In the moment the doctor raised his head, the atmosphere around the room changed. The already constricted air grew even more constricted as a suffocating tension burst forth as the doctor's gaze fixed on the figure that stood before him.
Drip!
Somewhere deeper in the ruined lab, something was leaking. The emergency lights flickered above, staining the surroundings red with every pulse. Shattered glass. Overturned equipment. Dark stains spreading slowly across the white floor...
And in the middle of it all, the doctor stood smiling.
For just a moment, silence swept through the surroundings as both sides stared at each other. But eventually, a soft chuckle escaped the doctor's lips as he began to speak once more.
"I didn't really want to do this, you know?"
He started rambling.
"But you all didn't leave me much of an option. Rather than waiting for you all to do something, I decided to come for you directly. Because…"
