Told you it was 'Coming Soon'. Soon as in a few minutes! Ha!

PREVIOUSLY:

Adric, fed up with being treated as a child, made up a plan to have revenge on his fellow companions Tegan and Nyssa. The plan involves sachets of something, a bucket and a dungeon-like room called… Steve.

Now, Adric puts his plan into action…

That night the Doctor had to go fix something in one of the roundels on the other side of the TARDIS, which left the way open for Adric to have his fun. He cautiously walked into the console room, where both girls were. He cleared his throat.

"What do you want?" Nyssa asked

"I wanted to make it up to you for being so rude in the past." Adric said, "I've prepared a surprise for you."

"What is it?" Tegan asked, interested

"Come and see." Adric said, before running off

As he heard the girls come running after him he grinned to himself, this was going to be easier than he'd expected. They were so sure they'd frightened him into behaving they weren't even thinking about what he could be doing instead. He stopped outside one of the doors into Steve, and waited patiently for the girls to catch him up. He gestured to the door.

"It's in there." He grinned, stepping back

Tegan started towards the door but Nyssa held her back with a hand on her shoulder.

"You go first." She said to Adric

Seeing Adric's face go pale and his expression change to worried she was sure that she'd caught him out. He'd been planning to send them through that door and have something tipped onto them from a bucket balanced on the door, she was sure of it. Tegan saw this too and nodded.

"Yes, you go first." she smiled to the young boy

Adric slowly and nervously stepped forwards towards the door and the girls stood back. This was going to be fun… Adric pushed the door open with his shoulder and stepped into the room, he turned around and held his arms out wide in a 'See?' gesture.

"No tricks." He said, "You taught me last night that it's no good me fighting you, I'll just get hurt again. Now come in!"

He stood aside to let in the girls, and they walked in. Right in the middle of Steve now were two chairs, leather straps around the arms and back.

"What is this?" Nyssa asked Adric

"You'll have to trust me." Adric said, shutting the door, "I need to do some research, but I need you two to help me."

"Why should we help you?" Tegan asked

"Oh please!" Adric said, "I really do have something wonderful to give you two to make up for my rudeness, I'll give it to you after you help me with this! And the Doctor said you'd help me! He wants you two to do this! You don't want to let him down do you?"

The girls looked at Adric's wide pleading eyes, and thought of how annoyed the Doctor would be if they'd refused to help Adric when he'd assured his young companion that they would help. Tegan shook her head.

"Oh alright." She said

"I don't like this." Nyssa said, "But if the Doctor says so…" She finished grudgingly

They walked over to the chairs and Adric brought out a strange silver instrument that looked like a pen.

"What's that?" Tegan asked, nervously

"It's a new gizmo the Doctor made." Adric said, vaguely, "It's like a thermometer that can tell your condition. Blood pressure, illnesses developing etc. It's designed to make sure that if any of us ever got ill that we could be diagnosed quickly. Also makes sure that anything serious is caught quickly."

"So why the chairs and straps?" Nyssa said, cautiously

"The Doctor's not sure if it can diagnose unless you're absolutely still." Adric said; removing the lid and shaking it like a bottle of medicine, "Hence the fact that I'll have to tie you to the chair for the first test. Then I'll undo you and we'll do a test again, see if we get the same results when you're able to move your limbs.

"So why do BOTH chairs have straps?" Nyssa said

"To make sure that different people give different readings." Adric said, sounding truthful, "I'll also be tested using it. There's really no danger."

"Okay." Tegan said, sharing a glance with Nyssa

"Could you fasten Nyssa in please Tegan?" Adric asked, "I have to get this thing ready to work… get it charged up."

While he walked off towards a socket Tegan fastened the straps around Nyssa's chest, tying her arms to her side and around her wrists, trapping them to the arms of the chair.

"I don't trust him." Nyssa muttered

"Oh be quiet, the Doctor's asked him to do this." Tegan said

"So he says."

"The least we can do is help him!" Tegan hissed back, "Plus only one of us will be tied up at a time! Either of us can easily deal with him if he tries anything."

"Okay then." Adric said, walking over, "Tegan can you please go sit down on the other chair? I'll be with you in a minute."

Tegan nodded and sat down on the chair, in a flash Adric was pressing a button on a remote he'd hidden in his pocket, and had strapped the chest strap around her chest and arms, trapping her.

"HEY!" she cried, as he tied down her hands too using the remote, "What are you doing?"

"Having my revenge." Adric said, stepping back as both girls struggled in vain to free themselves, "You can struggle all you want, those chairs have been vacuum sealed to the floor and those straps are thick and strong."

"I knew you were up to something!" Nyssa cried, pulling at the straps around her

"What about the test gizmo?" Tegan asked

"Just a pen." Adric said, revealing the nib he'd been concealing behind his hand, "And an excuse to get one of you to tie the other one up. Makes it a lot easier to tie you both up if one of you couldn't move already."

"You'll pay!" Nyssa said

"Exactly what I thought after you tortured me last night." Adric said, darkly, "I'm fed up of being treated as a child, and being used as a plaything by you two."

"You can't leave us here like this!" Tegan said, as he started to walk away towards the door

"I'm not." Adric smiled evilly, "I'll be back with the punishment I've been preparing for you today."

With that he shut the door behind him, leaving the girls tied to the chairs. They kept struggling and then Tegan saw something hanging from the chandelier above their heads.

"Is that a pipe?" she asked Nyssa

Nyssa looked up too and was puzzled by the length of flexible plastic pipe hanging down.

"Wonder who put it up there?" she asked

"Someone who wanted it out of the way?" Tegan suggested with a nervous grin.

Ooh! Isn't this interesting? Adric's got them trapped! laughs evilly

Dear god, I'm evil to the girls aren't I? (And you don't even know what he's planning yet.) And I added a pen for some reason.

So now he's gone out, to get the ' punishment'. What could it be? And WHY is there a pipe hanging from the chandelier?

Chapter 3, coming up!