Mini Ep. 4: Screaming Seals

Starring:
The Doctor
Georgia
Conner
And: The Seals


The Doctor pulled a lever and the TARDIS jolted, sending Conner and Georgia to the floor, and Georgia immediately began to complain about her discomfort.

“He should not have got us that time, seriously, usually we are pretty good at holding on,” Georgia was ranting to Conner, “I think he does it for fun, see how many times he can send us to the floor in a day or something.”
“So, I have planned a little visit to my fat friends on the planet Satratiqua,” the Doctor announced, “Where we can attend a fish supper.”
“Doctor, this isn’t like the time you promised us Chinese and we ended up getting chased along the Great Wall of China, is it?” Georgia asked, crossing her arms.
“No, I know the people making us the fish supper, and catching it too,” the Doctor replied.
“You said you knew the old woman making the Chinese, and then she set those vicious dogs on us,” Georgia snapped.
“That was fun, can we do that again? Can we get Indian this time?” Conner asked, laughing.
“I really know these Seals,” the Doctor said, nodding.
“Seals, ooh, I love Seals! They’re so fat and cute, especially the babies,” Georgia said excitedly.
“I thought you were more of penguin person myself,” the Doctor replied, pulling another lever that shook the TARDIS violently sending Georgia to the floor again.
“DOCTOR!”

The TARDIS materialised on a grey beach on the coast of the planet Satratiqua. The Doctor stepped out smiling; he was followed by Conner and Georgia.
“It’s freezing!” Georgia shrieked.
“Stop moaning,” Conner moaned, and Georgia glared at him.
“Sooo, where’s the fish?” Georgia asked.
“Helloo?” the Doctor called, as the wind blew and Georgia shivered. Conner looked out at the sea and saw that there were ripples appearing in the water. The ripples seemed to be moving towards the beach.

“This place reminds me of Woman Wept,” Georgia was saying, “You weren’t there Conner.”
“Eh, what?” Conner said, looking round.
“Pay attention,” Georgia snapped.
“Look in the water,” Conner said pointing.
“Oh good, our fish catchers are arriving,” the Doctor said.

“Doctor, when you say seals, do you mean real seals, or alien seals?” Georgia asked.
“Well they’re not going to be speaking seals from Earth are they?” the Doctor replied.
“Can you talk to animals?” Georgia questioned, “Can you hear whales and dolphins?”
“Well…” the Doctor began, but he was interrupted by the noises of seals, who were appearing out of the water. They were all sliding on their fat bellies, and Georgia was disappointed to find they weren’t carrying fish.

“All right mate?” a seal said in an Irish accent.
“Patrick, good to see you!” the Doctor told the Irish seal, “How is that sailor who taught you Irish, still in hiding?”
“No, he’s in jail now, apparently it’s against the law to build a secret sea base for Giant Squid to hang out and plan which ship they want to attack next,” Patrick replied.

“Doctor, where’s the fish?” Georgia butted in.
“Oh yes, right, we’re a bit hungry, mind if we join you for lunch?” the Doctor asked.
“Not at all,” Patrick replied, “Right buddies?” The seals all nodded in agreement, and Patrick slid back into the water. The Doctor made to follow them but Georgia grabbed his arm.
“Where’re you going?” Georgia asked.
“Yeah, we’re not going in the sea are we?” Conner asked.
“Yeah, but it’ll be fine,” the Doctor replied.
“You are joking,” Georgia snapped.
“Look you’ll see why it’s fine in a bit, now into the water,” the Doctor said, gesturing.
“No way, it’ll be freezing,” Georgia moaned.
“I’ll go in, I’m interested to see how we’re supposed to keep our breath under water,” Conner commented sarcastically.
“Trust me,” the Doctor told them, and Georgia and Conner reluctantly followed him into the freezing water. Conner and Georgia were both surprised to find it wasn’t freezing at all, and as they got in further it got quite warm.

“Wow, this is coo-arghhooo,” Georgia said, as she walked in front, before suddenly falling under the surface with a plopping sound.
“Doctor!” Conner said frantically to find that no bubbles were coming from where Georgia had fallen. Conner looked around to see the Doctor had gone too. Conner rushed forward to where Georgia had been. As he reached the spot he suddenly felt himself slip and fall under the surface, but he felt like he was falling for ever.

“Conner, finally you arrive!” Conner heard Georgia say as he opened his eyes, to find himself in a large dining room with a glass roof. Through the glass Conner could see the ocean above it, with fish swimming around.
“This is so cool!” Georgia exclaimed.
“Where are the seals?” Conner asked, as he realised the Seals were nowhere to be seen.
“There’ll be along in a second,” the Doctor answered.

“How did I get here?” Conner questioned.
“Yeah, how did we get here?” Georgia asked.
“Well, you know that roof,” the Doctor said, looking up, “It’s not glass.”
“Then what is it?” Georgia replied.
“Seal craftsmanship,” the Doctor answered admiringly.
“That’s just weird, they don’t even have hands,” Georgia commented.
“So they created that bubble,” the Doctor said, “They have such great technology, amazing minds, brilliant cooking skills.”
“I’ve never heard you speak so admiringly of a race before, except Humans of course,” Conner said smiling slightly.

“Hang on, you just said bubble, what if it pops, we’ll die!” Georgia shrieked, “I’m too young to die, seriously killed by Daleks, or some creepy spaceship which has guns and dead people walking around, I expect that from travelling with you, but a bubble roof thing popping and drowning me, I don’t think so.”
“The bubble can’t be popped,” the Doctor replied.
“Oh,” Georgia said quietly.
“We fell and sort of slipped through the bubble, and landed safely on the ground,” the Doctor explained, “The Seals have great technologies.”

