Voyage of The Damned - Part 2
"Mister Frame, how's things?" The Doctor asks about how things are.
"Doctor, I've got life signs all over the ship but they're going out one by one." Frame explains.
"What is it? Are they losing air?" The Doctor inquires.
"No." Frame says. "One of them said it's the Host. It's something to do with the Host."
"It's working!" Morvin shouts.
"Kill."
"Turn it off!" The Doctor orders them.
"I can't, Doctor!" Foon says.
"Kill. Kill. Kill."
"Go!" The Doctor says as Sophia goes through the gap as the Host has Morvin by the throat. The Doctor gets out the sonic screwdriver. "Double deadlock!"
The Doctor pulls the Host's hands off Morvin's throat.
"Quickly, go upstairs!" The Doctor shouts.
"Run, darling, run!" Foon tells her husband.
"Information. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill."
"Foon! Foon!" Morvin shouts.
"Rickston, get them through!" The Doctor tells Rickston.
"No chance." Rickston disagrees as he gets through the gap.
"Rickston!" Mister Copper shouts at him.
"I'll never get through there." Foon says.
"Yes, you can. Let me go first." Mister Copper says as the Host swings at the Doctor, but misses.
"Kill. Kill."
"It's the Host, they've gone berserk. Are you safe up there?" The Doctor asks Frame as the host arrive at the entrance to the bridge.
"Kill. Kill. Kill..."
Frame gets to the door control and it slams shut, trapping a Host's hand.
"Now I'm stuck!" Foon tells them.
"Come on, you can do it!" Astrid tells her as the debris shifts.
"It's going to collapse." Mister Copper says as he levers the debris up with a metal bar and Foon gets through."Rickston, vot damn it, help me."
"No way." Rickston says.
"Morvin, get through!" The Doctor tells Morvin.
"Kill. Kill. Kill."
"Doctor, he's stuck!" Astrid shouts as the Doctor pushes at Morvin's ample behind.
"Mister van Hoff, I know we've only just met, but you'll have to excuse me." The Doctor says as Morvin pops through the hole.
"That's it. We've got you. Doctor, come on, get through." Astrid says.
"Information override! You will tell me the point of origin of your command structure!" The Doctor commands the Host.
"Information. Deck thirty one." The Host replies.
"Thank you." The Doctor thanks the Host as he gets through the gap. "Thank you. Let go!"
Copper lets the bar go and the debris smashes down on the Host's head.
Up on the bridge, Frame gets the door sealed, chopping off the Host's hand. It looks at him through the window in the bulkhead.
-!-
There is a trolley of sandwiches nearby.
"Morvin, look. Food." Foon says to her husband.
"Oh great. Someone's happy." Rickston complains.
"Don't have any then." Morvin tells him.
"Mister Frame, are you still there?" The Doctor asks Midshipman Frame.
"Yes, sir, but I've got Host outside. I've sealed the door." Frame explains to him.
"They've been programmed to kill. Why would anyone do that?" The Doctor inquires.
"That's not the only problem, Doctor. I had to use a maximum deadlock on the door, which means no one can get in. I'm sealed off. Even if you can fix the Titanic,you can't get to the bridge." Frame explains the situation.
"Yeah, right, fine. One problem at a time. What's on deck thirty one?" The Doctor inquires what Deck 31 holds.
"Er, that's down below. It's nothing. It's just the Host storage deck. That's where we keep the robots." Frame explains.
"Well, what's that? Do you see that panel? Black. It's registering nothing. No power, no heat, no light." The Doctor asks about the room.
"I've never seen it before." Frame says.
"One hundred percent shielded. What's down there?" The Doctor still inquires.
"I'll try intensifying the scanner." Frame tells him.
"Let me know if you find anything. And keep those engines going." The Doctor says.
"Saved you some. You might be a Time King from Gaddabee but you need to eat." Astrid explains.
"Yeah, thanks." The Doctor says.
"So, you look good for nine hundred and three." Astrid comments to him.
