CROSSROADS
This started out as a sim (Dr Who & Co) so I can't take full creative credit. I only adapted it to story form. It may be a bit disjointed and I apologize. The Doctor and Adric belong to the BBC. Alan Kelly is my own and the other characters are based on Marvel comic books (with a slight variation). The log for part one went missing so the summary was submitted by another player.
I
(summary)
The TARDIS landed in modern day New York. The Doctor was busy fiddling with the console, so Adric decided to begin exploring on his own. He was not impressed with his first visit to the Doctor's favorite planet. ((the story is set between Keeper of Traken and Logopolis)) It all seemed rather dreary and low-tech. As usual, Adric was hungry. He noticed a street- corner stand selling something which is obviously food (hot dogs), but also realized he has none of the green paper the humans were exchanging for their edibles. So, being a resourceful lad...he grabbed two hot dogs while the vendor's back was turned, and slipped away into the crowd unnoticed.
Or so he thought. Watching from the shadows nearby was an unusual young woman whose costume and abilities seemed to mirror those of the comic book superhero Spider-Man. She followed Adric, and caught up to him in an alleyway where he had stopped to eat. Adric was suspicious of this stranger, especially because of her costume...he had had some rather nasty experiences with spiders ((Full Circle)). Nevertheless, she quickly learned enough from him to realize he was not of this world, and likely not of this time...
A fact which also interested a man named Alan Kelly. Kelly was from Earth's future, where he worked as a test pilot, and became involved with a time travel experiment. Kelly was also a time-sensitive, and the frequent temporal anomalies, people and things drawn away from their proper time and place to this city, was having a terrible effect on him. He'd been suffering a series of ghastly headaches... and one such headache lead him to Adric.
As Kelly approached, an uncomfortable Spider-Woman disappeared into the shadows once more; Adric was less than disappointed. He was much more at ease with Alan. They talked for a little while...and then Kelly suffered another headache, the worst one yet. Adric, worried, decided to take him back to the TARDIS.
There, they find the door left open, and the Doctor missing. The TARDIS wasn't exactly unoccupied, though...Spider-Woman had let herself in. An infuriated Adric told her to get out of his home. Alan tried to calm him down...perhaps Spidey could help tell them what had become of the Doctor, or to figure out what was with all these temporal anomalies in New York. Adric, angry at the intrusion and still thinking of Spider-Woman as more spider than person, wouldn't listen. He tried to push her out of the ship, and when she jumped out of his reach and clung to the ceiling, he sent a mild electrical current through it, knocking her back to the floor.
Alan helped Spidey pick herself up, then really let Adric have it. The boy finally stopped and thought about what he'd been doing, and realized that he had been childish, irrational, and thinking with prejudice rather than reason, and at last he apologized. Spider-Woman not only accepted this, but gave him the money so he could go pay for his hot dogs and correct that mistake as well.
When Adric got back to the TARDIS, Spidey mentioned having seen the Doctor leave just before Alan and Adric reached the ship. The small group set off to find the Doctor; Adric and Spidey started walking, while Alan scouted ahead with the short-range teleporter which is part of his time- travel device (something like a large wrist computer).
Adric and Spidey soon came upon the Doctor's scarf, thrown over a streetlight... then Spider-Woman's spider sense kicked in. The Doctor was in trouble somewhere, and she thought she might be able to trace him. Alan, also in telepathic contact with Spidey, hopped back to rejoin the group, and Adric suggested he could recalibrate Alan's teleporter to take them to the Doctor.
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Alan asked him.
"Of course," he replied confidently. "I do have a badge for mathematical excellence."
"Theory or application?"
"Oh, its all the same when it comes right down to it," he insisted...which is about when the teleporter blinked, and the three disappeared as Adric mumbled, "oops."
1 II
Adric, Spidey, and Alan reappeared in a cage in what looked to be a zoo. Adric hardly noticed his surroundings, though, because the Doctor was standing beside them. "About time you got here."
"Doctor!"
Alan turned to Adric. "Thanks a hell of a lot! I hope you didn't ruin this!" He grabbed his time machine from the boy.
"What are you worrying about? I got us here, didn't I?"
"Yeah, but I need this to get back home!" He strapped it back to his wrist then held out his hand to the Doctor. "Hi. Col. Alan Kelly."
