fracturedrp | Prisoner Zero

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Prisoner Zero

When: During this thread. / Moving Day Plot (Before the Forgotten Stars)
Where: Leadworth Hospice
Who: Captain Jack Harkness

cjharknesstw , Andrew

bluesuit_handy , The Doctor

stetsons_r_cool , Romana

2ndromana, Master

traken_master , The Doctor

bananasgood

What:

A message comes across the globe on every form of electronic medium.

"Attention Prisoner Zero the human residence is surrounded"

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. You have twenty minutes to surrender Prisoner Zero."

The message will continue to repeat itself and those who arrive via TARDIS will find themselves inside of the dark Leadworth hospice near Jack's TARDIS.

(OOC: This will be a group thread. A pose order will be established first. Jack, Andrew, The Doctor..
People can come arrive by either their own TARDIS, Vortex Manipulator or hitched a ride inside of Jack's.)

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"Well you can see my hands are a bit occupied." The Doctor looks at the list of the others who went 'sleepwalking' and before he can agree to the 'copycat' there's the sound of the man/dog team barking.

He saw him earlier and he lifts his head up at the sound of Maret growling and there's a smile on his face. "Okay, now that sums it down just a bit." The Doctor traces back his memories of the Judoon and he looks to Andrew. "You remember the Judoon right? They couldn't find our Plasmavore friend due to the fact she was assimilating herself into the human population due to their ability to mimic the internal and genetic structure of another race."

The Doctor watches the man and dog continue with their approach and he glances at Maret. "Now, we do need to see if we can get the Atraxi to notice that our friend here is exactly what they're looking for."

The team continues to bark and walk towards the group until they find themselves under an air duct.

When The Doctor speaks it's close to being had so a hasty retreat into another part of he hospital is in order. The man and dog stand under it, their bodies seem to loose shape and soon they're sucked up into another part of the hospice.

"Course I remember," replied Andrew, never taking his eyes off the unknown alien except to glance at Märet's stiffened back. "Are you saying we're seeing the same thing? Not absorbing them, obviously, unless they're more drained than we realize, but - copying? Inside as well as out?"

He's nattering on, but at the moment what really worried him was the possibility that the meta-meta would try something stupid in the next few seconds, and he wouldn't be close enough to stop him. Andrew inched forward, trying to come up behind Märet.

Märet stared intently at the man and dog, only half listening to Romana. He started to take a step backward as the pair kept coming closer, but when he saw them escape into the air duct he darted forward, looking up after where they'd gone. He glanced at the others, then back up again, as if he was thinking of following.

Romana was monitoring the situation, Andrew didn't really have to worry. Not that she blamed him.

She rested a gentle hand on Märet's arm, "Not yet. I might have been mistaken, he could be more dangerous than I thought. Let's group with the others and decide what to do, shall we?"

She turned to the Doctors, "Right. Have either of you seen anything like that before? What is it?"

"It's almost the same but it's not exactly the same. They're copying the forms of these people in the hospice." The Doctor says, as he watches the man and dog disappear into the air duct. He walks over to the air duct and he holds his sonic screwdriver up in the air, it doesn't do anything and he sighs. "Come on, not now."

It's his old screwdriver and he wanders into another ward.

The patients in the room with the rest of the group begin to speak. 'Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor.' In a taunting tone to the Time Lord that turns around upon hearing them only for the bodies to go still.

"I wonder if you all noticed one thing about this hospice. There are two key features here that are not here."

The Doctor stops he wants to go find the others with Romana but that sudden taunt has The Doctor remain behind. He rushes over towards one of the patients with his sonic in hand and he tries to get a scan. The sonic sputters and he whispers under his breath. "I have no TARDIS, the pond has no ducks and my sonic is all fizzle and spittle. Ramona or Andrew, either one of you pass me your sonics."

"Or I could just scan them..." Andrew pointed out, getting out his screwdriver to do so. He frowned at the reading he got, whacked the screwdriver against his palm, and scanned again. "What do you make of that?" he asked the Doctor, showing it to him.

