Chapter 4
Carol materialised on the station in a deserted corridor. She drew out a silver gun from a holster at her side just in case.
"TIM," she said telepathically, "Do you know if anybody saw me jaunt in?" she asked.
"No, but I think there may be surveillance in the station," TIM replied.
"Can you do anything about it?" Carol asked.
"I could intercept the signal being sent from each camera when your in view so that whoever is watching it can't see you," TIM suggested.
"Alright, try that then," Carol said.
Victoria was standing in Rosen's office; Rosen was sitting behind one of the consoles in the room. He then stood up and went over to one of the screens and checked the data it was showing then he turned to face her.
"Now on this station you will be assigned to the security personal and will answer to the name and rank of S.O. Waterfield," he said, "Do you understand."
"Yes sir," Victoria replied.
"But first I have a task for you," Rosen said, "It is likely that the Doctor will come back to try and rescue you, you will go with him and capture his TARDIS."
"I understand sir," Victoria said.
"The original you has been placed in a maximum security cell," Rosen continued, "When the Doctor comes you will be in a normal cell and unguarded."
"Will I be armed for carrying out my task?" Victoria asked.
"Yes," Rosen replied and handed Victoria a gun and a box of ammunition, "This fires stun darts, and they'll last for a few hours."
Rosen then gave her a belt with a gun holster attached and a pouch for the ammo box. The belt also had a small metal box attached.
"This belt has a chameleon box attached," Rosen explained, "It will render the belt and its contents invisible to the naked eye."
Victoria but the belt on and as Rosen had said it became completely invisible. Then the door opened and the guard that had escorted Victoria to Rosen's office entered.
"Take S.O. Waterfield to a standard security cell and lock her in their unguarded," Rosen told the guard.
"Yes sir," the guard replied and he saluted. He didn't understand the reasons behind this order but he thought he obeyed it anyway.
The original Victoria had regained consciousness and was once again being escorted along a corridor by two guards with her hands secured behind her back; Victoria recognised one of the guards as one of the guards that had taken her to the dark room. The three of them stopped in a bare corridor, then one of the guards took a small disc from his belt and pointed it at the wall, a light on one side of the discs circumference lit up and an area of the wall vanished revealing an empty room. The other guard removed the band around her wrists then pushed her inside. Victoria fell onto the floor from this and when she'd got to her feet again the wall had reappeared.
TIM had used the Watchdog 7 satellite to produce a schematic of the space station which was now on the Lab's screen and a small blue light could be seen moving across it, showing where Carol was.
"When I scanned the space station I only picked up two sources of life force," TIM explained.
"Meaning?" Jamie asked.
"It means that there are only two living beings on that station," John said.
"That can't be right," John heard Carol say telepathically, she'd obviously been listening to the conversation.
"Why not Carol?" John asked telepathically and out loud.
"Well I've seen quite a few people pass by along the ships corridors," Carol explained,"Though none of them saw me."
"That is something we'll have to look into," John said.
"John, I can think of one possibility as to why I've only picked up two signs of life," TIM said.
"Oh really, what is it then?" Kenny asked.
"It could be possible than the entire personal of the station are androids," TIM said.
"Yes I suppose so," John said, "One of the life signs will obviously be Carol, but what about the other one."
"That will probably be Victoria," the Doctor said.
"So she's still up there," Jamie said.
"Yes it seems so," the Doctor said.
Carol turned into another of the many corridors that the space station had, she wondered if she'd ever find anything in here or whether she'd just be wondering the corridors for ever, though she didn't think she would. Then in the corridor she'd stopped a red door a quarter or so of the way along. Upon further inspection the she found that you could only enter here with authorisation.
"TIM, do you know what's behind this door," Carol asked telepathically.
"No Carol," TIM replied.
Carol tried to open the door only to find that it was locked. She tried unlocking it with psychokinesis but no luck.
"TIM, the door won't open," Carol said, "I'm going to have to jaunt inside."
"Alright, but be careful," TIM said.
"I will TIM," Carol replied and then vanished in the flashing lights and re-appeared on the other side of the door.
Inside it was completely dark and Carol couldn't see anything at all in the room.
"TIM, I can't see anything in here," Carol said telepathically.
Carol waited for TIM to reply, but none came.
"TIM…TIM, can you hear me TIM," Carol called becoming panic stricken, "John…Kenny," no answer at all.
Carol tried jaunting but nothing happened. There was something here that was blocking out her TP abilities. Then a spotlight came on in the room revealing a strange object in the room. Carol saw it and was shocked to see what was inside it, a horrible creature staring at her. Then the object released a blinding light of its own lighting up the whole room. Carol screamed and collapsed, and then she saw something appearing just in front of her, it had a humanoid shape and was wearing an AE Suit like her own, and then she fell unconscious.
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