#217 - Vengeance on Androzani
Episode 1 by Martyn Clarke
Episode 2 by Gregory Flanagan
Episode 3 by Martyn Clarke
Episode 4 by General Wooly
Completed
Episode 1
by Martyn Clarke
A wheezing groaning sound and the TARDIS materialised. Two figures emerged glaring into the heat. The Doctor, now in his sixth incarnation frowned curiously; his ludicrous costume glaring as bright as the sun.
His companion, Peri, wearing a red top with a pink skirt stepped out of the police box onto the sandy, stony ground. "I recognise here Doctor, where are we?" enquired Peri inquisitively.
"Well, if I am not seriously mistaken, I'd say were on Androzani Minor."
"What...again?"
"Again? Again!?!" The Doctor swung round viciously and glared at Peri, maintaining eye contact. "AGAIN!?!" he roared.
Peri jumped. "Must you do that Doctor?" she asked in her sweet American voice, wiping the spit from the Doctor's anger from her face.
"Look Peri, the caves!" said the Doctor excitedly.
"Oh no," said Peri doubtfully.
"Come on, it'll be fun!" teased the Doctor, he grabbed Peri's arm and led her to the caves.
***
Inside the caves, the Doctor scooped some molten mud, cooled naturally from the ground and sniffed it.
"Come on Doctor, what about the Androids?" urged Peri frightfully.
The Doctor laughed ignorantly. "What Androids? They would have all been killed outright in the mudslide, just like Salateen, Sharaz Jek and the gun runners." He turned and took Peri's face in his hands. "They're dead Peri, were the only ones here!"
"I suppose," said Peri. The Doctor took his hands off Peri's face and ran ahead to the burnt cinders of some kind of dragon. Peri screamed.
"Its the magma beast," said the Doctor. "She's dead!"
The Doctor moved on to a giant metal door, five feet away from the beast and studied it.
"Funny, that wasn't here before. No..." said the Doctor thoughtfully, turning his back on the door.
"Rather far fetched for this sort of era, don't you think?" laughed Peri nervously.
"Yes," said the Doctor thoughtfully again. "e took Peri's hand and faced away from the door.
"Good lord, Peri I fear we've come too far..."
"What?"
"Don't you understand, he's back, he's not dead...he was never dead. We underrated him and now were going to pay." The metal door started to slide open.
"Who's back Doctor, who?" insisted Peri.
"Sharaz Jek!" said the Doctor sordidly. As the Doctor spoke the metal door was fully opened. A band of androids advanced upon the Doctor and Peri.
Episode 2
by Gregory Flanagan
From "Caves of Androzani"
Peri was staring impassively ahead of her. "Just get on with it." Like the Doctor's voice, her voice was flat and calm. Chellak nodded to the sergeant of the firing squad.
"Firing squad firing positions. Take aim. FIRE!"
The sword swept down. The two bound and red-cloaked figures at the stakes jerked and twisted under the impact of a hail of bullets.
***
Present day
"Don't you understand, he's back, he's not dead...he was never dead we underrated him and now we're going to pay." The metal door started to slide open.
"Who's back Doctor, who?" insisted Peri.
"Sharaz Jek!" said the Doctor sordidly. As the Doctor spoke the metal door was fully opened - a band of Androids advanced upon the Doctor and Peri.
"Now what?" asked Peri.
"We can't go back!" said the Doctor stating the obvious.
"Cease!" called a voice from the darkness from the caves. The androids stopped; their heads bowed in deactivation. A figure emerged from the shadows.
"Sharaz Jek!" said the Doctor.
"Doctor!" snarled Jek.
"Hey, how do you know he's the Doctor - He's regenerated!" said Peri impressively.
"My dear, I know everything!" said Sharaz Jek.
"You've got some explaining to do!" said Peri.
***
Sharaz Jek's lair:
"It all started when I rescued you from the firing squad - and replaced you with androids, you might say you've never been the same since!" Sharaz snarled.
