the lost girl
Plot: when Twelve year old Alyssa Benson is knocked unconcious by intruders whilst watching her favourite tv show Doctor who, she dreams about being in the actual show itself but is it a dream or reality?
Twelve year old Alyssa Benson was in the kitchen, standing in front of the Microwave waiting for her popcorn to finish popping with the series one boxset of Doctor who tucked under her arm whilst her older sister, Seventeen year old Gemma was had shut herself in her room, talking to her friends on facebook and watching youtube videos and their parents had gone to a work do so Alyssa was left to her own devices and she decided to spend the evening having a Doctor who Marathon, complete with a bowl of popcorn and she was going to start with series one to four then watch the rest of the other series the following day. Alyssa had just turned Twelve a week ago, she was small and skinny with shoulder lengh brown hair which was tied up in a ponytail and she was wearing a dark blue denim blouse, a light pink striped t-shirt, some light blue jeans and plain white trainers. After the popcorn had finished popping, she took the bag out of the microwave and poured the popcorn into a bowl then walked into the front room, all prepared to start the first half of her Doctor who marathon and she had been planning it all day, knowing that her parents would be out and that her older sister would be shutting herself in her bedroom to spend a good few hours on facebook so that gave Alyssa the chance to watch her favourite tv show in peace. The young girl then set the bowl of popcorn onto the coffee table, put the first disc into the dvd player and pressed play and as the credits rolled, Alyssa grabbed the bowl of popcorn and placed it on knee.
"Go on run run" she whispered when she reached the part where the Doctor and his companion Rose Tyler were running down a corridor whilst being pursued by living plastic dummies and she smiled in relief when they managed to get away. She had gotten to the part where Rose's boyfriend Mickey had just been swallowed by a wheelie bin and been replaced by a living plastic version of himself when she suddenly heard a noise in the kitchen and Alyssa quickly pressed the pause button to hear voices coming from the kitchen.
"Do you know where they keep the safe?"
"How should I know, I haven't robbed this house yet have I."
"well you better start looking then haven't you?" Burgalars, Alyssa thought and acted fast, she grabbed a baseball bat which was in the cabinet and hid behind the curftain as the two intruders barged their way into the front room. Both were dressed in black and had balacavas and spoke in strong cockney accents.
"Right Vinnie, start looking for the cash, these people must own alot of the stuff if they live in a house like this" the taller one said to the shorter one.
"I think some one's been here Frank, the tv's still on" said Vinnie who gave him a slap round the back of the head and told him that they maybe left it on when they went out. Alyssa held her breath and remained hidden as the two intruders continued to search to the safe and when she heard one of them say they had found it, Alyssa decided it was time to act and jumped out of her hiding place.
"Get away from that safe now." The two intruders turned around to see the small Twelve year old girl stood in front of them, holding a a baseball bat.
"Well well well, look what we have here" said Frank "listen here kid, why don't you go and play in your little playhouse, me and Vinnie here have got some serious buisness to attend to."
"I'm not going to tell you again, get away from that safe now" Alyssa said, trying to sound brave but her voice was shaking and Frank chuckled as he walked towards the girl, brabbing hold of the baseball bat and pulling it out of her hands. At that moment, Alyssa felt scared and ran towards the stairs, screaming.
"Get back here you" Frank called after her as she ran up the stairs, yelling for her sister and as she got to the top of the stairs, she felt something hard collide with the back of her head and as she fell to the floor, losing conciounsess fast, the last thing she heard was "I think it's well past your bedtime kid." Then everything went black.
When everything began to come back into focus, the first thing Alyssa could make out that she was no longer in her house and was begining to get confused, had the two burgalars decided to kidnap her in order to stop her from reporting them to the Police but as her vision became more clearer, she realized that she was lying in the Tardis and she was now really confused, how had she got here, she had been watching Doctor who on the televison and now she was in the Tardis itself. Alyssa held her head and sat up to see a short haired man in a leather jacket stood at the consoles just as the doors burst open and his companion,Rose tyler came running through, looking scared.
