Chapter Six: Embalms and trinkets, and finding King Luis XVI
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**(17 late centaury France, Bastille Prison courtyard…)**
-It been only secants; when the doctor hadn't seen anything since the whole Martha clone thing…Two Lara Crofts; with one he'd traveled with, and the darker version. Something was off from the other look alike…there in the courtyard, surrounded in a brim of smoke passing the two squared off, as the two began circle. The Doctor could only watch as…the two of them raced off. Fighting kicking and throwing punches; as the two simultaneously dodged each others blows. Mezmorized by the bombardment of blows; The Doctor for once could only watch…as if frozen, and barred from intervening. It all happened so fast…Racing to meet Lara Croft wandering aimlessly in the old courtyard dazed and confused, as the darker version hung close to him. Thinking she injured….probably the detination went wrong, he could member the words he spoke as she fell into his arms, "Lara…are you hurt?" Then as she clutched him; she held on, oddly her head nestled into his chest, as the doctor spotted another figure. By the time…the doctor figured this one was an imposture, before he even said a word, she opened her horrific aligned bright demonic eyes to him. Throwing him for a ride; while grabbing the Tablet of the TimeWar from his pocket about half the size of a textbook, but much thinner. The woman smirked as she turned away; while meeting face to face with the original Lara Croft. Picking himself off the ground…the two began to go at, and now he stood watching as he did so long ago, a smaller presents of the dark abbyse of that void so long ago as a small child was inside this fake look-a-like of Lara Croft.
As the smoke cleared…Lara Croft had found the same doppelganger from her recent mission finding the last trace of her mother where Amelia supposedly was supposedly through this copy of her to its death, and releasing the puppets mind to its own will was a mistake. The doppelganger had been alive all this time and had picked up some new tricks. With the smoke mostly cleared from the previous explosion from the C4 blasts, Lara found the doppelganger been busy at workand even had time for a costume change since the last time they met. Seemingly like her own exploits uniform, but oddly darker…black cut off shorts, with matching cat boots, and a crimson blood red tank top…as well as a set of black nine-milometer pistols on her hip-utility belt. "What's your business here, then;" Lara Croft spoke assertively toward the doppelgangers direction. The haunting-carbon image only smirked as she oddly spoke in a more demonic feminine speech, but way too similar to hers, "Oh! Lara…simple Lara, Sophia Leigh sends her regards." Even more confused; as the possessed copy of her raced fastly in her direction, Lara could only maneuver away from the blows, while responding spiteful in her direction, "Sophia Leigh, has been dead for years…after the fall of her company trying to claim the Eye of Iris." As the doppelganger assaulted a side-swipe kick to the torso; and Lara dodging the blow, the evil copy of herself began once more in a almost hypnotic state toward Lara Croft saying aloud with that odd messed up demonic vioce, "Oh! Lara, Lara, Lara…your so oblivious to the truth; Leigh has been alive all this time, and seeks revenge toward you…" Lara Croft aimlessly as doppelganger stared at the Doctor saying once more, "and your friends, especially the Last of the Time Lords…"
Lara Croft could only look fondly at the still man in the blue suit; and brown overcoat…"The last of his species…" she began sadly in a near horsed-typed voice, as the doppelganger continued once more, "Yes!!!!" Suddenly; surprised the doppelganger struck a side-blow to her face shoving her into the dirt, as numerous footsteps were sounded up the portly exposed hall, as the doppelganger smirked beastly in her direction, as Lara glanced once more over to the now exposed man, she'd met on her travels to the tomb to this. As she stood their; the rain of the 17 centaury world of France began to pour, tears wept in her eyes to the man…as if the worlds biggest secret revealed the mans true side. As the doppelganger treaded off stepping over the original Lara Croft…as she began once more, "Better be heading off, then…" Before she could finish Lara found the strength to confront her evil side, as she opened a similar void like the Tardis, and spoke angrily, "What does Leigh, plan on doing with that tablet." "Bring back the Time Lord knowlesge with this very tablet, and three embalms to open the cosmos to a new eara of age, for all man;" the doppelganger stammered in her direction stepping away from the void, and drawing closer to Lara lying on the ground, while stating once more, "With Sophia Leigh as ruler, and…Time Lord Empress of both Earth and the new world, and even Avalon." As Lara Croft watched as the rain pounded the dirt filled courtyard as the sound of Thunder boomed heavily in the distances, as the doppelganger Lara Croft cackled to the wind stepping to the void once again. "Then whats our part in this, then;" Lara shouted her direction as she so-nearly stepped into the void, the doppelganger looked at her once more with a more sader tone, only the hum of the void, as lighting followed by thunder echoed in the distance, she only spoke one word, "Life!"
As the doppelganger disappeared into the collapsing void; Lara Croft made her way to the Doctor knees first in the mud and pounding puddle of the water, as faced the lone man who sadly glanced at her. Lara Croft approached ever so…the doctor without the slightest hesitation, as if the man had seen a ghost, or an un-fimilar past he'd tried to escape. As the sight of approaching guards in regiment uniform crossed the side of the building; Lara took the Doctors hand, as the two of them started to run through the exposed walls of the delicate corridor. Fallen pieces of walls and smaller wooden furniture were scattered everywhere, as the two raced down the marbled checker styled floors of the wide halls. With the men of the prison guards right on them; Lara shouting concern toward the near striken state of the doctor, "please…we gotta keep moving, come on doctor we got to get a lead on it before." Then before Lara Croft could finish her sentence another group of heavily armed musket men charged into the opposite ahead hall in front of them, as the group behind them gave an barked order in French;"Fue'r!"which meant firing order of their weapons.
It was then; Lara Croft spotted another room just to their mid-right; wide-thickened double doors, as the Doctor, and herself shortly got themselves inside just as the men fired their long muskets, nearly hitting the two of them. Nearly; throwing the Doctor inside the room, Lara Croft found herself barricading the door with herself, and a slit of an opening in the handles as she began to reach the nearby suit of armor grasping a double-bladed ax head, as she began hurriedly, "Ugh! Doctor, I don't…know how long I can hold them, help me!" Still he was on the floor to glazy look at her, with those sad eyes of horror those in the courtyard. As the two met glances…the Doctor reminded off all his exploits, of all his companions of all travels and to look at Lara only motionless words she screamed as she held the door tyring to be forced open. The Emptiness…of the same void from long ago, consuming him once again as his mind numbed to the world, the Doctor reminded of Rose Tyler as she went into the void from the Darlek & Cybermen invasion, closing the void at that point separated as she screamed meeting Lara's worried gaze as hers. Then shuddering the pain…the void, and selfless sorrow the world came into place all his emotions clicked on, as Lara screamed his name, "DOCTOR!?!"
Taking the pointed object off the wall; as Lara Croft un-doubtfully moved out of the way as the Doctor slid the double-bladed ax, un-jarring the door securing the thick doors completely. It was then Lara crept closer to the Doctor; the same man as before had come back, reaching out Lara drew near and they held each other tightly, as the sight of the pounding rain could be seen. As the water swept off the thinner, framed window slightly designed in a elegant arch. It was then…Lara Croft had never felt this or any ever close to her toward any man, and wanting the moments to last, they held each other close. "We are both, the last of something…" the doctor began; as Lara knew she had lost many friends, along with her parents in her life…they both had experienced pain and suffering. Two people…always on the go, never settling or people wanting to stick around…It was then as they let go, their eyes met one of another saw something that sparked, similar qualities they both shared as the rain continued the world on pause they looked into each other more closely leaning in much deeply as they met even closer….