Earth Grazer || Doctor Who

XXXVI. Cathica to the Rescue

~unedited~

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Ella and the others gawked at the holo-monitor, "oh, my God. His head!"

"What the hell's he done? What the hell's he gone and done? They're reading his mind. He's telling them everything." Well, now Adam was definitely getting sent home.

"And through him, I know everything about you." Those words caused a frenzy to go over the group and now they were actively trying to get out of the manacles. "Every piece of information in his head is now mine and you have infinite knowledge, Doctor. The Human Empire is tiny compared to what you've seen in your T-A-R-D-I-S. Tardis!"

"You'll never get your hands on it. We'll die first," Ella declared. Her wrists were getting red from the strain of trying to escape.

"Die all you like. I don't need you. I've got the key." Somehow a Tardis key rises from Adam's pocket that Ella recognized as the one belonging to Rose since he hasn't earned his own yet.

"You and your boyfriends," the Doctor looked in Rose's direction.

The Editor continued as if he didn't say anything, "Today, we are the headlines. We can rewrite history. We could prevent mankind from ever developing." As much as she could move, Ella nudged the Doctor in the side and subtly nodded towards Cathica's reflection. The small look he shot back at her told her that was already his plan.

"And no one's going to stop you because you've bred a human race that doesn't bother to ask questions. Stupid little slaves, believing every lie." Ella studied the woman in the reflection and the emotions that crossed her face, she saw the idea the Doctor gave her take root. "They'll just trot right into the slaughter house if they're told it's made of gold." The Jagrafess snarled then, and Cathica turns and leaves.

Cathica found a broadcasting room not far off from where the others were being held, she haphazardly pushed the corpse onto the floor and disengaged the safety. She quickly gained maximum access, overrode floor 139 and severed Adam's connection so the Editor could no longer use him for information. Cathica started to think about everything she learned today, she needed something. The Doctor's words from earlier came back to her, they pump heat out of that creature and vent it to the rest of the station.

"Someone's disengaged the safety," the Editor snapped once again and they were shown another holo-monitor this time featuring Ella's favorite journalist, Cathica. "Who's that?!"

"It's Cathica!" Rose exclaimed in mild shock as a small smile creeped on her face at the tiny glimmer of hope they got.

"And she's thinking," the Doctor had a bigger smile.

"She's using what she knows," Ella knew Cathica wouldn't abandon them.

"Terminate her access," the Editor sternly whispered to Suki's corpse.

"Everything we told her about Satellite Five. The pipes, the filters, she's reversing it!" The Doctor sounded so happy it made Ella smile.

"Look it's getting hot," Ella pointed out the ice in the room and possibly on the rest of the floor was starting to melt.

"I said, terminate." The Editor shouted at Suki when she didn't do much to stop Cathica. "Burn out her mind," he gritted his teeth with his words.