Kayla and the Doctor were awoken to a new day on the trapped meteor to Scooti gently shaking them awake, "We're having food in Habitation Area Three. Do you need to follow me to get there?"
Stretching and yawning, the Doctor shook his head for both of them, "We'll be fine." He said with a grin that was interrupted by another yawn.
Looking concerned, the young woman seemed to nod to herself worriedly before heading off towards Area Three, leaving the couple alone.
'We'll get through this…we'll get the TARDIS.' Kayla promised the Doctor.
As Kayla slipped onto the bench next to the Doctor with enough food for both on her tray, the Time Lord looked at her with undisguised worry in his eyes, "You okay?" He asked softly enough so that those at the other tables couldn't possibly hear them.
Blinking at the question, Kayla nodded once, "Fine." She answered rather shorty, something the Doctor took careful note of.
"You sure?" he started cautiously, "Because while you were getting food…you got really shocked and scared."
The brunet just shrugged, "Another Ood orb mess up. It just…well it was random."
Frowning the Doctor tilted his head, "Care to share what it said?"
For a second, Kayla hesitated, but then she nodded once, "It just randomly said, 'The Beast and his Armies shall rise from the Pit to make war against God,' in a super polite voice and then it told me to have a nice day." She shrugged, "I guess the technology on those orbs aren't perfect."
The Doctor was having another talk with the captain, trying to find out their options in more detail. Not really interested, it didn't seem like there was any way to get to their TARDIS, Kayla was walking around the spacestation, looking at the closed doors. For a second, if she closed her eyes and imagined the noise of boisterous men and women, then she was back at the Time Agency.
"Hey Dan! I think I – Oh…hi." Starting at the young male voice, Kayla turned to see Toby standing at the door of his bedroom, looking rumpled and tired but otherwise fine.
"Toby, isn't it?" she asked carefully.
The young man nodded, "I was looking at all those texts on the walls." He explained awkwardly.
Kayla smiled a bit, "I'm pretty good with languages." She admitted with pride in her voice.
And she actually was. At the Time Agency it was Kayla Hark who was known for translating any language that was put in front of her. Soon she was at the point of it being second nature for her to notice something that wasn't in English, which she spoke the best, and automatically translate it over.
"Do you think you can look at what I'm working on?" Toby said suddenly, a hopeful note in his voice that drew Kayla back to reality.
Nodding once without thinking about it, the brunet hastily nodded again, "Sure."
Grinning broadly, Toby moved from his door and opened it wide, allowing Kayla to come in. Once she was, he closed the door lightly behind him, "You'll be surprised at how loud it gets out there." He explained.
Drawing a chair up to the desk, Toby plopped down into the drawn up chair, allowing Kayla to sit down in the one already at the desk, "What do you think?" the young man asked proudly.
Not even glancing over at him, Kayla continued to study the paper, "Good job." Was all she said.
Blinking, Toby settled back into his chair, a slight frown on his face as the room became completely silent except for the scratching of the pencil and the occasional, "Well that could go either way…" or some other comment.
"Toby…get rid of the girl."
At the unfamiliar, deep and animal – like voice, Toby shivered and twitched in his chair.
"Get rid of her so that I may speak to you."
"Hey Toby," he heard Kayla say as she swiveled around, "I think I have a lead-" Before she could finish, Toby found himself holding a piece of wood and then he hit the brunet in the head.
Kayla was running to Habitation Area Three, her heart beating fast as she tried to find the correct doors.
"Kayla..." She heard a very bad voice hiss to her, "Don't turn around."
Her heat beat quickened as her head started to turn.
"Don't look at me." The voice commanded in a sharper tone.
She swallowed hard, "Who are you?" she asked softly.
"I have so many names."
Like before, she started to turn to look behind her.
"If you look at me, you will die." The voice said smoothly, "I'm behind you, Kayla. I'm right behind you."
"Stay away from me." She commanded, "I'm more powerful than you can imagine."
"Because you're not human? Ha! I am more of a beast than you or your precious Doctor combined."
"Then let me see you." Kayla commanded, her head already starting to turn.
"Don't look- don't look at me. One look and you will die."
Kayla felt the hair on the back of her neck raise up and she tensed, getting the feeling that something was getting closer and closer to her unprotected back.
"I'm reaching out, Kayla. I'm so close. Don't turn around. Oh, I can touch you..."
