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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 3:47:44 GMT -5
Hello all, just started compiling my Paul McGann synopses for the missing years between 1997 and 2004, here's a taste rof the first season, all comments welcome.
1997 (Season 1/ Season 33)
Plague From Space
The Doctor arrives on Earth in the year 1994, where the whole of southern England has been evacuated to the north. He discovers an alien spaceship has landed and the mysteriously cloaked aliens have taken refuge in the sewers, contaminating the water supply. He travels down to the dingy underground maze where he discovers the aliens, known as Dretonites are using a strange slime substance to enter houses via the water pipes and make copies of human bodies upon contact, which are then transmitted to the crashed alien ship and used to house the dying alien bodies. The Doctor is captured and discovers the Dretonites' home planet has been destroyed in a war and they are looking for a new home, but the radiation their homeworld gave off when it was destroyed has contaminated them and now they need new bodies in order to sustain themselves. The Doctor offers to take them to an uninhabited world where they can start again but their leader Gorgot refuses, claiming the Earth is theirs now. An army of human-bodied Dretonites storms out of the ship and onto the streets, heading for the north, in order to destroy as many people as possible and maximise their forces. The Doctor manages to escape from his cell by overriding the mind lock on the door, and runs to the laboratories, as the attack begins across the UK. He finds a recall signal transmitter and prepares to activate it before being caught. He is sentenced to death but is saved when the British forces begin to fight back, distracting the Dretonites. As UNIT storm the advancing troops, and the ever-growing slime creature which is now contaminating the Thames, the Doctor manages to set the ship to self destruct, but not before he has recalled the Dretonites. He manages to get away as the ship explodes and the Dretonites are wiped out. The slime creature de-evolves and decays so that the Thames returns to normal and the Time Lord slips away in the TARDIS, before any questions are asked...
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 3:57:25 GMT -5
The Dwellers of the Darkness
Part 1) On Meropa Major the Darkness rules all. All those found wondering the streets in the Dark Time are hunted down by robotic killers who rule the sky on their flying transporters, patrolling the streets. The Town Hall seems to be the centre of operations, with the robotic police returning there every night to refuel. The Doctor arrives in the TARDIS during the Light Time, when the people of the planet are going about there everyday business, but all is not as well as it seems. Nobody is paying attention to him, he doesn’t appear to exist. The traveller looks around but he still derives no response from the surrounding people, apart from a woman called Samantha, who tells him that strange things are going on on Meropa Major. Before she can explain more, an alarm sounds and in a rush the people of Meropa Major are gone, huddled up at home. The Doctor and Samantha look around as the Light fades, as if someone is switching off a giant light bulb. From the near Town Hall another warning sounds and from within a fleet of robots emerge onto the streets, armed and dangerous. The TARDIS dweller and his new friend flee, attempting to get back to the Time Lord’s ship but are split up. The Doctor manages to find his way back and get inside. Samantha however is less lucky and is chased into an alleyway, before the robots open fire…
Part 2) In the ship the Doctor looks up Meropa Major in the TARDIS data bank, and discovers the planet was built as a test centre for androids, to see if they could cope alone without human intervention. The experiments were abandoned after a scientist was killed and the primitive androids were left to burn out, their personality chips removed and the research centre left to rot. Samantha awakens in a lab surrounded by androids, who appear to be tracing a satellite in space. She is tied to a table, a tube in her arm, which is pumping in a strange green liquid. She overhears one of the druids talking to another, the shuttle is ready and the journey will begin soon. The databank alerts the Doctor to a related article, which explains a colony moved to the planet years after the android experiments were abandoned, but were never heard from again. A satellite was sent up to try and scan the planet but was presumed lost. The Time Lord then decides he must find out what is going on, and try and find Samantha. He sets the co-ordinates for the town hall and when he arrives, discovers the androids have gone…
Part 3) Samantha once again awakens, locked in a transparent cubicle, wires plugged into her arms, legs, chest and head, her eyes clouded with numbers and calculations. Deep in her mind she can see a small file, reading: Conversion 32% Complete. The Doctor finds a scientist crawling around the corridors of the lab and gets him to explain what has happened. The young man, named Teron, tells the Time Lord that the androids had gained too much willpower and run riot, leading the researchers to leave and abandon the project. He however was accidentally left behind and was the sole person to witness the rise of the machines and the warping of their minds, until they were bent on wreaking revenge on the men that abandoned them, they decided to use a prototype shuttle to fly to Meropa Minor and fulfil their aims, using the satellite to work out the planet’s coordinates, their own navigation search systems having failed. The androids observe Samantha’s conversion and as the shuttle begins to enter the orbit of Meropa Minor, they awaken their armies in the bowels of the ship. They prepare to land but a whirring noise begins to fill the control room as a large blue box materialises on the bridge. The door opens and the chief android yells his minions to open fire…
