The Spidership part 2

After a night of uneasy talking Georgia and the Doctor went back inside the TARDIS leaving Conner with his parents. Zac had gone to bed and so had the rest of his family. Kaylie was in her bedroom which she was sharing with her sisters.
“Kaylie I’ll wake you up really early tomorrow”, Amy Kaylie’s little sister was saying as she sat on her bed in her pink dressing gown.
“Please don’t or I’ll be forced to murder you”, Kaylie said and smiled evilly.
“Tough, I’ve set the alarm clock for 5 in the morning”, Amy replied and giggled. “Give that alarm clock here”, Kaylie said reaching over at Amy’s ballerina clock.
“I’m not giving it to you”, Amy replied nastily.
“I need my beauty sleep”, Kaylie said.
“Surely you mean your ugly sleep”, Amy said and giggled loudly. Kaylie jumped onto Amy’s bed and tried to reach for the alarm clock. Amy struggled and pulled Kaylie’s hair. Kaylie screamed loudly andAndrea, Kaylie and Amy’s older sister, woke.
“I was in a deep place”, Andrea said, annoyed at her two immature sisters, “And you woke me up, now go to sleep or I’ll make you”.
“Ooooh, scary goth, emo powers!” Amy said and Kaylie burst out laughing. Andrea turned over in here bed and the two other sisters got into bed. Downstairs Conner silently left his parents room and returned to the TARDIS. He had been avoiding answering questions all evening. If it wasn’t for Georgia and the Doctor’s imagination he wouldn’t have been able to answer most of the pressing questions. These questions included: why didn’t you tell us? Why didn’t you keep in contact with us? What were you doing in Venezuela? Since when did you enjoy mountaineering? Etc.

The next morning no alarm sounded in Kaylie’s room, Amy had been nice. Instead Karen, Kaylie’s mum woke her and her sisters up. Zac’s mum woke up Zac and Rachel and Steve. The Doctor, who hadn’t slept got up and looked around the TARDIS control room. Georgia was silently sleeping in the chair, the Doctor didn’t bother to wake her up and went outside. Conner followed the Doctor outside.
“It was nice to see my parents”, Conner said sighing, “But now I know that we have to visit more regularly”.
“Why don’t you tell them the truth?” the Doctor asked.
“If I do, they probably wouldn’t let me travel with you anymore”, Conner answered, “All the dangers and the scares, the aliens and the spaceships”.
“There’s more to it than that”, the Doctor said hopefully. He started walking in the direction of the docks, he was followed by Conner. They passed the hotel’s dining room window. Zac and Kaylie looked up from their table and waved. They were eating cereals and toast. Steve, Zac’s dad, was eating a large full English breakfast. Rachel and Amy were giggling, Andrea was looking into space through her black dyed hair and the two mums were chatting away.
The Doctor waved back and walked on, closely followed by Conner. They rounded the corner of the street and saw the immense Spidership.

“I can’t believe I’ve not heard of it before”, the Doctor said, “I know loads about Earth’s history”.
“And you don’t know about the biggest ship ever made”, Conner asked, “It’s gonna sail the world”.
“Something bad is going to happen I can feel it”, the Doctor said.
“Doctor I haven’t told you something”, Conner said, “If something bad is going to happen, then this may be important”.
“What is it?”
“It was a while back, just after Georgia’s birthday. We went to that dark planet with hags and magic”.

Conner walked down a dark cobbled street. All sorts of people were walking past him, some wearing pointing hats, others with white faces and fangs. The Doctor and Georgia were talking merrily to an old woman. Conner walked down the street and ignored the merry talking. He saw something flash in a shop window nearby. Conner walked into the shop to see all kinds of fangs and ears and body parts on display. The flash seemed to have come behind the counter.
“Hello?” Conner shouted, “Is anyone here?” No-one replied. A chilling wind whooshed threw an open window and made the hair, on the back of Conner’s neck, stand on end.
“Boo!” A voice made Conner jump.
“Where are you?” Conner asked the voice.
“Here!” the voice replied and there was a red flash in mid air. A red man appeared out of the flash.
“Who are you?” Conner asked.
“I never met you and I never will again”, the red person replied, “I saw you walking down the street, you have many secrets and you have been to many places”.
“I said who are you?” Conner replied.
“I am called rack, I am the one who hides in the mist, I hide in the shadows and I can see all”, the man replied.
“Why do you want to talk to me?” Conner asked worriedly.
“Because Conner Bennet, you are close to death”, the man replied. Conner looked closely at the red man and saw he had fangs and red horns. He immediately thought of the devil.
“How do you know?” Conner asked, but there was no response, only a cackle. The devil vanished in a red flash and a puff of smoke, but his cackle remained, echoing of the dirty shop’s walls. Conner ran from the shop and walked straight into the Doctor.

“Anything wrong?” the Doctor asked.
“No nothing”, Conner replied smiling nervously.

Back in the present the Doctor frowned.
“That was just some weird devil-like soothsayer”, the Doctor said.
“So it’s true I am going to die”, Conner asked.
“It probably isn’t true”, the Doctor said.
“But if it is?” Conner asked.
“It may not even mean you”, the Doctor said, “And it isn’t true”. The Doctor left Conner standing in the docks looking at the Spidership and returned to the TARDIS. Conner still felt that is was true and now also felt that something very bad was going to happen.

