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Chapter 16 - A Hole in Time - Part 2

We were crawling in the vents, which were quite tight and claustrophobic, I had a feeling I'd just get stuck in there and never get out. The Doctor is like a stick though, so he just slides through like butter.

John Smith: "You good back there?"

Fricka: "You do know I'm right behind me, you can just look around."

John Smith: "Right, sorry."

Fricka: "So where are we headed?"

John Smith: "Well I'm thinking of stopping this station for good because I'm not letting this place use time lord energy, it's too dangerous."

Fricka: "Hey I saw a friend back in the cell I was taken in, but they didn't recognise me, did we like, go back in time before we met?"

John Smith: "It's not like I'd know them, but yeah that's probably the case, and if it is you'll probably have different memories of how you met."

Fricka: "I'm not having different memories though?"

John Smith: "You'll start having them soon, takes a bit to take a grasp of."

All of a sudden, the vent drops below me, and I fall to the ground.

Fricka: "SHIT!"

John Smith: "Oh don't tell me you're that heavy, huh?"

I am dropped in a large room full of stormtroopers.

Fricka: "Keep moving, save yourself."

John Smith: "I'm sorry?"

Fricka: "JUST GO!"

He crawls off as the stormtroopers see me and seize me.

Stormtrooper B: "It's you! Get him!"

Stormtrooper D: "We already got him."

Fricka: "Fine you got me, what now? Gonna put me back in the cell?"

Stormtrooper D: "No actually, the cells won't close after someone destroyed the control panel."

Fricka: "Wasn't me, but alright."

They take me in this elevator, and trust me it was a VERY long ride, like a several hour ride, that or I'm exaggerating a bit to emphasise the story.

Anyways, the ride finished as the door opened and I was taken to this sort of throne room.

Stormtrooper C: "We brought him here as requested."

Darth Alice: "You may leave us."

Fricka: "Who knew the leader of this base is some chick?"

She turns around and reveals she is Alice to me.

Fricka: "Who knew the leader of this base was also Alice? WAIT WHAT ALICE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

Darth Alice: "Excuse me?"

Fricka: "You don't remember? We were part of this shitty plot to take down Glados."

Darth Alice: "I do not know who you are, but you will need to understand who I am."

She force chokes me in the air

Darth Alice: "I am not your friend, I am a sith lord."

This is strange... Alice nor Emiro recognises me.

Fricka: "Nevermind, Alice you need to stop this machine now."

Darth Alice: "Why should I?"

Fricka: "In the near future, you are going to harvest that blue telephone box and unlock powerful energy within it to use for this space station."

Darth Alice: "What the fuck are you talking about?"

Fricka: "Every time this space station shoots at a planet, it doesn't destroy the planet, it teleports it, and every teleport slowly opens a hole in time, didn't get the details but it probably means you, me, and everyone in this galaxy will die."

Commander: "Did we do a sanity check?"

Darth Alice: "What the fuck is a sanity check? But yes, I think this guy has lost his marbles."

Fricka: "Is that supposed to describe my brain?"

Alice slams me across the wall onto a control area.

Darth Alice: "You're irritating, and you speak nonsense, you will be executed."

Fricka: "Yeah I'd guess, but for future prisoners, I suggest you don't take them to the control area, nor should you slam them against the controls, because maybe one day, they could just do THIS!"

I press this big red button on the control panel having no clue what it does. I wait a few seconds, nothing happens.

Fricka: "Ahem, because maybe one day, they could just do THIS!"

I press the big green button right next to it, and then alarm sirens start ringing around the whole station, it was deafening. I bolt towards the elevator, but it's been disabled, I think the button put the place in a state of emergency. I decide to take the stairs instead.

Darth Alice: "GET HIM!"

Fricka: "Why don't you get me? Bye!"

I go through the middle hole between the stairs sending me flying down the stairs until I grab on the stairs at a very low floor. In the corner of my eye, I see the Doctor rushing about.

Fricka: "DOCTOR WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

John Smith: "There was a big buzzing noise out here thought I would look at what's going on."

Fricka: "I told you to escape to the Tardis, ok nevermind, just get me off this cursed ship and fast."

We run through the corridors past a bunch of released prisoners.

Hey wait... that's Emiro again!

Fricka: "Emiro! Wait!"

John Smith: "Fricka what are you doing?"

Emiro: "Huh? Oh, it's you that creep again what you want."

Fricka: "Ok so I'm from the future and you're going to meet me in Marioverse soon so when you do say to me 'Pineapple pizza sucks ass'."

Emiro: "Are you good in the brain?"

John Smith: "No, he isn't."

Fricka: "Ok my memory isn't changing this isn't right..."

John Smith: "You don't say, while you were upstairs I did some little investigating, turns out we're in an alternate universe."

Fricka: "Oh so that big bang while flying didn't give it away did it? Idiot."

John Smith: "No because the whole galaxy seems a bit re-arranged from the look of things. Marioverse is now where Sonicverse should be."

