Consequences of Vortex Manipulation

Hanna nodded, and smiled too. "That sounds cool." She tracked him around the console as he talked. An underwater city called Kret? She couldn't help but wonder, "So, if the city is underwater, is there a bubble surrounding the city, or would we have to wear underwater suits?" She asked, thinking it'd be weird to wear suits.  And really? Five eyes? He was right there, it would be like watching HD tv all the time. She gave a light laugh at the thought and wondered for a brief second exactly how many planets there were in the whole universe.

She looked around the interior of the TARDIS. "How big is this place?" She wondered aloud, walking around the room. She really did ask too many questions. She needed to stop that. It would get annoying, it had before. She settled for watching the time rotor go up and down as they traveled, rubbing her wrists like she was twisting a bracelet. A horrible habit of hers, which came with anxiety, excitement, nervousness and so many other emotions. And right now, it was because she was nervous and excited. She didn't want to mess this.

"Yeah!" The Doctor replied back to her, calling over to Hanna from the other side of the console before pacing back around to her so he didn't have to yell constantly, "Like i great big bubble..well..technically speaking it's a gel. A gel that is able to flow in the current of the ocean so the city is always on the move..able to withstand a huge variety of atmospheric catastrophe's, apart from your every day meteor or..". He paused, stopping his ramble from going any father as he finally stopped pacing the control console and glanced over to Hanna. 

When she asked about how big it was, The Doctor glanced around the control room with a lightly displayed smile before he gestured over to the hidden spiral staircase hidden beneath a section of the floor. Walking over to that section, The Doctor lifted it up then called out to her, "Want to see how big it really is?" he asked her rhetorically, his smile growing before he began to walk down the spiral staircase and disappear from her line of sight.

She smiled, watching him as he started rambling again. He seemed to ramble a lot. But rambling wasn't all too bad, was it? Letting the thought fall, she listened to The Doctor talk about the underwater city. It sounded like it'd be cool, like being inside an ice cube in jello. Or...something like that. She laughed at the thought and looked up at the Doctor when he asked if she wanted to see how big the place really was. She gave a huge grin, "I sure do." She said and stood up from leaning on the guardrail and watched his disappear from view.

Curious as to where he went, and how big this place was, Hanna walked over to where she had last seen him and looked down. 'A spiral staircase!' She thought to herself, putting her hand on the rail and began to descend. On reaching the bottom, she smiled at the Doctor, and looked around. Her smile only grew bigger. One of her favorite type of things is anything so complex, that even studying it for hours on end will not reveal it's secrets. And this, it was complex, beautiful and just....completely amazing in every aspect. This obviously wasn't human.

The Doctor smiled brightly as she walked down the spiral staircase and reached the level he was standing on, waiting for her, leaning up against the guardrail of the staircase, "Well this is just the first sub level" he finally said, glancing around. Thrusting up from the guardrail, The Doctor began to escort her through the level, "Books! All the books you can think of! Next level is clothes, then the pool. There's about..well..twenty levels in all" he explained as he walked up to the edge of the library. The columns, resembling the coral support columns in the control rooms, stood tall, holding up the main block that made the frame of the door.

Inside, past the door, visibly stood three levels of seemingly endless stacks of books, each holding at least one hundred. Gazing up at his collection, The Doctor entered the library nonchalantly as the thrust from the TARDIS landing echoed throughout the entire interior, shaking the bottoms of The Doctor's shoes for a split second. "Look's like we're here" The Doctor said, turning around to Hanna, "You can read if you'd like..or you could go to an underwater city. Your choice" he said with a slight smirk before walking back towards the spiral staircase and walking up.

Her eyes grew wide in amazement, having never seen so many books in one room at once! Not even in any of the libraries she's ever been in. And there were still different levels with different things! He was right. This place was HUGE. No, bigger than that. This place was massive. She looked at the Doctor then back at the books, running her fingers lightly over the spine of some of the books. Careful not to harm any in any way. Some of these books looked ancient, others seemed as if they had just come right out of the printing machine. Smiling, she listened to the Doctor as he said she could either read, or go to the underwater city called Kret. Then, his receding footsteps on the spiral staircase, going back to the console room. Lingering in the library, Hanna considered for a brief second to keep going down the levels. Just to see how far she'd get. But, as much fun as exploring the TARDIS seemed, she really wanted to see the five-eyed water-gel-bubble people.

Climbing the staircase, she stopped at the stop and smiled at the Doctor. "So. Underwater City." She gave him smirk, which she didn't do often, smirk. She walked over to the guardrail close to him and leaned on it, smiling. She couldn't help but imagine what these alien's would look like. Would they have gills? Oh! Would they be blue? That'd be cool. A blue fish-guy-thing. She couldn't help but smile at the thought. Yeah, she wasn't going to whole up and read about an adventure when she could go on one herself. "I'm game."