Georgia had woken up while the Doctor and Conner were out and was very annoyed to find herself alone. Zac and Kaylie were waiting outside the hotel for Conner to come back. They were in their school uniform.
“Why are you in your school uniform?” Conner asked.
“Most of our year is getting up very early this morning”, Zac explained, “They are arriving at 11oclock this morning on a school coach”.
“Why are you here then?” Conner asked.
“You could choose whether you went on the coach or whether your family would drive you down beforehand”, Kaylie answered.

“Well, why aren’t your top buttons done up?” Conner asked jokingly.
“I told you before, we were under a low hypnotic control, all the time, when the slitheen were at our school”, Zac replied.
“Have you ever seen Bradley that un-chavvy before?” Kaylie asked, “Or Beth with her top button done up?”
“Fair enough”, Conner said, “You’ve changed your hair again then”. Kaylie changed the colour of her hair a lot. When the slitheen were at their school, Kaylie’s hair had been a brown colour with blonde highlights. It had also been straightened. When she had got stuck in Virtual Reality, her hair had been dark brown and straight. Now her hair was again a dark brown, but it was curled.
“Oh, you noticed”, Zac said blankly, “She changes her hair every other day”.
“Thank you Zac”, Kaylie said sweetly, “But it does look very nice”.
“Well it is much nicer than when you had purple highlights”, Zac said, “You looked like a goth!”
“Can we please get off the subject of hair”, Conner said.


It was a couple of hours later when a red coach parked in the docks. Kaylie, Zac and a couple of other students and teachers were waiting for it. Out stepped Mrs Sow and Mr. Renegade. Mrs Sow was a very useless teacher who had short dark hair and dangly earrings. Mr. Renegade was Zac and Kaylie’s form tutor.
“Now we must get off the bus nice and slowly”, Mrs Sow said, speaking in a voice which sounded like she was speaking to 4 year olds.
“Get off the bus class”, Mr Renegade said, “Make sure your uniform is clean and tidy, we’re off to a museum for most of the morning”. Mr. Renegade was a lot more in control than Mrs Sow. The year 11’s charged off the bus knocking Mrs Sow out of the way.

“I said careful children”, Mrs Sow said sweetly. Bradley was one of the first to get off the coach followed by his gang. He was wearing a white cap, back to front, and he was chewing gum. He was followed by his gang.
Catherine stumbled off the bus next, she was pointing at a fishing boat and asked, “So is that the Spidership?”
“No don’t be so stupid!” Beth said following her, “And why do we have to go to a museum. I wanna get in my prom dress and get on board right now!” She was closely followed by Ronald Ummelmann. He had been new to the school in September and had made friends with Harry who followed Ronald.
“Hi Zac, Hi Kaylie”, Harry said blundering up to them, “Any news from Big D?”
“Yes, he’s here in Portsmouth with Georgia and Conner”, Zac replied happily.
“They haven’t said much but I get the feeling that Conner and the Doctor predict something bad”, Kaylie said mysteriously.
“Since when was Conner a soothsayer?” Harry asked.
“Now calm down”, Mrs Sow said, but with no affect.
“Silence!” Mr Renegade said, “Mrs Sow has something to say”.
“Now year 11’s”, Mrs Sow began, “We are going to do a lot of fun things today before we go aboard the Spidership at 3. We’re going to a very exciting museum and we’re going to look at some old boats. It is going to be fun fun fun and if we work together then we’ll be able to get on the Spidership earlier than 3!”

“Since when was museums fun?” Bradley said to his gang in an audible voice.
“Bradley don’t be so rude!” Mrs Sow exclaimed, “People have worked hard on these museums”.
“Innit though!” Bradley replied crossing his arms, “Yeah but, people have worked hard on looking at fossil dung, why can’t we look at that?” Bradley’s gang and many others laughed. Mr Renegade led the year out of the docks into the town. Two girls darted from behind a building and ran silently after the class. As a couple of students looked back in the docks, the two girls hid behind a fishing boat.
“Amy when you pulled me behind here”, the older of the girls said, “You almost made me fall into the harbour”.
“Damn I missed”, Amy joked, “Would you rather have looked like a dodgy stalker?”
“But we are dodgy stalkers”, Andrea replied.
“Not really”, Amy replied, “All we want to do is get on board the Spidership”.
“Come on, or we’ll loose them!” Andrea said running after the group of students.


Meanwhile a tank rolled up into the part of the docks which the Spidership was in. Following the tank were several cars and a whole unit of soldiers. The cars were of a green colour. Stepping out of one was a female with short blonde hair. A man in a dark suit with black combed hair jogged up to the female.
“Ah, I see you brought the whole army”, the man said.
“Captain Marion Price”, Captain Price said, “And this is the United Nations, not just the army”.
“I thought you were from UNIT Miss Price”, the man said.
“Captain Price and yes I am”, Captain Price said, “Aliens should not be hidden, especially on a vessel which will soon carry the queen”.
“Aliens?” the man asked.
“Yes aliens”, Captain Gifford said leading his unit of men towards them, “They can be very dangerous, Captain Gifford by the way”.
“We have reason to believe that you are hiding aliens in the Spidership”, Captain Price continued.
“But I’m not hiding anything”, the man said, “I am Roger Ummelmann by the way”.
“We will need to talk to the person in charge here”, Captain Gifford asked, “Where is he?”
“They cannot be seen”, Roger replied, “They are very busy with the opening night of the Spidership, and nothing can go wrong”.
“Don’t worry”, Captain Price said, smiling threateningly, “If anything goes wrong we’ll be here to stop it”.
“UNIT are in charge here”, Captain Gifford said, “So if you are hiding anything. We’re sure to find out”.


TO BE CONTINUED!!!