THE HIVE
A/N: This is kinda based on the giant wasps they're gonna have in season 4, I love the whole idea of giant wasp creatures so I thought I'd make up my own story with them. Chapter One Icarus Twelve to Base. Base here, go ahead Icarus. What is your status? We're currently passing Sol 3 on our way to the Neptunian Detention Center. The cargo will be left there for transfer to Soltarius Detention Center. Very good. Carry on and keep us informed of any changes in your status. Will do. Icarus over and out. Commander Balthus pulled the headphones off his head and settled back in his chair. Just below him was the planet known as Sol 3 or Earth in the native tongue. He and his crew were delivering prisoners to the detention center on Neptune and then they would have nothing more to do with them. That made him so happy. These prisoners weren't the normal run of the mill convicts. Most of the time he and his crew were asked to transfer smugglers or murderers or pirates. But these things...they weren't your average prisoners and just that fact made him extremely nervous and anxious to get to Neptune. He hit the intercom button. "Jax, you back there?" he said into it. "Oh yeah, where did you think I was? Popped out for a walk?" a young male voice answered back. "I'd rather be out there than in here with those things." "I hear ya. Creepy, they are. I'll be glad to drop them off and get away from them." Jax said. "Are they secure?" Balthus asked nervously. "I think so. Tiro is in there checking on them now so I'll ask him when he comes…" There was a sudden silence. Balthus frowned. "Jax, what is it?" he asked. "I don't know, I thought I heard some…Peros, did you hear screaming, or am I going nuts?" Balthus did a double take. "Screaming?" he said as he felt the fear rising in him. "Are you sure it was screaming?" "Hang on a minute, we're check---" There was more silence and then suddenly he could hear Jax and Peros screaming and even more terrifying, loud buzzing. The color drained from his face as Balthus leapt from his chair and ran for the cockpit door. "I have to get to the escape pod!" he said to himself. "Have to warn everyone that they are loose!" He hit the door button and it slid open. Then, Balthus screamed as he saw more of them outside the door. Panicked, he tried to close the door, but they were too fast for him and they managed to keep the door open with their bodies. Balthus ran to the other side of the room as they came after him. Then, he felt a sharp pain in his back and let out a scream as his body slammed into control panel. He hit the altitude control and the ship took a nosedive straight towards England. Balthus couldn't stop the descent. He now lay on the floor curled up in a ball, holding his stomach in agony as they swarmed above him watching him intently. He felt his insides begin to change as the ship plummeted towards the Earth. "Ugh, let's get this over with." The Doctor said as he and Rose stepped outside the TARDIS. Rose hoisted her backpack onto her back. It was filled with another load of clothes for her mum to wash. She and the Doctor hurried across the courtyard to the apartment block. "Oh Rose, love, it's so good to see you again." Jackie said giving her a hug. "You too, mum. I brought another load of laundry. I hope you don't mind." Rose said handing her the backpack. "Oh, I don't mind at all. I'm just happy to have you home again safe and sound." She looked at the Doctor. "And it's a good thing you brought her home safe and sound, because otherwise I'd have to throttle you." "And a big hello to you too, Jackie." The Doctor replied rolling his eyes. "So, what's been going on, mum?" Rose asked. Jackie stared at her. "You mean you don't know?" "Know what?" Rose said. "It's been all over the news." "Well, mum, the Doctor and I have been traveling. It's a little hard for us to keep up on what's happening in 2006." She replied. "Well, come and see this then. A spaceship crashed just outside London yesterday." Rose and the Doctor looked at each other and hurried into the living room. Jackie turned on the TV and both of them set down on the couch. There was footage of the downed spaceship and several police officers walking around it. The ship, which is of unknown origin crashed yesterday morning outside the city limits, preliminary searches have found no signs of life aboard the damaged ship, but police are not ruling out the possibility that whoever piloted the ship has taken refuge within the city limits. "It's a Sauron prison ship." Rose and Jackie looked at the Doctor. "Is that bad?" Rose asked. "Depends. Usually Saurons are paid to transport criminals to Detention centers all across the galaxy. Saurons are strong and very skilled fighters so most of the criminals they get are the dangerous psychopathic ones." "And one of their ships has just crashed outside London," Jackie said. "And they can't find anyone on board it which means right at this moment there's probably a bunch of insane alien criminals running