DOCTOR WHO: THE KEYS TO DEATH

Chapter 6

Morning rose and the TARDIS occupants inside Rory's Mini were awaken by the tapping on the window by Lieutenant Nail. Again, like the previous night with the weird ghostly presence everyone was startled and Amy gestured angrily at Nail for interrupting a good nights sleep for her. Rory still felt really groggy and the Doctor was very bleary-eyed. River was seemingly fine like Amy and the Doctor and Rory couldn't work out why the women had slept better than them.
"Strange..." muttered the Doctor. "Very strange..." he continued as Nail tapped on the window once more.
"Breakfast will be served soon, but I recommend you all take showers beforehand. Facilities are available in the support centre. Second corridor, fourth entrance. See you soon..." he boomed before leaving.
"Is there anything they don't have in that support centre?" joked Rory.
"Jam..." said the Doctor. "I'm disgusted at that!"

Warm showers were exactly what was needed as it refreshed everyone greatly. The Doctor sang rather loudly though throughout and Rory slipped on some soap and did his back in a bit, but all was ok. The traditional English Fry-up aswell made everyone even perkier than they already were.
"Lovely Bacon!" chomped the Doctor to Lieutenant Nail.
"Yes..." he replied seemingly a bit disgusted at the lack of table manners the Doctor had. River quickly apologised and did her best to make him seem 'normal'.
"...and this is a Knife and Fork..." she said sarcastically. "...you use them to help eat with!" The Doctor just glared at her whilst Amy couldn't help but laugh. Breakfast was lovely but solving the issue of the Revex was most certainly the main priority today.
"Are we ready then?" said Alison as she entered the Breakfast area with a cup of coffee in hand. She certainly looked different today compared to yesterday. Like Amy, Alison was now dressed quite provocatively with big high-heeled leather boots, and a short skirt. However, the look of a red polka-dot shirt and dark green cardigan detracted from that look somewhat, so she was still being her quirky self.
"I'm ready if everyone else is ready!" smiled the Doctor.
"I haven't finished my Toast yet!" moaned Rory with half a mouth full of crumbling toast.
"Eat it on the way!" said Amy as everyone got up. Outside of the support centre, they could vans pulling up into the grounds with soldiers taking out card covered objects.
"What's in them?" asked Alison.
"Our main weapon!" said the Doctor.
"I thought you weren't fighting..." remarked Lieutenant Nail as he passed by. "Changed your tune already?"
"There not 'traditional' weapons is has to be said, Hank..." retorted the Doctor.
"Well, what are they then? Mirrors?" chuckled Hank.
"Yes..." replied the Doctor simply.
"Mirrors?" asked Amy. "Why Mirrors?"
"Because when you lock onto the sight of the Revex as Alison found out..." began River. "It weakens you..."
"So were going to try and make it weaken itself?" said Rory.
"Exactly!" smiled the Doctor as he patted Rory on the shoulder. "The Revex being as simple as they are might not even be able to distinguish that this Mirror is a reflection of itself. It may think its another one, and therefore make it even more weaker than it will already become..."
"So, were luring it into a false sense of security?" smiled Alison. She rather liked the plan and like the Doctor couldn't see how guns and weapons of that ilk would work against it.
"I somehow doubt the integrity of this plan, Doctor..." said Nail dubiously. "It is clear that this malevolence inside Holmes House demands the use of 'good' weaponry, not cheap 'flim-flam'!"
"Flim-flam!" said a surprised Doctor. "Dr. Jones will tell you how many times 'flim-flam' has saved UN.I.T and the world...and she is not wrong!"
"Dr. Jones is in Kenya at the present Doctor solving the disappearance of missing families from Market Towns...I somehow doubt she cares about 'flim-flam'."
"But she will still care about me..." retorted the Doctor. "She may not travel with me anymore, but I still enjoy hearing her progress through the UN.I.T world. But then comes an issue here, Hank..."
"And what would that be?" asked the Lieutenant.
"I don't mean to sound rude, but I've never heard of you until now...and I know all the names of British-based UN.I.T staff...I didn't used to, but I had a spare Friday night to learn them..."
"I've been with the organisation for 15 years Doctor..." gritted the Lieutenant.
"But have you?" questioned the Doctor. "Because when I put your name up to Colonel Leonard Range...he'd never heard of you...nor Colonel Daines and in actual fact Major Blake...so why are you this anomaly?"
"Who knows Doctor..." sighed Nail. "...but I bid you good day..." and he soon left and was out of view. He then watched on from the distance as the Doctor and his team made their way inside with soldiers bringing in an ever-increasing amount of Mirrors. None of the soldiers had guns with them and this angered Nail a lot. No-one had noticed that he still had his pistol with him, so hidden away in his holster, the Lieutenant walked inside Holmes House as if he was unarmed.

