"What were you doing down there?" The doctor said staring at the man he immediately disliked.

"You tell me."

"The Cage contains my one living specimen."

"And what's that?"

"Like you don't know." The two of them stared down at each other, each waiting for the other to give.

"Show me."

"You want to see it?

Balmy you can smell the testerone." Rose interrupted; the doctor cracked a small smile before Statten started to talk once again. "Goddard, Inform the cage we're headed down. You English look after the girl and you Doctor with no name come and see my pet."


As they rode down in a lift, statton continued talking as the lift sped down floors. "We've tried everything, the creature refuses to talk but there are definite signs of life."

"What do you mean definite signs of life?"

"See for yourself."

"EL530 is ready."

"EL530?"

"What we call it, Of course I would much prefer to find out its real name."

"Go Ahead Doctor, Impress me."

The Doctor walked into the darkly lit room, he could just barely hear Van Statten give an order to his cronies. "Don't open that door, till we get a result."

The Door closed behind him with a slight thud, but he wasn't concentrated on that. On a small table to the right of him held various torture instruments including knives, retractors and dissecting forceps. The Doctor quickly looked away and tried to keep the bad feeling that was slowly forming in his stomach from overtaking him. He heard lumbered breathing from one of the darken corners of the room, if Van Statten had done what he think he had, he could understand why the alien was refusing to welcome him.

"Look, I'm sorry about this, Mr. Van Statten might think he's clever, but never mind him. I've come to help, I'm the Doctor." There was a slight pause of complete silence and then a petite female voice answered him. "Your not here to help, there never here to help."

"Well, I am." Lights flashed on abruptly, illuminating the thin, dirty blonde hair, girl in the corner. Her dark blue eyes looked up at him, her eyes matching his in omniscient power. "Who are you? What are you?" The doctor asked finding his voice to speak.

"I don't have a name, not one you could pronounce anyway, human." She said with obvious distain.

"See, you presume that I am human."

"There are many species in the Galaxy, but in this place, in this time, there are no aliens on earth."

The Doctor took a step forward and the girl fell back further into the wall.

"I'm not going to hurt you."

"Doctor's are made to hurt people." The girl said slightly whimpering.

"No, there not, they're meant to help and that's what I'm going to do help you."

There was a slight hiss as the metal door opened again and 4 guards followed by statton came running in grabbing him harshly. The doctor tried to get out of their grip, but even he couldn't run from four guards pulling him in different directions. The last thing he saw before the guards pulled him from the room was her pleading blue eyes. He managed to get out of the guards grip, he stepped back smoothing his jumper. He glared at them with all the power of the oncoming storm. Statten came out soon after closing the door behind him "Well, I must thank you Doctor, it is the first time she has as ever spoken."

"You monster!"

"I have been called worst things in my life." He said shrugging the insult off.

"This will stop, you are torturing an innocent girl."

"Oh, Give me a break Doctor, she's alien."

"So am I." The room became silent at this revelation and the doctor knew he had made a mistake telling these people. Van Statton stared at him and then nodded his head just barely, enough for the doctor to notice but not enough for him to prepare and stop the needle that came flashing toward him. His last thought before darkness took over was the feel of the drug in his blood stream, Chloral hydrate. He had always hated that drug.

He woke up, his chest exposed, tided to a cold metal table and lights blaring in his eyes, his arms stretched out in a Y-shape. The doctor looked around the room, taking it in before he laid eyes on statten.

"Oh, good your awake, now we can get started. Now smile!" Statten said with fake enthusiasm. Without warning a bright red light came out of the machine he was holding, hitting him straight on. The doctor bit his lip to keep from screaming out in pain. The machine stopped but the doctor's head fell to his chest.

"Ooh, two hearts, just like are other alien."

The doctor's had snapped up from where it had falling "Excuse me?"

"You have two hearts, binary vascular system, just like are friend downstairs."

"That's impossible." Statten scoffed "I have proof downstairs."

"No you don't understand." The doctor answered struggling with his restraints "Not one species in the universe has two hearts like I do, my people were the only ones, it's impossible because what you have down there is a child, the last time child." Statten raised one eyebrow and pressed the button on the machine again causing the doctor to scream in pain.

The doctor opened his eyes and glared at statton. "You will pay for what you have done." He said darkly, the oncoming storm in full force. Statten took one look as those dark eyes and cowardly looked away, walking away from the room leaving the doctor to scream in pain.


