Times Will Change [6] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The Almost People - Two

The Doctor had been gone for around ten minutes and the temperature was getting significantly higher. "These temperature gauges are rising. Jennifer and Rory must have shut off the underground cooling vents." Cleaves stared staring at one of the gauges.

"Why do that?" Dickens frowned. "They'll kill us."

"There's a million gallons of boiling acid under our feet."

"And now it's heating up the whole island." The Ganger Doctor added. "How long till it blows?"

The ground then rumbled. "Gangers or no Gangers, we need to get the hell out of here."

Cleaves nodded and grabbed the comm. "Shuttle, we need evac. Where are you? Can you hear me? Can you-" she then winced and clutched her head in pain. "Cleaves?" The Time Lords looked at her worryingly. "Cleaves?" She went to get up and the Time Lords shook their heads. "Cleaves, sit down."

"I'm fine." She protested.

"You don't look it." The Stone announced, flashing her sonic at her. "I'm waiting for results, so let it go."

"It's a very deep parietal clot." The Stone said reading the results.

"How can you possibly?" She frowned. "Inoperable?"

"On Earth, yes." The Doctor answered.

"Well, seeing as Earth's all that's on offer." She hummed. "I'm no healthy spring chicken, and you're no weatherman." She looked at the Doctor. "Right?"

There was then a larger rumble. "Something just cracked," Amy said to the Time Lords. "I heard it."

"Yeah, we can't stay here. Let's go."

"He's right." Jimmy nodded. "Let's shift."

"Cleaves to Shuttle. Respond. We need to move, and we can't be collected from the Evac tower."

"Give us the codeword."

"The codeword is..." there was then an even louder rumble and finally a bang. The controls then cut off and alarms started to blare.

"Cleaves?" The Ganger Doctor questioned. "Cleaves, it's dead. It's dead. We need to get out of here. We need to get back downstairs and get those vents back on." He ordered taking grasp of the Stone's hand. The two of them standing up. "Come on."

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The group continued to head to the thermostate room, stopping at a corridor. Eyes of the flesh stuck to the walls staring at the group.

"Ah." The Ganger Doctor looked at the eyes stepping into the corridor with the Time Lady. "The eyes have it."

"Why are they here?" Amy asked her own eyes fixed onto the flesh ones on the walls.

"To accuse." He answered spinning around, widening his arms. "Us."

"Ignore them," Cleaves told Amy motioning her to walk past. "It's not far." The red-headed human did just that, stepping as far away from the wall with the flesh eyes on as possible while she hurried past.

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"It's a chemical chain reaction now." The Ganger said shaking his head in the thermostat room. "I can't stop it. This place is going to blow sky high."

"Exactly how long have we got?"

"An hour?" The Doctor guessed. "Five seconds? Er, somewhere in between."