Chapter 4
" Grab my hand and Run" said John Smith. Clearly not wanting to be killed like Dr Kular Jess agreed and soon they had sprinted out of the office back down the hallway, " It should be just round this corner" he said and as they rounded said corner Jess could hear a key click in a lock,
"I promise we're safe in here and as Jess went in, just ahead of this particularly strange Dr Smith. She gasped as the room they had entered was massive, bigger then anything she had ever seen before. "Welcome he said to my ship, the best in the galaxy, the Tardis."
"What on Earth is a Tardis?" Jess asked, she had never heard that term before, " It stands for time and relative dimensions in space or put more simply a time travel machine, and yes it is bigger on the inside, everyone always notices that." "So you're a alien then, like those other things back there." Jess still couldn't quite believe what was happening, I mean aliens didn't exist really did they?
"Well yes and no, I am a alien but nothing like those things, I protect life Never HARM IT." the way he very strictly sounded Jess was sure she was out of danger although still no clue what was happening. "So if you're not human who are you, I'm guessing not John Smith." "Oh no that's just one of many aliases I use, I'm the Doctor, a time lord, I promise to keep you and everyone else here safe but I need your help, are you in?" Without hesitating Jess knew her answer I'm in what do we need to do."
Those creatures the Doctor went on to explain, quite quickly, in fact too quickly for Jess to sometimes keep up with were called the void of Darkness a race drawn to places dark and stormy ( Which explained why they were drawn to Sheffield she thought ) and which needed to harvest the scattered remains of their prey in order to stay alive, the Doctor had caught the trace of them a while ago on his ships scanners but had only just got around to investigating them fully.
"So tell me again exactly how we can stop them?" Jess asked, It's simple really, the Doctor replied all we have to do is lure them out into the sunlight, they hate the sun, like most monsters do, every evil being despises the light of day." " uh Doctor I don't mean to put a hole in your plan but the weathers forecast stormy wind and rain all week, the sun's not exactly going to shine on command for us." "THAT'S BECAUSE, the Doctor shouted, someone at this centre is helping the void, controlling the weather, keeping it dark. We stop them we stop this menace." "Mr Fang it must be" cried Jess the way he was acting earlier, he knows what's happening but why would anyone help these creatures they kill." "Could be for power, money or something completely different, the main thing is We STOP HIM."
An hour later Jess was positioned just outside of Fangs' office, Well here goes nothing as Jess smashed the fire alarm then quickly hid round the corner as Fang darted out, That blasted alarm why did it have to go off now, thought Fang he had just been in a private meeting with the heart of the void of Darkness assuring them he still had everything under control and this, well this just undermined his case. "You two with me Now barked Fang and as he left with two security guards to assess the possible fire Jess with the help of a object given her by the Doctor unlocked the now closed door and snuck in.
Where are you she thought, the Doctor had given her strict instructions to find (in his words) a atomic signal rock, since she was pretty sure no one on Earth could possibly know what that was She just searched all the draws and cabinets she could find, thankfully any that were locked opened easily with the Doctors' device he had gave her. Remind me to ask him for one of these when this is over, she thought it would make many tasks a whole lot easier.
Finally she found it and just in time as Fang had realised it had been a false alarm and was heading straight back here. So without further ado Jess just picked up the rock and darted out of the office back to the Doctors' ship and onto part two of their plan to end this.