"We aren't even on an alien ship!" Sam complained as she stepped out of the TARDIS and looked around at the dimly lit room that they were standing in. However as she turned around, she froze as at least two dozen pairs of eyes trained themselves on her.
Numerous humans stood around, all of them dressed in torn and raggedy gray jump suits that looked like they belonged in a prison. Their faces were covered in dirt and grime but that didn't hide the fact that they were mostly covered in soot. They all had thick hair and most of the men had long beards that covered most of their faces, giving them a very rough and back-mountain look. Same had to look up at them, the men all towering over her and making her seem very small and insignificant.
All of them looked shocked to see a strange blue box appear in the small room that they were standing in yet they said nothing. Some of them had their mouths open in awe.
"Yes we are!" The Doctor protested as he followed her out of the TARDIS before he adjusted his bow tie, taking in their surroundings as he went. He noticed all the people standing around them, all of them still wondering how the large box got into the room. It must have been some sort of witchcraft.
"Hello!" He told a gentlemen to his left who just looked very confused as he gazed at the Time Lord.
"No we aren't, they're all human!" Sam protested, sending a sad look to the men around her. Most of them were rather thin and their skin looked very worn. Their eyes were very sunk in and all of them looked malnourished.
"Not completely human..." The Doctor clarified as he took the sonic screwdriver from his pocket and scanned the man he had been gazing at before. He looked at the readings and smiled. "Ha! Half human, half bear!" The Doctor beamed, a large and dorky grin coming over his face. Sam just turned to look back at the men around her. That explained how much bigger they were than both Sam and the Doctor. It also explained all the hair. "Actually, no. Fourty percent human, sixty percent bear..."
"But you said that we were in the near future..." Sam muttered to the Doctor who nodded his head, still examining his sonic. "So, how are there bear people if we are only a week ahead of regular time?"
"Universe is a big place, Jo. Take a little human DNA, combine it with a bear's, you have strong, hairy humans! By the way, hold onto this..." He murmured as he slipped a chain over her head and dropped it, letting the key come to rest upon her chest.
Sam didn't question his actions and instead frowned down at the key before simply letting it fall back into place. "But... why?"
"That is also what I'm wondering, why?! Why the bear people!?" The Doctor suddenly looked up from his sonic to gaze around at the men around them. Something was missing. He didn't know what it was but something was out of place.
"Wait... Where are the women?" Sam asked suddenly, not seeing any women at all in the holding cell. The Doctor looked up as if realization hit him like a blast from a sonic pistol.
"Now, that is a very good question..." His eyes gazed around the room, the bear men still standing around watching them. Suddenly there was a loud boom and the door to the cell was flung open and in stepped a figure with a white helmet on. They were dressed in a stark white jump suit with a white belt around their waist, white boots also up to their knees. On the belt hung a long black whip and what appeared to be some sort of gun.
Oddly enough, Sam's first thought was that it was Stig on Top Gear.
"Move." The thing in the suit said in a robotic tone and the bear men began to file out of the room on command, the chains around their feet, that had gone unnoticed by both time travelers, clanking the entire time. Sam and the Doctor were left alone in the small cell, having nearly been forgotten. Nearly.
The figure just stared at them before it reached for its whip and cracked it loudly at the two of them, causing both people to flinch in fear. "I said get moving!"
"He spoke English..." Sam muttered side ways to the Doctor.
"Probably not. TARDIS translates everything using a telepathic link!" The Doctor said before laughing as the figure in the jump suit approached them. "Now, there is a strong chance that I just turned us into prisoners or... slaves."
"What?!" Sam squeaked, not believing what she was hearing. Well, that explained the chains on the bear men.
"Don't fret! I have everything under control!" The Doctor said as the person in the jump suit approached the female and fastened a set of chains around her wrists before moving onto the Doctor himself.
"Clearly you do!" Sam snapped, jingling the chains in his face. He could only smile innocently at her and she glared daggers in his direction. They were suddenly yanked forward by the person in the jump suit and had no choice but to follow behind him, it, whatever it was.
