YESTERDAYS HEROES ONCE MORE Part Ninety Two ......... A Death in the Family ?

 Phooey, Jack and Manny had been waiting in silence in the other storage room. They all looked at the small Walkie Talkie Radio that Phooey had place on one of the shelves. So far nothing had been heard. No sound had come out of its speaker. 

With the door now secured by the broom handle, Manny did no longer need to guard the door as he had done. He looked at his watch, it had been over half an hour since they had left the Doctor and his team mates in the other room. They must have started the process by now he thought to himself.

Then the lights in the room started to flicker, and in the distance they heard what sounded like a loud clap of thunder, or was it a gun shot.   Then the ground started to shake..  Was it an Earthquake ?

The lights in the room then went  completely out..... but came back on after a few seconds. Phooey grabbed the Walkie Talkie from the shelf and spoke into it.

"Doctor, Doctor, this is Penry calling..... please coming in. " he said

" Trying boosting the out put " Manny said very agitated and feeling that he was unable to help.

" Be calm my friend " said Jack patting his new friend on the back

Phooey turned the dial on the front and  repeated what he had said.

There was no reply. He tried a third time. Still no reply.

" Should we now return ? " Jack asked.

" Well we were told to wait to hear from the Doctor first before returning " Phooey said " But as no one answered my call, they could be in a spot of trouble. " Phooey continued.

" I vote to go back now, our friends may be in need of our help " Manny said excitedly.

Phooey and Jack nodded in agreement.

Jack pulled the broom out of the door handles and pushed the doors open.

" Sometimes doing the wrong thing is better than doing nothing." Jack said

Jack looked at Phooey, and did a small smile. This was to acknowledge that Phooey had said that to him previously back in the Tardis. 

" Yes and doing nothing is the wrong thing at present " Replied Phooey winking  to Jack.

Manny looked over at the Duplicates and said " Stay here, do not move "

The Duplicates all nodded.

Meanwhile, the Doctor had got to his feet. The room was in darkness, then the lights started to flicker back to life. At first he could only make out a shape, them he saw it was Reggie. He had survived the Explosion.  As the room got brighter he could see that Reggie looked like he had sustained some damage. 

The machine that he had built was laying in many pieces. The Katana looked like it had melted. The Time Scoop was also in pieces. The Doctor looked around the room. Many of the Duplicates had disappeared, the energy realised during the final explosion must have destroyed many of them.

"Reggie, Reggie are you OK ?" called the Doctor

Reggie remained motionless, but then his mouth dropped open, and one of his ears drooped.

 Then one of the Multi Men stood up and walked over to the Doctor. 

" Lee is that the real you ? " asked the Doctor 

"Yes, its the real me "  was the reply.

The Doctor then realised that Walter aka Fluid Man was not in the room. Had the explosion killed him ? Had he been vaporised ?

"Walter ! Walter !" the Doctor called.

" I am down here " came a voice. It was Fluid Man

The voice was coming from a grate in the floor. 

"Stand back I am coming out " The Voice said

Then water started to over flow up out of the grating. More and more water started spilling into the room. Then a head appeared, it was Fluid Man.

He kept rising up out of the grating until he was fully formed. 

The Doctor and Lee walked over to where Walter was standing.

" How did you end up down there ?" asked the Doctor

"Well, when I noticed the room was heating up before the final explosion, I turned myself into a Giant Ice shield that I encased both you and Lee in....... But the final release of energy caused me to turn in steam. And as my steam was scolding hot I thought to save burning anyone I would retreat down the grating  I had spotted earlier.

" That now makes sense, I remember the room got very hot and then icy cold. The Cold was you ! " added Lee.

The Doctor then said that if Lee and his duplicates, along with Walter  could start tidying up the mess, he would inspect Reggie.

The Doctor approached Reggie. There was no sign of activity.  

The Doctor pulled what was left of the wire he had placed on side of Reggie's had and caste it to the floor. It was still sparking. and was draining any power that remained in his Cybernetic Friend. He then closed Reggie's mouth. Reggie's eyes rolled. Was this just a sign of life ? the Doctor thought to himself.

The Doctor reached around the front of Reggie's collar, and took a hold of the Disk that was really a radio transmitted. He spoke into it, but realised like Reggie it had been affected by the massive energy release, and no longer functional.

" Doctor, he has gone ! Johnny Ringo has gone ! " It was Walter who had discovered the Cowboy Outlaw was no longer where he had been put. All that was where he had been was the bindings that he had been tied up with.

" Well at least that part of the plan worked " Said the Doctor looking at Reggie shaking his head. 

He looked into Reggie's dull black eyes.....But at what cost ?  he thought to himself.

