No Man's Land

The Chamber Room

On the ship, an alien each walked to each individual team member’s cells.

They were all in shock, Alfie stood there staring, Romeo stepped back and shouted ‘’WHAT THE HELL?!” Diane just sighed and stood against the wall saying ‘’I am so done with this,’’ Liam shouted ‘’LET ME GO YOU FREAK’’ and Kurt just stood there in shock ‘’what ARE YOU?”

While taking the team, the aliens didn’t say a word, just gripping the team from behind continuously until they reached a room.

All of the aliens walked in with a team member each.

Once they saw their friends, the team ran towards each other, intending to reunite.

Without any weapons though, they couldn't possibly attempt to escape, their enemies did have weapons however, and grabbed taser like weapons, electrocuting each individual team member, knocking them out.

The five team members slowly began to open their eyes and regain consciousness, they went to get up when they realised they couldn't.

They were in the same room they had been taken to but now had their hands and feet strapped to a table like object, above them was a see through glass cover with a handle.

Diane thought to herself, "they must've put us in here, strapped us down and pulled the cover down so we couldn't escape."

The master alien entered the room through the automatic doors, "begin the gas process in the chambers." He ordered, holding his hands behind his back.

Another alien, who sat at a desk with a computer, pressed a button.

Suddenly in each team member's chamber, gas started flooding in, they began to cough violently before succumbing to the gas and falling asleep.

"Now, begin step three" ordered the master, leaving the room.

The alien at the computer nodded, pushing the same button five times.

Back in Hollyoaks, Theo was making good progress on his blueprints, Frankie still stood outside smoking his second cigarette.

Theo suddenly began to hold his head in his eyes, having flashbacks to Eric's shocked expression as he shot him.

He did not deserve what happened to him, that much was clear but Theo continued to push the idea into his head that he did what needed to be done.

He took his hands away from his face and continued work on his blueprints, although he couldn't help but laugh at the thought of Sofia's deserved demise.

Outside, Frankie took a second to think to himself. He was still in slight disbelief at Theo's work; in a matter of a small amount of time, Theo had gone from a small enemy to the King of Hollyoaks.

Meanwhile, Barbara and Tim's gangs had made fair progress in their work, the teams had split up into groups, some taking over all of the pub area, some going to all of the lone areas, such as the McQueen home, the Maalik home and the Osborne home. Others went to the hospital area and the latter were in the village.

The only place that wasn't taken over was the police station, which Tim and Barbara had no interest in.

Theo began to think of an idea and he walked outside of the restaurant, pulling out his mobile phone and ringing Tim.

Tim answered a few seconds later, "yes?" He asked.

"I need a favour, get a group of you and Barbara's gang together, I want them all searching for a woman" informed Theo.

"Alright I can do that, a woman yes? Do you have a name and description?" Asked Tim.

"I only know her first name, Kathryn. She has blonde hair, a bit over middle age, and wears black most of the time. Got a dagger in the hand very recently so she may have a bandage on it. That's all I know" said Theo.

"Got it. Am I right in understanding that you would like us to kill her on sight, no matter where she is?" Asked Tim.

"Oh no, that is the exact opposite of what I would like you to do. Knock her out somehow and restrain her well, then take her to me and I will finish the job. Got it?" Asked Theo.

"Got it" replied Tim, hanging up the phone.

Theo walked back inside of the restaurant and sat down, cracking his knuckles before getting back to creating his house blueprints, while Frankie still stood outside smoking his cigarette.

Tim went to the hospital area, with Barbara following him, he gathered around ten men, five from each gang, "alright, Theo has ordered for you all to find a target for him. Name is Kathryn, blonde hair, over middle age, wears black clothes, has a recent stab wound on her hand." Informed Tim.

"Alright" said one of the group, as they left the hospital area to begin their investigation.

Back on the ship, each of the chambers opened, every team member became conscious and went to get up, however they were still strapped down.

The alien at the computer talked to the other aliens in a form of extraterrestrial language, which they obviously understood perfectly well, but the team just watched on, not understanding a word.

The aliens had seemingly been given orders by their colleague at the computer, as they walked over to each of the chambers and unstrapped the team, before tasing them with the same weapon as earlier and once again knocking them out.

This time, they all awoke as they were being dragged on the floor inside of their cells, but they couldn't escape the aliens grasp, and were shoved inside of their cells.

The master alien returned to the chamber room, walking over to the alien at the computer and examining the results of each team members memory scan for the last twelve months.

"Anything?" Asked the master.

"Nothing at all. I searched for appearances of his face, ran a separate search for his voice and there's nothing after the day he died" informed the alien at the computer.

"That's simply not possible. Examine the scan results again!" Ordered the master.

"But Sir, there's no way I missed anything, the chances that I did are slim to none-" replied the alien.

"I don't care. Do it" said the master, storming out of the chamber room.

As he returned to the front of the ship his mind was racing, "how is this possible?" He thought to himself.