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A woman entered the meeting room. The Doctor recognised her instantly. He soon began to realise how much trouble has been caused by his regeneration crisis. He was in a right palaver.
The Brigadier had released the Doctor knowing that he could not escape and little harm could be done by letting him wander about the base. Now, he had been called to a meeting.
The room was not very large and very dull. There were already a handful of people in the room already, one, the Doctor noted, was Sarah Jane Smith though this was not the woman he recognised first.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, would you kindly be seated so I can begin." The woman said, as if she was teaching a class.
Everyone sat down.
Professor Liz Shaw began.
"I have had time to study the specimens brought back by the Brigadier and his crew, and I have found a weapon to use against the spiders, more effective than our current weapons I might add," Liz Shaw said and stuck up a large piece of paper on the wall. It had an accurate diagram of a spider.
"Here," she pointed towards the front of the spider, "is where their venom is released. I have noted that when they bite us, they could kill us but for some reason choose not to and only give out a small dose as to just paralyze their victims."
The Doctor knew the answer to that question. They need humans to do some things, so why kill them. They'd need them as well to try and invade other countries.
"I have also noticed that they have a shield protecting them from our weapons. However, they seem to not like fire as it can penetrate their shields more quickly than our current weapons. It seems silly that we never thought of using what man first discovered." Liz Shaw said.
I need to get Jackie and return to the TARDIS, the Doctor thought. Soon.
"I shall need extra time to study these specimens, but for now that is all." Liz Shaw said and sat down next to Sarah Jane Smith.
The Brigadier rose.
"Thank you, professor. We shall all need time to think about this, so return here in an hour's time." The Brigadier said.
The Doctor stopped listening when the Brigadier arose. His thoughts had wandered back to his own dilemma and how to fix it. A thought kept playing in his mind.
" I'm going to give you the same advice as I gave you before. Trust the TARDIS. It will take you where you need to go. I cannot say why this has happened. My theory is someone is meddling in your timestream." The First Doctor said.
"Wouldn't that be you, Doctor? Your meddling now in your own timestream," Jackie said, not realising she had been frozen in time. The Doctor ignored her.
Yes, he had been right all along. Jackie had been right too. The answer came to him very quickly.
Somebody was meddling in his timestream.
Somebody who knew about everything the Doctor had done.
Only one person knows about his entire life.
The Doctor.
He soon realised why his regenerations were going backwards. However, it was not only him meddling in his timestream. Somebody else was meddling as well.
"STOP!" The Doctor stood up and shouted, as everyone was leaving the room.
"We need to fight these beings now! You must kill the queen! Her children would either die or become totally lost!" The Doctor lied. He did not have a clue how to fight these super spiders, but he needed to get back to his TARDIS. This reality should not even exist anyway.
"You expect us just to drop in and kill their queen?" The Brigadier asked.
"Parliament must have some secret passages somewhere to get in." The Doctor said, hoping that they do.
"We can't just go in now, we'll be slaughtered." Liz Shaw said.
"No we won't. They need humans. Some will be eaten but they need humans to do human things. We need to strike them now!" The Doctor said.
"There are secret passageways that the base runs under. Yes, we know how to fight them now. We should try. To the armoury!" The Brigadier shouted and walked out. Everyone followed.
The Doctor had just sent them to their deaths.