An Original Vampire's Guide to the Universe (Rewrite)

The Satan Pit

"Doctor?" Rose shouted into the Comm "Doctor, can you hear me? Doctor, Ida, Tyra, are you there?"

"Open door 25."

Jefferson and the guard prepared to shoot the person coming inside. Danny stumbled through the door, freezing when he saw the guns "It's me," he panted "But they're coming. It's the Ood. They've gone mad."

"How many of them?" Jefferson demanded.

Danny shook his head "All of them. All fifty..." His gaze fell on the unconscious Ood on the ground "What happened to them?"

"Can you take care of the others as well?" Jefferson asked Damon.

Damon shrugged "If that's what you want. They are rather easy to subdue..."

"Wait," Danny blinked "That was you? How?"

"Okay," Damon murmured, running a hand through his hair "I won't tell you. But the reason why Tyra and I split up... This is it. She will make sure that the others stay alive."

Jefferson shot forward, snatching Danny's arm to drag him away from the door "Out of the way."

"But they're armed," Danny pointed out "It's the interface device. I don't know how but they're using it as a weapon."

"Open door 25."

Jefferson prodded the door open and stepped out of the way as soon as the Ood came into view. The leading Ood was about to reach out with its globe when Damon shot forward again, felling the Ood left and right. It was more work to keep them alive but who was he to argue with the actual crew? While being here with Tyra and the Doctor, Damon felt like he could really be himself, be the person he had been as a human. Not the asshole who wanted to make his brother's life hell. Stefan deserved everything Damon gave him and more but it was tiring, always pretending to be someone he wasn't. Another reason why he loved being around Tyra and Sage – and even Caroline recently – was that she didn't pressure him. Elena and Stefan wanted to change him and he hated that. He was who he wanted to be. They had no right to boss him around.

"Jefferson, what's happening there?" Zach shouted over the intercom.

Jefferson shook his head "The Ood are unconscious, sir. How about you?"

"All I've got is a bolt gun... With all of, er, all of one bolt," Zach sighed "I could take out a grand total of one Ood. Fat lot of good that is."

"Given the emergency, I recommend strategy nine," Jefferson said.

"Strategy nine... Agreed. Right, we need to get everyone together. Rose? What about Ida, Tyra and the Doctor? Any word?"

"I can't get a reply," Rose admitted with tears in her eyes "Just nothing. I keep trying but it's..."

"No, sorry," the Doctor's voice came through with lots of static breaking it up "I'm fine. Still here."

Rose's face turned red "You could've said," she hissed "You stupid..."

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Tyra stumbled at the feedback coming through the Comms and would have fallen into the chasm, had Ida not reached out to steady her. The Doctor winced at the pain in his ears "Woah. Careful... Anyway, it's the three of us. Hello. But the seal opened up. It's gone." He stepped a little closer, peering into the darkness "All we've got left is this chasm."

"How deep is it?" Zach questioned curiously.

"Can't tell," the Doctor admitted "It looks like it goes down forever."