"Explain Jek,"
"My dear Doctor, I simply copied you both twice - one set of androids were executed and the others - you might say I'm talking to them!"
"He's lying!" screamed Peri.
"No," the Doctor pointed to a incubation tube with the bodies of the Doctor and Peri in them, "That's our bodies - we're androids with our real minds"
"Yes Doctor, Only this time you will not escape me!"
"How did you survive Jek?"
"You fool, I wasn't really here, I was an android - when Morgus attacked me, I fled to Androzani Major. Like you on your wild goose chase - she never needed bat's milk - she's a robot! The real us are on Androzani Major now. I too am an android!" Sharaz Jek approached Peri and started stroking her hair again making her feel uneasy.
"You, see I couldn't let you go Doctor, you had something I wanted and this time you will not take it from me!" he said caressing Peri's neck and shoulders.
Episode Three by Martyn Clarke
"Move away from her Jek, take your hands off Peri now!" ordered the Doctor. Sharaz Jek breathed heavily over Peri, she quivered at the feel of his breath on the back of her neck.
"You never dared remove your mask, did you Jek? You knew how she would react, you knew she would never want to be associated with you, once she saw the real you, that's why you made us - robots that couldn't fight back, only it all went wrong, didn't it Jek?"
"Silence Doctor, or I shall kill Peri!"
"Of course you will Jek, of course you will," remarked the Doctor smugly. "She's not scared of you, she's an android - she has no emotions!"
"You are wrong - I implanted her real mind, with an indestructible body!" snarled Sharaz Jek swinging violently towards the Doctor.
"Nothing which we have been experiencing has really happened, you set it all up - didn't you Jek, Peri doesn't and will never die on Ravalox, or wherever it is - she won't have a mind implant - she's going to die here and you know it!" said the Doctor angrily.
"NO!" shouted Jek angrily.
"What do you mean?" asked Peri hastily.
"You never got anything right did you Jek, you know I know and you cannot accept it!"
"No Doctor, you are wrong.
"Peri doesn't die on Ravalox - confess - admit it Jek, She's already dead!" snapped the Doctor. Peri screamed and covered her ears. She began to sob.
"How can you possibly know, you are an android!" said Jek.
"I am no more an android than you are Jek- The truth of the matter is you've programmed this android of Peri; you and I both escaped Androzani, but Peri didn't. She died before I made it back with the bat's milk - didn't she...DIDN'T SHE!?!"
"Yes - you win, Peri is dead - I had to protect you from the truth Doctor - you couldn't have gone on"
"No Jek - you wanted to protect yourself! So you suspended me until now when you could no longer hide the truth!"
Sharaz too curled into a ball on the ground and sobbing both he and Peri deactivated. The Doctor (in his sixth regeneration) ran out of the caves and into the TARDIS, he set it to de-materialise and smiled contentedly. The Cloister room door opened and Melanie Bush stood in the doorway.
"How are you here? I haven't met you yet - have I?" The Doctor looked confused.
"I'm sorry Doctor - it's the future - we've failed!" screamed Mel. She advanced from the cloister room with a Sea Devil gun in her back.
"I'm sorry Doctor."
The TARDIS spiralled through a vortex at a considerable rate.
"It's the future."
The TARDIS rushed towards the Milky Way galaxy, flashing passed Saturn, Jupiter, Asteroid belt...
"We've failed," said Mel.
...And Venus.
Earth had gone.
***
The TARDIS materialised and the Doctor, now in his sixth incarnation stepped out. A young red-haired girl, Melanie Bush, followed him.
"How did you find me?" enquired the Doctor.
"The Inquisitor sent me, don't you remember Doctor, you left after the Trial - I was mislead and climbed into the Valeyard's TARDIS."
"Mmm" said the Doctor.
"Where are we, Doctor?" asked Mel.
"We appear to have arrived on Velkon," said the Doctor excitedly.
"You mean the Planet of the Prayers"
"Yes, they worship a spirit - a spirit which will devour the universe - only it's invisible to any eye of any species!"