Fricka: "There's a Sonicverse?"

John Smith: "Oh trust me there is a bunch of 'em here."

We run down to the shredder room to go into the Tardis.

Fricka: "Ok now let's get the fuck out of here."

John Smith: "Nope."

Fricka: "Mate, this is an alternate universe, we have no business here so let's get the fuck out."

John Smith: "You see, now that may be true, I'm not going to let an entire universe be destroyed by a hole in time, this is real too, plus the hole may widen and have a ripple effect through the alternate universes, it's my responsibility as a time lord to stop them."

Fricka: "You may have your fucking responsibilities, but you get me out of here then you do what you want."

John Smith: "That's the thing, we CAN'T get out here."

Fricka: "Please don't say the Tardis is damaged."

John Smith: "The Tardis is damaged."

Fricka: "CHRIST WHY IS THIS SO FUCKING CLICHE?! YOU MIGHT AS WELL LET THE HOLE IN TIME OPEN IF WE'RE STUCK HERE!"

John Smith: "Why did I bring you here?"

Fricka: "I'm sorry?"

John Smith: "IF I NEVER ACCEPTED YOUR OFFER OF GETTING YOU OUT OF THAT FACILITY WE WOULDN'T BE HERE RIGHT NOW! THE HOLE IN TIME WOULD HAVE NEVER EXISTED, BUT NO, YOU GREEDY BASTARD LEFT EVERYONE FOR DEAD DOWN THERE AND NOW KARMA HAS COME BACK TO TAKE YOU WITH THEM! HOW DOES IT FEEL TO ABANDON AND BETRAY ALL YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A HUMAN BEING?"

Fricka: "It was you who messed up the trip and got us here, not me."

John Smith: "I think you running away from those suffering on several occasions is enough for me to see what you really are. I will fix this Tardis and then you will stay here in this universe."

Fricka: "I'm sorry, that isn't happening."

John Smith: "OH BUT IT IS! I DECIDE WHAT GOES ON HERE, AND I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOU!"

Fricka: "I'm sorry."

John Smith: "OH YOU CAN APOLOGISE BUT I'M NOT TAKING ANY OF IT! GOODBYE!!"

The Doctor then throws me out of the Tardis, shutting the door behind.

I bang on the door.

Fricka: "DOCTOR! LET ME IN YOU IDIOT! DOCTOR! WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING DOING, JUST LET ME IN I CAN FIX THIS, PLEASE!"

No answer.

Fricka: "PLEASE?"

The sirens throughout the station stop. And the stormtroopers return to the shredder room.

Stormtrooper C: "We are taking you to your execution."

Fricka: "I'm sorry, that isn't happening today, you may have laser guns but I have a Tardis."

I turn around, to see it vanishing.

Fricka: "Nevermind, Plan B, OH HEY IS THAT A BIRD IN SPACE?"

Stormtrooper C: "Where?"

I run out of there as fast as I can, until I bump into Darth Alice again.

Fricka: "Oh hey there buddy, long time no see. If you don't mind-"

I am held by the force, stopping my movement.

Fricka: "OH COME ON THAT ISN'T FAIR!"

She takes me to the elevator, where I am held still by the force.

Fricka: "So, how did you become a sith lord?"

No response.

Fricka: "Not that much of a talker, well you are, you're just embarrassed after I humiliated you up there."

Darth Alice: "You will not talk of what has happened in there."

Fricka: "Why would you be scared? You're the leader of this station those idiot soldiers will listen to everything you say!"

Darth Alice: "I'm not the one in charge here, I'm 2nd in command."

Fricka: "Yeah would've guessed considering the circumstances."

Darth Alice: "The circumstances?"

Fricka: "You see I come from an alternate universe where you were 2nd in command for this rebellion to escape from this big facility."

Darth Alice: "You really have an imagination don't you?"

Fricka: "I would say that if I were lying, which I'm not."

Darth Alice: "I have an imagination too because all I do is sit here in this station plotting and pressing buttons."

Fricka: "And force choking your employees, and giving stupid orders, shame you left those two out."

Darth Alice: "Shut up."

Fricka: "La la la not listening."

Darth Alice: "I'll make sure your execution is the most painful one anyone can endure."

Fricka: "Why? You didn't hate me a lot already? Got a crush on me?"

Darth Alice: "Go fuck yourself."

Fricka: "You know you said the exact same thing in the alternate universe I come from. Some things never change, huh?"

Darth Alice: "I don't know what you're talking about, but if it's an attempt to turn me back it isn't happening."

Fricka: "Turn you back? Why, were you good at one time?"

Darth Alice: "Yes, I was a Jedi. My sister, however, was a Sith. She was more powerful and better than me in every way, so I killed her and took her place here."

Fricka: "You were jealous so you killed her? Are you insane?"

The rest of the ride goes silent until we reach the throne room. The door opens, and we step out.