They walked down a long, dark corridor in single file with the rest of the bear men.
Eventually, they were led into a room where the walls were painted bright red with heat and Sam flinched when the hot temperature hit her skin. More bear men could be seen just a few platforms ahead of them, being led by a man dressed similar to the one leading them. Beneath their feet lay huge pots of molten lava that was bubbling uncontrollably, probably a good five miles below them.
Yet, the heat was still nearly unbearable despite the distance.
And that wasn't even what amazed Sam to no end. The size of the ship had to have been huge for the lava to be that far down!
If Sam was human, she was sure that she would have been burnt up upon the impact of the heat. Finally, she was glad that she was part goddess. However, an instant sheen of sweat coated her brow and when she glanced back at the Doctor, he was fairing similarly to herself. It was bloody hot in the large room.
Eventually they caught up with the rest of the bear men and Sam could only feel depressed, knowing that the strange men before her were without a doubt slaves and they were working in some sort of strange alien lava factory.
This caused the woman to stop for a moment. They didn't deserve this. Even though they weren't entirely human, they still didn't deserve the torture of working in these type of conditions. It was to damn hot.
The bear men quickly began to work, picking up large rocks that had cooled and had at one point been in the boiling lava but were still hot.
"Lava stones..." The Doctor murmured from behind her, observing hundreds of bear men carrying the smooth stones onto some sort of transportation unit on another set of walkways below them. Just down the way, there was another set of bear men with pick axes and they were breaking the stones, revealing the brilliant and glittering stones inside the pockets of cold lava.
"Diamonds." Sam muttered, her eyes catching sight of the precious jewels. "H-How...?"
"My guess is that someone stored the diamonds in the stones. Well, they aren't stones exactly. Transportation pods is more like it! Can withstand heat up to ten thousand kelvins, keeping the diamonds from melting when making contact with the sun!" He explained as he watched the bear men pull the hot stones from the pods. "But again, how did the diamonds get here?"
Sam just continued to watch the men and began to wonder. The diamonds should have also been extremely hot when pulled from the pods. They were still glowing when they were cracked open!
Then a thought occurred to her. Bears have thick skin. That was why the bear men were slaves. Because they had thick skin like bears and they could handle heat better than regular humans could.
Just as the thing in the white jumpsuit was about to shove them into line to work, the Doctor spoke up.
"Hold on, my good man!" The Doctor said as he stepped before Sam, holding his index finger up in the air. He was going off this nagging feeling he had back in his head. Same had been the one to point it out so he decided to test his theory. "She..." He stepped to the side to reveal Sam, flourishing his chained hands when introducing her. "...is female!" The white helmet slowly swiveled to look over at her and she felt her blood run cold.
The thing in white looked at her for a moment as if scanning her before he reached out and grabbed a hold of her shoulder before unlocking her chains from the long strand. The cuffs fell from her wrists to the ground with a loud clatter. She rubbed her wrists slightly, glad that the feeling of the rusty metal was gone.
Stig then began to force Sam down a different walkway and she sent a worried look back to the Doctor. He just sent her an amused look before holding his thumbs up in encouragement.
Sam eventually arrived in what she assumed was some sort of throne room but it was relatively empty, save for five figures looking out through a large window that stretched from one end of the room to another which, she might add, was huge. It seemed to stretch forever yet it was slim, making the room appear that it was just another hallway. At one end of the hall lay a set of double doors.
Upon hearing them enter through the sliding doors in the center of the room, the five people turned to reveal that they were women, each of them with different colored hair, cut to exactly the same length and in the same style with straight across bangs but the rest of the hair hung down their backs. Black, redhead, white, blonde, and brunette. But they had pointed ears and were beyond beautiful. Yet, they appeared to be human. They all stood in long, silvery cloaks with strange choker necklaces around their slim necks, large rubies in the center that appeared to be glowing.
One stepped forward, the white haired one.
"Why have you brought forth a runt?" She asked the Stig character while another woman stepped forward.
