Sorry it has taken so long to update but my Internet access was taken away by my dear daddy :( On the plus side you get a nice long chapter oh and as I have written the final part you will get that up in a couple of days, I want some feedback for this update fist though, just so I know this isn't a waste of my time :)
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Recap
The Doctor, all humor gone from his face, bent down and scanned the sonic screwdriver, that he was still holding, over the woman's stomach. The devise emitted a bleeping sound. Looking decidedly worried by this, he handed the screwdriver up to Rose and placed his hands either side of the woman's head, he took a deep breath before beginning to read her mind. A few short moments later the Doctor stood up a concerned look on his face, he turned to Rose and when he spoke his voice was solemn.
"I think I know what is going on."
The Night Before Chaos- part 2
Before the Doctor had chance to explain what was happening the night came alive with terrified cries. He quickly stood up, picking the woman up he cradled her in his arms. There was nothing he could do like this, he had to get back to the TARDIS. More importantly he had to get Rose back.
"Come on Rose, run!" He shouted to her.
"Doctor! What's goin on?" Rose shouted to him as they ran through the streets. Looking around her she saw another of those creatures, she knew this was different because it was taller and bulkier. She stopped running and stared in horror as it knocked a child to the ground before leaping on it's mother. A shout from the Doctor pulled her back to reality.
"ROSE COME ON! WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE TARDIS! NOW!"
Rose began running again, she ran right past another creature, it lunged at her but she ducked, it flew right over her head and landed in a heap in the snow. Rose picked up her pace, the Doctor was carrying someone yet he was well ahead of her.
The doctor stood waiting for Rose, ushering her into the TARDIS, he shut the doors and breathed a sigh of relief.
"You alright?" He asked, concerned
"Yeah you?" Rose went to the console and leaned against it, getting her breath back.
"I'm fine, I want to get her sorted though," His eyes went to the woman in his arms.
"Doctor what were those things?"
"Follow me and I'll tell you."
xxxxx
Shareen had been visiting a friend. What had started off a few drinks and a good gossip had turned into a nightmare. She and Keisha sat huddled behind the sofa while Keisha's brother, Jay stood by the door of the flat with a baseball bat raised above his head. They could here people screaming in the other apartments.
"Jay?" Shareen whispered, "is it still there?"
"It's just gone into another room, no wait, it's back in the hall, I reckon there may be more than one of them out there now. I aint sure though, there's too much noise."
"Jay." It was Keisha this time, she stood up from behind the sofa, her eyes begging with her brother. "Jay please get away from the door."
"You heard the news guy Keish, he said those creatures aint so interested in guys, that they were just knocking them out the way and going for the women. I aint letting them get you. Now you and Shareen should go into the bathroom or something, there aint a lock on the door but you can try and barricade it with something.," he saw the look of disbelief his sister gave him, "I'll be fine Keish."
Shareen slowly stood up, "He's right Keish, there aint nothin we can do, now lets get going."
"But-"
"Keish how many times," Shareen smiled despite the situation, "Don't mess with the designated driver."
Keisha nodded reluctantly as Shareen took her hand and pulled her towards the bathroom door.
xxxxx
They went to the small med bay in the TARDIS, Rose had only been in there once before. They had been on one of their adventures and she had received a rather nasty scratch on the back. The Doctor had taken her and sorted it out. She smiled at the memory, Mickey had walked into the room and found Rose in the Doctor's arms just as he placed a kiss to her forehead, she had been shirtless giving Mickey completely the wrong idea.
The Doctor placed the woman on the table in the centre of the room. He then went to a cupboard and rooted about for a couple of minutes before he stepped back holding a syringe and a litre bottle filled with a thick blue liquid.
"Never thought I would have to use this stuff."
"Doctor are you gonna tell me what those creatures were?"
"Ferskella." He said simply. "They are a race that conquer others by sending an army to each city on the victim planet. The armies consist of only males. The male Ferskella has a sort of." He paused thinking for the right words, "reproductive venom that is stored in glands in their right arm they inject the venom through the claws on their right hand. They then heal the wound using a sort of healing serum stored in a gland in their left arm. The serum also wipes about ten minutes of your memory." He said all this darkly. He had an obvious distaste for the Ferskella.
"Reproductive, what do you mean by that?"
