Will and Gray finally reach the bridge. Their path took them along the starboard side of the ship, whilst the Huntress was quickly approaching from the port side.
Both men were astounded by what they saw. The whole bridge was fitted with what could only be described as alien tech. It glowed red and all the dialect was in a different language. Strange sounds came from certain consoles.
Not willing to touch anything in the room, Will observed the consoles closely. He crouched down and observed every angle of each one carefully, also unbuttoning his suit jacket. Right behind him, Gray had his finger in one of his ears, shaking it furiously.
'Ya think it was her, the Huntress? Blimey, why won't it stop ringing!?' Gray complained.
Not paying much attention to him at all, Will started typing more notes into his phone. 'Probably. If I know one thing about her, it's that she likes to make an entrance' he muttered back.
Gray saw a seat near what he remembered as once being the navigation station and he sat down. His eyes were unfocused, as were the rest of his senses. He was now deep in thought, though he still fiddled with his ringing ear every now and then.
'Do ya think... do you think that we're making a mistake? Why have we been to willin' to help her?'
Will slowly lowered his arms and looked away from his phone. This caught his attention.
'What do you mean? We're helping to save the planet' he blankly responded.
'No, but why tho? As soon as I met her, she changed her whole body before my eyes and I haven't questioned it. I nearly drowned today and its only just kicked in, ya know. You don't think she's controllin' us, like altering our brains?'
Will rose from his crouched position and put his phone away. 'No. I think it's just who she is. She's not human after all.'
With that said, Will turned and took a seat at a console near Gray's. 'Then again, your right. Kate asked why I trust her so much and I honestly couldn't give her a real answer. I don't really know. I've been asking myself the whole time since. Why do we so blindly follow this mad woman?'
'Now steady on, I didn't call her mad or anythin'. I just wanna know why, you know? I mean, the fact that Huntress might be able to find my sister makes this whole nutcase scenario worth it, but I mean, I actually don't know who she really is. She said she was changed by that Rassa-something guy and turned into a monster, but that's it. Dangerous, how? Like what the hell did she do?'
'I have no idea. I don't have a clear reason to hang around like you, Gray. But, but this is better. That's the conclusion I keep coming to. The mystery, the adventure, the thrill! It's like I've always wanted a life like this. Call it an addiction or being blind or whatever you like, but that's my reason and I'm going to stand by that, no matter how this all plays out.'
Gray leaned back on the chair with his arms wrapped behind his head and he smiled. 'Yeah. I'd never have thought that perilous danger would be fun. I mean, we're aboard a wrecked warship with alien technology litter'd inside and an insane, possessed woman taunting us. It's like, what could possibly go wrong next?'
As Will smiled back and turned his head away for one moment, he heard a yell and a massive bang behind him. He turned to witness Gray being flung across the bridge and him hitting the wall, then the floor. He was out cold in an instant.
Humming was heard from Will's right side. He jumped from his chair and looked in that direction to see Weller standing there waving at him.
'Hello, boys' she announced with her emotionless tone, yet a cruel smile across her face once again.
Will looked over at Gray again. He wouldn't be awake anything soon. Upon looking at Weller, Will reached into his suit jacket and produced an old revolver.
His eyes were aiming, and his stance was steady. There was no regret, hesitation or anxiety present. It never bothered him that he was aiming a gun at a human woman with an alien controlling her. He was comfortable with her position and had clear done this sort of thing before.
'A friend of a time lord using a gun. Time lords like the Doctor hate weapons' Weller observed.
'Yeah, well I don't know any Doctor. Not in person anyway' Will answered, his aim unfazed.
'But you know of him, as I assume your friend does. Where is she now?'
'Even if I knew, I would never tell you. I don't know about the whole time lord no-weapons stereotype, but I wouldn't regret firing this.'
'Even if you do shoot, you'll kill this innocent woman as well as me'
'People die, it happens. To save the planet, I'll kill whoever I have to'
'Have you always been a soldier, sir?'
Will's eyes widened and mild shock took him. As this happened, Weller found her chance. She attempted to use her hand to fling him across the room. However, nothing happened.
Will was surprised and watched the confused Weller as she tried again and again to use her ability. All to no avail.
'What have you done! This isn't possible!' she shouted at him. Her face twisted in fury and frustration. Her whole stance became that of an enraged animal.
Will turned dead serious again as he re-aimed his revolver at Weller's head.
'You're a do-good human. You haven't got the guts' Weller spat at him.
Will relaxed his body while focusing on his aim down the revolver. He never heard the Huntress sprint in through the doorway behind him and watch the following event unfold.
