In The Realms of the Unreal

Chapter 33

Understandably, Mulder, Jerry and Emma were completely speechless. After all it's not everyday that you stumble into the office of the 20th century's most notorious facist dictator. Hynkel however was fuming at the fact that three people he didn't recognise were daring to intrude upon his private work

"Speak!" he demanded "Who are you!? How did you get in here!"
After a few seconds, Emma broke the silence
"You really are Adenoid Hynkel aren't you?"
"I'm asking the questions here!" Hynkel barked "Now who are you!"
"Are you sure you're not a Jewish barber?" Jerry managed to stammer

"That's not funny!" Hynkel screamed "You are talking to the supreme leader of the 3rd Reich! Insolence will not be tolerated!"
"Gee sorry" Mulder sighed "Learn to laugh at yourself buddy-"
"Silence!" Hynkel demanded before getting up from his desk. He walked over to the group and looked them over
"You're clearly not from the white rose. And you're not concentration camp runaways. No no you're too well fed for that"
"We're actually from-" Jerry managed to say before Emma elbowed him. He quickly shut up. Hynkel ignored him. Then a smile crept across his lips

"Yes. You're allied spies aren't you! You thought you could assassinate me in my own study! Well we'll see who has the last laugh!"
"Really?" Mulder raised an eyebrow "Do you really think we'd come in through the front door if we were assassins?"
"He's got a point" Emma nodded "A real assassin would never take such an obvious path to the target-"
"Silence!" Hynkel shrieked again "You will not fool me that easily! Guards!"
At that, a pair of nazi stormtroopers stepped into the room and saluted

"Arrest these vile villains!" Hynkel ordered "And take them for interrogation! Once you've learned all you can, have them shot!"
"Hell Hynkel!" the two guards replied with a salute before grabbing the trio and dragging them away.

While Mulder, Jerry and Emma were facing their ordeal at the heart of Nazi Germany, The Doctor was having an equally unpleasant time trekking through the harsh ammonia blizzards of Mesklin. Even though he'd only been trekking for about 45 Earth minutes, the planet's high rotation speed had resulted in him already spending two days on the planet in Mesklin time.

Then a vast gust of wind nearly blew the Doctor flat on his back and his hat was nearly blown off his head.

Once the Doctor had recovered, he continued on his trek through the harsh wilderness of Mesklin. As he did so, he hoped that wherever Mulder, Jerry and Emma were, they were at least in a much better place then Mesklin (Which really wouldn't be difficult)

At that precise moment, Mulder, Jerry and Emma were being dragged through the Reich headquarters by Nazi thugs which was understandably better than being trapped on Mesklin in the sense that being hit in the face with a wooden plank is better than being hit in the face with an iron bar.

After being dragged through the corridors for a long time, Mulder, Emma and Jerry arrived at a room with a man at a desk. One of the officers escorting them stepped forward

"The Fuhrer has demanded that these three be interrogated at once. We believe them to be hired assassins, possibly by Jewish infiltrators"
The man at the desk nodded "I see. Take them to the cells and restrain them. Then we shall make them talk"

As the trio were dragged to the cells, Jerry managed to summon the courage to speak

"Listen guys... we ain't assassins. I mean do any of us look like we could kill the Fuhrer of Germany-"
"Be quiet!" snapped the officer restraining him "You will only speak when spoken to!"

"But seriously-" Jerry managed to say before the officer whacked him over the head. Dazed he could only manage to say "Point taken..."

Eventually the group were dragged into a cell and thrown to the ground. Surprisingly, the officers who'd brought them there didn't close the door, instead standing in front of the open doorway guarding it. A few seconds later, the man at the desk returned along with two other Nazi officers. Neither of them looked friendly, but that was to be expected.

As soon as they entered, Jerry fell to his hands and knees

"Please!" he begged "Don't torture us! We're decent guys really! I mean if you just give us a chance-"
"Silence!" yelled the desk man
Jerry abruptly stopped bawling. Then Emma stepped forward

"So what kind of brutal nazi tortures can we expect to face?"
"Nothing" said one of the officers.

This stunned the group

"Really?" Mulder frowned "There's gotta be some sort of mistake."
"Not at all darling" replied another officer "In fact we're lucky to have got here when we did"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Jerry asked "Ain't you suppose to be brutal Nazi stormtrooper types?"
"As if" snorted one of the guards "We're the complete opposite of those fucking bastards!"
"So what are you doing dressed like that?" Mulder looked them over "You sure look like Nazi stormtroopers to me"
"We'll explain later" said the deskman "Right now we've got to get you guys out of here"
"And how may I ask are you going to do that?" Emma scowled

"There's a nexus point a couple of floors up" replied one of the officers "If we can get up there, we should be able to get you guys and ourselves back to the present day. Now come on! We've got to get going before they find us here"

The group then made their way back out of the cells to the prison reception. As they stepped into said reception block, they were met with a pair of dazed officers standing over the desk. When they entered one of them looked up and saw the group

"You!" he shrieked "You're the bastards who hit me!"
Realising they'd been discovered, Mulder yelled "Run for it!"

The group charged their way past the guards who tried in vain to stop them, only to be knocked aside.

A second later one of the officers though dazed, pulled himself up from the floor and staggered over to a button on the wall. He then pressed it causing an alarm to ring out through the entire building

Upon hearing this, the group instantly realised what it meant

"Fuck!" cursed one of the officers "Every fucking jackboot for a mile is gonna be crawling up our arse! We've gotta get moving!"

While the group were desperately trying to find the nexus point, the Doctor was still hiking his way through the cold unforgiving landscape of Mesklin. How many days had passed, he didn't know as he'd stopped counting after what must have been a couple of weeks. Although he knew that everybody was counting on him, The Doctor was starting to struggle. As he continued to be battered by the onslaught of hail and wind, he felt his legs give out and collapsed face first into the snow.

After a few seconds, the Doctor felt something touch his head. Looking up from where he was laying, he found himself staring into the face of a group of red and white centipede like beings. As they stared him over, the Doctor grinned before standing up.

"Mesklinites I presume? I'm the Doctor, Time Lord traveller and I was wondering if you had any Xion crystals you could happen to spare?"

Not long after the alarm had sounded, Mulder, Scully, Jerry and the officers who were helping them turned a corner only to be met with a trio of German officers

"Halt!" one of them yelled.

The group did so and instead retreated in the other direction. As they did, one of the officers fired a warning shot which instead blasted out a part of the wall

"Are we nearly at the nexus thingy yet" Jerry asked in between breaths

"Not far now!" said one of the officers "We're just a flight of stairs away!"

The group made it up said staircase and headed around another corridor only to be greeted with another group of soldiers coming the other way

"Retreat!" yelled the desk man "We'll have to find another route!"
Before they could do that though, they were greeted by the soldiers from earlier cutting them off in the other direction. Pretty soon they were completely trapped.

As they watched the soldiers quickly surrounded them

"Right!" yelled one of them "You can come with us now or be shot where you stand! What's it gonna be?"