"She is female." The black haired one spoke in the same monotone voice that the white haired one had used, all their eyes locked on her human form. Sam could only frown slightly as she heard them speaking similarly. It was strange to hear it. But, as Sam continued to think about these weird connections like their looks and voice, Sam guessed that they were heavily connected.
"But, why is she here?" The redhead spoke again in the same voice.
"Or a better question, how did she get here?" The brunette spoke. The blonde just continued to stare at her before she narrowed her eyes slightly as if she were listening intently.
"She comes from Earth." The blonde finally spoke and Sam's brows rose in surprise. "She comes to save her sun."
"Who are you?" Sam finally asked and all of them grew silent.
"I am the supreme being and these are my sisters." The white haired girl spoke. Her nearly purple eyes burned back into Sam's hazel pair and she had to look away. The violet depths were haunting. "We are from Muspelheim, the land of the light elves."
"Light elves?" Sam muttered under her breath. As her mind flashed back into the Doctor's memory, he had no thoughts on the light elves so she was still left in the dark. "So... Why are you here, stealing energy from my sun?"
"It is abundant with natural resources that helps to power our ship and give life to our people. We build our homes from the stones of hardened lava and the diamonds bring wealth in from different realms so that our people may purchase food to eat. Our race is dying, Samantha." The brunette explained and Sam froze when they said her name. She then frowned but she glanced back at the man dressed in the white jump suit.
"Why my sun? Can't you use someone else's?" Sam asked as she pulled her arm free from the strange man in the white suit, not likely how his grip had continued to tighten on her bicep.
"Only your's will suffice."
"Why?" Sam asked as she stepped forward a few steps. Without the sun, their planet would slowly die. Darkness would pass over the Earth and everything would be thrown out of balance should the Sun die. "If you steal our sun's energy then my race will die as well so nobody wins in the end..." Sam tried to reason with them.
They said nothing and instead, they simply stared at her with their slightly disturbing eyes. Sam felt awkward just standing in the silence so she glanced back at the man dressed like Stig.
"Who's he?"
"He is the Enforcer."
"What does he do?"
"He enforces our laws upon our workers." They went onto explain and Sam frowned again. All these aliens gave the most vague answers and she was getting tired of it.
"You mean your slaves?" Sam snapped, her temper flaring. The white haired woman simply glared at her. Apparently she had spoken out of line.
"They are not slaves-"
"So, they are your prisoners?" She snapped again and all five of them glared in her direction. Yup, she spoke out of line.
"They are prisoners of war." The Enforcer said in his monotone voice as he slowly turned his head to look at her and she could see her reflection in his reflective visor. She swallowed nervously before deciding to speak again as she took a few steps away from him.
"But why? Y-You're the light elves doesn't that mean that-" There was a sudden explosion in the distance that caused the ship to rock. The five females nearly fell over with a scream, as did Sam, but she was thrown into the Enforcer who then had a tight grip on her upper arms.
"What was that?" The redhead snapped as she looked to the Enforcer who remained silent, his systems scanning through the database to find the problem with the ship.
Suddenly the double doors at the other end of the hall opened and in walked the Doctor who was beaming like a madman. In his hand, he held his sonic screwdriver and on his head sat what looked like a large stainless steel mixing bowl that was strapped under his chin with a piece of brown leather.
"Hello, Samantha!" He cried loudly over the continuous rumbling that was occurring in the ship. "Did you miss me?" She couldn't help but let her eyes glow with joy and a small smile tugged on her lips.
"Impeccable timing!" She said before the ship rocked again. All of the inhabitants in the room nearly fell over and the Doctor braced himself on the doorway. The five women nearly fell over again and Sam cried out as she stumbled into Stig again.
"Off we go, Jo!" The Doctor yelled as he placed a hand atop his helmet and flashed his sonic at the Enforcer who's head immediately dropped as if he had been shut down. The Doctor motioned for her to run towards him and she did before she reached out towards him. He quickly took a hold of her hand and began to lead her away. Making it through the doors, the Doctor then turned and flashed his sonic at the doors to lock them.