"You should see him in the mornings." Sophia comments.
"Okay." Astrid agrees.
"Doctor, it must be well past midnight, Earth time. Christmas Day." Mister Copper says.
"So it is. Merry Christmas, Mister Copper." Sophia wishes to Mister Copper.
"This Christmas thing, what's it all about?" Astrid inquires about Christmas.
"Long story. I should know, I was there. I got the last room." The Doctor says.
"But if the planet's waking up, can't we signal them? They could send up a rocket or something." Mister Copper asks if anyone can send up a rocket to message the Titanic.
"They don't have spaceships." The Doctor notes.
"No, I read about it. They have shuffles. Space shuffles." Mister Copper tells the Doctor.
"Mister Copper, this degree in Earthonomics, where's it from?" The Doctor asks about the degree in Earthonmics.
"Honestly?" Mister Copper asks him.
"Just between us." Sophia tells him.
"Mrs Golightly's Happy Travelling University and Dry Cleaners." Mister Copper explains the place.
"You, you lied to the company to get the job?" Astrid asks him.
"I wasted my life on Sto. I was a travelling salesman, always on the road, and I reached retirement with nothing to show for it. Not even a home. And Earth sounded so exotic." Mister Copper explains his life to them.
"Hmm. I suppose it is, yeah." The Doctor says to him.
"How come you know it so well?" Astrid inquires.
"I was sort of, a few years ago, I was sort of made, well, sort of homeless, and, er, there was the Earth." The Doctor says.
"The thing is, if we survive this, there'll be police and all sorts of investigations. Now the minimum penalty for space lane fraud is ten years in jail. I'm an old man. I won't survive ten years." Mister Copper tells them about the police and the penalty on Sto as they all hear a bang!
"A Host! Move! Come on!" The Doctor says.
-!-
The Doctor leads them through the next bulkhead to catwalk and a narrow fallen beam forming walkway across a massive empty space in the middle of the ship.
"Is that the only way across?" Rickston asks.
"On the other hand, it is a way across." The Doctor tells him otherwise.
"That or Host." Sophia says.
"The engines are open." Astrid notes.
"Nuclear storm drive. As soon as it stops, the Titanic falls." The Doctor says.
"But that thing, it'll never take our weight." Morvin complains.
"You're going last, mate." Rickston says.
"It's nitrofin metal. It's stronger than it looks." The Doctor tells him otherwise.
"All the same, Rickston's right. Me and Foon should..." Morvin says as he steps forward and the metal under his foot gives way. He falls towards the engine furnace.
"Morvin!" Foon screeches.
"I told you. I told you!" Slade tells him.
"Just shut up. Shut up!" Sophia says to him.
"Bring him back! Can't you bring him back? Bring him back, Doctor!" Foon requests the Doctor to bring her husband back to life.
"I can't. I'm sorry, I can't." The Doctor tells her.
"You promised me." Foon says.
"I know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The Doctor tells her.
"Doctor, I rather think that those things have got our scent." Mr Copper says.
"I'm not waiting." Slade says.
"Careful. Take it slowly!" The Doctor tells him as the ship shakes and Slade falls onto the beam.
"Oh, Vot help me." Rickston asks for help for himself.
"You're okay. A step at a time. Come on, you can do it." The Doctor tries to convince him.
"Kill. Kill. Kill." The Host shouts.
"They're getting nearer." Mister Copper says.
"Seal us in." The Doctor tells the team.
"You're leaving us trapped, wouldn't you say?" Mister Copper asks if they are trapped.
"Never say trapped, just inconveniently circumstanced." The Doctor says as he asks to call trapped something else.
"Oh." Mister Copper says as the Doctor sonics the bulkhead controls.
"I'm okay." Rickston says.
"Maybe he's all right. Maybe, maybe there's a gravity curve down there or something. I don't know. Maybe he's just unconscious." Foon asks if there is something down in the engines that can change him.
"I'm sorry, Foon. He's gone." Astrid tells him as Foon sobs in Astrid's arms, Rickston Slade makes it to the other side.
