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features of' any kind to compare it with any known form of marine life. This was a living algae, grown to mammoth proportions, hissing and popping, slithering its way through the ventilator grille, into the very heart of the Refinery itself.
    Victoria, cowering against the door, was finding it difficult to breathe. The atmosphere was stifling. She started to cough. Finally, in desperation, she started thumping on the the door as loud as she could.
     
    'Let me out!' she yelled. 'Somebody let me out of here!'
    The foam was spreading across the room, closer and closer towards Victoria, whose calls for help were being completely overwhelmed by the swelling sound of the creature's heartbeat...
     
    'There it is, Jamie! Can you hear it?'
    The Doctor was listening through his stethoscope, which was pressed up against the wall of the transparent pipeline tube. His face was tense and anxious.
    Jamie could also hear the deadly sound, pulsating, thumping, pounding through the pipeline. He swallowed hard, and said, 'Aye.
    What is it?'
    'It's the same sound I heard in the pipeline on the beach. I tell you, there's definitely something inside the...'
    A penetrating scream suddenly echoed along the pipeline.
    There was no mistaking who it belonged to.
    ' Doctor! Jamie! ' Victoria was screaming hysterically. ' Help me! '
    'That's Victoria!' said Jamie, staring inside the pipeline tube as if expecting to see Victoria trapped inside.
    ' Help me! '
    The Doctor and Jamie wasted no more time. They left the pipeline tube, and rushed straight out of the room.
     
    Victoria's frenzied calls for help were soon reverberating around the entire Refinery.
    In the Control Hall, the commotion caused chaos amongst the crew. Everyone was trying to establish where the screams were coming from. Van Lutyens rushed off to the Impeller Area, leaving Robson to stare in confused disbelief at the pipeline tube running around the walls.
     
    ' Doctor! Jamie! Help me! '
    Victoria's calls were becoming more and more desperate, more and more hysterical.
     
    The Doctor and Jamie were rushing from one corridor to another, but although Victoria's voice seemed to be getting closer and closer, they still couldn't fmd out how to get to her.
    'Victoria!' yelled Jamie at the top of his voice.
    'Victoria!' The Doctor's shouts were becoming frantic. 'Can you hear us, Victoria?'
    A penetrating, prolonged scream.
    The Doctor and Jamie stopped dead, and turned simultaneously.
    Both of them were staring at the door of the Oxygen Store Room.
     
    The thumping heartbeat sound was almost deafening. And, as thick white foam surged uncontrollably through the ventilator grille of the Oxygen Room, the tendrils of the Weed Creature weaved and quivered towards Victoria, closer and closer, hissing and popping...
    Victoria screamed just one more time.
     
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    'Gas!' said the Doctor, listening to the hissing sound coming from beneath the door of the Oxygen Store Room.
    Jamie was unable to answer. He was almost overcome by a violent fit of sneezing.
    The Doctor tried to open the door. It was locked, with no sign of the key. 'Victoria!' he shouted, thumping on the door. 'Are you in there?'
    Victoria's reply came almost immediately from the other side of the door. But her voice was now faint and barely audible.
    'Doctor...'
    'She's in there!' yelled the Doctor. 'Come on, Jamie!'
    'Doctor... help me...
    'We're coming, Victoria! Hold on!'
    The Doctor and Jamie folded arms, and stood back a pace or so. 'One... two... three!' With one enormous effort they lunged at the door, which burst open immediately.
    Victoria was lying in a heap on the floor of the Oyxgen Room.
    Her eyes were half-open, and she could hardly breathe.
    'Quick, Jamie!' said the Doctor, covering her mouth with his hand. 'Get hold of her!'
    Jamie let out the most deafening sneeze, then helped the Doctor to lift Victoria and carry her out into the corridor.
    'What's going on here?' Robson's rasping voice boomed out