FireFlys Chapter 15
Bella's P.O.V.
"Don't move your under government supervision." a alarm went off inside my head thousands of times, around and around. I blinked hard and looked at my surroundings. I was on a cold mental table with a bright light shining in my face, that's all I could see. Just the bright light.
"Where am I? Who are you? Where's the Doctor?" I asked frantically.
"Your in a secret base in London." A mans voice echoed around the room.
"Why?" I asked them as I sat up.
"You and Your Parter have been stored to be observed."
"What?" I asked him. "Why?"
"You broke into the majesties household."
"Oh..." I realised and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a box. It was like a circus box it had the reds and the yellows but inside was an happy man, he looked plastic and nothing like anything from a circus.
"What's that?" I asked the man. He didn't reply. "Hello are you still there?" I moaned at the inconvenience and walked over to the happy man.
"Hello?" i smiled as I tapped the box. "Hello I'm Bella."
"Hello Bella." he replied robotically.
"So you talk huh?" he didn't reply. "Hello, are you still in there?" I asked as I bashed harder. Then the face started to twist to the left.
"Huh?" I asked myself as I watched the face turn. Then the new face was unhappy.
"I only asked if you were in there!" I shouted at it. "Truth!" I sighed.
"Bad girl Bella." the man said sadly.
"What the fuck have I done now?" I moaned then realised what I said and I covered my mouth. The face twisted once more and it became angry either because it had chilly power in it's face or that it didn't like my attitude. I'm going for the second one.
"I don't think that's going to scare me." I said like the queen of the world. Then the doors slammed open and the plastic man stood up coming towards me. I stepped back as he walked forward.
"DOCTOR!" I shouted he came towards me and sprayed me with this gas. That's all I remember. I think.
I woke up in this room. It was a dull grey and black. In front of me was three white buttons reading 'Forget' and 'Protest' in the middle of them was a 'Record.' I gently felt the buttons, they felt cold, like nobody has used them in a while. I looked up to see a massive black telly. I sat there gorming at myself and how ugly I looked in my tattered blue hoodie, black jeans and blue converses. Then all of a sudden the screen came on. I slouched back into my seat not really bothered.
"Name. Isabella Marie Swan." It read as it came on the screen.
"Age 1542." I started laughing.
"Shut-up!" I laughed in amazement.
"Destination" it paused as i leaned forward. "Unknown. Play video."
A man came on the screen looking very serious.
"You are here because you want to know the truth about this starship. And I am talking to you because you're entitled to know. When this presentation is finished, you have a choice. You may either protest. Or forget." he paused. "May god be with Us." then suddenly loads of images flashed threw my brain at one hundred miles per hour! Children crying. People protesting. Fires burning. People running. Bombs exploding. People fighting. Animals abused. People dying. Then it was repeated again and again. It was all too much! Before I knew it my hand automatically smashed the forget button. It went blood red. I held my head feeling quite dizzy and for about a minute i started to think about what had happened. Then a video of me came up on the screen.
"Please you have to find the doctor and get him of this ship, do whatever it takes, please just get him of this ship." I sobbed and begged. I stood up and looked at the video closely as I monitored my movement. Then the doors were open letting me free but there was two people in my way. The Doctor and a little girl.
"Bella what have you done?" he asked slowly.
"Nothing." I replied as I shut the video down. "Who's the girl?" I asked
"This is Mandy, Mandy this is Bella."
"Hi," I smiled.
"Hi."
"She was crying, she said that her friend had been taken by the people in booths."
"So you never interfere with other people or plants only if there are children crying?" I asked him.
"Yes."
"I would do the same." I agreed. He soniced the light and looked at the readings.
"It's erased about 20 minutes of your memory you'll be fine."
"Now, that video, it's not playing for me." the doctor said as he walked up to the tv.
"It played for me."
"That's because it's registers you as being human. Human thoughts, feelings. One heart. It doesn't recognise you as a time lord." he told me.
"But you look human." I replied.
"I have the complete opposite of you though." he said as he stared at the buttons.
"Y'know when I have one of them brilliant plans?"
"Yeah."
"This isn't on of them." he grinned.