around just looking for an opportunity to terrorize the public!" "Not necessarily. They could have run the other way." The Doctor said. He rubbed his ear. "Although I suppose if they crashed next to a huge city like London, then that would be a more obvious hiding place than just running for the hills." He said. "Great!" Jackie said throwing up her hands. "So now we got alien loonies on the loose in this city in addition to the everyday run of the mill human loonies." "Mum, just calm down, it's not like they're gonna come knocking on your door." Rose said. "Oh no? With him coming around here all the time?" Jackie said pointing to the Doctor. "The man is a trouble magnet. I'm sure whoever it is has already guessed he's here and is coming here this very minute." "Oi, I am not a trouble magnet!" the Doctor said. He paused. "Well, most of the time I'm not." He said under his breath. "So, what are you gonna do about it?" Jackie demanded. The Doctor stared at her. "Me?" "Yes, you! You are the one who deals with these kinds of things, aren't ya? So, get out there and fix this before we all end up dead!" The Doctor stared at her in shock. "I just sat down, Jackie. Can I at least rest myself for two seconds before I go out looking for the alien loonies as you so eloquently put it?" "Yes, I just want you to do something before the city gets blasted into atoms or something." She said. "It's your job to look after all of us since you're the one that draws these weirdoes to our planet." The Doctor's mouth dropped open. "I do not draw weirdoes to this planet!" he said indignantly. Rose put her hand on his arm. "I wouldn't argue if I were you. She won't listen." "But I don't do that, Rose, the weirdoes come here on their own." He protested. "I am not a trouble magnet. If anyone's a trouble magnet…" He finished up by jabbing his finger at Jackie's back. Rose nodded. "I know, but mum's right, we really should investigate, don't you think? Just in case there was something dangerous on board?" "Yes, I had every intention of doing that once I heard the news report, but I do not appreciate your mum implying that I need to get off my ass and do it two seconds after I get in the door. It makes me wonder how long she's been sitting there just waiting for me to walk in the door so she can scream at me to go out there and fix things." "You did say on the Sycorax ship that the Earth was defended." "Yes…but even the defender of the Earth would like to sit down for ten seconds on occasion and have a nice cup of tea before he goes out and risks his neck. I'm not a bloody robot." Rose squeezed his hand. "I'm sure mum means well, she's just scared." She said softly. "Well, I can understand that, but I'm not her alien pit bull that she can just sic on the scary alien monsters whenever she wants to. I do have feelings too." Rose nodded and leaned her head on his shoulder. At that moment, Jackie came around the corner, stopped and stared at him. "You still here? I thought you would have been gone by now!" "Mum, give him a break, will ya? He wants to rest!" Rose said angrily. "No, it's alright, I'm rested. I'll go and take a look at this ship before half of London goes up in flames and she blames me because I didn't move fast enough." The Doctor said rising to his feet. Rose sighed and shot a look at her mum as the Doctor stomped towards the door. She walked over towards her. "Can't you give the poor guy a break?" she hissed at her. "Rose, I don't want aliens out there killing any more people. If he's here then he needs to take a look at it!" Rose looked back at the Doctor who was standing by the door waiting for her. She looked back at Jackie and leaned in close. "Mum, we just got back from London, 1953, where this thing called the Wire was stealing people's essences and taking their faces with it. She got me and the Doctor is upset because he had to see me without a face and it freaked him out. Then, he saw me trapped in the telly and it freaked him out more. He wanted to come home for a break so he could recover and you start ordering him around." "Oh, God, Rose" Jackie said hugging her tightly. "I'm so glad you're alright! Well, I mean I had no idea that happened to you. I'm sorry I was so harsh with him, it's just that ever since you met the man we've had nothing but trouble and I want him to find out what's going on and stop it before something happens to me or you." "I understand that, mum, but go easy on him, will ya? He has a rough life as it is without people getting on his case." "Rose?" Rose looked back at the Doctor. "You coming?" Rose nodded. She hugged Jackie. "Be careful." She said to her. "I will." She let go and walked towards the Doctor. The Doctor opened the door and started to go out. "Doctor?" The Doctor sighed and looked back at Jackie. Jackie smiled at him. "You be careful too." She said. The Doctor smiled and nodded. He took Rose's hand and the two of them walked outside and shut the door behind them.
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