Chapter Two
About half a mile away from the attack on the diver, in a patch of dense undergrowth something strange happened a bright blue light appeared followed by a loud, strange whooshing noise, moments later a tall blue police box had materialised. Inside Jess Ringstead was leaning on the console, underneath a pair of legs in tartan trousers could be seen "Now" came a voice which she knew belonged to her friend The Doctor, "just have to connect this and then…" There was an electric crack noise, "ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" came a reply and Jess knew he had hurt himself. He got up and looked at one of the dials "That explains it" he said "Come on out we go!"
He headed to the door, opened it and stepped outside. He was wearing a blue jacket with a silver waistcoat with a pocket watch chain hanging across it, around his throat was a teal coloured tie done in an old fashioned style with a bat-wing collared shirt. Jess followed him, outside the Tardis she looked around "so this is where they are is it?" she said
"Where?" The Doctor asked
"I thought we were heading to the headquarters of G.I.N."
"Oh we are" he replied "Just making a pit stop on the way, then we get back in and go and help them. Well I know where we are but the timeograph is out of action at the moment, that's was exploded just now"
"Ok" Jess said "Where are we?"
"Eastern Europe, Definitely Eastern Europe, Poland, Estonia, Ukraine. The weather feels unfriendly icy so either very early or very late in the year." Just then a loud bleeping noise came from inside his jacket, taking out his sonic screwdriver he pressed the button and held it to his ear, "That's Curious?" he said quietly "The sonic screwdriver is fitted with a Geiger Counter"
"Geiger Counter?" Jess asked "You mean like Radiation?"
"Yep and according to this there is a massive pool of gamma radiation about 5000 yards, that way" he pointed off to one direction and began to walk with Jess following. After about ten minutes they reached the brow of a hill where they could look out across the plain, in front of them was an ugly hostile building, it could have been anything, but Jess knew what it was instantly.
"That's a Nuclear Power Station." She said pointing
"Top of the class" The Doctor replied who was still toying with his sonic screwdriver. "Well technically it's a nuclear power station, it's a nuclear power station's Reactor. A really large Power Station needs about six or seven of those to keep it going" The Sonic Screwdriver buzzed loudly again, "That's even stranger, according to the sonic screwdriver that place is harbouring 20 times more radiation for its size. Something's wrong and I want to find out" he began to walk down the hill with Jess following
"May I just tell you five words. 'Bloody Mary', 'Sewer Gators', 'Wendigos' as well as 'The Clown Upstairs' and recently 'Geldos The Devil's Lieutenant' and a pack of 'Guardians' All of those were in totally non-dangerous places."
"Haunted Houses and Urban Sewers" The Doctor replied "Very non dangerous. Anyway IF I can get the Timeograph to work properly we may find out when we are. Humans didn't start using Nuclear Power until the 1950s and in the 31st Century they used old stations to generate more power"
"So working on your calculations" Jess said folding her arms "how long is the timescale between them"
"1950-3000! So not that long." The Doctor admitted and in addition to the look of disbelief on Jess' face, "that IS not long, when you think the world began over 4 billion Years ago."
As they made their way forward Jess looked at the power station with its tall walls and a last radar mast that went up into the air like part of a rocket launch pad. Soon they arrived at the cooling pond, a large body of water not far away from the station. "This supplies the station with enough water to cool the radioactive rods, otherwise it would explode" just then the sonic screwdriver let out a high-pitched shrill and pointed straight at the water "Things are getting even stranger." He continued "you see if there is any radiation in the water is must only slight, however according to this there are over 6 times more Radiation in the water than in the station. Something is dangerously wrong."
Just then Jess saw something it was only visible for a few seconds but then it was gone, it was a large round shape similar to that of a whale had just broke the surface it's skin looked slimy and black, "Doctor what is that?"
"Something that doesn't look friendly, I wish there was some way of finding out what it is. Hang on" he pulled a long wire from the pocket of his jacket, twisting the head of the screwdriver he managed to detach it from the body. He attached both the head and body to either end of the wire, then he whirled it round his head like a lasso, and threw one end out into the water. "I've turned the head of the sonic screwdriver into a hydrophone and the body into a recorder. If there is anything remotely alive in this water it'll be picked up." He opened a slot in the side of the screwdriver and turned a dial a large gurgling and crackling noise could be heard.
"Mostly bubble and background radiation not much could be… Hello?" he said raising an eyebrow, a loud, low rumbling noise could be heard "that is something organic and big, very big. Can't tell how far away it is, maybe a few yards or even a few feet." He began to reel in the wire and hauled the hydrophone in, once out of the water, he took a handkerchief out of his pocket and wiped it down and screwed it back onto the body. "No I need to get to a seismograph, measure how big this thing is. What do you think Jess?"
Jess didn't say anything, The Doctor looked up and he could see something was wrong, Jess was standing unnaturally still, the reason was that there was a soldier standing behind her pointing a gun at the back of her head. As The Doctor stood up he heard a loud click from behind him and a low male voice growled "Stand up straight, and put your hands where I can see them." The Doctor stood up and placed his hands behind his head interlocking his fingers, but not before he had managed to slip both his sonic screwdriver and the coil of wire into his jacket pockets. The voice spoke again "move forward, one false move and you will have a bullet in the back of your head." And so saying The Doctor and Jess were escorted away.