Okay, here's the final part of The Impossible Planet, the next will be the first of The Satan Pit.
Chapter 74
They went to Habitation 3 and looked for Scooti, but they couldn't find her "There's no sign of her, but the biochip says she's in this area." Jefferson said as Rose and the Doctor entered with Toby.
"Scoot, please respond." Ida said "If you can hear this, please respond."
"Zach, we've got a problem." Jefferson said over the comms "Scooti's still missing."
"But it says Habitation 3."
he replied"Well, that's where I am and I'm telling you, she's not here."
"I've found her." the Doctor said as he looked up
"Oh, my God." said Rose
They looked out of the roof and saw Scooti flying towards the black hole. "Sorry." said the Doctor "I'm so sorry."
"Captain…" said Jefferson. "report Officer Scootori Manista, PKD…Deceased 43K 2.1."
"She was 20." said Ida "20 years old" She went and closed the roof
"For how should man die better." said Jefferson "Than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his father. And the temples of his Gods."
The rumbling sound stopped "It's stopped." Ida said
"What was that?" Rose asked stepping closer to the Doctor "What was it?"
"The drill." he answered
"We've stopped drilling." Ida said "We've made it. Point 0."
--
The Doctor decided that he was going to help Ida with the mission so he put on an orange suit and went to Zach "Reporting as a volunteer for the expeditionary force."
"Doctor, this is breaking every single protocol." he replied "We don't even know who you are."
"Yeah, but you trust me, don't you?" he said "And you can't let Ida go down there on her own. Go on, look me in the eye. Yes, you do. I can see it. Trust."
"I should be going down." he said
"The captain doesn't lead the mission." the Doctor told him "He stays here, in charge."
"Not much good here, am I?" he said then he seemed to give up arguing "Positions! We're going down in two! Everyone, positions! Mr Jefferson, I want maximum systems…"
Rose joined the Doctor "Oxygen, nitro balance, gravity." he said "It's ages since I wore one of these."
"I want that spacesuit back in one piece." she said "You got that?"
"Yes, sir." he said, then he put the helmet on.
"It's funny 'cause people back home think that space travel is gonna be all…" she said "whizzing about and teleports, anti-gravity. But it's not, is it? It's tough."
"I'll see you later." he said
"Not if I see you first." She grabbed the sides of his helmet and pulled him to her height then kissed the helmet where his forehead was. He then joined Ida in the capsule. Jefferson closed the door and snapped a salute before the capsule was released. As it was released, Rose waved and he returned it with one of his own. Rose watched as the capsule lowered itself to Point 0 and heard Zach say that they'd gone beyond the oxygen field and that they were on their own.
"Don't forget to breathe." Rose told him over the comms "Breathing is good."
"Rose, stay off the comm."
"No chance."
The capsule reached the bottom of the shaft "Doctor?" Rose asked "Doctor, are you all right?"
"It's all right."
The Doctor said"We've made it. Heading out of the capsule now.
Rose listened to Danny complaining about the Ood staring at him and then he said that they were at Basic 100 "What's Basic 100?" she asked Jefferson
"Basic 100 is brain death." Jefferson was ordered to keep a guard on the Ood "Officer at arms."
"You can't fire a gun in here." Rose said "What if you hit a wall?"
"Firing Stock 15, only impacts upon organics." he told her "keep watch. Guard them."
"Yes, sir." said one of the members of his security team.
"Is everything all right up there?"
the Doctor asked"Yeah, yeah." Rose answered
"It's fine."
"Great."
Danny added.--
The Doctor and Ida came across a large circle on the ground "We've found something." he said "It looks like metal, like some sort of seal. I've got a nasty feeling the word might be 'trap door' Not a good word, trap door. Never met a trap door I liked."
"The edge is covered with those symbols." Ida added.
"Do you think it opens?"
"That's what trap doors tend to do." the Doctor said
"Trap door doesn't do it justice." Ida told them "It's massive, Zach. About 30 feet in diameter.
"Any way of opening it?"
"Don't know." she answered "I can't see any sort of mechanism."
"I suppose that's the writing." said the Doctor "It would tell us what to do. The letters that defy translation."
He listened as Zach asked Toby if he'd managed to translate.
--
Zach askedRose heard the question and said "Toby, they need to know. That lettering, does it make any sort of sense?"
"I know what it says." he said in a voice that wasn't quite his own.
"Then tell them." she said
"When did you work that out?" Jefferson asked
"It doesn't matter, just tell them!"
"These are the words of the Beast." he said in a distorted voice "And he has woken. He is the heart that beats in the darkness. He is the blood that will never cease. And now he will rise."
"Officer, you will stand down." Jefferson said "Stand down!"
--
The Doctor heard every word of what was happening up above and he didn't like the sound of it "What is it?" he asked "What's he done? What's happening? Rose, what's going on?"
--
"Officer, you have compromised security." Jefferson said. "You will stand down and be confined. Immediately!"
"Mr Jefferson, tell me, sir…" he said "Did your wife ever forgive you?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"Let me tell you a secret. She never did."
"Officer, you will stand down and be confined."
"Or what?"
"Or under the strictures of Condition Red, I am authorised to shoot you."
"But how many can you kill?"
Whatever had taken over Toby went inside the Ood. Toby collapsed to the floor
"We are the legion of the Beast." the Ood said
--
The Doctor was beginning to get frustrated, Rose still hadn't answered him "Rose, what is it?" he asked "Rose?" she still didn't answer. He went over to Ida "I'm going back up." He headed towards the capsule
--
"The legion shall be many and the legion shall be few."
"It's the Ood." Rose told the Doctor over the com "Doctor, I don't know what it is. It's like they're possessed. The Ood continued to talk about whoever was controlling them "Back up to the door!" Jefferson said "Move quickly! To the door! Get it open!"
--
The Doctor was struggling to walk to the capsule, cause the entire planet or rather lump of rock shook "Doctor, it's opening!" Ida said. He was completely torn, he had a choice, go back to his wife and help her, or find out what was underneath that trap door. Although he loved his wife more than anything, his curiosity got the better of him and he returned to Ida. They stood and the edge and watched as the trap door opened.
--
Rose was standing behind Jefferson as the Ood advanced. The Doctor and Ida stood at the edge of the opened trap door and the Beast said "The Pit is open and I am free."
Okay, that's the end of that episode. I love the next one, but there's a reason for that. "If I believe in anything, I believe in her." I can't wait to get through that episode though, cause when I do, I'll be able to do Love and Monsters and I like that as well, but nowhere near as much as a normal episode, however I do like Peter Kay as the Absorbaloff. Anyway, I'm off to write the next part
TTFN
Julie