Rose looked onward, as the poor girl was tortured. "We have to do something!" "Look, there's nothing we can do" Adam said switching off the video recording. Rose grabbed his arm and looked at him "Please, help me." Adam sighed but complied grabbing his badge as he ran from the room, following rose.


She was forcibly dragged from the ground, her wrist breaking easily, she moaned in pain. She was weak, terribly so, but she wouldn't speak and when she did, it was when she was half unconscious speaking in a language no one understood. She was tied tightly to a metal table, as she shook uncontrollably waiting for more pain to begin. "Who are you?" Simmons asked picking up a knife from the table

"What is your name?" she shook her head roughly, tears running down her cheeks. Simmons sighed and held the knife to her skin, pulling it in a long straight line, blood flowing from the wound like a river. She didn't speak and she barely moaned in pain, closing her eyes in pain and then the man stopped. She laid there, breathing and shaking uncontrollably. When a soft, young voice made her open her eyes. She was pretty; beautiful even and right now she was her saviour. Her saviour finally spoke,

"Let's get you out of these, Hun." She said unlocking her chains slowly. "I'm Rose, and this is Adam." she looked up and spotted he young boy, with some kind of big gun in his hand, guarding the door. She immediately distrusted him, guns were bad, they hurt people, and they hurt her. Her arms fell by her sides as the last of the chains came undone.

"Adam, help me carry her." Adam rushed over and handed her the gun, picking her up slowly, holding her in a cradle like fashion.

"The poor thing." Adam said softly, feeling her hair, which was crusted in dirt and blood.

"She's not a thing, and come on, we have to find the Doctor." She held instant respect for the young woman; maybe finally she would be able to get some peace.

Rose, Adam and the young unconscious girl rushed through the underground caverns looking for the doctor. "If, they were to ask the doctor questions, where would they do it?" Rose said pausing for breath. Adam thought for a second, "Room 2b" Adam said confidently. "To Room 2b!"


Statten's men had finally giving him a break. His back and chest were covered in red marks and he was breathing heavily. The doctor struggled with his chains, pulling his muscles to get out of them. Well, he thought plan A failed, time to look for plan B. The doctor looked around the room, seeing alien medical equipment of all different types, but nothing to help him escape this new cage he was in. The door was directly in front of him and he involuntary winced as it let out a low hiss and opened revealing, Rose.

"Rose!" Rose smiled at the welcome running toward him, beginning to undo his chains. "Hello, Doctor miss me?" Rose said her tongue sticking out in concentration. She finally undid the last of them and he through his arms out in joy.

"Rose Tyler you are brilliant." He said hugging her tightly, even though it was causing his marks to burn slightly.

"Rose, come on, I think guards are coming." Adam said coming into the room, still carrying the girl. Rose turned around "Doctor, this is Adam, he helped me rescue her." She said nodding toward he young girl in her arms. He stumbled back, feeling her mind softly touch his own. "Doctor are you alright?"

"She's a time child, she really is, oh rose, this is brilliant." He said crying out in joy.

"Again, Guards." Adam said, acting like they didn't hear him the first time. He grinned and turned to Rose.

"I think it's time to run."

Rose, the doctor, Adam and the young girl, ran down the corridors. Adam stopped as rose and the doctor went down the stairs. "Guys! The ground is above us." Adam raising one eyebrow and shifting the position of the girl in his arms.

"We're not going above, we are going down. I got a ship; It's taking us out of here. Now less talking, more running." A voice came from above them on the staircase "Stop right there, doctor." The doctor looked up along with Rose and Adam.

"Van Statten." The doctor said with disgust.

"This end now, back to your little cages pets."

"Never." Rose said stepping forward, severely wanting to punch him. "You don't hurt people and get away with it, you don't torture children!" Rose said fuming. The doctor stepped forward.

"Have you ever wondered, Mr. Statten, what would happened if I did this?" The doctor said grabbing the gun and holding the sonic screwdriver up to it, a high pitch noise ran out and you could hear a slight explosion from somewhere in the base. The doctor waved his hand and grinned "Bye Bye."

"RUN." They ran down the stairs and down a hallway "Tardis! Am I glad to see you." The doctor said running toward it, patting it softly and opening the door. "Come on everybody in, including you Adam." Adam didn't even notice the look of slight disgust on the doctor's face as he rushed into the tardis, Adam only concerned with saving his own life. As the tardis slowly disappeared into the time vortex and base exploded Adam's voice could softly be heard. "It's bigger on the inside."