"It's pretty amazing stuff, it can become compatible with every specie's female egg cell, it mutates the egg and in twenty four hours you have a brand new baby Ferskella."
Rose looked at the Doctor with a shocked expression, "Are you saying they conquer races by making woman pregnant with alien children?"
"Yes, the children rip their way out of the host when they are done. Think that film with the cat. Meanwhile the 'fathers' deal with the males of the planet. Then the armies go back home to the women who are the dominant sex and orchestrate the whole invasion while on the Ferskella home world. They leave the children behind with two pure bread Ferskella. Two adult Ferskella raise a whole planet of children. They raise them to be just like the rest of their kind." The Doctor's voice rose as he got angry, "They spread themselves throughout the entire galaxy without a single care as to what they are doing!"
Rose took this all in, they sounded absolutely horrible. Then a sudden thought occurred to her. This information didn't quite match what they had seen.
"Doctor you said armies. But I've only seen about five of these Ferskella and they were acting more like, I don't know, predators, than soldiers.
While the Doctor had been talking he had poured some of the blue liquid into a beaker, filled the syringe and injected the stuff into the woman's stomach. He looked up and Rose and grinned,
"I know, I was just telling you what the Ferskella were, you did ask. I don't think it's an invasion either, I reckon something else is going on. But anything to do with the Ferskella is bad. And," he added, "and I was worried that they would get you."
Rose rolled her eyes at him. "Doctor you had me seriously worried for a moment."
The Doctor grinned sheepishly, "Sorry."
"So how are we gonna stop these things, however many there are?"
"Easy." He grinned again.
His previous dark mood seemed to have vanished completely and there was only one reason why that Rose could think of.
He had a plan.
"We're going to find where these Ferskella have been hiding, were going to spray them with orange juice, and then we're going to get this anti-venom to everyone they have attacked."
"Orange juice?" Rose asked sceptically.
"Remember your five a day Rose, fruit is good, fantastic even. Except Ferskella have a rather large dislike for orange juice."
"Why?"
It makes them have an allergic reaction and melt. It's the citric acid, even a drop is dangerous to them."
"Sounds like the Slitheen and their vinegar thing. But why orange juice."
"Well it contains citric acid."
"Well duh I knew that but surely other stuff does too."
The Doctor who had his back to her while he cleaned the syringe at the sink, turned and grinned at her,
"I like oranges."
xxxxx
Shareen and Kiesha were crouched down in the bathroom, holding tightly to each other's hands. Neither of them could stop themselves from shaking. Five minutes ago, though it seemed like an eternity, they had heard the front door of the flat break open and then Jay had shouted and that creature had roared. Then it had gone silent. Neither of them had wanted to think of what could happen if one of those things got to them. But wanting something doesn't mean you will get it. Shareen couldn't help thinking of their bodies, bloodied and mangled lying on the floor. The girls waited with baited breath as footsteps approached the door.
Closer.
Closer.
They stopped.
There was a knock on the door, "Girls?"
There was a flurry of movement as the two of them moved the laundry basked and wooden drying rack they had placed in front of the door. Not a very good barricade but that is the best they could do with what they had in the bathroom. They burst out and the burly black boy was almost knocked over as they both wrapped their arms around him and hugged him tightly.
"Jay oh my god what happened, is it dead, what happened?!" Keisha sobbed into her brother's neck.
Jay was stroking her hair trying to calm her, his eyes met with Shareen's and she knew what was going to come next.
"I hit it, pretty hard, it ran off, but it might come back. As for the others, I dunno, it's all pretty quiet out there, we need to get somewhere safe."
Shareen brightened at this, she knew were safe was. Whenever she had fallen out with her parents or had been dumped, in fact whenever she had been in any kind of trouble she would always go to see her best mate, Rose. Of course Rose was traveling now, with her boyfriend or whatever, still the Tyler flat had been a second home to Shareen at times and was much closer than her own flat. Yes that sounded like a good place to go. They would wait and have a cup of tea and a chat with Jackie and wait for all this to blow over.
xxxxx
It was evident from the beginning that the Doctor hadn't quite thought his plan through. Alright Rose thought, there were plenty of places you could get orange juice, Tesco for instance. Also there was probably ways of spraying it all over those creatures, it depended on how many of them there were really and if there was a store selling water pistols nearby. No, that wasn't that huge a problem, but the anti-venom was. Not only was London a big place but the victims wouldn't be able to remember if they had been attacked or not. So that gave Rose and the Doctor just under twenty four hours to find the victims and inject them with the cure. That led to another problem, they had a litre bottle of the stuff, that was all, Rose hoped it would be enough.
