Hey guys! I am back with another chapter of Through Time and Space! I have a full week this coming week when it comes to work. Like I'm working 4 or 5 hours plus an hour of driving in total. We'll see how this goes. Anyways, I'm watching the Cinema Snob on YouTube. Enjoy the chapter!
Snakedance Part 3
We headed back to the chamber. This is so much running back and forth in a cave.
"Now, according to the Legend, the Great Crystal is the source of the Mara's power, but where is it now? What exactly were its properties? Oh, if only we could take a look at the Great Crystal itself. Unless, I wonder." The Doctor wonders out loud. He pulls out the eye thing there, and then takes off out of the cave. We go to the Tardis and go inside. "Come on, over there." He points to an empty spot in the console room. "Now, sit down." The three of us sit down in a circle.
"Doctor, I'm not at all clear what we're supposed to be doing." Nyssa says.
"If this has to do with the Mara, this is the first time I've dealt with them." I say.
"No, Kate, you're needed as well. Just think about it."
"What?" Nyssa asks.
"Now, simple test. The Great Crystal focuses thought in some way. Now, if this is the same sort of crystal, it should exhibit the same properties. We must direct our thoughts at it and observe what happens."
"Now?" I ask.
"Yes." Me and Nyssa both try to focus hard on the crystal, but it's difficult when you don't really know what focus on. I sigh and look at the Doctor. I notice Nyssa has stopped as well.
"I'm sorry, Doctor. I can't concentrate hard enough." Nyssa says. I nod my head in agreement.
"It doesn't matter." I pick up the crystal.
"I can't believe I can't do one simple thing." I say.
"We'll try another way." The Doctor says getting up and going through the doorway to the bedrooms. I sigh and stand up. Can't even do a simple task. He comes back out wearing the dream device Tegan had.
"What are you doing?" Nyssa asks.
"Hmm? I'm adjusting the frequency. I need to eliminate all unnecessary outside noise as an aid to concentration." He fiddled with it more. "There. Right, let's try again. You two come and stand over here, watch the crystal closely and observe any changes. You two ready?" We nod.
"Yes." We say at the same time.
"Right." The Doctor takes a seat in front of us and holds the crystal. As we concentrate, the crystal starts to glow.
"It can't be. It's impossible." Am I supposed to understand something? The glow goes away and the Doctor opens his eyes again.
"Anything happen this time?" I go on to explain what just happened.
"And then the light faded." I finish off.
"Well, of course, it's small. It's power is obviously limited."
"But there was only a blue light." Nyssa says.
"You two are missing the point. It's not what you saw, but that you saw anything at all. It proves the crystal has the quality of transforming thought into energy."
"Oh, I see now." I say.
"Perhaps even into matter itself. Just think of the power the Great Crystal must have. Whatever's in your thought. Whatever in your mind. It can actually make it occur."
"And if the Mara's in Tegan's mind..." I start.
"Exactly, the Mara needs the Great Crystal in order to make itself reoccur. Er, stay here." He says going off to the door to the Tardis.
"Whoa, wait. Where are you going?" I ask.
"To warn Ambril. He knows where the Great Crystal is now. He must be made to listen." He says leaving. We stayed for a record time of an hour and left. We made our way to the director's office and hid when we found the main office. We hide as we hear someone approach. He enters the room, and we listen in.
"Well?" The man at the desk asks.
"I've taken him food." The other man says.
"He should be grateful. Was there something else, Chela?" The Doctor? Did he get himself arrested again?
"I think he's harmless."
"Harmless? Of course the fool's harmless."
"He is a doctor."
"Doctor? Of what? I'm sure the man has no academic standing whatsoever." Chela leaves the office. I nod to Nyssa and we follow quietly behind him. He goes inside and comes back out a moment later. Me and Nyssa catch the door before it closes all the way and go inside.
"Kate! Nyssa!" The Doctor exclaims as we arrive. We work on breaking him out as the Doctor tells us what happened. "Oh, it's no use, Kate, Nyssa. I have tried."
"This is so stupid." Nyssa says.
"The lock is extremely primitive. It's practically a museum piece. There's no electronic impulse matrix to decode, no sonic microcircuit to disrupt. Crude mechanical six barrel movement, key operated. Primitive but adequate. Well, it's more than adequate, actually, because the key is what we don't have."
"There must be something." Nyssa says looking around as I try to lock pick it. That's when we heard a noise outside the door.
