Ok folks, here is the part nine of this anniversary special:
Part 9 : Nemesis of the Doctor
The Zygons advanced towards Ben Chatham:
"This planet will fall to us and not to the Zenethians. Many centuries ago they were expelled from our planet for challenging our economic system. Their power must be kept in check. They will not colonise this planet."
Ben was concerned:
"Look, that is all well and good up to a point. I agree that the Zenethians should go elsewhere. However why don't you just help us to expell them without trying to conquer earth yourselves?"
"You foolish human. The only way to protect this planet from them is for us to take it first."
The fifth Doctor is annoyed:
"That is possibly the most arrogant statement I have ever heard."
"This planet is defended. And cool", the 11th Doctor added, twirling his bow tie. The zygon scowled:
"What is this nonsense? This planet is weak. We will conquer it, crush the Zenethians, then colonise this planet for living space for our surplas population."
As the zygon speaks, a group of zenethians, shape shifted into men in leather jackets and shades, arrive and a shootout starts. Ben seizes the opportunity:
"I suggest we run."
They escape the castle as the zygons and zenethians shoot it out.
Meanwhile on Zeneth, the Doctors round on the War Doctor:
"'Ang about pal, so its you who's working with this Chang, Creath or whatever he's called. A new low even for you" the 9th Doctor exclained. The War Doctor shook his head:
"Oh dear. I seem to have regenerated into a loud, leather jacket wearer. In actual fact I never destroyed Gallifrey, it is your memory that is incorrect. And I am not working for the Exalted Creath, I am his prisoner, just as you are."
The 9th Doctor offeredtheWar Doctor his phone:
"Why are you giving me this?" the War Doctor asked.
"So you can phone someone who gives a ¤¤¤¤ pal. I don't believe your daft excuses."
The third Doctor intervenes:
"There is no need for that kind of language. Control yourself man. *to the War Doctor" Well I for one believe you. Welcome to our club."
The tenth Doctor steps forward:
"Now hold on here. Club? This isn't the Albermale Club or something."
"Do you always wear your commoness on your sleeve?" the third Doctor asked the tenth.
The Exalted Creath laughed:
"You bickering fools are pathetic. Soon I will have your beloved earth in my possession, and then I will move on to taking the whole universe. Using the combined power of your TARDISes."
The tenth Doctor turns to him:
"Oh here we go. The yellow peril here thinks he can combine the power of multiple TARDISes , despite the fact that even a paradox machine cannot allow that to happen.
"It can't be done man. You're deluded" the third Doctor shouted at the Creath. Adric stared at him angrily:
"You dare to challenge my Master? You will die for that."
"Do not let them make you angry, Adric my boy. I will show them what I can do" the Creath replied, flicking a switch. On a huge monitor screen an image appeared. A large black hole was firing out rays of dark energy straight at a row of suspended TARDISes.
In Lancaster, Ben, the Doctors, Katie Ryan and Kyle Scott returned to the Black Witch pub. Ben sat by the bar, his head in his hands. Kyle went up to him:
"Come on Ben, whats up?"
"Whats up? My life is complete mess Kyle. I don't just mean this multiple alien invasion business. I've just received another text from my father ordering me to go and see Emma and patch things up. This is completely unfair, I don't see why he should pressurise me like this. Emma should just give me a damn break".
"Ere look Ben, I ain't gonna pry into your marriage but don't you think you ought to talk to her eventually?"
"No I damn well don't Kyle. I've told her straight that I think she obtained a good deal out of our arrangement. I'm under so much pressure that I'm starting to think that I'd be better off if those zygons had just shot me back there. It would save any more knives being plunged into my back. Its full enough of them surely."
Ben's golden hair fell over his eyes, which filled with tears.
Back on Zeneth, the Doctors stared at the image on the screen of the Black Hole:
"Now now, my boy, this can't be possible. Only the Time Lords have the technology to harness a black hole" the first Doctor shouted;
"And even they could never link it to multiple TARDISes" the WarDoctor added. The Exalted Creath grinned slyly:
"Then submit to my superior will and admit that I have beaten you. Soon I will have the earth in my power. All ethnic groups bar the chinese will be eradicated and then we will use it as a base for our conquest on the universe."
