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The two soldiers entered the room the workers were guarding.
"What the hell?" Smith said. Inside were huge machines and technology that they had never seen before. In the centre of the room was a huge tank with wires sticking out of it everywhere.
Harling took out his radio and said, "This is Harling and Smith, we found something. Base corridor, north side, grid 36. We need back up, over."
Smith observed the large tank, "it's like there's something boiling inside!" He tried to open it.
"DON'T TOUCH IT!"
"Oh come on Robbie! We get first rates on this! Which means promotion." His eyes glinted with a mad enthusiasm.
"Just leave it alone. Wait for back up-" Just then there was a loud bang from inside the tank. "What was that?" he said, panicking.
"Is there someone in there?" There was no reply. "Hello?" still no reply. He banged twice on the roof of the tank, and this time, received two bangs back, from inside. "We should get this open." He started to open the tank.
"Wait for the others-"
"He could suffocate in there!"Harling paused, then said, "Fine, you keep trying while I call for back up." Smith immediately carried on with his attempts to open the box while Harling said, "This is Harling, base corridor, north side, grid 36. We need immediate assistance, I repeat, immediate assistance-"
"It's open!" Smith yelled triumphantly.
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Donna and the doctor stood in silence, (which was very unusual for her), trying to think who, what and why anyone would create the ATMOS system that poisons who randomly. Donna eventually said that she would go and look in personal which left the doctor alone.
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Rose woke up. Her eyes shot open and she sat up far too quickly, causing her to fell very light headed and sick. She took several deep breaths and looked around the room. It was an empty sickbay, which confused her slightly as she couldn't remember feeling ill. She put her head in her hands for a while and racked her brain, trying to remember what was going on. Parallel world…..soldiers…..UNIT….ATMOS….danger….doc-
She shook her head. "Oh, come on Rose!" she said to herself, "Pull yourself together, slightly more important things to worry about."
"But what is he's here?" She thought to herself.
"Oh, snap out of it! Your 25 for god's sake!"
She stood up and walked out of the sickbay. "Find the Cornel, just find Cornel Maids," she thought to herself. "Oh god! I hope there's a Cornel Maids in this world!"
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Donna walked through corridor after corridor with no idea where she was. She would ask a soldier for directions, follow them, get lost, then find another soldier, who would just point her down the corridor where she had just come from.
She was just following the sixth set of instructions when, not looking at where she was going, bumped into a young blonde, who also looked very lost.
"Oh sorry!" Donna said to the stranger.
"It's alright." Donna noticed she had a thick London accent. "Um….you don't w where Cornel maids is do you?" She asked hopefully.
"No sorry. You wouldn't know where personal is would you?" She wasn't very hopeful.
She shook her head. "What's your name?"
"Donna, and you?"
"Tell you what, fancy having a chat over a coffee. It's just, I don't know any other newbies around here."
"Okay." said Donna, and they walked off to the canteen. (Luckily for them there were sign posts.)
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"Ionising nano membrane carbon dioxide converter. Which means that ATMOS works-"
"We know all that, but what's it's origin? Is it alien?"
The doctor, Cornel Maids and Martha were standing in the room with the ATMOS system in so that they could examine it. The Doctor was, as usual, blabbing on about the science, while the Cornel was trying to get a straight answer of "Is it alien or not?" out of him. Martha stood there patiently.
"No, but it's decades ahead of it's time." The doctor bent down to get a good look at it. The Cornel leaned in beside him. "Look, do you mind, could you stand back a bit?"
"Sorry, have I done something wrong?" The Cornel asked confused.
"Your carrying a gun, I don't like people with guns hanging around me alright?"
"If you insist." He said, and he walked off.
"Tetchy!" said Martha angrily.
"What, it's true?"
"He's a good man!"
"people with gun are usually the enemy in my books."
"If anyone's used to fighting, it's you."
"Oh, so it's my fault!"
"Well you got me the job! Besides look at me!" He slowly lifted his head. "Am I carrying a gun?"
"S'pose not."
"It's alright for you, you can just come and go but some of us have got to stay behind. So if I've got to work on the inside, I stand a chance of making them better."
"Yeah?" She raised her eyebrows and he smiled, "that's the Martha Jones I know."
"I learned from the best."