"Dear star ship UK, We..." he paused as he grinned to me. "PROTEST!" he shouted as he whacked the protest button. I only noticed that the men in the booths were there and there faces turned angry. The doors slammed closed and we waited are fait.
"A horse and a man. Above below. One has a plan but both must go. Mile after mile, above beneath. One has a smile and one has teeth. Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below." a little girl sang the voice bounced of every wall and back to us.
"Say Wheeeeee!" he shouted happily with a grin on his face as the floor began to turn into a slide. I turned to look at him with my face in utter panic.
"ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!" I screamed as the floor disappeared from below us.
The Doctor was in front of me, until I saw him disappear into the darkness but I still heard him laughing. He was enjoying him self so much. Like a kid on a roller coaster. No sorry he was a kid on a roller coaster. I heard him laugh all the way around each corner and bend. Whilst I on the other hand, screamed all the way. The tunnel was dark and filled with goop, it was disgusting! It smelt like sick and rotting food and on top of that I couldn't see the Doctor at all when i was in there and as I smacked into the bends I screamed harder at one point we both went 360 degrees through the shoot. My stomach churned as I heard the doctor splash into something.
"DOCT-ORRR!" I shouted as I saw a light. Then I must have fell a good six feet into the goop it splash every where.
"Safely down." I told myself then just my luck the goop fell on me. Cabbages and left overs. Yuck! The doctor turned to me and laughed. I felt my cheeks turn a blood red.
"Pipe down!" I shouted as I threw a cabbage leaf at him, hitting the front of his top, he glanced at me "Besides... It wasn't that funny." I whispered as i tried to get up but fell over again. Even the Doctor fell over and nearly slipped as he soniced the floor.
"Where are we?" i asked him. "It's a rubbish dump and it's mingin!" "Are we on some kind of floor?" I asked him again. He checked his readings and walked over to me.
"It's not a floor, It's a— So."
"It's a what?"
"The next word is kind of a scary word. You might want to take a moment, get yourself in a calm place. Go "ommmmmm". He told me, I did.
"It's a tongue." he grinned.
"A Tongue." I said scared.
"A great big Tongue!" he said in excitement. "If this is the Tongue I would love to see it's stomach!" he exclaimed, I stared at him with big wide terrified eyes as the thing spoke.
"But not right know." he told it.
"How are we going to get out?" I asked the doctor. He soniced the back of the Tongue and faced his back towards me. I turned to face the back of the Tongue as well.
"How are we going to get out?" I asked.
"Well we can't get out of the mouth, it closed for business." he whispered. The mouth rumbled as it swayed us back and forth. We were basically swimming in the goo, trying to get up.
"How are going to get out?" I asked him the same question.
"There's an eject button and I've just pressed it." he told me as he help me up.
"An eject button?" I questioned him.
"Think about it Bella, we're in a big mouth." he answered then it clicked as massive ripple of the goop came towards us. The rippled created a terrible smell of half digested food and rubbish, that hit us like a lighting bolt, messing up are hair.
"Right, this isn't going to be big on dignity." he smiled as he straightened his bow tie then took my hand.
"GERONIMO!" he called out as I screamed.
I looked around at my surroundings , noticing that the found wasn't covered in sick I knew something was wrong.
"Doctor?" I asked as I searched for him.
"Don't worry Bella I'm right here, I had to carry you since you hit your head hard on the ground." he told me.
"Oh right thank-you?" I replied confused. I stared at the doctor, who was also covered in sick, I sniffed myself and yep that was defiantly were the smell was coming from! I stumbled to my feet and joined the doctor, right in front of us was a tunnel, but at the side was the same to buttons 'Protest and 'forget'' I snarled at the buttons the doctor looked at me strangely, I stared at him back, his eyes flickered to the men in booths. He walked frustrated towards the them.
"You! Your everywhere, why?" he asked frustrated. The men in the booths automatically turned angry. The Doctor laughed in anger.
"What you going to do to do next? Stick ya tongues out?" he asked them.
"...Err Doctor..." I said slowly as I tapped his shoulder, his face turned to me annoyed, If I saw my face I would look fucking scared.
"What?"