"You fiend. How did you get this kind of technology" the sixth Doctor shouted.
"That is my business."
"Well you haven't got hold of all of us yet" the 10th Doctor shouted.
"That is true. Your fifth and eleventh incarnations are evading my abduction beam. However old chinese proverb say, if whore wont come to visit her client, the client can always go round to the brothel". The Creath flicked a switch on the arm of his chair and the entire forbidden tower vanished from Zeneth and arrived.......
.............. in rural Lancashire.
....... to be continued.
Friday, 29 November 2013
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Time Out of Mind: Part 8
Part 8: Horror at the Castle
In 'The Black Witch', Ben Chatham poured out a round of drinks for his team as he chaired a meeting to discuss recent developments:
"Unfortunately we seem to have leaned little from that coalman that we didn't know already. Someone is stealing nuclear technology from Bowland Research Plant and presumably this is the same alien shape-shifting group who are behind the 'ghosts' and the murders. How this fits in with the Doctor's fifth incarnation being here I have no idea." The fifth Doctor grins:
"I'm afraid that whoever has the power to hijack me from my timeline has probably done the same with some of my other incarnations and succeeded."
"But who Doctor?" Tegan asked.
"I don't know. Possibly the Time Lords."
The 11th Doctor frowns:
"Er Doctor. There is something you and I need to discuss called the Time War...."
The two Doctors go off into the back room for a chat. Meanwhile Kyle sips his beer and turns to Ben:
"Ere somefink is puzzlin' me. Just before we finished questionin' the coalman he said somefink about the nuclear stuff bein' moved to somewhere totally secure. So where round 'ere is totally secure?" Ben thought for a moment:
"The Castle.... Lancaster Castle. Its huge and still in use. Come on, lets get round there immediately." The Doctors, including the ashen faced fifth Doctor rejoin them and they rush off to the castle."
Meanwhile on Zeneth, the Exalted Creath has summoned all the captured Doctors back to the Great Hall in the Forbidden Tower. He sat on his ornate golden throne and twirled his long mandarin moustache with his fingers as Adric stood by him:
"Ah Doctors. Good to see you again. I have someone I want you to meet." The 10th Doctor frowned:
"We've already met Adric thanks. Been there, got the shirt" he said, leaping about childishly.
"Act your age man!" the third Doctor shouted at the tenth."
The ninth Doctor approached Adric:
"'Ang about Adric. Why are you working for this twonk? You were a great companion once. One of the best. A good lad."
Adric scowled:
"I am not your 'good lad'. I have been to the dark mountains of Zemorah. There I drank the water and emerged reborn."
"Well whoop de do. Funny sounding water. Obviously some mind altering pap." the ninth Doctor replied.
"Well I wouldn't mind some of that" the fourth Doctor said grinning a toothy grin.
"Yeah yeah, hippy alert!" the ninth Doctor replied.
The third Doctor intervened:
"Look. I insist, Mr Chang, that you tell us what is going on. Who is it you want us to meet man? Who?"
The Exalted Creath gestured with his hand and in walked...........
The War Doctor (played by John Hurt). The third Doctor stared at the Exalted Creath:
"Well? Who is this?"
The tenth and ninth Doctors walked up to him:
"I'm afraid that this is one of our incarnations, but not a Doctor. He is a Warrior. He is us and he destroyed Gallifrey and all other Time Lords. He's called Warrior".
"And he's a right southern cunt" the ninth Doctor added.
Back on earth, Ben Chatham and the others approach the gated doorway of Lancaster Castle.
"Hmmm. We may find it rather difficult to get inside there" the 5th Doctor said.
"'Ere this ain't a problem Watch 'an learn dudes" Kyle said with a cheeky grin as he pulled out a twisted metal implement. He proceeded to pick the huge lock with ease.
"Words fail me. Utterly fail me" Ben exclaimed.
"Yeah but its how its done innit" Kyle replied, pushing the doorway open. They entered the castle however they were immediately confronted by a young guard:
"You are too late. The weaponry has been moved. Soon you will hear of our demands."