"Yes. Oh. yes! Who's good!" Rickston congatualtes himself.
"Bannakaffalatta, you go next." The Doctor tells Bannakaffalatta.
"Bannakaffalatta small." Bannakaffalatta tells him.
"Slowly!" The Doctor reminds him as the Host are hammering on the bulkhead door.
"They've found us." Mister Copper says.
"Astrid, get across right now." The Doctor tells Astrid.
"What about you?" Astrid asks.
"Just do it. Go on. Mister Copper, we can't wait." The Doctor says as he wants Mr Copper to go.
"No, but we..." Mister Copper tells him.
"Don't argue. Foon, you've got to get across right now." The Doctor says as he asks Foon to go.
"What for? What am I going to do without him?" Foon inquires.
"Doctor? The door's locked!" Rickston complains about the door being locked as Sophia moves onto the bridge.
"Just think. What would he want, eh?" The Doctor asks.
"He don't want nothing. He's dead." Foon says.
"Doctor, I can't open the door. We need the whirling key thing of yours." Rickston tells the Doctor.
"I can't leave her." The Doctor tells him.
"She'll get us all killed if we can't get out." Rickston says.
"Mrs van Hoff, I am coming back for you. All right?" The Doctor tells him as he follows the other three across the rickety bridge.
"Too many people!" Bannakaffalatta complains.
"Oi! Don't get spiky with me. Keep going." The Doctor says as he tells Bannakaffalatta as he gets across the weakest bit in the middle, followed by Astrid.
"It's going to fall." Astrid says.
"It's just settling. Keep going." The Doctor tells them as it goes quiet.
"They've stopped." Astrid says.
"Gone away?" Bannakaffalatta inquires.
"Why would they give up?" Sophia asks.
"Never mind that. Keep coming." Rickston tells them.
"Where have they gone? Where are the Host?" The Doctor inquires.
"I'm afraid we've forgotten the traditions of Christmas. That angels have wings!" Mister Copper reminds him as the group of Host glide down and surround them.
"Information. Kill." The Host says as they remove their haloes.
"Arm yourself, all of you." The Doctor orders them as everyone on the bridge grabs a bit of pipe and uses it as a bat to send the haloes flying, but one cuts the Doctor's arm and another injures Copper's side.
"I can't." Astrid says.
"Bannakaffalatta stop. Bannakaffalatta proud. Bannakaffalatta cyborg!" Bannakaffalatta annouces as he lifts his shirt and sends out an energy pulse. It short-circuits the Host, sending them plummeting down into the engine core, except one that lands on the catwalk behind the Doctor.
"Electromagnetic pulse took out the robotics. Oh, Bannakaffalatta, that was brilliant!" The Doctor congratulates Bannakaffalatta as the cyborg collapses.
"He's used all his power." Astrid says.
"Did good?" Bannakaffalatta asks her.
"You saved our lives." Sophia tells him.
"Bannakaffalatta happy." Bannakaffalatta says.
"We can recharge you. Get you to a power point and just plug you in." Astrid says.
"Too late." Bannakaffalatta tells him.
"No, but you got to get me that drink, remember?" Astrid reminds Bannakaffalatta.
"Pretty girl." Bannakaffalatta comments on Astrid's appearence before he dies. Astrid starts to fasten his shirt, but Copper reaches for a component.
"I'm sorry. Forgive me." Mister Copper says.
"Leave him alone." Astrid tells Mister Copper.
"It's the EMP transmitter. He'd want us to use it. I used to sell these things. They'd always give me a bed for the night in the cyborg caravans. They're good people. But if we can recharge it, we can use it as a weapon against the rest of the Host. Bannakaffalatta might have saved us all." Mister Copper explains about the EMP transmitter
"Do you think? Try telling him that." Ricktson says as the Host that landed behind the Doctor is moving.
"Information. Reboot." The Host says.
"Use the EMP!" Rickston asks for the EMP to be used.
