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!!!

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Episode 12: The Spidership Part 4

The teleport flashed and the daleks moved back. The teleport stopped flashing.

“Supreme Dalek Blue”, Dalek Gain asked, “Where is the human?”
“He teleported to his office Dalek Gain”, the blue supreme dalek replied.
“The human is un-intelligent “, the white supreme Dalek announced, and “He will fall into the hands of UNIT again”.
“Dalek Gain find the human”, the blue supreme dalek ordered.
“What should I do with him”, Dalek Gain asked.
“Bring him here”, the Supreme Blue Dalek replied.
“But what of UNIT?” Dalek Gain questioned.
“Exterminate them if you must”, the white supreme dalek answered. Dalek Gain left the room and elevated up the steps.

“Request information”, the white Supreme Dalek said to the blue one, “What is your opinion of the situation?”
“Their leader obeys us”, the Blue Dalek replied, “They will follow our instructions. UNIT are not much of a threat”.
“And what is your opinion of the fleet?” the White Dalek asked.
“The Time War is only a legend”, the Blue dalek answered, “We have lost contact with them. We have no knowing what happened”.
“And what of Dalek Gain?” the White Dalek said.
“He is inferior”, the Blue Dalek answered, “He is not a main part of our plans”.
“As I predicted”, the White Dalek replied and returned to work in the shadows.

Up above Captain Price crossed her arms as Roger Ummelmann stepped out from the teleport sighing.
“Hands up!” Captain Gifford ordered and Roger put his hands up.
“All right, I surrender”, Roger Ummelmann said.
“Where did you get the alien technology from?” Captain Price asked annoyed.
“Alien technology?” Roger asked.
“That teleport is from the magnet Warrior ship”, Captain Price said knowingly.
“No it’s not”, Roger replied loudly.
“Then where is it?” Captain Price asked. Roger fell silent.
“Things aren’t looking good for you mister”, Captain Gifford said.
“Get him out of my sight… again!” Captain Price ordered, “And no more escape acts!”
Roger was marched away. Captain Price heard a strange noise from along the corridor. She saw the rest of her troop marching off and went to find out what the noise was.


Meanwhile far above Zac’s year had just been shown to their rooms and were now gathering in one of the many lounges. The lounge had hundreds of sofas in it and huge flat screen TV’s which were large enough to be in a cinema. Catherine and Beth were sitting by a huge window. Catherine was looking out to sea, while Beth tried but failed to get the attention of her mum, who was looking up at the ship in a crowd of people.
“Look there’s the Spidership!” Catherine cried pointing through the window.
“We’re on the Spidership”, Beth said to Catherine.
“But Ronald said…” Catherine argued. Meanwhile Conner and Georgia were chatting to Zac.

“So where exactly is the Doctor?” Zac asked.
“He’s exploring Mr Spider’s office”, Georgia replied.
“Looking for clues”, Conner added.
“How are you two then?” Zac asked, “The ship leaves Portsmouth in 10 minutes time”.
“I’m fine, my parents will be watching me! On TV!” Georgia exclaimed happily.

“My parents don’t believe I’ve gone to Venezuela”, Conner muttered.
“I can’t think why”, Georgia said sarcastically.
“Don’t be mean”, Kaylie said, “Zac had to think of something, it had to be somewhere far away or they’d ask why he hadn’t phoned”.
“I wasn’t insulting Zac, I was just saying that…that”, Georgia explained, “Conner was useless at pretending he’d been to Venezuela”.
“Thanks a lot”, Conner said annoyed.
“You’re still being mean”, Kaylie said.
“And you’re being a…” Georgia began.
“Look lets stop arguing”, Zac said seriously.
“Fine!” Georgia said.

“I didn’t start it”, Kaylie said.
“Yes you did!” Georgia shouted, “You said ummmmm you’re being mean!”
“I did not say um!”
“You basically did, behaving like a little child”.
“SHUT UP!” Bradley shouted at them from across the room, which startled all four of them who fell silent. Catherine and Beth started giggling.

“I’ll go and see what the Doctor’s up to”, Georgia said, “Are you coming Conner?”
“No I think I’ll stay here with Zac and…”
“Fine!” And with that Georgia left the room her white dress flowing behind her.

“Talk about the White Witch”, Kaylie commented.
“How is she the White Witch?” Conner asked.
“Well she’s got a long white dress”, Kaylie pointed out, “And she marches around like she owns the place”.
“Kaylie if you don’t stop insulting Georgia then we’ll have to leave you both at home”, Zac said. Kaylie crossed her arms and fell silent. There was a loud bang and loud cheering could be heard from outside the ship.

“We’re going, we’re leaving Scotland!”, Catherine said excitedly.
“Can all you people SHUT UP!” Bradley shouted at the crowd, “I’m trying to listen to my ipod here!”
“Now then Bradley”, Mrs Sow said, as she entered the room walking towards a window, “Say it politely”.
“Sorry Miss”, Bradley said in a simpering voice, “CAN ALL YOU PEOPLE PLEASE SHUT UP!”
Mrs Sow sighed and looked out of the window. The huge crowd on the dock was getting bigger as more people joined waving and applauding and cheering. However, you could not miss the huge army presence around the ship. Tanks surrounded the dock area and people were being checked before they were allowed to pass into the dock to wave the Spidership off.


