The Alleyway
Gunner runs through the streets of Doncaster as he tries to get away from the sound of police car sirens behind him. He whines as he runs and pants. As he struggles to continue running, he starts to slow down. Fortunately, he knows how he can get away. He runs down the street he is running down amd turns into the alleyway that leads from this street, all the way down to his street. He runs until he is halfway down the alleyway where he stops and leans on the wall, letting himself drop to the floor. He quiets his breathing for a moment to listen to the distant sound of police car sirens which are starting to fade away. Gunner relaxes for a moment, but as he relaxes, he can't help but as he does, he starts to cry and grunt to himself.
As he hears feels a vibration pulsing in his pocket. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his mobile phone. As it rings once more, Gunner looks at the name showing up on the screen. Frustrated but unsurprised to know that it is his mum calling, Gunner growls quietly to himself, before picking up on the call and putting the phone on loud speaker.
"Yes?" Gunner grumbles into the mobile.
"Gunner, you know why I'm phoning you, don't you?" Gunner holds back a grunt, instead, he just lets the frustration inflate his head. "Yes," he forcefully growls through his teeth.
"And I know you're in that alleyway, so that's TWO rules broken.""It was the quockest rout I could take, mum," Gunner argues, "I had police on my trail for no reason again."
"Which is why you're meant to tell me when you go out.""Wait, you know?" Gunner asks, "have you reported me to them, so you can keep me prisoner?"
"You change your attitude, Gunner, right now. That is not how you speak to your mother. Understand?"Gunner breathes in through his teeth. "Yes," he forcefully grunts.
"Good, because I am in charge, not you. Understand?""Yes," Gunner says, forcing himself not to scream in anger.
"Good. Stay right where you are, I'm coming to get you.""Okay," Gunner grunts. With that, his mother hangs up on him and he is relieved to let his anger out. "WHY DOES SHE KEEP DOING THIS TO ME?!" he acreams, before throwing his phone at the brick wall in front of him, He stands there and breathes theough his teeth, staring down at the broken phone, picturing it as his mother for a moment. He thennreaches into his pocket then grabs and pulls out a pistol. He cocks it and aims it at his phone. He pictures it as his mum again, before shooting it, leaving a small hole that smoke comes out of, He continues shooting the phone, getting faster at each gunshot, grunting as he does so. He screams at the last shot, then throws his gun down at his destroued phone. "That phone was just target practise," he mumbles to himself, "one day, I'll have the guts to actually do it, then she'll have a reason for setting the police onto me."
Gunner picks up his gun and puts it in his pocket. He then just stands there as a strange sound begins to fill the air. He feels the wind pick up and swirl around him and he feels the wind blowing downwards, like as if it is trying to send him falling to the concreat ground. He aimlessly looks around to trace the sound which seems to be all around him. He then notices the outlines of something appearing around him. He instantly jumps out of the tall box appearing around him theough the transparant wall in front of him. When he finds that he is not in the centre of a downwards tornado, he turns and looks behind him as a tall blue box appears where he was standing as the trumpeting sound cues it's materialisation.
When the blue box is completely solid, Gunner notices the signs above the windows at each side. Police public call box. This makes Gunner panic. He backs away from the box until his back is abainst the wall behind him.
He flinches as the front doors open, but when he looks inside the box, all he sees is the inside windows at the back of the box and no police officer, he calms himself down, but he doesn't go near the box in case it's some kind of booby trap.
He flinches again as a light cuts between the two windows, all the way to the bottom. As the two halves of the wall part from each other, making a shivery buzzing sound it appears that a door at the back of the box is opening, a door that isn't a back door, an impossible door that shouldn't be there, because at the other side is not the brick wall behind the box. Instead, it is a corridor where the floor, wall and roof appear to be made of rock and are covered in blue crystals. Covering the blue light at the end of the small corridor, is the silhouette of a person, slouching. Gunner can tell from the way the person is moving that he is in pain. Suddenly, the person spreads his arms out and looks uowards and a bright golden light shines brightly through them, making Gunner squint his eyes.
Gunner looks as best as he can at the centre of the golden light at the end of the corridor in the police box. To him, it almost looks as though the person is on fire. Finally, the person stops glowing and lowers his arms and head. Gunner then realises that the person is now looking at him. He finds himself unable to move as the figure approches him.
"Sorry to turn your normal human life wierd with what you just saw," the figure says as he steps out of the police box and into the sunlight where the blue light can no longer cover him. The impossible doors at the back of the police box close behind the teenage boy in front of Gunner, instantly followed by the front doors with the notice under the left side window.
"Like it can't get any worse," Gunner thoughtlessly says as he stares at the boy in front of him.
"Why?" the boy asks, making Gunner snap out of his thoughts.