"Careful with that. We may all need it."
"Why, Doctor? Where are we? What's going on? I must say...so far, I'm not very impressed with this Earth of yours."
Spidey had paid little attention to the conversation as she looked about their surroundings, but Adric's questions mirrored her own. "Yes...I'd like to know that myself...where are we?"
"What's going on is the same as where. First this is not Earth. An amazing likeness but not Earth."
"You said it was! When we landed!" declared Adric.
"Whoa! What do you mean 'This is not Earth'? My coordinates are reading New York City," said Alan.
"I said it was a amazing likeness."
"An amazing likeness? Come on, Doctor! No two planets are this similar!"
"This is meant to look and feel like Earth but we are in the future. Everyone on this planet is a fan of old superheroes"
"What does the time have to do with anything?" demanded Adric.
"Whose future?" asked Alan.
"The future of humans, of course."
"I'm from the 23rd century," Alan told him.
"Superheroes...you mean like in those comic books you're always reading?" asked Adric.
"Exactly!" The Doctor looked to Alan. "Well well this is the 40th century. "
"The 40th century! And their technology has only come this far?" Adric couldn't believe it.
Alan looked about the cell. "That would explain it. No advancement in original thought, then."
"How far was technology supposed to go?" the Doctor asked of Adric.
"I don't know...farther than this! This is no more advanced than all the 20th century artifacts you've shown me."
"Of course with a land populated by superheroes, that means someone has to play a supervillan."
"Supervillain?" questioned Spidey.
"But if they're just playing a villain, what do we have to worry about?" asked Adric.
"That's what I though but this one has flipped. He really believes he is a supervillan."
Spidey seemed not to notice them anymore, off in her thoughts. "Hey!" she declared.
Adric turned to Spidey. "What now?"
"Nothing. . ." She seemed to be thinking but not realizing she was saying some things aloud. "Yes..."
"You said "hey". There must have been a reason."
"No...none...not at all...must there ALWAYS be a reason for something?"
The Doctor seemed to think that Alan and Spidey shared the same origins. "Aren't you a 'spider person' as well?"
"Not me! Only her! I'm just your friendly fellow time traveler supposedly on vacation."
"This is your world more then the spider person." He felt that this officer from the past might hold the key to what was happening. "Do you know who teleported us here?"
Adric proudly answered, "I did that, Doctor!"
"Showoff..." muttered Spidey.
"Yeah and hopefully didn't ruin my transport," said Alan.
"Or rather, I brought the three of us here. How did you get here?" He turned to Alan. "Quit worrying. I'm sure its fine. And I can fix it if it isn't."
"I really don't remember. I heard a shout and then I woke up here. And this guy in the shadows keep ranting."
"This is some sort of cage," said Adric as he finally took notice of their surroundings
"Oh, yes, Doctor...I've been meaning to ask you about it...Alan here has been having some nasty headaches," he said as he wandered over to door, and took the star badge from his pocket
"Headaches? maybe the tech on this world is making him telepathic."
"I already have some telepathic abilities. No, I think it's from something else."
"Can I see the teleport device? Maybe I can get us out of this cage at least."
Alan handed the time machine to the Doctor. "I nearly passed out when I got close to your TARDIS."
Over in the corner, Adric began fiddling with the lock.
"My TARDIS? That's interesting."
"Adric helped me inside and then I was right as rain."
Adric got the door open. "We're out, Doctor. Come on, everyone!"
The Doctor slowly exited the cage looking around carefully. "Seems too easy but. . ."
He looked around for an exit as the others followed him. "I wonder where he--or she--got to."
Out of habit, Alan reached for weapon only to find none. He hated walking into something unknown without a form of defense.
"Where to now, Doctor?" asked Adric. "Back to the TARDIS?"
Spidey's spider sense kicked in and she looked behind them.
"As I don't seen a door, Adric, I have to make this work first," he said, motioning with the time machine.
Alan felt a slight pounding in his head and reached for his temples.
"Oh...I can get us back there in a moment. Let me try..." Adric reached out his hand.
The Doctor, who had been examining it closely, handed it over. "OK, it's your doohickey."
"It's quite simple, really, Doctor..."
