Episode 12: The Spidership Part 5

A blue exterminator ray shot out from Dalek Gain and killed Phil, who slumped to the floor. Phil’s friend Terry backed up against the wall.
“EXTERMINATE!” Dalek Gain said and another blue ray shot across the room. Terry slid down the wall, dead. Roger Ummelmann saw and the Dalek and backed up against the wall.

“Dalek Gain, I see the experiment worked”, Roger Ummelmann said.
“Correct, I now have a fully functional arm and hand”, Dalek Gain replied.
“Can you get me out of here?” Roger asked.
“I am here to take you to the Supreme Dalek”, Dalek Gain announced.
“Oh, OK”, Roger Ummelmann muttered, “Which one?”
“The Blue Supreme one”, Dalek Gain informed Roger. Dalek Gain suddenly shot a ray from his exterminator and blew the cell door off shooting Roger to the other side of the cell.

“Why didn’t you give me a warning?” Roger asked.
“There was no need”, Dalek Gain said.
“Right OK”, Roger said.
“You will walk in front of me with your hands on your head”, Dalek Gain ordered.
“You’re treating me like a prisoner”, Roger said.
“That is correct now obey!” Dalek Gain ordered.
“OK, OK”, Roger obeyed reluctantly. Roger walked down the corridor followed closely by Dalek Gain.


Later that night in a huge ballroom Conner and Zac were standing in suits looking embarrassed. In one corner of the room a band was playing music. It was mostly classical but some more modern songs had been played. Several people were dancing in pairs in the centre of the room.
Mrs Sow was making all the students dance as if they were part of a royal society. Mrs Sow wanted to impress the Queen. However, the Queen and most of the famous people on board were in their own private ballrooms, so Mrs Sow needn’t have bothered. Mr. Renegade was getting annoyed and was drinking beer. Catherine and Beth were dancing with each other in a hyper-active manner. Harry and Ronald were nowhere to be seen.

“Looks like Mrs Sow is trying to get Bradley and his gang to get up and dance”, Conner commented.
“Bad idea”, Zac added. Kaylie appeared through a pair of bright double doors. She looked slightly disgruntled and the reason for this followed. Georgia in her white dress followed Kaylie. They were then followed by the Doctor.

“Zac and Con Con”, Georgia said in greeting to the two boys.
“Zac do you want to dance”, Kaylie asked smiling.
“Yes, if you are”, Zac replied nervously and Zac and Kaylie took to the floor. They twirled and smiled together. Georgia looked at the Doctor expecting to be asked when Private Roxanne appeared from the crowd in a red dress. Her hair was up in a pretty bun, and she was wearing red gloves and red lipstick.
“Roxanne, your looking… red”, the Doctor commented. Conner rolled his eyes.
“Err, thank you”, Roxanne said nervously, “Would you like to dance”.
“Yes, of course I will”, the Doctor replied happily. The song ended and many people clapped. A few seconds later the band began their next piece, a fast waltz. The Doctor and Roxanne took to the floor. Georgia gawped at the Doctor. Zac and Kaylie saw the Doctor and Roxanne and Kaylie waved at them as Zac attempted a lift, which went slightly wrong, due to Kaylie kicking her shoe across the room. Catherine and Beth were now doing some sort of Egyptian dance in the centre of the floor, while Mrs Sow was waltzing slowly with a confused student.

“The Doctor dances”, Conner muttered.
“Conner do you want a dance?” Georgia said boldly.
“With who?”Conner asked
“With me of course!” Georgia replied.
“Um Ok”, Conner agreed looking around. Conner and Georgia took to the floor.

Suddenly a loud announcement broke in through the music.
“Can Kaylie Watson please come to the Captain’s office”, the loudspeaker announced. Zac and Kaylie stopped dancing.
“I’d better go”, Kaylie said, “But I can’t find my shoe”.
“How will you be able to walk with only one shoe?” Zac asked.
“Oh, you’re right, can you support me please”, Kaylie asked.
“Fine”, Zac sighed, “Conner!” Conner stopped dancing and nearly dropped Georgia. They walked over.
“What is it?” Conner asked.
“You heard the announcement”, Zac said, “But Kaylie’s lost her shoe”.
“Silly girl”, Georgia muttered and Kaylie clenched her fists.
“I’m going to help Kaylie to the Captain’s office and if you could keep an eye out for Kaylie’s shoe”, Zac said.
“Of course we will”, Conner replied.
“Bye then”, Kaylie said hobbling along. They walked through the double doors and into a golden lift.

“Its all very posh”, Zac commented as the gold doors closed.
“What is you destination?” a mechanical voice said through a speaker in the lift.
“The Captain’s Deck please”, Kaylie said happily. The lift rose upwards and further up until it reached level 16. The door’s opened onto what looked like a bar. There were people scattered around the bar, mostly staff but a couple of people were richly dressed.

