"Run" Sarah Jane screamed.
Sarah Jane and Luke ran towards a large door, which led into the old water works.
"Quick in here" Sarah Jane said as she swung open the door.
Luke ran inside followed by Sarah Jane, but as they closed the door, one of the slitheen's arms came swinging around the door.
"Look out" Luke yelled as he quickly picked up a pipe from the ground.
Luke hit the slitheen's arm with it, and the monster yelped in pain as it pulled it's arm away from the door, Sarah Jane wasted no time and slammed the door shut.
"Was that a slitheen?" Luke asked.
"Yes, but this one's a lot more aggressive than they normally are" Sarah Jane replied.
Suddenly the door began to shake violently, as the slitheen pounded it with its claws.
"Come on, that door won't hold it long" Sarah Jane told Luke.
On the moon the space marines were busy evacuating the base, the commander and captain Chapman, were now in their main control room.
"Enemy closing 90 microns" one of the marines said.
"Power up the gun batteries, then get to shuttle" the commander Answered.
"Yes sir" the marine replied.
"We should get you to the shuttle as well sir" the captain told him.
"No, someone has to stay here, and send the distress signal" He explained.
"Let me stay sir, we need you on the surface" the captain answered.
"That's your job now old friend" the commander replied.
The commander removed his commander insignias.
"Sir please" the captain pleaded.
"I'm sorry Paul, but this is my final order" The commander continued.
He removed the captain's insignias, and placed his own on the captain's uniform.
"Regroup with lieutenant Graham and the other survivors, commander" he added.
The forma captain stood to attention and saluted his commander.
"It's been an honour sir," he said.
His commander saluted him back.
"Goodbye old friend, and good luck" The old commander replied.
Back at the water works Dusty and the other were now in the generator room, to find it had been smashed to pieces.
"Well, I think we can safely say, why the power went" Mark said.
Suddenly Dusty's scanner began to bleep.
"What is it" Rani asked.
"I'm detecting 3 life signs, 2 inside the building and one outside," Dusty answered as he looked at his scanner.
"Trigiod's?" Clyde asked.
"No if it was trigiod's, we wouldn't know until they attacked" Dusty replied.
Just they heard the distance sound of a metal door giving way.
"Well, that's the 3rd life sign inside" Dusty continued.
"I bet it's that slitheen" Maria replied.
"Let's just hope the other 2 life signs aren't" Clyde added.
As the alliance fighters began their attack on the base, the moons surface was lit by hundreds of laser blasts, as the space marine gun turrets returned fire.
Commander Chapman ran through the base as it exploded around him. He soon made it to the shuttle bay, where he found one of the marines waiting for him.
"I'd almost given up, where's the commander" The marine asked.
"He's staying behind Zack, to send the distress signal to the fleet," the new commander explained.
"Then let's make sure it's not in vain" Zack Replied.
Zack led Commander Chapman to the shuttle, and then got into his fighter.
"Everyone set" Zack asked.
"Ready for take off Captain" Came the reply.
"Then lets show the alliance what were made of," Zack said as he launched his ship.
As the alliance continued there attack, Zack and other 4 other fighters launched, from the space marine base followed by the shuttle, but they were soon detected.
"Ships are being launched from the marine's base" one of the alliance pilots reported.
"Brake off and pursue" Came the reply.
"By your command" the pilot answered.
Several alliance fighters pulled away from the main attack, and headed for the shuttle.
"Uh oh, looks like we've got company," A voice said over Zack's radio.
"Roger that Jake, James, Cody, you stay with the shuttle, Frank, Ollie, your with me" Zack ordered.
Zack and 2 other fighters pulled away from the shuttle, and flew towards the advancing alliance fighters.
Back at the school Mike Yates, Sergeant Gaskill, and a group of UNIT soldiers had set up a barricade, in the distance they could hear the trigiod approaching.
"Here it comes" Mike Said.
Suddenly a laser blast shot down the corridor and hit the barricade.
"Open fire" Mike ordered.
Sparks rained off the trigiod, it leaped into one of the class rooms, and moments later came crashing through the wall next to the barricade, the trigiod grabbed one of the solider and threw him through a window.
"Aim for its shoulder canon" Gaskill shouted.
