The Littlest Timelord: The Fall of the Eleventh

Chapter 15

A/N - ...my finger slipped. I thought I'd be nice and give you another chapter for being so nice and understanding.

"Please don't do this," Elise begged the Doctor.

"She's right. You don't have to be in there. We can do this remotely," Kate told him.

"Remotely isn't my style. See you after." He kissed his hand and hit Amy on the head.

Elise grabbed onto his jacket and silently begged him with her eyes not to do this. He took her hand in his and gave it a light squeeze before letting go.

He went inside the room as the number went down to two. He sat down and spun the cube. It went down to one and finally hit zero.

It switched off and opened up.

"What's happening?" Kate asked.

The Doctor peered inside the cube.

"Well? What's in there?" Amy asked.

"There is nothing in here," the Doctor said.

"Er, well, that's good. It's not, it's not bombs, it's not aliens."

"Why? Why is there nothing inside? Why? It doesn't make any sense." The Doctor came out of the small room and walked over to the researcher at the computer bay. "Glasses, is it the same? Is it the same all around the world?"

"They're empty," Kate said, "We're safe, right?"

"Ah, no, no, no, we are very far from safe. All along, every action has been deliberate. Why draw attention to the cubes if they don't contain anything?"

"Doctor, look," Amy said, looking at one of the screens.

People walking down the street grabbed their chests as they came near the cubes.

"They're CCTV feeds from across the world. They're showing the same," the researcher said.

Elise covered her mouth in horror as she watched the people die.

"People are dying," Kate said, shocked.

"What? They can't be dying. How? How are they dying?" the Doctor asked.

"I want information on how people are being affected."

"The cubes brought people close together. They opened and then..." The Doctor cried out in pain and grabbed his chest.

"Dad!" Elise said, rushing to his side.

"Doctor, what's the matter?" Amy asked.

The monitor started beeping.

"I don't know!"

"Hospitals are logging a global surge in heart failures. Cardiac arrests," the researcher explained.

"That's it." The Doctor cried out in pain, hitting himself on the chest. "Only one heart. Other one's not working."

"Okay, I'm going to get you to the hospital!" Amy yelled.

"Oh, no, no, no, no. Just a short circuit. Tell me, show me. Ten seconds after the cubes opened, show me the patterns in their electrical currents."

A heartbeat signature appeared on the screen.

"See?" the Doctor asked, "The power cut. They zapped the power and then..." The Doctor cried out in pain again. "They're signal boxes. People leaning in, wham. Pure electrical surge out of the cube targeted at the nearest human heart. The heart, an organ powered by electrical currents, short-circuited. How to destroy a human? Go for the heart. Ow. Crikey Moses."