Eclipse of the Sun | Doctor Who

World War Three Part 1

Laura felt a deadly wave of electricity pass through her as her ID card started to electrocute her. All she felt was pain, she couldn't focus on anything else but the sensation of every single one of her nerve ending frying. Then it all stopped.

Laura gained enough of her composure and collected enough of a grip on reality to see the Doctor standing in front of her holding her ID card in his hand. She was able to catch the raw expression of dread contorting his face into a devastating frown, before the inky blackness that was creeping on the edges of her vision won. Her vision went as she heard her heart beat in her eardrums, she felt herself fall to the ground then she took a breath and accepted her fate.

Soon after he fell to his knees on the ground in front of her. The electricity at twice the dose since he had both hid and Laura's ID tags in a deadly grip, the electricity forcing him to close his hands around them. He gained partial control of his body. Enough to rip off the tag from his own neck.

"Electro-shock. Deadly to humans, except I'm not human am I?" His voice was dangerously icy as he raced towards the uncovered alien then pushed both his and Laura's ID tag against the Slitheens neck. The alien and the man began to scream as they were enveloped in the electricity.

With them being distracted the Doctor crouched down and collected Laura in his arms. Carrying her bridal style as he ran from the room and down the hallways. Running as fast as he couldn't, while trying not to trip.

"Oi," He called to the armed guards in the entrance hall. "If you want aliens, you've got them. They're inside Downing Street. Come on!"

The armed police followed him back to the briefing room where they found the man and the general, the Slitheen had just finished putting back on its skin suit.

"Where have you been?" The man scolded the soldiers. "I called for help. I sounded the alarm. There was this lightning, this kind of, er, electricity, and they all collapsed."

The policemen in the room filtered in to check the bodies in the room. The Doctor walked towards the sergeant so that he could check her pulse. The man raised and pressed two fingers right below her chin on the side of her neck. The Doctor waited with bated breath, silently cursing the man for taking so long.

"She's got a pulse, but it's pretty weak. I think the rest of the lot are dead." The sergeant spoke finally and the Doctor sighed in relief.

"That's what I'm saying." The man yelled and raised a chubby finger at the Doctor. "He did it! That man there. His companion tried to stop him at the last second, but she got shocked as well."

"I think you will find the Prime Minister is an alien in disguise, and why would I endanger her?" The Doctor pointed back at the man. "That's never going to work, is it?"

"No." One of the policemen honestly answered.

The Doctor shruged. "Fair enough." He held Laura tighter to him as he ran from the room and down the corridor, the police chasing after him. He ran through the hallways till there were police on either side, trapping him. He looked down at Laura's unconscious form in distress as he backed against the lift.

"Under the jurisdiction of the Emergency Protocols, I authorise you to execute this man and woman." The Slitheen, in disguise as the general, ordered.

"Well, now, yes," The Doctor tried to stall them while he was thinking of a way to get them both out. "You see... er, the thing is, if I was you, if I was going to execute someone by backing them against the wall," the Doctor pressed the lift button behind him with his elbow as inauspiciously as he could, "Between you and me, little word of advice." The lift dings and the door opened. "Don't stand them against the lift!"