Lego Doctor Who - The Lost Child - 6

-Valorem Protector Time Jump Ship-

 

Jarl: Are you sure this is what we should be doing?

 

Carlo: I’m more certain about this than anything else in my life bar joining the Protectors.

 

Jarl: I know, but he’s just a kid.

 

Carlo: So were you once, look how much you changed. We have to do it, Carlo. You know what he will become.

 

Jarl: But that doesn’t make it right.

 

Carlo: Nothing we do in this universe is right for everyone.

 

Jarl: But that doesn’t pardon what we’re about to do!

 

Carlo: No, it doesn’t. But we have no choice. Either we deal with him now, or the blood on his hands also becomes blood on ours.

 

Jarl: But either way, we’ll still have blood on our hands!

 

Carlo: That’s the price we must pay to save them. Standby. I’m bringing us alongside the vessel now.

 

Jarl: Have they detected us?

 

Carlo: No. These colony ships are a crude patchwork job done to escape the solar storm that buffeted Earth in the 29th century. I’m frankly amazed they even have propulsion given the state they’re in. Life signs?

 

Jarl: Picking up five on board. One young, one unconscious.

 

Carlo: That’s definitely him. Magnetise and prepare for boarding.

 

Jarl: On it.

 

-Human Colony Class-II Kiln Ship Designation ‘Peregrine’-

 

I don’t know what sort of species has two hearts nor can still appear to be human, but I can’t take any chances. With us being the only four members of the skeleton crew we’ve all had to take on additional duties, including myself as head of security. Of course, that’s not my actual position, I’m primarily a ship engineer, but he doesn’t have to know that. What matters most is that he doesn’t know. People are far less likely to make moves against you when they have to contend with security as well.

 

Unfortunately, the medical bay doesn’t have much to offer in the way of security aside from a forcefield designed to keep airborne infections restrained. Just how successful it is at restraining an alien is unknown. Hopefully very.

 

Jerro: What do we do now?

 

Vale: I suppose, we wait and see if that forcefield will keep him contained.

 

Hala: That’s a very big ‘if’, Vale.

 

Samuel: Do you have any alternatives? As they’d be more than welcome.

 

Jerro: We could always try rerouting more of the power from the ship’s core to the forcefield. That should increase the density making it more difficult to pass through.

 

Hala: That’s too risky, especially with most of the ship’s power directed towards cryogenics.

 

Vale: We could always reach out to the rest of the fleet for support.

 

Hala: No. We can’t risk engaging the rest of the fleet until we know exactly what we’re dealing with here.

 

Samuel: We’re dealing with an alien that managed to board our ship with his own!

 

Hala: And how, dear Samuel, did he manage that without leaving a massive hole in the hull whilst doing so?

 

Samuel: I’m still working on that one. Not to mention how his ship has managed to disguise itself as a 1960’s police telephone box.

 

Jerro: How can a ship disguise itself as something so small?

 

The Doctor: Trans….dimensional….engineering.

 

Hala: He’s awake!?

 

The Doctor: Reverse……the polarity…..of……the neutron….flow.

 

Jerro: How do you reverse the polarity of neutrons? They don’t have any charge!

 

Rather than saying another thing, the alien who gave himself the name Doctor instead releases another small amount of golden-yellow energy from his mouth as be breaths out. Could that be weaponised? Harnessed? Is that raw energy that he’s emitting? If it is, we could use him to power the ship.

 

Hala: He’s doing it again.

 

Samuel: What do you think that stuff is, Vale?

 

Jerro: Maybe it´s the natural by product of his body performing aerobic respiration, but instead of producing carbon dioxide as our bodies do, maybe his body produces whatever that stuff is.

 

Samuel: Thanks Jerro, but I was asking what Vale thinks the stuff is.

 

Vale: What Jerro said.

 

Jerro’s smirk upon hearing Vale’s words is impossible to not notice, but I do my best to not dignify it with a response.

 

-Valorem Protector Time Jump Ship-

 

Jarl: We’re magnetised to their hull and I’ve got a lock on his position.

 

Carlo: Where is he?

 

Jarl: Medical bay. All of the crew are there with him.

 

Carlo: We’ll have to draw their attention in order to isolate him. We’ll hit the ship’s main power core, that should shut down all nonessential systems and draw the crew away from him.

 

Jarl: I’ve got a fix on the power core’s location.

 

Carlo: Take us aboard.

 

Jarl: Engaging transmat.

 

-Human Colony Class-II Kiln Ship Designation ‘Peregrine’-

 

Hala: What the hell do we do, Samuel?

 

Samuel: I don’t know.

 

Hala: I hate it when you say that.

 

Samuel: Well excuse me, there’s no protocol on how to deal with alien intruders.

 

Vale: We could always try throwing him out the airlock.

 

Jerro: Vale! We can’t do that! Especially not whilst he’s in this condition.

 

Samuel: Especially not until we know what that box of his is.

 

Before Hala or Vale can respond to my decision, the power suddenly fails and an alarm sounds as the emergency power core attempts to start up.

 

Hala: The power core’s turned off!

 

Vale: How the hell did that happen!?

 

Samuel: Nevermind that, we need to focus on getting it back online otherwise….

 

Jerro: The cryopods!

 

Samuel: Hala, you and Jerro head to the cryocontrol and try to route as much of the emergency power to the pods as possible. Vale, with me. We need to get the core back online!

 

Jerro: But what about him?

 

Jerro says pointing to the alien who calls himself the Doctor.

 

Samuel: Forget about him, right now we’ve got to get the pods back online otherwise this whole colonisation effort has been for nothing!

 

Done