Part 4) The Doctor emerges from within, a large shield before him riddled with bullet holes, and the scientist’s white lab coat suspended from the hat stand in his hand. The android leader calls for the others to lower their guns, as the Doctor puts away his tools. He confronts the leader, wishing to know where Samantha is, and discovers her suspended in the cubicle, the conversion now 67% complete. Teron also emerges from the TARDIS and is identified by the androids as one of the scientists who left them to rot, and prepare to kill him, but as Teron explains he never left, the Doctor runs over and demands that Samantha and Teron be released. The leader demands to know how this will reward them as well as the Doctor, and the Time Lord agrees to double the power of the ship’s guns, in order to help destroy the planet. Samantha is released and collapses from exhaustion. Teron is also let go and he cowers in the corner. The Doctor takes Samantha into the TARDIS and begins his work, but instead of doing as he promised, sets off the self-destruct mechanism and flees back into the ship, calling for Teron to do the same, before materialising and leaving the androids to their fate. However, as the ship explodes he realises Teron was still onboard, and wonders why he never followed his orders. Samantha begins to come round and asks what has happened. The Doctor sighs and explains that he’ll tell her one day, no today, but one day…
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 3:58:25 GMT -5
The Lunar War
Part 1) Back on Earth, the Moon Lander 4 has been lost without trace, shortly after touchdown. UNIT are taking over matters at the space station but still there is no reply. The Doctor and Samantha arrive and are briefed as to what is going on. The Doctor decides to take the TARDIS to the moon to find out, and is followed by his determined companion. Arriving on the surface they use the scanner to detect a large complex somewhere over the horizon. The Doctor takes the ship inside and when they finally step outside, they are met by a parade of guns. Anderson and Grekton, the two pilots of the Moon Lander ship are being held captive. They worry for their freedom but soon have little time to talk when one of the creatures who abducted them takes them off to the "Conversion Lab" The Doctor and Samantha are in a cell. The Doctor claims to have met the creatures before but is too busy trying to break out to explain further. Samantha manages to uncover a grate in the floor. They open it up and step down inside. Struggling to break free Anderson and Grekton are pushed into conversion cubicles and flooded with light. As they undergo their transformation the Cyberleader prepares the attack on Earth...
Part 2) The Doctor and Samantha emerge in the Conversion Lab and sneak their way out into the corridor. The Doctor explains that the creatures are Cybermen, ex-humanoids who grafted robotic organs to their flesh and bone. The Cyberleader oversees the Cyber-forces marching off to their ships. He watches as they shoot off into the deeps of space, towards the Earth. He turns to leave when he is confronted by the Doctor, who has picked up a discarded gun. He has seen everything and forces the Cyberleader to explain. The plan is to bombard the Earth with explosives, leaving it free for invasion and colonisation from a dying Cybermen race. The ships will arrive in a matter of hours and soon the planet they have yearned to destroy for so long will be theirs. The Doctor turns to leave but finds that Samantha has been captured, having been asked to act on sentry duty. He is forced to hand over his gun and they are taken to the control room where they observe the first ships thundering towards the Earth atmosphere...
Part 3) On Earth UNIT are aware of the oncoming attack and the Brigadier is rallying all military forces of he world to unit to help defend themselves. As the first ship enters the atmosphere the Earth opens fire, but to no avail. The ship drops no bombs but instead lands outside the space centre, and the hundreds of Cyber-troops exit and open fire. The Doctor and Samantha are helpless and can only watch from ship-mounted cameras as the UNIT soldiers are mown down wave by wave. The Doctor pleads they reconsider colonising the Earth but the Cyber Leader ignores him. The Brigadier panics, he has no idea what to do and the psyonic beam the Doctor gave him is receiving no reply. He tries desperately to contact the military groups of England to come and help but a saviour will be a long time coming. More ships are opening up across the world and ground troops are annihilating Earth patrols. The Doctor looks on as the images are received by the main base on the moon and in a fit of rage manages to break free. He snatches a gun and shoots Samantha free; they escape down a corridor and back towards the TARDIS. They get inside, take off and head towards Earth, but the Cybermen are close at hand. Firing on them from all angles the ship begins to break apart. The console room explodes in a flash of white light and the Doctor and Samantha are knocked to the ground.