"Good" The Doctor simply said with a smile as he reached the end of the spiral staircase and entered the control room, only to immediately rush over the ramp where he quickly snagged his trench coat and took out the psychic paper and tucked it into his suit. Putting the trench coat back down, The Doctor glanced over to Hanna with a grin as his hand met the cold steel of the door handle, "Come on, Allons-y!". The door creaked open and The Doctor stepped to the side allowing the light from the outside world to shine in.

Blue streaks of light waved into the TARDIS and flashes of golden light passed by infrequently; upon stepping out, The Doctor was overwhelmed by the beautiful sight in front of him. A glass dome rose up behind the buildings that lurched upwards, each prominently created by coral like structures, that nearly touched it. The dome rose and fell into the distance just as train-like machines dash out from the corners touching up against the major center buildings. It stopped at a port at the middle of the building, allowed a few figures to exit before speeding off into the distance. In front of them were seemingly endless streets the weaved in and out of alley ways and buildings and was littered with tall greenish blue hinted reptilian bipedal creatures who peered over to The Doctor and Hanna.

Hopping off the rail and walking down the ramp after the Doctor, Hanna gazed out the door and, growing wonder at what she'd see, followed the Doctor outside of the TARDIS. Her eyes grew wide at the sight she saw. She smiled. "It's beautiful." She looked over at the Doctor and almost squealed in delight. She didn't, thankfully, but she was happy. She was on another planet! With aliens! She wanted to explore more than anything. Looking at the reptilian-type creatures, only letting her eyes hover for a few seconds, she noticed the Doctor was right. And, as not having five-eyes herself, wondered exactly what they saw and how they saw it. She was just a little ball of questions.

She was feeling jittery, so much energy built up inside her. This often happened when she was happy. She'd be so happy, she filled up with energy, or in other words, adrenaline in a sort. She smiled and looked at the Doctor again. "Can we...explore?" She asked in a light voice, not wanting to seem to energetic.

"Course!!!" The Doctor proclaimed, much to the dislike of several of the passing civilians who eyed him curiously the continued along their way, "What kind of time traveler would i be if i didn't explore a little" he said with a smile, "Just don't wonder off. You can get lost in this place and it would be going through hell and back just to find you". Pointing his index finger as he spoke to her about not wondering off, The Doctor kept a cold gaze until he finished speaking where he nodded, placed his hands nonchalantly into his pockets and began to stride through the streets.

Quickly he weaved past passing civilians, his eyes glancing up at the towering buildings every once and a while to take in the full view. But his goal and attention was set on one specific place, the scientific observatory of Kret, the name alone peaked interest in The Doctor.

She smiled, wondering how big the city was. Did it expand around the whole world? Or was it just in a large area? Not expanding around the whole planet? She shook the stupid thoughts from  her head and listened to the Doctor. Nodding, she responded with his 'Don't wonder off' with, "Of course." And, followed after him, looking about the city as she did so. A few times, a group of the people would get in her way, causing her to almost lose the Doctor. But, each time, she navigated through, having to do a light jog to catch up to him. He said not to wonder off, so, she wasn't going to. At least, not outside. Once they were in a building? Well, she wasn't going to just stand there, she wanted to explore the building. Of course, she'd stay close to him. At least in the same room or in a room right next to it. But not too far, too far was a bit too much. She'd get lost almost definitely.

A building loomed up in front of them, supposedly the building the Doctor was heading for. It was interesting enough, the outside at least. The inside, she tilted her head ever so slightly to the side. A scientific observatory? How interesting. She looked over at the Doctor, making sure he was still there, that while she hadn't been paying attention he walked off. He was, thankfully, and for a little bit, she stayed next to his side. But, eventually, her curiosity go the best of her. In a way, she wanted to wander off.

The doors of the scientific observatory opened automatically as the forms of The Doctor and Hanna approached them. A breeze of fresh, cold air struck them like a brick wall as they entered and The Doctor's eyes immediately met the hydroelectric telescope that loomed in it's gargantuan size in front of them. Five natives manned the telescope, one to move it, another to read the scans it made, one to operate it and another to write down the findings. Two hallways separated from the telescope and ran off into pods at the end of the hallways that scaled up the side of the building with great force and velocity, bringing its inhabitants to their destinations within seconds. Glass lined the walls so you were able to see the garden in the center of the facility allowing for a relaxed, sophisticated feeling to embrace the entire atmosphere of the facility. 

