Eldane led the way, breaking into a run. He didn't have to look back to make sure the others were following; the stampede of their footsteps was enough to wake the dead. Eldane prayed that all of Calcon's forces had been in the room when River blasted the wall. If there were any in the corridor, they were doomed.
Eldane knew the route by heart, and had walked it many times, but he still let out a sigh of relief when the door came into view. His hand found its way to the scanner. He banged on the door impatiently, waiting for it to open. His face fell when he heard the beep, signaling that his fingerprints had been rejected.
"What?" he shouted.
"What is it, what's wrong?" asked the woman called Sarah Jane. Eldane shook his head.
"I don't know, it always lets me in."
Amy groaned. "Calcon must have done something to it," she said.
"She must have figured out what we were going to do," Rory added. A nervous feeling twisted in Eldane's stomach. If Calcon knew where they were, she should be coming.
"How are we going to open the door?" Rory was saying. He grunted as a hand was placed on his shoulder and pulled him back.
9 pushed his way through the crowd, his sonic screwdriver in hand. "I can open it," 9 said. Amy and Sarah Jane stepped aside without hesitation (Rory was still grumbling about being moved). There was a low buzzing, and the door smoothly slid open.
Before 9 could say anything, the rest of his companions, past and future, pushed passed him and fled into the room. 10 and 11 joined him at the door.
"Companions," 9 grumbled. "Can they get any ruder?"
"Well, there's Donna," 10 murmured.
"OI!" she said, elbowing him in the arm as she passed. 9 and 11 exchanged strange glances as 10 rubbed his arm before going into the room.
"Eldon, shut the door," 9 instructed, not looking at the lizard man. Eldane flipped a switch. The door slid close as he murmured, "It's Eldane."
11 hurried over to Eldane, and, thankfully, called him by his real name. "How long will it take for you to set up the gas?"
"The same amount of time as last time," Eldane replied. "Once it's set off, it will actually take a bit longer for the gas to reach here, which should give you time to get back to your TARDIS...es." He narrowed his eyes at 9 and 10, who were both standing next to him overlooking what they were doing. "Who are they, exactly?" Eldane whispered to 11.
"They're me," 11 replied casually, as if it was the most normal thing he could have said at that moment. Eldane stared at him oddly, his mouth opening and closing, his eyebrows raised. He noticed a woman with dark skin standing next to him.
"Should I ask?" he whispered, glancing at the Doctors, who had gotten bored watching him and began either talking to the other companions or working on the wiring of the console.
The girl (Martha, her name was) shook her head. "It will be a lot faster for you not to. But if we make it out of this madness alive," she added as an afterthought, "I will tell you as much as I know."

Calcon cried out angrily as her guards fled out of the hall. She bared her teeth and hissed, lashing her tongue in their direction, but they paid her no mind. As the wall came crashing down, they scurried away like frightened little rats, causing anger to well up inside her. She took a step in the direction of the guards when she heard the infernal ape with the gun shout out, "Come on!"
Calcon spun on her heels, crying out in anger as she saw the apes clambering over the rubble into the corridor on the other side. She took a step forward, but the ape called River raised her gun and fingered the trigger. Calcon still had her gun, and could have taken the ape out in a second, but the other apes (where the hell did they all come from?!) would attack her. And as much as she hated to admit it, not even Calcon could handle that many apes. Calcon took a step back in surrender as River dove over the rubble and disappeared. Calcon was by herself.
She screamed in anger, and kicked the nearest thing, which happened to be a rock. She picked it up and threw it down.
"It shouldn't be this hard to kill apes," she hissed. "But now they're running amok around my city!"
Her eyes fell on the body of the ape girl who had made that escape from the cell. She now lay on the floor, dead as a doornail. There was a blank expression on her face, but her eyes were closed, which must have been the work of another ape.
She stomped over to the body, and shoved it to the side with her foot. It flopped over to the side limply, the head lolling. Calcon smiled at the sight of the dead girl.
"This is what all those apes should look like," she whispered to herself. She had to find those awful monsters before they had a chance to stop her invasion plan.
Calcon suddenly remembered how her sisters died. Alaya was killed by a human, but Restac was killed by gas. The gas was the best way to contain Calcon and the rest of the Silurians. It worked last time. That must be what they're doing, Calcon thought. A small smile crossed her face.
Without hesitation, Calcon hurried over to a control panel, hidden away from sight in the back of the room. She dragged her long nail down the side of it in the crack and it popped open. She reached in and pulled a switch to the door controls. Nothing that she could see happened, but somehow, she knew that would stop them. Or at least slow them down.
Calcon rubbed her head where those accursed boxes, wherever they had come from (because the one that those first five apes arrived in was in storage), had hit her. She winced. Just touching the bumps send a wave of pain and nausea through her. She growled. One more thing she would have to get revenge on those bloody apes for.
Calcon had to think of something else. She knew the locked door wouldn't keep them out of the laboratory for long. Her hand lazily went to her belt. What was originally instinct turned into an idea, one that Calcon was surprised she hadn't thought of beforehand. A small smile crossed her face. She considered calling her troops, but then decided against it. She didn't need anyone else's help, especially not from a group of scaredy cats, running from stupid little apes and a few rocks.
No. Calcon could handle the apes herself.