And it became too much. As she felt something akin to breathing on the back of her neck, the brunet whirled around and looked at…nothing. There was no alien, just air.
'Kayla! Kayla! Were you blocking me?' She heard the Doctor say through their mental link.
The brunet sighed, 'No…I mean I just wanted some private time so maybe I was without meaning to.'
She could sense the Doctor feeling slightly hurt at that, 'Come over to Habitation Area Three. I have an idea.'
'On my way.' Kayla promised, already starting towards that area.
"Soon Kayla, soon we will be one." Kayla could have sworn she heard.
When Kayla arrived at Habitation Area Three, it was not to find out that they had gotten the TARDIS back and they were able to leave, but instead it was to see the Scarlet System, a place she had visited several times with Jack and John, get sucked into the black hole.
"You might wanna see this. Moment in history." Ida said as she pulled a lever, once again showing the sky in all its colorful glory, "There. On the edge." The woman pointed at a stream of red light that was slowly getting sucked into the hole, "That red cloud...that used to be the Scarlet System. Home to the Peluchi...a mighty civilisation spanning a billion years...disappearing. Forever. Their planets and suns consumed."
Kayla leaned into the Doctor's chest, obviously upset but she couldn't close her eyes as the last of the Great and Powerful Scarlet System was consumed, "Ladies and gentlemen...we have witnessed its passing." Ida said in a surprisingly strong voice as she made to close the lever.
The Doctor held out a hand, "Er, no, could you leave it open?" he requested, causing the brown haired Time Lady to sigh, "Just for a bit. I won't go mad, I promise."
Ida looked at him with her brow furrowed in confusion, "How would you know?" she asked, causing the Time Lord to smile but not answer.
As Ida turned to order the others, Kayla and the Doctor watched the sky and the spot where the Scarlet System used to be, "You know," the brunet started slowly, "I've seen some black holes that are gateways to different universes, that lead to somewhere new." The Doctor looked at her in confusion, "But not this one." She continued, "This just eats and eats."
The Doctor nodded in agreement, "It's greedy." He added.
Kayla sighed, "Oh Doctor, what are we going to do?"
The Doctor just rubbed her shoulder, "We can settle down." He suggested.
The couple looked at each other and then made a face, "Like that will ever happen." The brunet giggled.
"Oi!" the Doctor protested lightly, shoving Kayla a bit in the shoulder.
"You'd have to get a mortgage." Kayla teased with a sly smile.
Shuddering at the mere thought of something so normal, the Doctor lifted his hands up in mock surrender, "I am dying. That's it. I am dying, it is all over." Hitting his hands against the table in front of him, the Doctor shoved himself off the bench.
Laughing, Kayla got up and followed after him, "Doctor, wait!" the brunet called, her voice shaking in between her laughs.
Turning around, the Doctor hugged her to him and, humming a random tune, they started to dance together, only for the Time Lord to pause and look at the brunet's wrist, "No manipulator?"
Kayla shook her head, "I left it on the TARDIS."
For a second, the Doctor closed his eyes, and then he started to laugh, "Of course you did." Shaking his head, he continued to hum the same song as they started to dance.
Confused, Kayla continued to dance with the Doctor, never recognizing the song. And then the brunet froze at a very familiar voice say, "He is awake."
Holding Kayla's hand, the Doctor led her Ood Habitation. The Time Lady had told him everything, from what the Ood had said when she was getting food to Toby knocking her out and the creepy voice. After convincing the Doctor not to kill the young man because there was obviously something else going on, the Doctor had grabbed the brunet's hand and started to ramble on about how the voice and the Ood being connected somehow.
"But how, Doctor?" Kayla had asked, and even with her Time Lady brain she was still lost in the Doctor's ramble. Shaking her head, Kayla just followed the Time Lord to the area to poke around. Sadly however, there was somewhere standing by a monitor.
"Evening!" the Doctor greeted.
"Only us!" Kayla added.
Not turning away from the computer, the figure seemed to relax at their voices, "The mysterious couple. How are you, then? Settling in?" the man, who Kayla recognized as Danny, asked politely.
The Doctor glanced over at Kayla before speaking, "Yeah, sorry, straight to business, the Ood - how do they communicate? I mean, with each other." He asked as he waved his hand to the Ood, who were sitting in a pen like area overlooked by a balcony.
Danny shrugged, "Oh, just empaths. There's a low level telepathic field connecting them. Not that that does THEM much good. They're basically a herd race. Like cattle." He explained.
