Doctor Who
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The Evil in the Mind
By Daniel Rainey
Chapter 1: The Creature
The fire raged through the ship, burning the controls and the equipment. And the bodies. There was only one thing alive on this ship, a predator creature, savage and intelligent. It had killed everyone on board the ship in its own defence. It now headed towards the escape pods dragging one of the bodies behind it in case there wasn't any edible life on the planet that was about gain a new crater. The creature launched its escape pod a few minutes after the ship had entered the planets atmosphere. The creature watched the ship as it started to break up and the final impact with the ground. It saw that the planet was covered in forest, which meant there would be food there, but also competition for it. The creature decided to eat the body now to build up its strength as the escape pod made its final descent towards the surface.
Fifteen small, one man ships were grouped around the leading battle cruiser. Heading for the planet of that the ship had crashed on. The captain aboard the cruiser sat in his quarters, examining the information presented on a hand held computer on his desk. Brining forth all the news of their own planet, and that of the planet they had chosen to observe: Earth. He picked up the computer for a closer look; the latest information about Earth appeared. The Earth was now entering the fourth month of the year 2006AD, at least in Earth time. The Captain sighed and left his quarters, heading for the main control area of the ship. He thought about why they were there, heading for that planet. They were after that creature, and had been ordered to destroy it.
On the planet's surface the creature lunged at a small reptilian animal, and killed it in one strike. It ate it just as quickly then continued on its way to the wreck of the space ship. It fount debris scattered about the forest, small items of no use, mainly because they'd been heavily burnt. It eventually found the main wreck. The local wildlife had already started swarming around it, reptiles and insects mainly. It approached cautiously and entered the wreck, the other creatures ignored it. It wasn't a native life form on the planet, so they didn't know that it was a threat, the creature knew this and took it to full advantage, but the locals would know it as a threat in time.
"Captain we lost contact with the crew of the ship some time ago," one of the ships personal explained, "The last message we got was from one of its passengers, they said that the creature had killed everybody on the ship, the end of the message sounded like the creature had found whoever it was sending the message."
"So it killed all of them," the Captain said gravely.
"Yes sir."
"Prepare to land on the planet, tell all the ground troops to stand buy and send in all the fighters. I want that creature found, decimate the whole place if need be," the captain said, anger rising inside him as he thought about all the death that the creature had caused.
The creature emerged from the ship to the sound of animals in panic, squawks and hisses and roars all around the place, mingling with the sound of gunfire. The creature looked up to see the fighters swarming over the forest, firing on anything and everything in sight. The creature fixed its eyes on one of the ships, and followed it keeping an eye on its course until it came to a cliff edge. The fighter dived, heading for the level of forest at the bottom of the cliff and the creature leapt at it. It pounded the transparent canopy of the ship with the pilot panicking inside trying to throw the creature off. Then the fighter crashed, throwing the creature aside, the pilot got out and ran for it with the creature on his tail.
The battle cruiser landed and 10 hatches opened in it hull with ramps descending from each one, a hundred men came down each ramp all wearing battle armour and carrying energy blaster rifles. They heard a scream, it came from a long distance away from them, but it was a scream, from one of their own personnel. The soldiers marched off heading in the direction the scream had come from.
The creature scrambled up a tree as it heard the footsteps of the approaching soldiers. One past underneath it and the creature leapt at him, knocking him to the ground. Then the creature noticed that there were other soldiers nearby, they aimed there rifles and the creature saw them fire. Then all it saw was total blackness. It didn't know what was happening, was it dead, or was it still alive? It could see a window in the blackness, a window to the outside world.
Mike checked his watch, it was late. He'd gone to the cinema with his sister Anna and they were both getting the bus back home. But the bus they were getting wasn't very frequent, but it was very unpredictable. Mike leaned against the back of the bus shelter they were standing in. Thinking about the film they'd just seen. It seemed like a good one, though he doubted that they'd ever make a sequel of it. He played one of his favourite moments from the film in his mind only to be interrupted by Anna.
"Mike do you think we should walk home instead?" she asked.
"Yeah why not, it's not that far," Mike replied and they both set off along the road passing people along the way.
"Well this is certainly a lot quicker then the bus," Mike commented.
"I know what you mean," Anna said with a slight chuckle.
"Well we could always walk down there then," Mike suggested.
"Except when it's dark or raining," Anna said.
"Agreed," Mike replied.
Then Mike felt something, something in his mind. There was an image of a creature a terrifying creature. He let out a cry of pain and fell to the floor.
"Mike are you alright?" Anna asked staring to panic, "What's wrong?"
Mike rolled over, and Anna saw an expression on his, an expression which could only have been associated with one of the most evil creatures in existence.
"Mike what's…" Anna couldn't complete the sentence because Mike had grabbed her neck and started to strangle her…
Chapter 2