The Weeping Angel Fighter
Chapter 10- At Last
Two years and six months later...
It was a relatively quiet night. No one was about. No one was being publicly hunted by the Weeping Angels. The once ultra modern looking UNIT HQ in Philadelphia was now in ruins. The Angels had targeted military organisations. UNIT was the first organisation to fall. Then they'd attacked the armies, navy and air forces of all the countries. Within one month the earth no longer had a single military defence organisation. That had made the Angels work so mush easier. The entrance to the UNIT HQ was swinging open. Someone had just entered the deserted building.
Blaine and Sebastian were in. "Do we know where exactly the crystal is?" asked Blaine not wanting to spend too long in the building.
He remembered what had happened when they spent too long in the Forge base back in London. The creatures that had attacked them there still gave Blaine nightmares even though it had happened over three years ago. They had been there looking for the Dalek eye-stalk and found it but that wasn't all they'd found. The Forge had been keeping creatures there and experimenting on them including trying to hybridise them with the Weeping Angels. The mutants had been seemingly unstoppable. They'd only just managed to escape sealing the base of forever in the process.
"The Doctor said that the Entum crystal was connected to the raw power of the Time Vortex but it can go into stasis lock-down and seem fairly unimportant. I'd guess UNIT didn't know what it was known that it was important so they kept it in their vault for safe keeping." said Sebastian professionally despite the fact he was just anxious as Blaine to leave.
He wasn't as scared as Blaine was about the incident at the Forge he was more scared at what had happened at the Grayle Legacy in New York. At the Grayle Legacy they needed to enter the basement. It had been full of Angels. They had been chained and shackled but that didn't stop several very close encounters. They'd had to visit the Grayle Legacy to get the quantum signature of an Angel about two years back. It was the first place they'd had to go once they returned to America. Sebastian and Blaine had left America and gone to Europe just days before the Angels took over to collect all the parts for the Q.L.A that were in Europe. They then had to return to America to complete the device and be able to use it at maximum efficiency.
"Let's get it and then go back to base." said Blaine as he started to walk off Sebastian following behind him. The location of the base varied. It tended to be the nearest out of the way location to the component. They'd never stay anywhere for more than one night because if they did it meant the Angels were more likely to find them. So Sebastian and Blaine had to keep running. If they stopped then all their work would be in vain.
They ran down the stairs. The lifts would have long since stopped working. Electricity was hardly used any more. The only time electricity was used was for lighting the Angels had made sure of that. It meant they could entice people into light buildings before cutting the power and picking them off one by one like flies. Many people had died that way. Blaine and Sebastian always carried torches with them. Immediately after he left the Doctor had rematerialised his Tardis just so he could use his Sonic Screwdriver to charge the power of the torches and stop them running out. He said that it would be essential to Blaine and Sebastian as batteries and electricity would become very scarce. He couldn't have been more right.
Down in the vault. Not much remained the majority of it had been ransacked and stolen. Either by people attempting to fight back against the Angels or the Weeping Angels themselves in an attempt to create new and more brutal weapons. What remained were wrecked displays and shattered cabinets. Taking in the sight Blaine realised it would be trickier than he'd imagined to find the crystal. They began to rummage through the crates which looked as if they contained important artefact's.
"Sebastian!" shouted Blaine pulling his head out of a crate.
"What?" came a muffled reply from inside a crate nearby.
"I think I've found." said Blaine proudly.
"Let me have a look." asked Sebastian. Blaine handed him the crystal he was holding. Sebastian shone his torch on it and examined it. "It certainly fits the description we've got of the Entum crystal." He was almost at a loss for words. "So this is it." Sebastian was holding the Entum crystal reverently in his hands.
"At last we have the final part of the Q.L.A. Over four and a half years work are now complete." Blaine held the Q.L.A and opened up the panel the Entum crystal needed to go in. Sebastian carefully placed the crystal inside the panel. The Q.L.A hummed with power for a second or two as if the crystal were adjusting itself to the new environment it found itself in.
"It's complete we have now built the most powerful device in human history" said Sebastian in genuine awe and wonder.
"So we now need to just wait to complete the final part of the Doctors instructions." stated Blaine practically.
Sebastian knew what that entailed. "We now need to get from Philadelphia to Lima in six months. So we can be there exactly 5 years on from when the Angels took over. Ready for Point Zero."
"We can do that easily compared to some of the places we've had to go to." said Blaine optimistically.
"I know. But it's just..." Sebastian was having trouble articulating his words properly.
"Just what?" asked Blaine.
"It's just this is it. In six months we have to save the world. We have to be there at Point Zero and use the Q.L.A otherwise the Time-line will become too badly damaged to be able to heal properly." Sebastian was genuinely scared of the responsibility the Doctor had placed on Blaine and Sebastian. Surely the Doctor could have chosen someone else?
"I know. It's scary isn't it?" Blaine was scared just like Sebastian except he had more faith in the Doctor. Blaine had genuinely believed the Doctor when he'd said he believed in them and knew they were the people who saved the world."But we need to do what we've always done. Keep fighting."
"Come on let's go I know you're just as anxious to get out of here as I am."
So we've just got two chapters left to go. What will happen? (I know!) Will they be able to make it to Ohio on time? Will they reach point Zero? Will the Q.L.A fail to work and the Time-line be too badly damaged to heal? Come back for the final two chapters.