The Doctor stepped forward and into the small lobby they had set up that ended with the two hallways and the telescope, "You see that?" he asked Hanna, pointing to the telescope as it raised upwards, "It feds off the cycling power of the oceans current to power it. Everything runs on the currents power. Now, this telescope is used for atomic discovery in the plants and wildlife of the ocean. One swims by and within a split of a second, the telescope takes a biological scan then breaks the scan down from that..all the way down the atom. Imagine that..being able to see everything that makes up something, you and me; the genetic code, atoms, cells, electrons. You name it, they can find it".

The cool air was wonderful, but at the same time not. If she was to spend a very long time in on place, she'd be ice cold within a few seconds, so she shifted every few minutes on her feet to keep from getting cold. She gazed at the giant telescope, wanting to look through it herself, and listened to the Doctor explain what exactly it did. She smiled, "That's really cool." She paused to think a second, then, turning to look at the Doctor, asked, "What about the TARDIS? Would it be able to do that on the TARDIS? She asked, knowing that the TARDIS was more complex than a fish or her and him. She looked back at the scope and smiled, wanting to see more, hoping she'd get to actually touch some of the things here.

Hanna tapped the toe of her right shoe on the ground three times and walked a bit closer to the telescope, wondering how it was made. She rubbed her wrists like twisting a bracelet as she inspected the telescope from afar. She looked over at the Doctor, standing up straight. "What else is there here?" She paused, a smile growing on her face, fascination showing in her eyes, "I want to see everything."

The Doctor glanced around the room for a moment then peered back over to Hanna, "Well, let's see.." he thought out loud, taking a step forward, "There is the molecule destabilization process center, hyper conduction plant growth facility, Oh! The presentation auditorium!!" he exclaimed. Spinning around he glanced at the holographic signs saying where specific things are located down each of the hallways, "What it is, is, all these species and people from around the galaxy come here to present their inventions and findings in one huge presentation. It's amazing! One time, i saw this cat be transformed into a rhino..but they forgot to alter the voice so it was a rhino with the meow of a cat, imagine that" he explained with great enthusiasm.

Finally locating the hallway that had the auditorium on it's elevators flight coordinates, The Doctor grabbed Hanna's hand and rushed down the hall, letting go once they approached the elevation pod. The doors shot open with a small gush of air and The Doctor stepped inside, glancing at the controls for a moment that were imprinted holographically in the glass of the pod. "You're going to like this bit" He told Hanna as he pressed the button and immediately the pod shot up but then, it softly turned so that the glass door looked out onto the city and all of it's glory as it scaled the spiral building. The pod hugged the building as it rode completely around the entire building, allowing The Doctor and Hanna to get a good look at how immense the city was, even showing the end of the dome for a split second before turning and letting the doors open as it stopped at the auditorium level.

Hanna smiled, the explanation funny, and interesting. She tried to envision a rhino with a meow, it only made her laugh. She nodded, "That's brilliant." She smiled, and, when he grabbed her hand, stumbled at first from it being unexpected, then found her footing. The elevator-like thing was cool looking. She stood next to the doctor inside and watched him press a button.  She gasped, a smile creeping onto her face at what she saw. "Oh my." She stepped closer to the glass door to look out. The higher they went, the more and farther she could see. The city was huge! The end of the dome, though far away, told her it didn't wrap around the whole planet. She stepped back as the doors opened, then looked at the Doctor.

She stepped out onto the floor and out of the elevator-like thing. She smiled, bright and wide. He had made a good choice for this level. She was curious, what exactly did everything do?  How? So many questions, so little time. She looked at the Doctor again. "This is just absolutely terrific." She said, the smile still on her face. People milled about, odd things around the room. It was like her explained, only without the meowing rhino.

The Doctor smiled at Hanna's exclamation of excitement as he stepped out of the elevator and peered out and over the auditorium, scrutinizing the entire establishment looking for good seats. Once finding a pair, The Doctor pointed them out to Hanna with the quick extension of his hand and index finger before making his way over to them quickly, ensuring that others did not steal them while they were eyeing them. 

The lights of the auditorium dimmed for a few seconds as The Doctor too a seat and waited for Hanna to sit down next to come, "Come on, allons-y Hanna, don't have much time" he proclaimed out to her with a smile on his face. Everyone were getting their seats and the stage was beginning to open and the shadow of an inventor was being projected on the back of the stage, peaking The Doctors attention and fascination as he leaned forward.

Hanna, looking at the diffrent people in the crowd, didn't move when the Doctor mentioned the seats. She stood and watched as he went and took the seat. After a few seconds and some urging, she walked over to the seats, careful to not run into anyone. The lights dim, and her being in an unfamiliar place, she almost ran into a few people. Luckily, she made her way to the seat without causing harm. Usually, if she knew the place well enough, she could navigate it in the dark.

