Remembering the Forgotten [2] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The Lazarus Experiment - Two

"Amazing." The Doctor breathed watching the laptop screen with Rita in the dimly lit science laboratory.

"It definitely is." Rita watched the screen as well which currently has a strand of Lazarus's DNA.

"What?" Martha asked.

"Lazarus's DNA." The Time Lords both said.

"I can't see anything different." Martha shook her head leaning closer.

"Look at it." The Doctor told her. There then was a small blip and as Rita guessed Lazarus's DNA changed.

"Oh, my God." Martha gasped sitting back. She looked at the two Time Lords. "Did that just change? But it can't have."

"But it did." The Doctor protested eyes still on the screen.

"It's impossible." Martha gawked at it.

"And that's two impossible things we've seen so far tonight." The Doctor chuckled. "Don't you love it when that happens?"

"I certainly do" Rita grinned in agreement.

"That means Lazarus has changed his own molecular patterns," Martha said.

"Hypersonic sound waves to destabilise the cell structure, then a metagenic programme to manipulate the coding in the protein strands." The Doctor said extremely fast. Rita shook her head while Martha just blinked at him in confusion.

"What the Doctor means is that Lazarus basically just hacked into his own genes and instructed them to rejuvenate." Rita explained simpler for Martha.

"But they're still mutating now." She watched again.

"Because he missed something. Something in his DNA has been activated and won't let him stabilise. Something that's trying to change him."

"Change him into what?" Martha asked them.

"We don't know, but I think we need to find out." The Doctor told them.

"That woman said they were going upstairs," Martha told him.

"Let's go." The Doctor, Rita and Martha ran off to the lift.

"I really don't have a good feeling about this, everyone needs to get out of the building," Rita muttered as the lift headed up.

"Sadly I have that same feeling, and you'll be the first to leave."

"I'm not going anywhere." She told him firmly. "I'm staying with you."

"Why do you have to protest so much." He sighed running a hand through his hair.

"Learned from the best." She raised her brows at him and smirked. The lift doors then opened, they stepped out into a dark area. Automatically the lights came on, but no one was around.

"This is his office, all right." Martha looked around.

"So where is he?" The Doctor asked.

"Don't know. Let's try back at the reception." Martha went to turn around however her eyes fixed on something, a skeleton leg poking out from behind a desk.

"What is it?" Rita asked following her gaze slowly walking over to what Martha had seen.

"Is that Lady Thaw?" Martha asked in horror. The Doctor walked up joining them and crouching down beside the skeleton.

"Used to be. Now it's just a shell. Had all the life energy drained out, like squeezing the juice out of an orange."

"I'm never going to look at orange juice the same again.