Cara, the third regeneration of the Time Lord called "Neas," brings her young companions Gumball and Darwin Watterson to 1982 Antarctica where they discover a disturbing alien parasite capable of mimicking whatever form it takes hold of. Trapped in...
Cara wanted to encourage Gumball and Darwin not to freak out...to tell them that there was nothing to worry about and she had been in worse situations than her right hand being assimilated by an alien parasite.
But, truthfully, she was just as terrified as the boys.
She could feel herself losing control of her hand each second that passed.
The eye that grew on her palm was accompanied by the weirdest sensation as she felt it move and blink. It made her want to vomit.
"How the heck did this happen?!" An unnerved Gumball questioned.
"It had to have been from the direct contact with Blair, when he touched my face," Cara presumed.
"Is it just your hand?" Darwin wondered. "Has it gotten to any other part of you?!"
He unknowingly helped Cara to realize one helpful fact.
"It hasn't reached the rest of me yet! It's just my hand! There's still time to—"
Suddenly, she found herself the victim of a strangling committed by her assimilated hand.
Gumball and Darwin tried to pry it off her, both grasping onto Cara's right arm.
Unfortunately, the assimilated appendage defended itself, using Cara's momentum to swat the boys away. "I'm so sorry," she empathically said, despite the act being no fault of her own.
She wrestled with her possessed hand, managing to wrench it off her neck and pin it down on the control console with her left knee.
"Gumball," she beckoned in her struggle. "Reach into the secret compartment and get me the Sontaran plasma dagger stashed there!"
Her instruction made no sense whatsoever to him, but he did as he was told.
He looked inside the secret compartment from the T.A.R.D.I.S. control console and pulled out the first thing he saw that resembled a dagger among several alien tools and weapons, handing it over to Cara.
What happened next horrified Gumball and Darwin.
Lacking the slightest bit of hesitation, Cara sliced off her assimilated hand!
Fighting through the agonizing pain, she opened the T.A.R.D.I.S. doors, exposing them to the swirling blue vortex of the infinite dimensional corridor outside.
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She grabbed her living amputated hand before it could crawl its way off the blood-drenched control console, and she hurled it out through the opened T.A.R.D.I.S. doors, closing them immediately afterward.
