"Doctor," "Jane, if you want to go back upstairs, be my guest. But I have a feeling that you have a big curiosity nagging at you right now." I smirked and she didn't say another word until we finally reached the bottom of the stairs. It was pitch black and significantly colder. I used the light of my sonic to try and find a switch for some lights, and came across a button. With a push of my free thumb the lights eerily flickered on one by one to reveal a horrifying sight. "What-?" Jane's mouth hung open and Tardis' hands shook mine in terror. Along the two walls were large glass cases full of a strange green liquid and a floating... thing. Each one held a person with tubes coming from their skin and to the outside. They were humans.

I wouldn't call them humans; they weren't anything close to human anymore. Each one had it's own deformity that was different from the rest. One's eyes were totally removed and only empty sockets remained; across from that one had a missing hand and am extra right arm. The three of us slowly walked down the row of floating test subjects, I assumed, and avoided staring at them. Tardis kept a firm grip on my hands and stayed close to me so I could hide the monstrosity that laid before our eyes. "Doctor, is- Is this where everyone went?" Jane finally got a full sentence to come out while trying to keep back some tears. I wouldn't be surprised if she bursted out crying right this moment; all her friends and coworkers were not even alive anymore. Most or all of them were either missing a limb or had an extra to spare, and had tubes attached to them reading whatever data was being collected. She was trying hard not to show any emotion, but I could see the pain and fury in her eyes. "It seems so, Jane."

I walked up to one of the glass tubes and inspected what was inside. There were bubbles rising from the tubes that ran from their bodies to outside, where the tubes continued to drop to the floor and then ran down the aisle towards the back of the room. Then I realized that all the tubes were like that. The back of the room was unlit and made me wonder what was back there. "Dad?" Tardis' voice shook but she swallowed and repeated with a steadier voice. "Dad, where are you going?" "To where ever these tubes lead. Care to join me?" Both her and Jane ran after me and almost knocked me over when they caught up. "Shh." I held up a finger and pointed to the people floating in the tubes. Tardis and Jane nodded. We tip-toed to the dark side and I used my sonic to illuminate what was hiding back here. The lights started to turn on, and I wasn't ready to see what was being hidden. Tardis and Jane both gasped, and I gulped. "And the plot thickens." I muttered as the lights inside the tube lit up a floating body of a humanoid figure. It wasn't disfigured like the others, but bigger and more human looking. That's not to say it was really human, it used to be, though. Inside this glass tube was a rather large-looking man with four arms, regular ears, and an extra pair of eyes. Not human eyes, but blood-red eyes that reminded me much of a spider's. It was some sort of mutant. "Dad, what is that?" "I think that was a person, but now it's some mutant thing." I tilted my head and heard a noise escape Jane's lips. "Jane?" She fell down and stared in horror at the thing. "Jane, are you okay?" She shook her head, tears starting to roll down her cheeks.

"Jane?" She continued to shake her head and closed her eyes while looking away. "Th-that was-" She couldn't finish her sentence, for her sobs finally took charge. "I'm really sorry, Jane." I tried to console her, but she finally crawled over to the tube and slid her hand slowly down the glass. "What have they done to him?" I frowned and tried to think of any possibilities. My gaze shifted to the many tubes connecting to the large mutant creature and my eyes widened in realization. "Those tubes aren't going to this one, they're coming from it. I dropped down to my belly and inspected a small tube by holding it up close to my face and seeing which direction the strange green liquid flowed. Just as I thought, they were going away from the big case and to the other smaller ones. Then it clicked in my brain. "Oh. Oh! They were trying to create some biological weapon and are trying to recreate it with other test subjects!" I ran to the other tubes with the disfigured people. "See? Whatever they're pumping into these tubes is supposed to mutate them into that," I pointed back to the central test subject. "But they can't for some reason. Look. They're all tests gone wrong! All of them have some sort of mistake that was created, and now their only success is that one." I pointed once again and Tardis hit her head as if she should've thought of that herself.

Then she slowly glanced at the successful experiment. The gears in her brain were turning, but I was observing the other experiments. "Dad," "It's such a horrible thing they're doing. Taking these innocent people and dehumanizing them." I frowned. "Dad," "You'd think they'd have some sense and not even use biological weapons," "Dad!" I finally turned around and she beckoned me over to her. "We have to leave." I tilted my head. "We. Have. To. Leave." In the corner of my eye, Jane shot up to her feet. "What do you mean leave? Can't you help them?" I was about to assure her that we could, even though it was past that point, but Tardis asserted, "No. We have to go. Now." I wanted to know what she was getting riled up about, so I turned our backs from Jane and whispered. "Tardis, what's going on." "Do you not remember? What happens here today cannot be meddled with. We've got to leave." She started to walk off and tried to pull me with her, but I planted my feet in the ground. "Tardis, I'm not leaving. Whatever's going to happen is-" That's when I remembered: a big chunk of Jane's history included an immunity to every known disease and poison. No one knows how she received this immunity, seeing as she got sick when she was a child, just like any ordinary human, and her parents didn't have an immunity like it. Some conspirators claimed that she was one of the first soldiers strengthened by mutating cells to be invincible to anything and everything hostile that invaded her body. I always thought it was rubbish and never looked into it. Well, now I'm living the moment. If my prediction's correct, she gets her immunity on this very day, by the looks of all the different mutant attempts in here.