Part 4) The TARDIS is still in one piece but the defences are hanging on by a thread. During a short halt in firing from the Cybermen the Doctor dematerialises and sets the ship down on Earth. There he and Samantha rejoin UNIT and the Doctor sets about a solution to the Cyber menace. The World is at breaking point but the Doctor has an idea. A sonic wave escalator would shatter the Cybermen's control units and they would fall down dead. He sets about reconfiguring the TARDIS and activates the device. The planet shakes as Cybermen stumble and fall, they explode and vaporise, as the Earth soldiers stand stunned. On the moon the waves have no effect but the Cyberleader has seen enough. He orders the remaining troops to leave; the Earth defences are too well aligned. The planet safe, the clean up work begins and the Brigadier thanks the Doctor. Along with Samantha the Time Lord leaves, weary and in need on rest.
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 4:03:44 GMT -5
The Porothonian Problem
Part 1) The Doctor and Samantha are off to watch a cosmic storm in the Helidon sector of the galaxy from the safety of a nearby meteorite. However upon arrival the storm spins out of control and the TARDIS, along with its occupants are sent spinning through the giant whirlpool. They arrive on a planet whose surface is covered in purple molten lava, with the crust a mass of floating rock slabs. The Doctor and Samantha step out of the ship and make their way around outside. In the distance they see a uniformed figure huddled over a body. They yell to him but he flees. The Doctor chases after him and Samantha examines the body, a dead alien resembling a form of lizard. The Doctor runs to catch the figure up but watches as he runs into a beam of light, and then evaporates. He looks into the light and realises it must be some sort of transmat, to deep within the planet. He turns to find Samantha but she is nowhere to be seen. The body is gone and as he attempts to go back and find her, the purple lava erupts around him...
Part 2) The Doctor stumbles back into the shaft of light and finds himself emerging in a dingy citadel corridor, carved into the deeper realms of the planet. He looks around, slightly unnerved by what has happened and soon finds himself in a room resembling a hospital ward. Samantha awakens in a similar chamber; another uniformed figure stands next to the bed on which she lays, staring at her. He introduces himself as Korith, leader of the Porothon race. He rescued her from the lava explosion and brought her to his laboratory. She tries to explain about the dead body but he insists it has all been taken care of, the victim was a scientist, who had ventured out into the open to take tests on the lava, but whose life support machine used by the Porothonians when they venture outside had run out. The Doctor looks at the patients asleep in bed; they all carry marks of disfigurement and are barely still living. He turns to leave but a figure blocks his path. It is the creature they saw on the surface, who he was chasing. He explains his name is Rathok, and had been sent to recover the body of the scientist but saw the Doctor and Samantha and ran; worried they would have thought he had killed him. The Doctor inquires as to the presence of the creatures in the beds and Rathok tells him to follow him to their Leaders quarters. As they leave, one of the figures rises from its bed, and looks around...
Part 3) The Doctor and Samantha are told by Korith that the ill Porothonians are the victims of some sort of disease, which they believed had been caused by contact with the lava. The tests the dead scientist carried out would have proven if this was so but as they were never completed it is uncertain. The Doctor is uncertain; the lava would certainly cause some burning upon contact and maybe some mutation but not to the extent of those he has seen. Korith asks him to find the cause of the problem and the Time Lord agrees, before setting to work in a laboratory. In a shadowy chamber two figures talk of the progress they have made. Another group of Porothonians have now been infected with the virus and shall soon fall ill. The second figure prepares to implant the mind control chips of those who will soon be admitted to hospital, as the first watches a nearby scanner screen, which shows the Doctor busily working away. The Doctor has made little progress, and has requested one of the ill bodies be sent up for closer examination. Samantha has been analysing some samples of the lava with a large computer and confirms the Doctor's suspicions that the liquid would not cause major disfiguration unless the victim were submerged in it completely. The body from the ward is sent up and the Doctor prepares to operate. Samantha prepares the anaesthetic but when their backs are turned the Porothonian climbs off the trolley, grabs the scalpel and makes it's way towards the Doctor...