"This telepathic field - can it pick up messages?" the Doctor questioned.
Kayla nodded, "When I was getting food earlier, an Ood said something odd to me." She added in.
Danny's lips quirked up, "Oh. An odd Ood." He joked.
The brunet rolled her eyes, "And I've been hearing voices." She added softly.
Shocked, Danny blinked at Kayla, "And you think they're connected?" he asked, "How's you being mad connected with the Ood?"
Kayla just arched an eyebrow, "I don't know how they're connected, but the Doctor sure thinks they are so I'm just going to let him take over." Smiling a bit at the Doctor, she pushed him forwards a bit and stepped back.
Blinking, the Doctor turned to look at Kayla, only for the Time Lady to flutter her hands and smile. Sighing, the Doctor turned back to Danny, "Kayla and I aren't normal. Are brains are more telepathic than others, which makes me think that there might be something that's sending physic messages to others."
Danny sighed, "Look...if there was something wrong, it would show. We monitor the telepathic field. It's the only way to look after them. They're so stupid, they don't even tell us when they're ill." He laughed a bit before noticing that the Doctor and Kayla did not look interested.
Shaking his head, the Doctor nodded to the monitor, "Monitor the field - that's this thing?" he asked.
"Basic five." Kayla read off.
"Yeah. But like I said, it's low level telepathy. They only register Basic 5." Danny agreed.
The brunet just closed her eyes as the five rose to a six, "Well now it's Basic six." She called out, "Ten…twenty," she gasped, "oh my god, Doctor, it's Basic thirty."
Groaning, the Doctor just looked wordlessly over at the Ood, drawing Kayla's and then Danny's eyes over to the silently watching Ood, "Something's shouting at them..." the Doctor uttered silently.
Suddenly urgent, Danny started to type rapidly on the keyboard, "But...where's it coming from? What is it saying? I mean—" he looked over at Kayla, "What did it say to you?"
Kayla racked her brain for a second, "'The Beast and his Armies shall rise from the Pit to make war against God.'" She repeated from memory.
Danny blinked, "And the voice you heard?"
"He is awake." Kayla answered at the pause.
And then Kayla and the Doctor shuddered as the Ood spoke in one voice, "And you will worship him."
Danny gasped, "What the hell?"
With a calm and collected look, the Doctor placed both hands on the railing, "He is awake." He called down to the Ood.
Just like before, the Ood stared at him silently for a moment before speaking as one, "And you will worship him." They repeated.
Kayla walked over to the Doctor and stood next to him, "Worship who?" she asked sharply.
Before the Doctor or Kayla could ask the Ood anything, the entire base started to shake, shocking even the Time Lord and Lady, "Crap!" Kayla cried out as she fell against the side of wall.
"Emergency hull breach. Emergency hull breach." The computer started to repeat in its female voice.
His eyes widening, Danny raised his wrist strap to his lips, "Which section?" he asked in a shaking voice.
The Doctor, Kayla, and Danny were running.
"Open Door 19."
They sprinted through the now open door and into the place where they had had food earlier.
"Close Door 19."
Leading the group, the Doctor pulled Kayla along behind him with Danny barely keeping up, "How do you do this?" He gasped out, obviously not used to running so much.
Kayla didn't even glance behind to look at him, "By not talking."
"Keep moving!" the brunet could vaguely hear Jefferson yell as they rounded a corner and saw the rest of the crew and the older man trying to open a door, "And you too, Toby!" the man added as he pulled the young man through the door once the others were in.
Instantly tensing, it took all of Kayla's mental promises that if he attacked Toby then the Doctor would never get kissed again, and even then the Doctor still was thinking about it.
"Beach sealed. Breach sealed." The computer repeated.
Holding Kayla's hand, the Doctor rushed upon the crew members, "Everyone all right?! What happened? What was it?" he asked quickly, making sure not to look at the young blond.
"Oxygen levels normal."
Panting and leaning over, Jefferson eyes the enthusiastic man, "Hull breach! We were open to the elements. A couple of minutes and we'd have been inspecting that black hole at close quarters. "
The Doctor's brow furrowed, "That wasn't a quake. What caused it?" he asked.
Kayla tapped the Doctor's shoulder and, when the puzzled Time Lord looked over at the brunet, she merely just pointed over at Jefferson and Ida, who were in an intense conversation with someone, "That doesn't look good." Kayla muttered softly.
