Amber strapped as many guns as she could to herself, delving deep into the supply Quinn had in his truck. She threw a couple at Jack, which he caught and proceeded to attach to himself. Quinn followed their lead, grabbing hold of the rocket launcher first.
"Don't use that unless it's absolutely necessary," Amber said, noting the shake I his hand.
"I know how to use a gun," Quinn said.
"Good, you can help us then," Amber said, "You can drive this thing?"
"Yes I can," Quinn said.
"Will you drive us around? We have to try and sort out this mess and find our friends," Amber asked.
"Sure, I'm the most experienced Hunter in this game, I can help you," Quinn said.
"I can drive!" Jack said, annoyed that there was someone else on the scene getting between him and Amber.
"I don't trust you!" Amber snapped at him.
"And you trust crazy guy who drives at a Tyrannosaurus Rex deliberately?" Jack asked.
"Like it or not, Jack, your friend Quinn here is the only one that knows what a total security melt down is likely to mean, as until a few moments ago we were running around believing this was all VR," Amber said, climbing into the back of the jeep and manning a machine gun on the back of it, legs trailing either side of it, over the edge of the jeep. She still looked like an army girl, her short brown hair swept back out of her eyes as she loaded the chain of bullets into the gun.
"What's with the G.I. look?" Jack asked as he sat in the passenger seat next to Quinn.
"I thought it was appropriate," she said, "now I'm staying this way as I think blue hair might attract unwanted attention. Let's get out of here."
Quinn fired the engine and the car screamed as he pulled away as fast as he could.
"How does she know my name?" Quinn asked.
"Telepathic," Jack said, tapping his head, "she doesn't normally show it, but sometimes she lets it slip without even realising she's done it I think."
Quinn nodded, looking a little scared and impressed.
"That's one hell of a woman you have there," he said.
"I know," Jack said with a smile.
"I am not yours Harkness!" Amber snapped angrily from the back.
"We need to get out of here!" Rose said, watching the crumbling ceiling nervously.
All around were sounds of crashes and general chaos. The water in the tunnel was thick with dust.
"You read that manual!" the Doctor said, "does this thing have an engine?"
Rose grabbed the manual and flicked through it quickly, scan reading.
"Umm… Ah!" she said, pointing at a section, "here we go, 'the boat is powered by a tiny engine, hidden beneath the boat and so silent that you wont even notice it during your journey', so there is an engine, but you have to get wet to find it!"
"Access panel," the Doctor said, "there must be one somewhere for the engineers."
Rose jumped up and began rooting around beneath the chairs. The Doctor decided not to go for the delicate approach and ripped the seating up. Beneath the chair was the engine, silently running to itself, pushing them along at a leisurely pace. A sonic screwdriver could see to that.
"Let's get out of here," the Doctor said, using his weapon of choice to speed up the engine.
Their boat whizzed along down the tunnel, pushing the water much more violently than the waterway was designed for. The water sloshed out everywhere, leaving the tunnel near empty. Ahead a boat was in the way.
"We have to get out!" Rose yelled ahead, jump on our boat and we'll get you out of here!"
The waves pushed the boat in front to the side as the Doctor guided his boat in the opposite direction. Rose stood up and held out her hand to the people on the boat. They were a young couple, both bemused and scared. Rose caught their hands and pulled them on board.
"Welcome to our boat," the Doctor said, "We'll have you out of this place in no time!"
The young couple clung to each other, still terrified looking.
"Are you security staff?" the woman asked, "What's going on?"
"We don't know what's going on," Rose said, "We aren't staff, just visitors like you. I'm Rose and this is the Doctor."
"Kelly and Mark," the woman said.
"Don't worry Kelly, you're in safe hands with the Doctor here," Rose said, "whatever is going on, he'll get you safe."
The Doctor wished that was true.
Amber aimed and fired, drilling tens of bullets into the pursuing Raptors. Occasionally they ran and jumped, attempting to board the jeep, but she used the power of the bullets to push them back.
"Jack!" she called.
The Captain turned round in time to see her throwing her ship control at him. He caught it deftly.
"Try and hack the computer systems to shut the door, it shouldn't be too complicated a computer system so the remote should pick it up." She turned her attention back to the chasing Raptors and continued gunning them down.
Jack fumbled with the remote, trying to establish a connection to the computer with it. The signal was very coded, doubled over itself, reversed and intertwined. It was not like an ordinary security system, it was far too complex.
