To Be Forgotten

Chapter 7 - Cold Blood

Cold Blood, part 1 -

The Doctor led the way down into the city, "This place is enormous and deserted. The majority of the race are probably still asleep. We need to find Amy."

The Oracle held her sonic up, "Looking for heat signature anomalies."

"But, how can all this be here? I mean these plants", Nasreen looked around.

"Must be getting closer to the centre of the city", he observed.

"You're sure this is the best way to enter?"

"Front door approach. Definitely. Always the best way", he nodded.

There was an alarm, "Hostile life forms detected area seventeen."

"Apart from the back door approach", the Oracle took his hand, "That's also good, usually better."

They attempted to turn back but the front door opened and more warriors in the same attire as Alaya came out, then they came from the other side as well.

"Doctor."

"Those hostile life forms the computer's talking about. You should be looking for those. Cause we're not armed", the Oracle raised her hands, "We come in peace, always."

The warriors fired their guns at them, a gas enveloping them. They passed put. They woke up tied to a girdle in a laboratory. When the Oracle woke up, the Doctor was screaming in pain as he was being scanned.

"What are you doing to him? Stop it", the Oracle started thrashing about, becoming protective of her husband.

"How can they have escaped? This proves all prisoners should remain under military guard", a female Silurian told the scientist.

"I'm sure you'd prefer to be in charge of everything and everyone, Restac, but we rank the same. Is there any word from Alaya?", the scientist asked.

"Please, we came here to talk. We'll talk about Alaya. Just stop hurting him", the Oracle tried again.

The scientist gave her a short glance before turning back to Restac and his work, "It's fine to show concern, you know. She's part of your gene-chain. I'm decontaminating now."

"Decontamination? No, no, no", the Doctor protested, before crying out again.

"It's all right. It won't harm you. I'm only neutralising all your ape bacteria", the scientist explained.

"He's not an ape", the Oracle spoke over the Doctor's screams, "We're not apes. You scanned him, please, look at the scans. Two hearts. Totally different species. Not ape at all! Remove all human germs, you remove half the things keeping him alive, please stop!"

The scientist looked at his monitor and then turned off the decontamination, letting the Doctor breathe. Restac protested, "No, complete the process."

"Oh, that's much better, thanks. Thanks, darling", he turned from the Silurians back to his wife and then back again, "Not got any celery, have you? No. No, not really the climate. Tomatoes, though. You'd do a roaring trade in those. I'm the Doctor. That's my wife, the Oracle. Oh, and there's Nasreen. Good."

The scientist pointed something in Nasreen's face and she woke up, "Oh, a green man."

Restac walked closer to the Doctor and he asked, "Hello. Who are you?"

"Restac, Military commander."

"Oh dear, really? There's always a military, isn't there?"

"Your weapon was attacking the oxygen pockets above our city", the scientist told them.