Episode 11: Silent Ice Part 4

“Run!” the Doctor shouted.

The Doctor, Conner, Jess, Junaid, Will, Seb and Caitlin blundered through the dark Row and ran for the faint light. Once in the light, Conner noticed Bex wasn’t with them.

“It got Bex,” Conner said sadly.
“I’m sorry,” the Doctor said.

Nancy banged on Laura’s door, screaming. Georgia stepped back and put a hand on the door. She knocked quickly.

“Laura let us in!” she cried.

Red advanced, but at the last possible minute, the door opened. Laura pulled Georgia in and Nancy ran forwards before slamming the door.

“Right, can we seal the doors or somethin’?” Georgia asked.
“What, and be trapped if Red finds another way in?” Laura asked back.
“Haven’t you ever been to Space before Georgia?” Nancy asked.
“What do you mean?” Georgia asked.
“Well, that’s one of the rules. Of safety, I mean. Everyone knows them, it’s 42nd Century policy,” Nancy said.
“Well I don’t come from the 42nd Century,” Georgia said.
“Where are you from?” Laura asked in awe.
“The 21st,” Georgia smiled.
“Do they have those things there?” Nancy asked excitedly.
“Ooh, yeah!” Laura grinned.
“What things?” Georgia asked, looking bemused.
“Well, it’s only a rumour…” Nancy began.
“What is it?” Georgia asked.
“Blenders.”

Georgia looked at the girls with a bemused expression, before vanishing, in a bright blue light.

“Georgia!” Nancy and Laura yelled.

The Doctor motioned silently to a cupboard as he saw Bex stomping out from the darkness, covered completely in ice. Conner and the others slipped in quietly, and the Doctor followed, closing the door behind them. Bex arrived out from the darkness, wondering where they could have gone.

Georgia opened her eyes and saw that she was stood alone in a Row. She looked up at the black screens with the red writing high above her head. Row 38 runs across the screen in red letters. She realised Nancy and Laura hadn’t been teleported with her. She was now the Lone Passenger, and something was gliding out from the shadows behind her. She turned around, and screamed.

“Are we safe?” Caitlin whispered quietly.
“She doesn’t know we’re here,” the Doctor replied.
“Why did it get her?” Conner asked.
“I dunno. Because she killed James?” the Doctor asked himself.
“Whatever it did it for, we’ve gotta stop it,” Conner said.
“Yeah but how?” Jess asked.
“Well it’s ice, so a great amount of heat would do it,” Seb said, speaking for the first time.

Conner realised why he hadn’t spoken before. He sounded terrified, and barely a squeak escaped from his lips. Conner made a mental note to save him first. He was so desperate to help everyone else, he blocked the fright from his mind, but now, trapped in the cupboard, Seb was beginning to lose it.

Nancy and Laura jumped back in shock, as a large dent appeared in the door. Nancy grabbed a crowbar from the desk, and lifted it up to chest height. She suddenly realised what she was holding and looked at Laura.

“What do you have a crowbar for?” Nancy asked.
“Does it really matter?” Laura asked.
“Not right now, I suppose,” Nancy snapped.

The door flew off its hinges, and Red trundled into the room, red eyes blaring like headlamps. If it was possible for a Robot to sneer, Red would be doing exactly that.

“Now… Now you die…” he said, advancing forwards.

At that moment, across the Space Docks in a cupboard, Seb exploded with fright. He pulled a gun out from his lab coat. His eyes turned red.

“Stop. Everybody stop. You will all walk out single file of the cupboard,” Seb ordered.
“What’s happening to him?” Caitlin gasped.
“He’s telepathically linked to Red, and Red must be turning evil,” the Doctor said quietly.

Conner looked at the Doctor for a plan. His stomach churned, and he felt a cold breeze waft over him.

Red advanced on Nancy and Laura. A laser slid out of his panelling, and destroyed the crowbar in a beam of red light. They were defenceless.

Georgia fell over as an icy gas lunged at her. She hit the floor and grimaced in pain. The gas flew down and attacked her.

Conner looked nervously at the Doctor.

“Doctor,” he said. “I’m cold.”

To be continued…