Luke then woke up and fell onto the floor it had been another nightmare, Luke sat on the floor with his head in his hands as tears began to form in his eyes
"Luke!" Sanjay's voice called as he banged on the door.
Luke didn't answer him.
"Luke you ok"
Sanjay continued to bang on the door.
"Answer me Luke," he yelled.
Luke got up and opened the door.
"Hey you ok, you were calling out," Sanjay asked.
"I had a nightmare" Luke replied as he wiped his eyes.
"What!" Sanjay continued.
Sanjay walked into Luke's room and closed the door behind him.
"That's the second one I've had in two days," Luke added.
"Second" Sanjay repeated.
Luke nodded and told Sanjay about both nightmares he had, including what mr smith and K9 thought the cause of the nightmares was.
"Ok this business with eldritch gets weirder" Sanjay said.
"Yeah, I just hope these nightmares are gone soon, there so real" Luke said still sounding shaken.
Sanjay put his hand on Luke's shoulder.
"Hey why don't we go somewhere to take your mind off things?" Sanjay told him.
"What do you have in mind?" Luke asked.
"Well I don't know about you but I fancy an early morning hamburger" Sanjay replied.
"Hamburgers" Luke repeated.
"Yeah the cornerstone to any nutritious breakfast"
This made Luke smile, Sanjay smiled back.
Meanwhile in a secret unit base colonel Anna Tellos had come to see how one of units top-secret projects was progressing.
"Morning William" Anna greeted the head of the project.
"Colonel" William simply replied.
"I trust things are going well"
William nodded.
"Yes we have the core working again, we just need to sort out the power problems," he explained.
"Power problems" Anna repeated.
"The core needs a lot of electricity to run and it's overloading our generators, meaning we can only run the core for about 30 minutes a day"
"So how do you plan to sort out this problem?"
"At the moment we're using capacitors to balance the voltage and current. We've already got running time up from 10 minutes to 30 minutes, but we need to find a more stable power source if we want to run the core 24-7"
"How about an alien power core"
"Yes we could reverse engineer an alien power core, but we don't have access to one"
"Not at the moment, but there is one in oxford"
"There is"
Anna nodded.
"Sarah Jane smith's son has a metal dog built by the doctor, that will have the power core we need, and once we have it we will be able to fully activate the greatest defence computer the world has ever seen" she told him.
Anna and William looked out of a window to see scientists working on the remains of Eldritch's supercomputer the behemoth.
Back in oxford Luke and Sanjay were in the burger bar and Sanjay was stuffing his face.
"Man I'm so hungry" Sanjay said between mouthfuls.
But Luke wasn't eating much.
"Hey you not still thinking about that nightmare are you" Sanjay asked.
Luke slowly nodded.
"I can't get it out of my head, I just get the feeling something's coming something evil" luke replied.
"Yeah there called exams," Sanjay joked.
"I'm serious I feel something coming to get us" Luke continued.
"It was just a nightmare Luke, things in nightmare can't hurt you"
"What about the nightmare man"
"Ok you got me there, what I'm trying to say is don't worry about it"
"That's easy for you to say"
"Things will work out Luke promise"
"Ok" Luke replied with a smile.
"Sanjay"
Luke and Sanjay turned to see a girl in her late teens walking towards them.
"Hey Cathy" Sanjay greeted.
"Me and the guys are going to the union tonight, you wanna come" Cathy asked.
"Yeah sure, oh this is my mate Luke, Luke this is Cathy" Sanjay introduced.
"Pleased to meet you Cathy" Luke told her.
"You too, hey why don't you come to the union with Sanjay tonight" Cathy continued.
"Yeah ok" Luke replied.
"Our other friends josh and Danny will be back later today, do you mind if I bring them too," Sanjay asked.
"The more the merrier, guess I'll see you then" Cathy said as she gave Sanjay a kiss on the cheek.
"Catch ya later Cathy" Sanjay added.
Cathy then turned and left.
"So who's your friend" Luke asked with a grin.
"Oh me and Cathy are sort of going out," Sanjay explained.
"I didn't know you were seeing someone"
"Yeah, I met her at a party over the holidays, you see I stayed here for Christmas because mark and my bro were in Africa hunting a kell beast"
"You should have said something, you could have spent Christmas with me and mum"
"Well I didn't want to crash"
"Your part of the gang now Sanjay, you'll always be welcome"
"Arr thanks mate"
"So what's Cathy like?"
"Oh she's amazing she's always up for a laugh"
"Well she seems nice"
"Oh she is, how's Maria by the way?"
"She's fine we were talking last night on web chat, she says her dad's got a new job and he's going to be backwards and forwards between America and here, so she'll be able to visit soon"
"Oh that's great news, you were a bit down after she went back home"
"Yeah, I…. I think I'm… I think I might be falling in love with her" Luke blurted out.
This made Sanjay nearly choke on his drink.
"Wow ok" he replied.
