DISCLAIMER: This is a Sanctuary story/spinoff, although not entirely related to Sanctuary, I must point out that I do not own any contents of Sanctuary, every single credit goes to those who worked on Sanctuary. I do however own my own OC's.

P.I.O.R. - A Sanctuary Story

Season 1

Chapter 9: Echoes of the past

Tobey, who had gathered his team made their way onto B deck of the Titanic and was looking down a first class corridor with a long carpet extending towards the end of the corridor that they looked down.

A series of lights on the ceiling ran down the corridor. Also on the sides of both walls of the first class corridor were posh little lights. The corridor was painted bright white which blinded the team temporarily.

"Okay," Tobey said. "Let's start checking these rooms."

"What are we meant to be looking for exactly?" said one of his teammates.

"I honestly don't know, anything out of the ordinary I guess, clues as to what or how this ship came to be here." Tobey said them. He placed on the floor a case which he opened and brought out his thermal imaging kit. "Use your thermal imaging devices and Geiger counters, if there are any ghosts here, we will find them."

Tobey's teammate, Carl and Wayne who were both twin brothers had jet black hair, brown eyes, muscle built and fair tanned looked at each other and both chose a door and opened it to saw flashing before them the beauty of first class bedroom.

The room was furnished in brown wood, and the lights that were hanging from the sides provided a dim view of the room. There was a four poster bed and a dressing table with a chair that was built out of the same furnished wood as the walls.

"Posh," Wayne said as he used his thermal imaging to scan the room. "Very posh, fancy having sex in this room, wonder if anyone did have sex on the Titanic?" he asked himself pondering over the thought.

Carl who was using his Geiger counter said: "Well, a few decks down they did perhaps. And in the cargo hol–"

"Excluding the 1997 film!" Wayne said cutting across his brother.

Carl rolled his eyes.

As they were searching the room a sudden rocking motion moved them back and forth.

"What was that?" Carl asked.

"Maybe we hit something?" Wayne replied.

Then another sudden jerking sound rocked through the room. Tobey and his team came running and stumbling into the room where Wayne and Carl were.

"What's happening?" Wayne asked trying to steady his footing.

Then without warning a door that lead to another room burst open spewing gallons of water into the bedroom.

"Out!" Tobey yelled.

Tobey and his team dropped whatever was in their hands, and rushed out of the room. As soon as they were back in the corridor the violent jerking and rushing of water…seemed to stop and vanished. Tobey and his team tuned back to look at the room they were in. Not a drop of water was in sight.

"That was odd." Tobey said.

Shaken by what had just transpired, they all walked back into the room cautiously.

Wayne picked up the Geiger counter which was unharmed and seemed to be working just fine. He used it to scan the room. "Whatever just happened, I am getting normal readings."

He radioed H on his earpiece. "H, is everything okay up where you are?"

"Of course it is, is something wrong?" H called over the radio.

"I don't know." Tobey replied.

XXX

Somehow, Kai and his team managed to make their way into the engine room, which was ginormous for a ship the size of Titanic. The whole place sparkled with metal and iron. Cogs and wheels attached to pipes, levers were sticking out of the sides of panels and a series of massive generators which linked towards the turbines that stood like giants.

One of Kai's team members tapped on one of the generators that moved the turbines. Another member turned one of the cogwheels seeing if something might happen, nothing did, and another member pulled on a lever that also did nothing.

Kai looked around and his team whipped their equipment and started investigating. "How is it that nothing on this ship is working when it sailed right into Cardiff and we have lights?" Kai asked himself. He listened to the quietness of the ship, not even a single hum or buzz of the ship indicated that it was in full working operation. "Spread out guys, anything out of the ordinary, report to me!" he said to his team.

There was a lot of ground to cover. Kai climbed a ladder to get to the second layer of the engine room. He got a good view of the engine room from where he was, it was like looking into a futuristic version of some sort of engine bay from a science fiction film.

He scanned the area he was in quickly. He could see his team mate. He counted each and every one of them

1…2…3…4…5…6…

Kai stopped and looked at one of his men who were overlooking one of the generators of the turbines. "6?" he didn't have 6 men with men, he had 5, so who was the extra one?

He radioed one of his team on his earpiece. "Damian, do not react, but there is someone who is not supposed to be in this room!" Kai whispered to Damian who was looking over a few pipes and inspecting to make sure that nothing was going to jump out on them.

Damian glanced to his left slightly and saw the man that Kai was on about. He saw the man looking at the generator that led to one of the turbines, he seemed to be wearing a flat hat and he looked grubby and was wearing what resembled looked like a miners outfit. "I see him," he replied to Kai.

