AN: Sorry this took so long. I wasn't feeling well.

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Chapter 6

Captain Bennett stared at one of the screens that showed the Ladurian ship that now clung to the hull of his spacestation.

Some of the systems had failed while the Ladurians were attacking, including their weapons systems. They had been unable to do anything to stop them when one of the shield generators had been damaged and the Ladurians had docked on to the unprotected section.

"Seal off the entire area!" Bennett ordered. Maybe the Ladurians were on his station but no one could get out of that part of the spacestation now.

Bennett suspected that the Ladurians wanted to take over the spacestation rather than destroying it because of the machines on the planet. They wanted the natural resources the machines mined on the planet and they needed the station intact to use these machines for themselves.

And Bennett would do anything he could to stop them.

...

Two of the Ladurians the Doctor and Martha had run into pushed them through a door into a storage room near to where the Ladurian ship clung to the hull. They hadn't seen anything of Mike on their way here so they hoped that he had got away.

In the room were at least thirty Ladurians. They were all armed so it wouldn't be easy for Martha and the Doctor to escape. The two Ladurians who had brought them here pushed them again to make them walk to the other side of the room. On their way there the Doctor managed to take a look into an open container they passed.

When they reached the wall on the other side of the room and with about thirty armed Ladurians between them and the only door, one of the Ladurians told them to sit on the floor and wait. Martha and the Doctor did as they were told. He then moved over to a group of other Ladurians, but kept an eye on them. The other Ladurian stayed near them. He leaned against a container and watched them.

"You have a plan how we can get out of here, don't you?" whispered Martha.

"Not yet," the Doctor whispered back. "They clearly want something from us. Otherwise they wouldn't have brought us here. Let's wait and see what that is. Maybe we can talk to them."

"They don't look like they want to talk," Martha whispered.

"Maybe not but we should at least try. " He gave her a reassuring smile and took her hand into his and held it tight. They remained like this for a bit till a Ladurian approached them. He had an authoritative look on his face. The Doctor assumed that he had a higher rank than the Ladurians they had met first.

"Stand up!" he ordered them. The Doctor arose from where he had been sitting on the floor and helped Martha up. He still held her hand.

"Your captain has sealed off this entire section. You will help us to break this seal!" the Ladurian told them.

"Bennett is not our captain. We're not even part of this crew. I'm the Doctor, by the way, and this is Martha. And your name was?"

"Do you know how to break the seal?" asked the Ladurian.

"Well, maybe, but I really don't want to do that," the Doctor answered.

"You will help us or we will kill you both!"

"How do we know you won't kill us anyway?" Martha asked him.

"You don't," the Ladurian said. He looked at the Doctor again. "If you don't cooperate we will kill the female first, and then you. I'll let you think about it. When I return I want to hear your answer." He turned around and walked away.

Two Ladurians approached them. One of them tied the Doctors hands together behind his back. The other one did the same with Martha. After they were finished they ordered them to sit down again while the Ladurians stayed nearby to watch them. They were both armed.

...

Mike was completely exhausted when he finally reached the control room. He had run the entire way after the Doctor and Martha had been caught by the Ladurians.

Mike had been walking behind Martha, so he had been able to stay around the corner; as soon as he'd noticed the Ladurians, he had turned around and run the other way. He felt like a coward for leaving them but he knew that there was nothing he could have done. The only way he could help Martha and the Doctor was to convince Captain Bennett to help them.

He walked into the control room and spotted Bennett on the other side of the room. He was talking to Vanessa.

Mike approached them. Just as he reached them, Bennett turned around to look at him. "Lieutenant!" he greeted.

"Sir, there are Ladurians on this station," Mike began.

"I know," Bennett interrupted him. "We have sealed them off"

"But we were in that section. The Doctor, Martha and me. I managed to get away but the Doctor and Martha were captured by a group of Ladurians. We have to help them"

"I can't risk the station or the lives of my crew for two strangers. We don't even know who they are or how they got here."

"But we can't just leave them!" Mike said.

"As soon as we open a way into the section the Ladurians are in they would be able to leave that section. I can't risk that."

"We can't let the Ladurians stay on this spacestation anyway," Vanessa put in. "Sooner or later they'll find a way to break the seal. They might even force the Doctor to break it for them. You know that he knows a lot about our systems."

Bennett thought about that for a moment. "Fine, put a team together," Bennett said to Vanessa. "But don't take too much risk. As soon as you get into too much trouble I want you to leave there immediately, whether you've found our two guests or not."

"Yes, Sir," Vanessa answered and left the room.

...

"Do you think Mike was able to get away?" Martha whispered. She didn't want the two Ladurians who were guarding them to be able to hear her.

"I really hope so," the Doctor whispered back. "Maybe he can convince Bennett to help us."

"This must be the first time you don't know how to get us out of the trouble" Martha said.

"I'll think of something," the Doctor answered.

He let his gaze wander through the room. But there were too many Ladurians. He hoped that something would change to their advantage.

"I know you just wanted to have a bit of a holiday after your exams and I got us into trouble again."

"I know by now that travelling with you always ends like this." Martha smiled at him. "And I really missed this. Even the getting into trouble part."

He stared into her beautiful brown eyes as he remembered how much he himself had missed her after she had left him after that Year.

"I missed travelling with you, too," he whispered. He stared at her for a moment. Then he slowly leaned closer and kissed her. He felt that she was surprised at first, but she didn't pull away. He deepened the kiss and she parted her lips to let him in.

He didn't care that the two Ladurians were still watching them or that this really wasn't the best time for this. He just didn't want her to leave him ever again.

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