Ben stared at the young, dark-haired handome guard and felt an instant attraction. He approached him:
"I'm hoping that you are not a shape-shifting alien as I find you really attractive and would like to go to bed with you later." The young guard stared into Ben's eyes and tears welled up in his eyes as he slowly faded and changed into a Zenethian:
"I am sorry Ben Chatham. I am not human. I would like to spend the night with you however I fear that you will no longer like my appearance."
Before Ben could reply, a group of armed police officers ran through the castle doorway. One of them shot the alien dead.
Ben was annoyed:
"Why the hell did you do that? I was negotiating with him. You are trigger-happy idiots."
However slowly the policemen began to fade and change into........
..................ZYGONS!"
to be continued.
In 'The Black Witch', Ben Chatham poured out a round of drinks for his team as he chaired a meeting to discuss recent developments:
"Unfortunately we seem to have leaned little from that coalman that we didn't know already. Someone is stealing nuclear technology from Bowland Research Plant and presumably this is the same alien shape-shifting group who are behind the 'ghosts' and the murders. How this fits in with the Doctor's fifth incarnation being here I have no idea." The fifth Doctor grins:
"I'm afraid that whoever has the power to hijack me from my timeline has probably done the same with some of my other incarnations and succeeded."
"But who Doctor?" Tegan asked.
"I don't know. Possibly the Time Lords."
The 11th Doctor frowns:
"Er Doctor. There is something you and I need to discuss called the Time War...."
The two Doctors go off into the back room for a chat. Meanwhile Kyle sips his beer and turns to Ben:
"Ere somefink is puzzlin' me. Just before we finished questionin' the coalman he said somefink about the nuclear stuff bein' moved to somewhere totally secure. So where round 'ere is totally secure?" Ben thought for a moment:
"The Castle.... Lancaster Castle. Its huge and still in use. Come on, lets get round there immediately." The Doctors, including the ashen faced fifth Doctor rejoin them and they rush off to the castle."
Meanwhile on Zeneth, the Exalted Creath has summoned all the captured Doctors back to the Great Hall in the Forbidden Tower. He sat on his ornate golden throne and twirled his long mandarin moustache with his fingers as Adric stood by him:
"Ah Doctors. Good to see you again. I have someone I want you to meet." The 10th Doctor frowned:
"We've already met Adric thanks. Been there, got the shirt" he said, leaping about childishly.
"Act your age man!" the third Doctor shouted at the tenth."
The ninth Doctor approached Adric:
"'Ang about Adric. Why are you working for this twonk? You were a great companion once. One of the best. A good lad."
Adric scowled:
"I am not your 'good lad'. I have been to the dark mountains of Zemorah. There I drank the water and emerged reborn."
"Well whoop de do. Funny sounding water. Obviously some mind altering pap." the ninth Doctor replied.
"Well I wouldn't mind some of that" the fourth Doctor said grinning a toothy grin.
"Yeah yeah, hippy alert!" the ninth Doctor replied.
The third Doctor intervened:
"Look. I insist, Mr Chang, that you tell us what is going on. Who is it you want us to meet man? Who?"
The Exalted Creath gestured with his hand and in walked...........
The War Doctor (played by John Hurt). The third Doctor stared at the Exalted Creath:
"Well? Who is this?"
The tenth and ninth Doctors walked up to him:
"I'm afraid that this is one of our incarnations, but not a Doctor. He is a Warrior. He is us and he destroyed Gallifrey and all other Time Lords. He's called Warrior".
"And he's a right southern cunt" the ninth Doctor added.
Back on earth, Ben Chatham and the others approach the gated doorway of Lancaster Castle.
"Hmmm. We may find it rather difficult to get inside there" the 5th Doctor said.
"'Ere this ain't a problem Watch 'an learn dudes" Kyle said with a cheeky grin as he pulled out a twisted metal implement. He proceeded to pick the huge lock with ease.
"Words fail me. Utterly fail me" Ben exclaimed.
"Yeah but its how its done innit" Kyle replied, pushing the doorway open. They entered the castle however they were immediately confronted by a young guard:
"You are too late. The weaponry has been moved. Soon you will hear of our demands."
Ben stared at the young, dark-haired handome guard and felt an instant attraction. He approached him:
"I'm hoping that you are not a shape-shifting alien as I find you really attractive and would like to go to bed with you later." The young guard stared into Ben's eyes and tears welled up in his eyes as he slowly faded and changed into a Zenethian:
"I am sorry Ben Chatham. I am not human. I would like to spend the night with you however I fear that you will no longer like my appearance."