"You're right." I looked down in guilt before I turned to Jane with an apologetic face. "I'm really sorry, Jane Kilgour, but we really have to leave." She looked from the two of us in desperate confusion. "But- You- You gotta help me! What about them?" She gestured to the rows upon rows of failed experiments and I shook my head. "I'm truly sorry, but we can't help. There's nothing we can do." I turned back and Tardis and I started to walk away. "Stop!" I didn't turn back, in fear that I'd change my mind and change history itself, and trekked on. I couldn't let her desperation hinder the inevitable. Sometimes I would make exceptions to these rules of time travel, but this was one of those "fixed points in time" that I couldn't even think about interfering with. Just one unfortunate move could change the course of the future and could possibly ruin all hope for it. I couldn't do that. Until she shot a bullet right past us, that is. Tardis and I froze in the spot we were, and Jane cried, "You are going to turn yourselves back around and come fix this!" We both slowly turned around to face Jane, who had hair sticking to her sweating face, despite the fact that it was freezing cold down here, and tears rolling down her cheeks. "Jane, if there's one thing I don't like, it's an angry woman with a gun. Now, put the gun down, please. I don't want either of us getting hurt." I asked calmly with my hands up. "Doctor, you said you helped people where you're needed. You're needed here. I need you to help me. I frowned slightly in thought and looked towards the testing tube behind her. "Do you know who that is, Jane?" I gestured with my head and she shook her head morosely while crying. She finally let down the gun and pulled the glove off of her left hand. There, on her ring finger, was a glittering silver ring that held a diamond that glistened even in the dim lighting of this laboratory. I nodded, understanding that the man, or former man, that was in the tube was her fiancée. I don't know how she knew that, seeing as he was transformed drastically from a human, but she knew.

"I'll tell you what," Tardis grumbled quietly and looked away. "We'll help you, Jane Kilgour." I nodded and smiled. She wiped her tears and sprinted to me to give me a hug. I was surprised by the sudden gesture, but patted her back in return. "Tardis, go see if there's a computer or something nearby." She nodded, knowing not to argue with me once I've made a decision. "Follow me, Jane." We snaked through the many rows of failed attempts of reproduction and noticed that every single one of their tubes lead to the center, where Jane's fiancée resided. "So, they really tried to replicate his results..." I nodded slowly while trying to think. Somehow we had to get news of this out to some other authorities, I highly doubted that this research was approved by any military. "We really need to find a computer..." I thought out loud, and Jane pulled my sleeve. "Maybe it's like the panel back there and you have to have a password or code to access it." She shrugged, but I groaned. "It could be anywhere, if that's the case!" I hit my head to see if that would spark any ideas, but it was no use. I revealed my sonic screwdriver and started to scan for anything. Every time I looked at the results, there always came those of the experiments. We learned that they used genes of spiders for the multiple eyes and legs and many different other animals that I thought were strange. Some of them being a lion, an elephant, mountain lion, cheetah, ram, and bat. They were all different and had nothing to do with each other, despite the fact they were all mammals. "Why would anyone do this?" Jane shook her head while looking into each tube only to look away after a short moment. "Selfishness. It's a common trait throughout everyone." I sighed and took a left turn, only to find a solid wall. "Well, we found the end." I shrugged and Jane sighed. "We're never going to find a computer!" I scanned the wall and that's when I heard a loud mechanical noise echo from behind us.

"You really think I'd just let you get away with shutting down my life's work?" My eyes widened at the sound of Rosenthal's voice and so did Jane's. "Well, Doctor, I can assure you that no one is going to know about this as long as you're eliminated from the equation." That didn't sound good; not at all. "Ahh, what are you going to do? Freeze us to death? Lock us down here until we starve?" Jane stepped on my toes as if to warn me not to give her any ideas. "Although those are very good ideas, I'd rather try an experiment on you. I've always wanted to see how my work came out." I heard her end of the line click off and a loud alarm started to go off throughout the facility, along with blinking red lights. "Blinking red lights? Oh no, blinking red lights are not good. Or does blinking red lights mean good?" I questioned, but Jane groaned. "Doctor, blinking red lights are bad." "Oh right." I totally knew that. "What's happening?" We tried to make our way back to the center, but then I noticed something that was very important. "Jane, look at the experiments." I gestured with my head and she followed my gaze. The liquid in all the tubes were draining at a rapid rate, which meant only one thing. "Run." I grabbed Jane's hand and we sprinted, and I finally remembered I'd left Tardis alone. "Tardis! Where are you? Tardis!" I called but couldn't hear if there was an answer because of the blaring alarms all around us. The tubes were practically empty, and we had run out of time. I pointed my sonic screwdriver to a speaker and clicked the button. The alarms shut off and it was silent. "Whatever you do, don't scream, don't talk, don't breathe loud either." I whispered after we slid to a stop. Jane nodded and we started to tip toe along the rows of sleeping creatures. I felt Jane's hands tense up and she was practically cutting off circulation to my hand.

