Arising From the Fall [4] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The Waters of Mars - Two

Adelaide handed the Doctor and the Stone their spacesuits after they returned to the central dome. "Now get to your ship." She ordered them. "I'm saving my people, you save yourselves. I know what this moment is. It's the moment we escape. Now get out." She instructed.

The Time Lords, however, didn't budge as the crew began to rush around trying to get everything together to leave. "Everyone, stay focused." Ed reminded them.

"I'll swap them round. Roman, what about you?" Mia called. The Doctor and the Stone clutched each other's hands with the spare not holding their spacesuit helmets.

"Protein packs thirty to thirty-six."

"Hurry up, Roman," Ed called to the man mumbling.

Suddenly they all stopped as an alarm sounded. "Ditch the central containers. We don't need them." Adelaide informed.

"Units forty-one, forty-two and forty-three." Steffi called.

"Unit forty-one is here."

"Roman, try to condense the oxygen membranes. We can lose ten pounds. Faster, come on! Ed, how's the fuel jets?"

"Cooling down in about thirty seconds." He replied to Adelaide.

"Captain, we've got all the hard drives."

"What the hell's that noise?" She asked stopping. "Mia, you lot, shut up."

"It's the module sensors," Ed answered. "Exterior twelve. The cameras are down, but there's pressure on top of the module. Two signals right above us."

"That means they're on the roof?"

Yuri frowned. "How did they get inside the Dome?"

"They used the maintenance shafts."

"The shaft's open and they haven't got spacesuits."

"They breathe water," Ed muttered in realisation.

"But they'd freeze." Steffi shook his head.

"They've got that internal fission."

"But we're safe, they can't get through, can they?" Mia worryingly asked. "Can they?"

"This place is airtight," Roman informed.

"Can it get through?" She asked. "Ed, can it get through?"

"I don't know!" He snapped at her. "Water itself isn't motile, but it has some sort of persistence."

"Everyone, listen to me," Adelaide shouted. "That's ten feet of steel-combination up there. We need all the protein packs or we're going to starve. Now keep working. Roman, watch the ceiling. Ed, get to the shuttle. Fire it up."

"I can carry more than this lot, Captain."

"That's an order!" She loudly hissed at him.

"Captain." He nodded then hurried off.

The Doctor and the Stone stood there for a while longer before she gently tugged on his arm, her eyes wetter than normal and her head hung. Slowly he nodded and they both turned to leave entering the airlock.

Access denied. The computer stated when the Doctor tried to open the other door of the airlock. Access denied.

"Tell me what happens." Adelaide coldly muttered to them both.

"We don't know." The Stone spoke up desperately hiding her sadness.

"Yes, you do." Adelaide firmly cut in. "Now tell me." She demanded.