Episode 12: The Spidership Part 6

“No, we’re not coming with you”, Harry said boldly, “We don’t even know who or what you are!”
“You will obey, or you will be exterminated!” Dalek Gain ordered.
“Oh no!” Ronald shouted pointing behind the dalek, who turned his head, “RUN!” Harry and Ronald ran for their lives, they sprinted down the corridor, just dodging a blue ray of electricity which was fired from the Dalek. They ran up a flight of stairs and reached the 2nd floor, they ran down another corridor until they ran straight into Private Roxanne.

“What are you doing here?” Roxanne asked.
“We’re running from a monster”, Ronald said panting.
“What do you mean monster?” Roxanne asked.
“It was gold, with bronze sphere things on its body, and it had an arm, and it fired a ray at us”, Harry explained not stopping for breath.
“I need to tell the Doctor”, Roxanne muttered.
“You know the Doctor?” Harry asked.
“Yes, he’s talking to Colonel Mace along with Captain Gifford via UNIT technology”, Roxanne said, “In there”. Roxanne pointed to the door behind her.
“Well lets go in and tell him”, Harry said breathlessly.
“No, I betrayed his trust by letting UNIT find him”, Roxanne said, “I think we should wait for him to emerge and tell him without UNIT overhearing”.
“But, UNIT might be able to help”, Ronald suggested.
“They might not”, Roxanne replied, “I’ll get him and tell him there are some of his friends here or something”.

Roxanne entered the room. It was quite a large room with several computers and several tables. There was a member of UNIT at each computer terminal. There was a sofa in the middle of the room. Lounging on it was the Doctor; standing next to the sofa was Captain Gifford. There was a huge screen facing the sofa. On the screen was Colonel Mace who was sitting in the UNIT headquarters in South London. The headquarters looked the same as they had when the octopli attacked it and when the magnet warriors had contacted them.

“I apologise Captain Gifford, Colonel Mace”, Roxanne said loudly and clearly.
“Sorry about this Colonel Mace”, Captain Gifford said.
“Not to worry”, Colonel Mace replied from UNIT HQ.
“What is it Private?” Captain Gifford asked.
“There’s someone here to see the Doctor”, Roxanne replied, “One of his friends”.
“Oh, I’d better talk to them”, the Doctor said, “They don’t know I have joined forces with UNIT yet”. Captain Gifford nodded and the Doctor walked out the room followed by Private Roxanne.

As they walked out of the room the Doctor said, “Why did you point a gun at me?”
“Because we needed your help”, Roxanne told the Doctor, “Oh, it wasn’t loaded by the way”.
“I didn’t think it was”, the Doctor commented.
“I’ve always learnt”, Roxanne said, “Never load your gun in case the tide turns and you are held up against it”. The Doctor realised Harry and Ronald were there.

“Big D, we saw this gold thing”, Harry said immediately, “Down on the 1st floor”.
“It had this blue eye and it was a bit like a robot”, Ronald said.
“Who are you?” the Doctor asked.
“He’s Ronald he’s in my class”, Harry said, “He knows about aliens and things…”
“Right, anyway this alien, what did it say?” the Doctor asked.
“It said come with me”, Harry answered.
“And obey me or you will be exterminated”, Ronald added. The Doctor froze looked up and ran straight down the corridor.

“Doctor wait!” Roxanne shouted and she began to run after him. She was followed by Harry and Ronald.
“You aren’t coming with me go back”, the Doctor Said.
“Don’t be so silly!” Roxanne called after the Doctor, easily keeping up with his fast pace. The Doctor ran down the steps to the first floor and shouted, “Aliens come out come out wherever you are!”
“Why’s he shouting?” Harry asked Ronald, “It’s like he wants to be caught”.
“I don’t know”, Ronald replied.

“Daleks!” the Doctor shouted, “Yes I know what you’re called come out and face me daleks!”
“Doctor I order you to stop shouting”, Roxanne ordered, stopping by the Doctor who was standing in the middle of a corridor, “It’s better to catch them off guard”.
“I know what you’re called daleks!” the Doctor shouted. The Doctor paused for a moment waiting for the shrill voice of a dalek.
“Halt!” Dalek Gain said as he glided round the corner, Roxanne sighed loudly, “You know us you shall come with us”.
“Hellooo, who are you then?” the Doctor asked, “Nice arm, looks like they’ve replaced your sucker”. “Silence, all four of you will come with me”, Dalek Gain said, “You know of us human, so the Supreme Dalek will want to see you”.


