Episode 12: The Spidership Part 1

Episode 12 the Spidership!

Previously:

“Come with me Georgia you deserve some fun”.
“Wow of course I’ll come”, Georgia said happily.

“Through time and space, and back again! If you want to, of course,” Georgia said, walking through the doors of the TARDIS.
“Would I? Yes!” Conner cried.

“Isn’t that Conner”, Harry asked.
“Yeah it is and with him must be”, Zac said.
“The doctor!” Kaylie interrupted.

“Earth, you are mad if you think you can defeat us”, Commander Marr was saying, “I am on the 1st magnet warrior conquer ship and you will be defeated. You tried to kill us, so now you will die”.

“Hi,” the alien said, in a cute Wall-E type voice “you must come with me. Something has gone wrong! My father’s Game has started capturing people! If you help me, I’ll release you.”

August 2009

A man was typing at a desk. The room was small and cold but the plans had to be finished tonight. There was a knock on his door. The man went to open it and looked outside into a dark corridor. No-one was there, the man shrugged and returned to his work. Suddenly, the man heard a voice.
“You are suffering a nervous breakdown”, the voice said eerily.
“Who’s there?” the man shouted, he then thought to himself and muttered, “Of course I am suffering a nervous breakdown, hearing voices and hearing knocks on the door of a study in a half finished ship”.
“You are hearing voices”, the voice said, “But not in your head, we have always been in this study”.
“What?” the man stuttered, “Who are you?”
“We are in the corner”, the voice said, “We hide in the corners”.
“But who are you?” the man demanded, “Where are you from?”
“We are small but are tortured by humans”, the voice continued, “We are drowned and squished with a finger, when we just want our dinner”.
“An insect”, the man said, “No insects should be here”.

“Why not?” the voice said, “All we want is our long-awaited own back”.
“Someone is playing tricks on me”, the man said scared, no-one replied. He looked around the room then sat back down on his chair and finished the plans for the ship.

“Well that’s a relief”, the man said before something hairy jumped up at him from the corner and the man screamed loudly. His pencil dropped to the floor and so did a drop of blood….

Credits!

14 Months later….

Zac was sitting on a chair in his house at his table. Surrounding the table were Kaylie, Beth, Harry and a number of other friends from his school. His parents and little sister Rachel were ready to take photos.
“Happy Birthday to you!” the Crowd had sung.
“Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Zac! Happy Birthday to you!” The lyrics differed from person to person, mostly involving monkeys, zoos, squashed bananas and stew! As the song ended Zac blew out the candles and smiled. However, Zac then checked his phone to see if Conner had replied to the message he’d sent 3 days ago.

“Oh, look at this!” Kaylie, who had just received a message on her phone, said.
“What is it?” Harry asked.
“Can, I switch on the TV please Mrs Pemberton”, Kaylie asked Zac’s mum.
“Of course”, Zac’s mum replied, “Is there something important on?”
“The Spidership!” Kaylie answered, switching on the TV and on the screen a female newsreader appeared.

“The Spidership has finally been completed”, the female said, “After 5 years of construction, these people are very proud of their work”. On screen appeared a picture of a huge ship, bigger then the titanic above water. The ship is in a very deep docking area, standing nearby are several smiling workers, mechanics and builders.

“Look there’s Conner’s parents”, Harry said.
“If only, Conner was here to see the completion of the Spidership”, Zac muttered.
“It was his choice to go”, Kaylie said to Zac.
“Where’s Conner been?” Zac’s dad asked.
“Yeah daddy, why doesn’t Conner come round for tea anymore?” Rachel, Zac’ sister asked.
“As I said before, Conner’s gone travelling to Venezuela”, Zac said.

“The 20 storey high ship will be setting sail in 3 days time, with the very lucky St. Marks senior school on board”, the female newsreader continued, “They were the lucky winners of the Spidership competition. It is amazing that the Spidership was completed in time, as the person in charge changed half way through building it!”

“It’s gotta be a fix that we won”, Harry said, “Conner’s parents probably fixed it”.
“I don’t think they’d do a thing like that”, Zac’s mum said.
“Will we be on TV”, Beth asked casually.
“If the ‘goat’ incident didn’t get you on TV then I don’t think this will”, Harry joked. Suddenly Zac’s phone rang.
“It’s Conner”, Zac exclaimed.

Conner was running down a corridor followed by Georgia who was screaming.
“Bit busy right now Zac”, Conner shouted down the phone.
“Why haven’t you been replying?” Zac said ignoring the screams. Following Conner and Georgia was a huge green monster.
“I’ve been busy with space docks”, Conner said as a green rubber-like hand swiped at Conner’s head, “Been attacked by scarecrows and crows”. Just then the Doctor appeared and squirted deodorant in the monsters eyes. The monster roared and swung his arms wildly.