The Doctor nodded in agreement, "No it does not." He winked at the Time Lady, "Want to listen in?"
"Of course." This time, it was Kayla who grabbed the Doctor's hand and pulled him over.
"Better go and check if she's not responding, she might be unconscious." She heard Zach's voice say from Danny's wrist, "How about that, eh? We survived." The captain said bravely.
Jefferson nodded, "Habitation 3...come on, I don't often say this, but I think we could all do with a drink. Come on."
As the crew grinned at each other and headed out, the Doctor and Kayla were left in an empty room, "That does sound nice." The Doctor said softly.
Laughing, Kayla started to lead the Time Lord out, "Add a dash of Three and now we're talking."
As they left the room, neither of them noticed that a shaken Toby was glaring at the brunet with a creepy fierceness.
They never really got their drink, though, because as soon as they entered Habitation Area Three, the Doctor and Kayla had to blink quite a few times before they realized that what they were seeing was really happening.
Everyone in the crew was yelling about one person, Scooti, who was apparently missing, "Have you seen Scooti?" Jefferson asked them almost as soon as they entered.
Exchanging a look, the two shook their heads, "No, not since this morning."
Behind them, the door opened and a worried Toby stepped inside, "Have you seen Scooti?" Jefferson repeated the question to him.
The young man paused, "No, no, no, I don't think so."
While the Doctor and Kayla glanced everywhere in the room to make sure that the humans hadn't missed anything, Ida lifted her wrist strap, "Scooti, please respond, if you can hear this please respo- Habitation 6." The slightly older woman begged.
Still standing near them, Jefferson shrugged helplessly, "Nowhere here." He lifted his wrist strap to his face, "Zach? We've got a problem. Scooti's still missing."
"It says Habitation 3." Zach pointed out with a hint of a growl in his voice.
While the Doctor turned to shrug at Kayla, he had seen nothing, Jefferson snapped back at his captain, "Yeah, well that's where I am, and I'm telling you she's NOT HERE."
Sighing, Kayla rolled her eyes, and then gasped. Horrified at what she had seen, she taped the Doctor on the shoulder, causing him to glance at her in alarm. Instead of saying anything, the brunet just pointed to the sky, causing the Doctor to shudder, "We've found her." he told the others.
Following his gaze, the crew gasped as they saw Scooti's body floating in space. The only reason they were able to see it was the glass screen was still open.
"Sorry. I'm so sorry." The Doctor apologized even though he had nothing to do with it.
While the rest of them stood bewildered, shocked, and horrified, Jefferson raised his wrist to his mouth, "Captain...report Officer Scootori Manista PKD...deceased. 43K2.1." he reported, his voice cracking.
Ida whimpered to herself, "She was twenty...twenty years old." She muttered in shock.
As the watched Scooti's body start to get drawn to the black hole, Ida pulled a lever, causing the glass screen to slowly get covered up.
"For how should Man die better than facing fearful odds? For the ashes of his father...and the temples of his Gods." Finishing, Jefferson bowed his head, causing the others to follow his lead and do the same.
And then Kayla broke the silence, "The drill…its stopped."
The Doctor, now dressed in a spacesuit, and Kayla, her brown eyes flashing angrily, were fighting.
"You can't go down there!" the brunet Time Lady snapped with a fury in her voice that would make lesser men tremble.
Surprisingly though, the rather skinny Doctor didn't shiver under his Bonded gaze, though perhaps this was because, using their ever growing mental link, the Time Lord could tell that Kayla wasn't just angry, she was also terrified for his safety.
But yes, she was also extremely angry.
"Kayla, you have to trust me." The Doctor started, "I know you're worried in all, but if one of us doesn't go down there then they won't even bother to get the TARDIS."
The brunet just arched an eyebrow, "And why can't I go down?" She challenged.
Swallowing at the question, the Doctor tugged at his ear, "Because…because…"
Smirking smugly, Kayla turned to address a rather annoyed Zach, who was eying the Doctor in shock, "The Doctor and I are going to go down."
Zach sighed and shook his head, "We don't have an extra spacesuit for you. Besides, this is breaking every protocol in the book."
"But Zach-"
"The Doctor can go down, but Kayla…I have a feeling we might need you."
Sighing, Kayla shook her head as Zach headed off, giving orders as he went and leaving her with a rather annoying, pretending not to be happy that he got his way, Time Lord.
