Victoria was being held captured by the ice giant who just threatened her life, "Doctor…you can't let her die", I said and he nodded in my direction.

"Yes…you'll find what you need at the base", the Doctor told the giant ice warrior and I sighed in relief, however Victoria looked at us in complete betrayal.

"You shouldn't have", she told us angrily, "But…you won't find Leader Clent so easy to persuade. He's a very obstinate man", the Doctor told the ice warrior.

In reply, it said, "He will listen to our sonic cannon, now what abou-", "We must act quickly, Commander", the other ice warrior said, cutting off the Commander as more ice warriors revealed themselves from working.

"Isbur and Rinton, wait for me at the entrance to the cave. Zandal, you will man the sonic gun", the commander of the ice warriors ordered, "You won't succeed! You can't be so inhuman", Victoria cried.

"WE only fight to win", the commander of the warriors told her before they left.

I didn't know whether I should comfort Victoria or leave her alone, so I decided to leave her alone as she walked away. After a while both the Doctor and I decided to sit next to her as we waited, whatever or whoever I was feeling…was gone now…. but was now replaced with guilt from…somebody else. I was beginning to get another headache, and tried to not show it.

"They are now outside their base", the ice warrior said at they're monitor, gloating, "Stand by gun control, take readings", we heard an ice warrior say from the speakers of the monitor. I noticed the Doctor glanced down at the bottle he carried with him, then at the ice warrior, and looked at us.

Slowly, I felt the other person's guilt fade away as the Doctor told Victoria to cry with her hands and then told me to stand with him to block the ice warrior's view. We did just that as the Doctor told Victoria outload, "It's all right Victoria, don't cry. It's alright, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"You'll be alright, we'll be okay", I added and the Doctor nodded to me as he pretended to take something out of his jacket.

"But if Varga Rintan is triumphant you will have cause to cry", the ice warrior told her cruelly.

Then the Doctor gave her a handkerchief, "Come along Victoria, blow. Blow", he told her quietly but when she blew her nose quietly, he decided to make the noise of blowing your nose very loudly, for her.

I was amused, but didn't show it on my face, "That's better, that's better", he told her as he pulled us both in, on the outside it would look like he was giving us both a hug.

Holding up the bottle the Doctor whispered to us, "We can to escape with this", "What is it", Victoria whispered, then pretended to cry again.

"Ammonium sulfide", the Doctor told her. "Ammonium sulfide? It's only a stink bomb", she whispered.

"Yes, you've had benefits of a classic education. Yes, it is what you call…a stink bomb", the Doctor whispered, before I elbowed him. He knitted his brows and looked over at me as I raised a brow at him giving him a firm expression, "Sorry", he whispered to Victoria.

"What can it be used for", I whispered, "You'd be surprised. Harmless to humans, but for aliens…very possibly deadly", the Doctor whispered.

"The gun is now ready, Commander" the ice warrior said to the monitor, "Good Zandal. We will now contact the scientists, on my command you will fire at one. Do you understand", the Commander of the ice warriors said out of the intercom.

"Yes commander", Zandal, the ice warrior, said to his monitor as the Doctor snuck behind the giant robot or alien, and opened the bottle behind it then gave us a gesture to distract the ice warrior.

"Zandal! Zandal! Look! Look", Victoria called and the ice warrior looked over to us as it faced away from the Doctor, "What is it", the ice warrior asked annoyed.

"Something weird and strange", I replied and I saw that the Doctor wore an amused expression as he watched us distract the ice warrior.

"Do not try any tricks", the ice warrior said as the alien walked up to us, "There's water seeping into the ship. Just there", Victoria said pointing to the corner of the wall.

The ice warrior walked over to the corner where Victoria was pointing, before the ice warrior looked over at me and sighed as it said, "There is nothing strange or weird about a leak."

"It could be, why don't you take a closer look", I told Zandal as the Doctor struggled to remove the lid, "I can't get it open", the Doctor whispered from the other side of the room, how I heard him from where I was…I had no idea.

