𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 ✧ 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 Ⅰ [✓]

Planet Of The Ood Pt. 3

The Doctor sonics open the cage.

"They're breaking in" Donna says.

"Ah, let them." the Ood cower in the corner, as {Y/N} keels.

"What are you holding? Show me. Friend. {Y/N}, Doctor, Donna. Friend. Let me see. Look at me. Let me see. That's it. That's it, go on. Go on" {Y/N} says smiling, the Ood opens his hands. He is holding a small brain.

"Is that?" Donna asks.

"It's a brain. A hind brain. The Ood are born with a secondary brain. Like the amygdala in humans, it processes memory and emotions. You get rid of that, you wouldn't be Donna any more. You'd be like an Ood. A processed Ood" {Y/N} says.

"So, the company cuts off their brains?"

"And they stitch on the translator" the Doctor says.

"Like a lobotomy. I spent all that time looking for you two, because I thought it was so wonderful out here. I want to go home" there's a crash nearby.

"They're with the Ood, sir" The Doctor locks himself, {Y/N} and Donna in with the Ood.

"What you going to do, then? Arrest me? Lock me up? Throw me in a cage? Well, you're too late. Ha!"

*Time skip*

"You just had to challenge them, didn't you?" {Y/N} mumbles as her, the Doctor and Donna are handcuffed to some pipes.

"Why don't you just come out and say it? FOTO activists" Halpen says.

"If that's what Friends Of The Ood are trying to prove, then yes" the Doctor says.

"The Ood were nothing without us, just animals roaming around on the ice."

"That's because you can't hear them" {Y/N} says.

"They welcomed it. It's not as if they put up a fight."

"You idiot. They're born with their brains in their hands. Don't you see, that makes them peaceful. They've got to be, because a creature like that would have to trust anyone it meets" Donna says.

"Oh, nice one" the Doctor says.

"Thank you."

"The system's worked for two hundred years. All we've got is a rogue batch. But the infection is about to be sterilised. Mister Kess. How do we stand?"

"Canisters primed, sir. As soon as the core heats up, the gas is released. Give it two hundred marks and counting."

"You're going to gas them?" {Y/N} asks.

"Kill the livestock. The classic foot and mouth solution from the olden days. Still works" an alarm sounds.

"What the hell?" Halpen walks away for few minutes then comes back "Change of plan."

"There are no reports of trouble off-world, sir. It's still contained to the Ood Sphere."

"Then we've got a public duty to stop it before it spreads."

"What's happening?" the Doctor asks.

"Everything you wanted, Doctor. No doubt there'll be a full police investigation once this place has been sterilised, so I can't risk a bullet to the head. I'll leave you to the mercies of the Ood."

"But Mister Halpen, there's something else, isn't there? Something we haven't seen" {Y/N} says.

"What do you mean?" Donna asks.

"A creature couldn't survive with a separate forebrain and hind brain, they'd be at war with themselves. There's got to be something else, a third element, am I right?" [y/N} asks.