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With a cup of coffee and some cake each, Donna and Rose started telling themselves about each other. Donna told Rose all about being a temp, meeting Lance, getting a divorce (she thought being eaten by a giant spider may sound a bit far fetched.) Meeting another guy called John Smith , (again, the doctor might attract attention), and travelling here and there, as friends only of course.
"So come on then, I've told you all about me, now It's you turn."
"Well, I used to work in a shop. But it didn't work out so I left. I also used to have a boyfriend, Mickey, but that didn't work out either. And I also started travelling." She smiled, "and that's it really. Accept, now I work for a company called Torchwood."
"S'pose we're not that different." said Donna, "We both had crap jobs, relationships went down the toilet and then we both started travelling." She sipped her coffee, "So, tell me about this Torchwood. The Do-, I mean my friend told me there was this battle and it shut down."
"Yeah it did." She looked at her coffee. "I was there."
"You were at the battle! Why? Were you fighting?"
"Yeah I was." She said, still staring at her coffee. "Me and my friend, we were both fighting. We beat them as well," a faint smile played across her lips, "we won."
"Who was your friend?"
"Doesn't matter."
"Where is he now?"
Rose looked up, "I have no idea."
"What was you name?" Donna asked.
Just then, Cornel Maids walked in. "Cornel Maids, could I have a word?" Rose asked, jumping up at once.
"Of course. My office is this way."
"Bye then, and thanks for the coffee."
"That's ok," Donna replied. Rose and the Cornel walked off. Leaving Donna wondering whether she had avoided giving her name on pupas.
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They held their guns up, ready to fire if necessary. But all they saw when the lid opened was a large pool of green liquid.
"Oh God, it stinks!" Yelled Smith.
"What the hell is this stuff?" asked Harling, holding his nose.
Suddenly a white body burst out of the liquid and made a grab for Smith.
"IDENTIFY YOUR SELF! IDENTIFY!" He called for assistance yet again in to his radio.
"Can you hear me?" Smith asked the thing, creeping up towards it. "Can you understand me?" It said nothing. "Look at his neck," He said to Harling. "It looks like an umbilical cord."
"Don't get too close!" He said urgently.
"I think it's harmless. I don't think it's even properly alive." The thing sank back into the tank.
"It's gonna drown!"
"No, I think it breathes this stuff. T's some kind of embryo."
"What do you mean, embryo?"
"I mean, someone's growing a body. A human body."
"Excellent skills of deduction soldier!" Yelled a low voice from the other side of the room. Smith and Harling both raised their guns and pointed them at a short person dressed completely in blue from head to toe. You couldn't see any flesh on him, not even his face. All you heard was a voice. He pointed at Smith and said, "I would rate you above average sir, well done. You, however," He pointed at Harling, "you smell of sweat and fear."
"Yeah?" Said smith, mockingly, "well we're not the ones who got out of school early sunny! Now stop playing humpty dumpty and tell us who you are."
"Is that a reference to my height?" The blue person asked accusingly.
"Short answer, yes!" Said Smith, laughing more than ever.
"A pity. I must judge you unfit."
"What are you gonna do? Bite our ankles?"
The blue person took out a weapon which, when fired, shot a flame out of the end. He pointed this at Smith's ankles and disabled him, so that he fell to the ground. Smith yelled in pain while Harling took out his gun and shouted, "STOP IT! I'M WARNING YOU!"
"A proper soldier never gives warnings. Fire, I order you, fire!" Harling tried to fire but nothing happened. "The room contains a cordial signal exciting the copper circuit of the bullet and causing expansion within the barrel. Rendering your guns, useless. And your radio signals have been blocked." Abandoning all pretence, Harling lifted up his gun, and attempted to bash the blue person's head in. He also got disarmed, and fell to the floor, in agony.
"My legs, I can't feel my legs!"
"I apologise for disabling you. Death has more honour but is too immediate for a stratagem." The two workers that were standing guard outside now walked in. "Prepare them for processing." He said to the worker, who then walked off. "You spoke of promotion? Now you will serve a greater cause."
"Who are you?" Asked Smith in panic.
"Indeed, know your enemy. I am General Starl of the 10th Sontaran battle fleet. Known as Starl the undefeated." He took of his blue helmet and revealed his head underneath.
The two soldiers both screamed and tried to crawl away.
"OH MY GOD HELP US!!"
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