"Jack!" Martha was still banging on the wall. She looked down to see the equipment she was carrying. 'Good' she thought 'at least we have something to work with'. She was completely oblivious to the sudden tension around her.
"Martha, it's moving." Gwen's voice was calm but it had an alarming tone. Quickly Martha turned to see both Gwen and Ianto staring at a statue, but it wasn't just any statue it was an angel. It's fingers were gnarled and poised each tipped with a razor-sharp finger nail. It's face was twisted into a scream with equally sharp teeth. It was a creature of nightmares.
"It moves when we don't look at it." Ianto was scared but fascinated. "It's like the scariest game of Grandma's footsteps ever."
"We need to get out of here." Cried Martha panic taking over. "No one take your eyes of it, don't even blink. We came across them before, the Doctor and I. If they touch you, you disappear to another time. It's almost impossible to get back. In UNIT there were rumoured cases were they just killed, snapped people's necks. They are merciless"
"What is it?" Asked Gwen her eyes glued to the monstrous statue.
"It's a weeping angle, which means we need to leave." She paused for a second. "Keep looking at it." She looked around they were in a dead end, the only exit was past the angel. "Keep looking and follow me." She picked up the equipment and then took Ianto's hand and he took Gwen's. Slowly they all walked around the angel, eyes watering from the strain of staring.
They walked backwards up the next corridor, still looking at the angel of stone. Relief flooded through all of them when a wall came down separating them from it.
"Do you think it's the only one?" Ianto stared at the wall behind which was the angel.
"I hope so."
...
Amy smiled. She looked intently at Luke, he was talking about Oxford, his university, babbling so fast she could barely catch a word, just like the Doctor. She sighed wistfully and then realised he had stopped talking. "Are you okay?" He asked tilting his head slightly.
"Your pretty clever then..." She played about with a question in her mind, not sure whether it would be rude or not. "Are you... Human?"
"Yes," he hesitated, "your asking because I am clever, aren't you?"
"Not just that, you look at new people like they are something to learn, you talk so fast it's like half the world is up there." She tapped him playfully on the head. "You remind me a lot of the Doctor."
Luke beamed, that was the best compliment he could ever think of, 'me? Like the Doctor?' He almost blushed at the thought. "It's weird" he said, frowning "The Doctor I met, before today, he was more sensible than your Doctor. He must completely change each time."
Amy smiled at this, now she was curious. "So you've met more than one Doctor then, what's that like?"
"Confusing!" Suddenly a wall close to them slid down, they both clung to each other. "Let's not get separated" he said a slight tremor in his voice.
...
Jack stood back, his arms crossed, he looked impressed. Sarah Jane had just unlocked a door in the wall using her sonic lipstick. "I need to get me one of those." He laughed. He went to open the door but Sarah Jane stopped him.
"This is the first door we've come across, which means there's bound to be something... different behind it."
"You mean dangerous, don't worry I'll go in first and if something kills me you know not to come in after." He smiled, opened the door and fearlessly walked into the room. It was a giant storeroom full of various equipment. Immediately he went for the massive guns in the far corner.
"How can you even joke about that?"
He left his hands drift over the various pieces of metal. "You really don't know me very well do you?" He paused "I suppose we've only met once" he laughed, "I'm the impossible man, I can't die." He grabbed the biggest gun and stroked the trigger.
"That's typical Torchwood'" she said, her voice scornful and hard, "go for the biggest gun you can find; do you ever stop and talk to aliens or do you just blow their brains out?"
"What is your problem with us?" Retorted Jack, he knew he was bad but he had to stick up for his friends. "Sometimes force needs to be taken and there's nothing you can do, that's just the way it is." Jack sighed and put the gun down reluctantly.
There was a moment of silence. "I've seen remarkable things, things that are so wonderful that I could never forget. But I have also seen war. Killing. What it does to people, its frightening." Sarah looked at the hard, cold floor. "I just want to protect my son from what's really out there."
