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

42 - Two

Two updates in one day. How am I being this productive right now?

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A loud scream then came through through the comm close to the Time Lords, instantly the sprinted straight towards the med-centre, the cries they couldn't mistake to be Abi begging, her voice shaking for help. "This is Med-centre. Urgent assistance requested!"

"Urgent assistance!"

"Stay here!" The Doctor shouting as he ran. "Keep working!"

"Urgent assistance!" She cried again.

"You jinxed it," Rita shouted after him.

"Come on even you knew there would be trouble here." He remarked running towards the med-centre.

"Okay, you have a point now come on!"

"Captain?" They turned around and groaned seeing McDonnell and Scannell running behind them.

"I told you to stay in Engineering." The Doctor protested standing in front of Scannell.

"I only take orders from one person round here." He told the Doctor.

"Oh, is he always this cheery?" The Doctor looked at the captain.

"He has a point, kind of." Rita shrugged continuing to run to the med centre. They stopped hearing a high pitched scream.

"That can't be good," Rita commented picking up the pace and running to the med-centre with the Doctor.

"Doctor, what were those screams?" Martha asked concerned.

He sighed and looked at Rita shaking her head mouthing for him to tell her to not worry. "Concentrate on those doors. You've got to keep moving forward."

"Impact in twenty-seven oh six."

"Korwin's gone." Scannell looked around the room then noticed the figure burned onto the metal x-ray shield and gasped. "Oh, my God. Tell me that's not Lerner."

The Doctor and Rita slowly walked over, he lightly drew his finger on the edge of the burn. "Endothermic vaporisation. I've never seen one this ferocious."

"Burn with me," Rita muttered. "This is powerful."
She looked at the Doctor slightly worried.

"That's what we heard Korwin say," Scannell mumbled thinking back.

"What? Do you think?" She shook her head not wanting to believe what they were suggesting. "No way. Scannell, tell him. Korwin is not a killer. He can't vaporise people. He's human!"

"His bio scan results." The Doctor picked up the results. "Internal temperature, one hundred degrees!"

Rita looks over his shoulder her eyes widening. "Body oxygen replaced by hydrogen."

"Your husband hasn't been infected, he's been overwhelmed." The Doctor looked at McDonnell sadly.

"The test results are wrong." McDonnell jumped up snatching the results from them.

"But what is it, though?" He ran a hand through his hair. "A parasite? A mutagenic virus? Something that needs a host body, but how did it get inside him?"

McDonnell then snapped at him angrily. "Stop talking like he's some kind of experiment."

"Where's the ship been? Have you made planet-fall recently? Docked with any other vessels? Any kind of external contact at all?" The Doctor asked.

"What is this, an interrogation?" McDonnell asked.

"McDonnell I know this is hard, but we have to stop whatever it is before anyone else is killed." Rita calmly spoke not wanting to antagonise the woman anymore.