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

Army of Ghosts

"Sort of, yeah." Jackie nodded at his explanation.

"Like a psychic link. Of course, you want your old dad to be alive, but you're wishing him into existence. The ghosts are using that to pull themselves in."

"You're spoiling it." Her voice cracked a little.

"I'm sorry, Jackie, but there's no smell, there's no cigarettes. Just a memory."

"But if they're not ghosts, what are they then?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, but they're human! You can see them. They look human." Jackie protested.

"She's got a point. I mean, they're all sort of blurred, but they're definitely people."

"They look it, but are they really?" Rita asked the Doctor more than anyone, trying to hint to him a little that they were not people.  

"Maybe, maybe not. They're pressing themselves into the surface of the world. But a footprint doesn't look like a boot."

"Come on then what's the plan?" Rita asked as the Doctor jumped up. "Oh wait you don't do plan" She followed him out.

"All in good time Rita, for now back to the TARDIS " She nodded following him out.

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"According to the paper, they've elected a ghost as MP for Leeds." Rose walked in with a paper in hand. Rita looked up from the jump seat and couldn't help herself from grinning at the scene about to unfold before her. "Now don't tell me you're going to sit back and do nothing."

The Doctor then popped up from below the console with a backpack and a something looking like a hosepipe in his hand. "Who you gonna to call?" He asked in a ridiculous voice.

Rose replied cheering a little. "Ghostbusters!" and started to laugh.

"I ain't afraid of no ghosts." Then ran outside the TARDIS. Rita almost fell over laughing as she walked out following him with Rose behind her doing exactly the same, having to hold on to the railing to stop themselves from collapsing onto the ground.

The Doctor placed three metal orange cones in a triangle. "When's the next shift?"

"Quarter to. But don't go causing trouble. What's that lot do?" Jackie nodded to the cones.

"Triangulates their point of origin."

"Triangulates in a triangle" Rita chuckled a little.

"I don't suppose it's the Gelth?" Rose guessed.

"Nah. They were just coming through one little rift. This lot are transposing themselves over the whole planet. Like tracing paper."

"Tracing paper but not very good at tracing," Rita muttered and the Doctor nodded attaching a wire to each of the cones.

"You're always doing this. Reducing it to science. Why can't it be real? Just think of it, though. All the people we've lost. Our families coming back home. Don't you think it's beautiful?" She asked the Doctor and he simply answered: "I think it's horrific." Her face fell a little and the Doctor ran in the TARDIS with a coil of wire then plugging it into the TARDIS. "Rose, give us a hand!"

She ran inside and Rita followed then Jackie. "As soon as the cones activate if that line goes into the red, press that button there." He pointed to one on the console. He then brought out the sonic screwdriver. "If it doesn't stop setting fifteen B. Hold it against the port, eight seconds and stop." He handed her the sonic screen and she repeated the instructions to him to make sure she understood correctly. "If it goes into the blue, activate the deep scan on the left"