09
Frowning as they walked down a dark corridor Phil looked at the weird doors on the walls. They sort of resembled a submarines door, a little window at the top and a wheel in the middle to turn and open the door. Looking to the two men Phil then looked to the doors, there were a lot of them aligning the walls which just confused her.
Noticing how they had completely forgotten her being there she stopped following them and walked up to the nearest door. Tiptoeing slightly to look through the window she gasped, "What are you doing?" A voice said while she got grabbed by the shoulder and yanked back from the door. Doctor turned and ran to pull her away from the new comer.
"Doctor...there's people in there! They have people locked away in little rooms!" Phil said while trying to calm her breathing down, the man who had grabbed her really threw her off and frightened her. Mainly because she wasn't expecting someone to appear right beside her.
Doctor looked at her confused before letting go of her shoulders and walking to the door she looked through. "No you don't."
"Listen, if what she says is true then you better have a good explanation. And I mean, a real good explanation." Doctor said deadly seriously, peering through the window he frowned and watched as the young boy in there realized he was being watched and ran up to the door. He banged his small hands on the door, his mouth opening and shutting clearly he was shouting but they couldn't hear him. Doctor took a step back and turned to look at the two men, "You are imprisoning them." He paused, "Why? Now is the time to give me your good explanation."
"So let me get this right," by now the small group were in another computer room, this time people were actually on the computers instead of the ones they'd seen in the other room. Doctor pushed away from leaning against the table and turned to the group of people in charge. "You get told to come here because there's something so valuable to mine. Am I correct so far?"
"Yes."
"Right good, hate to be going down the wrong avenue, so you come here all happy as Larry you clearly come into contact with the native people and what? Imprison them? How does this work? I am really struggling to understand how or why they're locked away."
"They fought us."
"Of course they did!" Doctor exclaimed annoyed at the man who had spoken. "Of course they did! What else did you expect? Did you honestly expect them to welcome you with open arms?"
"We expected them to understand that what we would find could be used by them too." A woman spoke calmly, having a rather annoyed Time Lord glaring at her seemed to have no affect at all. Phil praised her on that, Doctor – especially when he was in a angry or serious mood – scared her slightly.
Pulling off her hat she looked over the shoulder of someone typing, "What's Irosium?" She asked simply while the person typing put the computer on standby so the screen went black. Walking back to stand next to Doctor he mentally thanked Phil for her human curiosity and looked back to the group of people.
"Irosium, what is it?" Doctor re-asked when all the two of them got was silence. "Alright you won't tell us I'm sure the people in the cells will!" He exclaimed while grabbing one of Phil's hands and pulling her towards the door. The two of them stopped when they got shouted at, Doctor turned and smiled. "Change of mind?"
One of the men rolled his eyes and gestured for the two of them to follow him, the two of them walked happily after him down a long stretching corridor. Letting go of her hand Doctor ran over to look at the material in the container in the middle of the room. There were a bunch of people in lab coats surrounded by test tubes and other experimentation equipment.
"So this little fellow is Irosium?" He questioned although he didn't need anyone to answer him, it obviously was the material they were here to mine for. "What makes this so important that you imprison the native inhabitants?" He asked while standing back up straight, Phil eyed up the test tubes and got one snatched out of her hands.
Taking out the screwdriver and scanning it Phil frowned when it went berserk, "What the heck is that made out of?" She asked while leaning down to look at it. The lump of what closely resembled coal, looked rather uninteresting.
"I don't know."
"Oh well-"
"No Phil this is one of those times where I don't know everything don't rub it in!" Doctor nudged her while looking at the screwdriver, he'd just finished scanning the coal like lump. "Let us find out shall we?"
"Yeah sure thing." Phil shrugged and stood up straight, "What is this thing made out of?" She asked simply, the man who had bought them into the room leaned against a table and looked at them sternly.
"Why should I tell you two honestly?"
"Because we want to know! Is that so bad? We're just two curious people much like yourself," Doctor said while Phil put a hand over her mouth to conceal a growing grin. The man seemed to regard them before rolling his eyes.
"You're just two curious people who happened to stumble in."
"What are you insinuating?"
"I think he's insinuating we're spies," Phil answered Doctor's question instead of the man. Doctor had an expression of mock surprise on his face as he turned and looked at her. "I agree." She laughed slightly with his expression and looked back to the man.
"Who even are you?"
"I'm the Doctor and this is Phil," Doctor said while she waved at him, Phil frowned and wondered if he ever got bored with having to say that to nearly every person they met.
"I'm Rick, now that we know each other I guess I can't class you two as strangers and therefore can now confess all."
"Oh I like you Rick! Straight to the point, come on then...spill the metaphorical beans!" Doctor grinned while rubbing his hands together.