"But dabbling with Slitheen is okay." A second of silence past and both Jack and Sarah Jane laughed.
She wandered further into the store room, it was full of weapons all shapes and sizes: from the classic bow and arrow to advanced particle technology that neither Sarah Jane nor Jack could work. Jack was sifting through when something caught his eye, or rather the lack of something.
"Someone else has been here," he said "look this place is really dusty except this square, someone took something, which also means someone is armed." Despite their conversation earlier Jack went back to the laser gun he put down earlier.
Sarah Jane rolled her eyes put picked up a small device that looked like a taser. They were both ready for whatever came at them.
...
Rory sighed, "This is ridiculous!" The Doctor was on all fours with his nose pressed to the floor, inhaling deeply. "How is this in any way scientific? What are you going to 'learn' for doing that?"
The Doctor followed the smell to a corner in the wall and then looked at Rory cockily. He stood up, brushed him self off and pulled out his sonic screwdriver slowly and waved it in Rory's face aggravating him further. With one press of the button, sparks flew out of the wall and a panel fell from what once looked like seamless white. The Doctor leaned against the wall and crossed his arms. In the whole in the wall were many wires and what looked like an old computer screen. He raised his eye brows in an infuriating way and was just opening his mouth when Rory interrupted.
"You know what don't even... Just don't okay." Rory's red face made it even more enjoyable for the Doctor. Knowing this Rory composed himself, "so what is it then?"
"This Rory is a control system. It might just control this section or it could be part of a network that controls the entire thing, but if I could hack into it I might be able to find Amy, Luke and Sarah. Worst case scenario we can just learn more and knowledge-"
"Is the best weapon, I get it." Said Rory clearly bored at the Doctors babbling. "So you can find Amy?"
"Like I said it depends" he wiped the dusty screen inside the wall, red writing in an alien language darted across the blue screen. "I have to hack into it first"
"Can you do that?" Rory asked nervous.
The Doctor turned towards him, "of course I can, I'm the Doctor." He smiled a cheeky smile and turned to the screen. He tapped the screen and an alien keyboard appeared. "Right." He pulled his glasses out of his pocket and rested them on the end of his nose. "The good news is, its a number code." His fingers began to type quickly.
"And the bad news?"
The Doctor groaned "I don't know what base it's in" he sighed.
"Which means?"
He turned to face Rory again. "Every language or system has a base for their numbers, normally based on their fingers or another physical aspect like... Humans, you have base ten on Earth." He wiggled his ten fingers in front of Rory. "That means you count in tens: one, two, three, four, five, up to ten and then ten lots of tens for one hundred. But other places have different bases so base three would be one, two, ten, eleven, twelve, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, one hundred."
Rory's brow was furrowed. "Okay, I think I understand... So how long will it take you to hack in?"
He turned back to the screen, "depends how high the base is, it could take a couple of hours if it's up in the hundreds." He paused and grunted brushing back his hair with his hand. "Well it's not two, three or ten."
Rory sighed and leaned against the wall. 'We're gonna be here forever,' he thought, 'never mind hundreds what if it's thousands?'
"I'm in!" Sang the Doctor, joyfully. "Base four, got to love those small numbers!" He kissed the dusty, old screen.
Rory leaned over his shoulder to see map of the entire place appear on the screen. "Wow its massive!" There was a vast network of corridors all interlinking with one another and occasionally the map would change slightly.
"It's definitely someone controlling them, look." The Doctor pointed to an area where there were three small dots, the walls around them changed. "They only ever move around people."
"It could be sensors?"
"No this is all planned, I can tell, there is no way it's random. Well it could be but, no, it's not. It could of been if Luke and Sarah weren't here."
"If these dotty things are people than there's..." Rory counted under his breath. "...nine of us all together, so there's four other people here and we don't know who they are."
"I have a feeling that whoever they are, I will know them." Then Rory saw something in the Doctor's face he hadn't seen in a very long time, sadness and anxiety. Sometimes Rory forgot just how human the Doctor could be.