"Right then!" The Doctor announced cheerfully as he stepped into the control room, in his arms he held a cardboard box.
Rose got up from the comfy, worn sofa by the control panel and walked over to the Doctor, she peered curiously into the box, what she saw was rather unexpected,
"Water balloons?"
The Doctor laughed in a good humored manner, Rose just looked at him incredulously. Then she got it, "Ahhh," she said holding up a finger in the manner of someone who had just discovered something, "Orange juice balloons."
The Doctor grinned, "Right! Arm yourself!"
xxxxx
Orange juice water balloons, Rose decided, was definitely first place on the scoreboard of ridiculous, brilliant plans. She lobbed another, pink this time, at one of the Ferskella. It just missed and exploded on the ground by the Ferskella's foot, it was enough, the Ferskella on seeing Rose turned from the black teenager it had been attacking and went for her instead. On turning it stepped in the now orange patch of snow. It screamed in agony. A sound that reminded Rose of a wailing cat. The creature started to hop about on one scaly foot. Rose had to turn away, firstly because the Doctor once again that night well ahead of her and secondly because the creature was starting to melt, from it's foot upwards. It was as though it had been lowered in acid, which, Rose thought, was pretty close to the truth.
"Three down, and who knows how many more to go!" The Doctor announced as Rose caught up with him. Police sirens could be heard in the distance.
"'K so we are running through London getting any Ferskella we see, but eh where are we running to?"
The Doctor put the cardboard box, which he had been carrying under one arm, down on the ground. He then stuck a hand into his coat. He pulled it out to reveal a little leather case that was very familiar to Rose,
"Doctor, what's the physic paper got to do with anythin."
"I'm remembering the address on it."
"What address?"
"Well," The Doctor began "I decided that for once in my very long, complex life that I was going to follow the advice of a certain little ape."
Rose was utterly clueless as to what he was going on about.
"Well as I said earlier that the Ferskella seem to have away of hiding their life patterns, energy or whatever you want to call it."
"Get to the point." It was getting cold just standing there.
"I did a scan for alien tech."
Rose grinned at him, "Very Spock."
"I thought you would have figured that out anyway, did you honestly think that I would charge headlong into battle without first finding the location of our friends and the disgusting ickle babies?" He shook his head as though he was surprised at her stupidity. Rose knew he was only teasing her.
She took the paper from him and looked at the address. Her eyes widened in surprise, Rose knew exactly where this house was. She and her two best friends, Shareen and Keisha, when they were ten had spent a night in that house. It wasn't quite the house on haunted hill. In fact it was the house fifteen minuted from the Powell estate. That didn't stop it from being scary to ten year old girls, or boys for that matter. After all there were stories surrounding that place,
"Someone died there." Rose handed the Doctor back the psychic paper.
The Doctor gave Rose an intrigued look as he put the psychic paper, Really, a murder mystery?"
Rose laughed, "No just some kid who was killed, we all though it was his dad who done it, you know back in primary school, but then we all got older and we found out it was just some accident. You know that thing that you always get reminded of, that you mustn't touch an electrical socket with wet hands?"
The Doctor grinned, "Tell me about it, I was on Hastfa four, or was it Hastfa three, or perhaps it was Hastfa thirty four, Anyway they really should put their electrical sockets somewhere that isn't next to their water tanks. Apart from that it is really quite nice, perhaps I'll take you there sometime. Right as you were saying! This boy?"
"Well it turned out he ignored that advice, parents were devastated being it there only son and all, they just left."
"Well then as you seem the expert on this place, ladies first, lead the way. It's rather cold just standing here gossiping."
Dun dun dun Orange juice, electrical shocks, baby aliens, no sign of Torchwood and why are Keisha, Shareen and Jay even in this story. Oh and why are they going to Jackie's if Jackie is gone well it may have something to do with the Doctor's bad parking skills. Well you can watch or rather read as these loose ends all get tied in the final installment of The Night Before Chaos! Oh yeah and if I have missed out on any plot holes please tell me, ta much.
