Episode 9: Snowfall in the City Part 2

The Doctor, Georgia, Conner and Zac walked through a door into a huge white corridor, with a transparent glass roof, which was slowly becoming covered in snow. The corridor had doors and windows on either side of it, and there was an area of pink coloured grass in the centre of the corridor.

“It’s a street,” Georgia said, “How come there’s nobody about?”
“I don’t know, maybe they’re at a festival,” the Doctor replied. Suddenly, a high pitched scream could be heard coming from back the way they came.

“What was that noise?” the Doctor asked.
“Kaylie,” Conner and Zac said together.
“She must have left the TARDIS,” Zac said.
“She’s in danger already,” Georgia replied, “And we haven’t found anything.”
“Maybe she finally realised the TARDIS is bigger on the inside,” Conner commented sarcastically.
“Not funny,” Zac replied, “Come on!” Zac turned and ran back the way they came, followed closely by Conner, the Doctor and Georgia.

“This way!” the Doctor said, as Georgia ran through a wrong door. The Doctor pushed open another door, ran down a long corridor and then opened a door to the left. Zac, Conner and Georgia followed him through the door into the domed room.

“Where’s it gone?” Georgia asked, “Where’s the TARDIS?”
“I don’t know,” the Doctor muttered.
“Where’s Kaylie?” Zac asked worriedly, “She must’ve been kidnapped, and she didn’t even want to come! If she’s dead, what am I going to say? What if she’s dead? I’ll have to tell Kaylie’s family, I’ll have to tell school, I’ll be suspected of murder!”
“Calm down Zac!” Conner exclaimed, “I’m sure Kaylie’s fine.”

“I’ve found the TARDIS,” the Doctor said, he had his sonic screwdriver out and he was pointing it through one of the doors on the wall.
“The sonic screwdriver can detect its superior technology?” Georgia asked.
“Yes, this way,” the Doctor said.


Kaylie was strapped to a white plank of metal. She was in some sort of laboratory with pipes dominating each wall and long white tables with mounds of papers and test tubes. Xelionth had sent Aikl to go patrolling with the other guards. Two people entered the room; both looked different from the other aliens. They were both thin, one had brown flowing hair, and the other wore something that looked a bit like a pair of glasses.

“Angilkar, you look lovely,” Xelionth said the girl alien with the brown hair.
“Now that’s enough,” the alien with glasses said, “What is that Xelionth?” All 3 of the aliens stared at Kaylie, with narrowed eyes.
“It looks vicious,” Angilkar commented.
“It will be vicious unless you let me go!” Kaylie snapped.
“Oh wow, it talks!” the alien with glasses exclaimed.
“Rather too much, I’m afraid Roiralt,” Xelionth replied to the alien with glasses, who was called Roiralt.
“Watch it, or I’ll slap you,” Kaylie growled.

“How can she talk our language, do you think?” Angilkar asked Roiralt.
“Some basic translation technology,” Roiralt replied quietly, still staring at Kaylie, “Did she come alone?”
“We think not, she says she had a non-human companion,” Xelionth answered, “And we found this.” Xelionth led Roiralt and Angilkar over to where the TARDIS was standing, doors wide open. Roiralt peeped inside.

“It’s bigger on the inside!” Roiralt exclaimed, and Angilkar peeped in too.
“Really, I just thought I was visually impaired,” Kaylie said sarcastically.
“Do you think it’s safe to go inside?” Angilkar asked.
“No, its not, sorry,” Kaylie shouted from the other side of the room, “It kills any non-humans who go inside, except the Doctor.”
“The Doctor?” Angilkar asked, “Who’s the Doctor?”
“I think I’ve heard that name before,” Roiralt replied, “Search the records for the Pluto-Sednian alliance.”
“Yes sir,” Angilkar replied, as the doors to the laboratory burst open and in marched a tall cruel looking alien, with a frown upon his face. He was followed closely by several guards. These aliens again looked different, but this time there was a huge difference. They were light blue skinned, with slits for noses, instead of the huge sphere-shaped noses the others had.

“Lord Komanfdu?” Xelionth said, “What are you doing here?”
“I simply heard you’d taken some human prisoner,” Lord Komanfdu replied, “And there it is. How did it get here?”
“We have reason to believe it landed in that thing,” Roiralt replied, pointing at the TARDIS. Lord Komanfdu marched towards the TARDIS and looked inside.
“It’s bigger on the inside,” Lord Komanfdu exclaimed.
“We’d worked that one out for ourselves thanks,” Angilkar replied.
“Well, I’d like my guards to take it and the other it to one of Sedna’s laboratories,” Lord Komanfdu said, ignoring Angilkar’s comment.
“We are fully qualified to cope with the situation here thank you very much,” Xelionth said, “We have the right equipment.”

“Xelionth, make yourself useful and find the other humans that it came with, it obviously didn’t come alone,” Lord Komanfdu ordered.
“We had already established the fact that Earth do not have technology to build those kinds of ships,” Roiralt explained, “And she has already told us that she did not come alone, but with a non-human.”
“Then find the non-human you idiot,” Lord Komanfdu ordered.
“You do not have authority here,” Roiralt snapped.
“Um actually I do,” Lord Komanfdu replied leering.
“It’s people like you who are breaking the Pluto-Sednian alliance!” Roiralt answered.
“That’s off topic, now find the other alien!” Lord Komanfdu shouted.
“No need to do that,” the Doctor said as he walked into the room, “I’m here now.” Lord Komanfdu’s guards raised their guns at the Doctor, who put up his hands.
“Doctor, finally you arrive!” Kaylie snarled, “I have been like locked to this chair hospital bed flat thing… for ages!”
“They’ve done something good then,” the Doctor said walking past Kaylie, “Hello I’m the Doctor.”