"When I give the order, I want you to apprehend him," Kai said, Damian acknowledged this.

After some time, the stranger remained in the same place. Kai gave the order for Damian to apprehend the man.

Damian sprang forth towards the man.

Kai watched as Damian lunged towards the man, but the man faded away into nothing causing Damian to collide with the wall of the generator. Kai frowned and was taken aback. The stranger had just vanished. The person didn't make any scream or movement, he just vanished.

Kai and his team then heard hissing from somewhere.

"All ahead full!" a voice said from somewhere echoing all over the engine room.

Then the whole engine room was aloud with machinery working and hissing and voices of people shouting over one another.

Kai and the whole team were confused, there was no one in the engine room and none of the engine turbines and generators were working. They were confused and baffled.

"Scan for any anomalies!" Kai ordered his men.

Damian rushed over and grabbed a thermal imaging device and used it to look all over the engine room. He shook his head. "I am getting no readings on my end."

Another one of the members who was using a Geiger counter then replied by saying: "Really, only I am getting an awful lot of radiation emitting from…well…everywhere from within the engine room!"

"Is it dangerous?" Damian asked.

The man shook his head. "It's just background radiation, no harm at all. But it is everywhere, I don't even know where it is emitting from." said the puzzled man as he continued scanning.

Kai and his team were confused. Whatever was going on, it appeared that their troubles had just begun.

XXX

Madog had gathered a team and were searching the cargo hold. Boxes and carts and a really posh 1912 version of a red car, very similar to that seen in the film of Titanic where held in the cargo hold.

"If you hear any moaning sounds, it's just DiCaprio and Winslet humping in the back of the car," joked Madog.

"Shut up, Madog!" said a female who was in Madog's group.

"Don't tell that was not funny for you, Janw?" he asked the female.

"Not in the slightest." Janw said to him.

"I found it offensive to be honest." said a man who was looking into a box that was empty.

"How in any way is that offensive?" asked Madog.

"Considering that Jack died on the Titanic, not cool," said the man.

"He was a made up character, he wasn't even real, and he didn't die on Titanic, he died in the ocean!" Madog pointed out.

"Never knew you were one for romance, Madog?" Janw smiled.

"I'm not," Mdog said as he looked up and the structure of the cargo hold which was punctured with rivets and painted white. He had to use a torch to see where everything was. "In fact I have never seen Titanic."

"Then how come you know who the characters were in the film?" Jane asked.

"I read part of a review online." Madog said. "And Jack didn't die on the Titanic, he died in the ocean."

"Still it is the same thing," said the man.

"How is it the same thing when the ship has already sunk and that he died in the ocean after the ship sunk, it makes no se–"

Madog stopped short after a few clinking and clanging sounds of what sounded like champagne corks popping open loudly echoed within the cargo hold.

Spewing its way into the cargo hold from the bent iron walls came water that sprayed all over the Madog and his team drenching them. Water was pouring into the ship.

Madog and his team were pushed back and landed and collided with the boxes, they tried to hold onto something but the rushing water kept pummelling them.

Then it stopped, and water was no long within the cargo hold, it happened so fast and left Madog and his team baffled. They got up and looked at the cargo hold. Everything was back where it was. The walls were no longer bent or scratched and water was no longer seeping or spewing through the cracks. Everything was dry, even Madog and his team.

"What was that all about?" Janw asked as she got back up.

Madog looked at the wall where the water had spewed into, he walked up to iron wall. "The wall is no longer buckled, nor is there any sign of it being damaged by anything."

Madog ran his hand over the cold iron plating.

"We all did see what happened…right?" Madog asked his team.

All of them nodded

"Check to make sure that the walls are not leaking in water or anything." Madog said, he was slightly spooked and was now afraid that the room he was in was going flood with water.

XXX

H kept in frequent contact with Tobey who had told him of the bizarre experience he had just witnessed. Kai and Madog had also radioed in telling them of their bizarre encounters.

H, Erok and Charlotte were at the stern of the ship overlooking the back of the ship itself. H used his thermal equipment and scanned for anything paranormal. The only heat signatures he got were from those who were on the ship and were part of H's team at P.I.O.R.

"Not very, ghost like is it?" Erok said. "I half expected there to be a scare or two, bangs and moans and moving objects, and all we have encountered are just voices,"

"Yeah," mumbled H, "I half expected to see some paranormal activity as well,"

So much for a ghost hunting experience thought Charlotte. Again she was disappointed. H was seriously trying his best, but Charlotte was not convinced in joining yet.