Before Ben could reply, a group of armed police officers ran through the castle doorway. One of them shot the alien dead.
Ben was annoyed:
"Why the hell did you do that? I was negotiating with him. You are trigger-happy idiots."
However slowly the policemen began to fade and change into........
..................ZYGONS!"
to be continued.
Sunday, 10 November 2013
Time Out of Mind: Part 6
Part 7 : Power of the Doctors
"And who exactly is Adric? Hmm? Who?" the first Doctor exclaimed.
"'e was my companion in my fifth incarnation. 'Ang about, 'e died" the ninth Doctor replied. The fourth Doctor stepped forward and grinned:
"Oh I remember Adric and he looks very much alive to me." Adric scowled:
"I think Doctors that you should now address me as 'Sir'. I am not your companion, rather I am the personal assistant of the Exalted Creath, the Guardian of the Universe Lord Chang!"
The tenth Doctor was puzzled:
"Now look Adric, or Sir if you prefer, whats going on? Obviously I'm overjoyed that you're alive but how? And why are you assisting this lunatic?" Chang laughed sardonically and waved his hand:
"Oh keep going with the insults Doctor, if you must. The last gasp before the darkness. As the old Chinese proverb says, the bird that faces the cat's jaws chirps the loudest." Adric turned towards the tenth Doctor:
"I did not die in the explosion that saved earth from the Cybermen. The ships' defence mechanism automatically beamed me off the ship and onto this planet. The Cybermen were trading weaponry with Zeneth at the time. I landed in the Valley of Sapphires overlooked by the dark mountains of Zemorah. Not knowing where to go I ventured into the mountain region and emerged reborn."
"And how exactly are you 'reborn'?" the third Doctor asked.
"I'm now free of childish emotion, sentiment and foolishness. The will to power is all that matters. I serve the Exalted Creath!"
"Sounds like a rather dull journey" the fourth Doctor quipped. Chang reached forward his hand and a beam of light shot out of it and froze the fourth Doctor to the spot. As the ninth Doctor rushed forward, the same thing happened to him."
"Now look. Release my other selves" the second Doctor shouted. Chang laughed:
"As you can see Doctors, I have powers beyond your imagining. You asked about the TARDIS paradox. My psychokinetic cosmic energy will supersede any paradox machine over a million times. I have the power in my mind to control all of time and space once I have control of all of your TARDISES. Watch........"
Chang directed them to a series of plasma screens in the wall which came on. They saw on the screens the 6th Doctor and Peri, the seventh Doctor and Ace and the 8th Doctor. All started to fade from the screen and vanish."
"Right now those three are arriving in another part of the forbidden tower, just as you did. I now have almost a complete set. Your fifth incarnation managed to temporarily elude me and he is with your 11th. They will soon be here also........"
Back on earth, the child Jennet Device lunged at Tegan who dodged out of the way, tripping over. The child moved towards her and aimed the knife at her left eye. However Kyle rushed forward and grabbed the child, pulling the knife from out of its hand. The child kicked and screamed, sinking its teeth into Kyle's arm:
"Ere calm down will ya, ya little madam". Suddenly Jennet began to glow and change. Kyle let go as the child transformed into a Zenethian humanoid with green skin and cat shaped eyes.
"Ere so you were a shape-shifting alien all along" Kyle shouted. The alien shouted in the child's voice:
"I am Jennet Device. My mummy is a witch". Suddenly it turned and ran.
They returned to 'The Black Witch' pub and tie the coalman up in the cellar along with Bill Smith. They they all sat down in the bar for a bite of supper and a conference. Mary Smith served them hotpots and beer:
"On a serious note, I do feel that you need to expand the range of your cuisine and beverages" Ben pointed out to her. Mary smiled:
"Well with Bill otherwise engaged I might just consider it lover-boy, if you make it worth my while." Ben winced. The 11th Doctor gave them an enigmatic look:
"Well it seems like these so-called ghosts are alien shape-shifters after all. Cool or what". The fifth Doctor frowned:
"Its hardly a laughing matter."