"If you leave it alone, I'll buy you some more hot dogs!" Alan declared.
"Well, you won't be buying anyone hot dogs in here, will you? Trust me. I can get us all back to the TARDIS."
"Fine, but let the Doctor deal with it!"
"Your gadget will be fine, and your head will feel better too. I got us here, didn't I? Why can't you trust my genius?"
Alan gritted his teeth. "Oh, fine! Never really liked braggarts," he added to himself.
Spidey looked at Adric. "Genius?...how about not trusting your ego?"
"Don't they have a saying on Earth...'false modesty is no virtue'?"
"Yes...they do..."
"I can't help it if I'm brilliant. There...that should do it."
"And people say I have a ego problem at times," mumbled the Doctor.
Adric pressed the final button and the group disappeared only to reappear next to the TARDIS. Adric handed teleporter back to Alan. "You see! Nothing to worry about."
"That was quick," said the Doctor.
Alan grabbed the machine just as he fell due to a major headache. "Thanks."
"Alan?...are you alright?" asked Spidey.
Adric rushed over to help Alan up. "Alan?"
"Just....Get....Me.....Inside!"
The Doctor took the TARDIS key out of his pocket and put it in the lock. "What the! It can't be!"
"Can't be what?" asked Spidey, her curiosity peaked.
"Doctor? Doctor, we have to get him in there NOW!" called Adric.
"I wish I could but this is not my TARDIS. It's a fake."
"Fake?" questioned Spidey.
"What?!?" demanded Adric.
Alan found the pounding unbearable and felt that unconsciousness would be a blessing.
"How do you know?" asked Spidey.
"Doctor, this is no time for one of your strange jokes!" said Adric.
Spidey went over to help Adric with Alan who was attempting to keep a tenuous hold on consciousness. Adric, once he was sure Spidey could handle it, left her in charge and went over to the Doctor.
"Simply, this key is encoded it will only work on my TARDIS and it won't even enter the lock."
"Well, then...let me try." Adric tried to pick the lock with his star badge.
"I am afraid we are trapped here."
The door opened to reveal a simple box. "I think we're in trouble, Doctor..."
This started out as a sim (Dr Who & Co) so I can't take full creative credit. I only adapted it to story form. It may be a bit disjointed and I apologize. The Doctor and Adric belong to the BBC. Alan Kelly is my own and the other characters are based on Marvel comic books (with a slight variation). The log for part one went missing so the summary was submitted by another player.
I
(summary)
The TARDIS landed in modern day New York. The Doctor was busy fiddling with the console, so Adric decided to begin exploring on his own. He was not impressed with his first visit to the Doctor's favorite planet. ((the story is set between Keeper of Traken and Logopolis)) It all seemed rather dreary and low-tech. As usual, Adric was hungry. He noticed a street- corner stand selling something which is obviously food (hot dogs), but also realized he has none of the green paper the humans were exchanging for their edibles. So, being a resourceful lad...he grabbed two hot dogs while the vendor's back was turned, and slipped away into the crowd unnoticed.
Or so he thought. Watching from the shadows nearby was an unusual young woman whose costume and abilities seemed to mirror those of the comic book superhero Spider-Man. She followed Adric, and caught up to him in an alleyway where he had stopped to eat. Adric was suspicious of this stranger, especially because of her costume...he had had some rather nasty experiences with spiders ((Full Circle)). Nevertheless, she quickly learned enough from him to realize he was not of this world, and likely not of this time...
A fact which also interested a man named Alan Kelly. Kelly was from Earth's future, where he worked as a test pilot, and became involved with a time travel experiment. Kelly was also a time-sensitive, and the frequent temporal anomalies, people and things drawn away from their proper time and place to this city, was having a terrible effect on him. He'd been suffering a series of ghastly headaches... and one such headache lead him to Adric.
As Kelly approached, an uncomfortable Spider-Woman disappeared into the shadows once more; Adric was less than disappointed. He was much more at ease with Alan. They talked for a little while...and then Kelly suffered another headache, the worst one yet. Adric, worried, decided to take him back to the TARDIS.