"It's dead. It's dead." Mister Copper says.
"It's got to have emergency." Astrid tells them.
"No, no, no. Hold on. Override loophole. Security protocol ten. Six six six. Er, twenty one, four, five, six, seven, eight. I don't know, forty two? Er, one!" The Doctor tries to talk with the Host.
"Information. State request." The Host asks for it's request.
"Good. Right. You've been ordered to kill the survivors, but why?" The Doctor inquires.
"Information. No witnesses." The Host says.
"But this ship's going to fall on the Earth and kill everyone. The human race have nothing to do with the Titanic, so that contravenes your orders, yes?" The Doctor explains as he asks about the orders.
"Information. Incorrect." The Host disagrees.
"But why do you want to destroy the Earth?" The Doctor asks.
"Information. It is the plan." The Host reveals.
"What plan?" The Doctor inquires the plan.
"Information. Protocol grants you only three questions. These three questions have been used." The Host explains the protocal and it's question limits.
"Well, you could have warned me." The Doctor tells him.
"Information. Now you will die." The Host says to him as the Host raises its halo, it is lassoed from behind.
"You're coming with me." Foon tells the Host as she jumps over the side, dragging the Host after her.
"No!" The Doctor shouts as Foon rejoins Morvin.
"No more."
"I'm sorry." Sophia apoligizes.
"It's not your fault. It's never your fault." The Doctor tells her.
-!-
"Right. Get yourself up to Reception One. Once you're there, Mister Copper, you've got staff access to the computer. Try to find a way of transmitting an SOS. Astrid, you're in charge of this." The Doctor says as he explains to the EMP transmitter."Once it's powered up, it'll take out a Host within fifty yards but then it needs sixty seconds to recharge. Got it? Rickston, take this." He gives Rickston the sonic screwdriver. "I've preset it. Just hold down that button, it'll open doors. Do not lose it! You got that? Now go and open the next door. Go on, go!"
"All right!" Rickston tells him as the Doctor hands a first aid kit to Copper.
"Mister Copper, you're going to need this. I need you fighting fit. Astrid, where's the power points?" The Doctor continues his instructions.
"Under the comms." Astrid tells him as they plug in the EMP transmitter.
"See, when it's ready, that blue light comes on there." The Doctor says.
"You're talking as if you're not coming with us." Astrid asks.
"There's something down on deck thirty one. I'm going to find out what it is." The Doctor says.
"What if you meet a Host?" Astrid asks him.
"Well, then I'll just have some fun." The Doctor says.
"Sounds like you two do this kind of thing all the time." Astrid asks him.
"Not by choice. All we do is travel. That's what we are. Just travellers. Imagine it. No tax, no bills, no boss. Just the open sky." The Doctor explains to Astrid.
"I'm sort of unemployed now. I was thinking the blue box is kind of small, but I could squeeze in it, like a stowaway." Astrid says.
"It's not always safe." Sophia warns Astrid.
"So you need someone to take care of you. I've got no one back on Sto. No family, just me. So what do you think? Can I come with you?" Astrid asks as she has no family.
"Yeah, I'd like that. Yes." The Doctor agrees as a bang is heard from the centerface of the ship. "Mister Frame, you still with us?"
"It's the engines, sir. Final phase. There's nothing more I can do. We've got only eight minutes left." Mister Frame explains about the length of time left.
"Don't worry, I'll get there." The Doctor says.
"But the bridge is sealed off." Frame reminds the Doctor.
"Yeah, yeah, working on it. I'll get there, Mister Frame, somehow. All charged up? Mister Copper, look after her. Astrid, look after him. Rickston, er, look after yourself. And I'll see you again, I promise." The Doctor says.
"Hold on! There's an old tradition on Planet Sto." Astrid tells him.
"I have really got to go." The Doctor says.
"Just wait a minute." Astrid asks for him as she takes the first aid box from Copper, stands on it, grabs the Doctor's lapels and pulls him in for a kiss.
