off, "Yes the same one, only that hasn't happened for her yet, she's at the beginning. Izzy meet Amy pond."
Amy turns to the doctor, "Can we go out and see?"
"Course we can. But first, there's a thing." He tells her.
"A thing?"
"An important thing. In fact, thing one. We are observers only. That's the one rule I've always stuck to in all my travels. I never get involved in the affairs of other peoples or planets."
On the telly, a girl is waitong by a set of lifts. "Ooo, that's interesting." the doctor murmurs. He turns around and walks out while Amy is talking.
"So we're like a wildlife documentary, yeah? Because if they see a wounded little cub or something, they can't just save it, they've got to keep filming and let it die. It's got to be hard. I don't think I could do that? Don't you find that hard, being all, like, detached and cold?"
The doctor comes onto the telly and starts talking to the girl, who's now crying.
"Doctor?" Amy asks. He waves us forward and I follow amy out of the room we're in.
"I'm in the future. Like hundreds of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries." Amy says.
"Oh, lovely. You're a cheery one. Never mind dead, look at this place. Isn't it wrong?" The doctor asks her.
"What's wrong?"
"Come on, use your eyes. Notice everything. What's wrong with this picture?"
"Is it the bicycles? Bit unusal on a spaceship, bicycles."
"Says the girl in her nightie."
"Oh my god, I'm in my nightie."
"Now, come on, look around you. Actually look."
"Life on a giany starship. Back to basics. Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps. But look closer. Secrets and shadows, lives led in fear. Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state. Excuse me." The doctor says before picking a glass of water off a table and putting it on the floor.
He looks at the glass before putting it back on the table. "Sorry. Checking all the water in this area. There's an escaped fish. Where was I?"
"Why did you just do that with the water?"
"Don't know. I think a lot. It's hard to keep track. Now, police state. Do you see it yet?"
I look around me and notice the girl from earlier, she's sitting on her own, crying silently. "The girl." I tell them.
"Yes! Well done Izzy." The doctor praises me.
"Where?" Amy asks.
"There." The doctor tells her before going over to the young girl.
"One little girl crying. So?" Amy asks.
"Crying silently. I mean, children cry because they want attention, because they're hurt or afraid. But when they cry silently, It's because they just can't stop. Any parent knows that."
"Are you a parent?"
"Hundreds of parents walking past who spot her and not one of them's asking her what's wrong, which means they already know, and it's something they don't talk about. Secrets. They're not helping her, so it's something they're afraid of, it's nowhere to be seem, which means it's everywhere. Police state."
I watch as the girl gets into a lift. "where'd she go?" Amy asks.
"Deck two oh seven. Apple sesame block, dwelling 54a. You're looking for Mandy Tanner. Oh, er, this fell out of heg pocket when I accidentally bumped into her. Took me four goes. Ask her about those things. The smiling fellows in the booths. They're everywhere."
The doctor gives amy a colourful wallet.
"But they're just things."
"They're clean. Everything else here is all battered and filthy. Look at this place. But no one's laid a finger on those booths. Not a footprint within two feet of them. Look. Ask Mandy, why are people scared of the things in the booths?"
"No, hang on. What do I do? I don't know what I'm doing here and I'm not even dressed."
"It's this or Leadworth. What do you think? Let's see. What will Amy Pond choose? Ha ha, gotcha. Meet us back here in half an hour."
"What are you two going to do?" Amy asks grumpily.
"What we always do. Stay out of trouble. Badly."
We start to walk away when Amy shouts out, "So is this how it works, doctor? You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there's children crying?"
"Yes."
With that I follow the doctor as he walks away.