There, they find the door left open, and the Doctor missing. The TARDIS wasn't exactly unoccupied, though...Spider-Woman had let herself in. An infuriated Adric told her to get out of his home. Alan tried to calm him down...perhaps Spidey could help tell them what had become of the Doctor, or to figure out what was with all these temporal anomalies in New York. Adric, angry at the intrusion and still thinking of Spider-Woman as more spider than person, wouldn't listen. He tried to push her out of the ship, and when she jumped out of his reach and clung to the ceiling, he sent a mild electrical current through it, knocking her back to the floor.
Alan helped Spidey pick herself up, then really let Adric have it. The boy finally stopped and thought about what he'd been doing, and realized that he had been childish, irrational, and thinking with prejudice rather than reason, and at last he apologized. Spider-Woman not only accepted this, but gave him the money so he could go pay for his hot dogs and correct that mistake as well.
When Adric got back to the TARDIS, Spidey mentioned having seen the Doctor leave just before Alan and Adric reached the ship. The small group set off to find the Doctor; Adric and Spidey started walking, while Alan scouted ahead with the short-range teleporter which is part of his time- travel device (something like a large wrist computer).
Adric and Spidey soon came upon the Doctor's scarf, thrown over a streetlight... then Spider-Woman's spider sense kicked in. The Doctor was in trouble somewhere, and she thought she might be able to trace him. Alan, also in telepathic contact with Spidey, hopped back to rejoin the group, and Adric suggested he could recalibrate Alan's teleporter to take them to the Doctor.
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Alan asked him.
"Of course," he replied confidently. "I do have a badge for mathematical excellence."
"Theory or application?"
"Oh, its all the same when it comes right down to it," he insisted...which is about when the teleporter blinked, and the three disappeared as Adric mumbled, "oops."
1 II
Adric, Spidey, and Alan reappeared in a cage in what looked to be a zoo. Adric hardly noticed his surroundings, though, because the Doctor was standing beside them. "About time you got here."
"Doctor!"
Alan turned to Adric. "Thanks a hell of a lot! I hope you didn't ruin this!" He grabbed his time machine from the boy.
"What are you worrying about? I got us here, didn't I?"
"Yeah, but I need this to get back home!" He strapped it back to his wrist then held out his hand to the Doctor. "Hi. Col. Alan Kelly."
"Careful with that. We may all need it."
"Why, Doctor? Where are we? What's going on? I must say...so far, I'm not very impressed with this Earth of yours."
Spidey had paid little attention to the conversation as she looked about their surroundings, but Adric's questions mirrored her own. "Yes...I'd like to know that myself...where are we?"
"What's going on is the same as where. First this is not Earth. An amazing likeness but not Earth."
"You said it was! When we landed!" declared Adric.
"Whoa! What do you mean 'This is not Earth'? My coordinates are reading New York City," said Alan.
"I said it was a amazing likeness."
"An amazing likeness? Come on, Doctor! No two planets are this similar!"
"This is meant to look and feel like Earth but we are in the future. Everyone on this planet is a fan of old superheroes"
"What does the time have to do with anything?" demanded Adric.
"Whose future?" asked Alan.
"The future of humans, of course."
"I'm from the 23rd century," Alan told him.
"Superheroes...you mean like in those comic books you're always reading?" asked Adric.
"Exactly!" The Doctor looked to Alan. "Well well this is the 40th century. "
"The 40th century! And their technology has only come this far?" Adric couldn't believe it.
Alan looked about the cell. "That would explain it. No advancement in original thought, then."
"How far was technology supposed to go?" the Doctor asked of Adric.
"I don't know...farther than this! This is no more advanced than all the 20th century artifacts you've shown me."
"Of course with a land populated by superheroes, that means someone has to play a supervillan."
"Supervillain?" questioned Spidey.
"But if they're just playing a villain, what do we have to worry about?" asked Adric.
"That's what I though but this one has flipped. He really believes he is a supervillan."
Spidey seemed not to notice them anymore, off in her thoughts. "Hey!" she declared.
Adric turned to Spidey. "What now?"
"Nothing. . ." She seemed to be thinking but not realizing she was saying some things aloud. "Yes..."
"You said "hey". There must have been a reason."
"No...none...not at all...must there ALWAYS be a reason for something?"
The Doctor seemed to think that Alan and Spidey shared the same origins. "Aren't you a 'spider person' as well?"
