Breaking Down the Barrier

[nevermindtherunning]

Who: Everyone
Where: outside, the western embankments
When: Day 75
What: Please review this OOC post. How the Doctor loses friends and alienate people. Or he learns he isn't a god and nearly causes everything to explode.

The meeting hadn't quite gone exactly as the Doctor had planned, the comments from Donna especially disheartened him. However, none of that stopped his drive to get everyone out of Kore. Sharon was back, but he hadn't even said more than a couple sentences to her, as he fixed the last adjustments to his generator.

He and Jubilee had been working tirelessly the day after the meeting and she finally had to excuse herself from him for sleep. Right, humans needed sleep, didn't they? The Doctor couldn't remember the last time he had, which probably wasn't a good thing. But it didn't matter, given in an hour or two he'll be back in that sexy blue box of a TARDIS far, far away from here.

The last hour had been spent with him at the kitchen table staring at the generator, trying to possibly think if there were any last few adjustments. Finally jumping up to his feet, he hugged the generator close to him, hoisting it up and leaving the house. Managing to activate his wristwatch, opening the comm, he spoke up, "Hello! Doctor here... It's time to go home!"

Just west of house 19, there was a small open area, perfect for this. He glanced back towards the woods, briefly wondering how Dilandau was doing with the distraction plan before crouching down and setting up the generator. It was time.

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penetrating the barrier

[nevermindtherunning]

((ooc: This is where the TARDIS will be seen and where most of the OOC post will apply to.))

With Jubilee as the power source, the generator began buzzing and making a strange whirling noise as the inner workings spun. The Doctor stood back, feeling fully confident that everything would run smoothly, but knew to give a distance. "Steady now, Jubilee... Not too much." The acceleration was starting up and he didn't need too much too fast.

After about a good two minutes, "Increase it a bit," He began to give her a ballpark estimate of the joules he was looking for but realized she wasn't really able to calculate that out. "There you go... Brilliant."

The legs of the generator began to shake and wobble slightly as the energy increased. In the Doctor's head, he counted down 45 seconds and pressed a button, releasing the energy, "Keep feeding into it; don't stop!"

Everything was going according to plan thus far.

[greenisnteasy]

Does Bruce feel great about standing around near something that he's pretty sure is going to be one of the worst ideas anyone's ever had here? No, not entirely. So why is he here? Partly because he believes he could Hulk out in time to help if things get really bad, like he did in the last escape attempt, but also partly because... well, just look. It seems like it's working. He's too intellectually curious, and he's put his desire to escape on the backburner for too long, not to want to be here to see if this crazy guy might actually do it.

He inches closer to the Doctor, and he wishes he had his reading glasses, but he left them at home -- and he's wearing his stretchiest pants -- in the event that he needs to change.

"Is everything stable?" he asks, trying to be as unobtrusive with his question as possible, so as not to disrupt anything going on; it's like safety glasses for his vocal chords.

[agentx13]

How can they even tell? The monstrosity looks like it's meant to blow up Hot Pockets, not barriers.

"They'll never give us microwaves again," she murmurs under her breath.

She stands to the side, arms crossed as she watches. Her cabinmate might be crazy, but until now it's been a smart crazy. She's willing to go with it. Especially if it means finding Steve and Natasha. As the machine starts shaking more violently, though, one hand trails toward her knife. Not that it will do much good. She looks toward the woods, faintly nervous about what lies ahead. The last escape attempt had been dismal, which had mostly been her fault.

She'd feel better about it if Steve were here.

[nevermindtherunning]

"Of course everything is stable... And I heard that." He comments on Sharon's remark. Superior hearing, remember?

He takes a step back, watching as the generator processed the energy and feeding it upwards, releasing it. With a lick of his lips, he grins. This plan was brilliant and should've been attempted far sooner, if he did say so himself. Soon, very soon the barrier will be breached. There just needed a little more energy feeded through it.

[greenisnteasy]

Bruce glances over at the Doctor's reassurance, and he's not really a huge fan of his confidence. He looks at the generator himself, and then at Jubilee, and he wishes he could really get in there and see for himself, but he really doesn't want to get too close.

"How much longer do you think it'll take?"