I gestured for Victoria to keep going and she nodded as Zandal kept looking for the source of the leak, "Er, just in the corner there", Victoria said as I added, "Yeah right in the corner and it might have been there for a while", I told the ice warrior holding my nose as well as Victoria.

"Are you telling me it's starting to mold?! Where is it", the ice warrior asked me worried, as it started to look for the source of the leak frantically.

I ran over to help the Doctor as Victoria pointed towards the corner again after the ice warrior asked where it was again. Then the alien growled and I was quick to pull her away from the ice warrior, "You tricked me, there is no water…what is that", the ice warrior asked as it noticed the bottle in the Doctor's hand.

"Let me have it. Give it to me at once", the alien ordered as the Doctor shrugged and handed it over to him as he said, "Very well…"

The Doctor pulled Victoria and myself close as we backed away towards the monitor, "Zandal! Zandal! Fire", the Commander of the ice warriors ordered over the intercom, before Victoria ran over to grab the bottle and poured it all over the ice warrior and then ran back to us. My eyes widened as she did so and then we were all choking by the fumes as Zandal slowly fell to the floor.

"Fire now Zandal! Fire now", the Commander of the ice warriors ordered again as the alien tried to touch the console to launch the sonic blast, until the Doctor stood and grabbed Zandal's hand, but it was too late.

The ice warrior passed out on the floor, "That's Vorgo's voice", Victoria said through her handkerchief, "We're going in now", the Commander said over the intercom.

"We must escape", Victoria told us urgently, "It's not just a question of escape, Victoria. We've got to take some action", the Doctor said and then walked over to the monitor.

"Right, this gun that's given Vorga control of the base without it he'd be helpless', the Doctor said walking over to the monitor, that controlled the sonic cannon, and opening the panel in front of it.

"Right and what can we do", I asked as I walked up to him, "Don't worry, I'll have this done quickly…hopefully", he told us glancing between Victoria and I.

We heard Vorga threatening the group of scientists over the intercom, "He's a monster", I commented angrily, as the Doctor glanced at me for a moment before returning to work. Vorga asked about the reactor controls so they could see for themselves if the scientists used mercury.

"They're making them shut down the reactor", Victoria exclaimed angrily, "Yes. Now this is Vorga's main weapon, there's a chance I can turn it against him", the Doctor told us.

With the weapon itself", I asked, "Exactly", he told me, then ran over to a pair of doors that led outside.

"If I can open these doors…" the Doctor said pulling open the metal panel looking doors, before both Victoria and I went over to help him. The doors opened, "There we are come on, the Doctor told us as he held it open for us to walk through, then followed close behind as well all walked up to the sonic cannon.

"Now careful. Just stay there", the Doctor warned as he walked up to the weapon, as Victoria and I stayed a little way away.

"How does this gun operate", I heard the Doctor say, before removing a panel to mess with the wires.

"Hurry", Victoria pleaded as I glanced down at the village that was not too far from where we were standing, before glancing back at the Doctor.

"What are you trying to do", I asked the Doctor, "Well…it's a little hard to explain, Acacia…oh, dear…. come over here and help me will you", he told me and I nodded before walking over to the Doctor.

The Doctor handed me a handful of wires and began working on the machine again before answering my question, "This gun works on the basis that sound waves produce reverberations in the objects in their path."

"The objects vibrate in symphony. As my father told me once", Victoria commented, "You don't have to discredit yourself, just because someone told you a fact", I told her.

"But I'd be taking the credit for someone else", she told me and I sighed. "Alright", I told her and shrugged.

"Well if we can produce unsymphonetic vibrations, damage results", the Doctor explained, finishing his train of thought.

"Damage? Oh, like a singer breaking glass", Victoria asked.

"Yes, but I want to be able to get at the warriors without it affecting the scientists too much. Now, if we change this to frequency seven…it should primarily effect liquid", the Doctor told us.

