still don't own sarah jane adventures, marcus is my character though
the episode of SJA with the doctor in it was awesome really recommend watching it, new chapter for you guys please enjoy
"K-9 is being less guard dog and more nanny at the minute, if he makes me drink much more water I'm going to drown"
"aww he's just looking after you, now Luke K-9 aside is there something you want to talk about i mean its got to be about midnight where you are, I'm guessing this isn't just a catch up chat"
maria knew me to well
"i just, i don't know, i feel like such a screw-up"
i could almost hear maria roll her eyes at that
"Luke you are not a screw-up, whats making you think that"
"when i decided to come to university i wanted to become more independent, prove that i could do some stuff on my own, but it feels like I've traded mum looking after me for Marcus looking after me"
"its not such a bad thing luke, everyone needs help from time to time, even the doctor couldn't do what we do on his own"
"i know. i just wish i could prove that I'm not a kid, that i can do this on my own"
"Luke you're doing fine on your own so don't worry, and I'm sure Marcus doesn't think you're a kid"
she let that hang for a second
"alright Luke I've got to go, get some sleep, and don't worry about this OK you've come a long way from when we first met"
"OK thanks Maria"
maybe she was right. I'm just being silly about all this, time for sleep.
i couldn't have been asleep for very long when the buzzing of my phone woke me up, it was a text message from Marcus it said one word
"help"
i didn't know what was going on, i pulled on some clothes and ran out my door and out of the building. it took me less than five minutes to get to Marcus's room
"Marcus its me"
he didn't answer i wasn't sure what was wrong. then i got knocked off my feet by a tidal wave of emotion. it receded as quickly as it came, i almost blacked out for a second. i brushed it off got to my feet and pushed open the door
"Marcus where are you"
a small noise was my only clue that he was there, stepping further into the room i found him crouched in the corner of his room clutching his head
"whats wrong"
before he could reply another wave of emotion hit me, i was more prepared this time and used what he had taught me to protect my mind
"Luke somethings wrong, i can't stop, i can feel everything around me, its too much"
"OK what can i do"
"i don't know"
he was struggling to talk, i could tell he was trying to hold back everything he could feel the effort was visible on his face, i needed to help
"OK Marcus I know you can enter my mind, but can you let me into your mind, i can help you hold back what you're sensing"
"no its to dangerous"
"never stopped us before, now let me try"
"OK"
the second we were connected i found myself in a room. across from Marcus. everything seemed calm for a second then the windows of the room exploded inwards and streams of fire and light ripped most of the walls apart. i took everything but i slowly rebuilt the walls of the room and made steel shutters close over the windows.
"not bad Luke"
the second he was done talking i was thrown back into my own mind. Marcus was crouched in the corner but his eyes were more focused and there was less strain on his face
"i didn't honestly think you could pull that off"
"well I'm not sure if i can keep it up"
i could still feel the fire barely held at bay
"alright then we need to act fast, i know whats causing this, taxin poison"
"what is it"
"a poison developed on my home world, they must have dumped it into the water supply"
"OK then why isn't affecting everyone, and why would someone poison you"
"because everyone isn't me Luke its designed to specifically to target my species, and if someone from my world tracked me to earth they can use the poison to find me"
"with all those emotions flowing through your head it would be easy for someone from your world to sense you"
"exactly, poison the water section by section eventually it will find its way to me"
"but i still don't get it, why would someone go to all this trouble to find you"
"they have their reasons. now you've bought me some time but there's a problem, i don't think all the stuff i need for the antidote exists on earth"
"maybe mum has something we can use, she has lots of spare alien technology"
"there's not enough time, there's only one place i can think of that has the antidote
"the people who are looking for you"
"yep they use the poison to flush me out, but its slow working so ultimately, they want me alive"
"OK how do we get it from them"
"we set a trap, with me as bait"
"you can't be serious"
"i don't see a lot of options Luke, the poison will kill me, and its effects are only going to get stronger the longer we wait, the greater the risk we need to do this quickly"
"alright lets do it"
he explained his plan on the way back to fetch K-9, he knew a decent spot where we could set a trap, once there me and K-9 would wait until the kidnappers came then we would force them to cure Marcus, i didn't like this, there was so much that could go wrong. Marcus led us to the place and we quickly took up our positions.
"Marcus are you sure about this?"
"not really but i don't know what else to do"
at his signal i stopped helping hold back what he could feel. the change was pretty instant, he collapsed to the floor clutching his head again, i hoped whoever did this would show up quickly. it took them about half an hour to find us
"i can sense him, he's in here"
the voice came from just outside the door. i told K-9 to get ready, as a woman and four of her men walked into the room
"ah there you are young prince we've been looking for you"
something tells me there were several responses he wanted to make to that, but he could barely manage to sit up, and why did she call him a prince
"oh not so talkative, shame, you've led the alliance on a long hunt, but it looks like we have finally trapped our prey"
"maybe the prey trapped you"
i stepped out of my hiding place as he talked. her men drew their weapons, but K-9's laser was too fast and four weapons dropped to the floor in pieces
"oh very good, i was worried this was going to be to easy, you called on a human to rescue you"
"you've poisoned my friend, give him the antidote, now!"