Part 4) Samantha manages to save the Doctor by knocking out the creature with the anaesthetic canister. The Doctor thanks her and sets to work, cutting open the unconscious creature's chest. Korith observes as another group of his people are wheeled into the hospital ward, all with the same type of injuries. He worries for them and the rest of his race, but is distracted by a hooded figure hiding in the corner. He tries to ration with it but it runs out, upturning a trolley. He runs after it and follows it to a hidden doorway in a rock face. He carefully walks through the open portal, which closes behind him. He follows a path down some darkened stars and into what appears to be a base of some sort. The Doctor has finished his examination and explains the injuries are the result of some kind of virus, which would be disguised as a gas. Samantha guesses it was fed through the air vents and together the two travellers set out to find Korith. Korith creeps into the room, which appears to be empty. He looks at a set of plans, the air vent system of the citadel. He gasps and attempts to run back to the stairs. The hooded figure steps from the shadows and blocks his way. The other steps up to him from behind and clubs him to death. The Doctor and Samantha make their way to Korith's office, but it is empty. They walk out again and back to the operating room, only to find the body has gone. Back in the corridor they find Korith's dead body. They look on as a hooded figure walks up to them. It mocks the Doctor and pulls a gun on him. The Doctor struggles to disarm him and is knocked to the floor. The figures hood is pulled down to reveal him nemesis. The Master has returned...
Part 5) The Doctor ducks as his old enemy fires, he knocks the gun from his hand and dives to retrieve it but the Master then takes out his TCE and the Doctor is forced to surrender. He asks how his enemy was able to escape the Eye of Harmony and he replies, telling him that inside the Eye were the Doctor’s memories. Harnessing the power of them, he used the brain waves of his past human companions to open it and escape, using a portable teleport to escape. The Master takes the Doctor and Samantha to the ward, where he explains he plans to implant the virus in all of the Porothonians and then, when they are defenceless take over their minds and use them to invade Gallifrey once more. The Porothonians were once great fighters, and his mind control implants will resurrect their lost ability to fight. The Doctor enquires as to exactly how he controls them and the Master demonstrates, he takes out a small box from his cloak and talks into it. He orders the bed-ridden creatures to stand and they do. The second figure, who is revealed to be a Porothonian scientist, arrives and explains the other batch of those infected with the virus and ready for mind conversion. The Master leaves to do his dirty work, leaving the scientist to watch the Doctor and Samantha. The Doctor talks to the scientist, and as he does so secretly abducts the small box which the Master has inadvertently left behind. He than asks that he be taken back to the operating theatre to turn off a machine he left running, which he fears could overload and cause some considerable amount of damage. The scientist agrees and the three of them return, whereupon Samantha knocks him out the Doctor sets to work reconfiguring the control device. The Master has finished his work and realises he has left the control device behind. He returns and realises the Doctor has stolen it. The creatures get up form their beds and walk off; he follows them to the operating room where the Doctor is waiting. The creatures continue to advance however and the Doctor realises he has made a mistake. The box makes no impact on the Porothonian slaves and they advance to kill him...
Part 6) The Master snatches back the box and hurriedly disables it. The creatures freeze on the spot. He warns the Doctor not to meddle and once again holds his rival and Samantha at gunpoint. His scientist servant awakens and guards the prisoners as the Master sets about repairing the box. Suddenly, the creatures all awaken and once again are under the Master's control. The Doctor and Samantha manage to break free again and run off, making their way to the surface. The creatures follow but when the Master realizes where the two have gone, he vows to deal with them himself. On the surface, a chase ensures as the Doctor and Samantha run to escape the Master. Samantha manages to get back to the TARDIS and the two Time Lords are left to fight alone. Suspended over a pool of lava they struggle to grab the device from each other. The Master retrieves it and gets to his feet. He calls for his creatures and they enter up onto the surface. The Doctor punches the Master and the device falls into the lava. The creatures are free from mind control and run towards the two figures. The Doctor enters into the TARDIS, leaving the Master outside. He takes off with Samantha and as the now freed Porothonians circle around their former controller, the Doctor and Samantha watch the planet fade off into the distance via the scanner, as they fly off to places unknown...
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 4:07:12 GMT -5
last one for this season
Future Investments
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Earth in the year 1982. The Doctor and Samantha decide to relax for a while but when they witness a meeting between two shady characters in the street they decide to find out what is going on. They follow them to a graveyard, and down into a crypt. Below is a portal to what the Doctor presumes is another planet. They follow the men through and find themselves in a grand chamber frequented by the King of England, Henry VIII. The two men and consulting with his wife, Catherine Parr and they suddenly leave. Sneaking around the room the Doctor and Samantha follow them into another chamber, in which stands a rather odd-looking space pod. Once the three friends have left the two travellers look inside, and discover it is another time machine, possibly a stolen TARDIS. The Doctor accesses the data files and discovers it belongs to Speilana, an intergalactic criminal who stole it from a Time Lord whilst on the planet Palligon. Speilana is now masquerading as the Queen and by the looks of it is trying to change history. They discover she has been manipulating the elderly king into signing certain documents over to her possession. The two men are infact her servants who have been checking if her investments are still valid in 1985. Confronting her when she is alone, the Doctor discovers she intends to persuade the king to wage war on Spain, and sign the ownership of the country over to her. Wondering why she wishes to control Spain the Doctor and Samantha travel back to 1982, where they discover Speilana has indeed taken control of the country and has turned it into a slave labour camp. She is searching for a Talisman, which her people lost on Earth millions of years ago, which when owned can give the holder power over the entire race from which Speilana originated. Sure enough the golden talisman is found, but the Doctor and Samantha steal it, and escape back to the ship. Speilana follows and chases them back to the Middle Ages, where the Doctor forces her to meet herself. The Blinovich Limitation Effect begins to take its hold and Samantha throws the talisman into the blinding light engulfing both Speilanas, which eradicates them from time itself. The Doctor sets off Speilana's TARDIS recall system; sending it back to Gallifrey and together with Samantha, travel back to Spain to check everything is all right.