It was early in the morning but Mrs Sow had got everyone up early to go on a tour of the museum on board the ship. Kaylie and Zac were chatting, still wondering where Harry and Ronald had gone. Amy and Karen had joined them and were looking nervous.
“Now then children”, Mrs Sow was saying we’re very lucky to have Cherrie back with us today. So let’s have a good time and follow her”.
“Mrs Sow is talking be quiet Bradley”, Mr. Renegade ordered.

“Also we have two more children joining our crew”, Mrs Sow said cheerily, “So be nice to them”. Amy smiled sweetly.
“Arghh it’s ghastly”, Bradley said jokingly. At this Amy flipped in the air and did some karate moves getting closer and closer to Bradley, who tripped and fell over making whimpering noises. At this the whole class burst out laughing.
“Be quiet everyone!” Mrs Sow shouted, but no-one listened to her.
“SILENCE!” Mr. Renegade ordered again. Everyone fell silent this time and followed Cherrie into a beige-coloured corridor. Amy stared daggers at Bradley who was now scared of her. Kaylie was trying her best to ignore her two sisters. They left the beige corridor and walked into a large green room. In the walls of the room were see through tanks. Inside the tanks were spiders.

“Here we are ladies and gentlemen”, Cherrie said as if she knew this off by heart, “We are in the spider part of the ship, in other words the ships little menagerie. There are about 100 hundred species of spider, including many rare spiders, which we bought for a large amount of money, to add to our collection. These can be seen on the left over there. Look round, but please don’t tap on the glass”.
“They always say that. Never tap on the glass”, Zac said to Kaylie as they walked over to a cage.

“Ewww”, Kaylie said when she saw the Spider.
“So Kaylie, you don’t like the Australasian funnel-web spider?” Zac said reading from the plaque by the tank where the Australasian funnel-web spider sat looking up at them. Zac thought for a second that it was staring at them in a human way. Before he turned to see Beth and Catherine.

“Awwww, it’s so cute”, Beth said looking at the Spider, Catherine gawped at her.
“You like spiders and goats?" Catherine asked.
“I never said I liked goats”, Beth said annoyed.
“Then why the ‘goat’ incident?” Zac asked.
“Shut up!” Beth said annoyed.


Back on floor 0 the blue Supreme Dalek turned to Roger Ummelmann.
“Your nephew has been captured by Dalek Gain”, the blue Supreme Dalek announced, “Along with a UNIT soldier, a man and a friend of your nephews. They were exploring the first floor. Tell us why they are there”.
“I don’t know”, Roger Ummelmann replied loudly.
“They are approaching the lab”, the White Supreme Dalek informed the other, “Are any other UNIT soldiers exploring the ship, Captain Price?” Captain Price was standing in shadow; she had been trying to send distress signals to her other UNIT officers, but they had not reached the other UNIT officials.
“No, I have not told anyone that I am here”, Captain Price replied looking up.
“Because we have been stopping your signals”, the blue Supreme Dalek said staring at Captain Price through its blue eye.

Suddenly footsteps could be heard descending into the room. The Doctor entered the room first with his hands on his head. He was followed by Ronald and Harry and then Private Roxanne.
“Private Roxanne!” Captain Price said surprised.

“Ronald, I told you not to do any investigating”, Roger said.
“Well I knew you were up to something”, Ronald said, “You always loved Aunt Holly and then you split up with her, I couldn’t believe it”.
“It was because I had to be away a lot because of this job”, Roger said, “But now I wish I had never got the job”. Ronald fell silent and the room was in complete silence, even the daleks were silent, but they were all staring at the Doctor.

“Doctor!” the blue Supreme Dalek said.
“How did you recognise me?” the Doctor asked.
“I was guessing”, the Blue Supreme Dalek announced.
“Dalek Gain, you said he was shouting our name”, the White Supreme Dalek asked.
“Affirmative”, Dalek Gain agreed.
“What did you just call him?” the Doctor asked.
“He is called Dalek Gain”, the White Supreme Dalek replied.
“What are you called?” the Doctor asked.
“Daleks do not need names”, the Blue Supreme Dalek said.
“Then why does he have one?” the Doctor asked.
“He was a very important member of a secret group of daleks”, the Blue Supreme Dalek answered.
“The Cult of Skaro”, the Doctor asked.
“The what?” Dalek Gain asked.
“Never mind, now then why are you here?” the Doctor asked.