"Not me! Only her! I'm just your friendly fellow time traveler supposedly on vacation."
"This is your world more then the spider person." He felt that this officer from the past might hold the key to what was happening. "Do you know who teleported us here?"
Adric proudly answered, "I did that, Doctor!"
"Showoff..." muttered Spidey.
"Yeah and hopefully didn't ruin my transport," said Alan.
"Or rather, I brought the three of us here. How did you get here?" He turned to Alan. "Quit worrying. I'm sure its fine. And I can fix it if it isn't."
"I really don't remember. I heard a shout and then I woke up here. And this guy in the shadows keep ranting."
"This is some sort of cage," said Adric as he finally took notice of their surroundings
"Oh, yes, Doctor...I've been meaning to ask you about it...Alan here has been having some nasty headaches," he said as he wandered over to door, and took the star badge from his pocket
"Headaches? maybe the tech on this world is making him telepathic."
"I already have some telepathic abilities. No, I think it's from something else."
"Can I see the teleport device? Maybe I can get us out of this cage at least."
Alan handed the time machine to the Doctor. "I nearly passed out when I got close to your TARDIS."
Over in the corner, Adric began fiddling with the lock.
"My TARDIS? That's interesting."
"Adric helped me inside and then I was right as rain."
Adric got the door open. "We're out, Doctor. Come on, everyone!"
The Doctor slowly exited the cage looking around carefully. "Seems too easy but. . ."
He looked around for an exit as the others followed him. "I wonder where he--or she--got to."
Out of habit, Alan reached for weapon only to find none. He hated walking into something unknown without a form of defense.
"Where to now, Doctor?" asked Adric. "Back to the TARDIS?"
Spidey's spider sense kicked in and she looked behind them.
"As I don't seen a door, Adric, I have to make this work first," he said, motioning with the time machine.
Alan felt a slight pounding in his head and reached for his temples.
"Oh...I can get us back there in a moment. Let me try..." Adric reached out his hand.
The Doctor, who had been examining it closely, handed it over. "OK, it's your doohickey."
"It's quite simple, really, Doctor..."
"If you leave it alone, I'll buy you some more hot dogs!" Alan declared.
"Well, you won't be buying anyone hot dogs in here, will you? Trust me. I can get us all back to the TARDIS."
"Fine, but let the Doctor deal with it!"
"Your gadget will be fine, and your head will feel better too. I got us here, didn't I? Why can't you trust my genius?"
Alan gritted his teeth. "Oh, fine! Never really liked braggarts," he added to himself.
Spidey looked at Adric. "Genius?...how about not trusting your ego?"
"Don't they have a saying on Earth...'false modesty is no virtue'?"
"Yes...they do..."
"I can't help it if I'm brilliant. There...that should do it."
"And people say I have a ego problem at times," mumbled the Doctor.
Adric pressed the final button and the group disappeared only to reappear next to the TARDIS. Adric handed teleporter back to Alan. "You see! Nothing to worry about."
"That was quick," said the Doctor.
Alan grabbed the machine just as he fell due to a major headache. "Thanks."
"Alan?...are you alright?" asked Spidey.
Adric rushed over to help Alan up. "Alan?"
"Just....Get....Me.....Inside!"
The Doctor took the TARDIS key out of his pocket and put it in the lock. "What the! It can't be!"
"Can't be what?" asked Spidey, her curiosity peaked.
"Doctor? Doctor, we have to get him in there NOW!" called Adric.
"I wish I could but this is not my TARDIS. It's a fake."
"Fake?" questioned Spidey.
"What?!?" demanded Adric.
Alan found the pounding unbearable and felt that unconsciousness would be a blessing.
"How do you know?" asked Spidey.
"Doctor, this is no time for one of your strange jokes!" said Adric.
Spidey went over to help Adric with Alan who was attempting to keep a tenuous hold on consciousness. Adric, once he was sure Spidey could handle it, left her in charge and went over to the Doctor.
"Simply, this key is encoded it will only work on my TARDIS and it won't even enter the lock."
"Well, then...let me try." Adric tried to pick the lock with his star badge.
"I am afraid we are trapped here."
The door opened to reveal a simple box. "I think we're in trouble, Doctor..."