The door loomed ahead of them, and Quinn floored the accelerator. The burst of speed put some space between them and the Raptors, and Jack let out a triumphant 'Ha!' just as they passed through the great metal doors, which promptly slid shut behind them, trapping the Raptors and whatever else was left inside.
"Well done!" Amber said, shouting still as Quinn guided the jeep into the corridor, driving slower through the narrow pathways.
"The systems are far too complicated!" Jack said, "That should have been a two second job, but it was all coded. Why would the security on the doors be so heavily coded?"
"Perhaps someone wanted a disaster," Quinn suggested.
"Head out towards the shuttle bus we'll take it to where the Doctor and Rose are," Amber called.
"We've got company!" Jack said, pointing ahead at a sinister looking creature.
"What the hell is it?" Amber asked, crawling along the jeep, resting her head between Quinn and Jack, aiming a sniper rifle forwards and peering through the eye piece. "That is one ugly thing," she said with distaste.
The creature was some way away, but it had noticed them approaching. It was serpent like, with shiny green/black shell like skin and bright green spit dripping between its teeth. The spit seemed to be dissolving the floor.
"That's Alien isn't it?" Jack asked, "I'm sure we watched that one with Rose."
"I don't really care what it is, it's going to die!" Amber said, and went to pull the trigger, but before she could a large shape swooped down from somewhere and ploughed into the Alien. Quinn floored the accelerator again and they shot past the Predator and Alien while they were too preoccupied fighting each other to pay the jeep much heed.
"We have to get out of here!" Jack said, "The shuttle bus will be overrun."
"Is there an ultraviolet light anywhere?" Amber asked, slipping in next to Jack on the passenger seat and rooting through the glove compartments.
"Why?" Jack asked, shuffling over to give her more room, while smiling smugly that she had apparently forgiven him.
"I'm trying to remember the enemies we are likely to face, vampires were on the list," she said.
"Well we'll have to hope we don't run into any," Quinn said, "I fight things that are real."
"Dinosaurs are real?" Jack asked.
"They were once," Quinn shrugged.
"So were Vampires, just not on this planet," Jack said.
"That's being picky…" Quinn said.
By the time they had got out of the tunnel, the boat was practically scraping along the floor from the weight of all the passengers.
"Right everybody!" Rose called, "we don't know what's going on out there, so we have to be prepared for anything. Everybody must stay calm and not panic!"
The Doctor guided the boat out of the tunnel and the first thing that met their eyes was a huge dragon, burning down a roller coaster with twin jets of liquid from the side of its mouth that ignited on contact with each other.
"Ok, I take back what I said about not panicking," Rose said.
The shuttle bus was covered in small impish creatures that were doing their best to pull it apart. Quinn stopped the jeep and the trio looked onwards, wondering how best to get rid of them. They didn't seem particularly dangerous, but there were plenty of them.
"I know," Quinn said, turning round and taking out a large gun that looked rather like a water pistol.
"Flame thrower?" Jack asked.
"That's the one," Quinn said, stepping out of the jeep and firing.
The flames licked over the surface of the shuttle bus, doing the titanium plated carriage no damage at all. The imp like creatures faired considerably less well. Squealing as they ran around, trying to douse the flames, they hissed at the trio then ran for cover as Quinn, relentless with his flamethrower, showered them again and again.
"Where did you find this guy?" Amber asked.
"He found me," Jack said.
"Let's go before they come back!" Quinn called, motioning them forwards.
"Can you drive this thing?" he asked as they climbed on board, kicking out a few remaining imps and slamming the doors shut.
"We'll soon find out," Amber said, taking the driver seat.
The Dragon spiralled overhead, its wings taking out what the flames didn't, knocking down rollercoaster tracks, buildings and the old helter skelter.
"This is not good," Rose said as people all around screamed and panicked, "What is going on here?"
"I have no idea," the Doctor said, "but we need to try and reach the TARDIS, locate Jack and Amber, as they have the fire power in the group – something we are going to need to take that thing out of the equation here!"
"Let's go then!" Rose said, eager as everyone else to get out of the firing line.
The Doctor took her hand and ran for the corridor where he knew the TARDIS was. He could feel his ship almost, and knew the general direction it was in, even if in all the chaos it was impossible to tell exactly where he was.
They were nearly there when a jet of flame forced them to dive in separate directions.
"Keep going!" was the last thing the Doctor heard Rose say before she was swallowed in the panicking crowd.
His heart told him no, turn round and go back. Find her and make her safe. But his head knew Rose wanted him to go on, to find the TARDIS, and that was what he had to do. With as much speed as he could muster he ran for the door.
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