"Yeah, that's a, ahem, very old tradition, yeah." The Doctor says.
"Also, that's ours. Not yours." Sophia tells the Doctor. "See you later."
"Oh, yes!" The Doctor comments as he goes back across the bridge while the others carry on upwards.
-!-
Slade opens a door to find three Host waiting.
"Do it!" Rickston shouts as Astrid activates the EMP and the Host collapse. They rejoice.
-!-
There are four Host here. The Doctor grabs a large sauté pan for a weapon.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Security protocol one. Do you hear me? One. One! Okay, that gives me three questions. Three questions to save my life, am I right?" The Doctor asks about his final three questions.
"Information. Correct." The Host says.
"No, that wasn't one of them. I didn't mean it. That's not fair. Can I start again?" The Doctor asks to start again.
"Information. No." The Host declines the Doctor's question.
"No! No, no, no, no. That wasn't a question either. Blimey. One question left. One question. So, you've been given orders to kill the survivors but survivors must therefore be passengers or staff, but not me. I'm not a passenger. I'm not staff. Go on, scan me. You must have bio-records. No such person on board. I don't exist, therefore you can't kill me. Therefore, I'm a stowaway, and stowaways should be arrested and taken to the nearest figure of authority. And I reckon the nearest figure of authority is on deck thirty one. Final question. Am I right?" The Doctor explains his final question.
"Information. Correct." The Host confirms it.
"Brilliant. Take me to your leader. I've always wanted to say that." The Doctor quotes a line. (even though he has already said it before in episodes like, Aliens of London.)
-!-
Sophia zaps the four Host in the room.
"Rickston, seal the doors, make the room secure. Mister Copper, keep an eye on the Host. I need to check the computer. We need that SOS." Sophia explains her instructions as the computer doesn't work. Then she sees the rack of teleport bracelets, and picks up the speaking tube. "Bridge, this is Reception one."
"Who's there?" Frame asks who is at Reception 1.
"Sophia McCrimmion. I was with the Doctor. Tell me, can you divert power to the teleport system?" Sophia inquires to Mister Frame.
"No way. I'm using everything I got to keep the engines running." Mister Frame says.
"It's just one trip. I need to get to deck thirty one." Sophia tells Mister Frame.
"And I'm telling you, no." Mister Frame declines.
"Mister Frame, this is for the Doctor. He's gone down there on his own, and I, I can't just leave him. He's done everything he can to save us. It's time we did something to help him." Sophia explains to him as she is a eternal companion and love-life to him.
"Giving you power." Mister Frame says as Sophia puts on a bracelet.
"Mister Copper, I'm going to find him." Sophia tells as Mister Copper is taking apart a Host.
"Good luck." Mister Copper comments.
-!-
"Wow. Now that is what you call a fixer upper. Come on then, Host with the most, this ultimate authority of yours. Who is it?" The Doctor asks who is working behind the scenes as a Host opens a pair of doors. "Oh, that's clever. That's an omnistate impact chamber. Indestructible. You can survive anything in there. Sit through a supernova. Or a shipwreck. Only one person can have the power and the money to hide themselves on board like this and I should know, because..."
A large device with small wheels has come out. There is a head attached to the machinery.
"My name is Max." Max Capricorn says as his gold tooth glints.
"It really does that." The Doctor comments.
"Who the hell is this?" Max Capricorn inquires about the Doctor.
"I'm the Doctor. Hello." The Doctor introduces himself.
"Information. Stowaway." A Host explains information.
"Kill him." Max orders.
"Oh, no, no, no. Wait, but you can't. Not now. Come on, Max. You've given me so much good material like, how to get ahead in business. See? Head? Head in business? No?" The Doctor declines to be killed as he jokes about Max.
"Oh, ho, ho, the office joker. I like a funny man. No one's been funny with me for years." Max Capricorn says to the Doctor.
"I can't think why." The Doctor tells Max Capricorn.
"A hundred and seventy six years of running the company have taken their toll." Max Capricorn explains what has happened to him.