Mike and the soldiers did as he said, and eventually destroyed the cannon, as the soldiers continued to fire, the trigiod crashed through another wall, Mike and the soldiers followed but the trigiod had vanished.
"Where's it gone?" Mike asked.
"Must have changed it's form" Gaskill replied.
Sergeant gaskill got his answer when a large dog appeared. It charged at Gaskill and changed back into the trigiod, as it pinned him against the wall.
"Gaskill" Mike Yates yelled.
Mike wasted no time and shot the trigiod in the head, this distracted the trigiod long enough for Gaskill to push the trigiod away from him; Gaskill then stuck something onto the trigiod, and ran towards Mike.
"Take cover" Sergeant Gaskill shouted.
Everyone did as he said, as the trigiod was blown in half, Gaskill got up and walked over to the smouldering remains, suddenly the trigiod reached out and grabbed him.
"Oh no you don't" Gaskill told it.
Gaskill pulled out his laser and shot the trigiod in the head, as Mike walked up to him he could see the trigiod's eye's fading to nothing.
"Well that's that" Mike continued.
But then blue energy began to run across the trigiod.
"Oh no it's not, this body about to blow" Gaskill replied.
Everyone quickly ran down the corridor to a fire exit, and headed outside just as a whole section of the school was destroyed, knocking everyone to the ground.
"That was too close" Mike added as Sergeant Gaskill helped him up.
High above them the battle with the alliance fighters continued.
"Heads up Ollie there's a pair on your tail" Zack Said when he saw 2 alliance fighters behind Ollie.
The fighters opened fire, and Ollie rolled his ship to avoid their lasers and pulled away, but one of the alliance fighters stayed on him.
"Pull up Ollie, I'll try to get him off" Frank told him.
Frank flew towards the two ships; he fired his lasers and destroyed the alliance fighter.
"Nice shooting" Ollie replied.
In the marine's base, the old commander was quickly aligning the communication dish.
"That's it, now lets hope someone's listening" the commander said to himself.
The commander then pushed a button on the consol.
Outside Zack had just destroyed another alliance fighter, when he saw the shuttle has safely reached the earth, and was entering the earth's atmosphere.
"Yes they've made it, brake off, brake off," Zack told his two wingmen.
All 3 fighters turned away, and flew full throttle towards the earth.
"Zack Hunter to all space marine units, the shuttle is away repeat the shuttle is away," Zack said into his radio.
In the space marine base, the commander began to smile when he heard Zack's voice.
"Good luck everyone," He said.
The alliance fighters had now destroyed most of the gun turrets and had began bombing the base, explosions ripped through the base until in one final fire ball, the base and the commander were gone.
The marine's shuttle came through the atmosphere, followed by Zack and his fighters.
"Zack it's Jake, I'm picking up a landing beacon, but I can't contact anyone" Jake's voice told him.
"Carry on to the rendezvous point, I'll fly over the area and try my short wave" Zack answered.
"Copy that" Jake replied.
Zack pulled away from the shuttle, and headed over the forest towards the housing estate. Where he could see the smoke from the school, rising in the distance.
"Well, something's happened" Zack said to himself.
Zack then flicked a switch on his radio.
"Lieutenant Graham, this is captain Hunter do you copy" Zack said into his radio as he flew towards the Cole hill estate.
On the ground lee graham and brad turner were running through the streets, with a trigiod close behind, suddenly a laser blast hit a lamp post in front of them.
"They're trying to head us off," Lee Graham shouted as he as brad took cover.
They both watched as a trigiod came out from behind a van.
"Keep it busy" Brad said as the trigiod fired just missing him.
Lieutenant graham nodded and opened fire, Brad ran around the van and charged at the trigiod, and fired at close range, the trigiod staggered back, but then another trigiod appeared and fired.
"Get out of here" lee graham yelled as ran.
Brad fired a high explosive round at the trigiod, and followed Lee Graham an alley, the trigiod's gave chase but brad was waiting,
as one of the trigiod's came around the corner, brad hit it around the head with his gun,
"Take that" Brad told it.
But the other trigiod appeared and opened fire, the two marines ran down the alley as lasers blasts exploded behind them.
Back at the old waterworks Dusty stopped dead.
"The life signs are very close," He whispered.