Back in South London Elizabeth was staring worriedly at the TV screen.
“Look they’re leaving”, Colin said.
“Yes…” Elizabeth replied.
“And nothing bad has happened”, Colin continued.
“I suppose…”
“So are you going to stop clinging on to my arm?”
“Yes”, Elizabeth replied slightly loosening her grip on Colin’s arm, which she had been clinging to for a long time. On the TV screen fireworks could be seen shooting into the air as the massive ship began its journey around the World.

“Look fireworks”, Colin commented, “You like fireworks”.
“Yes but Mr. Perkins next door kept letting them off last year”, Elizabeth said, “So I no longer like them”.


Back in the lounge Kaylie, Zac, Conner and the rest of the year 11’s watched the crowd get smaller and smaller and smaller until they could only just see the docks.
“Goodbye England”, Kaylie sighed.
“It feels quite sad”, Zac said, “And weird, it feels like I’ll never be back”.
“Like an omen of death?” Kaylie asked.
“Yeah, I suppose”, Zac replied, Conner did not comment, as he had had the same feeling and the meeting with the death soothsayer, on the dark planet light years away…


Upstairs the Doctor was investigating Mr. Spider’s office. Private Roxanne had been guarding a long metallic corridor when a man appeared. The Doctor used his psychic paper to get past her, pretending he was Professor John Smith. He had used his psychic paper earlier, to get himself and Georgia aboard the Spidership. The Doctor was now looking at documents which he had found on Mr. Spider’s desk.

“Excuse me, what was your name?” the Doctor asked Private Roxanne.
“Private Roxanne Sir”, Roxanne said, “And can you please be quick if captain Gifford finds out I let someone in to Mr. Spider’s office he’ll go mad”.
“Captain who?” the Doctor asked remembering the name.
“Captain Gifford”, Private Roxanne answered.
“Oh, well that’s fine”, the Doctor replied.
“Was there something you wanted to ask me Professor?” Private Roxanne asked.
“Yes, is this exactly how Mr. Spider left his desk before he died?” the Doctor asked.
“Yes, Sir”, Private Roxanne replied, “We think so”.
“Well where are all the bills?” the Doctor asked, “the money, the pay-cheques? Where are they all?”
“We didn’t find any”, Private Roxanne replied.
“So, don’t you think there is someone inside here who has taken them away”, the Doctor asked.
“Yes, I do”, Private Roxanne answered, “But no-one listens to me, I’m the only female in my unit”.
“I’m listening”, the Doctor muttered.

“I found this note it’s slightly ripped in the corner”, Private Roxanne said, “I showed it to Captain Gifford but he told me to leave it”.
“What did it say?” the Doctor questioned.
“It said Beware”, Private Roxanne said, “Beware the Spiders… But the rip was across the word, so I think it says beware the Spidership”.

“We need to find the people in charge”, the Doctor said, “Who is in charge?”
“Roger Ummelmann was arrested this afternoon sir”, Roxanne replied, “But he isn’t in charge”.
“Then who is?” the Doctor asked interested.
“No-one knows, I’m not even sure they’re on board”, Private Roxanne said.

“Well thank you for your help”, the Doctor said, “I’ll be off now, see ya!”
“Excuse me, John”, Private Roxanne said, “Tonight there’s going to be lots of dancing in the ballroom, I’ve got the night off, please come if you’re free”.
“I think I will Private Roxanne”, the Doctor said smiling. He was beginning to walk out of the roo when he slipped and almost fell over. Private Roxanne grabbed him and helped him stand. They were very close to each other when Georgia entered the room.

“Doctor I was…” Georgia began, but saw the two close together and fell silent.
“Are you OK Sir?”Private Roxanne asked the Doctor, letting go of him.
“Yes I’m fine”, the Doctor said, “Oh, Georgia!”
“What’s going on here?” Georgia asked.
“I almost fell over and she stopped me”, the Doctor said slowly.
“You’d better be off Sir”, Private Roxanne told the Doctor, who nodded and left the room, followed by Georgia, who had a strange look on her face.


Up above on deck 13 two soldiers were guarding a cell. Inside the cell sitting with his head in his hands was Roger Ummelmann. The two soldiers were drinking cups of coffee when they heard a strange noise.
“Oy, Phil can you ’ear that?” one soldier said.
“Dunno mate”, the other soldier, Phil replied. Suddenly the door in front of them whirred open and a gold dalek with a metallic arm entered the room.
“Phil, it’s a dalek”, one of the two soldiers said shivering in fear.
“You are guarding Roger Ummelmann. Confirm?” the Dalek said.
“Confirmed, but who are you?” Phil said bravely.
“I am Dalek Gain and you are dead!” Dalek Gain announced.
“No!” Phil shouted.
“EXTERMINATE!!”


TO BE CONTINUED!!!