"The men in booths..." I started to say he turned to them an the doors were open. They were coming for us. We started to walk quickly backwards until we heard.
"DUCK!" a lady shouted, we both turned to see who it was before we ducked. The lady had shot the men in booths twice before they eventually fell to the floor.
"Look who it isn't." the Doctor smiled as he got up. The dark toned lady with brown curly hair gave him a grin. "You look a lot better without your mask on." he stated.
"The Doctor. Old drinking buddy of Henry Twelve. Tea and scones with Liz Two. Think she was a bit on the fence about you, wasn't she? Knighted and Exiled you on the same day. And so much for the Virgin Queen. You bad, bad boy!"
"Liz 10." he grinned. "Come on get a move on their repairing." the doctor said as he pushed me to the nearest exit.
"Excuse me, but who are you?" I asks her as we walked.
"Liz Ten. Elizabeth the Tenth. And down!" she shouted me and the doctor dived on the floor as Liz shot the men in booths who were following us. She grinned at her self as the men in booths fell to the ground, me and the doctor stumbled back up. " I'm the bloody queen, mate. Basically: I rule." she grinned. "Now come on, to my place." she said as she raced ahead, me and the doctor followed her like lost sheep.
When we got to her room it was amazing! Kingside double bed with a red and gold silk cover, the Walls were a hot red and on one side of the room was different shapes and style of cups and mugs, filled with water. She sat on the bed, smiling.
"WOW!" I gasped in amazement. "I love your room!" I said as I gazed at everything. She chuckled before she said.
"Thanks." I looked at the doctor who was inspecting this White mask.
"How long have you been on the thrown?" The Doctor asked her.
"I started when I was 10 plus 40 years."
"Your 50!" I said shocked.
"Yeah slowed my body clock down."
"Cool." I replied.
"You're over 16. You voted. Whatever this is, you've chosen to forget about it." the doctor said as he walked up to her
"No. Never forgot. Never voted. Not technically a British subject." she replied.
"Then who and what are you and why do you know me? "
"You're a bit hard to miss, love. Mysterious stranger. M.O. consistent with higher alien intelligence. Hair of an idiot. I've been brought up on the stories. My whole family was." she smirked.
"Hair of an idiot?" he whispers to him self as he check his hair, I smiled at him.
"Oi! You don't have the authority to be in here!" Liz shouted at the door. I noticed he was wearing a dark cloak like the men in booths but he had dark skin and he looked human.
"You need to be in the castle dungeons m'am." the man spoke.
"Why?" she asked as the man. He didn't reply. Then the mans head surged to twist to the left.
"Smiler." Liz hissed.
"Smiler?" I questioned.
"The men in booths." she answered.
"Half human, half smiler." the doctor whispered. The mans head went to the human face to the evil teeth face.
"You have been asked by the highest authority." he answered after a long pause.
"I am the highest authority!" she hissed at him.
"Yes m'am, come along m'am." she snarled when she walked past him and we got taken to the very bottom of starship UK. It was black and cold, children carried items back and forth and there was a massive screen with security cameras on. But right in the middle of all of that was a whole and every 5 seconds it got zapped by an electric current. We went are separate ways, the Doctor walked around the screens seeing what it was, whilst Liz was seeing why she wasn't the highest authority. I walked around to see that girl, Mandy I think she was called sitting on the floor and then she looked up at the passing children.
"Billy!" she called as she darted up to hug her friend. He hugged back. It was so nice that they were back together again because I saw that she was happy. Then all of a sudden this worm like structure winded it's way up from a passing whole, it had a claw thing on the end of it and it was coming towards the children. I was just about to say something when Mandy and the boy called Billy started to stroke it. It seemed quite happy. I stared at the thing and the two children happily until something pulled me out of my thoughts.
"Oh Bella, we shouldn't have come here." the Doctor told me.
"What? Why?" I replied, he didn't answer just soniced Liz's mask.
"Liz. Your mask."
"What about my mask?" she asked.
"Look at it. It's old. At least about two hundred years old, I'd say." he said as he walked up to her.
"Yeah. It's an antique. So." she shrugged.
