Doctor Who S2 E1: Who's Afraid Of The Dark?

Chapter 5:

The Doctor and Sally both went sprinting thought the hallways in a hurry to get back to the dear star engine. "Doctor where are we going?" Sally asked. The Doctor didn't answer her because he didn't have time to explain what was going on. He needed to concentrate on stopping the dead star engine from exploding.

As The Doctor went running into the engine room he quickly shut the door before Sally could follow him inside. "What the hell are you doing!" Sall said as she was forced to stop due to the door being closed.

"I'm sorry Sally but this is one thing I'm not letting you join me on." The Doctor said.

Sally slammed her hand on the door in anger before saying "God dam it! You're infuriating sometimes. Can you at least tell me what's going on?"

"The dead start engine hasn't stabilised itself and now its gone critical." The Doctor said.

"Can you stop it?" Sally said.

"Honestly. I don't know but if this thing goes off it will become a black hole." The Doctor said before he rushed over to the farness window so he could check on the surrounding forcefield. This is when he saw that it was flickering. This wasn't a good sign. This meant that the forcefield was losing its structure. It wasn't going to hold for much longer. "Yeah that seems to fit this day down to a tee." The Doctor said.

"Surly that's a good thing. All we've gotta do is get off this ship in The Tardis and let the black whole do it's thing." Sally said.

The Doctor rushed back over to the door and said "No Sally that would be very very bad. A black whole would slowly eat everything in this universe until there's nothing left."

"So that would be worse than the Daegon getting of this ship?" Sally said.

"Yes. A lot worse." The Doctor replied before he disappeared back into the engine room. He went to go and check on the dead star itself now. The only way he could get a proper look at it was to open the hatch of the farness and look directly inside the farness.

The Doctor rushed over to the hatch, unlocked the door and pulled the door open releasing this massive bright red light came shining out along with flickers of blur from the failing forcefield. The Doctor started to squint as the light hit him so, he pulled up his hand to cover the light from his eyes. To give his eyes time to adjusted to how bright it was while he was walking inside.

As his eyes slowly stated to adjusted he could start to make out that the start was starting to bubbling like molten hot lava. As the bubbles were popping it was hitting the forcefield it was burning holes in it. This is what was causing the forefield to lose it structure so quickly. The Doctor needed to find a way to stabilise the dead star before it was too late.

Larry and Astra were sprinting down the hallways still with the Daegon on there tails as the ships alarm started to go off. "What the hell is that?" Larry screamed.

"Don't worry about that now! Focus on not dying.2 Astra screamed. They ran thought a different section of the hallway and before they had time to shut the door the Daegon came crashing thought it smashing it to pieces. Astra was trying to lead the Daegon into the main cargo hold as she knew that was the best place to try and lose it. The question was weather they could survive long enough to get there.

The Daegon was getting closer to Larry every second. They turned a corner and the Daegon came racing around smashing into the wall were it couldn't slow itself down quick enough but, this gave Astra and Larry enough time to open the door to the main cargo room and disappear amongst the cargo.

The Daegon smashed thought yet another door. This was the door into the main cargo hold. It quickly stopped itself and started sniffing around to find Astra and Larry's sent. The Hunt was on once again. Larry and Astra decided to hid within one of the cargo containers when they flet like they were far enough away from the Daegon to give them some time to breathe before they carry on moving.

"Okay you need to tell me what this alarm means?" Larry asked.

Astra looked at him as she tired to catch her breath. "It means that the dead star engine has gone critical. It's only a matter of time before this whole ship blows up." Astra said.

Larry run his hand though his hair before saying. " This day just keeps getting better and better doesn't it."

Astra chuckled. "Yeah you can say that again. I never thought this would be how I die. I always thought I would go peacefully in bed surround by my family. Not on a ship by either getting ripped to shreds of getting blown up."

"Stop talking like that. We're going to get out of this. Even though it doesn't feel like it. We will. I promise. Larry said.

"How are you so confident about that?" Astra asked.

"Because we have one massive advantage in this whole situation. The Doctor." Larry said.

"I'm sorry but I don't believe that one man can save all of us from this." Astra said.

Larry smiled "That just shows that you don't know The Doctor because we've delt with a lot worse than this believe it or not and we've always come out in one piece because of him."

Astra answered back "It sounds like you been though a lot with him."

"Yes I have. A heck of a lot and he's never let me down and I don't think he's going to start now." Larry said confidently.

Astra asked "Who even is he?"

Larry smiled and said "That's a very good question. One I think you should ask him yourself."

"I will if we make it out of this." Astra said.

"No. You will ask him when we get out of this. Now I think we should get out of here and get back to The Doctor." Larry said as he got to his feet and pushed the container door open so he could take a peak outside. The cost was clear for now but the Daegon was still in there with them. If they were going to go now was the time. Larry looked back at Astra "Come on. Now's our best time to get out of here." He said. Astra got tot her feet and they both left the container to go and find The Doctor and Sally.