"Oh my goodness!" cried Mel.
"And that's what's happened to Earth - the power of the Prayer summoned up the spirit - we were defeated!"
"We, Doctor - you're a Time Lord" said Mel.
The Doctor suddenly grabbed his throat and started to gasp for air, he fell to the floor wheezing.
"What is it - They're praying again aren't they?" cried Mel.
"The enemy... the spirit has struck," said the Doctor. He took one final gasp and slipped into unconsciousness - in three minutes, he would be dead.
Episode Four by General Wooly
The Doctor died. No, he thought. This isn't right. He opened his eyes, and sat up. Looking around, he saw his companion Mel laying not far away. She should've still been safe inside the TARDIS. Why didn't she ever listen to him? He got up, and made his way over to her. He gently scooped her up, and quickly made his way back to the TARDIS.
Coming to Velkon had been a terrible risk, but the Doctor knew that his sixth life was rapidly drawing to its conclusion. Before that happened, he needed to put an end to the Valeyard. That was thing he most loathed the thought of leaving to any of his successors. After what the fiend had put him through during this life, he deserved to be the one to put the matter to rest.
So the Doctor had come to Velkon, the Planet of Prayers. His prayer had been to know the location of the Valeyard, and the planet's terrible spirit had given him an answer, but not before testing his sanity to the breaking point by making material and manifest his deepest hopes and fears.
When he got back to the TARDIS, he carried Mel to her room. Once he was sure that she would be all right, he returned to control room and set the co-ordinates for Androzani Minor. It was time to deal with the Valeyard once and for all.
Once the TARDIS materialised, the Doctor stepped out into the bleak, barren world where he had begun his sixth life. He turned to close the TARDIS doors.
"I knew you'd find me here," sneered a voice all too familiar to the Doctor.
The Doctor turned to see the Valeyard, incarnated in the Keeper of Matrix's body. Like the Huntsmen of the Dark Times, he had pirated the body and the remaining lives of another Time Lord to ghoulishly extend his life. The Valeyard had a staser trained on him.
"Fitting you should die here," remarked the Valeyard. "It was here you proved unfit to survive, when you put the life of an useless human over your own. You're weak, and you sicken me."
The Doctor looked at the Valeyard's staser with contempt. "Weak? Weak? Weak! You're the one who's weak, hiding behind a weapon!"
The Valeyard laughed.
The Doctor glared at the Valeyard. "If you're so strong, then prove it! I challenge you to mind wrestle!"
"I would crush you in seconds!" snorted the Valeyard.
"Prove it!" challenged the Doctor.
"Very well."
The Valeyard tossed his weapon aside, and the two Time Lords proceeded to mind wrestle. Almost at once, the Doctor collapsed into the mud. The Valeyard smiled and said, "I knew I would win rather easily, but, really Doctor, I had thought you would do better than this."
Suddenly the smile vanished from the Valeyard's face, and he fell to his knees. "What have you done?" he demanded.
"Stayed true to myself, Valeyard," proclaimed the Doctor triumphantly as he got up out of the mud and back up to his feet. "You expected me to be like you, and focus on gratifying my rage and hate. Instead I devoted myself to helping others. While you tried to crush me, I concentrated almost fully on helping your host reclaim his body. He's regenerating now, and his next self will be his own, free of you. And, none too soon, you will be no more."
The Doctor watched as the Valeyard died, and a new incarnation of the Keeper was born. He could see that the new Keeper would look younger, somewhat like his fifth self. Watching the Keeper regenerate, he thought of the rapidly impending end to his sixth life. He still wished he had more time, but he felt content. He had done what he had needed to do. The Doctor helped the newly regenerated Time Lord to his feet.
"Come on, let's get you back to Gallifrey," said the Doctor as he helped the Keeper hobble toward the TARDIS. "I'm sure you could use some time in a Zero Room, and I'm afraid I don't have one anymore."