“What is that noise?” Zac asked. Beth, Kaylie, Harry, Rachel and Zac’s parents were gathering round.
“Nothing much just a splurge”, Conner replied lightly, “What do you want?”
“Can you come to Earth ASAP there’s something weird going on with the Spidership”, Zac answered, “Can’t talk now I’ve got a lot of eavesdroppers”.
“Oh OK, I’ll be there as soon as I can”, Conner said, “Can’t talk now either”. Conner ducked as the mad green monster tripped and almost knocked him flying.
“Bye then!” Zac said turning the phone off.
“Is he coming?” Kaylie asked, Zac turned and nodded.
“I wish you’d tell us what’s going on”, Zac’s mum said.
“It’s not important, but we’d better get packing for the trip”, Zac said happily.
“Oh yeah, we’re getting on board in a couple of days”, Harry said.
“Is your mum coming to wave you off?” Zac’s mum asked.
“No, but Kaylie’s is, things aren’t going well at home for me”, Harry said sadly.

A couple of parents arrived at the door, including Beth’s, to take their children home. The parents filtered in and filtered out with their children and a piece of cake. By the time Harry left it was getting dark. Zac stayed up until ten then went to bed as it was a long drive to Portsmouth tomorrow morning. They were staying in Portsmouth the next night and Kaylie’s mum and sisters were staying there too. Harry and most of the other children were going up the following day with school. On that day at 3pm the Spidership would set sail with most of Zac’s year on board.

Early next morning Zac was woken by his annoying sister, who was bouncing on his legs. Meanwhile Kaylie awoke and she had to drag her mum out of bed. It was about 8 when Zac’s family finally got into their car. Rachel had tried to fit almost every piece of clothing in her wardrobe into her suitcase and Zac’s dad who was driving wasn’t happy. The trip was long with not much of a view until they got to near the coast.
“Daddy, please can I go on the Spidership?” Rachel asked in a polite sweet voice.
“Maybe when you’re older Rachel”, Zac’s dad said.
“But I want to go on it today! Zac gets to”.
“That is because his school won the competition and why would you want to go on the Spidership, you would get seasick”. Rachel crossed her arms and didn’t talk for the rest of the journey.


Meanwhile in South London, Georgia’s mother was watering some plants in her garden. Elizabeth’s husband Colin was inside watching the news. Elizabeth was actually very good at gardening and she frequently told the neighbours that. Her new next door neighbour Mrs White was also very good at gardening. Mrs White had replaced Mr. Perkins who apparently had died without Elizabeth even noticing. ‘Richard had noticed though’, Elizabeth thought, ‘he noticed everything’. There was suddenly a loud scraping noise.
“Colin!” Elizabeth shouted at her husband through the open window of the living room, “Georgia’s back!” Colin rushed out of the house to see his wife standing with her large hat peering down the road.

“They usually arrive at the park”, Colin said knowingly, “And I’m not running all the way there and back”.
“I’m not asking you to”, Elizabeth said, “But we haven’t seen them since August and now it’s October”.

Colin had been right the Doctor, Conner and Georgia exited the TARDIS which was parked in the exact place where it had landed almost a year ago, when Georgia had first met the Doctor.
“So you first met the Doctor here?” Conner asked Georgia.
“Yes, it was on Christmas Eve with the Magnet Warriors”, Georgia answered.
“Doctor why aren’t we in Portsmouth?” Conner asked.
“Oh, the old girl gets it wrong all the time”, the Doctor answered, “It’s not her fault though, I really need 6 people to fly the TARDIS”.
“You could teach us”, Georgia said smiling.
The Doctor looked at her and said, “No”.

“Anyway, since we’re here”, Georgia said, “Let’s go see my parents”. It was five minutes later when Georgia and the Doctor arrived at Georgia’s parent’s house. Conner had opted to stay in the TARDIS and sleep.
“Georgia!” Elizabeth cried as she saw her only daughter. Georgia ran up to her and they hugged. Colin followed and hugged her too.
“Come in and have some tea”, Elizabeth said.
“Of course I will Mrs Bell”, the Doctor said.
“Don’t call me that it makes me sound old”, Elizabeth said ushering the Doctor and Georgia into the house.
“So Georgia, where’ve you been?” Colin asked, “Have you still got that diary”.


Zac arrived in Portsmouth to find that Kaylie’s family had actually got there first. Kaylie’s family consisted of four girls. Karen was the mother of the 3 girls; she was a good mother with a strong will. Andrea was Kaylie’s older sister, she was in year 12 and she was a Goth. Amy was Kaylie’s younger sister, she was in Year 7 and was very sweet and everyone seemed to like her. Amy was in fact a real menace who took karate lessons and had knocked a man out cold when he tried to kiss her mother at a party. Karen was very unhappy with Amy after that scenario. She hid this side of her with ballet lessons and a beautiful innocent smile. Kaylie disliked her sister greatly.

Zac and Kaylie’s families were staying in the same hotel in Portsmouth. From Zac’s hotel room window he could see a huge ship. There were at least 20 floors above water and apparently underneath the water were quite a few floors as well.