“Where are we?” Kaylie asked.
“The Captain’s Deck”, Zac answered.
“But this is a bar”, Kaylie pointed out.
“Yes, this is the bar on the 16th floor we’re heading to level 21”, Zac said, “You should’ve said the Captain’s Office”.
“Oops, can’t it tell I wanted to go to the Captain’s Office”, Kaylie said.
“Obviously not”, Zac replied, “Come on, back in the lift”.
“But we could have a drink”, Kaylie said smiling.
“We have no ID”, Zac pointed out walking in to the lift supporting Kaylie.
“But there’s Neil Stretch”, Kaylie said as Zac pressed a button on the lift and the doors shut, “The famous tennis player who won Wimbledon in the summer!”
“Ah well, we’re far too important to see him”, Zac said in a posh voice.
“Oh yes, we are going to the Captain’s Office”, Kaylie replied in a posh voice. The lift shot up to the 21st floor. The lift opened to reveal an Office, which lead into the bridge of the ship.

“Err Captain”, Kaylie said loudly. A head appeared round the door to the bridge. He was wearing a white and blue hat.
“Ah Kaylie, I am Captain Reggie”, Captain Reggie said, “I’m afraid we’ve got two stowaways”.
“Oh, but why does that involve me”, Kaylie asked.
“Come in!” Captain Reggie said ushering them towards the brig.

“I’m Zac by the way”, Zac Pemberton said as he entered the control room, or the brig. There were several people pressing buttons and moving around in the room. Outside it was pitch black. There were several screens around the room showing different parts of the ship. Kaylie turned and saw two girls run towards her through another door. It was Andrea and Amy, Kaylie’s sisters.

“Kaylie!” they said together.
“We stowawayed!” Amy exclaimed.
“That’s not the word”, Andrea said, “Oh, we spied on that dude who you fancy, who won Wimbledon!”
“No way!” Kaylie said, “Me ‘n’ Zac saw him in this bar”.
“We didn’t we were caught by this member of staff”, Amy explained, “Then we were taken up here”.

“How did you get on board?” Kaylie asked.
“They got in through a side door, where the staff are supposed to go in”, Captain Reggie explained, “They then hid behind a couple of bins until they got to the main hall area, from there they sneaked upstairs and started following Neil Stretch”.
“How do you know?” Andrea asked.
“We’ve been watching your progress, using the ship’s camera system”, Captain Reggie replied.

“Well you should be watching it now, look!” Zac said pointing at the screen. Something gold was gliding along the bottom floor. Suddenly a hole appeared in the wall at the end of the corridor it was gliding up and the gold thing vanished.
“What was that?” Kaylie asked.
“I don’t know”, the Captain replied.

“Excuse me”, Zac asked, “Is there a secret floor below the 1st?”
“Technically there should be”, Amy answered, “As there should be a ground floor, then a first floor”.
“She’s not just a pretty face”, Captain Reggie commented.
“No, and I’m also a black belt!” Amy said as she showed some highly dangerous karate moves, finally ending up on the other side of the room after a back flip.
“Wow”, Zac said mesmerised.
“She’s not all that good”, Kaylie muttered, Amy looked at her and Kaylie shrank back into the shadows.

“Well, I suppose we’re too far off shore now to drop you off”, Captain Reggie said, “So we have no choice but to let these two girls stay on the Spidership”.
“Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you”, Amy said as Kaylie sighed.
“Off you four go then”, Captain Reggie said, “Cherrie is down on floor 5, so if you’d like to go to her, she’ll sort some rooms out”.
“Yay”, Amy exclaimed.
“But what about that gold thing?” Zac asked.
“Don’t worry about that”, Captain Reggie said quickly, “Off you go”.

The four left the room, as soon as they got in the lift Amy and Andrea started talking excitedly.
“Kaylie, I think that gold thing is one of the reasons that the Doctor, Georgia and Conner are here”, Zac whispered to Kaylie.
“I think you might be right”, Kaylie replied.


Back in the ballroom the Doctor was dancing his 6th dance with Roxanne. Georgia was tired and was drinking lemonade, while Conner who had been lead around for quarter of an hour, was not. There weren’t many people left in the room now. Mr. Renegade and Mrs. Sow had gone to bed and so had many others.
“What’s your real name?” Roxanne asked, out of the blue.
“What do you mean?” the Doctor replied.
“Your name isn’t John Smith is it?”, Roxanne said.
“How do you know?” the Doctor asked as he spun around on the dance floor.
“It’s the look in your eyes”, Roxanne said, “They tell me your really lonely; your eyes look as if they are so old; as if they’ve seen so much. You must be very intelligent”.
“I’m not John Smith you’re right”, the Doctor said.
“Then who are you?” Roxanne asked, “I’ve been dancing with you for an hour and I didn’t even know your name. You aren’t from around here are you?”

