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

The Satan Pit

"Now that's something I would like to see" She crossed her arms leaning closer to the monitor. Which flashed with affirmative.

"Well then" She patted Danny's back

"Oh, my God. It says yes. I can do it. Hypothetically, if you flip the monitor, broadcast a flare, it can disrupt the telepathy. Brainstorm!" He ecstatically said pressing buttons.

"What happens to the Ood?" Rose asked.

"It'll tank them spark out."

"There we are, then. Do it!"

"No, but I'd have to transmit from the central monitor. We need to go to Ood Habitation." He thought it would be suicide to do so.

"That's what we'll do, then." Rose put some faith in. "Mister Jefferson, sir. Any way out?"

"Just about. There's a network of maintenance tunnels running underneath the base. We should be able to gain access from here." He pointed at a map of the base.

"Ventilation shafts." She nodded.

"Yeah, I appreciate the reference, but there's no ventilation. No air, in fact, at all. They were designed for machines, not life forms."

"Don't go losing hope just yet" Rita shook her head taking the comm. "Zach what can you do?"

"I can manipulate the oxygen field from here. Create discrete pockets of atmosphere. If I control it manually, I can follow you through the network."

"One of the most important roles, not just pressing buttons, after all, keeping us safe and alive, just the way it should be."

"You two wanted me pressing buttons"

"Yeah, We asked for it. Okay, we need to get to Ood Habitation. Work out a route." Rose practically ordered him.

"Right get this open Jefferson" Rita called him over from what he was doing.

"On it" He crouched down and started to work on getting the deck plating off of the floor.

"Danny better work fast," Rita told him. "That door will be down in no time and we are not staying in here when it does"

"Got it" he nodded continuing to type away and press buttons.

"Toby anything?" Rose asked helping Jefferson.

"Not yet"

There was another bang on the door.

"Come on more time" Rita gritted her teeth.

There was another loud bang and sparks flew through the small gap in the door.

"Danny!" Rose shouted for him to hurry up and finish.

"Hold on! Just conforming."

Jefferson pulled up the deck and shouted. "Dan, we got to go now! Come on!" He demanded the man to hurry up.

"Yeah!" He shouted in agreement grabbing an orange computer chip from the machine then ran over to the others by the opened deck.

"Put that in the monitor and it's a bad time to be an Ood." He told them showing the chip.

"In a moment it will be a bad time to be us" Rita hissed feeling the pressure rise.

"We're coming back. Have you got that? We're coming back to this room and we're getting the Doctor out." Rose promised them and herself.

"Okay. Danny, you go first, then you, Miss Tyler and then, Miss Stone, then Toby. I'll go last in defensive position. Now, come on, quick as you can!" Danny wasn't having to be told twice and scrambled to the floor into the tunnel, Rita followed then Rose, Toby and finally Jefferson who pulled the deck back.

"God, it stinks. You all right?" Rose looked at Danny.

Danny snapped a little sarcastically not enjoying the current situation. "Yeah, I'm laughing. Which way do we go?"

"Just go straight ahead. Keep going till I say so."

"Not your best angle, Danny." Rose groaned.

"Oi, stop it."

"I don't know, it could be worse," Toby muttered.

"Don't make me kick you Toby" Rita hissed at his remark. "3 year's of karate, might not remember it all but I know how to kick."

"Okay, okay." He protested.

"Straight on until you find junction seven point one. Keep breathing. I'm feeding you air. I've got you." Zach told them.

"Wasn't going to stop thanks," Rita said under her breath.

"Not the time for sarcasm Rita"

"When is the time Rose?" Rita groaned with how much her hands were aching at the moment. They continued crawling in the tunnel until reaching the point, Danny let Zach know and they all stopped leaning against the walls of the tunnel.

"Okay, I've got you. I'm just aerating the next section." He let them know.

Danny started to complain about the situation, Rita rolled her eyes at his moaning. "Getting kind of cramped, sir. Can't you hurry up?"

"Stop complaining," Jefferson told Danny panting a little.

"Mister Jefferson says stop complaining." She told the message to Danny.

"I heard." He told Rose.

"He heard." She repeated to Danny.

"But the air's getting a bit thin." Toby began to complain.

"He's complaining now."

Jefferson then groaned. "I heard."

Rose then sniffed the air and scrunched up her nose. "Danny, is that you?"

"I'm not exactly happy."

"But you're alive so stop complaining" Rita huffed.

"I'm just moving the air." Zach let them know everything was okay.

"I've got to oxygenate the next section. Now, keep calm or it's going to feel worse."

'Not with the Ood now in the tunnels' Rita thought just before there was a bang that echoed through the tunnel.

"What was that?" Danny asked

"Mister Jefferson, what was that?"

"What's that noise?" Toby questioned

"Captain, what was that?"

"Oh, ignore the one with the foreknowledge then" Rita huffed. "The Ood got in, habitation five I believe."