Turning towards said male, the brunet frowned deeply at the Doctor and shook her head, "You better not die." She said, a normally nice sentence twisted by a vague threat in her voice, "Because I love you and I don't want to know what happens to me if you die."
Tugging his ear, the Doctor laughed awkwardly, "I'll explain later."
"Promise?"
Looking down at the brunet, the Doctor smiled and nodded, "Promise." He agreed, before sealing the deal with a kiss.
Zach, being the captain, was the one who started the counted, "Capsule active. Counting down in 10...9...8...7...6..." he said, his voice booming over the small platform Kayla was standing on so that she could watch as the Doctor and Ida walked into the capsule.
"Don't die Doctor." Kayla whispered through their mental link.
"Not today Kayla, not today."
"5...4...3...2..."
Kayla waved at the Doctor, and he waved back.
"1...Release."
And the capsule went zooming down.
It took only a minutes for Kayla to get her hands on a comms. and listen in for anything the Doctor wouldn't share through their mental link, which meant that no, she wasn't going to use it.
"Gone beyond the oxygen field. You're on your own." Zach warned the Doctor and Ida, causing Kayla to suck in her breath and hold it for a few seconds before she released.
"How's it going?" Kayla asked the Doctor.
It took a horribly long few minutes for the Doctor to reply, "Sorry, we had to put the suits on – Oh Gallifrey!"
Wincing at the sudden shout, Kayla rubbed at her temples and started to pace, running her hand over the comms. as she waited for the reply from her Time Lord, but when none came, she ran a hand through her hair and glanced at the board showing where the capsule was that.
Sadly though, that didn't make her feel any better. In fact, it made her feel worse as she felt her hearts stop at the sight of the capsule being at Point Zero, "Doctor? Doctor! Answer!"
Getting no reply, she ran a hand through her hair once more, debating about what to do.
"Ida, report to me..." Zach's voice came over the comms., but like with Kayla's desperate mental plea, there was no reply, "Doctor?" the man's voice snapped.
And then Kayla sighed in relief as the Doctor replied through the mental link, "Sorry…it got busy."
"It's all right...we've made it...coming out of the capsule now." The Doctor's voice came over the comms., causing Kayla to smile as she realized who the Doctor had chosen to contact first.
Leaning against the wall, Kayla listened to Ida's gasp of awe and to the Doctor telling Zach to pass on a message that Toby was going to have work to do, something that the brunet quickly shouted at the young, rather distracted boy.
"Ida...what about the power source?" Zach asked.
"We're close. Energy signature indicates north, north west. Are you getting pictures up there?" Ida asked.
Kayla heard Zach sigh, "There's too much interference. We're in your hands." Zach replied.
"Well...we've come this far. There's no turning back."
The brunet heard and felt the Doctor's irritation at Ida's choice of words, "Oh, did you have to? No turning back? That's almost as bad as 'nothing can possible go wrong' or 'this is gonna be the best Christmas Walford's ever had' –"
"Are you finished?" Ida snapped, interrupting the Time Lord.
"Go Ida!" Kayla cheered to the Doctor.
"Meanie!" the Doctor replied back. If he had been near her, he probably would have been sticking his tongue out at her.
"Yeah! Finished." The Doctor replied to Ida, causing Kayla to giggle.
As silence fell over the deck that Jefferson, Toby, and Kayla were on, they all jumped in their respected area as they heard Danny's voice, "Captain, sir. There's something happening with the Ood."
"What are they doing?" Zach replied back automatically, sounded worried.
"They're staring at me. I've told them to stop, but they won't." Danny explained, keeping his voice low.
Kayla and Jefferson exchanged worried looks as the conversation continued without them, "Danny, you're a big boy. I think you can take being STARED at." Zach chastised.
"But the telepathic field, sir. It's at Basic 100! I've checked - there isn't any fault. It's definitely 100." Danny explained, sounding positively terrified.
"But that's impossible." Zach protested.
The brunet pressed a button, allowing them to join the conversation, "Couldn't help but overhear," she started, "but shouldn't we kill them?" she suggested rather bluntly.
Jefferson stared at her in shock, his mouth opened in a perfect 'O' as the comms. went silent, "What?" Zach spluttered.
Kayla just shrugged, "They're at brain dead level, which means they've lost anyway to show pain. Of course they're just staring at Danny."