"Who are ypu, anyway?" he asks the boy.
"I'm the doctor," the boy says, "and you?"
"Gunner."
"Gunner?" the doctor says, "that's a very violent name."
"I know that," Gunner says, "you would not believe the harrassment I get in public places."
"Have there been any gravity problems in this area lately?" the doctor asks.
"A few, yeah," Gunnee says, "natural disaster I suppose."
"You're wrong, it's unnatural," the doctor says, "artificial in origin."
"How do you know?" Gunner asks, "no scientist has gotten to researching it."
"Because I know all natural facts about the earth," the doctor says. "Where on earth am I?"
"Doncaster, England, Britain," Gunner says.
"And the year?" the doctor asks.
"2019," Gunner says.
"The 2010s," the doctor says, "not my favorite era, Brexit ruined it for me."
"How did you get here in that police box?" Gunner asks, "and what is it, a sort of transport pod?"
"No, she's the TARDIS," the doctor says, "one of many of the most powerful time and space machines in the whole universe. She latched onto a gravitational disturbance, the one I asked about. I tried to fly away and that made the gravity disturbance slurp all of her energy out. The poor old girl is starved. I was dying at that moment, long story, but I was too weak to stand, so I pulled the emergency materialisation lever and materialised here. It was a rough materialisation, but smooth compaired to what would've happened if it physixally crash landed. So then, when everything was safe, I had the moment to regenerate, before meeting you."
"That can't be natural," Gunner says.
"According to human nature," the doctor says, "I didn't mention that I'm not human, did I."
"For a moment there, I thought you were some time traveller from the future who's come back to show us human development," Gunner says.
"I am a time traveller, but not from Earth, which means I'm also a space traveller," the doctor says, "but I have been to the future of Earth and just for the record, humanity don't evolve to regenerare in the future."
Gunner just stands there and stares at the doctor, struggling to cope with taking all this new stuff in.
Suddenly, the pair are distracted by the sound of footsteps approching them, coming in from all directions. The doctor and Gunner look around to see a gang of five teenage gangsters with extreme hairstyles and clothing. Two boys cover the left exit that leads deeper into the alleyway and three boys cover the right exit that leads back up the alleyway, the way Gunner came. The leader in the middle of the right side blockade steps forward to confront the pair.
"Leave now," he says.
"Bit difficult," the doctor says, "you're all in us way."
"You will not be harmed if you obey our demmand," the leading gangster says, "but if you remain, we will kill you."
"Stop," comes a sharp female voice from behind Gunner and the doctor who turn to look to see a middoe aged woman cutting in between the two gangsters, then between Gunner and the doctor to confront the leading gangster. "Do not harm them. Retreat. Obey."
"We obey," the leading gangstersays and with that, the two gangsters approch the three gangsters in front of the doctor, Gunner and the woman and retreat into the darkness with them.
"They seem obedient to you," the doctor says to the woman who turns to look at him.
"All teenagers obey my orders," the woman says, "which is why I order you to stay away from my son."
"Why me?" the doctor asks, "do I look like a teenager to you?"
"Yes," the woman says, making the doctor stop and think.
"I've got news for you, I'm a million years old even though I may look young... Oh," he exclaims, "I regenerated." He turns to look at Gunner. "Gunner, describe my appearance."
"How can you not know?" Gunner asks, "you were the one who regenerated."
"I'm not in control of my appearance," the doctor says, "the results of time lord regeneration are unpredictable."
"Okay then," Gunner says, "you've got a round face, a fat nose, wide eyebrows, big eyes, a small mouth and a big Adam's apple."
"What colour hair do I have?" the doctor asks.
"Dark brown with blonde hilights," Gunner says.
"And the style?" the doctor asks.
"It's longish and swished back," Gunner says.
"And what height am I?" the doctor asks.
"Over six foot tall," Gunner says, "while we're on the subject, I think that vest and those trousers are too big for you."
"Because he's obviously a homeless druggie, Gunner," Gunner's mum says, taking hold of Gunner's arm, "I won't tell you again, come with me home."
"That's a bit cruel," the doctor says, "surely young Gunner here gets until nightfall."
"You have no right to question my rules," the woman snarls at the doctor, "you do not understand our life." The woman then notices the TARDIS, then looks into the doctor's eyes, before leading Gunner up the alleyway and away from the doctor.
"Typical mother to a teenager," the doctor mumbles to himself, shaking his head. He then turns and steps through the automatically opened front doors of the TARDIS and steps inside the box, letting the front doors close automatically behind him, without realising that the leading gangster is hiding behind a bin, staring at the TARDIS.