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 4:07:40 GMT -5
So, any comments so far?
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Post by The Thinker on May 31, 2006 6:19:59 GMT -5
Ever considered going into publishing? Say "Paul McGann as Doctor Who: The Missing Years by Dominic Smith" for example?
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Post by Eryx on May 31, 2006 7:47:01 GMT -5
Tis good. Nicely done.
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 12:16:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the comments guys, heres the first of the next season.
1998 (Season 2/ Season 34)
The Summons of Evil
Part 1) In a graveyard, somewhere on Earth a hooded man stands waiting. He walks to a grave which has no name and places a peculiar metal box upon it. He turns to find another has arrived, also hooded. He welcomes him but doesn't speak his name and together they walk off into the mist. It is time... The Doctor seems to be having troubles with the TARDIS, the scanner is jammed, the time rotor refuses to acknowledge command and the vector plotter has broken entirely. Whilst he tends to the repairs Samantha examines a painting that hands on one of the console room walls, an oil piece depicting the soul of a man being pulled from his grave. The Doctor remembers little of it but seems to have an inkling it was put there for a reason. The two men have drawn a chalk circle around the unmarked grave and now stand, waiting again. As the clouds part in the sky above the full moon shines, the circle begins to glow and the ground starts to tremble. The TARDIS suddenly receives a bolt of energy and the Doctor frantically jabs at the controls, but the ship has other ideas. It lands itself in the graveyard, and as it makes a juddering landing, the scanner opens to reveal the commotion outside. The Doctor cries out in protest and runs outside, with Samantha following him. As they run to the grave the two men hold them back and before them, a disfigured hand punches through the soil and clenches at the air outside...
Part 2) The Doctor continues to protest as Samantha screams. The hooded men remain holding them back as the hand extends into an arm. The Doctor manages to break free of his captor's grasp and runs to a fallen branch beyond the grave. He jabs it into the chalk circle, which has now formed a cocoon around the grave and it is instantly broken. The hand recedes back to the soil, the circle fades to nothing and the two men yell in anger. Before fleeing into the fog. The Doctor explains to Samantha that some time ago, in his second incarnation he landed on a future Earth where a space tyrant known as Zorlin had conquered the planet and turned the human race into slaves. With the help of his companion Zoe he banished him through time back to the dinosaur era and down into the underworld. However, it was then that Zoe witnessed a premonition that one-day; two alien figures would return to Earth and try to awaken him. Samantha notices a small metal box placed upon the grave and the Doctor identifies it as a signal device, used to stir the dormant Zorlin from his sleep. He decides to leave the box and then ambush the two hooded men when they return to retrieve the box. He and Samantha take cover in a crypt and as the church bells strikes midnight the figures emerge. The Doctor races out, tackles one to the ground and pulls back his hood. It's the Master...
Part 3) The other is a young space cadet known as Malix, whom he hypnotised to use as a servant on a trip to the planet Neros. The Doctor asks what exactly the Master plans to do with Zorlin once he has awoken and the Master begins to explain. Zorlin carried a powerful staff, a wand-like walking stick containing a vial of chronian energy, essence of the time vortex itself. This vial, when placed in his TARDIS (which he has been searching for with his portable teleport) would give it power beyond the dreams of even Rassilon himself. The Doctor urges caution, Zorlin never knew the true power of the staff whilst he was alive and if he were to gain such knowledge, to be able to travel the lengths of time, the consequences would be catastrophic for all of them. The Master does not listen and orders Malix to restrain him. He does so and the Time Lord sets about resetting the signal device and redrawing the circle of chalk, which will focus Zorlin's energy into a certain spot on which to materialise. Samantha has been hiding in the crypt and has heard all. Unsure of what to do she sneaks out to get a better look and hides behind one of the trees. She watches as the Master activates the signal device, and the Doctor again cries out in protest. Malix hits him in the stomach and he falls to the ground. Samantha rushes out, thumps Malix in the chest and tries to throw a rock at the chalk circle. However, the Master grabs her arm, pulls her back and tells her it is too late. Zorlin is returning and as she and the recovering Doctor look on, the figure of Zorlin fades into view...