Zach sighed, "Kayla, we aren't doing that. Keep watching them. And you, Jefferson - keep a guard on the Ood." He ordered, and then clicked off, not even letting Kayla argue her point.
Running her hands through her hairs, Kayla growled in frustration and leaned against the wall, giving her a perfect spot to watch as Jefferson turned to a guard, "Officer at arms!" he ordered, already reading his gun.
"Stock 15?" Kayla called over.
Jefferson glanced over at her, "Of course." He agreed before turning back to the guard, "Keep watch. Guard them." He ordered the man.
Saluting, the man nodded, "Yes, sir."
"Kayla…you alright?"
Jumping at the voice, Kayla glanced over at Jefferson and Toby, only to see the two men busy, "Fine, fine." She answered quickly.
Obviously not believing her – and neither did Kayla, when she thought about it – the brunet wasn't surprised when the comms. crackled to life, "Is everything all right up there?" the Doctor asked, his voice guarded.
Really wanting to reply, it took biting down on her lip to make sure she didn't speak as Zach jumped to reply, "It's FINE." The man promised.
"Great!" Danny agreed, though his voice was rather sarcastic and Kayla could have sworn she heard a sigh.
Much later, Kayla was getting rather bored with the game the Doctor was playing of randomly asking about her, which would make her grit her teeth and reply, "Perfectly fine Doctor."
Luckily, the comms. once again crackled to life, "We've found something. It looks like metal. Like some sort of seal. I've got a nasty feeling the word might be 'trapdoor.' Not a good word, 'trapdoor.' Never met a trapdoor I liked."
"The edge is covered with those symbols." Ida added in, causing Kayla to quickly glance over at Toby.
"Do you think it opens?" Zach asked quickly.
"That's what trapdoors tend to do." The Doctor replied.
"'Trapdoor' doesn't do it justice. It's massive, Zach. About thirty feet in diameter." Ida explained.
"Any way of opening it?" Zach wondered.
"I don't know. I can't see any sort of mechanism." Ida sighed.
"I suppose that's the writing, that'll tell us what to do. The letters that defy translation." The Doctor suggested, causing Kayla to shake her head and smirk.
Zach sighed, "Toby, did you get anywhere with decoding it?"
Running a hand through her hair, Kayla glanced over at Toby before walking over and kneeling in front of him, placing a hand on his shoulder, "Did you figure out the rest of the symbols?" she asked as kindly as she could, trying not to punch the kid in the face and yell at him for knocking her out.
Not lifting his head from his arms, Toby mumbled, "I know what it says."
"What is it, then?" Kayla asked, her voice urgent.
Pushing her off and sending her to the floor with a huff of her breath, Kayla watched, more than little scared, as Toby stood up, purposely keeping his palm and back to them. And then he turned to them, showing that every skin they could see were covered in odd black symbols and his eyes…they were red.
Screaming, Kayla somehow climbed to her feet and stumbled backwards, "W-what?" she stuttered out.
"These are the words of the Beast."Toby uttered, his voice no longer his, but a deep one that was nearly the exact same one that Kayla had heard, "And he has woken."Already slipping out her own gun, Kayla stood next to Jefferson, who quickly pointed his own gun at Toby, "He is the heart that beats in the darkness, he is the blood that will never cease. And now he will rise."
Exchanging a look with Kayla, Jefferson tightened his grip on his gun, "Officer, stand down. STAND DOWN." He ordered.
"Kayla, what's going on? Kayla? Kayla!"
"What is it? What's he done? What's happening? Kayla? What's going on?"
"Jefferson? Report. Report!"
Kayla glanced at the buzzing comms. in her hands and then to Toby, who was flexing his arm, "Officer, as commander of security, I order you to stand down and be confined. Immediately!" Jefferson ordered.
Fumbling with the comms. Kayla flicked it on, "Doctor, it's Toby. He's covered in those symbols and his eyes are red." She explained as quickly as she could to the Time Lord.
Sensing his alarm, she could actually hear Ida yelling at the Doctor to stay put as the Doctor started to yell that he was coming to help.
But Kayla didn't pay attention. Instead, she focused on the causal Toby, who winked at her before addressing Jefferson, "Mr. Jefferson, tell me, sir...did your wife ever forgive you?" he asked with a smirk.
Tensing obviously, the elder man glanced around the room as if he was looking for an escape, "I don't know what you mean." He stuttered out in a voice that made it clear that he totally did.