"Yeah. An antique. Made by craftsmen over two hundred years ago and perfectly sculpted to your face. They slowed your body clock alright. But you're not fifty. You're 300." he stated. "You've been ruling this kingdom for about 300 years." she stood there gorming at him, she shook it off.
"No! I can't be!" she shouted.
"Here take a look at this." he answered as he soniced the screen as it played a video of her.
"If I am watching this. The reason for this ship not having an engine is because we have built are kingdom on a starwhale. This one is the last of it's kind, they were suppose to live in the great depths of space, on day. On that unfortunate day the starwhale came and saved us, like a big miracle in the sky not wanting to see are children cry and it came to us. Every since that dreaded day it's been there for us." the queen said. "But it's time to vote."
"If you wish our voyage to continue, then you must press the forget button. Be again the heart of this nation. Untainted. If not, press the other button. Your reign will end, the Star Whale will be released. And our ship will disintegrate. I hope I keep the strength to make the right decision." she sighed before the video went off. She stood their thinking for a moment.
"I don't know." she replied. I raced over to the massive whole in the ground to see a brain a massive brain being shocked painfully. I turned to the Doctor.
" I voted for this. Why would I do that?" I asked him.
" 'Cause you knew if we stayed here I'd be faced with an impossible choice. Humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. And that was wrong, You don't ever decide what I need to know." he told me.
"I don't even remember doing it." I said truthfully.
"You did it. That's what counts."
" I'm... I'm sorry." I whispered.
"Oh I don't care. When I'm done here you're going home." he hissed.
"Why? Because I made a mistake? One mistake. I don't even remember doing it! Doctor!" I snapped
"Yeah. I know."
"What are you doing?" Liz asked the doctor.
"The worst thing I ever do. I'm going to pass a massive electrical charge through the Star Whale's brain. It should knock over his high functions. Leave it a vegetable. The ship will still fly but the whale won't feed it." the doctor said as he pulled out the wires.
"No! You can't do that!" I shouted as I raced towards him trying it drag him away. He threw himself around to face me in anger.
"Nobody talk to me. Nobody has anything to say to me today!" he snapped at me, he turned around to do the job. I stood looking at the floor for a moment and then my eyes trickled to the gathering of children stroking one part of the starwhale I smiled at them and at the starwhale. Then i Remembered.
"Sorry m'am!" I shouted as I raced over to her and grabbed her hand.
"No Bella!" the doctor shouted but it was too late. I'd already slammed her hand on the 'End Rein' button. The ship shook madly before it started to slowly die down. The doctor stared at me with furry in his eyes.
"Bella! What have you done?" the doctor shouted.
"The Star Whale didn't come like a miracle all those years ago. It volunteered. You didn't have to trap it or torture it. That was all just you. It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry. What if you were really old and really kind and alone—your whole race dead, no future. What could you do then? If you were that old and that kind, and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry." I explained. "Because I used to know a man like that." I said as I turned to the doctor with a grin. His anger slid of his face and his smile grew and grew.
"Come on, let's go." The doctor encouraged as he walked out with saying goodbye to anyone or anything. We walked to the market, were I saw something out of the corner of my eye.
"Be right back." I grinned, he smiled weakly before walking off.
I greeted him by a massive window looking out on the ship. The buildings stood high and the lights were one except from the odd. He stood there thinking. I looked out of the window too.
"Bella, you could have killed everyone on this ship." he told me.
"And you could have killed a Star Whale." I matched him.
"How did you know it was the right decision?" he asked me, I looked at him.
"I had a friend, he was similar." I replied, he smiled and hugged me tightly.
"Doctor?"
"Yes." he replied.
"You need a shower." I told him, he laughed back.
"You too Swan." he laughed as he pulled away and began walking to the TARDIS. "You too."
"Shouldn't we say goodbye? Won't they wonder where we went?"
"For the rest of their lives. Oh the songs they'll write. Never mind them. Big day tomorrow." he shouted to me
"Sorry, what?"
"Well it's always a big day tomorrow. We've got a time machine. I skip the little ones." he said as he unlocked the doors. I raced in and hopped up the stairs and placed on a bed a keyring. The British flag. I smiled, then raced back down and opened to doors.
"You all depend on the beast below." I whispered before closing the doors.