Episode 1 by Martyn Clarke
Episode 2 by Gregory Flanagan
Episode 3 by Martyn Clarke
Episode 4 by General Wooly
Completed
Episode 1
by Martyn Clarke
A wheezing groaning sound and the TARDIS materialised. Two figures emerged glaring into the heat. The Doctor, now in his sixth incarnation frowned curiously; his ludicrous costume glaring as bright as the sun.
His companion, Peri, wearing a red top with a pink skirt stepped out of the police box onto the sandy, stony ground. "I recognise here Doctor, where are we?" enquired Peri inquisitively.
"Well, if I am not seriously mistaken, I'd say were on Androzani Minor."
"What...again?"
"Again? Again!?!" The Doctor swung round viciously and glared at Peri, maintaining eye contact. "AGAIN!?!" he roared.
Peri jumped. "Must you do that Doctor?" she asked in her sweet American voice, wiping the spit from the Doctor's anger from her face.
"Look Peri, the caves!" said the Doctor excitedly.
"Oh no," said Peri doubtfully.
"Come on, it'll be fun!" teased the Doctor, he grabbed Peri's arm and led her to the caves.
***
Inside the caves, the Doctor scooped some molten mud, cooled naturally from the ground and sniffed it.
"Come on Doctor, what about the Androids?" urged Peri frightfully.
The Doctor laughed ignorantly. "What Androids? They would have all been killed outright in the mudslide, just like Salateen, Sharaz Jek and the gun runners." He turned and took Peri's face in his hands. "They're dead Peri, were the only ones here!"
"I suppose," said Peri. The Doctor took his hands off Peri's face and ran ahead to the burnt cinders of some kind of dragon. Peri screamed.
"Its the magma beast," said the Doctor. "She's dead!"
The Doctor moved on to a giant metal door, five feet away from the beast and studied it.
"Funny, that wasn't here before. No..." said the Doctor thoughtfully, turning his back on the door.
"Rather far fetched for this sort of era, don't you think?" laughed Peri nervously.
"Yes," said the Doctor thoughtfully again. "e took Peri's hand and faced away from the door.
"Good lord, Peri I fear we've come too far..."
"What?"
"Don't you understand, he's back, he's not dead...he was never dead. We underrated him and now were going to pay." The metal door started to slide open.
"Who's back Doctor, who?" insisted Peri.
"Sharaz Jek!" said the Doctor sordidly. As the Doctor spoke the metal door was fully opened. A band of androids advanced upon the Doctor and Peri.
Episode 2
by Gregory Flanagan
From "Caves of Androzani"
Peri was staring impassively ahead of her. "Just get on with it." Like the Doctor's voice, her voice was flat and calm. Chellak nodded to the sergeant of the firing squad.
"Firing squad firing positions. Take aim. FIRE!"
The sword swept down. The two bound and red-cloaked figures at the stakes jerked and twisted under the impact of a hail of bullets.
***
Present day
"Don't you understand, he's back, he's not dead...he was never dead we underrated him and now we're going to pay." The metal door started to slide open.
"Who's back Doctor, who?" insisted Peri.
"Sharaz Jek!" said the Doctor sordidly. As the Doctor spoke the metal door was fully opened - a band of Androids advanced upon the Doctor and Peri.
"Now what?" asked Peri.
"We can't go back!" said the Doctor stating the obvious.
"Cease!" called a voice from the darkness from the caves. The androids stopped; their heads bowed in deactivation. A figure emerged from the shadows.
"Sharaz Jek!" said the Doctor.
"Doctor!" snarled Jek.
"Hey, how do you know he's the Doctor - He's regenerated!" said Peri impressively.
"My dear, I know everything!" said Sharaz Jek.
"You've got some explaining to do!" said Peri.
***
Sharaz Jek's lair:
"It all started when I rescued you from the firing squad - and replaced you with androids, you might say you've never been the same since!" Sharaz snarled.