Then the door to the room burst open. It was Jack brandishing a broom, followed by Manny and Phooey. Both of whom looked like they were about to attack.

But the expressions on the faces changed when they saw the damage that Reggie had sustained.

" Will he be alright ? " Asked Jack

" The Doctor turned and said " I hope so "

" Look ! " Shouted Phooey pointing.

Jack and Manny looked to where Phooey was pointing. Jack could see that the Blade on the Katana was missing. Only a small piece of metal was sticking out of what had been the handle.

Jack dropped his broom in shock. Phooey knew that Jack never was one to show his emotions freely, but now he could see that Jack was very upset.

Jack's heart sank, he stepped forward and was about to pick up what was left of his beloved Katana, when the Doctor shouted "Stop...... its still attached to the remains of the Time Scoop. It is still too hot to touch." 

 Jack could feel the heat radiate out from it, so he stepped back.

" Even the hateful Aku, was never powerful enough to destroy my righteous blade.  Now she lays destroyed. She was originally  a gift to the Emperor from God's. Odin, Ra and Vishnu please forgive me for allowing the sacred Blade to be destroyed. The energy that was stored within Reggie must have been far far greater than you believed Doctor to do this. " Jack bent his head in honour of his Katana.

There was a deathly hush within the room. 

What will happen next ? Will the Doctor be able to fix Reggie ? Will Jack ever get over the loss of his beloved Katana ?

To find out the answers to these questions come back next time. 

But until then ENJOY !

Yesterdays Heroes Once More.... Part Ninety One ........ It is time to Activate the Device.

 The Doctor had pressed down the button to activate the device with his foot. This had caused a loud click He then removed his foot and stepped back. At first nothing happened, but as he stepped forward to press the button again.... The lights on what had been the Walkie Talkie started to flash.

" Well its working " the Doctor announced.

The Doctor stepped back again and watched on. Then a pale blue  - white light slowly raced up the flex towards the right side of Reggie's head. 

Once it had reached his head, Reggie's Cybernetic Brain instructed his body to transfer all available energy up into itself via the Primary and Secondary Power Cores. The Doctor had told Reggie he needed to retain at least 5% of his Power supplies to enable him to still function.

The Right side of Reggie's Brain started to glow, it had started to accept the power as the Doctor had planned, then the Left side also started to glow as Reggie prepared to transfer the energy out of himself into the Time Scoop.

Then Reggie gave the next command and the energy was released along the cable on the left side of his head. Unlike what had happen on the right side, the Bright Golden energy raced down the left cable towards the Time Scoop. " Slowly, Slower " The Doctor shouted to Reggie

" I am trying " Yelped Reggie. Reggie had been warned that discharging the energy too fast could cause the Time Scoop to malfunction even causing it to send the energy pulse back into Reggie. This would for certain fry his circuits.

The Doctor looked on unable to help any more, this was now down to Reggie to make a connection to the Time Scoop.

" I've made contact, I am in control of the device. I am sending the instructions now ! " Shouted Reggie excitedly.  

The Doctor looked at the Time Scoop. It was glowing brighter and brighter, as was Reggie.  He could see what he believed was Time Lord Regenerative Energy now starting to leach out. He had no  idea what that energy would do to him, so he stepped behind the Wall of Multi Men. They all raised their shields to provide what protection they could. One of the Duplicates handed the Doctor his shield.

Only the Multi Men Duplicates standing in front of Reggie  could now see what was happening, as Fluid Man, The Original Multi Man and the Doctor had now been completely cocooned by the Multi duplicates.  

" Keep me informed of what is happening Reggie, as I cannot see "  The Doctor called out.

" Doctor, some of the energy is leaking on to Jack's Katana " Reggie shouted back

" That's fine, that is what I thought would happen, but do try to slow down the release of energy " The Doctor replied.

"Doctor, Timeatron's Box is now glowing!" Reggie informed everyone.

The Doctor realised that the energy release was happening too fast..... but he was powerless to help.

Multi Man feeling that the room was starting to heat up crawled out of the Cocoon of his duplicates . He whipped up two more rows of his Duplicates to help provide more protection to every one.  The energy release was now lighting up the whole room. Before diving back in the Cocoon he glimpsed a look at Reggie. The glow was so bright but peeping through his fingers he saw that now Reggie was now glowing too.

"Reggie's glowing now!"  Shouted Multi Man

Then  there was a blinding flash of light and a noise that sounded like thunder, then a blast of heat followed by extreme cold and then the room went dark.

The room was now void of any light. It was completely silent.

What had happened ? Had the Experiment worked?

To find out come back next time.

Until then ENJOY !