Taking the clothes off the policemen sounds easy, but it really wasn't. Despite them being basically skin over air, they were heavier than they looked. Not to mention that what I consider to be normal mundane clothing, was completely alien to Maen. So we were wasting too much time just to get their clothes on. Needless to say that we hadn't even finished undressing them, and the police caught wind of what was going on. More blue lights started to flicker in our direction. Which told me and Maen to go into hiding. We didn't immediately have anywhere to go, though I did spot one door.
"Maen, think you can break that lock?" I asked her.
She activated her light-saber, stabbed it through the knob, and the door opened.
"This answers your question?"
I didn't answer. I just grabbed her arm and pulled her inside with me.
Upon entering, we immediately baricaded it with everything we could find. We even covered the hole that Maen made, so to make it look like the place is abandoned. Even so, we couldn't affort to just wait around and hope they won't come inside to look for us. Maen had to pull me away from the door, so we would run to the roof. From there, we looked down. We couldn't hear what they were saying, but judging from the looks on their faces and the fact that they vomited, they weren't exactly pleased with what they saw. Still, I noticed one policeman looking more confused than anything else. He would walk up to one other man, ask him something, pointing at the bodies, but the other man would just shrug. It didn't take long before he was escorted off the crime scene.
"That was odd." I said.
"Two of their own were killed, how else do you expect them to react?" Maen asked me.
"Not that." I replied, "They just escorted one guy off the scene."
"Because he was the most sickened?" Maen asked.
"Didn't seem that way." I said.
I kept looking at that man. He tried getting back on the scene, but nobody would let him. I pointed him out to Maen.
"Call it a hunch, but he may be of some help to us." I told her.
"Whatever you say." Maen replied, then walked a few steps back.
"What are you doing?" I wondered.
Before she would answer, she started running, until she reached the very edge of the roof, where she jumped, clean over the crime-scene below, and onto the roof across it. There, she ran to the edge of the roof again, where she could see the policeman. She ran to the other side of the roof, where she started climbing down. This left me on the roof, by myself. And already I saw some men trying the front door. This put me in a difficult position. While the distance between this roof and the next wasn't that great, I didn't think I had enough strength to jump across that little space. Sure, I've had some training, but it was nowhere near her level, and since I met the Doctor, I haven't been to any sort of gym, so I couldn't be sure my condition was quite what it should be. So I had to find another way off the roof. I looked to my left. The roof ran for a couple of meters, but there were other doors on the way. If I could reach that door, I should be able to get down from there. I ran as fast as I could, until I reached that door. Unfortunately it had no knob on the outside. Why didn't I think of that? I tried running into the door, but it didn't budge. I could try again, but that would cause too much noise, drawing the attention of the men below.
"Why did you go over here?" I heard Maen's voice.
I turned to look, and there she stood, carrying someone over her shoulder.
"What did you just do?" I asked her.
"I asked first." she replied.
If we were gonna play this game, we'd be wasting too much time: "The cops are on their way up. I needed a new exit."
"Why didn't you just follow me?" Maen looked genuinely surprised.
"Look, none of that matters now." I told her, "Let's get through this."
She shrugged: "All right."
With her light-saber, she cut her way through that door, and we could run downstairs again. As we ran, I got a good look at the man she was carrying. He didn't wear his hat, not unless you count having it in his mouth as wearing it. He kept his left arm a strange sort of angle, but I soon saw why. He had himself handcuffed to her. I would guess that a woman falling from the sky just to grab hold of him was suspicious, so he tried to arrest her. Of course Maen wouldn't let him, so she fought back. And now the two were linked, whether they like it or not. But as soon as we reached the front door, I stopped Maen.
"Wait, we can't go outside." I told her.
She sighed: "Must you always change your mind like that?"
"You don't understand." I said, "If we go out, carrying a policeman like that, we'd stand out too much."
"Not my fault." she replied, "He tried to restrain me."
If he's the source of the problems, then maybe I should try and explain the situation to him.
"Put him down." I said.
"Why?" Maen wondered.
I growled: "We don't have time for twenty questions, just put him down!"
Maen clicked her tongue, but she agreed to put him down. When he had his feet on the ground, I took his hat out of his mouth.
"Who are you people?" he asked us.
"That depends." I replied, "When you saw those bodies, what did you see?"
"Are you two behind them?" he seemed a little more confident that time."
"Answer him!" Maen yanked at his arm, through their cuffs.
"I saw..." he hesitated, "I saw... two bodies."
"Did you see any blood?" I asked, and he didn't say anything, "Or was it just empty space?"
His eyes widened: "You could see it too?"
"What do you mean, too? Of course we could." Maen replied.
"None of the other policemen could." he explained, "They all vomited at the sight of blood, but I couldn't see anything."
I almost wished the Doctor was here, as he'd found this to be more interesting than anything else.
"In that case..." I answered his earlier question, "... we may be allies. Now, will you take the cuffs off my friend?"
He looked at Maen, then at the cuffs, at me, and Maen again. Clearly, he was weighing out his options. He knew we couldn't be trusted, or rather that we shouldn't be trusted, but he knew that we may be his only hope in this case, whatever it may be. He took the key out of his pocket and released her.
"Good." I said, "Now, do you have a car we could use?"
"We can't use an official vehicle now." he said, "After that scene I made earlier, they wouldn't trust me with one of their own vehicles."
"Can you borrow us some of your uniforms, then?" I asked.
"You're still on that?" Maen couldn't believe it.
"Like it or not, we still can't just walk up to the Tardis without being seen."
"Tardis?" the cop asked.
"We'll explain when we get to it..." I replied, after which I looked at his nametag, "... Cooper."