"Ere but why are they shape-shifting into long dead witchcraft suspects?" Kyle asked. The fifth Doctor looked up:
"I think that something has gone wrong. They no doubt started out with some kind of plan to pretend to be locals .Possibly they wanted to create a story around ghosts and the Lancashire witchcraft trials as a diversion while they made off with the nuclear technology. However something went wrong and some of them have started to believe that they actually are the people that they are impersonating. The mental tension of this has driven them insane."
"So are you saying that there are psychologically insane aliens out there committing violent killings because of some error in their shape-shifting technology?" Katie Ryan asked.
"Er ain't that obvious what 'es sayin?" Kyle replied.
"Shut it, council" Katie snapped back.
"Well I suggest that we interrogate that coalman" Ben stated. He, Katie, Kyle and the fifth Doctor went down to the cellar and Kyle untied the gag from round Powell's mouth:
"Right, tell us what you know about these nuclear bombs bein' nicked". Powell scowled:
"I'm tellin' you nowt". Katie Ryan kicked him in the shin:
"We haven't got time to mess with you. Kyle here grew up in the East End and knows a thing or two about violence. Ever heard of Frankie Fraser and his pliers? Now talk you fat bastard." The fifth Doctor took Ben to oneside:
"Is this the kind of interrogation method that Operation Delta regularly uses? I'm shocked and disgusted." Ben's golden hair fell down into his eyes:
"I'm sorry Doctor. Its Katie, she doesn't always follow the correct bounderies." Ben pulled Katie to oneside:
"Katie, you cannot interrogate him in that agressive manner."
"Oh take off your halo Ben. We need him to talk."
"Then use professional questioning."
Katie returned to to Powell and before Ben could stop her, she pulled a corkscrew out of her handbag, that she had borrowed from the bar, and held it close to Powell's face:
"Who are you working for Powell? I suggest you tell me".
"Ok ok... bloody hell she's a nutter this one. Look all I do is hide the stuff ok. My business is in trouble. They're all goin' over to gas fires round 'ere. I owe people. No one wants coal like they used to. They bailed out the business and saved me house from bein' repossessed."
"Who did?" the fifth Doctor asked.
"Them, I don't know who they are. Organised crime or summat. But I'll tell you they ain't normal. Them ghosts, they seem to control 'em...."
Meanwhile, back on Zeneth, the Doctors are led through the dark stone-walled passageways of the tower towards separate cells. The Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors have greeted the others and shared a few anecdotes. Peri is frightened:
"Where... where are we Doctor."
"In a castle of some kind obviously. Now stop whingeing Peri" the sixth Doctor stated.
"Don't talk to her like that" Ace exclaimed.
"Ace... this is no time to bicker with my former self" the seventh Doctor advised. As the seventh Doctor and Ace are shown to their cell, an alien guard runs in and shuts the door behind him:
"I am Zonar. Some of us do not agree with the Exalted Creath's plans. Please... if he knew I was one of them I would be killed within' hours. Look, the Exalted Creath is not acting alone."
"How do you mean? Who is he?"
"The one known as Chang who became our Exalted Creath came to Zeneth five generations ago at the time of the last great famine. He landed here in a spacecraft with others, all from the planet known as earth. They landed in the Valley of Sapphires and determined to set up home there. Chang and his fellow travellers were part of an international pacifist organisation on 23rd century earth who became alienated from the direction that earth politics was heading in. They determined to travel and find a new world. They encountered many problems on their journey, including a time interface storm which threw them back in time several centuries, but finally they landed here. They were happy for a time but Chang was restless and wanted to explore the Dark Mountains of Zemorah. The others warned him not to, as there was something foreboding about those mountains, however he insisted. For months he was gone and the other earthmen assumed him to be dead. And then he came back..... but he was not the same. Something had happened to him on his journey through the mountains, something strange..... sinister. He was accompanied by a group of our own people whom he had bent to his will and he had strange powers to kill just by pointing his hand and to control people with his mind. He first enlaved the other earthmen and then killed them. But he used his powers to end the famine and make the ground grow food again. In time , I am ashamed to say, my fellow Zenethians grew to worship him. He built the forbidden tower and became the Exalted Creath, Lord of Zeneth. Now he wants not just earth but the entire universe. But there is something else......"