"demands can only be made by the player holding all the cards little human, i don't need weapons to kill you"
Marcus had warned me about this. she reached into my mind and i could feel arrogance and superiority radiating from her. concentrating i closed up my mind and her attempts to get in my head were stopped dead, i couldn't help but smile when i saw the look of shock on her face
"you taught your pets a few tricks Marcus, but i still hold the cards"
"but why are you trying to take him, and why go to all this trouble just to get Marcus"
"oh it appears that you're 'friend' has been keeping secrets from you little human"
i looked at Marcus who couldn't seem to look me in the eye
"anyway we are taking him and no lowly human is going to stop us"
she pulled out a strange device and attached it to Marcus, before i could tell K-9 to stop her she activated it, and they disappeared, leaving me and K-9 alone
"K-9 what happened how did they do that"
"device was a focusing point for a transmat beam, likely scenario, Marcus has been taken aboard their ship"
this was all my fault, i knew this was a bad plan, i should have said something
"alright K-9 make a scan of the entire are, enough data so that Mr Smith can track the transmat back to their ship"
"affirmative young master, scanning, scan complete"
"alright come on, we have to act fast"
trying to fend off all the fears flashing through my mind i ran back to Marcus's room, lucky for me he'd left his scanner in his room. putting it in my pocket, i activated his computer. now we needed Mr Smith
"Luke what a pleasant surprise, I'm afraid Sarah-Jane isn't here right now, would you like me to take a message?"
"actually Mr Smith its you i need, K-9 is sending you over some data, taken from an area where a transmat beam was used, can you trace it back to wherever it came from"
"accessing, coordinates confirmed, transmat source is a spaceship in steady orbit above the earth"
"i knew it, alright Mr Smith i need to get on that ship can you activate the transmat beam remotely"
"i can, but may i ask why you want me to do this, this course of action is highly irregular"
"Marcus has been kidnapped, he's aboard that ship, i need to get up there and rescue him"
"i understand Luke but I'm afraid i can only help you get up to the ship, i won't have enough power to get you back"
"i know, don't worry i have a plan, now please Mr Smith can you do this"
"very well but Sarah-Jane is not going to approve of this course of action Luke"
"i know Mr Smith, don't worry, and if i haven't called you by the time mum gets back you can tell her everything"
"very well, accessing transmat"
I'm really beginning to hate being teleported, fighting off a wave of nausea i flipped open Marcus's scanner, i wasn't to far away, they were all in one place, good that will give me some time to do what i needed, turning to the nearest console i turned it on and got to work. once i was finished it took a few minutes and several wrong turns before i finally found them, they were standing around Marcus who was laid on a table, by the looks of it they were administering the antidote, i waited until they were finished before stepping out of the shadows
"ah we were wondering when you were going to show yourself human, i thought for a moment you were going to turn tail and run, i must say I'm impressed you made it aboard my ship"
it was the same woman from before i still didn't like her
"now as impressed as i am I'm afraid i don't tolerate vermin aboard my ship"
i was waiting for this, before she could reach for her weapon i put my plan to work
"computer voice code 000"
"command confirmed, electro dampening field active"
i couldn't help but feel a little bit pleased with myself, especially when i saw the look on her face
"you little brat you hacked my ship"
"yes i did, it was quite easy actually once Marcus's scanner translated your language for me, and I'm far from done, computer voice code doomsday"
"command confirmed, auto destruct initiated"
the look on her face changed from anger to fury faster than i could see and her eyes turned black
"now here's my deal you and your men get into an escape pod and I'll give you the launch codes, which i changed by the way, or we can all stay here and die"
"nice try little human, but i don't need weapons to kill you, now deactivate the self destruct or i will kill you with my bare hands"
"i can't even if i wanted to, i set the codes to randomize every ten seconds"
"your bluffing little human"
"one i still don't know how to bluff and two your an empath, see for yourself"
she concentrated on my emotions for a moment and i let her see just enough to know i was telling the truth
"your transmat won't work either, so I'd do as i say cause we only have about eight minutes left"
once she realised i wasn't bluffing she dropped her anger and tried a different tactic
"wait human please, there is a war on our planet this you know,if we take him back with us we can end the war"
"maybe, but he's my friend and i can't just let you take him, it has to be his choice"
realising her position she gave a few non-verbal commands and her men followed her into and escape pod
"you can't keep us from him forever human"
deciding to ignore her i punched in the activation code and then turned and ran back towards Marcus
"warning 5 minutes remaining"
"computer voice code 001"
"command confirmed transmat activate"
the time it took for me to focus the transmat seemed painfully long, once myself and Marcus were logged into the system, i focused the coordinates towards earth.
