𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒔 ☆ The Glorious Series ｟ BOOK 1 ｠

The Hungry Earth [Part 3]

Inside the church...

The countdown showed 3:23. Elliot ran in with his map and gave it to The Doctor.

"Look at that! Perfect! Dyslexia never stopped Da Vinci or Einstein, it's not stopping you."

"I don't understand what you're going to do."

"Two phase plan. First, the sensors and cameras will tell us when something arrives. Second, if something does arrive, I use this to send a sonic pulse through that network of devices, a pulse which could temporarily incapacitate most things in the universe."

"Knock 'em out. Cool."

"Lovely place to grow up, round here." The Doctor said casually as he worked at a computer.

"Suppose. I want to live in a city one day. Soon as I'm old enough, I'll be off."

"I was the same, where I grew up."

"Did you get away?"

"Yeah."

"Do you ever miss it?"

The Doctor turned to look at Elliot. "So much."

"Is it monsters coming? Have you met monsters before?"

"Yeah."

"You scared of them?"

"No! They're scared of me."

"Will you really get my dad back?"

"No question." He went back to working on the computer.

"I left my headphones at home." Elliot walked out of the church.

The Doctor looked at the screen, the countdown showed just over a minute.

Graveyard, Dark...

Rory was setting up a camera on one of the gravestones.

"How're you doing?" The Doctor asked coming up behind him.

"It's getting darker." He looked up at the sky to see the light being blocked.

"How can it be getting dark so quickly?" Lexi asked popping up from behind another gravestone causing The Doctor jump.

"Ah! Well, shutting out light from within the barricade. Trying to isolate us in the dark. Which means..." They all heard a rumbling. "It's here."

A few minutes later...

The Doctor, Lexi, Rory and Ambrose were heading back into the church. Ambrose was having trouble with the door.

"I can't open it! It keeps sticking! The wood's warped."

The Doctor tried opening the door. He turned back to Lexi and Rory. "Any time you want to help."

"Can't you sonic it?" Rory asked.

"It doesn't do wood!"

"That is rubbish!"

"Oi! Don't diss the sonic!"

Lexi sniggered at that. She and Rory joined them and the four opened the door.

They made their way inside the church to join Tony and Nasreen as the church door slammed shut behind them. The ground was shaking due to the imminent arrival,

"See if we can get a fix." The Doctor ran to the computer. Items were falling off shelves. He narrowed down the area with the program Tony set up. The computers sparked as the power went out.

"No power." Tony stated,

"It's deliberate."

"What do we do now?" Rory asked.