Chapter Six
José and Andrew were sat on the floor, cross-legged waiting eagerly for the return of Rachel and the Doctor. They'd already been waiting for at least twenty minutes and the uncertainty was killing them. The fear was masked by a deafening silence that lay like a blanket across the whole station. Nothing could be heard, not even a whisper.
Finally after a horrible twenty minutes of silence and worry, José finally spoke.
"They're taking long, aren't they?" He said awkwardly
"Mhm" Andrew nodded slightly, not really contributing to José's efforts for a conversation at all.
It seemed as though Andrew was not the chatty, sarcastic person that he had been, just yesterday. It seems that the views of the morph of Henry had ripped apart his well-being to the point in which his personality had been altered completely.
"You didn't even like Henry" José spat, forgetting that Andrew had not been on the same thought process as him, although Andrew seemed to understand.
"The are some things no man should see..." he began, but then bowed his head as he didn't have the emotional strength to continue his sentence.
The two of them continued to fill the room with their absence of sound and a faint scurry of a rat on one of the train tracks seemed to amplify the station with noise, as if the rat was six feet tall.
"Listen," José gave Andrew a reassuring smile "The Doctor seems to know what he's doing, and Rachel has been the leader of our group for quite some time now"
He placed a hand on Andrews shoulder.
"We'll get out of this fine" he concluded.
A solitary tear rolled down Andrew's face as he remembered life before the outbreak of this resurrecting plague. He remembered the old business that he used to run. Not the most successful business but it was homely and it contributed to some form of routine in his day-to-day life. He sold watches and clocks and although this wasn't the most high class business, it was his to own and he cherished it. But, now it was gone.
"You're right" Andrew said, as he experienced a wave of reassurance from José "You're right" he repeated in order to persuade himself.
"So all we have to do is sit here..." José placed his hands behind his head and leaned back against the wall "...and wait for them to return".
Just as he had hit the wall, when leaning back, an area of the marble wall pushed away and then slided to the right to reveal a secret passage. There was a noticeable lack of lighting and a stone stairway that lead down into the unknown.
José had almost lost his balance but managed to regain it as he sat back up and got on his feet to identify the situation.
"Holy shit" José exclaimed as he stared down into the darkness "what on earth is that?"
"W-What did you do?" Andrew asked nervously.
"Nothing I just leant back against this wall and it kinda..." he paused for thought "...opened"
"So what now?"
"We could have a look down there,"
Andrew was flooded with endless cycles of excitement and fear, the mixture of emotions were confusing him and he was torn between whether he wanted to venture into the unknown, or take the safer option.
"We should wait for the Doctor" Andrew mumbled to himself, considering all of the possible outcomes in his head, for Andrew was an intelligent man. He was ignorant to say the least, but intellectual nonetheless.
The two men stood there, staring at the doorway. The silence was, yet again, haunting the room and giving an overall eery persona to the station.
José was extremely confident in his decision, in which he wanted to discover what was down in this dark abyss and he was extremely excited. This seemed like the perfect adventure for him because despite being too scared to go upstairs with the Rachel and the Doctor, he was certain that whatever could be downstairs would be within his control.
MIND THE GAP
The two men jumped as the automated voice message boomed from a speaker above them. They both looked at eachother and chuckled slightly as the expressions on their faces were priceless.
"Let's just do it" José's mouth sprawled across his face from ear to ear in anticipation.
"Okay let's do it," Andrew wasn't usually one to give into peer pressure but the uncertainty was giving him a flow of interest and he needed to know what was down there.
The two men slowly crept down the stone stairs, listening carefully for anything that may be downstairs. There a faint dripping and the two men looked above them to notice a water pipe, running across the ceiling above them. There was also a noticeable humming of technology from further down, and the stairway seemed almost endless.
They reached the bottom and a huge screen met their eyes. The screen was green in colour and filled almost half of one of the walls with binary and coding, far beyond the two men's intelligence. There was a large black leather chair in front of the screen with a semi circle control panel surrounding it.
"Woah" José gasped.
"What the hell is this place?" Andrew's mouth hung from his face in shock.
The control panel consisted of numerous buttons of many different colours with dim lights beneath them, giving a cheap 70s Sci-Fi movie feel to the place. There was a few levers and dials which probably had an extensive amount of uses. To the far left was a hand print scanner, in which the owner would presumably have to place their hand before using the large computer-like device.
Curiously, Andrew clicked a few buttons on the control panel, all of which seemed to have no effect.
Footsteps came from the stairs behind the two men and they looked around the room in panic.
Andrew ran across the room and hid behind a large pipe that extended down from the ceiling and went through the floor, further down the ground.
José looked about the place, desperately trying to find somewhere to hide. There was a large pile of boxes full of old electronical junk in the fair corner of the room. He hurriedly paced over to the boxed and curled behind the boxes in a upwards foetal possition.
Two humanoid figures came down the stairs and stepped into the room. They both had long, hooded, black robes that covered almost all of their body apart from their face, which was completely blacked out. The luminous red lights of their eyes were the only visible thing from underneath their hood.
"Soon this world will be ours" one of them said
"The new order will take over this planet and watch it burn" the other exclaimed.
They seemed to talk in whispers, like the hiss of snake. The walked towards the screen and noticed a few of the buttons were in a downward position.
"We have an intruder!" hissed one of the hooded men in their usual serpent-like manner.
Andrew gulped as he awaited his inevitable fate, tears streaming from his eyes like rivers along his face.