'I'm not a soldier. What I am now is a protector of earth. From my revolver to you, just shut up and die.'
'Don't!' Huntress shouted, but too late. Will fired the bullet and hit Weller perfectly in the forehead. Her body collapsed and silence fell upon the room. Will turned around and looked at the Huntress in horror. Meanwhile, the Huntress ignored Will completely and dashed over to Weller.
She knelt by the body and saw the wound on the head. The Huntress sadly pulled her sonic from her blazer and scanned the body. She already knew it, but it was confirmed. The bullet to the brain not only severed the link between host and entity, but it killed them both. The entity was indeed alive inside but was brain-dead. It would die in a few minutes anyway. Weller was dead the moment the bullet hit her.
Gently closing Weller's eyes, Huntress started to remember her past again. A tear rolled down her cheek involuntarily.
Angered, she wiped her cheek and stood with her sonic firmly held in her right hand. She kept her body still but moved her head to her right side to look directly at Will. He watched her the whole time. His arms had lost strength and flopped to his sides and eventually, his eyes looked down at the floor. He was ashamed.
Huntress maintained her powerful glare at him and never moved. 'Why?' she gently asked in a near whisper.
'I'm sorry' Will whispered back as he moved his head to the side, as if trying to avert her gaze.
'Why!' she screamed at him. He jumped at her voice. She started to tremble and used her remaining brain power to keep her body in check. Above all else right now, she had to stay in control.
Will didn't dare answer her again. He thought he could do what needed to be done without her seeing. He wanted to hide his secret nature and had messed it up completely. She watched him murder Weller. To make matters worse, Weller couldn't even defend herself. Her powers disappeared for some reason.
The Huntress turned away from Will and looked at the large alien scanner at the main console, as if ignoring him.
'Check on Gray. And get rid of that gun' she ordered. She never looked at him once or even acknowledged his presence in the room apart from her order from then on.
Will however looked at the Huntress, quite confused. 'What about her?' he couldn't help but ask.
Huntress stopped waving her hands around the console and unnoticeably ground her teeth. 'Do as I ask and don't ask questions. That's an order. Just, do it.'
Knowing he was already treading on very thin ice, Will gently placed the gun back into his jacket and rushed over to Gray. He was already stirring and would be awake soon. No injuries were present, except for a bump on the back of the head.
Will sat near Gray and waited for him to wake up. The Huntress dashed from console to console, muttering to herself. Loud enough to be heard, yet quiet enough that her words couldn't be made out.
'Found anything?' Will asked after a few minutes of silence passed.
The Huntress stopped in her tracks in between two consoles. She never turned or looked at him. Just stood still like a statue. 'I said no questions' she bluntly responded before walking to the next console. It flashed images of weapons and statistics, flipping so fast it seemed like they were either infinite or forever changing.
Will clenched his fists and looked away from her. 'That's not fair, Huntress' he thought aloud.
Huntress turned from the console and stared down at him. 'No, what's not fair is the fact that you murdered an innocent woman just because you were scared of a little alien foot soldier!' she yelled back. She'd gone from a normal tone to an angered shout with every word.
After her outburst, she sighed and rubbed her face with her hand. She really didn't know what she was going to do. If there was one thing she hated right now it was murder, and her friend had just done that one thing. She was unbelievably gutted.
'I told you to get rid of the gun and what did you do? Hmm? You put in back in a holster in your jacket, right?'
'It's been passed down for generations. It's not being thrown away. I promise, I'm not going to use it again.'
The Huntress couldn't help but huff. 'Oh, that's not the issue here, Will. You should NEVER have used it in the first place.'
She approached him and bend down to look at him, face to face. 'Murder is NEVER an option' she whispered before looking down at Gray, then taking her leave of the group and returning to the weapons station.
As Will watched her walk away, he really felt scared. Watching this woman before him walk away with her back to him washed in the red light of the bridge just intimidated him. He knew that for the moment, he was getting off lucky. What he'd done to Weller still hadn't hit him yet.
'We've got a warship on approach. It's headed this way' she observed aloud so that Will could hear. Though she was angry, she had to keep him in the loop.
'The Discovery?' he asked. As soon as he'd done so, he looked away nervously, unsure whether questions were allowed now.
The Huntress nodded and walked over to the massive radar, taking a position beside it. 'Presumably, but I think our day's just gotten a lot worse.'
With the Huntress out of the way of the radar, Will could now see the impending problem which had arisen. There wasn't just one ship-shaped blip on approach. There were two.