Part 4) Zorlin's form stabilises and he slowly brings his mind to focus. His ram's skull-like head, supported by his withered body dressed in a black cloak, carrying a mighty staff staggers forward, out of the circle which holds it's cocoon like shape over the grave. The Master welcomes him but with a flick of the staff he is thrown back to a nearby tree, crumpling to the ground. He declares his return and the thunder trembles through the skies. He turns to the Doctor and recognises him immediately. He casts a bolt of light at him too but the Doctor reaches inside hi own coat and produces an amulet, which reflects the blasts. A fight ensures and the two of them chase each other across the graveyard, through the fog. The Doctor urges Zorlin to return to the underworld, the earth is not his toy, but the mighty ruler has other ideas. The Doctor must pay for his past defeat and once his head has been severed from his body the Earth, once again shall be his. Samantha and Malix look on, squinting to see the battle through the fog, only making out the bursts of light from Zorlin's staff. Behind them, the Master staggers to his feet and flees. Malix make’s a bid to stop him, he promised to return him to his home planet once Zorlin was awoken, but Samantha reasons with him, it is too late. The sound of the Master's TARDIS rings out through the night, only matched by a piercing scream from within the swirling mists. The battle is over. The two of them look on, as the victor approaches. The Doctor waves hello and explains it is time to leave. Then suddenly, Zorlin flies at him from within the fog and lunges to kill him. The Doctor deflects his final blast, which hits him square in the chest. He flies back, into the cocoon of the chalk circle and is zapped back to the underworld. The Doctor steps forward, dispels the force filed with a branch and removes the relay device. He places it in his pocket and stamps away the remains of the chalk circle. He calls for Samantha to leave once more in the TARDIS but Malix wants to come too. The Doctor has his suspicions but Samantha explains he only wants to go home. The Doctor agrees and the three of them step inside the ship. They take off, as the church bell chimes and the sun begins to rise over the rooftops of the village.
Comments, as ever, are welcome
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 12:24:41 GMT -5
The Jewel of Scarax
The Doctor lands the TARDIS on the planet Scarax, where he hopes to show Samantha and Malix the famed Scarax Ruby, known for it’s infamous history. They arrive at the museum it resides in, which itself is carved from glass. They prepare to enter the top security hold area but an almighty crash rings from above. A masked patrol has broken in through the roof and descends on ropes. They hold the many tourists at gunpoint and force open the security door with little effort. They take the jewel, and retreat, the Doctor and his friends in quick pursuit in the TARDIS. The Doctor follows the patrol as they retreat in a small ship out into space. They disappear from the scanner but Malix realises the ship must be invisible. They materialise onboard and soon are creeping along the corridors of the ship. They discover that the patrol is part of a universal pirate clan, who have plundered some of the most valuable jewels and precious items in the galaxy. The three travellers are caught and held hostage as spies for a rival pirate gang, but are saved when the real opposing pirates arrive to steal their rival’s plunder. A battle ensures and the Doctor, instead of retreating in the ship, heads for the main storage chamber. He works his way around the groups of fighting soldiers and launches the teleport circuit, sending the jewels down on the planet of Scarax, to be returned to their rightful homes. The two factions of pirates despair at their loss and as the Doctor runs to rejoin his friends, Malix reveals he has set the ship to shoot off into the furthest reaches of space, the pirates to be lost forever. The three travellers depart in the ship, leaving the pirates to their fate.