"Dad?" I turned around and grumbled inside my head. Tardis was standing a few rows away from us and I held up a finger to my lips to silence her. Then I pointed to a tube and rested my head on my hands as if I were sleeping on a pillow. She understood what I had just explained silently and crawled on fours to us silently. It was actually a great idea. If we were standing, there'd be a greater chance of being seen by the sleeping mutants. They all snored like normal people, but they were just barely audible through the glass casing around them. It was going well, until Jane sneezed. If it were a little sneeze, I think we would've been fine, but it was probably the loudest sneeze known to mankind. Almost instantly, we got to our feet and ran. Behind us there were mutants that had woken up and were making a ruckus by banging on their glass cases. One by one they all started to awaken, and I knew by then that we were in a pickle. "I'm sorry, Doctor!" Jane apologized, but I just laughed it off. "Don't you fret, Jane." GRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAGH! "Can we worry now?" Tardis swallowed the lump in her throat and I froze in my place. We were running right towards the king of creatures: the strongest, fastest, and, probably, intelligent creature ever. CRASH! The first mutants had finally escaped their prisons. "Doctor, we've got to keep running!" Jane pushed and I finally came back to my senses. "What are we going to do?" The golden question: What was my plan? The golden answer: I never had one. "Just keep running!" I instructed. A menacing laugh boomed on the speakers. "You might as well give up, Doctor. There's no way out." I bit my lip as we ran, but kept Tardis and Jane safely behind me.

I looked up at the ceiling to see if there were any doors that we missed, and found none; but I did find something better. Each tube had some sort of latch release above them and I wanted to know what they did. I stopped in my tracks and quickly pointed my screwdriver at the latch. It opened and a metal casing slid down over the tube. "Ha ha!" I exclaimed and climbed up a tube that held a raging mutant. After some digging, I found a cord and pointed my screwdriver at it. As the metal casing on my tube came down, I fell down with it and thumped on my back to the hard ground. "Ow." I mumbled and caught my breath. "Now we've got only a couple dozen mutants to deal with rather than a couple hundred." I stuck my sonic back in my pocket and grasped Tardis' hand before taking off again. "Dad, what are we going to do about the big one?" I was wondering the same thing, but just smiled back at her. "Just do what I always do." I knew that she knew that meant I had no idea what I was doing, but Jane didn't know that.

"Doct-!" Jane's cry was cut short by her thudding to the ground and being pulled back by a spider mutant's web. "Jane!" I almost fell over while sliding to a stop, and turned around on my heel to grab her before she was devoured by the mutant. Wouldn't that be cannibalism? Yes, I think it would... I jumped after her and firmly grasped her hand. "Doctor!" She grunted and tried with all her might to slow her progress down. My feet were slipping fast, though, and had no traction with the floor, so I was having a hard time pulling her back. "Doctor, you need to let go!" She yelled and I growled back, "I'm not letting go, Jane!" She gave me the look they all gave me when they were about to let go. I continued to pull back as hard as I could, and ignored her face, the one of one of the most important girl in human science-history, and gave one final heave before I felt her grip slightly loosen.

Then I suddenly felt myself on my back, my hands at my sides. I shook my head and once my vision was cleared, I saw Tardis with a huge shard of glass in her bleeding hands. She was panting, and closed her eyes in relief. It took me a moment to realize that Jane was laying face down on the glass-riddened floor, not moving, but she was breathing. "Tardis! Jane!" I exclaimed while looking from one to the other. "Jane," I crawled over to her and she blinked a couple times, a few minor cuts and abrasions on her face, but nothing life-threatening. "I'm fine, Doctor. I-I thought I was... done for..." It was hard for her to even say the word dead, and I understood that feeling much too well. "Let's get up before that thing comes back with more of his friends." I helped her up and she brushed shards off her now-dirty uniform. "Thank you, Doctor." She hugged me, but I glanced at Tardis who was dead-silent. "Don't thank me, Tardis was the one who cut the web." I nodded towards her and Jane turned around. She looked down at Tardis' bloody hands and kissed her forehead motherly, just like I usually did. "Thank you, love. Thank you, thank you." She repeated and Tardis blushed bashfully. I interrupted them with, "If we want to outrun those experiments, me must be going." I patted them both on the shoulders and took Tardis' hand, forgetting they were cut and bloody. I didn't let go, though.