"Yeah but, nice wheels." The Doctor comments on Max's life support box.
"No, a life support system, in a society that despises cyborgs. I've had to hide away for years, running the company by hologram. Host, situation report." Max explains about himself running the company.
"Information. Titanic is still in orbit." A Host explains the status.
"Let me see. We should have crashed by now. What's gone wrong? The engines are still running! They should have stopped!" Max Capricorn complains.
"When they do, the Earth gets roasted. I don't understand. What's the Earth got to do with it?" The Doctor asks about the Earth in Max's plan.
"This interview is terminated." Max Capricorn tells him as Sophia and Astrid hide. But Sophia has to complain with hand signals as this conversation goes on as the Doctor and Capricorn argue.
Sophia -"Astrid? What are you doing here?"
Astrid - "I'm here to save the Doctor."
Sophia - "Just because you got to get to his lips with your phony excuse."
Astrid - "It's a not an excuse."
Sophia - "Alright then. Let's just save him okay."
"No. No, no, no, no, no. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I can work it out. It's like a task. I'm your apprentice. Just watch me. So, business is failing and you wreck the ship so that makes things even worse. Oh, yes! No. Yes. The business isn't failing, it's failed. Past tense." The Doctor explains the company and the plan.
"My own board voted me out. Stabbed me in the back." Max says.
"If you had a back. So, you scupper the ship, wipe out any survivors just in case anyone's rumbled you and the board find their shares halved in value. Oh, but that's not enough. No. Because if a Max Capricorn ship hits the Earth, it destroys an entire planet. Outrage back home. Scandal! The business is wiped out." The Doctor continues his explaination.
"And the whole board thrown in jail for mass murder." Max imagines the ending.
"While you sit there, safe inside the impact chamber." The Doctor says to him.
"I have men waiting to retrieve me from the ruins and enough off-world accounts to retire me to the beaches of Penhaxico Two, where the ladies, so I'm told, are very fond of metal." Max says.
"So that's the plan. A retirement plan. Two thousand people on this ship, six billion underneath us, all of them slaughtered, and why? Because Max Capricorn is a loser." The Doctor comments.
"I never lose." Max says.
"You can't even sink the Titanic." The Doctor tells Max.
"Oh, but I can, Doctor. I can cancel the engines from here." Max reveals to the Doctor.
-!-
An alarm goes off.
"Engines closing." The computer says.
"No, no, no, no, no!" Mister Frame complains.
"Engines closing. Engines closing."
-!-
"You can't do this!" The Doctor complains.
"Host, hold him." Max commands the Host. "Not so clever now, Doctor. A shame we couldn't work together. You're rather good. All that banter yet not a word wasted. Time for me to retire. The Titanic is falling. The sky will burn. Let the Christmas inferno commence. Oh. Oh, Host. Kill him."
"Mister Capricorn!" Astrid shouts as she is in a fork lift. "I resign."
She drives towards Capricorn.
"Astrid, don't!" Sophia shouts as she gets the forks under Capricorn's life support and the two machines battle each other. A Host throws its halo, which glances off Astrid's cab.
"He's cut the brake line!" The Doctor says as Astrid, Sophia and the Doctor look at each other before she lifts Capricorn completely off the ground and powers them both forward through the guard rail, to fall into the engines. "Astrid!"
The Host release the Doctor and he runs forward to watch her falling. Sophia catches him.
"Titanic falling. Voyage terminated. Voyage terminated."
Frame tries to steer the falling liner while Slade and Copper hold on for grim death. The Doctor walks through a shower of debris, then snaps his fingers. Two Host take his arms and fly him upwards, arms punching forward like Superman. They smash through into the bridge. Sophia follows through.
"Deadlock broken."
"Ah, Midshipman Frame. At last." The Doctor says.
"We've been so longing to see you!" Sophia comments.
"Er, but, but the Host." Frame asks.
"Controller dead, they divert to the next highest authority, and that's me." The Doctor tells him.