Toby just laughed harshly, "Let me tell you a secret: she never did." Dumbfounded, Jefferson stumbled backwards a bit as Toby turned to Kayla, "And you, the oh so fearsome Harkness. Tell me, just how did your father die this time?" This time, it was Kayla who stumbled backwards and gaped at Toby in shock.
"Officer...you stand down and be confined." Jefferson ordered quickly, his voice cracking a bit.
"Or what?" Toby challenged, a sneer on his face.
Finally getting her voice back, Kayla stepped next to Jefferson, "Oh I will shoot you down."
Instead of being impressed or worried, like most where when their life was threatened, Toby just rolled his eyes, "But how many can you kill?"
His red eyes lighting up and his mouth opening, Toby let out an inhuman roar as the symbols evaporated off his skin, leaving him in a cloud of black smoke. Just as quickly as it appeared, the smoke flew into the three Ood on the deck they were on, causing the creatures to jerk as they were possessed.
While Toby coughed and fell to his knees, now back to normal, Kayla and Jefferson trained their guns onto the Ood.
"Kayla? Are you alright? Kayla?" the Doctor's voice came through the comms. sounding worried and scared.
"We are the Legion of the Beast." Kayla screamed at the unearthly voice of the now possessed Ood.
"Report. Report! Jefferson, report!" Zach yelled also through the comms., "Someone, report!" he begged.
"The Legion shall be many. And the Legion shall be few..."
Finally regaining her senses, Kayla fumbled with the comms. in her hand and held it up so she could talk the Doctor, "It's the Ood." She started.
Also regaining normal human functions, Jefferson raised his wrist up to speak into his wrist strap, "Sir, we have a contamination in the livestock." He said to someone, probably Zach.
At a loss for words, the brunet shook her head, "Doctor, I don't know what it is - it's- it's like they're possessed." She tried to explain.
"They won't listen to us." Jefferson added in.
"He has woven himself in the fabric of your life since the dawn of time." The Ood continued, "Some may call him Abaddon. Some may call him Kroptor. Some may call him Satan..."
"Captain, it's the Ood. They're out of control!" Jefferson and Kayla heard a slightly hysteric Danny yell to Zach.
"Or the Bringer of Despair...The Deathless Prince. The Bringer of Night. These are the words that shall set him free."
Their mouth's slightly open in shock, Jefferson, Kayla, and the other crew member with them were backing up as much as they could as the Ood continued advancing towards them, "Back up to the door!" Jefferson yelled from his slightly forward, protective position.
Not wanting to get closer to the advancing Ood, Kayla just nodded.
"I shall become manifest."
Trying to speed up their walking as much as they could, Kayla automatically grabbed the crew members hand, who nodded their thanks to her as Jefferson glanced back at them, "Move quickly!" he ordered.
"I shall walk in might."
Once again, Jefferson glanced back at Kayla and the crew member, who were nearly at the door, "To the door!" he yelled just as Kayla's back touched the metal, "Get it open!" He added in as he took one last step.
"My Legions shall swarm across the worlds..."
Starting to figure out how to open the door, which, for some unknown reason, wasn't cooperating, the base started to shake, causing the brunet to curse in a random language and grow more frantic with her work.
"I am the sin and the temptation. And the desire. I am the pain and the loss and the dead will come."
"Get that door open!" Jefferson cried out as he pointed his gun frantically at the Ood, his arm and hand shaking just as badly as the base itself.
"I have been imprisoned for eternity. But no more."
"Door sealed." The computer suddenly reported, causing Kayla to kick the metal door in frustration.
"Come on!" She ordered at the metal.
Once again, the computer just reported, "Door sealed."
Looking at the terrified crew member, Kayla stepped next to Jefferson and pointed her own gun at the advancing Ood, "We're trapped." She told him softly.
And then, once again, the brunet heard the creepy voice from before shout out in her mind with a glee that made her skin crawl and the hair on the back of her neck stick up, "The Pit is open. And I am free."
Well hello strangers! I'm so sorry for this being super late, but I needed to catch up, and the horrible thing is that this will probably happen every end of the summer because this really helped. I'd also like to say sorry for not posting this sooner, but my internet has been all over the place, plus my puppy, and Doctor Who...so yeah.
But this episode/chapter! All I can say is that there are a lot of twists coming up.
And review time:
dream lighting: I'm sorry for making you depressed, but look on the bright side. I'm back!