"What? What is it?" the seveth Doctor asked:
"We in the resistance have discovered that he is not acting alone? He and his apprentice, the one called Adric, are working with someone else. Someone whose power is greater than even theirs. That is why they can use your machines together without creating this thing you call a paradox......
...............TO BE CONTINUED.
"And who exactly is Adric? Hmm? Who?" the first Doctor exclaimed.
"'e was my companion in my fifth incarnation. 'Ang about, 'e died" the ninth Doctor replied. The fourth Doctor stepped forward and grinned:
"Oh I remember Adric and he looks very much alive to me." Adric scowled:
"I think Doctors that you should now address me as 'Sir'. I am not your companion, rather I am the personal assistant of the Exalted Creath, the Guardian of the Universe Lord Chang!"
The tenth Doctor was puzzled:
"Now look Adric, or Sir if you prefer, whats going on? Obviously I'm overjoyed that you're alive but how? And why are you assisting this lunatic?" Chang laughed sardonically and waved his hand:
"Oh keep going with the insults Doctor, if you must. The last gasp before the darkness. As the old Chinese proverb says, the bird that faces the cat's jaws chirps the loudest." Adric turned towards the tenth Doctor:
"I did not die in the explosion that saved earth from the Cybermen. The ships' defence mechanism automatically beamed me off the ship and onto this planet. The Cybermen were trading weaponry with Zeneth at the time. I landed in the Valley of Sapphires overlooked by the dark mountains of Zemorah. Not knowing where to go I ventured into the mountain region and emerged reborn."
"And how exactly are you 'reborn'?" the third Doctor asked.
"I'm now free of childish emotion, sentiment and foolishness. The will to power is all that matters. I serve the Exalted Creath!"
"Sounds like a rather dull journey" the fourth Doctor quipped. Chang reached forward his hand and a beam of light shot out of it and froze the fourth Doctor to the spot. As the ninth Doctor rushed forward, the same thing happened to him."
"Now look. Release my other selves" the second Doctor shouted. Chang laughed:
"As you can see Doctors, I have powers beyond your imagining. You asked about the TARDIS paradox. My psychokinetic cosmic energy will supersede any paradox machine over a million times. I have the power in my mind to control all of time and space once I have control of all of your TARDISES. Watch........"
Chang directed them to a series of plasma screens in the wall which came on. They saw on the screens the 6th Doctor and Peri, the seventh Doctor and Ace and the 8th Doctor. All started to fade from the screen and vanish."
"Right now those three are arriving in another part of the forbidden tower, just as you did. I now have almost a complete set. Your fifth incarnation managed to temporarily elude me and he is with your 11th. They will soon be here also........"
Back on earth, the child Jennet Device lunged at Tegan who dodged out of the way, tripping over. The child moved towards her and aimed the knife at her left eye. However Kyle rushed forward and grabbed the child, pulling the knife from out of its hand. The child kicked and screamed, sinking its teeth into Kyle's arm:
"Ere calm down will ya, ya little madam". Suddenly Jennet began to glow and change. Kyle let go as the child transformed into a Zenethian humanoid with green skin and cat shaped eyes.
"Ere so you were a shape-shifting alien all along" Kyle shouted. The alien shouted in the child's voice:
"I am Jennet Device. My mummy is a witch". Suddenly it turned and ran.
They returned to 'The Black Witch' pub and tie the coalman up in the cellar along with Bill Smith. They they all sat down in the bar for a bite of supper and a conference. Mary Smith served them hotpots and beer:
"On a serious note, I do feel that you need to expand the range of your cuisine and beverages" Ben pointed out to her. Mary smiled:
"Well with Bill otherwise engaged I might just consider it lover-boy, if you make it worth my while." Ben winced. The 11th Doctor gave them an enigmatic look:
"Well it seems like these so-called ghosts are alien shape-shifters after all. Cool or what". The fifth Doctor frowned:
"Its hardly a laughing matter."
"Ere but why are they shape-shifting into long dead witchcraft suspects?" Kyle asked. The fifth Doctor looked up:
"I think that something has gone wrong. They no doubt started out with some kind of plan to pretend to be locals .Possibly they wanted to create a story around ghosts and the Lancashire witchcraft trials as a diversion while they made off with the nuclear technology. However something went wrong and some of them have started to believe that they actually are the people that they are impersonating. The mental tension of this has driven them insane."
