Chapter 2
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"Will you slow down? Or at least explain what you're doing so we can help?" Katy said irritably
The Doctor was still ahead of the two girls and was rambling continuously. He had stopped briefly to get his bearings and had pulled out what seemed to be a metal stick with a blue LED at the top. He pressed something on the metal stick and a flash of blue sonic light emerged from it. "No…not good enough." He rambled to himself
"Doctor!" Katy said louder. This time the Doctor spun towards them.
"You called?" He said with a weird grin on his face.
"Will you tell us how we can help?"
"And maybe stop talking to yourself?" Jasmine added, tucking her hair behind her ears
The doctor put his hands in his pockets and walked up to the two girls with relaxed footsteps. He first walked up to Jasmine and stared at her for a few seconds and then walked up to Katy and did the same thing.
"Have I met the two of you somewhere before?" He asked
"What are you talking about? Of course you have. You just pulled us into that classroom!" Katy said
"No before that,"
"Apart from earlier when you told me shouting wouldn't help? No."
"Unless you're some crazy stalker." Jasmine added
"What? Of course not. Now tell me, has anything unusual happened over the last few days?"
The two girls exchanged glances, both equally confused. The doctor, who seemed to have everything under, well, some sort of control, was asking them if something unusual had happened. It ought to be the other way around.
"You mean except from there being aliens outside trying to kill us?" Jasmine shot at him
"Well…come to think of it…" Katy added, thinking it over
"Remember that storm the night before last? That was unusual." Jasmine looked at her a minute and then nodded her head.
The doctor went silent for a few seconds as he leaned against the cold rock wall. It still didn't make much sense to at least Jasmine why someone would build a secret passage in a school, then again, it might not always have been a school. The doctor had a distant expression on his face as if he was really far away and neither girls were quite sure what to say or do. Another crash resounded throughout the passage and the girls grabbed at the wall to keep themselves standing. What was happening?! The crash seemed enough to break the Doctor out of his reverie.
"Come on, we've got work to do."
The three of them hurried through the corridor and when they reached what seemed to be the end of the tunnel the doctor used the glowing stick and the walls opened again. This time they were in the auditorium at the bottom floor.
"How can we stop them?" Katy asked, getting annoyed at the amount of times she had to ask.
"You could die, you know. You both could. I could." The Doctor said.
"The whole world could," she replied. "That's the bigger problem."
"Look, Doctor, we want to help, and you don't seem to have a plan. Wouldn't it be easier to make a plan before getting caught?" Jasmine asked
"A plan. That's a brilliant idea Jasmine. Let's think up a plan, plan, plan, thinking up a plan right now. I don't have one do you?"
"You know my name?"
"I must have just...overheard it…no big deal...right. Back to the plan..."
"No, wait a minute," Katy said. "How do you know her name, we haven't once mentioned our names. Who are you?"
"I already told you I'm the doctor. Geesh...why is it so hard for you humans to accept simple facts?"
"That can't be your name—" Jasmine started
"What do you mean 'you humans'?" Katy said at the same time.
"And here we go again." The doctor mumbled mostly to himself
"Just answer us!" Jasmine said, usually she kept in control of her temper, but the Doctor was pushing it now.
"It's—" But when the doctor spoke, the auditorium slammed open and in front of them were four nasty looking Tor. "I think it's safe to say now is not the time." The doctor told them
"Uh huh," Jasmine agreed quietly. "What do we do?"
"Hello there big fellow, it seems we're in the wrong address." The doctor joked
"Arghhh," one of the monsters said. "Humans. But wait one of you isn't humanoid. What are you?"
"They speak English." Katy stated shocked
"No, they're actually speaking their native language." The doctor explained
"But then how can we understand it?"
"The Tardis." He added cryptically
"The what?" Jasmine asked
"Time and relative dimensions in space. It's my ship."
"Oh you have a ship? What are you, an alien?" Katy joked. The Doctor raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh so you are an Alien."
"Could today get any weirder?" Jasmine asked rhetorically.
"Quiet!" The Tor roared
"Oh yeah, there's a flesh eating scavenger up there," Katy said sarcastically. "I forgot."
"What do you want?" The doctor asked
The Tor walked up to the Doctor and was only an inch away from him. "Whew. That is a nasty breath." He winced
"You insolent human." The Tor spat.
"I think we're forgetting something."
The Tor looked puzzled for a few moments. "I'm not human, remember?"
Jasmine glanced at Katy and still couldn't understand what he was if he wasn't human. He looked human, he talked like a human. "I'm a Time Lord." The doctor said
The Tor backed away slightly. "They do not exist anymore...they were killed in the war."