Maria felt useless. Sarah Jane was hurrying around, making sure everyone was OK. The woman, Martha, Maria thought her name was, was doing the same. Even Rory was doing that. Everyone else was standing in front of the door, making sure it wasn't about to open.
Absentmindedly, Maria wandered over to the Doctors and Eldane, who were making good work of the console controls. She watched what they were doing for a second, pretending to understand.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Maria asked 9. He shook his head and waved her off, not even paying any attention to her. 10, however, was much kinder.
"Yes, you could," he said. "Could you please go grab those tools from over there?" He pointed to a small rack of tools near a green chair, and went back to work.
Maria walked over there slowly, still feeling like the young girl she had been when she met Sarah Jane. She was 23 years old. She shouldn't be feeling so useless.
"Doctor," she called. All three of them glanced up at her, and Maria added, "The one with good hair." 9 put his head down, but 11 and 10 still stared at her. Maria giggled slightly, and 10 and 11 exchanged glances.
"She means me," said 10.
"I think she means me," 11 replied.
"No, me."
"Me."
"Me."
"Oh for g-d's sake, Doctor," Amy called. "She doesn't mean you."
10 and 11 faced each other again and called out at the same time, "I told you so!"
Maria glanced at them, arguing with each other stupidly. 9 stood up straight and said, "Shut up, the both of you. Are you going to blabber on all night?"
"I meant the one I showed up with," Maria told them, somewhat sad that their arguing was ending. 11's face fell, and was soon replaced by a look of embarrassment. 10 looked victorious.
"What do you need?" 10 asked, sounding pleased.
"Which tools do you need?" Maria asked.
"I need a Bandsicslavian Holdmatrix," 10 said casually, turning his focus back onto the console in front of him. Maria stared at him incredulously.
"A bandlestalvic hashmacker?"
"No," 10 replied, looking up. "A Band-sick-sla-vi-an Hold-may-tricks."
Maria stared at him. "I don't know what that looks like," Maria called. Eldane, however, glanced up.
"A Bandsicslavian Holdmatrix?"Eldane repeated. "There should be one in that storage room over there." Maria nodded and went inside, looking for the bandlestacious handslatrack.

Sarah Jane checked in with everyone, making sure they were alright, and everyone was there. She sighed in relief as she realized nobody was missing. She glanced over at the Doctors, who were all working on the gassing of the city. She hoped they would be finished soon. They had barely been there ten minutes, and she and Maria's life had already been put at risk.
Speaking of Maria, she noticed Maria going into a room. She had just heard their conversation, and was glad Maria was trying to help. There was a small crowd of people in front of the door (Martha, Mickey, Rory, Amy, Donna, Rose, and River, who was standing right by the door, her gun armed), and they were ready for anyone who tried to enter the room.
Sarah Jane was about to go ask the Doctors and Eldane if they needed her help as well as Maria's when she smelled something. She winced as the smell got stronger. She started gasping, gaining the attention of the others.
"Sarah Jane, are you ok?" She saw Rory start heading over for her. She nodded and tried to get a few words out. She was overcome with more hacking, and she shook her head.
"I don't," was all she got out before everything went dark.

Amy spun around as she heard the coughing, as did everyone else by the door. Sarah Jane was bent over, her hands on her knees coughing hard. She looked as if she couldn't breath.
"Sarah Jane," Rory said slowly. "Are you alright?"
At first, Sarah Jane nodded. Then she started coughing some more, and covered her face with her hand. She shook her head, wheezing and gasping. She tried to say something, but it came out garbled. Amy gasped as Sarah Jane suddenly fell to the floor.
She was only the first of them to drop. Suddenly, Rory, who had been approaching her, began hacking and coughing. Amy made a move for Rory, but he put a hand out. He only lasted a few seconds before he collapsed, clearly out cold.
One by one, everyone in the room began gasping for air, and keeled over. Eldane collapsed, followed by 10 and 9. 11 tried to stumble over to Amy, but keeled over a few feet away. And before she knew it, Amy was overcome with coughing. Gasping and wheezing, just as Rory and Sarah Jane had done, she collapsed.

Ok, this should have been the second to last chapter, however, I came up with one last little obstical for them. So enjoy :)
As I have been saying for a few chapters, Companion Pains is coming to a close. I personally, am very proud of myself :) This is the longest story I have ever written.
It's also Election Day here in America, so that means... NO SCHOOL FOR ME! HAZZAH! I plan to write all day. I think I might be able to finish writing this story today, so within the next week or two, Companion Pains should be finished.
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