The
Feeding Ground
Part Three
The lift doors opened and The Doctor saw a lab filled with people hard at work. A woman moved towards him with a smile on her face.
"Hello." The Doctor chirped.
"Doctor it's an honor." Winters greeted him.
"Yes it is. Do I know you?"
"No, but we've heard a lot about you. I have an extremely thick file about you, on loan from Torchwood."
"Torchwood? Never heard of them."
"Don't worry, you soon will." Winters stated.
"Right, so what is this place?" The Doctor was curious.
"It's where we make Britain's most important medical discoveries. It's a subsection of UNIT."
"Who are you?" The Doctor asked.
"I'm Doctor Molly Winters."
"Winters?" The Doctor was intrigued.
"Do you know a Winters, Doctor."
"Yes, an old friend. Do you have a sister?"
"Yes."
"Let me guess, Katherine?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Watch out for that one." The Doctor continued to glance around.
"Doctor, if we could get down to business."
"And what business would that be?"
"We need you help." Winters sounded desperate.
"Let's see hidden medical laboratories, brain dead children, and an ominous organization called Torchwood. This is starting to get interesting."
"The children aren't the only problem we are trying to solve. At first it started with the patients but now it's in the Doctors too." Winters explained.
"What do you mean, it's in them?" The Doctor wondered.
"We found it in their brains. We don't know what it is except that it's crystalline in nature and totally subdues its victims." Winters said as she pressed a button causing a large window to be uncovered.
Behind the window was a giant room with ten patients inside. They were all lying in their beds just like the children.
"Did you say crystalline?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes, we've done a number of tests but have been unable to find a cure."
The Doctor's attention was drawn to a pedestal at the far end of the room. Something was propped up inside a glass case.
"Another specimen?"
"Oh yes, I was just about to get to that." Winters stated.
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Rose was sitting with her Mother who had fallen asleep yet again. Mickey had gone out to get a drink for Rose. Upon his return he waved Rose out of the room into the hall.
"What's wrong?" Rose was puzzled.
"I just saw Doctor Matthews, he was acting strange. I tried to talk to him and he just walk right past me, like he didn't even know I was there."
"Where was he headed?"
"It looked like he was going somewhere upstairs."
"Let's see if we can find him. The Doctor did say something strange was happening here."
"What about your mum?"
"She's asleep now, we'll be back soon. Come on." Rose said.
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"Its part of a meteorite that recently came into Unit's possession. Early reports confirm it consists of a high amount of Terrellium."
"Terrellium?" The Doctor said as he moved towards the meteor rock.
He touched the glass case but before he could pull it off he was grabbed by two large men.
"The Terrellium use it on your sample. They should start multiplying, they feed off it." The Doctor yelled as Winters waved the two men away.
A lab technician scraped a piece of the rock off and put it in a small dish where the sample was. He looked in the microscope and was amazed by the results.
"Ma'am it's killing them. They are just wilting away into nothing." He yelled.
"Well Doctor, looks like you found us a cure." Winters was impressed.
"What? That shouldn't have happened. They must have changed."
"Who, Doctor?" Winters asked.
"The Krotons." The Doctor said with anger.
"Are they behind this?"
"Children drained of their neural energy and these crystalline infected people, it certainly adds up."
"Why would these Krotons infect all these people? As far as we can tell nothing has happened to the infected patients."
"It's an invasion, a secret invasion." The Doctor looked in on the patients and saw a hand move.
"You said you only found the crystals in the brain?"
"Yes, Doctor. If it's an invasion what are they waiting for?"
"A signal." The Doctor said as all the patients began awakening from their slumber.
The moved towards the window and began to pound at it until it shattered. They came out through the window and moved towards the Doctor.
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Rose and Mickey had follow Doctor Matthews up to the roof of the hospital.
"Are you sure he's up here?" Rose asked.
"I could have sworn I saw him come this way. Well come on we should get back to you mum." Mickey got no response from Rose.
"Rose, what's wrong?" Mickey asked Rose who was staring up in the sky.
"Look." Rose said as a giant circular spaceship appeared directly above their heads.