"Okay," H said sighing outwardly. "Let's do another sweep and then start looking on the inside, maybe we will–"

A sudden rocking motion rocked the ship, almost as if something had hit the ship.

"Let me guess, we hit an iceberg?" Erok said to himself.

"Why can I hear birds?" Charlotte asked. She thought she was imagining it, but she wasn't the only one who could hear birds, Erok and H could hear birds too.

"Buts its night, birds don't come out at night," frowned H.

The wind picked up and blew a spray of salty water into their eyes blinding them. H dropped his thermal imaging device. They rubbed their eyes to get the salt water out of their eyes only for yet another strong gust of spray to blow at them.

"Aww, stings!" Erok said, rubbing his eyes.

Charlotte winced, whilst H began using his bottom lip to blow up at his eyes.

All rather strangely, H could have sworn that his eyesight had been blurred, only he could have sworn that it was daylight, he rubbed his eyes again to make sure that he wasn't seeing things. No doubt about it, it was daylight.

"Wasn't it night, just now?" asked Charlotte. Charlotte was seeing the same thing too, as was Erok.

H looked around him; they were still on the stern of the ship. But they were in the middle of the ocean. H bent down to pick up his equipment. "What happened to the thermal imaging I had?"

They looked around saw a series of men, women, and children, all dressed in modern day clothes as to the here and now.

"Bowler hats, top hats, long black dresses, canes. White frilly frocks – what is all this?" Erok asked.

H said nothing. Flying above him were a few seagulls, he then walked to edge of the ship and looked over the side. "This ship is no longer black and white," he said.

"What's that?" Erok asked him.

"The whole ship is painted white and has a giant red plus sign on its side."

Charlotte looked around her; she was confused as H and Erok. Walking around the ship, Charlotte saw some what looked like soldier and nuns, or rather nurses of some sort. "H!" Charlotte called to him. Charlotte pointed at the white nuns dressed nurses and soldiers in their army outfits.

"There were never any soldiers on the Titanic!" Erok said. Charlotte agreed with Erok. She had no idea how many times she saw the film Titanic, but there were never any soldiers.

H looked around for a life ring saw on and picked it up. "That's because we are not on the Titanic." he said to them.

Charlotte and Erok turned to see him holding up the life ring at them.

"Oh, my god!" Charlotte said.

H nodded. "Yep,"

"Britannic!" Erok said aghast. "Were on the bloody Britannic?" he said his face in shock and awe.

H nodded his head. "The third sister ship of the Olympic and Titanic." H said. "I think we have gone back in time!" he said to them.

XXX

"H?" Kai tried to radio him over the radio. "H, do you hear me?" all he got was static. "Something is wrong. I am going back up deck; you lot stay here, and find out what is going on." He said to his team.

Kai left the engine room and made his way up top of the deck. As he made his way through the ships infrastructure, he found that he had lost himself in the mazes of corridors. Even the arrows on the walls which told him where to go didn't help.

As remarkable as the ship was, it didn't half confuse you. All corridors with white walls and doors, and red flooring extending in all directions made Kai falter. "Now which way do I go?" he asked himself. He randomly picked a corridor and walked down it.

As he walked down it he could have sworn that he heard a trickle of water from somewhere. He turned behind him, seeing a trail of running water run alongside the bottom of the walls and following him up the corridor.

"Oh, dear." He said to himself.

XXX

Madog and his team had checked the cargo hold thoroughly, no water was seeping through any cracks or any of the iron rivets.

Back on deck, Madog had his team search the bow of the ship. Whatever had happened down below in the cargo hold, he hadn't the faintest idea.

He tried to radio call H, but got no reply.

"Okay, something isn't quite right here," he said to his team.

"Everything seems normal from up here," said one of Madog's team members.

Madog nodded. He was about to say something when a sudden gust of wind that blew salt water into their eyes, stinging them. Then the ship rocked back and forth slightly, and stopped.

After rubbing their eyes free of the salt water, Madog noticed a sudden change in scenery, for one it wasn't night, it was slightly cloudy. Madog looked at the scenery around him; he noticed up on both ends of the side of the ship were two patches of land. If he were not mistaken he could have sworn that he knew the landmark known as the Isle of Wight. He then deduced that he – along with his team – had travelled from Cardiff, and were now placed somewhere between The Solent, a fishing lane between England and the Isle of Wight.

Madog and his team looked around them, confused. And what else was that they were nowhere near the front of the ship, they were at the stern.

"What the hell is all this?" one of his team members asked.

No one answered that team member.

