Chapter 4
The Princess Racnoss's ship settled over the New York skyline and hovered ominously over the buildings. Dusk was approaching and the white star ship's webbing was glowing with a bluish hue.
The Princess was snarling and waiting, "Where are you, little man?"
Waverly Sub Station
The Doctor and K-9 were ready to just walk right into the Racnoss's ship and stop the monster spider with out any questions asked. The Doctor had opened a box full of Christmas ornaments and what looked like a video game controller. He took out the controller and closed the box and put it all in his pockets.
"Death like the mother," the Doctor said under his breath. He turned to K-9, "Are you ready for some spider hunting?"
"As ready I will ever be Master," replied K-9.
Across the room, Justin and Alex were talking to Max.
"But I want to go," said Max.
"No, Max, we need you to stay here and try to keep Mom and Dad off our backs," said Justin.
"Mainly his back," said Alex.
"Why mainly me?" asked Justin.
"Maybe it's because Alex's already has traveled with the Doctor before," said Harper walking up behind the Alex and Justin.
"Where do you think you're going?" asked Justin.
"With you guys. They aren't my parents," said Harper.
"You? You want to come with us? I thought the Doctor creeped you out," said Alex accompanied by her hip twist.
"Okay, fine, he doesn't creep me out anymore," replied Harper.
"Hey! If you two are going to argue, I'm going by myself," said Justin.
"Oh alright, we'll all three go," surrendered Alex.
"Let's go tell the Doctor," said Justin.
Max looked at him and replied, "What about me?"
"You still going to keep Mom and Dad off my back," said Justin.
Alex, Justin and Harper walked up to the Doctor and K-9.
"Yes?" asked the Doctor.
"We're going to go with you, Doctor," Justin told the Doctor.
"No," said the Doctor, "No you're not."
"And why not?" asked Harper.
"Do any of you ever know what a Racnoss is?" asked the Doctor.
"No, why?" asked Harper.
"K-9, project a holographic image of the Empress of the Racnoss," said the Doctor.
"Yes, Master," replied K-9. K-9's red eye glowed and in front of the metal dog, the hologram of the Empress of the Racnoss appeared.
"K-9, put it to scale," ordered the Doctor.
The image grew until the hologram was huge. It was three times the size of the Racnoss that had taken the Doctor prisoner.
"That thing is huge," said Justin.
"And scary," added Harper.
"We can take her kid," chimed Alex.
"Are you nuts?" asked Justin.
"No," snapped Alex.
"Hey, from what Mr. Russo said, that spider woman is bigger than the one that took you. Why is that?" inquired Harper.
"That's a very good question Harper," complemented the Doctor, "You should talk more often."
Harper just smiled and moved her head to the side.
The Doctor continued, "The female Racnoss are much larger and smarter than their male counterparts. It's like the spiders of the Earth. Usually all the spiders you see are the females. The males are smaller and are only used to fertilize the eggs of the females. After that the female eats the male, much like the Racnoss. The Empress of the Racnoss thought that all species were like that. That was eventually her downfall. She underestimated me and it cost her her a ship full of her people and eventually her life."
"What do you mean? You killed them?" asked Harper.
"I had no choice. I had to kill them," explained the Doctor, "If I let them live, then they would have taken over the planet and eaten every human before taking off into the stars again. I saved your lives."
"When did you do that?" asked Alex.
"Between two and three years ago for you, but over 1000 years ago for me," said the Doctor.
He was met with blank faces, except from Alex, "He's a time traveling alien."
"That is true," said Harper, squinting and pointing at Alex.
Racnoss Ship
"Come out, come out wherever you are, little alien man," muttered the Princess Racnoss, "I know you are out there somewhere. I will find you. If you don't come, something terrible will happen to the city."
Outside on the six points of the ship, the tips glowed light blue and lightening blasted out of them, striking several building and starting several fire. The military and UNIT forces that gathered around the star opened fire, but the blasts were held off by the ship's shield.
The Princess Racnoss merely laughed at the feeble attempts to destroy the ship. After the amusement she grew serious, "Now the man will come and I will get his Huon particle source."
Waverly Sub Station
Jerry was being helped down the stairs by Theresa and they stopped dead when they saw the holographic image of the Empress of the Racnoss.
"Good God, what is that?" asked Theresa.
"That is like the spider-man, Racnoss thing that attack me," said Jerry.
The Doctor heard them and answered without even looking at them, "Don't worry about that. It's just a holographic projection of the Empress of the Racnoss. I fought a while back and one. Now I'm looking for a repeat."
"That thing is terrifying," said Theresa.
The Doctor didn't acknowledge her comment. "K-9, cut the image. Are you ready?"
"Yes I am, Master," answered the tin dog.
"Good. You have the coordinates, right?" asked the Doctor.
"Affirmative, Master," answered K-9.
"Great," praised the Doctor, "I'll see you there."
K-9 vanished in a green light instead of a blue one.
"Okay," said the Doctor, "Time to go. I'll see you when this is all over."
The Doctor pulled his teleport watch out of his pocket and checked the coordinates one last time before using the watch. In the split second before he pushed the button, Alex, Harper and Justin all grabbed onto the hand with the watch.
"NO!" blasted the Doctor before all four of them vanished in the teleport's blue light.
Theresa and Jerry stood there, eyes wide.
"What did they do?" asked Theresa.
"They teleported with the Doctor to spider people's ship," said Jerry.
"I'm going to have to have a talk with the Doctor when he gets home," Theresa said.
"About what? He's not a kid. I mean we're kids to him," said Jerry, "And in the Doctor's defense, his face was horrified as they vanished and he did scream no."
"And he told them no," said Max, "They asked to with him and K-9, but he told them no."
"Oh, in that case, I am going to have a talk with the other three," said Theresa.
Racnoss Ship
K-9's green light appeared in dimly lit cargo hold and then a few moments later a blue one appeared and the Doctor, Alex, Harper and Justin all teleported on the ship. Harper and Justin were thrown down on the ground. Alex was leaning against a webbing wall that she took her hand off extremely fast and had a disgusted look on her face. The Doctor stood there, towering over all of them.
Before any of the teens could say anything, the fuming Doctor, keeping his calm but barely, forced out the words, "What were you three thinking?"
"Well we wanted to come," said Justin.
"To do what? Sight see?" railed the Doctor, "We are onboard the ship!"
"I wanted to come..." Harper was cut off by the lights flashing on and a massive Racnoss female was standing across the room from them. It looked just the one that K-9 showed them about fifteen minutes ago except for the fact that she was even bigger.
"I wondered when you would come," she hissed.
"What is that thing?" asked Justin.
"I am the Princess of the Racnoss, little human male."
"Then you're the one I need to speak to," calmly said the Doctor as he stepped in front of the three teens, K-9 by his side.
"Oh, I have been expecting you," gleamed the Racnoss.