"It's going to follow us!" she pointed out and Alyssa was now more confused, she was in the actual episode she had just been watching before the two guys broke into her house and she was begining to wonder wether she was dreaming or imagining it.
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute" the Doctor replied as Aylssa remained hidden, watching as Rose looked around the tardis with a confused expression and she could feel herself about to sneeze and tried to hold it in but it was impossible and she let out quite an audible sneeze which caused the Doctor to turn around, looking confused.
"I thought I heard some one sneezing" he said, creasing his eyebrows and looking at Rose "was that you?."
"No it wasn't me" Rose replied and the Doctor turned around to figure out where the sneezing had come from and it wasn't long until he found Alyssa crouched behind the railings, looking like a terrified animal that had been cornered.
"How did you get in here?" he asked, crouching down at eye level with the girl.
"I don't know" she replied as Rose came walking over to see what all the fuss was about.
"Who's the little girl?" she asked.
"I'm Alyssa benson" the young girl replied.
"Well hello there Alyssa Benson, I'm the Doctor and this is Rose tyler" the Doctor said "now can you tell me how you got in here, were you running from that headless Mickey and you came in here to hide is that it?."
"I don't know how I got in here" Alyssa replied "I was watching tv and these two guys broke into my house and they were trying to rob some money from my dad's safe but I told them to get away from it and then one of them chased me and I think they must have hit me over the head and when I woke up, I was here." The Doctor then told Alyssa to stand up so she did and then he started scanning her with a silver tube with a blue light at the end of it and Alyssa recognized it as the sonic screwdriver.
"That's odd, the sonic screwdriver doesn't sense her as being some sort of alien, she seems like an ordinary human girl" the Doctor pointed out.
"What's going to happen to me?" Alyssa asked "I have no idea how I'm going to get back home if I don't know how I ended up in here."
"You'll just have to stay with me for now, until I can figure out where you came from" the Doctor replied. Alyssa nodded and stepped further into the console room as Rose questioned the Doctor wether her boyfriend, Mickey was dead.
"Oh. I didn't think of that" he replied.
" He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head. They copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt? " Rose questioned as Alyssa looked on the console to see a severed plastic head melting into the wiring.
"Erm Doctor, there's a head melting on your console thingy majig" Alyssa pointed out and the Doctor tunred around to see that she was right.
" Oh, no, no, no, no, no!" he said in a panic, rushing to the console.
"What are you doing?" Rose asked as Alyssa stood next to her.
" Following the signal. It's fading" the Doctor replied as he raced around the console as Rose and Alyssa both watched him "Wait a minute, I've got it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Almost there. Almost there. Here we go." The Tardis came to a halt and the Doctor ran outside with the two girls following behind him and found themselves outside the river thames and Alyssa knew she was miles away from home.
" I lost the signal, I got so close" the Doctor complained as he paced up and down.
"We've moved. Does it fly?" Rose asked, looking confused as Alyssa was.
" Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand" the Doctor pointed out.
"I knew that" Alyssa muttered under her breath so that the Doctor didn't here her.
"If we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose" Rose pointed out, referring to the headless Mickey and Alyssa knew that because she had seen this episode a billion times before.
" It melted with the head. Are you going to witter on all night? " the Doctor asked.
" I'll have to tell his mother" Rose said and the Doctor looked at her with a puzzled expression "Mickey. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again! You were right, you are alien."
"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey" the Doctor snapped.
" Yeah, he's not a kid" Rose argued and Alyssa watched as the pair of them bickered before Rose asked the Doctor why he sounded like he was from the North if he was an alien.
"Lot's of Planets have a north" he replied, arms folded as Alyssa looked at the Doctor and then Rose.
"You sound like you're from Manchester, do lot's of planets have a Manchester?" the Twelve year old asked, rubbing the back of her head to try and get rid of the migraine she had.