Inside the box, the impossible doors at the back of the police box open in front of the doctor who steps through it and walks through the small corridor until he enters the huge console room as the back doors close behind him. He looks down at the control panel then up at the time rotor rising all the way to the high ceiling. That bright blue light that whould reflect on the crystals on the walls around the room is so dull the entire room beyond the console is dark with only the dull light of the corridors through the windows around the room converging on the console.
"I don't know what to do," the doctor says to the TARDIS, stroking the stonerailings around the console as he circles the console. "Almost all your power is gone." The doctor pulls out a draw frommunder the console and grabs a remote control to try and switch on the huge television hung up on the wall above the passage leading back into the small corridor leading to the doors. "Nothing is working in here," he says, throwing the remote back in the draw which closes automatically. He then pulls the take off lever back then fourth. "There's not enough power to achieve a full flight to cardiff to refuel." The doctor then gets an idea. "So I will have to get some." The doctor rushes back round to the front of the console to pull a cable out of the feeding tube under the time rotor and pulls it away from the console as it extends under the console panel. He pulls it to the doors which automatically open in front of him to reveal the interior of the police box that the doctor steps into as the front doors leading outside open.
Gunner's Home
Gunner sits in the living room of his house, watching television, when he notices a blue flashing light blaring through the curtains covering the window. He sits still for a moment, deciding not to jump to conclusions, but that changes when the front door knocks.
Gunner hesitates to answer the door. Instead, he just sits there. The front door knocks again and Gunner finally snaps.
"I've not done anything!" he shouts at the door.
"Open the door please," the policeman at the other side of the door gently says.
"I am not going to let you arrest me when I've not dome anything!" Gunner shouts.
"Gunner, you don't understand, the police don't think you've done anything wrong, we need to ask you some questions about your mother."
Gunner thinks about this.
"Please open the door. I can't leave until you answer our questions."
Gunner takes his gun out of his pocket and throws it under the sofa, making sure that it slides all the way to the back. The front door knocks one more as Gunner stands up to open the front door to see a male officer and a young man in his 20s standing at the other side.
"Come in," Gunner says. Instantly, the police officer enters the house. Gunner shuts the front door and re-enters the living room and sits down at his sofa as the police officer sits on the chair next to it and the man sits next to Gunner.
"What is it you want to know?" Gunner asks.
"You see, the police are convinced that you are the victim of child abuse," the man says. "I am a psychologist and I'd like to know from you, do you feel like you are treated badly by your mother?"
"Nope," Gunner says, almost mumbling. The man and the officer glance at each other, befor looking back at Gunner.
"If she is, you don't have to feel as though you are being forced to tell us what she wants you to tell us," the man says.
"Okay," Gunner says, "she is."
The man writes this down.
"She's a single mother according to the station," the officer tells the man.
"Do you have a dad?" the man asks Gunner.
"He died," Gunner says, "quite recently."
"And since then," the man says, "does it feel as though your mum has taken control."
"Yep," Gunner says. "If I'm honest, I don't think me dad's death has effected her at all. She didn't seem upset when he died."
The man writes this down.
"Do you know how he died?" the man asks.
"No," Gunner says.
"The station presented us with your father's autopsy," the police officer says, "it said there was no tissue damage or physical damage to him, but there was evidence of electricity inside his body."
"Where is your mother now?" the man asks Gunner.
"She's downstairs in the basement," Gunner says, "doing work for the government I think."
Suddenly, Gunner's mother emerges from behind the living room door, raises her arm, shows off the palm of her hand and a blue energy blast darts out of a beam distributor that rips through her hand. The energy blast hits the psychologist who is instsntly knocked out by the blast. The police officer stands up and turns to see what happened. He makes a move to restrain Gunner's mum, but she turns and aims the beam distributor at him and shoots him with another energy blast which kills him.
"Mum," Gunner screams, "what are you doing?"
"They would've sent information to the authorities," Gunner's mum says, "and as for you,"
"What?" Gunner asks, "what are you going to do to me when you dpnever have the guts to punish me, apart for keeping me here."
"That is not punishment," Gunner's mum says, "that is preservation."
"What for?" Gunner asks.
"You will find out," Gunner's mum says. "Now move. That psychologist behind you, I need him."
"You're not," Gunner exclaims.
"Don't be so stupid, Gunner," Gunner's mum says, "I need his brain."
"What are you doing down there, anyway?" Gunner asks, "building a Frankinstein monster?"
Suddenly, the lights dint and flicker.
"A power cut " Gunner's mum sighs, "that's the last thing I need. The machinery cannot be shut down. Gunner, take the psychologist down stairs. Go no further than the door, then the police officer, I could make use of his strength as well."
With that, Gunner's mum turns and exits the house through the front door.
