A/N: I do not own Twilight or Doctor Who. I'm just playing in their universe. Original plot developed by i heart the doctor.

Chapter 17 Escape

Vampire Bella's POV

It was even busier in here. The Doctor was calling out instruction and it sounded like he was getting the time it would take for them to lift off reduced to the bare minimum. The crew was gathering data from the computers that were now operating at full speed and I could hear something in a large room being raised. I would guess they are getting at least one piece of ore before they leave.

"Bella, how did it go?"

"Carmen is back, injured but alive, she is in the infirmary. The male, I would guess is Drake, didn't make it."

"I see, thank you for bringing Carmen back." The Captain said solemnly.

He looked like he has aged a couple years since I left.

"There is something else. I don't have an exact count, but I know there are at least a hundred of those creatures. Also it seems they wanted to know why you were here and they don't want others to know that they exist. I get this feeling that there are many more than we are seeing. I fear they are an invasion force of some kind. They have laid low for the sole reason to raise an army. It will be difficult for you to leave now."

The Captain just aged another year as he rubbed his face and sat in his chair.

"I can speak with them; ask them to let you leave." The Doctor said.

"It isn't about leaving Doctor. We can hop in the pod at any time and with these calculations take off in under 4 minutes. The issue is we need this ore. Our resources are gone. We have no way to power our planet. In a little over a decade all our resources will be completely depleted. We won't be able to purify water to drink, create heat survive the winter months, or defend ourselves from outside threats. Which seems like there is a very large threat right here and our planet is the closest inhabited planet to this one. If what Bella says is true than we might be their first target and we won't be able to stave off a major assault. Our weapons are energy based, and our energy is nearly gone." He took a long deep breath and let his head fall in defeat.

I could not image what the Captain was going through at this moment. He had the answer to his power problem beneath his feet. However, in order to get it he had to deplete his power fighting an army that was long thought extinct. That is if the enemy is not as strong as I fear they are. Either way if he flees now, without the ore, the Ice Warriors will destroy this place and put them back to the beginning. It took them three years to dig the first hole and there is no telling how much new snow and ice will fall during this storm.

"Bella?"

"Yes Doctor?"

"Could you take me to the place where you saw the Lorican Ice Warriors?"

"Sure."

We headed out. The Captain was typing something on the computer as we left.

"Bella, how would you choose with race to save?"

"What?" His question was really bizarre.

"If these Ice Warriors are the last of their kind and they are planning on some type of conquest I fear I would need to stop them, but in doing so I fear they would be wiped out. On the other hand if I left the Ice Warriors alone and they did invade and take over the other planet they would be wiped out. How does one decided who lives and who dies?"

"I have asked that question before."

"What?"

"Vampires eat humans Doctor, it is their natural diet. I have asked Traditional human drinkers a similar question, how do you choose who to let live and who to kill? Their answer is always the same; 'I don't, I kill however is closer.' It would be my guess, in this case, we save the one that is closest, by making a treaty with the other race to leave them be."

"I hope it works out that way."

"Who goes there? What are you doing here?" Someone hissed off to the side.

"I came to speak with your leader." The Doctor said, as he walked up to them.

The guy seemed to laugh and he raised his hand, as if to hit him.

"I wouldn't do that." I said narrowing my eyes and falling into a crouch, pulling my lips back, exposing my teeth. I could tell this creature was certainly my prey. His fear was evident. "Take us to your leader." I growled.

They obeyed and brought us to the same place I just was. We were lead in to an area that looked like a gathering hall carved into the stone. I would guess they have been here for a long time. The leader was up front and I tried to look as meek as possible, letting the Doctor take the lead.

"What do you want?" That must be the leader.

"Hello, I'm the Doctor. I wanted to speak with you about the people on this planet."

"None of you will ever leave." The leader said.

"Right, see that doesn't work for us. These people are only here to mine an ore to keep their race from dying out. As I am sure you can relate to."

"What do you know of us?" The leader questioned.

"I know you are a great and powerful race that gave up violence long ago."

"Those weaklings died off long ago. Only those of our kind that continued the old ways have survived. It is obvious that we are right and we will continue what we started in the previous era. This will be the return of the Lorican Empire."

"No chance at peace then?" Everyone was laughing now. I didn't like where this was going. I am not sure how may I could take out before I was over whelmed. The only good thing I could see is that these Loricans disliked fire as much as I did.

"Kill them kill them." The chanting started. I knew what was next.

"Take them out and bury them by the others." The leader said.

Great, here we go again. We followed to the hidden cove. They created a hole for us just as before. I hope the Doctor would survive this, I was sure that the sound emitting device couldn't hurt me; I just wasn't sure about the name with two heartbeats.

They shot us both, as I expected it didn't hurt. Since my internal organs aren't used anymore they couldn't disrupt anything inside me. That isn't to say that I just stood there. I fell in the same manner as Carmen did, glad I got a visual of what to expect. Soon after I heard them leaving.

"You OK Doc?"

"Yeah, maybe my pride is a little bruised, but I am no worse for wear."

"Well, let's head back. Looks like these Lorican people can't be reasoned with. That only leaves us with getting these humans off this planet and hope they can get enough ore mined in the time they have left to sustain them until they can find more."

"In that case, I am ready when you are."

I ran us back to the habitat. By the looks of it preparations were nearly complete. We headed right for the control room.

"Almost ready?" The Doctor asked as soon as we opened the door.

"Yes. The rescue ship is in route. We have enough ore pulled up to last about a decade. Hopefully that will buy us some time. How did negotiations go?"

"Well let's just say they weren't too keen on the idea of letting us leave."

"Do you think you can hold them off long enough for us to take off?"

"I think so. Largely depends on the number of weapons they have. How long until you are ready to start the lift off procedure?"

