CHAPTER 6

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Rose removed the information that she needed from Lilith's mind in seconds.

"They've planted a bomb on a timer at the press conference that's set to go off in fifteen minutes. It'll kill everyone there. They were planning on killing all of the company executives at once. They were all going to attend that meeting tonight.

Once that happened, Lilith would be the senior person in the company and be able to publish whatever she wanted. Victoria was to be Lilith's alibi for the time that the bomb was planted so that no one would suspect her of being the culprit and keep her from getting the company.

Lilith was then going to hand Verity Newman a specially printed copy of her book to read that would have contained a spell that would have freed all of the Carrionites once she read it aloud at her next book conference," Rose said in alarm.

"Where is the bomb?" Martha asked quickly.

"It's buried under the podium that the main speaker is going to use," Rose said.

Rose communicated all of this information telepathically to Sister of Mine while Martha told the UNIT soldiers on guard at the conference where the bomb was.

The soldiers quickly found and disarmed the bomb with minutes to spare. Rose, the Doctor, Martha, Victoria and Ileana soon arrived on the scene to make sure that it was really all over. Lilith had already been placed in a specially prepared cage at the closest UNIT HQ.

Rose kept feeling an ominous foreboding despite their having found the bomb. She really wouldn't put it past the two remaining Carrionites to strike again in some other way despite Lilith being captured.

Rose was right. The other two Carrionites were already carrying out a backup plan that they had come up with after Lilith was captured in case she gave up the location of the bomb.

The two of them had disguised themselves as normal looking middle-aged women and had been watching the conference from a couple of hundred feet away to make sure that the bomb went off. They abandoned the plan once UNIT found it.

Now they were carrying out the back-up plan as they went to find Verity Newman who was a mile away at a bookstore signing copies of her books. Sister of Mine had seen them observing the press conference and became suspicious when they suddenly left once the bomb was disarmed. She was following them now inside of the side view mirror of their car.

The two Carrionites finally arrived at the bookstore and stood watching Verity for a few moments. They waited until she finished signing books for a few people waiting at her table, and then walked up to her once she was alone.

"We wish to talk to you for a moment. We have need of your services," Mother Doomfinger said.

"What do you mean? Do you want me to sign books at a bookstore or hold a reading somewhere? You'll have to go through the publishing company to arrange that. I can give you their number if you want it," Verity asked them.

"No, we aren't interested in any of that. We want you to help us in another way," Mother Doomfinger said as she placed her hand on Verity's face and began to whisper a spell under her breath.

Sister of Mine entered the bookstore through the reflection in a window and rushed towards the two Carrionites to stop them, but it was already too late. Verity fainted unconscious on the floor of the store as the two Carrionites turned to confront her.

"What did you do to her?" Sister of Mine said as the Carrionites cackled at her.

"Nothing of your concern Sister of Mine for soon you will be a sapling pine," Mother Bloodtide said with laughter.

Sister of Mine looked at her body in horror as she started slowly changing into a small pine tree right in the middle of the store! Her feet started to actually sprout roots, and the roots started going through the concrete.

A golden burst of light appeared from out of nowhere, and Rose emerged to do battle with the Carrionites. She undid their spell on Sister of Mine with a wave of her hand before it had gotten too far for even her to fix.

"Thank you!" Sister of Mine said with relief as her body returned to normal.

"Thank you for leading us here. We might not have found them without you," Rose said.

"You'd think that you would learn the power of the name Joan Redfern," Mother Doomfinger said as she pointed her finger at her.

"That won't work. Lilith already used that one on me. The power of the naming only works once," Rose said with a smirk.

"So it does. We know another name though of someone that you will never forget. A lovely lady by the name of . . . Reinette!" Mother Bloodtide cackled as she pointed her finger at Rose.

Instead of feeling pain though, Rose became extremely angry instead. She held out her hand and pointed her finger at Mother Bloodtide as she said, "It doesn't work on me now that I'm prepared for it. Let me show you some of my power instead. You will soon be brushed aside Mother Bloodtide. I am not the person that you want to face because I can scatter you across time and space!"

Mother Bloodtide began to scream as she slowly started to fade away. Mother Doomfinger quickly started to run, but she was confronted by Ileana.

"This is the end of the line for you, Carrionite!" Ileana said.

"Soon this world to the Carrionites will be nirvana once I have eliminated you my fair Ileana!" Mother Doomfinger said as she pointed her finger at Ileana.

Ileana clutched her heart and fell to the ground. Mother Doomfinger smirked at her and began to walk by her. To her surprise, Ileana suddenly got up off the ground and grabbed her by the leg.

"You seem to have forgotten that my heart doesn't beat!" Ileana said with a sneer as she swiftly knocked the Carrionite out.

Martha swiftly had UNIT soldiers drag Mother Doomfinger away to be locked up along with Lilith.

"What happened to Mother Bloodtide?" Martha asked Rose.

"Let's just say that she's back in a familiar scene," Rose said with a grin.

She held up the crystal ball that Lilith had had in her office. Mother Bloodtide was trapped inside of it and screaming away at her. She handed it to Martha who couldn't help but laugh at the Carrionite's angry expression.

"So I guess that's it then?" the Doctor said as he came up to them.

"Not quite. Verity Newman disappeared during the battle," Rose said as she noticed that the author was gone from where she had been lying on the floor.

"So? She got frightened and went home," the Doctor said.

"The Carrionites did something to her. I saw one of them touch her and whisper something to her before she fainted," Sister of Mine said.

"She's their back-up plan. They're going to make her do something to help free the others. They probably want her to speak some spell at a certain time and place," the Doctor reasoned.

"Those Redferns are nothing but trouble!" Rose said with a groan as she looked pointedly at the Doctor.

The Doctor looked back at her warily. He knew that he hadn't heard the last of this.

Next: Rose, the Doctor, and the other heroes rush to find Verity before she carries out the Carrionites' final plan. Can they figure out what it is in time?