WHO SAW THE 50TH?! MEEEEEE!
Sorry I haven't updated I was on VACATION!
Chapter 11
"Grab this equipment and follow me." The Doctor ordered.
"Why? What're we doing?" Nasreen asked.
"That noise isn't a drill, its transport. Three of them, thirty kilometers down. Rate of speed looks about a hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. Should be here in oh, quite soon. Twelve minutes. Whatever bio-programmed the Earth is on its way up, now."
The Doctor grabbed the computer and rushed out of the room and outside. He needed to stop this or at least make peace with the creatures coming up.
"How can something be coming up when there's only the Earth's crust down there?" Tony asked him.
"You saw the readings!" The Doctor exclaimed, walking faster and rushing ahead of Tony.
"Who are you, anyway?" Nasreen asked him, rushing forward to meet up with him. "How can you know all this?"
The Doctor was saved from having to answer her question when the sky suddenly flashed bright red with lightning.
"Whoa! Did you see that?" Nasreen exclaimed, turning around to face them.
"No, no, no!" The Doctor yelled. He pulled a sling-shot out of his jacket and fired a small stone up into the air. It hit a red force field, making it visible for just a second before it turned invisible again.
He scanned the air with his sonic screwdriver and studied the readings. "Energy signal originating from under the Earth. We're trapped." He sighed and scanned the air again, this time making the force field completely visible for everyone to see.
"Doctor, something weird's going on here, the graves are eating people." The Doctor heard Rory yell behind him.
"Not now Rory!" The Doctor yelled. "Energy barricade, invisible to the naked eye. We can't get out and no one from the outside world can get in."
"What? Okay, what about the TARDIS?" Rory asked.
"The what?" Nasreen asked.
"Er, no." The Time Lord sighed. "Those energy patterns would play havoc with the circuits. With a bit of time, maybe, but we've only got nine and a half minutes." He glanced at his watch to confirm.
"Nine and a half minutes to what?" Rory asked, glancing at his own watch.
"We're trapped, and something's burrowing towards the surface." Nasreen explained quickly.
"Ok… where's Amy?" Rory asked. The Doctor sighed, he knew Rory was going to ask that sooner or later, but the Doctor didn't want to have to explain… he felt too guilty.
"I'll get her back Rory, I swear." He said, almost in a whisper. "Get everyone in the church." He told Nasreen.
"W-what do you mean 'get her back?' Where's she gone?" Rory asked in a wavering voice.
"She was taken. Into the Earth." The Doctor told him.
"How? Why didn't you stop it?" Rory asked, his voice rising.
"I tried, I promise, I tried." The Doctor said, trying to keep his own voice from rising.
"Well you should have tried harder!" Rory yelled, and the Doctor snapped.
"I lost someone I care about too, Rory!" The Doctor practically screamed. Rory glanced around and finally noticed that Rose was missing. Rory lowered his gaze. "I'm sorry…" He whispered.
The Doctor dropped his head and turned around. He followed the others into the church.
He had lost too many people today. Mo, Amy, Rose… and he didn't need anyone telling him that he should've tried harder to save them.
Because he knew he should've.
They began setting up inside the church. "So, the thing that took my husband is coming up through the Earth, and we're trapped here?" Ambrose, Tony's adult daughter, asked.
"Yes. If we move quickly enough, we can be ready." The Doctor told her.
"No, stop. This has gone far enough. What is this?" Ambrose asked, her voice cracking. The Doctor sighed and rubbed his forehead. If only everyone would stop asking questions, then maybe he could think of a way to get the others back.
"He's telling the truth, love." Tony told her, putting a comforting arm around Ambrose.
"Come on. It's not the first time we've had no mobile or phone signals. Reception's always rubbish." Ambrose countered.
"Look, Ambrose. We saw the Doctor's friends get taken, okay?" Nasreen said. "You saw the lightning in the sky. I have seen the impossible today, and the only person who's made any sense of it for me, is the Doctor." The Doctor smiled at her. He liked Nasreen, she was clever.
"Him?" Ambrose pointed to the Doctor.
"Me." The Doctor confirmed.
"Can you get my dad back?" The little boy, Elliot, asked him.
Silence.
"Yes. But I need you to trust me and do exactly as I say from this second onwards, because we're running out of time." The Doctor said.
"So tell us what to do." Ambrose cut in.
"Thank you. We have eight minutes to set up a line of defense. Bring me every phone, every camera, every piece of recording or transmitting equipment you can find." He instructed. The Doctor ran outside. "Every burglar alarm, every motion sensor, every security light, I want this whole place covered in sensors!"
They began setting up all the sensors around the entire building. They needed to be ready for what was coming from under the ground. The Doctor enhanced all the sensors with his sonic screwdriver.
"I need a map of the village marking where the cameras are going." The Doctor said, clapping Elliot on the shoulder.
"I can't do the words, I'm dyslexic." Elliot said sheepishly.
"Oh, that's all right, I can't make a decent meringue. Draw like your life depends on it, Elliot." He told the boy. Elliot smiled at the Doctor and ran off.
The Doctor checked the computer that Tony was working at. "Works in quadrants. Every movement sensor and trip light we've got. If anything moves, we'll know." Tony told him.
"Good lad!" The Doctor exclaimed, clapping Tony on the back.
The Doctor ran outside to examine Ambrose's Meals on Wheels van.
"Oi!" Ambrose exclaimed. "What are you doing?"
"Resources, every little helps." The Doctor said. "The Meals on wheels. What've you got here, then? Warmer in the front, refrigerated in the back."
Ambrose stuck an armful of cricket bats and rifles into the back of the van. "Bit chilly for a hideout, mind."
"What are those?" The Doctor said, pointing to the messy pile of bats and guns.
"Like you said, every little helps." Ambrose answered, pulling away and dusting off her hands.
"No, no weapons. 'S not the way I do things." He told her, giving a slight smile.
"You said we're supposed to be defending ourselves!" Ambrose protested.
"Oh, Ambrose, you're better than this. I'm asking nicely. Put them away." The Doctor finished. He gave her a half smile and turned to walk back inside.
Once he was inside Elliot ran up to him with a perfect map. "Look at that!" The Doctor exclaimed, taking the map from Elliot and staring at it in awe. "Perfect! Dyslexia never stopped Da Vinci or Einstein. It's not stopping you!"
Elliot looked up at him and smiled before saying "Thanks. I think I left my head phones at home." Elliot turned and ran back outside.
Elliot wanted to get away, go to a city, but once he did he would realize how much he missed this place and he would come back. The Doctor missed his home greatly
And he could never go back.
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