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

Army of Ghosts

"You'll never get inside it." The Doctor promised.

Yvonne hummed in response and went to head off. The Doctor noticed Rose slightly opening the doors to see the Doctor outside. He gave her a little nod before the truck drove off.

The Doctor caught up walking down a hall following Yvonne. "All those times I've been on Earth, I've never heard of you."

"But of course not. You're the enemy. You're actually named in the Torchwood Foundation Charter of 1879 as an enemy of the Crown." Yvonne informed him.

"1879. That was called Torchwood, that house in Scotland." He looked at Rita who nodded remembering the house.

"That's right. Where you encountered Queen Victoria and the werewolf." Yvonne told him.

"Hold on" Rita jumped in. "I was never exiled. The Queen never told me to leave, her words were to somehow help him" she shrugged not understanding.

"Yes you are correct, still a Dame" Yvonne nodded.

"Don't call me one though, especially you."

"I think he makes half of it up and forces them to go along," Jackie said to Yvonne.

"Her Majesty created the Torchwood Institute with the express intention of keeping Britain great, and fighting the alien horde." She explained continuing down the hall.

"But if I'm the enemy, does that mean that I'm a prisoner?" The Doctor asked.

She nodded. "Oh yes. But we'll make you perfectly comfortable. And there is so much you can teach us. Starting with this." She opened the doors and Rita groaned at the sight of a huge golden almost brown sphere floating in the air.

"Now, what do you make of that?" Yvonne asked. The Doctor and Rita slowly stepped towards it.

"Don't like it at all" Rita stated crossing her arms.

"You must be the Doctor and Rita Stone. Rajesh Singh. It's an honour, sir, ma'am." A scientist held out his hands which the Doctor ignored not looking away from the sphere. Rita looked at the man and shook her head. 

"Yeah." The Doctor stared at it.

Jackie looked at it. "What is that thing?"

Yvonne shrugged. "We got no idea."

"But what's wrong with it?"

"What makes you think there's something wrong with it?" Rajesh asked Jackie.

"Don't know. It just feels weird."

"Well, the sphere has that effect on everyone. Makes you want to run and hide, like it's forbidden." The Doctor walked up the steps and placed on his 3D glasses looking at the sphere closer.

"We tried analysing it using every device imaginable but according to our instruments, the sphere doesn't exist. It weighs nothing, it doesn't age. No heat, no radiation, and has no atomic mass."

Jackie protested not believing what he had said. "But I can see it."

"Fascinating, isn't it? It upsets people because it gives off nothing. It is absent."

"Upsets me because of something else. You know about the running and hiding? That's me right now" Rita told them.

"Well, Doctor?" Yvonne asked for his thoughts.

"This is a Void Ship." He stated. "Rita definitely has a right to want to run and hide"

"And what is that?" Yvonne crossed her arms waiting for an explication.

"Well, it's impossible for starters. I always thought it was just a theory, but it's a vessel designed to exist outside time and space, travelling through the Void."

"And what's the Void?"

"The space between dimensions. There's all sorts of realities around us, different dimensions, billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in between, containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that. Nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down, no life, no time. Without end. My people called it the Void. The Eternals call it the Howling. But some people call it Hell." He finished removing the 3D glasses from his face and placing them in his pocket and moving to sit on the bottom step.

"But someone built the sphere. What for? Why go there?" Rajesh asked.

"To explore? To escape? You could sit inside that thing and eternity would pass you by. The Big Bang, end of the Universe, start of the next, wouldn't even touch the sides. You'd exist outside the whole of creation."

"You see, we were right. There is something inside it." Yvonne beamed happily.

"Oh, yes." The Doctor stood up.

"So how do we get in there?"

"We don't! We send that thing back into Hell." He pointed at it. "How did it get here in the first place?" He looked at Yvonne.

"Well, that's how it all started. The sphere came through into this world, and the ghosts followed in its wake."

"Show me." He demanded walking out and turning left. Rita rolled her eyes.

"No, Doctor," Yvonne called to him, he then turned in the opposite direction heading right.

"He does that sometimes," Rita told Yvonne then ran to catch up with the Doctor.

Only the second part of Army of Ghosts and then two parts of Doomsday left. I'm excited to end and see Martha but I'm gonna miss Rose and Rita together :(