Chapter 6
Carol pulled out her stun gun and fired it at John, but missed as John dived out of the way and grabbed anther stun gun from a rack in a corned and hit Carol with it, Carol collapsed unconscious.
"That should keep out of trouble for a while," John said.
"It'll take a few minutes for the effect to wear off from the amount you gave her John," TIM said, "I recommend a slight extra dosage which could last an hour or so."
"Good idea," John said and fired the stun gun at Carol again, this time keeping it going for about thirty seconds.
"Well TIM what do you make of her?" the Doctor asked.
"She doesn't have a life force," TIM said, "You told me that there where people on the station but there are only two life signs, Victoria and Carol, I think whoever is on the station had made a copy of Carol, and the same thing has happened to the whole crew of the station."
"So I suppose we should go up to the station and rescue them," John said.
"I suppose me and Jamie had better stay here," the Doctor said.
"Why?" Kenny asked.
"Well we can't jaunt and the TARDIS is a bit unpredictable," the Doctor replied.
"Doesn't it have telepathic circuits?" John asked.
"Yes," the Doctor replied, "how did you know that?"
"They where mentioned briefly at the end of last weeks episode," John explained.
"Really," the Doctor said, mostly to himself as he was wondering what situation would call for their use.
"Well couldn't one of use them to get the TARDIS to the station," John asked.
"It's worth a try," the Doctor said.
"I'll do that," Kenny said.
"Alright," John said, "We'll go on two fronts, and I'll jaunt up to the station while you and Kenny go in the TARDIS."
"Hey what about me?" Jamie asked.
"Well someone's got to stay behind and guard this," John explained indicting the duplicate Carol who still hadn't recovered from the effects of the stun gun blast.
"Oh alright," Jamie said reluctantly.
The Doctor chuckled to himself; there had always been a tradition of at least one of the Tomorrow People having to stay in the lab, and during the first series that it was Kenny who was left behind so he thought it would be good for him to get involved.
Kenny was awestruck at the TARDIS; he couldn't believe he was actually inside it, he walked around the console until he spotted two circular plates on it.
"These the telepathic circuits?" he asked.
"Yes," the Doctor replied.
"Good," Kenny said.
He placed his hands on them and closed his eyes.
"You ready for this TIM?" he asked telepathically.
"Yes Kenny," TIM replied.
"Right, here goes nothin'," Kenny said, and the TARDIS began to dematerialise.
John watched the TARDIS disappear then he rushed back into the Lab and headed for the jaunting pad.
"Jaunt me up TIM," he said and vanished in haze of lights.
Jamie watched him go, then he sat down on one of the chairs with a stun gun on the table waiting, just himself, TIM and the stunned Carol copy.
The TARDIS materialised aboard the station, inside Kenny relaxed, breathing heavily, control the TARDIS was harder than it seemed. The Doctor activated the scanner which showed that they were in one of the station's corridors.
"Well done Kenny," the Doctor said, then they both pulled out a stun gun and the Doctor opened the door.
John materialised on the station and pulled out a stun gun. He quickly looked around and then headed off down the corridor.
"Couldn't you just have jaunted me to where the life signs where coming from?" John asked telepathically.
"Yes but I think you should try to find a control area of the station and whoever is in charge," TIM replied, "The Doctor and Kenny can find Carol and Victoria."
"Oh well fair enough," John said.
The Doctor followed Kenny along the corridors, Kenny was following TIM's directions to where he thought Carol and Victoria might be. Then they where spotted by one of the ship's crew who turned round and started firing a machine gun at them, Kenny aimed his stun gun at him but the missed when his target ducked.
"Kenny get away from there," TIM said franticly.
Instantly Kenny jaunted, leaving the Doctor trying to hit the man with his stun gun before giving up and running away.
Kenny materialised in another corridor. It looked exactly like all the others, long, bare and repetitive.
"TIM how close am I to where Carol and Victoria are?" he asked telepathically.
"They should be in a room right behind you," TIM replied.
Kenny turned round and saw nothing but a blank wall, and let TIM know.
"Wait a moment," TIM paused so that he could scan the room with the watchdog satellite.
"Well?" Kenny asked.
"A small area of that wall isn't really there," TIM said.
"Eh?" Kenney said confused.
"The wall is an illusion," TIM said.
"No its really there," Kenny said touching it.
"Its generating a field which makes you believe its there, so you can see it and touch it but it still isn't there," TIM explained.
"So what do I do then?" Kenny asked.
"You have to stop believing in the walls existence," TIM said, "You need to concentrate hare on that thought."
"Alright, I'll try," Kenny replied.
He stepped back from the wall and closed his eyes, picturing in his mind the wall not being there and when he opened them again he could see it wasn't. He could see Victoria and Carol inside the cell, Carol was still unconscious and Victoria didn't seem to see him.
"TIM, it worked," Kenny said.
In the Lab the duplicate Carol had woken up but Jamie hadn't noticed until TIM alerted him.
"Jamie behind you," TIM cried in panic.
Jamie turned round only to see Carol firing a stun gun at him, he collapsed and Carol jaunted away.
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