“We were to invade Earth”, the Blue Supreme Dalek replied, “And we would be given a fleet o daleks to help. The fleet never came it was destroyed”.
“By who or what or when?” the Doctor asked.
“In the time war”, the White Supreme Dalek explained, “But that is only a rumour. It may not be true”.
“I’m afraid it is true”, the Doctor said darkly.
“Then why are you here?” Dalek Gain asked, “All the daleks and time lords were destroyed in the war”.
“How do you know?” the blue Supreme Dalek asked.
“Just a rumour”, Dalek Gain replied. The Doctor knew something was not right about Dalek Gain. He was sure that that dalek had secrets.

“So what are you up to on this ship?” the Doctor asked.
“We have made an alliance”, the White Supreme Dalek said.
“With who?” the Doctor asked, “Another alien”.
“No with a creature with Earth origin”, the blue Supreme Dalek answered, “They hate humanity just like us”.
“Who is it?” the Doctor asked.

“Doctor, what if Mr. Spider found out?” Private Roxanne asked, “Before he died”.
“What do you mean Private?” Captain Price asked.
“What if the note said, Beware the Spiders”, Private Roxanne announced.
“The human female is correct”, the Blue Supreme Dalek announced, “But enough talk”. The Blue Supreme Dalek moved over to a screen and pressed its sucker on it. A huge spider appeared on the teleport circle. Harry yelled at the sight of it. The other two daleks moved to other screens. Dalek Gain operated his with his hand.

“What are you doing?” the Doctor ordered, “Tell me now”.
“They are growing the Spiders”, Roger said quietly, “In five minutes all the spiders around the World will grow huge. They will kill the humans”.
“Why would they want to kill humans?” Harry asked in a squeaky voice.
“Because we hate them!” the huge spider hissed, “The humans are big, they don’t care about us. They flick us with their fingers. They squish us with their books and newspapers. They put us in tanks”.
“But surely a second chance”, the Doctor said smiling.
“No second chances”, the chief spider hissed.

“How does it work then?” the Doctor asked.
“I’m not sure”, Roger said, “The machine does something with the DNA and the humans fear helps them along”.
“Uncle why did you help them with this”, Ronald asked.
“Because I’d have so much power”, Roger said.
“But the Daleks never agree to human terms”, the Doctor said.
“That is why he is now a prisoner”, Dalek Gain said turning his head.
“What about you Captain Price?” the Doctor asked.
“Dalek Gain found me trying to find this secret floor”, Captain Price said.

“Well then daleks I’m going to stop you”, the Doctor anNounced.
“How will you do that from Scandinavia?” the Blue Supreme Dalek asked as Dalek Gain pushed another button and the Doctor vanished.
“Where’s the Doctor gone?” Harry asked.
“Scandinavia”, the White Supreme Dalek replied, “We couldn’t have him tampering with our plans”.

“It is time”, the huge spider hissed, “The time for our revenge is now!”
“Switch the machine on”, the Blue Dalek said and Dalek Gain pushed a switch.
The machine whirred.

“Uncle, what have you done?” Ronald said shocked. Captain Price stood shocked along with Harry, Ronald, Roger and Roxanne.


Up in the spider museum Captain Gifford burst through the doors along with a troupe of UNIT soldiers.
“Search the place, we msut find the Doctor”, Captain Gifford ordered.
“What’s going on?” Zac wondered.
“I don’t know”, Kaylie replied and then her mouth dropped. She stared as she saw the Australasian funnel-web spider grow and grow and grow. It smashed the glass in the tank. The same thing was happening all over the room. Spiders jumped out of their cages and landed on the floor.

“Kill all the humans”, a spider said, “Time for our revenge!” The students scattered as the spiders approached the children. A spider turned on Kaylie, who had frozen still. She was to be the first death.


The Doctor appeared on a clearing in the middle of a pine forest in Norway. The Doctor got out his compass to see where he was.
“My compass is spinning round and round”, the Doctor said shocked, “No, no no no no no!” The Doctor stared up into the sky to see a magnet warrior ship. It was four times the size as the one that had attacked last Christmas Eve. It had huge letters on it, which read ‘1st magnet warrior ship’.

On board the Commander stared down at the Earth through a blackened window.
“We will find the Doctor and his blonde accomplice!” Commander Marr said cackling, “The time has come for my revenge!!!!”


TO BE CONTINUED IN ‘BETRAYAL AND DEATH’!!!