"Is there a way to tell if I am in love?" Luke asked sounding like an 8 year old asking his mum a question.
"None of us know that mate, these things just happen," Sanjay told him.
"Are you in love with Cathy"
Sanjay thought for a moment.
"Well we like each other, we enjoy being together, but are we in love I honestly don't know" he replied.
"It sounds so complicated" Luke continued.
"That's life for ya Luke"
Sanjay and Luke finished their food and got up to leave.
"So what do you fancy doing now?" Sanjay asked.
"I don't know" Luke said shrugging his shoulders.
"Hey why don't we hit the shops get some new stuff for tonight"
"Yeah ok"
Luke and Sanjay left the burger bar but didn't notice two men watching them.
"There's the boy," one of the men said.
"No sign of the dog" the other replied.
"Well we'll just have to wait till he goes home and follow him," the first man continued.
Later that afternoon Sanjay and Luke had returned from shopping to find josh and Danny had returned from Foxly.
"Hey, hey hey, guess who's back" josh yelled as he and Danny walked up to Luke and Sanjay.
"Josh, Danny" Luke greeted.
"You guys have a good chrimbo?" Sanjay asked.
"Yeah it was brilliant and New Year was just awesome, there was a big party at Alex's house" josh told them.
"Mind you josh did almost set fire to the house with the fireworks" Danny explained.
"Hey that was Max's fault not mine" josh replied.
This made Luke grin he had missed josh and Danny being around.
"I see you guys have been shopping" Danny said noticing the shopping bags in Luke's room.
"Yeah just some stuff for tonight" Sanjay replied.
"Were meeting Sanjay new girlfriends at the union," Luke continued.
"Girlfriend" Danny repeated.
"Oh nice one mate" josh added.
"Yeah, hey names Cathy we've been seeing each other about 2 weeks now" Sanjay explained.
"Cool, so when do we get to meet her" josh asked.
"Tonight if you want, I asked if she didn't mind you guys tagging along. And she said the more the merrier" Sanjay answer.
"Well I'm in" Josh replied.
"Same here" Danny said.
"Great, we'll meet by the dorm entrance about 7" Sanjay told them.
And with that everyone headed back to there rooms. Luke walked into room closing his door behind him.
"Greetings master luke" K9 said as he rolled out of the corner.
"Hey K9" Luke replied.
"Mistress Sarah Jane wishes you to contact her immediately" The metal dog told him.
Luke wasted no time and quickly got on his computer and signed into web chat and soon his mums face appeared on the screen.
"Mum is everything ok" Luke asked.
"Luke I see your back at last" Sarah Jane replied.
"Yeah, sorry me and Sanjay were in town" Luke told her.
"Well I just wanted you too know mr smith has detected some strange energy readings not too far from oxford" Sarah Jane explained.
"Really, Any ideas what it is?"
Sarah Jane shook her head.
"No it only seems to happen for about 30 minutes a day then nothing" she continued.
"How strange, do you want me and Sanjay to check it out" Luke asked.
"No I've already contacted mark he's going to look into it for us, I just thought I'd give you and Sanjay a heads up"
"A heads up" Luke said with a grin.
"What" Sarah Jane said sounding puzzled.
"You really have been spending too much time with Clyde" Luke told her.
This made them both laugh.
"Thanks for letting me know mum" Luke said with a yawn.
"You look tired" Sarah Jane replied.
"Yeah didn't get much sleep last night"
"You had another nightmare didn't you?"
Luke nodded and Sarah wanted to put her hands though the screen so she could hug him.
"They'll be gone soon Luke" Sarah Jane continued.
"I hope so the last one was a bit freaky" Luke replied.
"Nightmare are Luke, nightmares are" Sarah Jane added.
Mr smith then began to bleep.
"Sarah Jane I'm detecting an object entering earths atmosphere" the computer explained.
"Looks like I've got to go to work" Sarah Jane told her son.
"Be careful"
"I will bye Luke" Sarah Jane said as she blew her son a kiss.
"Bye mum"
Sarah Jane disappeared from the screen and Luke shut down his computer and lay on his bed. His mum was right he was really tired and he was soon fast asleep.
Luke found himself back in the corridor again and once again the girl stood at the end of it.
"Who are you" Luke asked as he walked up to the girl.
"I'm here to warn you of what's to come " she told him.
"Warn me" Luke repeated.
As Luke spoke the lights began to flicker and the girl looked really scared.
"We don't have much time he's coming," she continued.
"Who's coming?" Luke demanded.
"The dark one he's found us" the girl added.
"Luke smith" a raspy evil voice called.
Luke turned to see a dark figure coming towards them, the lights in the corridor went out one by one as the figure walked towards Luke and the girl.
"He's here, you have to get out of here now" she told Luke.
The girl then pushed Luke onto the floor and Luke woke up on the floor in his room. Whatever was going on these were more that just nightmares.
To be continued.