"So are you saying that there are psychologically insane aliens out there committing violent killings because of some error in their shape-shifting technology?" Katie Ryan asked.
"Er ain't that obvious what 'es sayin?" Kyle replied.
"Shut it, council" Katie snapped back.
"Well I suggest that we interrogate that coalman" Ben stated. He, Katie, Kyle and the fifth Doctor went down to the cellar and Kyle untied the gag from round Powell's mouth:
"Right, tell us what you know about these nuclear bombs bein' nicked". Powell scowled:
"I'm tellin' you nowt". Katie Ryan kicked him in the shin:
"We haven't got time to mess with you. Kyle here grew up in the East End and knows a thing or two about violence. Ever heard of Frankie Fraser and his pliers? Now talk you fat bastard." The fifth Doctor took Ben to oneside:
"Is this the kind of interrogation method that Operation Delta regularly uses? I'm shocked and disgusted." Ben's golden hair fell down into his eyes:
"I'm sorry Doctor. Its Katie, she doesn't always follow the correct bounderies." Ben pulled Katie to oneside:
"Katie, you cannot interrogate him in that agressive manner."
"Oh take off your halo Ben. We need him to talk."
"Then use professional questioning."
Katie returned to to Powell and before Ben could stop her, she pulled a corkscrew out of her handbag, that she had borrowed from the bar, and held it close to Powell's face:
"Who are you working for Powell? I suggest you tell me".
"Ok ok... bloody hell she's a nutter this one. Look all I do is hide the stuff ok. My business is in trouble. They're all goin' over to gas fires round 'ere. I owe people. No one wants coal like they used to. They bailed out the business and saved me house from bein' repossessed."
"Who did?" the fifth Doctor asked.
"Them, I don't know who they are. Organised crime or summat. But I'll tell you they ain't normal. Them ghosts, they seem to control 'em...."
Meanwhile, back on Zeneth, the Doctors are led through the dark stone-walled passageways of the tower towards separate cells. The Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors have greeted the others and shared a few anecdotes. Peri is frightened:
"Where... where are we Doctor."
"In a castle of some kind obviously. Now stop whingeing Peri" the sixth Doctor stated.
"Don't talk to her like that" Ace exclaimed.
"Ace... this is no time to bicker with my former self" the seventh Doctor advised. As the seventh Doctor and Ace are shown to their cell, an alien guard runs in and shuts the door behind him:
"I am Zonar. Some of us do not agree with the Exalted Creath's plans. Please... if he knew I was one of them I would be killed within' hours. Look, the Exalted Creath is not acting alone."
"How do you mean? Who is he?"
"The one known as Chang who became our Exalted Creath came to Zeneth five generations ago at the time of the last great famine. He landed here in a spacecraft with others, all from the planet known as earth. They landed in the Valley of Sapphires and determined to set up home there. Chang and his fellow travellers were part of an international pacifist organisation on 23rd century earth who became alienated from the direction that earth politics was heading in. They determined to travel and find a new world. They encountered many problems on their journey, including a time interface storm which threw them back in time several centuries, but finally they landed here. They were happy for a time but Chang was restless and wanted to explore the Dark Mountains of Zemorah. The others warned him not to, as there was something foreboding about those mountains, however he insisted. For months he was gone and the other earthmen assumed him to be dead. And then he came back..... but he was not the same. Something had happened to him on his journey through the mountains, something strange..... sinister. He was accompanied by a group of our own people whom he had bent to his will and he had strange powers to kill just by pointing his hand and to control people with his mind. He first enlaved the other earthmen and then killed them. But he used his powers to end the famine and make the ground grow food again. In time , I am ashamed to say, my fellow Zenethians grew to worship him. He built the forbidden tower and became the Exalted Creath, Lord of Zeneth. Now he wants not just earth but the entire universe. But there is something else......"
"What? What is it?" the seveth Doctor asked:
"We in the resistance have discovered that he is not acting alone? He and his apprentice, the one called Adric, are working with someone else. Someone whose power is greater than even theirs. That is why they can use your machines together without creating this thing you call a paradox......
...............TO BE CONTINUED.
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