"There isn't a Manchester where I come from" the Doctor replied.
So, what's a Police public call box?" Rose asked.
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise" the Doctor replied, patting the side of the blue box with a big grin on his face.
"don't people ever notice it when you park it?" Alyssa asked " wouldn't they find it abit odd because they don't have Police boxes anymore."
"No one even notices it because it has a chameleon circuit, that stop's people from noticing it" the Doctor explained to her.
" And this, this living plastic. What's it got against us? " Rose asked.
"Yeah" Alyssa pointed out in agreement.
"Nothing. It loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth, dinner! " the Doctor explained as the Nineteen year old and Twelve year old both listened.
"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asked and the Doctor took out a tube of blue liquid which he named anti-plastic.
"You mean that could destroy the Nestene Conciousness?" Alyssa asked, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Yes,but first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small? " he wondered, walking around like he was looking for something.
"Hold on. Hide what? " Rose asked as she and Alyssa both followed him.
" The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal" the Doctor explained and Alyssa knew what it was, she had seen this episode loads of times and she was still trying to figure out how she had ended up here after being hito ver the head by one of the intruders who had broke into her home.
"What's it look like? " Rose asked, puzzled.
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London,a huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel. Radial. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible" he explained before noticing that the two girls where both looking at something behind him and it didn't take long for the Doctor to figure out that they where looking at the London eye, making him realize that it had to be the transmitter.
"Fantastic" he said with a grin before grabbing hold of Rose's hand as she grabbed hold of Alyssa's and the three of them ran down the bridge and under the london eye.
" Think of it, plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables"the Doctor pointed out.
"The breast implants" Rose inquired.
"Don't forget the barbie dolls and action men" Alyssa pointed out and the thought of barbie dolls coming to life made her shudder, not as though she played with them as she was too old but still the thought of it made Alyssa feel creeped out.
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath" the Doctor explained as Alyssa looked over parapet to see a large man hole at the bottom of some steps.
"What about down here?" she asked.
"Looks good to me" the Doctor replied and the three of them ran down the steps until they reached the man hole where the Doctor opened the lid and the three of them climbed down a ladder into a red filled chamber where they peered over the railing to see a molten lava like creature inside a huge vat.
"The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature"the Doctor pointed out.
"Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go" Rose said, her voice shaking slightly and Alyssa just stared it, hands gripping the side of the railings with her knuckles turning white.
" I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance" the Doctor replied before he began speaking to the living Nestene itself "I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation" the creature makes a growling noise and flexes " Thank you. If I might have permission to approach?." Rose looked over the railing to see the real Mikcey crouched down next to the railing, shaking like a scared animal.
"Oh, God" she muttered, running down to the lower level and to her boyfriend as Alyssa and the Doctor followed behind "Mickey, it's me! It's okay. It's all right."
"That thing down there, the liquid. Rose, it can talk"Mickey pointed out and Rose told the Doctor that they had kpet him alive as he came down the stairs.
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy" the Doctor replied.
"You knew that and you never said?" Rose asked.
"yeah, why didn't you mention that in the first place?" Alyssa asked.
"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?" the Doctor pointed out as he walked down to the lower level which was just above where the Nestene was "Am I addressing the Consciousness?" the Nestene forms a face like structure "Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off? " he said with a grin as the Nestene grolwed in response "Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights" the Nestene roared even louder and the Doctor was now getting angry " I am talking! This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please, just go. " Rose and Alyssa then noticed that two shop window dummies where creeping up on the Doctor and they called out to him as one grabbed hold of him and the other removed the tube of Anti-plastic from his Jacket Pocket.
"That was just insurance. I wasn't going to use it. I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not" the Doctor pleaded as the Nestene roared in a more angressive manner "What do you mean? " the Doctor asked as a door behind him slid open to reveal the Tardis "No. Oh, no. Honestly, no. Yes, that's my ship" he pointed out as the Nestene became more angrier "That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!."