"Explain Jek,"
"My dear Doctor, I simply copied you both twice - one set of androids were executed and the others - you might say I'm talking to them!"
"He's lying!" screamed Peri.
"No," the Doctor pointed to a incubation tube with the bodies of the Doctor and Peri in them, "That's our bodies - we're androids with our real minds"
"Yes Doctor, Only this time you will not escape me!"
"How did you survive Jek?"
"You fool, I wasn't really here, I was an android - when Morgus attacked me, I fled to Androzani Major. Like you on your wild goose chase - she never needed bat's milk - she's a robot! The real us are on Androzani Major now. I too am an android!" Sharaz Jek approached Peri and started stroking her hair again making her feel uneasy.
"You, see I couldn't let you go Doctor, you had something I wanted and this time you will not take it from me!" he said caressing Peri's neck and shoulders.
Episode Three by Martyn Clarke
"Move away from her Jek, take your hands off Peri now!" ordered the Doctor. Sharaz Jek breathed heavily over Peri, she quivered at the feel of his breath on the back of her neck.
"You never dared remove your mask, did you Jek? You knew how she would react, you knew she would never want to be associated with you, once she saw the real you, that's why you made us - robots that couldn't fight back, only it all went wrong, didn't it Jek?"
"Silence Doctor, or I shall kill Peri!"
"Of course you will Jek, of course you will," remarked the Doctor smugly. "She's not scared of you, she's an android - she has no emotions!"
"You are wrong - I implanted her real mind, with an indestructible body!" snarled Sharaz Jek swinging violently towards the Doctor.
"Nothing which we have been experiencing has really happened, you set it all up - didn't you Jek, Peri doesn't and will never die on Ravalox, or wherever it is - she won't have a mind implant - she's going to die here and you know it!" said the Doctor angrily.
"NO!" shouted Jek angrily.
"What do you mean?" asked Peri hastily.
"You never got anything right did you Jek, you know I know and you cannot accept it!"
"No Doctor, you are wrong.
"Peri doesn't die on Ravalox - confess - admit it Jek, She's already dead!" snapped the Doctor. Peri screamed and covered her ears. She began to sob.
"How can you possibly know, you are an android!" said Jek.
"I am no more an android than you are Jek- The truth of the matter is you've programmed this android of Peri; you and I both escaped Androzani, but Peri didn't. She died before I made it back with the bat's milk - didn't she...DIDN'T SHE!?!"
"Yes - you win, Peri is dead - I had to protect you from the truth Doctor - you couldn't have gone on"
"No Jek - you wanted to protect yourself! So you suspended me until now when you could no longer hide the truth!"
Sharaz too curled into a ball on the ground and sobbing both he and Peri deactivated. The Doctor (in his sixth regeneration) ran out of the caves and into the TARDIS, he set it to de-materialise and smiled contentedly. The Cloister room door opened and Melanie Bush stood in the doorway.
"How are you here? I haven't met you yet - have I?" The Doctor looked confused.
"I'm sorry Doctor - it's the future - we've failed!" screamed Mel. She advanced from the cloister room with a Sea Devil gun in her back.
Spirit of Prayer
"I'm sorry Doctor."
The TARDIS spiralled through a vortex at a considerable rate.
"It's the future."
The TARDIS rushed towards the Milky Way galaxy, flashing passed Saturn, Jupiter, Asteroid belt...
"We've failed," said Mel.
...And Venus.
Earth had gone.
***
The TARDIS materialised and the Doctor, now in his sixth incarnation stepped out. A young red-haired girl, Melanie Bush, followed him.
"How did you find me?" enquired the Doctor.
"The Inquisitor sent me, don't you remember Doctor, you left after the Trial - I was mislead and climbed into the Valeyard's TARDIS."
"Mmm" said the Doctor.
"Where are we, Doctor?" asked Mel.
"We appear to have arrived on Velkon," said the Doctor excitedly.
"You mean the Planet of the Prayers"
"Yes, they worship a spirit - a spirit which will devour the universe - only it's invisible to any eye of any species!"