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 13:23:22 GMT -5
The Delegation
On the planet Earth, in the year 2173, there are serious problems. The economy has crashed, unemployment and homelessness are at an all-time high and vicious riots plague the entire globe. The Doctor, Samantha and Malix arrive in the midst of a street fight, and duck for cover. They observe as a small shuttle descends from the sky, scattering the crowds. The hatchway opens and an official looking man steps out, dressed in a cloak. He inspects the run-down street and issues for his men to inspect the piles of rubble. The Doctor is discovered but Samantha and Malix manage to escape. The TARDIS is impounded and the Doctor taken for questioning. The official’s name is Gorith, who took charge of the planet when a failed alien invasion left the Earth in disarray. He and the other dozen world leaders are now trying to restore order but failing miserably. He sends the Doctor down as a looter and prepares to hold a conference with the world leaders. Samantha and Malix have stumbled upon the conference centre and found it wired with explosives, realising Gorith is going to use the conference to gain complete control they try to contact the other delegates and warn them not to come. The Doctor learns the same from a fellow prisoner and after escaping, finds Samantha and Malix. He realises that Gorith wants to take supreme power to take revenge on the alien race that attacked the Earth. The three of them manage to find several outcasts living on the street and with their help divert the convoy of official ships. The Doctor confronts Gorith and persuades him to let history be, and to put his efforts into rebuilding Earth. Gorith refuses but accidentally sets of the trigger for the explosives, the conference hall going up in flames. Samantha and Malix watch on with the other delegates as the Doctor emerges from the rubble. He explains Gorith is dead and then tells the other delegates to set about work rebuilding the planet, before setting off with Samantha and Malix to retrieve the TARDIS from the pound.
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 31, 2006 13:24:36 GMT -5
Revenge of the Virop
Having retrieved the TARDIS the Doctor, Malix and Samantha are once more soaring through the time vortex. They are pursuing a ship, which is sending them a distress signal. They break out into real space, and follow it down onto the moon of a dead planet in the outer regions of the galaxy. Once there they step outside and head towards the crashed vessel, which is buried in the ground. A small hatch opens before them and from within a deformed reptilian creature crawls into the open air. It introduces itself as Berdor, last of the Virop race. He pleads for them to help him recover and return to his home planet, having been knocked off course whilst trying to return after a space battle with their enemies the Serquins. The Doctor urges caution but Samantha runs to help him up, and as she does his body deflates, a ghostly creature enters her body and her eyes glow red. With a wave of the hand she repels the advancing Malix and swoops, as if flying, to the TARDIS. The Doctor and Malix run inside as the possessed Samantha pilots the TARDIS towards the Virop home world of Virossia. The Doctor tries to draw Berdor out of Samantha’s body with the sonic screwdriver but fails. He is left to watch as the ship arrives of the fiery planet and Samantha, silently glides out towards a grand citadel that lies surrounded by a pool of lava. The Doctor and Malix follow, and discover that Berdor is using her body to activate an ancient control panel, which the Doctor recognises as a doomsday device. It will set off a chain reaction that will wipe out the Serquin planet of Sequis. He tries to wrestle Samantha away but she has managed to regain some control, and as she screams in pain stumbles out into the open. Berdor warns the advancing Doctor if he steps closer he will throw her off of the edge. The Doctor retreats and Berdor forces Samantha back into the citadel. She takes control and smashes the circuitry. In fury, Berdor leaps out of Samantha’s body, throws her into the air and sharply to the floor and then swoops off into the sky. As the control room burns, the Doctor examines Samantha. It is too late. Her limp body; covered in bruises shows no signs of life and as Malix curses the still retreating Berdor, the Doctor takes her body out to the TARDIS. Some time later, the two of them stand at her gravestone, in the graveyard where Malix first met the Doctor and Samantha. They walk away towards the TARDIS as the sun sets over the church roof and the village beyond.
That's the last for this season, what do you all think?
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Post by The Thinker on Jun 1, 2006 7:06:30 GMT -5
Good, very good. You should become a scriptwriter!
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Post by Dominic Smith on Jun 2, 2006 12:57:11 GMT -5
OK, been busy with the Dalek History but I've found time to get round to the next series of these stories.
