Nights had become trying events since our band of merry lads and lassies had joined The Doctor in his TARDIS. It had felt like the gang had been traveling in vein forever from planet to planet with very little progress. The somber and sour mood was becoming infectious. Even The Doctor was starting to grow weary of having so many companions with him and so very few of them he could trust.
No one felt this sadness more than Elochin. At first the adventure and the alone time with her husband had been fun, but as more time progressed, she began to miss her children. She knew she'd left them in good hands, but as only a mother can, she worried for them. She missed their hugs, their smiles, the sound of their laughter. She even missed their squabbling. Day after day this sadness grew stronger. Elo sat apart from the crowd, lost in though over what they were doing, wondering if she'd ever see them again. She was so absorbed in the growing longing to see her babies again, she did not hear the dreaded cur-chunk, cur-chunk approach her. She did not hear them announce "You will be upgraded!" Because she didn't, answer them, they took her silence as rebellion and punished her the only way they knew how. Elo was deleted.
Strax was confused by gender. Being bred in a test tube, Sontarians had no gender. No mothers. No fathers. They were genitcally identical in build and in the truest desire of glory and honor for the Sontarian race. MetalMarsh confused him even more than normal humans. He pulled out his examining equipment. Somehow MM looked male, but his heart was female. Strax thought about MM further. MM was known to be Lucy Saxon. Lucy was not good. Lucy was recruited. Lucy wanted to cause harm to the people around him. Above all she was dishonorable. Strax could not let this last sin go. He came up to Metalmarsh and proclaimed. "You are not the fitting foe I deserve, but you are a foe. And I shall strike you down with honor and might so that you may in death understand what it means to be a warrior. May your death continue to keep this crew safe and provide more proof that I am a true Sontarian!"
Metalmarsh has been killed by Strax.
Elochin has been killed by The Cybermen.
It is now Day 11. You have 48 hours to shed some blood for your hosts to drink. For sustenance.