"Multiform," commented Märet, though by this point he was probably just stating what everyone already knew. He kept looking up at the vent like he wanted to climb up there and go spelunking after the alien, but Romana's hand on his arm seemed to ground him a bit. He glanced at the others where they were busy with the human patients, then around at the rest of the room.

"He's only certain ones," he pointed out.

Romana looks around the room after Märet's observation, "What did you say? Only certain ones? Come with me." She all but drags him away from the vent, it wouldn't do for him to run away.

She walks to the patients and begins scanning them with her sonic, "Oh, Märet! You're right! He's only using the ones who are in coma!"

She calls out, "Oh Doctors! Märet has noticed something the three of us have missed! Prisoner Zero is only using the ones in coma. So his ability to take on a form has to be connected... but how?"

The Doctor was just about to check over the readings of the bodies that Andrew was getting, but Maret got it right then and there. "Yes, yes, Prisoner Zero is a multiform. I was almost hoping for it to be a Zygon. Why, we haven't had Zygons in years." He looks at the scan and this isn't exactly great.

"Yes, so prisoner Zero is using the bodies of certain patients to trick the Atraxi into thinking he could be anywhere." The Doctor wanders back to where the air vent is and he lifts his head up. "This is of course a hospice and there are going to be numerous wards with patients in a coma. I'm wondering if there's a nurse or anyone still alive who can be of some help."

The boy nurse he had seen earlier taking a picture of the sun. "That doesn't explain why people are taking pictures of a very wobbly sun either. Right, nurse boy he had pictures of people on his mobile!" The Doctor is wondering if any of these were the forms Prisoner Zero had taken and he tries to get in contact with the others. "I think Jack and old beardy Master can see about tracking our boy in scrubs down for us. Let's go find our prisoner and get the attention of the Atraxi."

"Should have seen dozens of doctors and nurses by now," Andrew pointed out uneasily as he pocketed his sonic screwdriver. "We can't be sure he's only appearing as the ones that have already been spotted, either -" He frowns, trying to think of how best to alert the Atraxi to the correct entity. "We can't very well just send them pictures, or they might grab the humans in comas instead of their prisoner - we have to get their attention on the actual one."

But how to find him?

Märet gave the vent a longing look as Romana hauled him away from it, not realizing that it really would be quicker to just run along the halls until they found where the multiform had gone. "Should chase him," he objected, but he didn't try to pull away.

Romana smiles at Märet, "And we will, but it would be better for the planet to let the Atraxi do their job. So we will be smarter than him, okay?"

She then ponders, "How did the Atraxi track him here? There must be something that drew them here..." She watches as Eleven fiddles with his sonic and Andrew puts his away and then down at her own, "Oh my! They are tracking devices alien to Earth. So all we have to do is find the multiform and aim our Sonics at him. Then the Atraxi should know what to do from there!"

"Still these patients even if they're in a coma are alive. There is still some brain function. Ah! There's a psychic connection between Prisoner Zero and these patients." The Doctor takes hold of his sonic and he waves it in the air. "We find our friend in a boiler suit and a nasty bark, and we give it a big old alien hello."

The Doctor continues to lead them down one of the hallways. "Prisoner Zero will use up all of these faces at some point or another." Then it hits him that there maybe other connections in this hospital.

They're not alone as they wind down another hallway. "Yes, we can just point our sonics at the multiform and vola the Atraxi will take their prisoner and head home."

The multiform and the four will meet up again. It's the man with the dog again and he opens up his mouth to show the rows of razor sharp teeth.

This one is not exactly capable of speech of course so there's plenty of growling from the man and dog. The multiform is far from happy that he was discovered once again.

Märet growls back when he first sees the man and dog, but at the sight of the teeth he clams up and retreats several steps to be among the others.

"No hello?" asks Andrew, surreptitiously getting out his screwdriver and glancing at the Time Lords out of the corners of his eyes. "How do you do? Nice weather we're having?"

Romana keeps a tight hold on Märet's hand. She even takes a step in front of him when he backs into the group, but she doesn't say anything.