“I’m the Doctor”, the Doctor answered. Roxanne stopped dancing and backed away from him.
“You’re the Doctor”, Roxanne blurted out loudly. Catherine and Beth, who were dancing amazingly fast, slowed down to eavesdrop.
“Who’s a Doctor?” Catherine whispered.
“He is apparently”, Beth replied, “Ooh its him from April, at our school, with Conner”. They slowly danced away from the two who were staring into each others eyes in a strange way.
“Why didn’t you tell me Doctor?” Roxanne asked, “I am a member of UNIT, I had a right to know you were here”.
“Because you know how it is”, the Doctor said, “As soon as I get involved with UNIT, the monsters always get killed. Also I don’t like guns”.
“Fair enough”, Roxanne said. The Doctor smiled then gasps in shock as several men rush into the ballroom lead by Captain Gifford.

“Captain Gifford”, Roxanne said, running up to her Captain, “What’s going on?”
“Phil and Terry have been killed and Roger Ummelmann has escaped”, Captain Gifford told Roxanne, “And Captain Price has vanished”.
“Well then Roxanne, you’d better get to work”, the Doctor said fleeing from the crowd of UNIT personnel. Captain Gifford tried to see who he was and Roxanne turned, sighed and shouted, “DOCTOR!”

The Doctor stopped and turned slowly. The whole ballroom had fallen silent. Georgia and Conner looked at each other then back at the Doctor, with worried expressions on their faces. The Doctor put his hands up as he, along with many others, realised Roxanne was pointing a revolver at the Doctor.
“You aren’t getting away that easily”, Roxanne said slowly.
“Doctor”, Captain Gifford asked, “You need to come with us, we need your help. You should give it to us, as we’ve helped you before”. The Doctor walked quickly and silently towards the group and stopped in front of Captain Gifford, Roxanne’s gun followed the Doctor round the room, the Doctor nodded to Captain Gifford.
“Thank you Doctor”, Captain Gifford said, “You can put your gun down now Roxanne”. She dropped her arm, so the gun hung by her waist. The UNIT group now accompanied by the Doctor marched out of the room, with Roxanne bringing up the rear. Georgia and Conner looked at each other worriedly.

“What shall we do?” Conner asked Georgia.
“The Doctor would rather we stayed out of this case”, Georgia whispered.
“So do we leave him to the investigating”, Conner questioned.
“Until the morning”, Georgia replied quietly, “I’ll be off to bed, see you tomorrow”.
“Yeah, bye”, Conner replied, finishing his drink. He then headed for the long corridor, which had about a hundred rooms leading off it, where all the year 11’s and the accompanying teachers, were sleeping.


It was nearing dawn when Harry and Ronald could be seen scuttling round floor 1. They had been looking for a secret door to the ground floor. They were almost completely sure that there was a ground floor. They had been trying to stay out of Kaylie, Georgia and the Doctor’s way, this was for many reasons. Firstly they had heard Georgia and Kaylie’s argument and secondly they wanted to do some investigating without the Doctor explaining things at a hundred miles an hour. Of course Ronald had not met the Doctor, but ever since he had befriended Harry and Zac, he had been told all about Big D and G and C.

“This way”, Ronald whispered, “We haven’t checked out this corridor yet”.
“Yeah, we have”, Harry replied, “See look there’s that empty bottle of wine”.
“No I think it’s a different bottle”, Ronald said pointing at the green label, “The other was in a white glass with a red label”.
“Oh, fair enough”, Harry said as he walked down the corridor peered round the corner and stopped dead.

“What is it?” Ronald asked, “What do you see?”
“There’s something down there”, Harry said quietly, “Something gold”.
“Is it looking at you”, Ronald asked, “Or is it just an object”.
“I don’t think it’s an object”, Harry said, “It’s in shadow. I can only see the bottom of it”.
“Anything else?” Ronald questioned.
“Yeah, there’s this circle of blue light”, Harry said, suddenly there was a puff of smoke and a man appeared, it was a cloaked man, who had red horns and carried some sort of fork.

“What’s that?” Ronald asked Harry, who was frozen in fear, “Who are you?”
“I know something you do not”, the red man replied in a hiss, “Death!”
“What?” Ronald asked.
“Death is so close!” the man said in a weird giggle, “You are so close to death!”

“Halt!” A strange metallic voice said and the red man vanished in the same puff of smoke.
“Harry what was that thing?”Ronald asked quickly, “I was scared, I thought it was the devil”.
“Silence!” the metallic voice ordered. Ronald fell silent and saw that the gold thing had appeared round the corner and was staring at them through a blue eye.
“Who are you?” Harry asked, speaking in a squeaky voice.

“I am Dalek Gain and you will come with me!”


TO BE CONTINUED!!!