"What's it doing?"Rose asked.
"It's the Tardis! The Nestene's identified its superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose, Alyssa Just leg it now" he told them and Rose got out her Mobile phone to call her mum as Alyssa watched as the Nestene became more and more agitated.
"Get out Rose, get Alyssa" the Doctor warned them both as Rose put her phone back in her pocket to see that the stairs had caved in.
" The stairs have gone" she pointed out as she, Alyssa and Mickey ran to the tardis as the shop window dummy that had hold of the Doctor attempted to push him into the vat "I haven't got the key!."
"We're going to die" Mickey whimpered as Alyssa backed herself up against the Tardis, this all felt real to her, despite it being only a dream which was filling her unconcious mind.
"Time lord" the Nestene roared in anger as the Doctor struggled to break free from the dummy that was still holding onto him with Rose and Alyssa stood outside the tardis, both looking at him before Rose ran towards some chains hanging off the wall.
"Just leave him! there's nothing you can do!" Mickey told her.
"I've got no A Levels, no job, no future" Rose said as she chopped away at the chains with an axe "But I tell you what I have got. Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastic team. I've got the bronze! ." She then grabbed hold of a rope and swung across the room, kicking the dummy that was holding the Doctor into the vat whilst Alyssa pushed the second one into the vat.
" Rose!" the Doctor yelled as Rose swung back to him and he caught her before noticing that the Nestene was about to explode as the Anti-plastic had spilled into it "now we're in trouble." The Chamber began to fall to pieces and the Doctor, Alyssa, Rose and Mickey ran into the Tardis where the Doctor sat Alyssa down onto the Pilots chair to ask her if she remembered how she had ended up inside the Tardis.
"I don't remember, the last thing I remember was that I was sat at home watching Tv when these two guys broke in, they came into the room looking for my dad's safe and I hid until they found the safe and I told them to get away from it but one of them chased me up the stairs and he must have hit me over the head because that was the last thing I remembered before waking up here" Alyssa explained "I'm sorry if I'm intruding."
"Aree you kidding, you saved my life back there young lady" the Doctor replied with a grin "maybe you should stick with me until I can figure out how to get you back."
"That would be cool"Alyssa replied with a smile and the Doctor smiled back at her before the two of them high fived.
"Doctor, I think we've landed" Rose informed whilst Mickey was clinging to her waist, still looking scared.
"Ah yes" the Doctor cheered as the doors opened and Mickey ran out to crouch beside some bins as Rose followed him out whilst the Doctor stood at the entrance as Alyssa hung around near the consoles.
" A fat lot of good you were"Rose pointed out.
" Nestene Consciousness? Easy" the Doctor said, clicking his fingers.
"You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me and Alyssa"Rose replied.
"Yes, I would. Thank you" the Doctor replied "Right then, me and this little lady will be off , unless, er, I don't know, you could come with us. This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe free of charge. "
"Don't. He's an alien. He's a thing" Mickey pointed out whilst he still clung to Rose for dear life.
" He's not invited"The Doctor said, nodding in Mickey's direction "What do you think? You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere."
" Is it always this dangerous? " Rose asked.
" Yeah" the Doctor replied.
"I'm not scared of anything" Alyssa pointed out "I'm ready for anything, I'm a green belt in karate you know."
"Well if you're a green belt, then how come you couldn't defend yourselves agaisnt those two burgalars that broke into your house, hmm?" the Doctor asked her and Alyssa blushed in embarrasement.
"It all happened to quickly" Alyssa replied and the Doctor chuckled at her before turning back to Rose who told him that she couldn't go with him as she had to find her mum and look after Mickey.
" Okay. See you around" the Doctor replied before closing the doors and dematerialised before he materialised again to tell Rose that the Tardis also travelled in time so She gave Mickey a kiss on the cheek before running into the Tardis to start a whole set ofn ew adventures with the Doctor and the lost girl, Alyssa Benson.