At Andrew's prompting, she holds up her Sonic as well, hoping this crazy idea of hers will work.

"I think that might be a hello." The Doctor takes his sonic screwdriver that's seen better days and he holds it in the air. "Hello, Mr. Multiform and the dog of Multiform! And, all of you Time Ladies and Metacrisis please hold up your sonic screwdrivers in the air and wave them like you just don't care!" The Doctor's going to be boisterous and loud, as he points his sonic screwdriver towards the windows. This is the fun part of 'breaking things'.

He turns to face Romana with a big smile on his face as he tries to get his sonic to work. It finally does after a lot of talking and there's going to be a big old mess.

There's breaking glass, car alarms, old people in scooters going faster than ever, lights breaking, phones ringing and dogs barking.

The Doctor goes to stick his head out the window to see if the Atraxi will come down from orbit to take a look. "I'm sure this will work. There's nothing like say, there's an alien here."

Prisoner Zero growls and those teeth are bared. There's another vent not far from him but the sonic assault keeps him from leaving that body all too soon.

As, for the sonic barrage, the Atraxi get wind of it and one scout does indeed come around to look for Prisoner Zero.

The ship flies about the town searching, searching and it does eventually sweep past the hospital. There's something alien but it isn't Zero.

The man in the boiler suit stays completely still. Eventually the Atraxi returns to join the fleet with no signs of Zero.

Andrew holds his screwdriver up and flicks it on, aiding in the call to the Atraxi, but Märet shrinks back further, putting his hands over his ears to try to shut out the din. The meta-meta doesn't have a sonic screwdriver anyway, but even if he did he's not exactly taking all the noise of the breaking glass, squealing screwdrivers, and car alarms well.

While the Doctor goes to look for the Atraxi, Andrew keeps an eye on Zero. "Anything yet?" he calls, screwdriver still trained on the alien. "Oi - stay where you are, and put those teeth away!"

Romana watches as the ship flies away. She sighs. Then she notices Märet and hands her sonic to Andrew, "Here, take mine too. I'm going to sit with Märet." After Andrew takes the sonic, Romana goes to sit near Märet.

She very slowly takes her hands and reaches them to his contact points. She closes her eyes, but makes no attempt to actually go into his mind, nor allow him into hers. She's just pushing forth a wave a calm and quiet. She also sends a message, "You're safe," over and over again.

{{ooc: Andrew/meta-meta mun was contacted before this post was made.}}

The Doctor waves and screams at the escaping ship but once it's out of reach he sighs. He pulls his head from the window and he looks down at his broken sonic screwdriver like he lost a child.

Oh, now he's mad and he looks at the man and the dog. The pair vanished into the air vents while they were watching the Atraxi ship slip away. The Doctor turns around and he lets an unhappy sigh go. "I really hate when they do this." He turns his head to look at Romana with Maret and he does ask. "Is he okay? No, of course he's not right now. We'll get him Maret. We'll so get him."

Now with their target gone it's time again to run down more hallways to see if it took another form. The clock is slowly winding its way down and time isn't a luxury.

And this sort of thing is why Andrew doubted the wisdom of bringing Märet along on a mission in the first place. Of course, it was supposed to just be them and Jack walking in, checking the cctv footage, and walking back out, but he should have known it would never be that simple or easy. Nothing ever is, after all.

He takes the sonic, but is distracted from the business of watching Prisoner Zero as he watches Romana go to Märet. "He just doesn't like a lot of noise," he explains to the Doctor, a bit embarrassed. It's like bringing a kid along. And now, of course, both the Atraxi and Prisoner Zero are missing again.

Märet flinches away from Romana for a moment, but he trusts her enough to let her touch him, even if he's ready to pull away if she tries to step into his mind. He's tense for a few seconds longer, but as the calm seeps into his mind, he sags a little, muscles relaxing.

After a few more minutes of calm, Romana slowly drops her hands from his contact points. She smiles fondly, "There now."

She looks over at Andrew and offers a simple nod.

Talking to the newest Doctor, "We need to get this over with and quick. There's not much time left.

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