Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ?

The Impossible Planet - Three

"We're close. Energy signature indicates north." She looked at it again. "north-west. Are you getting pictures up there?" 

"There's too much interference. We're in your hands."

 "Well, we've come this far. There's no turning back." Rita groaned at how literal that is.

"Oh, did you have to? No turning back?" He looked at her. "That's almost as bad as nothing can possibly go wrong, or this is going to be the best Christmas Walford's ever had." He spoke sarcastically.

Ida looked at him a little annoyed. "Are you finished?" She asked.

"Yeah. Finished"

"Captain, sir," Danny spoke into a comm sounding a little frightened. "There's something happening with the Ood."

"What are they doing?" Zach asked him.

"They're staring at me. I've told them to stop, but they won't." Rita looked over at him then ran over to the railing watching the Ood.  

"Danny, you're a big boy,  I think you can take being stared at." She heard Zach through the comm. 

She then ran over to Rose taking the comm from her. "You haven't seen it, Zach, basic one hundred, I'm correct aren't I Danny?" He looked over to the monitor and blinked. "Yeah you are" He then started pressing things on the monitor. "I've checked. there isn't any fault. It's definitely one hundred." 

"But that's impossible," Zach muttered.

 "What's basic one hundred mean?" Rose asked looking at Rita a little worried.

"The Ood should be dead" She replied.

"Basic one hundred's brain death," Jefferson added.

"But they're safe. They're not actually moving?" Zach asked them. 

"No, sir," Danny confirmed. 

"Keep watching them. And you, Jefferson, Keep a guard on the Ood." He ordered. 

"Officer at arms!" Jefferson ordered a crewman and a woman holding guns beside them.

"You can't fire a gun in here. What if you hit a wall?" Rose questioned.

 "I'm firing stock fifteen. It only impacts upon organics. Keep watch. Guard them." He pointed at the Ood.

"Yes, sir." The woman replied. 

"Is everything all right up there?" The Doctor spoke through the comm, Rita and Rose both ran over to it and she picked it up. "Yeah, yeah," Rose replied. 

"How are things down there?" Rita asked.

"Everythings fine, we've found something though. It looks like metal. Like some sort of seal. I've got a nasty feeling the word might be trapdoor. Not a good word, trapdoor. Never met a trapdoor I liked."

"Shame you can't lick it to find out" She joked, don't even think about it" Rose looked at her strangely. "First the door when we were with Queen Victoria then a portable television, just giving him a warning not to." Rose smiled a little after understanding what she meant.

"The edge is covered with those symbols." Ida described it ignoring Rita's odd comments.

"Do you think it opens?" Zach asked her. 

"That's what trapdoors tend to do." The Doctor spoke for her.

 "Trapdoor doesn't do it justice. It's massive, Zach. About thirty feet in diameter." She guessed.