"I survived, and here I am now. Living, breathing, talking walking."
As he spoke, he gestured towards the girls to get out the room while they still had a chance. They glanced at each other, should they leave him there, on his own? If they stayed, could they help at all? It seemed as if the Tor were starting to loose their temper and one of them raised a sort of weapon towards the doctor and Jasmines mind was racing, yet her mind kept drifting back to a scene in Pirates of the Caribbean. 'Why can't I think straight? Wait!'
"Parley" she shouted
They all looked at her in surprise. The Doctor grinned "That's right; I invoke the right of convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation. Take me to your leader."
"Do you really think that is such a good idea?"
"You suggested it," He replied. "And its a brilliant idea. They have to take us to their weakest point now."
"How does that work? Their leader will be protected."
"Are you sure we haven't met before?"
"Yes! Completely sure," They both snapped.
"Follow me." The Tor grunted.
Katy felt someone grabbing her hands and she had a feeling it was so that she wouldn't be able to run off. She felt dizzy for a few seconds and her surroundings started spinning. When she opened up her eyes again, she found herself not in the auditorium but on cold, sort of metal floor.
"What on Earth?" She said.
"No we're not on Earth anymore," The Doctor said grimly
"Yup, around Mars if I were to guess."
"Okay, I think I'm gonna faint…" Jasmine said
"Why would you want to do that?" The Doctor asked.
"So you claim to be a time lord." A dark voice came
"I am a Time Lord."
Neither Jasmine nor Katy said anything, they were listening intensely to the conversation between the doctor and the Tor. It was all too strange and a part of Jasmine doubted that this was real at all.
"You invoked parley. Talk." The Tor hissed
"No, it was the girl who invoked parley; it shall be she that speaks."
"What?" Jasmine asked with a shrill voice
"Alright Human, speak." The voice of the Tor said.
"It's ok Jasmine, I need a distraction. Talk." The doctor whispered
Jasmine stood up straighter and faced the Aliens. "I urgh, I demand that you leave my planet." She noticed the Doctor grab Katy's hand and rushed through an opening she hadn't seen earlier.
The eighteen year old swallowed and felt her pulse beating faster. With Katy and the doctor gone, there was no telling of what was going to happen. "There's nothing on Earth for you, we're all...skin and bones.."
"There are many resources on your pathetic planet that will be worth more than you could imagine Child."
"Don't you have your own planet to destroy?"
"Why would we destroy our own planet?" The Tor asked confused.
A slight shake was heard and Jasmine assumed it had to do with whatever Katy and the doctor were doing.
"Um, good point, but why not someone else's planet?" Jasmine asked, hoping to confuse the Tor.
"So what are we looking for? An exit?" Katy asked
"Nah, there's always an exit." The doctor replied
"Pipes, ventilation, a big super computer. Anything handy."
Katy followed the doctor through the corridors of the ship, hoping they weren't going to be noticed and she also hoped that Jasmine hadn't gotten hurt. This day had been too weird for her and she was still considering the thought that she was dreaming.
"Ah ha," The Doctor cried, stopping in the middle of a doorway. "This is more like it." The room seemed to look like a main control room, like something out of Star Wars.
"What now?" Katy asked
"This is it, this is where we can end it. If we can just divert enough power into this room and somehow manage to get Jasmine in the vicinity then we're all set."
"How are we gonna do that?"
"Easy. I just need to recalibrate this and get a lock on Jasmine."
"Huh?"
The Doctor looked at her and blinked. "Just come here and point this at the screen." He said handing her the metal stick from earlier. "This is the sonic screwdriver."
"What exactly does it do?"
"Just about anything actually."
"…oh…so how does it work?"
"Sonic waves and such things, now just press the button and keep it pointed until I tell you to stop."
Katy did as the doctor told her and as she pushed the button, a lot of different things scrolled onto the screen in front of her and she couldn't explain how it happened. A lot of questions were running through her mind such as who the doctor was and what he really wanted. Not to mention how he had known Jasmine's name.
"Wake up, Katy, now is not the time to day dream," The Doctor said, breaking into her thoughts. 'Oh so he knows my name too, I did wonder.' But she just nodded and focused on the task.
"Ha! Stop!" The doctor half shouted
Katy quickly stopped holding the button and moved the 'screwdriver' away. 'I wonder if he has a whole toolbox of sonic things a sonic hammer perhaps?'
"Here we go. The autopilot."
"How's that gonna help?"
"You do ask a lot of questions."
"I'm nosey what can I say?" She replied.
"Now let's get Jasmine out of there."
Katy nodded and moved towards the Doctor, she didn't want to get left behind.
TBC...
