Ties Between Time and Space

✦41✦ - The Satan Pit

Chapter Forty-One
Planting Doubt and Delusion

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"Open fire!" Jefferson shouted.

The Ood kept approaching before a spray of bullets took them out and they fell to the ground dead.

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"We're stabilizing," Zach announced over the comm. "We've got orbit."

He watched as the shutters above his head slid closed again. The base slowly calming to a still, no longer shaking and jerking about.

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Emma leaped over the dead Ood and jumped over the side railing to get back to the monitor and comm system. She grabbed it and clicked the button in.

"Doctor? Doctor, can you hear me? Doctor, Ida, are you there? One of you answer me," she begged with an anxiety attack rising in her chest.

(Open door 25)

A rattling sounded behind Jefferson and his guard, Emily, they turned on the spot their guns at the ready as the bulkhead door got thrown open.

"It's me!" Danny held his hands up. "But they're coming," he warned and slammed the door shut again.

(Close door 25)

"It's the Ood. They've gone mad."

"How many of them?" Jefferson questioned.

"All of them! All fifty!" Danny breathed out still trying to catch his breath from all the running.

"Danny, out of the way. Out of the way!" Jefferson pushed him to the side.

"But they're armed!" Danny rushed out not wanting to see someone else die in front of him. "It's the interface device. I don't know how, but they're using it as a weapon."

(Open door 25)

Emma kept the comm clutched in one hand as she watched the bulkhead door open up again. The Ood stepped forward but before its orb could attach to Emily's forehead, Emma reached for a spare pipe lying beside the monitor. She tossed it in the air before catching it and throwing it to spear straight across the room and into the Ood's chest. The Ood fell dead at the impact. Jefferson shot Emma a shocked glance before he and Emily quickly opened fire on the rest of them.

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(Close door 1)

Zach turned the wheel on the bulkhead before he turned and ran down the corridor. He immediately halted to a stop at the sight of the Ood. In a perfect row, red eyes, and a fast pace to their steps they closed in on the Captain. Zach turned around and ran back to the control room, throwing the door open and closing it again.

(Open door 1. Close door 1.)

He breathed a sigh of relief with his back against the door. "Lockdown. Seal door 1," Zach commanded the computer system.

(Lockdown. Door 1.)

Zach jogged down the steps back to the console. He flipped a switch to the communications. "Jefferson, what's happening there?"

"I've got very little ammunition, sir. How about you?" Jefferson asked.

Zach opened the emergency weapon hatchet. "All I've got is a bolt gun. With er, all of one bolt. I could take out a grand total of one Ood," he threw the weapon down on the console. "Fat lot of good that is."