The New Doctor! A Doctor Who Alternate History Story

Part 50 - Volcano, synopsis, Part Two

VOLCANO - Part 2 (As seen on VHS Release, 1995)

Heart, in a white robe, flees down cobblestoned streets, pursued by subhuman monsters. She runs down between two buildings, only to find a blind alley. The monsters gather slowly. Back against the wall, she screams.

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Inside Citizen Vise's mausoleum, Diamond receives the psychic scream, and it breaks her concentration. She falls to her knees, crying out. Her force field breaks, and the Doctor is freed. He grabs up Commander Benton.

Diamond calls out to the Doctor that her sister is in trouble, and they must save her. Vise moves to reassert his hypnotic control, but Diamond resists. Instead, she uses her force field to press Vise and Victoria up against the walls. She tells the Doctor to flee and save her sister, while he still can. The Doctor wants her to come, but she says that if her concentration lapses for even a moment, they will all be lost.

Reluctantly, the Doctor and Benton retreat to the Tardis, still surrounded in blue flame, but not before the Doctor removes a unit from the Vise's time machine. As the Tardis vanishes, Vise calls out that the Doctor cannot escape. The trap is sprung, their machines are now linked, Vise will escape, or they will both die together on this world.

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Cut to Heart. The monsters are dispersed by a round of gunfire. The Political Officer appears, accompanied by the scientist, Camfield and several soldiers.

One of the soldiers complains of being ill. The Political inspects him. He's beginning to mutate. The Political finished him with pistol shot, while Camfield and Heart protest. The Political merely replies that it must be done.

The Political and his few remaining soldiers are only still human because Camfield has concocted a temporary antidote. The town is overrun with monsters, and he and his men are about to pull out. They just don't know where, apparently it's breaking out everywhere, whole cities overrun by monsters, collapsing in earthquakes, fires burning out of control. Coastlines swept clean by Tsunami. It's like the end of the world.

He recognizes Heart as one of the two prisoners, and he notes that she is free of mutation. He demands to know who she is and what her role is in this, or he will execute her on the spot. Camfield tries to intercede, but the Political officer shouts him down. Instead, Heart stands up to his bullying herself, forcing him to back off.

Heart reveals that all the chaos and destruction leads back to Citizen Vise. The earthquakes, disasters and escalating mutations are all effects of Stahlmann's borehole project, engineered knowingly by Vise. The world will be destroyed, unless they can stop Stahlmann. It may already be too late.

The Political Officer is skeptical. The whole thing sounds like a treasonous fabrication. Camfield defends her, saying that her claims make sense of his calculations. He asks her what she suggests. Heart tells them that they must go to the site and reverse its operations, or at least shut it down, provided it hasn't gone too far. That's the only chance the world has left.

The Political Officer reluctantly agrees to proceed to the drilling site. If there's anyone left in charge, they'll be there. And if she's lying, he will execute her on the spot. Camfield is afraid, if the drill site is the center, then the whole place will be overrun with monsters.

The Political Officer replies that it is a good thing they are armed.

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On board the Tardis, the wall screens are aflame with worldwide disasters. Monsters running amok, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanoes everywhere, cities falling into ruin.