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

The Satan Pit

"The lost girl, so far away from home. The valiant child who will die in battle so very soon." The beast paused again Rita looked at Rose who was practically shaking staring at nothingness. "And then the one trapped inside, the girl all on her own, tick tock goes the clock Rita Stone." Rita froze eyes fixed on completely nothing, her breathing stopped and her eyes widened in fear.

"Doctor, what does that mean?" Rose shakily spoke into the comm.

"Rose, don't listen." He told her, Rita gripped onto the blonde's arm feeling as if her feet would give way any second.

"Rita?!" She looked at the brunette scared for her life as well as her own. "What does it mean?" She repeated.

"You will die and I will live." The voice of the beast spoke, the images of the Ood then were replaced by a red horned beast roaring and then disappeared just as fast as it came.

"What the hell was that?" Danny gasped jumping back with the others, all exept Rita who was frozen breathing rappidly her eyes almost wide enough to pop out of her own head.

"I had that thing inside my head," Toby said shakily.

"Doctor, what did it mean?" Rose asked. "Rita?" She looked at her concerned about how hard she was gripping onto her arm and how fast her breathing was.

"What do we do? Jefferson?" Danny asked.

"Captain? What's the situation on strategy nine?" Jefferson asked. There was no answer.

"Zach, what do we do?" Danny pleaded for an order, anything to get him to stop thinking about what it said.

Toby began to mutter. "The planet, the orbit, the black hole. Everything's true."

"Captain, report."

"We've lost pictures, Mister Jefferson," Ida informed him.

"It said-" Rita started to mutter between rapid breathing. "All alone- tick tock." She shook her head. "I'm trapped inside..." She squeezed her eyes shut trying to ignore the words repeating themselves over and over in her mind.

"Doctor, how did it know all of that?" Rose begged for a reply, an explanation, anything.

"Jefferson," Zach replied empty and shaking.

"Stop." The Doctor demanded hearing seeing everyone starting to get out of control.

"What did it mean?" Rose asked again.

"Everyone just stop!"

"What do we do?

"Report."

Rita stopped squeezing her eyes, her breathing slowed. Now is not the time to panic She thought hearing the chaos around her. She screamed as loud as she could possibly scream "Everyone shut up!" They all stopped instantly, she let go of Rose's arm. "Sorry Rose had a little bit of a meltdown there, again. Doctor, you wanted to say something?"

"Thank you" he breathed out. "You want voices in the dark. Then listen to mine. That thing is playing on very basic fears. Darkness, childhood nightmares, all that stuff." He said loudly getting them all to listen.

"But that's how the devil works," Danny told him.

"Or a good psychologist." He countered Danny.

"Yeah, but how did it know about my father?" Ida questioned.

The Doctor thought for a moment thinking of what to say. "Okay, but what makes his version of the truth any better than mine, hmm? Cos I'll tell you what I can see. Humans. Brilliant humans. Humans who travel all the way across space, flying in a tiny little rocket. Right into the orbit ofa black hole, just for the sake of discovery. That's amazing!" He gleamed at them. "Do you hear me? Amazing, all of you. The Captain, his Officer, his elders, his juniors, his friends. All with one advantage. The Beast is alone. We are not. If we can use that to fight against him."