The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

Under the Sea Pt. 2

Walls completely marred by barnacles growing by the clumps, the walls that weren't, filled with bullet holes, seeping with saltwater, and the smell of rotted wood and the stagnant saltwater made breathing increasingly difficult.

A cold breeze wafted through, remedying their problems, but they didn't know where it came from, there's no visible grates in the walls or the floors suggesting an AC.

Walking through the rotted hallway, Theodore and Lila see faint light coming from the distance, upon reaching the end, they see old-timey street lamps, still working despite the area they came from having none.

The large bulbs reminded Lila of something from Edison. Theodore says that they resembled something from him, but there's something off about the bulbs as he's looking at them.

They're not typical bulbs like they initially thought, from afar, they looked like typical bulbs of the time, but the filaments inside weren't anything Theodore recognized.

The bulbs translucent, he's able to see inside with ease, the filaments that made up the innards, looked futuristic, almost.

Hard to explain, but it looked like tiny translucent cylinders in the centre of the bulb, giving off the light. The bulb intensified the light from the cylinders.

It felt like he's standing under the sun, almost, and Lila noticed that the bulbs weren't blazingly hot to the touch, but also risked sunburning them, if you can believe it.

"Theo, I'm getting that feeling again," Lila tensed up as she noticed a pattern.

Leaking saltwater coming from the walls and ceilings, barnacles, street lamps that gave off the feeling of the sun, it's not looking great for their outlook, the more they're searching for answers.

Theodore eased her concerns by reminded her that... well... he didn't have anything comforting to tell her... she wasn't wrong, there's something strange going on here, and the fact there's street lamps replacing the sun isn't helping them much.

Gritting his teeth, Theodore ushered her along as they searched for anything useful and they ended up coming across what appeared to be a black window, like something you see in an aquarium.

Lila stepped up to it, her brown boots clanking against the wooden floor as she looked out the black window.

There's nothing out there, she can't even see anything close, it looked like someone spilled black ink.

Chewing on his inner lip, Theodore attempted to look out the large window with Lila, but he couldn't see anything with his 'Legolas' eyes.

Turning her head, Lila wondered, "What's the point of this window?"

Oh, how she wished she didn't ask that question, because she got her answer, and almost jumped into the bewildered arms of the aloof giant standing next to her.

It started off innocently enough, subtle movements, but then the first tentacle rose from the bottom of the glass, it's ghostly white, long, thick as a pine tree trunk, stark against the blackness, then other tentacles followed.

Slowly, a massive head popped up from the bottom, the gold slit eyes peering inside the glass.

A giant octopus.

... A massive octopus.

... Oh no...

"It's not Cthulhu," Theodore cut Lila's observations short as he studied the large octopus having raised from the bottom where they can't see and it's looking at them.