"You think the ice warriors are made of mostly liquid then", I asked, "Precisely", the Doctor said before removing the wires from my hands, placing the parts back, and the panel before giving me a somewhat knowing and confused look, but remained silent.

I was now giving a confused look of my own before Victoria said, "If it works, what happens."

"That's just it…I don't know", the Doctor told us honestly. "You don't know", I asked baffled, "Well it's not like I've ever done that before, but I know that whatever effect it has on the scientists, it's have an even greater on the warriors", the Doctor told us before we ran back inside going to the monitor that controlled the sonic blast.

"How", Victoria questioned, "Well, apart from the fluid question, their helmets will trap and intensify the sound waves", the Doctor told her.

"So, it'll knock out the warriors, but leave the scientists dizzy", I commented, "That's what I'm hoping, but there is a vague risk that it can kill everybody. Clent and Penley included", the Doctor told us and our eyes widened in horror.

"And Jaimie", Victoria asked extremely upset and I patted her shoulder, telling her it'll be alright before she slapped my hand away, "How do you know it will be", she asked me with tears welling up in her eyes.

"Just believe that it will", I whispered before rubbing her back comfortingly, I glanced at the Doctor before he nodded, smiling, before going back to work on the monitor.

The Doctor was about to press the button until Victoria grabbed his arm and yelled, "No! No! It's too dangerous."

"It's a risk we must take Victoria", he told her, then looked over at me. After a moment, I sighed and nodded, "I'm with you", I told him and he nodded, then looked over at Victoria before she agreed as well.

"Now, cross your fingers", he said as his hand hovered over the button, "Here we go", then he pressed the button on the console.

Releasing the button, he then grabbed then pressed another button activating the intercom, "Vorga, this is the Doctor. Are you going to retreat, or shall I fire again? Trouble is…I dare not use it again, if it hasn't killed them already, another firing certainly will, Vorga! Answer me or I'll fire again", the Doctor said into the intercom, facing Victoria and I as he said the last part.

"You will die for this", we heard Vorga say, "What do we do now", Victoria asked, "Get well back", the Doctor told her, as he pulled two wire out of the panel.

"What", Victoria asked, "Alright", I said before I pulled her away from the monitor, "Stand back for the fireworks! Here we go", the Doctor said then pulled the two wires together making the monitor explode a little.

"Now, quickly! Let's get out of here before they come back", the Doctor told as he grabbed out hands making us run out of the spaceship and into the freezing cave. Once we were back in the base, he told Victoria to look for Jaimie, by now he should have returned. The Doctor and I were helping the scientists sit up as Victoria exclaimed that she had found Jaimie and he was in the other room.

The Doctor told her to take Jaimie with her into the Tardis and close the doors, she nodded before she left.

"They're all alive", I said happily as more and more scientists sat up dizzily. "Oh", a man said a man groggily, "Okay, up you get. Come along", the Doctor said helping the man up.

"What happened? Did you do that? And who's this", the man asked the Doctor, the man asked even when he's never seen the Doctor either. The man seemed like he was half seeing me, like I was there and like I wasn't as his eyes drifted from side to side.

I tried lightly slapping the man's face a little to try to get him to focus, "You alright", I asked him, "There's no time for questions", the Doctor said as he turned the man around, so that he would help Clent up.

Lifting a brow at the Doctor as I was confused, I wanted to know what was going on…but I suppose he's tell me when the time was right, I figured as I helped Miss Garrett up.

"You all right", I asked the woman, "Yes, what was that", she asked me, "A low frequency sonic blast. Managed to scare away the ice warriors", I told he smiling then frowned as she stared back upset.

"There was a good chance we could have all been killed by that blast you and friend had so recklessly used….and you smile like there's nothing wrong with that", she told me.

"But..you didn't die, you're alive", I told her and she just shook her head and walked away. I sighed…maybe she did have every right to be angry…we did just risk their lives using the sonic cannon with the possibility that it could have killed them all…it was a risk…

"Clent. Their spacecraft is powered by an ion reactor", the Doctor told the man, interrupting my thoughts, "Well, that means we dare not use the ionizer at full force. That's our last chance gone", the head scientist told us helplessly.