"There's nothing we can do. There's no power. The ship's going to fall." Frame explains the ship's status.
"Titanic falling."
"What's your first name?" Sophia inquires.
"Alonso." Mister Frame reveals his first name.
"You're kidding me." The Doctor comments.
"What?" Frame asks him.
"You love that name."
"That's something else I've always wanted to say. Allons-y, Alonso. Whoa!" The Doctor says as he spins the ship's wheel. Alarms sound as they enter the upper atmosphere, then start to burn on entry. Once into the cloud layer, the Doctor turns on a scanner with his foot to see that their impact area is in west Central London. He grabs the comms.
"Oh. Hello, yes. Could you get me Buckingham Palace?" Sophia asks about Buckingham Palace.
"And as dawn rises over Great Britain, it seems that this year the city of London has escaped alien intervention. The Queen has remained in residence in defiance of extraterrestrial attack." A news reporter explains on a report.
"Listen to me. Security code seven seven one. Now get out of there!" The Doctor shouts as the Queen escapes Buckingham Palace.
"Engines active."
The Doctor pulls back on the wheel, trying to get her nose up. The Titanic misses the Palace by inches and flies up into the sky.
"Thank you, Doctor. Thank you. Happy Christmas!" The Queen wishes to the Doctor as the ship levels off, everyone starts to laugh with relief.
"Whoo!" Sophia laughs.
"Whoo hoo!" Frame laughs.
"Whoo hoo hoo!" The Doctor joins laughing with Sophia and Frame as the portrait of Capricorn on the wall falls down into one of the remaining small fires. "Used the heat of re-entry to fire up the secondary storm drive. Unsinkable, that's me."
"Of course. Unsinkable!" Sophia agrees.
"We made it." Frame congratulates.
"Not all of us. Teleport! She was wearing a teleport bracelet." The Doctor says.
-!-
The Doctor runs into the reception area.
"Rickston, sonic!" The Doctor requests as he catches his screwdriver. "Mister Copper, the teleports, have they got emergency settings?"
"I don't know. They should have." Mister Copper says.
"She fell, Mister Copper. She fell. What's the emergency code?" The Doctor requests the emergency code.
"What the hell are you doing?" Mister Frame asks what he is doing.
"We can bring her back." The Doctor says as he works on the teleport unit.
"If a passenger has an accident on shore leave and they're still wearing their teleport, their molecules are automatically suspended and held in stasis, so of we can just trigger the shift." Mister Copper explains.
"There!" The Doctor says as an image of Astrid appears.
"I'm falling." Astrid tells everyone.
"Only halfway there. Come on." The Doctor says.
"I keep falling."
"Feed back the molecule grid. Boost it with the restoration matrix. No, no, no, no, no! Need more phase containment." The Doctor explains to himself. "If I can just link up the surface suspension. I just need to override the safety. I can do this. I can do it."
"Doctor, let her go." Sophia tells the Doctor.
"I can do anything!" The Doctor says as he kicks the teleporter.
"Stop me falling."
"There's not enough left. The system was too badly damaged. She's just atoms, Doctor. An echo with the ghost of consciousness. She's stardust." Mister Copper explains to him.
"Astrid Peth, citizen of Sto. The woman who looked at the stars and dreamt of travelling. There's an old tradition." The Doctor says as he kisses Astrid."Now you can travel forever."
He points sonic screwdriver at a window, which opens. Astrid turns into specks of light.
"You're not falling, Astrid, you're flying." The Doctor tells her as she goes out into space.
Later...
"The engines have stabilised. We're holding steady till we get help, and I've sent the SOS. A rescue ship should be here within twenty minutes. And they're digging out the records on Max Capricorn. It should be quite a story." Mister Frame explains.
"They'll want to talk to all of us, I suppose." Mister Copper says.
"I'd have thought so, yeah." Mister Frame tells him.
"I think one or two inconvenient truths might come to light. Still, it's my own fault, and ten years in jail is better than dying." Mister Copper tells the Doctor.