She sat down next to the Doctor, looking at the stage. She tapped her finger a few times before rubbing her wrists again. Excitment, curiousity, and a few other emotions were running through her system. She smiled, ready to see what was behind the curtain. Her mind a mile a minute, imagining different things, questions and unrelated thoughts. She looked over at the Doctor, excitment in her eyes, the the curtain began to move, revealing what was behind the curtain. She turned her attention back to the stage. What could it possibly be?

The first few people that came up were inventors, displaying their advanced robotics and engines, one being a three legged white robot with the face of a porcelain doll, the next being an inter dimensional engine which blew up in fumes once activated by it's master. Then finally, there was a biological engineer, bringing a tank onto the stage. He was dressed in a long white lab coat, his beard curling into a mustache instead of falling all the way down. "Today!" He proclaimed, his arms extending outward, "I give you, the people of this great city..and visitors. A chance to look at the new future of engineering and productivity".

The cover of the tank was removed and the image of several flashes of light could be seen wavering through the water as if scales of a fish. Leaning forward, The Doctor immediately became hooked and intrigued, "These! Are the new way to spy on our enemies! To repair our precious underwater engines..these are the biomites!" he proclaimed once more, "Or...something really bad if in the wrong hands" The Doctor mumbled under his breath.

Leaning back in the chair, she watched as engineer and invention came and went, intriguing, and also not as much as the last or the next. Some times she wondered how it was made, others she paid more attention to the creator then the creation itself. Then the tank came out. She sat up, paying close attention to the words, the creation and the creator. More attention than she had before. Actually, earlier she had begun to want to get up and leave the room. Ride the elevator thing again. That had been fun. But this invention itself was more fascinating to her.

Hanna, having been paying attention closely, heard the Doctor and knew he was right. And, at that exact moment, couldn't help but think and feel that something bad was going to happen with these things. It was usually when something cool and helpful came about, that someone bad got ahold of it and turned it into something horrible and life threatening. She scrunched up her eyebrows in thought, paying no attention for a few moments as her mind wheels whirred into a life of their own, clicking pieces into place like a puzzle, and throwing some out as well. The feeling staying as she leaned back again. 'Let the fun begin.' She thought to herself.

The inventor of the creation took a bow, much to the applause and delight of the audience who clapped and cheered for the man as he walked off the stage and into the darkness of the curtain. But then, a shriek of terror echoed throughout the entire auditorium a as blast of fire burst from where the man had just entered, sending his body flying across the stage, nearly hitting his creation in the tank. People ran, dashing out of the auditorium in terror and complete shock, screaming as they did so. The Doctor simply stood, his facial expression cold and scrutinizing as he glanced around the room, looking for the one who created the bomb to come out.

Then, like on que, a black outfitted figure hovered through the window it smashed open with a blaster and landed with a thud onto the stage. It's gaze, through the dark, motorcycle like helmet turned to The Doctor who by now was extending out his sonic screwdriver, "You will not stop me" it hissed before quickly and swiftly, shooting a laser, hitting The Doctor directly in the chest.

The Doctor's body flew over a set of chairs and into the next row where he laid unconscious as the figure turned it's attention and gaze to the creation in the tank where it had already begun to insert the biomites into a tube it withdrew from it's belt.

Hanna snapped back to reality as people began to scream. Her eyes took in the scene just as the Doctor stood up. A body. That was all she needed to know that someone wanted the biomites. The black figure came in through the window and then, when the Doctor pointed his Sonic at it and in turn was shot with a laser, Hanna stood. "Doctor!" She ran over to him, pushing chairs out of her way, making sure he was okay. Her mind ran back to the black figure. Looking up, she saw it making it's way back to the window. "Hey!" She stood up and made to run and tackle it to the floor, but when she made it to the window, it was already gone. 'D##n it!' She mentally curse herself and slammed her hand on the wall. She looked back over at the unconscious Doctor.

Running back over to him, Hanna moved the chairs away and checked his pulse. Oddly enough, she felt four beats instead of just two. Puzzled, she put her ear to his chest. The same. Was she hearing things? Or did he have two hearts? She moved and grabbed his Sonic where it had landed, bring it back over to him. She sat down by him and checked to see if he was wounded. "Doctor." She said, patting his cheek, trying to wake him up. She sat back and looked at the body on the stage, then in turn at the now empty tank. The Doctor had been right. The biomites were now a danger rather than helpful. They needed to get them back.