"Why? For heaven's sake", the man, whom the Doctor had helped before, asked, "Because of the risk man! You know what would happen", Clent told the man.

"Of course, there's a risk, but it's a risk we must take! It's the only way", the Doctor told them as he looked at us all, I wore an unsure expression.

The Doctor came over to me and gently grabbed my shoulders, "Back in the spaceship you said you were with me, indicating you trust me. Do you still trust me", he asked and I took a deep breath before I nodded, then the Doctor smiled.

"The computer say no", Clent told him stubbornly, "The computer- ", "Is our supreme adviser", Clent said, cutting off the men.

"And what sort of advice is that? Do nothing", the man asked angrily, "We must obey", Miss Garrett told him, "Well that's stupid", I commented as me Doctor elbowed me playfully.

"The computer considers everything", Clent told him, which made me narrow my eyes at the head scientist, "But that's why in this case you cannot rely on its judgement", the Doctor argued.

"We trust the computer! It's our strength and our guide", Miss Garett exclaimed to the Doctor, "Not this time", the Doctor told her.

"Why", I asked puzzled, "Because, Acacia, the computer is faced with an insoluble problem. Either way it destroys it, it risks of destroying itself and this it cannot do. It must play it safe", the Doctor explained to me, "Yeah…but if it does nothing…it's just as bad", I said, my voice not really my own.

I was looking at the computer now as it spun around to look at me and the others around itself, before it looked away. It was alive, I thought as a tear rolled down my cheek and the others were deciding its fate. The other scientists kept calling it a machine, like they couldn't see the life they had built in front of them.

"This is a decision for a man to take, not a machine. The computer isn't designed to take risks, but that is the essence of man's procreates. We must decide", the man told Miss Garrett.

"But if you do that you'll soon ruin the world plan! All of the ionizer bases must work together, through world control! If we act too soon. It's as bad as being too late", Clent told them.

"Yes, I know that…but the other bases haven't got a glacier on top of them and apart from that, what about these ice warriors? If they live, they threaten our entire civilization", the man told Clent.

"A decision must be made and quickly", the Doctor told them and Clent turned around, "I can't", he said and then they all turned towards Miss Garrett, "I dare not", she said before looking down. "It's up to you…", the Doctor said then paused, "My name's Penley and yes I agree…well Clent", Penley asked before the head scientist shook his head before turning around to face the man.

"I reserve the right to consult my computer", Clent told him, "Go ahead", Penley said as the head scientist walked towards the computer after the Doctor had pulled me away. My breath quickened as Clent asked the computer, "Problem: Alien spacecraft is powered by an ion reactor. Dare we use the ionizer? What are the alternatives? Answer."

The computer began spinning around confused, it didn't know what to answer my head stung as I felt pain that wasn't my own. "It's gone mad", Clent exclaimed and sighed, "Well, Penley, we will use the ionizer at full strength to turn back the glacier. Miss Garrett inform world control."

"What of the spaceship", I asked, "At full strength the ionizer will melt rock", Penley said not really answering my question.

After a while they set up their machine to destroy the ice before the glaciers moved as the warrior's spaceship began to take off; before their machine could destroy the space craft, I ran over to prevent them from pressing the button. Then the spaceship flew up into the air and then disappeared through the clouds.

Everyone looked at me horrified, "What have you done", Clent yelled, "I stopped you from making a mistake", I yelled back, "They could come back to kill us", Miss Garret shouted as well.

"It's too late now, and there's no point in yelling", Penley told them the rest of them, tears flowed down my cheeks; these people were more than willing to kill off another species out of fear.

"What if they come back", Clent argued, "Then you'll be ready", the Doctor told him as he rubbed my back soothingly and then we left. We returned to the Tardis. he let me go in first, and just then a white light engulfed me as I was pulled forward in time. Here we go again...