A sudden up burst of panic startled Madog and his team as he saw what looked like passengers from all different classes, from a different time period were running towards them. Then something bizarre and peculiar happened…

The passengers didn't just bump into them; they sort of…went straight through them, like ghosts. Madog and his team remained frozen like statues after what just happened. Madog gulped, his eyes wide open, and then he turned to face the starboard side of the stern of the ship.

Madog and his team could see what looked like another ship, coming straight towards them.

"That's an Edgar-class protected cruiser!" said one of Madog's members.

"You know that ship?" Janw asked.

"I know war ships." replied the first man.

"Never mind that, we need to–" Madog began saying but was cut off after the war cruiser slammed head first into the ship they were on throwing Madog and his team members to the floor. Screams engulfed those around him as passengers fled around the ship, taking cover.

"Shit, that was rough!" said another member.

"Down on the stern side where we are maybe. Up front not as much," Madog said as he helped himself back up. As he got up he noticed a life ring. He caught a glimpse of the name of the ship he was on. "No!" he said to himself as he picked up the life ring. "No way are we on the Olympic!"

XXX

Tobey was using his equipment to scan around for any strange phenomena's.

Tobey and his team were still in the same B deck first class corridor checking all the rooms with thermal imaging. Tobey was sort of convinced that the ship he was on was a ghost ship, if not something else.

Polly was among one of Tobey's team members. She was on her own in a room searching for clues as to what was going on.

As she looked around the first class bedroom, the sudden WHAM! of the door close behind her. Her blue eyes looked around the room.

"Very funny guys, scare the life out of me!" she said as she went to open the door. She tried to pull it open. "Oh, very funny, the lock-the-door-and-make-her-sacred-joke." Polly said.

Polly tried to yank the door open. "This isn't funny anymore; we have a job to do guys."

As Polly tried to open the door, a faint trickle of water dropped onto her flame red ginger hair. She looked up to the roof of the bedroom and saw a crack in roof with a drip of water seeping through it.

Then she heard a creaking sound coming from the far wall where the porthole was.

Sprays of water came spraying into the bedroom.

"Guys, open the door!" she said rattling at the handle to open the door. More cracks in the wall formed and sprayed water into the bedroom.

There was another door to another room, Polly ran towards the door and tried to open it but it was locked also.

The room suddenly began to fill with water rapidly.

Polly went back to the entrance door and hammered on it. "HELP, HELP ME!"

Tobey and his team member heard Polly scream for help. Tobey was at the door in a heartbeat and tried to throw open the door. "Why is this door locked? Polly are you in there?!"

"Yes, water is coming into the room!" she whimpered.

Wayne ordered Tobey to move aside and began to kick at the door.

Polly gasped and breathed heavily.

"Hold on Polly, were coming!" Tobey said. "Carl, this room is connected to the one next to it; see if you can get into it that way!" Carl nodded and ran into the room next to it.

Wayne kicked and kicked trying to open the door. "C'mon you sod!" he said as he kicked more.

"THIS DOOR WON'T OPEN EITHER!" Carl shouted from the room next door to the room Polly was in.

Polly screamed and whimpered. "I-I'm c-cold!" she said.

"Polly!" Tobey called to her. "Polly speak to me, whatever is going on that room, it's not real!" Tobey said to her through the door. He then looked to the floor. "Nothing is happening," he said.

Tobey placed his ear against the door all he could hear was Polly's whimpering and teeth chattering as if she were cold.

"I'm g-going to d-drown!" she said through the door. Tobey could hear the fear in her voice, as well as hear her cry.

"Polly, listen to me, nothing is–"

"ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH HHHHH!" a loud bloodcurdling screech came from the other side of the door.

"Polly!" Tobey shouted. "POLLY!"

In one massive kick, Wayne kicked open the wooden door which nearly flew off its hinges.

From the next room, Carl came barging through after trying to also kick the door down.

Tobey and his team mates looked around, and there in the middle of the floor was Polly. Her face pale white and eyes wide open in terror.

Tobey knelt down to feel her pulse. "She's…" he didn't even finish the sentence.

Carl and Wayne closed their eyes and bowed their heads in sorrow.

Tobey looked around the room cautiously. "Water she said. Where is the water?" he asked himself. Tobey felt her clothes. "She's not even wet!" Tobey said frowning. "How did she die?"

A/N: Here is chapter 9 of P.I.O.R. Chapter 10 will be uploaded later on this evening. Also I must ask you to read the Authors' Note at the beginning of Chapter 10.

Anyway before I go, I must point out that I mean no disrespect for those who died on Titanic and Britannic and the Olympic even though the Olympic never sank, I still mean no disrespect.

Reviews would be nice on what you thought of this chapter.

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