Last Timelady In Space

The impossible planet part two

"And that man who just left, that was Toby Zed, Archaeology, and this is Scooti Manista, Trainee maintenance. And this? This is home." Ida continued as if Danny had never piped in.

Ida pulls down a lever that is connected to the ceiling. As she pulls it, Zach tells them,  "Brace yourselves. The sight of it sends some people mad."   The shutters overhead pull back to reveal a white-hot, angry, disc with a black centre and black dots falling into it.

"That's a black hole." Rose exclaimed in shock. None of the three could believe what they were seeing.  "But that's impossible." The Doctor said whilst his daughter just gawped at the empty black pit above their heads. Both timelords look on in wonder and confusion. It shouldn't be possible but there they were.

"I did warn you." The captain said barely sparing them a glance. "We're standing under a black hole." The Doctor sputtered out, still in disbelief.  "In orbit." Ida cheerily told the wide-eyed travellers, had it been her in their shoes she'd be just the same and she knew it.

"But we can't be, it's not possible." The female timelord said, trying to desperately come up with an explanation. She was not one to disbelieve in impossible things, how could she be with what she was and what she'd seen but this, this was one step too far. This she couldn't believe. It was a known fact that this was impossible. It had to be because if it wasn't, everything she knew, everything she'd learnt, everything she believed in was in question.

"You can see for yourself. We're in orbit." The cheery older crewmember said. She was right though, they could see it. And it threw every one of them.

"But we can't be." Both timelords replied immediately, both struggling with the physics and the laws of all the universes of it all.

"This lump of rock is suspended in perpetual geostationary orbit around that black hole without falling in. Discuss." Ida said, just to see what they would say. "And that's bad, yeah?" Rose asked both timelords.  "Bad doesn't cover it. A black hole's a dead star. It collapses in on itself, in and in and in until the matter's so dense and tight it starts to pull everything else in too. Nothing in the universe can escape it. Light, gravity, time. Everything just gets pulled inside and crushed." The doctor told her the truth, well he told what he thought to be true.

"So, they can't be in orbit. We should be pulled right in." Rose summarised, if that was the case how was it possible? Then again how was anything she had seen since meeting the Doctor and then Raiah possible?

"We should be very dead." Her best friend responded grimly. All three heads turned to Ida when she said, "And yet here we are, beyond the laws of physics. Welcome on board."

"But if there's no atmosphere out there, what's that?" Rose asked inquisitively, looking up at the sky, well more accurately the big gap in the sky. In the absence of anything up there. It was a haunting sight, especially when you were so used to seeing worlds teeming with life.

"Stars breaking up. Gas clouds. We have whole solar systems being ripped apart above our heads, before falling into that thing." Ida told the curious blond, she did notice that the other two were extremely quiet. Maybe in a state of deep concentration and lost in thought.

"So, a bit worse than a storm, then." Rose says rhetorically. Despite not needing an answer Ida does reply to Rose, "Just a bit."

"Just a bit, yeah." Rose repeats as a smaller but still strong quake happens again. 

"Close door 1." The door says as Toby re-enters the room. As he re-enters the room, the man says, whilst walking over to the console,   "The rocket link's fine."  Zach calls up a hologram over the central console, stating  "That's the black hole, officially designated K three seven Gen five."