"One hour, and we will have everything stored and be aboard for lift off."

There was a scream from the back entrance. A strange scent floated in the air to me, not Lorican, but not human either. We ran off to see what it was. The smell of blood was over powering. We came across the scent not a moment later. A girl was dead, lying in the hallway near the back entrance. It looked like claw marks across her back, four of them and pretty deep.

The doctor was checking her over while a couple other crew members came running to see what was wrong.

"What happened?" The guy I gave Carmen to asked.

"Something attacked her, by the looks of it something not entirely human." The Doctor replied. "But not entirely an Ice Warrior." "Strange. Quickly, secure the escape pod." The Doctor called out.

By this time several others had joined us; three turned and ran toward the pod. I got up and ran after them, but I had to follow since I had not yet been to the pod. Up ahead of us I smelled more blood. We turned down the corridor and I saw it.

A human covered in armor and scales with sharp claws. It glared at us. Two of the crew members I never seen before ran for it. They only had a lead pipe and what looked like an emergency axe. The one with the axe raised his arms and was gutted. At the same time the one with the pipe landed a blow to the arm of the creature, but was unfazed as it hit his armor. The third crew member had a little pistol and fired two rounds at the creature, but the energy blast was deflected by the armor.

This hybrid thing slammed the second crew man into the wall and ran toward the girl with the gun. She unloaded seven more rounds; they were just as ineffective as the first two. The creature was on top of us and as he moved to strike I grabbed the girl and turned my back to the creature. I could feel his claws rack down my back. What would have been a fatal wound to these humans, felt like a back scratch to me.

I turned to face the creature as he was about to swat at me again, for all the good that would do. I grabbed his arm and his throat. "Who are you?" I asked. He only replied with a hiss and attempted to attack me with his other arm. I let go of his throat long enough to break his arm. I drug him to the infirmary, where the Doctor was. Beside Drake was now another dead body. I feared that there were two others in the hall I just left, well one for sure. The other's heartbeat stopped moments ago, but I could not leave this creature alone with the humans to manage, it was too strong.

"Bella, what is it?"

"There are others injured back by the pod, hurry." I told Chloe. "If I have to venture a guess, their crew mate."

The Doctor checked him over, scanning him with his sonic screwdriver. "It would seem so. Not sure how this is even possible." The creature was hissing and thrashing.

"Stop it or I'll break your other arm." I applied a little more force.

"In here." Their medic led me to a secure room.

With vampire speed I wrapped his arm, securing it to his chest and pushed him in the cell.

The girl was instantly scared of me.

"Don't be afraid." I told.

"What are you?"

"That can wait; right now we need to know what that is and how it came to be." The Doctor stepped in. "Can you speak?" The creature only hissed in a response. "Thought so, it would seem this is a hybrid. They have removed human thought and speak. They created a foot soldier, nothing more than mindless drone to carry out their orders." He started playing with his sonic screwdriver again. "No signals. Guess they give it an order and send it out."

"Doctor, might want to have them check the pod."

Just then the girl I save and Chloe that went after them came back with the guy that had the lead pipe, he was in rough shape, but he was breathing again.

"Thanks, for saving me back there. I'm Alice by the way." She reached out to shake my hand.

"You're welcome Alice. I just wish I had stepped in earlier. I might have been able to save your friend."

"Your hand is so cold."

"So what are you?" Their medic asked.

"Doctor, I'll let you handle that one. I need to change my shirt."

"This way, you can have one of mine." I followed Alice out.

"Well you see she is a vampire." The Doctor explained. "But she is a good vampire."

"What is a vampire?"

"Right, hundred thousand years since then. Guess they do die off eventually." The Doctor said. I breathed a sigh of relief. These people didn't know about my kind. Either we do die off or decided to hide once again. Perhaps, since it is a different planet vampires decide not to leave Earth, but are still around.

"How could you do that? I mean that thing cut Kenichi so easy, but only your cloths were cut."

"I am not like you." I told her. "As you mentioned, my skin is cold, because it is like a rock."

"Must be nice, I was so scared." Alice was visibly shaking. "So what planet are you from?"

"Earth, what about you?"

"Don't be silly, no one lives on Earth. I am from Bellaphores."

"Why does no one live on Earth now?"

"What kind of question is that? The Eternal War of course, it has been raging for several millenniums now. It is said that even the sky is burning and the oceans are gone. Though no one I know has ever been near that solar system in ages."

"How sad." Everyone I ever knew would have died by now I'm sure. I doubt even a vampire could live this long.

We made it back to the infirmary by this point.

"There is actually an ice age there now." The Doctor said. "I would guess the planet is completely covered by this time. Another 500 years and life will start again. Earth has several billion years left in her."

All of a sudden alarms started going off. The crew member rushed about getting ready to leave. The Doctor and I ran back to the control room. I don't think I have ever run this much in my life.

"What is wrong?" The Doctor asked as we saw the Captain pushing a bunch of buttons.

"We are losing communications between here and the pod. I am not sure why, but we are out of time. I want to thank you both for your assistance. Please get out of here before they come."

"Oh don't worry about us; we'll be long gone before anything bad can happen." The Doctor brushed off, but at the same time was checking something on the computers.

I heard several of the crew board the pod, calling off final checks.

"Meet me by the door when you are done Doctor. I am going to check on the natives, make sure they don't try anything."

I headed for the door on the northern side, where we came in. Just as I opened it I heard the pods hatch closing and the engines come to life. When I looked out across the expanse between us and the TARDIS I was a little worried. It isn't everyday you are facing over fifty Lorican Ice Warriors and I guess the guy in back was the leader. I had 3:58 seconds before the escape pod launched. While I could not be in two places at once, to protect the other entrance, I could ensure this side was secure while these humans made their escape.