1999 (Season 3/ 35)
The Time Rodent
The Doctor and Malix arrive on the planet Belani where cracks in time are causing disruptions are plaguing the locals. The Doctor meets with local dignitary and scientist Vinushi Porthox, who has been examining the problem, and has traced the source of the problem to a ship orbiting the planet. Along with Malix and Vinushi’s daughter Lysana the two scientists venture to the ship in the TARDIS. They discover it is burnt out, all computers dead and the crew mere piles of dust. The Doctor and Lysana search one part of the ship and Vinushi and Malix another. The Doctor and Lysana find nothing but a series of files whereas Malix and Vinushi discover a trail left by some form of alien life. Tracking it to deep within the satellites’ infrastructure they find a rodent creature, tampering with a control panel. The Doctor and Lysana arrive and tell them it is a Parik, a creature that exists by nature in the time vortex. It has got lost and is now trying to get back by ripping the vortex open, but with limited success. The captain of the ship made notes on the creature until it found out it had been discovered and began vaporising the crew. The creature hears them talking and attacks, killing Vinushi. The others return to the TARDIS to return to Belani, unaware the creature is onboard. Suddenly it opens fire and the three friends run for their lives around the ship. After it corners Malix in a corridor, Lysana knocks it out with a nearby table. The Doctor ties it up and leaves it in the console room, under the watchful eye of Malix. As they return to Belani Lysana asks of what life is like being a traveller and the Doctor excitedly tells her of life on other planets and the wonders of the galaxy:
“Lysana, out there are wonders and marvels you could never dream of, planets and stars in swirling galaxies that soar apart in an expanding universe of magnificent splendour. Brilliant nebulas of blinding light and clouds of sparkling dust no poet could ever describe. There are planets no man has ever set foot on, filled with lakes of liquid silver and trees of shining gold. To many wonders to even ponder, all at the flick of a switch…”
He flicks a control on the console and they land, floating in the vortex. The Doctor flicks another switch and air masks descend from the ceiling. Malix and Lysana put them on, as the Doctor places the Parik by the door. He dons his own facemask and opens the door, pushing the creature outside. He closes the door and the three friends watch on the scanner as the Parik breaks free of its bonds and swims in the energies of the vortex, off into the distance. The Doctor prepares to set course to Belani to take Lysana home, but she protests. She wants the see the wonders the Doctor talks off and with a beaming smile the Time Lord pulls a lever on the console and they hurtle off into time and space…
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Post by Dominic Smith on Jun 2, 2006 12:57:49 GMT -5
Duel
Part 1) Malix is dead. His body buried on an unknown planet with only a makeshift cross marking his grave. The Doctor stands, speechless at what he sees and runs to find his friends. He rushes them into the TARDIS and takes off frantically, scared stiff and white as a ghost. Lysana and the very much alive Malix attempt to calm him but the Doctor cannot bear to look at them. He jabs at the controls, trying to pilot back into the time vortex but there is trouble afoot. A storm in a forming nebula pushes them off course and onto a space liner, invisible to the blackness of space. They arrive but the Doctor urges caution. The run down corridors are infested with rat-like beings and the only light is from some dying candles. The three travellers emerge from the maze of corridors to a giant control room, the size and architecture of a church. Inside a lone figure greets them, his name is Fenric...
Part 2) The Doctor tries to retreat but Fenric has locked he and his friends in. His twisted humanoid features fixate their gaze towards Malix and he laughs to himself. With one wave of his hand he banishes them to cages, far above the Doctor's head. The Doctor himself remains silent but focused. He paces around the room slowly and then asks why Fenric has brought them here. Fenric explains that Malix's grave is a trap, simply a device in getting the Doctor so worked up he would accidentally pilot the ship into the nebula storm, which he controls. He wants revenge. The Doctor thrice before has beaten him, once at the dawn of time, again centuries later on Earth and once more around 700 years later, at an army base in World War 2. The Doctor is oblivious to the latter but focuses on his nemesis. He asks what he is to do and Fenric snaps his fingers. The room blurs and refocuses as a giant battle arena; two podiums stand in a pool of lava on which the two enemies stand. This is Fenric's home world. The battle is about to begin...
Part 3) The Doctor and Fenric link their minds to a swirling cloud above them, and bow to each other. The Doctor springs up and fires a bolt of energy at Fenric from his own eyes but Fenric counter attacks. The fight rages on and high above them, Malix and Lysana look on helplessly. Malix manages to smash the lock of his cage and uses his unravelled jacket to swing across to Lysana. He helps her out and together they descend to the side of the battle arena. Lysana picks up a dissuaded sword and throws it to the Doctor. He takes it and repels Fenric's attacks one by one, but with his mental link with the storm cloud of nebula energy almost broken, Fenric uses it to zap him in the chest. The Time Lord screams in agony, and falls from the parapet.
Part 4) Malix and Lysana look on as the Doctor climbs up the rock face, having dug the sword into the rock to act as a handle. He takes his place before Fenric once more but he is not alone. Malix swings from up in the sky and grabs the Doctor they fly towards the exit and soon, with Lysana are running for their lives back down the maze of corridors. Fenric pursues them in spirit form, bowing out the candles to rob them of sight and soon has them cornered. Malix lunges forward and stabs him with his dagger. Fenric reels back and the three travellers escape. They reach the TARDIS and manage to take off, but Fenric still pursues them, out into space. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS throughout the stars, and lunges towards a black hole. He pulls out at the last second but Fenric is not so fast. He disappears and with a blinding light the Black hole closes. The Doctor, Malix and Lysana recover from their ordeal and clean up the war torn console room. As they do so the TARDIS spins off into pace, as a howling laugh entangles itself with the storms of space.
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