“We are very lucky Zac”, Kaylie said she was sitting next to him on the window sill.
“I know”, Zac said, “So what are you wearing for the first night”.
“I don’t know”, Kaylie replied.
“Well, you’d better choose quickly!” Zac told her, “I know how long you take!”
“Thank you very much”, Kaylie said giggling, “What’s that noise?” A scraping noise filled the air.
“The TARDIS and it’s landing just outside”, Zac said peering out the window, “Come on!” Kaylie and Zac rushed through the hotel outside to meet the TARDIS crew, who were emerging from the TARDIS.

“You have finally arrived!” Zac said, “But now is better than never”.
“Good, you should’ve phoned sooner though Zac”, Conner said.
“I did phone sooner”, Zac replied, “I’ve been trying to get hold of you for weeks. I figured some distant planet wouldn’t have a mobile phone network”.
“I don’t think you have”, Georgia said, “These phones, you see ,can be rung by anyone at any time and I can ring anyone at any time”.
“But how come Zac’s texts and calls haven’t got to Conner’s phone”, Kaylie asked.

Conner got his phone out but the Doctor grabbed it and got out his sonic screwdriver.
“There’s no need to snatch”, Conner said. The Doctor scanned the phone with his sonic screwdriver.
“Someones been blocking Zac’s texts and calls on this phone”, the Doctor said, “But who? Zac was there an important reason for bringing us here?”
“Yes, of course I wouldn’t bring you home from a distant universe to just say hi”, Zac replied annoyed.
“What was it then?” Georgia asked.
“The Spidership”, Zac answered.
“The Spidership, I’ve heard that loads of times before”, the Doctor said.
“You would’ve it’s been on the news for ages”, Kaylie said.
“There’s something going on with the Spidership”, Zac said, “Firstly, August last year, the manager of the Spidership vanished. Suddenly it was taken over by a completely new company, they added loads of new expensive things to the ship. Of course, soon they ran out of money. The work just stopped”.
“When was this?” The Doctor asked.
“About January last year”, Kaylie said.
“Then, suddenly they had much more money again”, Zac continued, “The money came out of nowhere. They had enough to sponsor loads of games and companies, including the new aquari water supply”.
“And that game ‘Virtual Reality’”, Kaylie interrupted.
“Oh yeah”, Conner said, “You had entered that competition to go on the Spidership!”
“And we won”, Zac said, “We found out a week ago. All our forms had already been signed, but we never thought that we would win. It leaves tomorrow and guess who got a ticket from his parents”.
“My parents”, Conner exclaimed, “I haven’t seen them for ages not since that night when we first came back to Earth”.
“They’ve missed you”, Zac said, “I’ve had to keep it all a secret you travelling in time and space”.

“Oh no! I missed your birthday”, Conner said shocked, “Wait I’ve got something for you it was going to be a Christmas present but here it is, I got it off this market in about 10050 years in the future”. Conner took out of his pocket a metallic object with a screen on it.
“It’s an alien heat sensor”, Conner said, “You can zoom in and see heat and it can make out heat through a mile of metal!” The Doctor was not listening as Zac received his gift. Zac looked very happy and he, Kaylie and Conner started looking at each other through it. The Doctor was looking at something moving towards them.

“Who are those people running towards us now?” Georgia asked joining the Doctor.
“It’s my parents”, Conner shouted happily.
“Um- Conner I forgot to tell you where they think you are”, Zac said, “They think you’re in…” But Zac was too late Conner’s parents arrived.
“Oh Conner it is great to see you”, Conner’s mum said, grabbing Conner and hugging him tightly.
“We’ve been wondering where you have been”, Conner’s dad said, “We’ve been so worried”.
“I’m fine”, Conner said as he was squeezed tightly. Georgia smiled.
“I mean, we know you’ve been in Venezuela but…” Conner’s mum continued, “With that skinny man and that blonde”. Conner looked at Zac annoyed about apparently being in Venezuela, Zac smiled widely back.

“The Doctor”, The Doctor said shaking Conner’s dads hand.
“And Georgia”, Georgia said, “Not a dumb young blonde”.
“Yes, well you’re far too old for Conner”, Conner’s mum said.
“Ew, me and Conner aren’t together”, Georgia said very quickly.
“And she’s only two years older than me”, Conner said.
“Three years my birthday was in September”, Georgia said.


Meanwhile deep inside the Spidership on floor 0, there’s a pattering of feet ascending steps. The door at the top of the steps closed leaving the floor in complete darkness, all except for three blue dots of light.
“Dalek Gain turn on the lights”, A voice said.
“The experiment has finished your arm should now be in place”, Another deeper voice added.
“I obey”, a higher voice replied and a metal hand reached for the light switch. The lights flashed revealing a huge laboratory and in the middle stood two daleks. One was white and the other was blue. They had been experimenting on the other dalek.
“It seems to have worked”, the deeper dalek voice belonging to the blue dalek said.
“The hand is real”, the white dalek said. They were both staring at a gold dalek who was standing next to the light switch. In the place of its plunger was a metallic arm with a fully flexible hand at the end of it.

“How do you feel?” the blue dalek asked the gold dalek.
“I feel the same”, the gold dalek replied, “I have no feelings”.
“But can you touch?” the white dalek asked in turn.
“Affirmative”, the gold dalek replied.

TO BE CONTINUED!!!