The Merivian Ship

Everyone froze!

Four knocks were still ringing into the vastness of the Tardis. Passengers still stared the door, certainly expecting another loud burst. But nothing. No sound came to break the silence. The SOS had also stopped. The only thing still we could be heard inside the ship was breathing the four passengers : heavy breathing, which betrayed the surge of fear that all had experienced. The silence was finally worse than noise.

After a few seconds, the Doctor left Jenny, but not before had looked at her into her eyes. In this regard, one could read all the determination and brain power of the Doctor, but, this time, it strangely was mixed with some fear. It certainly doesn't happen to conceal. It was as if, faced with this girl, he couldn't lie to her, him, the professional liar.

He walked towards the door and slowly, reached for the handle. It was like a scene in slow motion.

"Doctor..." exclaimed the doctor Kelly, breaking the silence that had settled for several minutes.

"What?" asked the Doctor in whispers, looking at the woman.

"Are you sure it's a good idea? Open this door?" she asked with the same voice.

"Not at all! But we must know what happen behind this door!" he answered, now touching the wood of the door.

"And... If... We found this army ouside?"

"Very surprising, I really don't think that could happen, doctor! We are very very far away from them!"

"Doct..."

"Shuuuttt" he said with a wave of his free hand.

The Doctor kept his hand on the door, listening to the slightest vibration. But nothing was happening on the other side. Not an earthquake, even tiny. Turning to the three women, he opened the door and stepped outside. Huge, dark, inhospitable, it was the inside of a space ship as high as a cathedral. It seemed completely abandoned.

Rose and Jenny also made their first step into the unknown. But before, Jenny turned and grabbed her things. Taking the bracelet, she passed it to her wrist. Then she slipped the lipstick and the lock of hair in her pocket, and finally looking at the pendant in the palm of her hand, she left the Tardis. The Doctor, approaching her, took the jewelry and put it around her neck. Rose watched them with an excited smile. She was to like this girl.

Finally, all began to examine the mysterious place where they had fallen. Only the dcotor Kelly seemed very reluctant to continue this adventure, I must admit, pretty amazing.

But after nearly two minutes of reflection, she decided to follow the rest of the group. Putting one foot outside, she blinked. She didn't know what to expect following this unlikely blue box. And somehow, she wasn't disappointed, actually surprised at what was in front of her.

Turning to the Doctor, she asked :

"But... But... What is it?"

"A spaceship, he answered her, or, an abandoned spaceship I should say!" shaking his head slightly as usual.

"How could it be possible?"

Jenny approached the doctor:

"You see this blue box? It's not only a box, it's a spaceship... Or a spatiotemporal ship. She's called the Tardis. What you can translate as Time and Relative Dimention in Space. With her, you can travel everywhere you want in space and time!"

"And we are now at the forty-first century, clarified the Doctor. But, where it is more difficult to say, it seems we drift through the galaxy 55 of Julinor."

Donning his glasses, the Doctor went to one of the gigantic columns of the ship. After just two seconds, he returned to the Tardis.

"We're coming home now, Doctor?" the doctor asked with a surprise tip, even though in truth herself, it relieved her.

"Not at all, just need something to clarify my thoughts!" explained the Doctor.

The Doctor came out almost immediately, tossing a torch that Jenny had no trouble catching and turning another torch right in front the huge column that he previously inspected:

"I know this technology very well, it's a merivian ship, but why this wondeful vessel is totally empty, that is the question! No passengers, no crew " the concentrate Doctor explained with a raised eyebrow.

"Nobody on board? Asked Rose. But... Who has knocked the door?"

"That's the really good question, Rose! And I hope I'll manage to answer it!"

With these words, the Doctor firmly rushed towards the nearest door, remote still a hundred meters. The ship was really long and the Tardis landed in the middle of this vast open space. The doctor Kelly followed the Doctor very closely, she didn't take away from the man who really seemed to know a lot of things about space travel. Rose and Jenny did the same a few meters away.

Their footsteps clattered on the floor made of an unknown material. They moved slowly, on the lookout for any sign of a presence.

Suddenly, Jenny, thinking she saw a movement, exclaimed :

"Doctor!"