"Doctor, I never said thank you. The funny thing is, I said Max Capricorn was falling apart. Just before the crash, I sold all my shares, transferred them to his rivals. It's made me rich. What do you think of that?" Rickston thanks the Doctor and reveals about Max Capricorn as his vone rings.
"Of all the people to survive, he's not the one you would have chosen, is he? But if you could choose, Doctor, if you decide who lives and who dies, that would make you a monster." Mister Copper asks about what would happen if the Doctor could choose his way.
"Mister Copper, I think you deserve one of these." The Doctor says as he, Sophia and Mister Copper put on teleport bracelets. Frame salutes just before they disappear.
-!-
They walk across the grass to the Tardis. It is snowing, as it should be.
"So, Great Britain is part of Europey, and just across the British Channel, you've got Great France and Great Germany." Mister Copper tries to explain about the UK and other places in Europe.
"No, no, it's just, it's just France and Germany. Only Britain is Great." Sophia corrects him.
"Oh, and they're all at war with the continent of Ham Erica." Mister Copper explains about war.
"No. Well, not yet. Er, could argue that one. There she is. Survive anything." The Doctor doesn't hope as he finds the Tardis.
"You know, between you and me, I don't even thing this snow is real. I think it's the ballast from the Titanic's salvage entering the atmosphere." Mister Copper says about the snow.
"Yeah. One of these days it might snow for real." The Doctor says.
"So, I, I suppose you'll be off." Mister Copper says.
"The open sky." Sophia imagines to him.
"And, what about me?" Mister Copper asks about himself.
"I travel alone. It's best that way." The Doctor says.
"What am I supposed to do?" Mister Copper inquires.
"Give me that credit card." The Doctor asks about the credit card that Mister Copper still owns.
"It's just petty cash. Spending money. It's all done by computer. I didn't really know the currency, so I thought a million might cover it." Mister Copper explains to them.
"A million? Pounds?" Sophia inquires about the currency amount.
"That enough for trinkets?" Mister Copper asks about trinkets.
"Mister Copper, a million pounds is worth fifty million credits." The Doctor says the currency exchange.
"How much?" Mister Copper asks how much pounds to credits.
"Fifty million and fifty six." The Doctor says the exchanged currency.
"I've got money." Mister Copper says to himself.
"Yes, you have." Sophia agrees.
"Oh, my word. Oh, my Vot! Oh, my goodness me. Yee ha!" Mister Copper comments on his new amount of money for himself.
"It's all yours. Planet Earth. Now, that's a retirement plan. But just you be careful, though." The Doctor tells him to wish a retirement plan for himself.
"I will, I will. Oh, I will." Mister Copper agrees.
"No interfering. I don't want any trouble. Just, just have a nice life." The Doctor orders him.
"But I can have a house. A proper house, with a garden, and a door, and. Oh, Doctor, I will made you proud. And I can have a kitchen with chairs, and windows, and plates, and..." Mister Copper describes his items that he could have as he skips away.
"Er, where are you going?" The Doctor asks where he is going.
"Well, I've no idea." Mister Copper says.
"No, me neither." The Doctor tells Mister Copper.
"But Doctor, I won't forget her." Mister Copper tells the Doctor as a streak of blue starlight zig-zags across the sky.
"Merry Christmas, Mister Copper." The Doctor wishes him.
"Merry Christmas, Doctor." Sophia wishes the Doctor as he and Sophia goes into the Tardis, and it dematerialises.
Author's Note:
Sorry for the wait, the Basket Sponge chapters kind off cleared me down to finish the first half of the season and well, I was kind of a little wasted. December is a little hetic for me... Espically after finishing up work for the Christmas break, then I get presents at Christmas, a couple of presents and I will use them.
Espically with LEGO Dimensions and the... DOCTOR WHO LEVEL PACK!
The Imperial Ghost - December 5th, 2015
P.S - 5 minutes before Hell Bent! WHAT THE HELL IS GONNA HAPPEN?