"Quickly." Me and Nyssa hide just in time for the man we saw earlier comes back in. "Have you come to let me out?"
"I've brought you this. It was written by Dojjen. Look at the last page." The man says.
"I'd much rather you unlocked the door and let me out."
"You know I can't do that."
"Why, don't you have the key?"
"No, I don't."
"Ambril, I suppose."
"What?"
"Has the key in his room."
"Yes, I suppose so. What are you talking about? I thought you might be interested, but..."
"No, wait, wait. Of course I'm interested. The last page, you say?" As the Doctor says that we sneak back out to go get the key. As we get back to the office we have to hide as the director and a woman walk past. They somehow don't see the two of us as we go inside the office. We search everywhere for the key.
"Found it!" Nyssa says holding up the key.
"Great let's-" I say turning back to the door.
"What do you think you're doing?" A woman says standing next to a guard. Welp, we have been caught. "Where is Ambril? He should be here. I am really not sure what to do with you two. It is hardy a situation one meets. Ah." She says coming over and taking the key from Nyssa. "I think perhaps you two had better come with me. Isn't that what one usually says in this kind of situation?" We are brought back to where the Doctor is and led in. They put us inside the cage with the Doctor, and we take a seat. The Doctor was busy reading a notebook.
"What are we going to do?" Nyssa asks.
"Shush." The Doctor says.
"Doctor!"
"What do you suggest?"
"We've got to get out of here."
"How?"
"If only we still had the sonic screwdriver."
"Well, we haven't, so for the time being we must make use of what we do have."
"What?" I ask.
"This." The Doctor says holding up the notebook he was reading. Where did he get this book? He hands me and Nyssa the book, and we flip through it. It's just a lot of ramblings of a man. "Well?"
"Doctor, what exactly are you asking us?" Nyssa asks.
"This is a record of a journey, a private mental journey. Now, he must have discovered something that finally decided him."
"To do with what?" Nyssa asks.
"Oh, I don't know. The Mara, the history of the planet, the origins of this crystal."
"To function as they do, the crystals must possess a perfect molecular structure tuned to the exact wavelengths of the human mind. Doctor, the crystal is man made!" Nyssa says reading from the book.
"What?" Me and the Doctor ask surprised.
"Yes, of course, I should have realized. Structurally perfect. It has to be free of all flaws and distortions. Even the minute distortions produced by the effects of the gravity." The Doctor says.
"What are you saying?" Nyssa asks.
"The crystals were designed and built by a people who had mastered the techniques of molecular engineering in a zero gravity environment."
"But the Manussans are not that advanced."
"No, and according to Chela this crystal is eight hundred years old."
"But there would be records. A people eight hundred years ago capable of molecular engineering?" I ask.
"Not necessarily. I suspect that when they built the Great Crystal, they overlooked one vital factor. The nature of the mental energy would determine the nature of the matter created. The Great Crystal absorbed what was in their minds. The restlessness, the hatred, the greed. Absorbed it, amplified it, reflected it."
"And created the Mara." Nyssa says.
"Indeed and in the reign of evil which followed they must have forgotten the most important thing of all, that the Mara was something they themselves had blindly brought into being."
"But if Dojjen had worked out what had happened-" I start to say.
"Only some of it. The rest he must have learned from the Snake Dancers who kept the knowledge alive, hidden in traditions and legends."
"And if he became convinced that the Mara would return-" Nyssa starts.
"He didn't know exactly when, and nobody would listen just as no one will listen to us."
"Then why didn't he simply destroy the Great Crystal when it was in his charge?" Nyssa asks.
"Maybe he hated these people." I say.
"That's a possibility. I don't know the reason." The Doctor says.
"And in the meantime?" Nyssa asks.
"We wait." The Doctor says. We sit around for a while in silence. Nyssa gets restless and goes over to the door and hits it. "Patience."
"How can you be so calm? What if Chela doesn't help?"
"I think he will." The Doctor says. I nod my head in agreement.
"You can't be certain."
"No."
"And meanwhile the Mara could destroy Tegan." After a while, the door opens and Chela walks through the door.
"Well done!" The Doctor exclaims standing up.
"Quiet, there's no time." Chela says unlocking our cage.
"What made you change your mind?"
"Come on." We follow him out of our jail back through the building we were in.
To Be Continued...
Well, there you go guys! Oh my gosh it has been a while since I updated. Work has me going all week for the most part. It's only gonna get worse when I go back to college. I'm not giving up on this though. Well, I hope you guys have an amazing day! Bye guys!