Together the two of them ran through the hallways of the ship. Suddenly, a group of three other Enforcers came around a corner, ready to stop them. Quick as a whip, the Doctor flashed his sonic and the Stigs shut down as quickly as they appeared. They quickly wove in between them until they took a different route to get back to the familiar holding cell until they came to stand before the TARDIS once more. The Doctor pulled a key out of his jacket pocket and shoved it into the keyhole before quickly turning it. Bursting inside, the TARDIS rocked as well and Sam braced herself on the railing.
"What the h-"
"NO CURSING ON THE TARDIS!" He interrupted her and she frowned.
"Fine! What is going on and what the... heck... is on your head?"
"I have absolutely no idea what is going on and what I'm wearing is a homemade device of mine!" He pulled the chin strap off and tossed her the helmet, revealing the hardware that was up inside the top of the helmet. There was a little red light flashing up underneath and she turned it over in her hands before she tapped the steel bowl. "Don't do that! It causes interference!" He scolded her while he began to flip various switches on the TARDIS console.
"Wait, we're leaving?" She squeaked as she sat the helmet down on the counter.
"Yes. Too dangerous. Can't let you get hurt." He was flipping a dashboard full of switches, his hands moving remarkably quick.
"No! We can't leave!" She protested as she began to walk behind him, undoing all his work.
"And why can't we leave, Samantha?!" He growled before racing back around her and redoing all his work. She just watched him go before he moved back to his old work. She undid his work once again and he stopped, looking at her with eyes filled with frustration and his jaw clenched tightly.
"Those elf things are going to burn out the Earth's sun!" The Doctor stopped in his fuming for a moment, his fingers wringing together as he thought about her words. He had forgotten that speck of information. He was the one who told her after all.
"Yes..." He replied quietly. "Forgot about that bit. Sorry!" He called and suddenly began to ascend the stairs to the lower part of the TARDIS. She heard clanking resonating around the ship and she frowned before looking over the side of the upper deck. "Can't leave after all!"
"So this helmet thing... What's it called?" She yelled down at him as she picked up the helmet again.
"It's uh..." He was silent for a moment and something crashed as it was thrown across the lower deck of the TARDIS. "It's the e-electromagnetic thought... blocking and protective... helmet!" Sam's lip twitched up slightly.
"You just made that up!" She yelled back down in disbelief. She suddenly heard what sounded like a welder from down below as sparks flew from underneath the platform.
"Yes, in fact I did!" He emerged from the lower floor wearing a set of welding goggles and on his head sat a red fez. In his hands, he carried a second stainless steel bowl. He took his goggles off and tossed them to the side.
"Hold this please..." He took the fez off his head before placing it atop her own cranium. The woman could only adjust it slightly on her head, the hat feeling strangely welcoming on her head.
He was immediately at Samantha's side and he ran the sonic screwdriver up and down the length of her body. He looked at the readings before frowning and holding the sonic in both hands before pointing it towards her head and he ran around her a few times to get a proper reading. He looked at the readings again before smiling to himself and sonicing the wiring in the helmet and the little red light began to flash. "All right, this one is yours!" He removed the fez and placed the helmet on her head before bopping her on the nose.
"Wait, what does this do?" She asked as she adjusted the helmet on her head.
"Uh... No time to explain, we have to get to the bottom of this mess!" He suddenly raced back to the door of the TARDIS before bursting right outside, Sam close on his heels, her hands fastening the strap beneath her chin.
Sorry for the long wait for those of you reading this.
Went and saw Thor 2 recently. It was epic.
Right now, I'm in the middle of editing my first Thor story and that will be finished before I begin Thor 2. The other day I went through Thunderstruck and I was like, "Oh god! Who wrote this? A five year old?" And I decided to edit and redo a bunch of it.
So, yeah.
Anyway, review would be nice. I wrote basically the rest of the story today, on Thanksgiving because I had a really long car ride and I get bored very easily.
Stay tuned for more!
Love,
Blue
P.S. Reviews are nice!