“What kind of alien is he then?” Angilkar asked.
“We could scan him,” Roiralt suggested.
“Or I could tell you,” the Doctor suggested, shrugging.
“Tell them and get me out of here,” Kaylie shrieked.

“Where’s the TARDIS?” the Doctor asked.
“Over there,” Xelionth replied.
“But you aren’t getting your hands on it,” Lord Komanfdu said, “Sedna’s getting it, our scientists will strip it down and we will be able to see how it works.”
“You’ll have to get inside it first,” the Doctor replied, “And did you just say Sedna?”

“Doctor, I may have left the TARDIS doors open,” Kaylie said, not looking at the Doctor.
“What? Kaylie how could you be so thick?” the Doctor said angrily.
“Don’t shout at me, I’m locked to a laboratory bed thing,” Kaylie pleaded.
“The whole of time and space is inside that box and you just leave the doors open,” the Doctor replied, “If somebody gets how it works, they’ll be able to change the universe and it could all be thrown inside the void.”
“Doctor, you shouldn’t have told them that,” Kaylie said.
“The whole of time and space inside that box,” Lord Komanfdu repeated, “Seize him.” Two guards grabbed the Doctor from behind and held him still. Outside the door Conner, Georgia and Zac had been watching the scene unfold.

“Doctor!” Conner shouted as he rushed forward from behind the door. Georgia was about to get up when Zac grabbed her.
“Georgia, if we all get captured how will we escape?” Zac asked.
“But…” Georgia said helplessly as Komanfdu’s guards seized Conner too.
“We’ll take these three to the court,” Lord Komanfdu decided, “I shall send some people to pick up the blue box.”
“As I have said before you do not have the authority…” Roiralt began but was interrupted.
“I am a lord and you are just a feeble scientist,” Lord Komanfdu replied coldly.
“How dare you insult him, he is far more intelligent and far more worthy of respect than you are,” Angilkar replied.
“Silence! It is people like you, who try to secretly send Plutonians off to other planets,” Lord Komanfdu answered. Angilkar, Xelionth and Roiralt stood silent as the Doctor, Conner and Kaylie were taken from the room. Lord Komanfdu marched out of the room last with a look of victory on his face.

“We’ve got to contact Pluton, immediately,” Roiralt ordered and Angilkar ran from the room.
“I’d better get back to patrol,” Xelionth said, “Good luck.”

Georgia and Zac hid behind the door as they watched the Doctor, Conner and Kaylie be taken away by force. They were about to leave their hiding place when Angilkar ran by.
“That was close,” Georgia said, “We’ve got to follow them.”
“Wait, what’s that?” Zac asked pointing the opposite way up the corridor at a blue light.
“Let’s find out,” Georgia replied as she got up and walked towards the light. When they reached the end of the corridor they saw the blue light was coming from the room at the end of it. They pushed open the doors and they found themselves on a balcony staring into a huge dark pit, with a huge spherical machine revolving in the centre of it. The machine seemed to be illuminating the blue light.

“What is that?” Georgia asked.
“How should I know?” Zac muttered replied.
“I think its some kind of power source,” Georgia suggested, “Maybe it powers the city.”
“But then what powers that?” Zac asked.
“I think we should go,” Georgia said quickly. She turned around and pushed on the double doors, but they did not budge.

“Uh oh,” Zac said noticing that Georgia couldn’t open the door. He ran forward and pushed against the doors too.
“They aren’t opening,” Georgia muttered.
“I’ve noticed,” Zac said dully.
“What are we going to do?” Georgia asked.
“We could explore,” Zac suggested, “This balcony seems to go on for a while, maybe there’s another door leading off it.”
“It’s worth a try I suppose,” Georgia replied, “But as soon as we’re out we need to find the Doctor and Conner.”
“And Kaylie,” Zac added.


The Doctor, Conner and Kaylie, meanwhile, had been dragged by Komanfdu’s guards into a small room with nothing inside it. The Guards released them and left them inside the room.
“I’ve sent word ahead, please don’t touch the sides of room, stay in the centre,” Lord Komanfdu told them before he left the room.
“Where are we going?” Kaylie asked the Doctor.
“The high court I think, don’t know why,” the Doctor answered.
“But why have we been locked in a room?” Conner asked.
“Well…” the Doctor began, as the room filled with bright blue light.
“What’s happening?” Kaylie screamed as the room shook. The blue light vanished to reveal that Conner, the Doctor and Kaylie had moved to a grimy room which was exactly the same size as the room they had just been in.

“We’ve been teleported,” the Doctor said. The door opened to reveal another alien, which was of the same species of Angilkar, Xelionth and Roiralt.
“You will follow me Earthlings,” the alien said in a squeaky little voice.
“I’m not from Earth,” the Doctor said.
“Yes, yes, that’s right!” the alien replied, “You’re the other alien.”

“Where are we?” the Doctor asked as he followed the alien out of the door into a long corridor full of similar looking aliens.
“The High Court of Sedna and Pluto, we are to decide what to do with you,” the alien said.
“Pluto?” the Doctor replied, “We were on Pluto?”
“Well of course you were,” the Plutonian squeaked happily, “You were found in ICE, the city, weren’t you?”
“Pluto,” the Doctor said, ignoring the Plutonians comment, “But it was snowing, proper snow, there’s no snow on Pluto. There’s no H2O, unless it was snowing methane, which I know it wasn’t the texture’s different.”
“What are you saying?” Conner asked.
“Something is very wrong,” the Doctor answered, “There shouldn’t be any H2O on Pluto, there just isn’t any, and it can’t just suddenly appear. The H2O could mess up the atmosphere on the planet; it could make the planet inhabitable for the Plutonians. Of course, somebody wants to wipe out the Plutonian race, but why?”

TO BE CONTINUED