Gunner's mum walks out of the front yard of the house and then around the corner to enter the alleyway where a cable has been plugged into the power box of her house. There is also a note. Hi, needed to borrow some power. Sorry for any inconvenience. The doctor.
The Basement
At the bottom of the stairs leading down to the basement, Gunner lays the police officer down next to the psychologist. He then finds himself looking at the door his mother told him not to go through. He sighs to himself, glances up the stairs, then opens the door to see a basement room at the other side with a giant computer in it. Gunner enters the room and looks at the computer. On the screen, is a visual of the alleyway, where the TARDIS is and where a cable seems to be reaching out through the doors to expand up the alleyway.
"That's how she always knows when I'm in the alleyway," Gunner says. He then looms around the room and his eyes lock onto a tall bronze shell with gold balls at the bottom, two wires attached to the mid section and a dome at the top with a signal dish at the front. "What is that thing?"
Gunner's mum is filled with rage and anger as her eyes lock onto the doctor's name on the note. "I knew it," she says, before turning and making her way towards the gate leading into her front yard.
The TARDIS
In the TARDIS, The doctor watches the cable feeding power to the engine under the console, but everthing is activating too fast. The console lights have activated and the blue light of the time rotor has brightened up so that the blue crystals on the wall around the room reflect it's light.
"Don't rush," the doctor says to the TARDIS, then suddenly, the cable is forced to detach from under the control panel as sparks of energy and heat burst out. The doctor notices this and quickly pushes the cable back into the slot with all of his strength, making it click as it jams. The doctor looks around at the activating TARDIS and thinks to himself. "How can a small amount of primative power from one townhouse be enough to feed you, old girl?" The doctor runs round to the other side of the console, pulls out the drawer under the control panel, takes out the television remote control and uses it to switch on the television on the wall. It switches on to reveal a menu of options including television which would lead to a menu of optional television services from all around the universe. There are other options such as Internet options, CCTV options including CCTV of the TARDIS and other CCTV feeds from around the universe, but the doctor selects TARDIS systems which reveals a menu of options including power levels, a list of the TARDIS's landing history and desktop settings. The doctor selects power levels which shows that the power is at 80% and rising. The doctor tries to pull the cable out of the slot under the control panel, only to find out that he has jammed it. "Come on!" he grunts as he continues trying to yank it out with no success. "You'll overheat!" he says to the TARDIS.
Gunner hears the door upstairs opening and as he hears footsteps coming his way, he panics and rabidly looks around for somewhere to hide. The only thing he can hide behind is the tall shell in the middle of the room, so he does.
Gunener's mum enters the room and approches the shell.
"Controller," she says to it, "I have to activate the sleepers."
"Explain," the shell speaks with an electronic voice.
"It is the doctor," Gunner's mum says, "he crossed out path. He is here."
"The doctor!" the shell raves multiple times, shaking as it does so, "we cannot be denied of our salvation! You should not have delayed the plan!""It is the only way," Gunner's mum says.
"The human race will die either way," the shell says.
"At least it can be a mercy killing," Gunner's mum says.
"You should have no concept of mercy,the shell says, "Your collatoral damage should have been deactivated when you awoke!"
"At least I can deactivate it by killing them first and sticking to my nature," Gunner's mum says, "Gunner's accidental arrival became useful to the new plan, but my security in the alleyway will be useful too. I shall activate them and the doctor will be disposed of and no longer will he be a threat to us. First, I shall reverse what he is doing to drain our energy and take back our power from the TARDIS."
The TARDIS
The TARDIS power reaches 99%, then from there, it stops rising, then as the doctor notices as it decreases to 98%, he realises that someone has noticed what he was doing and is trying to get it's power back.
The doctor turns and runs out of the TARDIS to follow the cable, only to find himself surrounded by the gangsters from before.
"Hello again," the doctor says to the leading gangster to his left, "sorry I'm still here, I'll be gone in a moment if I can..."
"The option to leave has expired," the leading gangster says.
With that, all the gangsters start to stretch their necks, letting their bones crack. The doctor squints his eyes at this, then goes into a state of panic as a blue light breaks through the skin of the foreheads of each gangsters.
"You will be exterminated," the leading gangster says.
"Oh no," the doctor says, looking around as each gangster raise their right arms and show off the palm of their hands.
Gunner's mum watches on screen as the doctor stands defencelessly in the middle of the crossfire. She laughs to herself.
"The doctor will die," she says, "at last."
"The doctor will be exterminated! the shell raves, "The daleks will never be defeated again!!!"
"No," Gunner whispers to himself, watching the doctor on screen. "Doctor!"
The Alleyway
The doctor watches as gunsticks rip through the skin of the palm of each gangsters' right hand.
"Daleks!" he exclaims.
"Exterminate!!!" The leading gangster shouts.
TO BE CONTINUED...