The Doctor slipped in and out of consciousness every second, his mind racing through lashes of memories that this incarnation had experienced from the point he came back with the crack in time, all the way up until now. The return of The master. Countless companions gone by. Toni, Sonya, Jack, Damon, Theta, Natalia, Inventor, Selena, Mickie....and the names continued onward, going all the way back to Susan, each name spiraling through his mind, in the dark trenches of his consciousness. They said if i died..then i would really die...no regeneration..just death...is this death? Is this my true ending?


The suddenly, a smack to his face jolted The Doctor's nervous system and he sprang upwards, his eyes widened and breath in a quickened pace. "Hanna.." He mumbled as he looked over to her, at first seeming like he saw her for the first time but then his mind reconnected with his memories, "Hanna Holloway...the biomites! Where are they?!".

She sat, waiting for the Doctor to wake up, and finally smiled when he did. She frowned though, when he asked about the biomites. "They, umm, got away." She said, standing up and holding out her hand for the Doctor. "I tried to get them back, I did." She continued, "But the blasted thigns flew away." She scowled at the window, then looked back at the Doctor. She chewed her bottom lip for a second before giving out a huff of breath. "Oh. Why didn't I think of that earlier? Would have helped." She mentally slapped herself for being so stupid. She smiled at the Doctor. "We gonna catch us a bad guy now?" She asked.

She thought for a second, then, coming to a conclusion, "You have two hearts." She said softly, as though she still couldn't quite believe it. He had two hearts? So...what was he...exactly? She had known he wasn't a normal human, he couldn't be with the technology he has, but two hearts? That really made her think.

"Oh yes!!" The Doctor proclaimed with a grin as he lifted up his sonic screwdriver and began to scan the stage and the window the figure escaped through, looking for traces or residue he could track, but his actions were halted by the mumbled that escaped Hanna's mouth. Peering over to her, The Doctor took a step closer to her, "Oh, sorry. Yeah..i'm..not human. And before you ask i'm not martian either. I'm a Time Lord the last of them..well..used to be until a few showed up..now i'm the fifth or fourth remaining Time Lord" he explained. 

Turning to the stage area, The Doctor jumped up onto the stage and spun on his heel as he continued to scan, "Anymore questions..you can ask along the way" he called down to her as he knelt down next to the, now broken, tank which held the biomites, "Interesting...the biomites held a magnetic frequency used to communicate with one another..but it's untraceable through my screwdriver".

She watched as he scanned things, wondering exactly who the black figure was. When he started talking about what he was, Hanna looked at him. "A Time Lord?" She asked, thinking on it. A Time Lord, or a Lord of Time. Either way, it sounded cool and interesting at the same time. But, as much as she wanted to know more, she left the questions for later, pushing them to the back of her mind. She nodded and walked over to the stage, not getting up onto it. "If you can't trace it with your Screwdriver, then what about the TARDIS?" She asked, examining a piece of the tank.

Hanna, as curious as she was to find out more, wondered one thing in specific, What were they going to do with the biomites? She looked at the Doctor then at the broken tank. They had taken the biomites for something bad, having killed for it actually. So, if she were a bad guy with biomites, where would she go to wreak some evil? She picked up a piece of the tank and thought. She would do this sometimes, to solve a problem, think like the bad guy. Because then, some things came quicker than others. But this one just didn't like her.

The Doctor eyed the fragments of the tank curiously with an eyebrow raised as Hanna spoke, then finally, her words sparked in his mind. Standing up, his eyes widened and he rushed over to the side of Hanna, "The TARDIS can track it! Bio-mechanical residencies are strong by themselves, but! With the biomites being laced with the magnetic frequencies they use to communicate between each other and the controller would only amplify the signal! Hanna you're a genius!!". Dashing and jumping off of the stage, The Doctor raced down the isles of the auditorium and eventually, bursting through the double wooden doors and into the hallway. "Hanna!!" He called back once he was in the middle of the hallway and almost to the elevation pod that loomed in the distance just in front of him, "Come on!!".

She set the piece of the tank down and looked up at the Doctor as he came over next to her. She smiled and laughed slightly as he spoke and then jumped off the stage, running out the double wooden doors. She stared after him, happy to help. His voice called her back and she ran after him. The doors swung shut behind her and she smiled at him, running past him and into the elevation pod. "Let's go then!" She shouted, a smile bright on her face. They were going to catch themselves a bad guy! She was ecstatic! "Can I press the button?" She asked. She wanted to press the button on a foreign planet in an alien elevator. She waited for the Doctor to get into the elevation pod, her mind rolling on energy. She thought about how she could be sitting at home, doing nothing. But she had chosen this, an she had made the best choice of the two.