They had left the park immediately after deciding what to do. They took a bus back to the hotel to drop their things off and then set off for the containment facility. The Doctor knew where it was from having been there the day before.
Upon arriving, they were scanned, inspected, and finally admitted when they explained who they were (and the Doctor made use of the psychic paper). They four of them were led down what seemed like a maze of corridors until they stopped at a steel door. It had a small window, through which only darkness could be seen. The attendant flipped a switch on the wall and the room became illuminated enough that they could see most of its contents. The Trancitluzion was clawing at the back wall, but it looked like there were other creatures in the room with it.
"Is it in there alone?" the Doctor asked.
The attendant nodded. "Yes, it is. Although, judging by your faces, you are seeing something else in there too?"
The small group of four nodded in unison.
The attendant walked over to a metal cabinet on the opposite side of the hallway and opened it. From within, he produced four pairs of strange goggles, similar to the set he was wearing himself. "Here, put these on. From what we know, the creature is able to manipulate the brainwaves of those looking at it. You may be seeing other things in the room with it, but it is alone and the rest of the room is empty. You'll want these too, if you're planning on going inside..." he held out some suits. "They're as close as we have to full body armor that can protect you from it."
The Doctor, River, Amy, and Rory pulled the sets of goggles over their heads and then proceeded to put the suits on. They were heavy and uncomfortable, but they thanked the attendant anyway.
"Do you need anything else?" he asked.
The Doctor quickly scanned the door, the walls surrounding it, and then finally the suits themselves. He looked at the readings for a moment before looking up at the attendant and replying, "No, this is all we need. Thank you."
The man nodded and walked down the hall, calling out as he went, "I need to lock this door at the end of the hall here for security reasons. When you're done, I will unlock it from the other side, and you can come out." With that, he locked the door.
As soon as the man had left, the Doctor pulled off the goggles and suit.
"Uh, what are you doing?" Rory asked with a puzzled look.
"Yeah, didn't the man say these were to keep us safe?" Amy chimed in.
River had started to remove her own suit and goggles as soon as she'd seen the Doctor removing his.
The Doctor looked up and over at Amy and Rory. "These people here don't know what they're dealing with. These suits and goggles won't protect us at all, they'll just slow us down," he said quickly as he sonic-ed the lock of the door open.
He stepped inside and was closely followed by River. Amy and Rory were close behind.
The Trancitluzion didn't move from the wall it was scratching at as they entered.
"You can stop pretending now."
The creature turned to face the Doctor.
"I know that if you really wanted to, you could escape this place easily. These people are trying their best to control something they don't understand... but they really don't know how little they know. Those suits and goggles wouldn't have helped us just the same as even these steel walls can't hold you. ...So why are you still here?"
The Trancitluzion bristled and narrowed its eyes at the Doctor with a sneer. It hissed, "I've been waiting..."
"For us?"
"For you." With that, the lights snapped off. The Doctor aimed his sonic to turn them back on while River fired her gun twice over in the direction of where the creature had just been. When the lights turned back on, it was nowhere to be seen.
"...Doctor...?" Amy said nervously while looking around.
"It's still here... Where did you go?"
A hissing seemed to come from all around them. "Oh you foolish little creatures. You sad little people. You may as well give in to me because there is no way you will leave this room alive... or unbroken..." he added as he looked at River. He had that same look he'd had while threatening her in the ride. She stood her ground, kept her face a mask of calm even while internally she was struck again with a sense of dread and disgust. Her gun was still leveled at the creature. He saw this and hissed out at her, "That thing won't hurt me. It only stunned me before, and I have built up my resistances against it. So don't waste your fire."
River held the gun steady anyway.
"Alright, enough with the threats. I'm going to offer you a chance: A chance to leave this planet and go to another one where you can exist and live... possibly with your own kind. Or... you can bring about your own destruction. Look at us. We are standing unarmed in a room with you. You want to kill us, but you know what? I don't think you can yet... For some reason, you're still waiting... for what though, I wonder?"
"For her." he said motioning over to River. "She is not ready yet."
"Well, you're going to be waiting for a bloody long time, because I'm not doing ANYTHING that would help you..." River snarled through clenched teeth.
"No... not yet you wouldn't, but you will. You'll see. Since you'll all be here a while then, why don't you have a seat?"
As the creature said that, restraint chairs flew out of the walls, binding the four others. Steel straps and clamps were on every part of their bodies so they could not move a muscle.
"Now... this is where things get interesting!"
Cliffhanger! You all hate me right now don't you? ;)
The final battle against the alien is next...
Disclaimer: The containment facility in this chapter is completely of my own fabrication. As far as I know, there is no such place in Disney (and honestly, I hope there isn't.) It is here only for purposes in this story.
