Shattering Time [5] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Flesh and Stone

The Doctor and the Stone stood up and stared at the 'ceiling' which was really just the ground. "Up." The Doctor ordered. "Look up."

"Are you okay?" River asked Amy.

"What happened?" She frowned looking around.

"We jumped."

"Jumped where?"

"Up." The Doctor replied jumping a little to show his point. "Up. Look up."

"Where are we?" Amy frowned looking around.

"Exactly where we were." River answered.

"No, we're not."

"Move your feet." The Doctor ordered.

"Please." The Stone asked hitting the back of the Doctors head while Amy stepped off the circular hatch in the floor.

"Stone, what am I looking at?" Amy asked. "Explain."

"Oh, come on, Amy, think." The Doctor cut in making the Stone hit the back of his head again causing him to wince.

"The ship crashed with the power still on. So what else is still on?" The Stone asked Amy. "The artificial gravity."

"One good jump, and up we fell." The Doctor added. "Shot out the grav globe to give us an updraft, and here we are."

"Doctor, Stone, the statues," Octavian said. "They look more like Angels now."

"They're feeding on the radiation from the wreckage, draining all the power from the ship, restoring themselves. Within an hour, they'll be an army." He said. The hatch then opened and the lights started to spark and go bang. "They're taking out the lights." The Doctor gritted his teeth. "Look at them. Look at the Angels. Into the ship, now. Quickly, all of you."

"How?" Amy asked. The Doctor dropped through the hatch. The Stone then did the same and looked through the open doorway. "Doctor! Stone!" Amy shouted before blinking, looking down through the gap frowning at them while they looked like they were standing on the side.

"It's just a corridor." The Doctor replied wrapping an arm around the Stone. "The gravity orientates to the floor. Now, in here, all of you. Don't take your eyes off the Angels. Move, move, move." He ordered.

"Okay, men." They heard Octavian order. "Go, go, go!" The Doctor and the Stone ran over to work on the control panel, flashing it with their sonics and fiddling with the wires.

"The Angels. Presumably, they can jump up too?" Octavian asked climbing through.

"They're here, now." The Stone said shutting the hatch.

"In the dark, we're finished." The Doctor grimaced.

The bulkhead before them started to close. The Time Lords spun around running towards it shouting at the others. "Run!"

"This whole place is a death trap," Octavian said, the bulkhead then closed on the Time Lords making them groan.

"No, it's a time bomb. Well, it's a death trap and a time bomb."

"And now it's a dead end." The Stone winced lightly touching the bulkhead.

"Nobody panic." The Doctor said then glanced at the Time Lady. "Oh, just us then dear, what's through here?" He then asked.

"Secondary flight deck." River replied.

"Okay. so we've basically run up the inside of a chimney, yeah?" Amy asked. "So what if the gravity fails?"