At last! Updated!
Chapter 7
A huge steel maze separated them from the Tower. Nadia leaned towards the wide open gate.
"Won't the cybermen kill us before we get to the opening?" Donna eyed the suspiciously clear area.
"Of course not," Nadia giggled. "It's the Death Maze. Why would they need cybermen when the Maze is going to kill us?"
"The Death Maze, well that's cheerful," Donna chirped brightly.
Nadia inched out of the shadows. "Don't worry, I'll get you through safely. My Da built the maze, we'll be alright."
The Doctor nodded. "I trust you."
Donna remained silent, but she followed Nadia to the opening. She took a deep breath, and started down the first corridor. The floor had spiraling designs in the floor. She smiled to see Nadia inscribed amongst a swirl of flowers.
"So how do we get through?" The Doctor inquired in a low voice.
Nadia smiled. "Follow the flowers. It's simple really; the pattern is left, right. And if by some chance you don't let from right, follow the smell of chips. Can't wrong with that."
Nadia skipped down the passage following the looping purple flowers that crawled over the walls and floors.
"Doctor?" she suddenly remembered something, Martha had told her a couple of years back. "When Grandma was still alive, she said all of this- the daleks and the cybermen- was like 'The Year that Never Was'. She said when it was all over, everything went back to normal. Does that mean everything will happen like the daleks and the cybermen never came here? And we'll have a whole different life?"
"I don't know," the Doctor was experiencing the strangeness of not knowing something, he stopped in his tracks, ran his fingers through his hair, and repeated, a bit incredously- "I don't know."
Suddenly, the clanking of metal feet richeted off the metal walls, Nadia started, there weren't supposed to be cybermen in the Maze. But they sounded very close.
"Run!" Nadia took off down the passage, veering right.
But as they rounded the corner, the floor began to move, huge metal plates shifting and sliding. Her eyes widened as she relized what was happening- the layout of the Maze was shifting. The rumbling stopped, and they were facing a completely different direction, a thick wall behind them.
"Do you know how to get us out of here?" Donna sounded a bit worried.
"I don't think so," she slowly turned in a circle. "It's all changed. We're lost."
