Doctor Who Flame wars
Prologue
He didn't want to do this. There were a thousand things he would rather be doing right now. He didn't want to think about the consequences if he was caught. Holding his breath, he noiselessly slid the stolen key card into the slot. The light on the electronic lock slid from red to green. So far so good. Now for the password. If he got this wrong, security would be alerted of the unauthorised entry, and he would instantly have failed. Sweating slightly with nerves, he keyed in the password, the one he hoped would open the door. With a satisfying hum, the door slid open. He let out the breath he had been holding in a sigh of relief.
The room he was in was only dimly lit, but he increased the light power up to maximum. His eyes slid the length of the room, studying its contents. When he looked at its centre he gasped out loud. In the centre of the room, from floor to ceiling was a stasis chamber. Floating in the chamber, apparently asleep, was a young girl. His eyes darkened in anger. It was a lie. It had all been a lie. The old man had been right when he told him what was in this room. He had seen many horrific things done to animals, dumb creatures that had no proper feelings. But to experiment on a human? And a child at that! He gritted his teeth. When he got out of here he would expose what had been going on. But first of all he would make Cronus feel all the pain and suffering that he had caused to his 'subjects'.
Hurry David! You don't have much time left! The voice caught David off guard. It was the voice of the old man who had persuaded him to do this task. He was right. He had to focus. Sprinting over to the control panel next to the stasis chamber, he keyed in the chamber realise code, the one the old man had given him. He backed away as the room vibrated slightly with realised power. The stasis chamber lit up, the stasis field slowly draining away. The girl slowly descended to the floor of the chamber. David activated the control that should have started the chamber sliding upwards, realising the occupant inside. To his horror, the mechanism jammed. Feverishly he pressed the button, but it was no good. The mechanism whined in protests to his actions, as it was still jammed. Then a new noise started up, quite different from the hum of powered machinery, and the protests of the jammed mechanism. It was a wheezing, groaning kind of noise, like an engine that was so old; it was beginning to wear out. There was a flicker in the air, and then a tall solid shape formed itself, out of thin air. The engine sound stopped. David's mouth dropped open. Where before there had just been metal cabinets, there was now a tall narrow blue box, with the words 'Public call Box' written at the top.
A slight sound from the centre of the room drew his attention back to the stasis field. What he saw made his blood run cold. The girl was now awake. Glowing amber eyes, slitted like a cat and with no whites, only that fiery amber, glared into his, almost paralysing him with the intensity of the girl's feelings. He backed away in fear. There was a sudden furious hammering on the door of the room. Fortunately he had remembered to lock it behind him when he had entered the room. The Security forces! He felt rising panic begin to take hold of him. Then the door of the blue box behind him swung open. The voice of the old man inside it penetrated his confusion.
"Come David! We have to get out of here!"
"But the girl-"
"There is nothing we can do for her! Do you have any idea how much power that child contains?! She can easily free herself. But if she does, it will destroy this entire building! Do you want to be inside when it goes up?"
David sighed.
"Alright, but I do want to see what becomes of her."
"You will do. Now come on!" David allowed himself to be pulled into the box by the old man. Angrily, he ripped off his Cronus Incorporated badge. He knew that he would never return here, and that his status as a Junior Engineer was now over. The only reason he had been able to complete this task was that he was a trusted and hardworking employee. In fact, the manager had been too trusting, carelessly allowing him access to where the senior staff kept their keys…