"Right then, the 'fab' plan begins!" smiled the Doctor as everyone congregated in the main hall. "I think it will be best if we split up here and take a level of floors and doors each. So Amy, you get doors 1-11, Rory you get 12-21, River has 22-33, Alison takes 34 through to 49 and I have room 50 to 57."
"But there's only 56 rooms..." said Alison. "I checked yesterday..."
"Never mind..." said the Doctor. "Take some Mirrors each and off we go!" and soon he went off to the top floor while the others went around to their level. Amy, being on the ground floor felt fine but as she went around she saw a key on the floor.
"Oh no..." she muttered to herself as she neared it, but it was picked up by a UN.I.T solider. "What do you think you're doing with that?" Amy asked.
"I'm just trying the door..." replied the soldier. "There will be no harm...anyway, 5 is my lucky number!" and the soldier walked over to door 5. Unlike Amy, the soldier hadn't noticed the pink glow beginning to emanate from under the door. She knew what it meant and she walked back quite quickly giving herself plenty of room. The soldier put the key into the lock, but the lock undid itself. "What the hell..." said the soldier but they were too slow to react as the door flung open and the soldier was sucked inside in an instant. Amy just looked on horrified.
"Oh my god..." she said to herself as she made her way over to the door. It was locked once more and the key itself had disappeared, but the note was still there on the floor. Amy picked it up and read it. "Victim 13...how appropriate..." she read. "Oh my god...I've got to warn everyone!" but she didn't get the chance as another soldier on her level began to walk to door 1.
"Found the key!" they said to Amy. "Its worth a try I suppose..."
"What did the note say?" Amy asked as an attempt to stop them opening the door.
"Oh, what we've all heard before. Death is arriving...same old, same old!" replied the soldier as they then put the key in the door. Again, it unlocked itself and a pink light illuminated the soldier for a brief moment before they were sucked in. Amy didn't want to witness it again and immediately ran upstairs.
"Soldiers!" she cried. "The Revex got some!"
"How dare it!" said Lieutenant Nail as Amy rushed by. He then got out his pistol and reassured Amy. "We will be fine. I'll get rid of this beast in one fell-swoop!" Amy then saw he had the gun and she tried to get it off him.
"No...n...y...you can't!" she said struggling.
"But it deserves to die!" shouted the Lieutenant angrily. Rory was in the near distance and heard the commotion and soon came over.
"Lay off her!" he said before trying to take the gun off the Lieutenant. Nail though was much stronger than Rory and brushed him aside with ease. Amy soon gave up and Nail just pointed his pistol at the pair of them.
"If I don't get the chance to shoot this hideous monstrosity...then I'll just have to shoot you pair..." he hissed loudly at them. Amy and Rory just had their hands up and tried to calm the Lieutenant down.
"Were just going by what the Doctor says..." said Amy.
"Sod the Doctor! Sod everyone!" shouted the Lieutenant.
"We're only doing what's best!" said Rory nervously.
"The best thing to happen here is if all you lot, including the Doctor were dead. Then I would kill that bloody creature in an instant and be rid of all the worries of the world..." spouted Nail furiously. His face was getting redder by the moment and his shouting had caught the attention of River. She came downstairs and immediately fitted the role of a hostage negotiator.
"Hank, you know what's best here..." she said. "If you don't put down that pistol, I will shoot you!" she continued brandishing her own gun.
"You ignored the Doctor's order then..." smiled Nail.
"He knows me, and he knows that my gun is my friend..." retorted River. "I've killed many with this. Neil Monarch, the Silence, a Platoon of Judoon, Kendal McCready, Lord Jeffrey of the Manor of Baington...and now Lieutenant Hank Nail of the Unified Intelligence Taskforce will join that list..." she smiled as she readied her gun.
"If you shoot me, its the coward's way out..." said Lieutenant Nail. River just got more and more ready and the commotion had spread throughout the house and the Doctor and Alison had soon come and saw what was happening. For some reason, the Doctor didn't even try to persuade River to stop and this surprised everyone, even River. She didn't care though as Lieutenant Nail spouted more nonsense at her, she pulled the trigger and fired.
"Talk about being a coward..." muttered River to herself as the Lieutenant lay dead on the floor.