At the same time, the Doctor and the doctor Kelly answered :

"What?"

Very surprised, both stared.

"My dear doctor Kelly, what is your first name, please?" asked the Doctor.

Caught off guard, the doctor thought two seconds before answering:

"Stella, I'm Stella!"

"Very nice name, Stella, a star among the stars! So, my dear Stella, we'll call you Stella now! That we'll avoid us any confusion " the Doctor said with a wink.

And looking at Jenny, he asked :

"What do you want to say, Jenny?"

"I tought... No, it's not important..."

"Everything is important, tell me!"

"I'm not sure, but... I thought I have seen something moving, a shadow, I don't really know...I must be wrong."

"Don't tell it's nothing, shadows can be dangerous, believe me!" the Doctor said while he inspected the place where Jenny saw something.

He went to the place where Jenny said she saw something, rummaging in his inside pocket. He pulled out his screwdriver, inspected the place, but in fact, there was nothing.

The Doctor experimented at that time one of the most disturbing things of his very long life : he was forced to admit that Jenny could say anything, he believed and had a full and complete confidence in her. Not that he had no confidence in Rose, far from it. But Jenny was different. It was even more than confidence. He only knew her for an hour and already he would put his own life in her hands without hesitation, he felt deep within his being. She was like the missing piece to his two hearts.

Turning to her, he smiled and then throwing his usual (and as expected) "Allons-y", all through the door that finally was in front of them.

A narrow and long corridor stretched before them. The atmosphere seemed different in this confined space. The companions were now less exposed, but not decrease their anxiety, it only served to increase it. They all approached each other, the Doctor leading the way. Only the sound of their footsteps still echoed, with the breath of theses four stowaways. Stella suddenly made a remark:

"But where can be the crew of this great ship? If they were dead, we should find traces of bodies."

It is as if the building had been empty of any living presence.

Of course, she was right. Unless they were still on board!

The Doctor, Jenny and Rose were arrested when Stella started talking.

But suddenly, the four knocks sounded again, followed by a sound seemed muffled up from the ground. The Doctor looked at the three women, the strained face:

"Run!" he shouted.

And all embarked on an awfull ride inside the cramped passageway. But their strides weren't of any help. It was already too late! Suddenly, a strange viscous wall began to rise from the ground and another down.

It split the group into two: the Doctor and Stella one side, Jenny and Rose the other. The newly formed wall had taken the appearance of a deformed crystal. They could still see, hear on the other side but they were separated now. Jenny began to strike against the strange matter, but nothing helped. The wall had become as hard as stone.

"Don't worry, I'll get you out of there, "cried the Doctor, but his anxious glance and his raised eyebrow showed that this wasn't going to be easy and he really does not like it.

He felt his two hearts beating wildly seeing his two friends away from his protection. He pulled out his screwdriver while at the same time, Jenny released her lipstick. They each in turn passed on the wall, but it does not even shuddered.

"Have you ever tried to confront two sonic technologies?" Jenny asked.

"No, and you?" the Doctor said.

"No!"

"So, Allons-y!" they said both.

They put their devices facing one another, on each side of the wall. The noise was unbearable, Stella and Rose stopped their ears, but the wall stood like adamant. The Doctor is a step away from the unyielding wall. What could he do for them now? He ran his hands through his already tousled hair. Hitting against a wall was useless and he knew it. He also knew that Rose and Jenny have the strength to stand without him. He turned to Stella but she fell sitting on the floor, sobbing, her face in her hands as a Weeping Angel. Never the "terrible Doctor Kelly" was found in this state. The Doctor, temporarily away from two women, approached Stella and comforted her. And to be honest, there was no better than the Doctor to successfully cheer someone, especially in a time like this. He always knew the right words!

But suddenly, on the other side of the crystal wall, a scream of terror shook the ship. The legs of Rose and Jennt had just been caught by a kind of vine. These were drawn the women with the violence, dropping hers heavily to the ground. The cry that came to jump the Doctor and Stella continued to spread, but it was only the result of a single voice, that of Rose. Jenny had bumped the crystal and was unconscious. But Rose continued to call the Doctor, while the vines outweighed her far, far away, too far ...