Just then everyone heard footsteps.
"Get ready" Dusty warned as 2 figures approached.
The figures came into the light, and Clyde Rani and Maria all began to smile.
"Sarah Jane, Luke" The 3 teens said in unison.
"Oh am I glad to see you" Sarah Jane said as she hugged the teens.
Luke soon joined them.
"But what are you 3 doing here" Sarah Jane asked.
"We came to rescue you" Rani answered.
"But the fissure sealed itself, how did you open it again" Luke asked.
"With a little help" Clyde said as he held up the cube.
"But how did you" Sarah Jane started.
"Captain Jack gave it me, a present from the doctor" Maria explained.
"Let me guess, you 2 are from the future as well" Mark said as he came forward.
Sarah Jane and Luke couldn't believe their eyes.
"Are you" Luke said.
"Mark Harkins aged 15" Rani replied.
Just then they heard a noise.
"Sorry to brake up the reunion, but that 3rd life sign is getting close" Brad told them.
"It's a slitheen," Sarah Jane answered.
"I was hoping we'd seen the last of that thing" Clyde replied.
"Come on, we best get back to the control room" Dusty said as he turned to leave.
Zack was now flying over the smoking remains of the school.
"Lieutenant graham, Sergeant Gaskill, does anyone read me" he called.
Inside the school Mike, Sergeant Gaskill, and Unit soldiers, were trying to get what was left of their equipment, up and running when they heard Gaskill's radio.
"Hey that's captain hunters voice," he said as he looked around for his radio.
He soon dug it out from the rubble, and answered Zack's message.
"Captain this is Sergeant Gaskill" he said into his radio.
"Will, thank god, I was starting to get worried" Zack's voice replied.
"Yeah we've had a bit of trigiod trouble," Gaskill continued.
"Is the lieutenant with you" Zack asked.
"No, he went to rejoin Brad and Dusty" Gaskill explained.
"Well, I think your not the only one, that's had a run in with a trigiod, I can't contact any of them" Zack told him.
"Then we better find them" Gaskill Answered.
"Hold on, I'm coming into land" Zack replied.
Sarah Jane and the others where now back in the control room, and dusty was trying to restore power to all his equipment.
"So, Mark, Sanjay and Sam, didn't come through the fissure," Sarah Jane asked.
Rani shook her head.
"They were right behind us, but when we came through the other side, they weren't with us they were just gone" She explained.
"Either the fissure closed on them, or they're in another time zone," Maria continued.
"Woman must have changed, destination of fissure" The Graske replied.
"What woman?" Sarah Jane asked.
"Woman Graske came to stop, Graske thought you working for her," He answered.
"But if this woman changed the cause of the fissure, why were only Sanjay, Mark, and Sam were the only one's effected" Luke asked.
"Time cube protected your friends," The Graske explained.
"So that's what this is," Clyde said as he looked at the cube.
"Do you know what this woman wants?" Sarah Jane asked the Graske.
"No Graske thought he'd find out from you" he told her.
"Do you think that slitheen has anything to do with it" Maria asked.
"It does seem likely," Luke added.
"Slitheen is wild, must find slitheen's handler" the Graske explained.
"It's handler," Clyde answered.
"That must be who grabbed me" Rani replied.
"Then that's who we need to find" Sarah Jane told them.
Just then they heard something running above them.
"Sounds like they've found us" Luke said.
Suddenly one of the large doors, began to bang and shake.
"Everyone get behind me," Dusty ordered as he aimed his gun at the door.
Sarah Jane and the others did as he said, as the door came crashing down.
"Go I'll cover you" Dusty shouted as the slitheen entered the room.
But before anyone could move the slitheen charged.
"Too late" Maria screamed.
But the slitheen suddenly stopped dead,
"What the" Rani started.
Everyone watched as a metal hand appeared holding the slitheen's neck, as a trigiod decloaked, two metal claws appeared from the trigiod's arm,
"No" Sarah Jane Yelled.
The trigiod slammed its claws under the slitheen's chin, the creature screamed in pain and slumped to the ground, as the robot removed its blades.
the trigiod then turned to Sarah Jane and the others, its eye's flashing red.
"Now what you we do," Clyde said
To Be Continued.