"Oh my goodness!" cried Mel.
"And that's what's happened to Earth - the power of the Prayer summoned up the spirit - we were defeated!"
"We, Doctor - you're a Time Lord" said Mel.
The Doctor suddenly grabbed his throat and started to gasp for air, he fell to the floor wheezing.
"What is it - They're praying again aren't they?" cried Mel.
"The enemy... the spirit has struck," said the Doctor. He took one final gasp and slipped into unconsciousness - in three minutes, he would be dead.
Episode Four by General Wooly
The Doctor died. No, he thought. This isn't right. He opened his eyes, and sat up. Looking around, he saw his companion Mel laying not far away. She should've still been safe inside the TARDIS. Why didn't she ever listen to him? He got up, and made his way over to her. He gently scooped her up, and quickly made his way back to the TARDIS.
Coming to Velkon had been a terrible risk, but the Doctor knew that his sixth life was rapidly drawing to its conclusion. Before that happened, he needed to put an end to the Valeyard. That was thing he most loathed the thought of leaving to any of his successors. After what the fiend had put him through during this life, he deserved to be the one to put the matter to rest.
So the Doctor had come to Velkon, the Planet of Prayers. His prayer had been to know the location of the Valeyard, and the planet's terrible spirit had given him an answer, but not before testing his sanity to the breaking point by making material and manifest his deepest hopes and fears.
When he got back to the TARDIS, he carried Mel to her room. Once he was sure that she would be all right, he returned to control room and set the co-ordinates for Androzani Minor. It was time to deal with the Valeyard once and for all.
Once the TARDIS materialised, the Doctor stepped out into the bleak, barren world where he had begun his sixth life. He turned to close the TARDIS doors.
"I knew you'd find me here," sneered a voice all too familiar to the Doctor.
The Doctor turned to see the Valeyard, incarnated in the Keeper of Matrix's body. Like the Huntsmen of the Dark Times, he had pirated the body and the remaining lives of another Time Lord to ghoulishly extend his life. The Valeyard had a staser trained on him.
"Fitting you should die here," remarked the Valeyard. "It was here you proved unfit to survive, when you put the life of an useless human over your own. You're weak, and you sicken me."
The Doctor looked at the Valeyard's staser with contempt. "Weak? Weak? Weak! You're the one who's weak, hiding behind a weapon!"
The Valeyard laughed.
The Doctor glared at the Valeyard. "If you're so strong, then prove it! I challenge you to mind wrestle!"
"I would crush you in seconds!" snorted the Valeyard.
"Prove it!" challenged the Doctor.
"Very well."
The Valeyard tossed his weapon aside, and the two Time Lords proceeded to mind wrestle. Almost at once, the Doctor collapsed into the mud. The Valeyard smiled and said, "I knew I would win rather easily, but, really Doctor, I had thought you would do better than this."
Suddenly the smile vanished from the Valeyard's face, and he fell to his knees. "What have you done?" he demanded.
"Stayed true to myself, Valeyard," proclaimed the Doctor triumphantly as he got up out of the mud and back up to his feet. "You expected me to be like you, and focus on gratifying my rage and hate. Instead I devoted myself to helping others. While you tried to crush me, I concentrated almost fully on helping your host reclaim his body. He's regenerating now, and his next self will be his own, free of you. And, none too soon, you will be no more."
The Doctor watched as the Valeyard died, and a new incarnation of the Keeper was born. He could see that the new Keeper would look younger, somewhat like his fifth self. Watching the Keeper regenerate, he thought of the rapidly impending end to his sixth life. He still wished he had more time, but he felt content. He had done what he had needed to do. The Doctor helped the newly regenerated Time Lord to his feet.
"Come on, let's get you back to Gallifrey," said the Doctor as he helped the Keeper hobble toward the TARDIS. "I'm sure you could use some time in a Zero Room, and I'm afraid I don't have one anymore."
The End