"warning 2 minutes remaining"
i was sweating now, the transmat was slowly aligning with the coordinates i gave it.
"warning one minute remaining"
"coordinates confirmed activating"
this was my third time being telported, and it was just as unpleasant as the last, for a second there was nothing around me, and the next my legs made contact with the ground and buckled beneath me. Marcus wasn't anywhere close and for a second i thought he was still on the ship, but i caught sight of him a few metres away. giving up on standing for the moment i crawled my way over to him, and gave him a few light shoves trying to wake him up.
"oh my head"
it wasn't much more than a confused slur of words, but i was satisfied that my job was done and collapsed next to him, looking up at the sky
"Luke?"
"yeah"
"where are we?"
"not sure"
i had a quick look around at that and tried to get my bearings, with little success
"Luke?"
"yeah"
"what happened to my would be kidnappers"
"i stopped them and then ejected them in an escape pod"
"oh good"
there was another pause in the conversation and i was quite content to watch the clouds go by
"Luke"
"yeah"
"what happened to their ship"
i pointed up in the sky to answer his question and was met with a blaze of deep purple light followed by a shower of debris that burnt up in the atmosphere, it was quite beautiful in a way
"not a bad job Luke, although we are supposed to be keeping a low profile"
he made me laugh with that and soon he was joining in
"thanks for coming to save me hero"
"you're welcome, now i suggest we both try and get up and figure out where we are"
"OK"
i ended up having to support Marcus once he was on his feet, clearly poison and teleportation left him pretty exhausted. it was about 3 hours before we managed to get home, in my hurry to get us off the ship i missed London by about fifty miles, and when we got home i dumped Marcus on my bed and collapsed into my computer chair
"K-9 can you do a scan of Marcus, make sure he doesn't have any poison left in his system"
"yes master Luke, scanning, no trace of poison in Marcus's body just heightened levels of fatigue"
"thanks K-9 good dog"
"alright then hero, if you can get me on my feet I'll go back to my room and sleep off today's excitement"
"forget it you can barely stand and I'm to tired to get you back to your room, just sleep there, I've got a blow-up mattress around here somewhere, I'll sleep on that"
he looked like he was about to object for half a second then let his head hit the pillow and grunted his approval, after a few seconds i got up to sort out my bed and once it was ready curled up under the covers and almost fell asleep right away, but i needed to fight off sleep for at least a few more minutes, there were a few questions i needed to ask him
"Marcus you still awake?"
"just about"
"what did that woman mean when she called you a prince, she said you were keeping a lot of secrets"
he knew that question was coming i thought for a second he might not answer
"she was part of the alliance that is trying to change my world, an alliance to put an end to the reign of my father, the king of solaris"
"so you are a prince?"
"yep, my fathers only son"
"then why did you really run away"
"i was leverage as simple as that, i didn't no what to do, caught in the middle of a war, so i ran"
there was a lot of anger and resentment in his voice when he said that
"I'm sorry for bringing this up it isn't really my business"
"you're right it isn't!"
there was silence between us after that, i could feel the emotions he was trying to hold back, they were boiling just beneath the surface, i should've let him get some sleep before i talked to him
"I'm sorry Luke, I didn't mean to snap, I'm a guest on your planet, i answer to you, if you have any more questions I'll answer them, but i think that's the major stuff out of the way"
i took his apology for what it was and decided to steer the conversation in a more cheerful direction
"finding out your friend is royalty is a pretty hard secret to top"
that made him grin
"i dunno i have a few more interesting secrets to tell"
"oh really like what?"
"no not before you give up a few secrets of your own, romeo"
i fell right into that but crossed my arms defiantly, that was a secret that i didn't want anyone to know about just yet
"oh come on Luke it only seems fair"
"no, besides my secrets don't get me kidnapped"
"yeah, yours just get you snogged to death by an alien seductress"
he started laughing at the look on my face, and i felt a blush creep up my face, that only made him laugh harder
"alright time for sleep hero, I'm probably going to need rescuing again before breakfast, so get some rest"
"why are there more kidnappers coming?"
"it was a joke Luke"
"oh, night then"
i did have a few more questions, but they could wait, for now i know that i can trust him that's enough to let me get some sleep.
hooray found this one quite hard to write but i think i finally got it how i wanted it. as always reviews are appreciated, i think i have about three more solid ideas for chapters after this, i might wrap that up as the end of this 'series'.
Hint for next chapter: prepare to be judged