“So, what planet are we on?” Georgia asked.
“The planet Satratiqua. Look there’s Patrick!” the Doctor said, pointing at the ceiling, “And his friends, it looks like they’ve got loads of fish!”
“Doctor, have they cooked the fish, ‘cause I don’t want to eat any raw fish,” Georgia explained, “Brian tried some once and he was in hospital the next day.”
“Doctor, they do cook the fish, right?” Conner asked.
“Now I come to think of it Brian was attacked by a cat who wanted the fish, but still, raw fish caused the problem,” Georgia said. Patrick and the other Seals were swarming above the bubble. Suddenly, Patrick seemed to slip through the bubble and into the room. He floated down slowly and landed safely on the floor. He was carrying four large fish in his flippers.

“Top o’ the mornin’ to you,” the Doctor said to Patrick.
“I hope you all got here safely,” Patrick said.
“Yes thank you,” Georgia replied.
“Please choose your fish and we will batter them,” Patrick told Georgia and Conner.
“Oh yay, I love batter, that one,” Conner said, pointing at the longest fish.
“As I am healthy I’ll go with the biggest fish, because fish are healthy,” Georgia said and Conner rolled his eyes.
“I’ll have that one,” the Doctor said, pointing at the 3rd fish.
“I’ll be back in a min,” Patrick said, sliding across the room, towards a white door in the wall.
“Do we get chips?” Georgia asked.
“Possibly, depends whether their head chef is in a good mood,” the Doctor answered.
“I used to cook things in the bakery, I remember when I burnt all the sausage roles, but it was because Mrs Parsons was taking ages to choose which doughnut she wanted,” Georgia commented. Suddenly, a Pelican waddled into the room. It had a huge deep yellow beak and small yellow beady eyes.

“Hello,” the Doctor said to the Pelican.
“Oh my God, it’s like a barrel-beaked-thing on legs,” Georgia commented.
“Georgia,” the Doctor hissed.
“Have you seen Patrick, or any other of the main Seals?” the Pelican asked.
“No, I haven’t, why?” the Doctor asked.
“There’s a tsunami heading this way, a 100 metre high one,” the Pelican replied.
“WHAT?” Georgia exclaimed, “Now I’m gonna get killed by a tsunami.”
“Let’s get the fish and run for it,” Conner suggested, as Patrick walked back into the room carrying three battered fish on plates.

“Oh yay, no wait I just remembered about the tsunami,” Georgia said.
“Pelly, what’s goin’ on?” Patrick asked the Pelican.
“There’s a tsunami,” Pelly explained, “Second biggest recorded this year.”
“Oh no, you three had better get out of here,” Patrick told the Doctor, Georgia and Conner.
“But we haven’t had our chat about old times,” the Doctor told Patrick.
“And more importantly we haven’t had our fish,” Georgia said.
“Do you want to die?” Conner asked.
“But the Doctor said that the bubble can never pop,” Georgia replied.
“In tsunamis enough pressure builds up so it does pop,” Patrick explained, “Sit tight you two, I’ll send you up to the beach.”

“The TARDIS will be safe, you’ve got your keys, right?” the Doctor said.
“Yeah,” Georgia replied, and Patrick slid over to the wall, where there was a keypad, and he typed something into the keypad. In a second Georgia and Conner shot out of their seats and through the bubble. They appeared on the beach, now soaking wet.
“And we never got out fish,” Georgia moaned.
“Oh my God!” Conner uttered, staring with a shocked expression at the gargantuan wave in the distance, “The Seals will all die, their homes and everything...”
“I’m sure they’ll be fine, remember, they have these several times a year, Pelly said this was only the second biggest this year,” Georgia replied.
“Then what was the biggest?” Conner asked.
“Into the TARDIS, come on,” Georgia told Conner and they both rushed inside, after Georgia unlocked the door with her key.

In the Seal dining room below, the Doctor was frantically typing something into the keypad, while Patrick and Pelly dragged furniture out of the bubble-roofed room.
“Doctor, you need to get up there now, this whole place fills with water in the event of a tsunami,” Patrick explained, “Pelly, you’d best be going too.”
“But I have to protect you,” the Doctor told Patrick.
“We’ll be fine Doctor, we’re used to this happening; the tsunami is about to drain this place, now go!” Patrick snapped. The Doctor looked up and sure enough the water above the bubble was vanishing, to join the tsunami wave now getting close to the beach.
“The wave will destroy this place,” the Doctor said.
“You speak highly of our technologies, but you have no faith in them, we’ll be fine,” Patrick told the Doctor, “The bubble will pop and this room may be damaged, but most of our city will be fine.”
“Hurry up, Doctor!” Pelly called as he slipped out of the bubble and flew high into the sky. The Doctor sat down and Patrick typed on the keypad, so the doctor was sent up to the beach.

“OH MY GOD!” Conner said, staring out of the TARDIS door.
“Conner, close the door!” Georgia snapped.
“The sea’s being drained,” Conner said in a shocked voice.
“Tsunamis do that, you twit. I know that and I failed Geography!” Georgia whined.

“But where’s the Doctor?” Conner moaned, “The waves nearly here!”
“There!” Georgia yelled, as she saw the Doctor appear on the beach suddenly.
“Come on Doctor!” Conner shouted, as the area became covered in shadow of the giant wave.
“DOCTOR MOVE YOUR ARSE!” Georgia shrieked, as the Doctor ran towards the TARDIS and Conner pulled him inside, as Georgia closed the door, as the tsunami hit the beach, causing the TARDIS to shake incredibly. The TARDIS seemed to turn on its side and the Doctor made his way to the console as Georgia screamed.

“What’s going on?” Conner asked the Doctor, over the roar of the wave, which could be heard rom outside.
“Well... surf’s up!” the Doctor said, grinning, as he clutched the console.

THE END