A/N: Hello, everyone!

I'm glad to see that y'all enjoyed "The Crimson Horror". It was actually really fun to write. ️

I'm also super happy to see that y'all liked the half-human/half-genie character of Marguerite! Which, now that she's a member of the Paternoster gang, it's not hard to tell that we're going to be seeing her again...

FOR ALL YOU SPN FANS OUT THERE: Who all is happy/excited that Supernatural has been renewed for a fourteenth season?! That means they're gonna make it to 300 episodes!

Sorry, had to fangirl there for a second.

Anyway, I gotta say... that this episode you're about to read... well, it turned out to be a lot more fun to write than I originally thought! ️

I hope you like the spin I put on it.

So, without further ado, I very happily present to you... "Nightmare in Silver"!

Enjoy! 😘


Outside, Moonscape...

The TARDIS materialized on a rocky moonscape, an American flag planted in the ground as the Earth hung in the sky above.

The TARDIS door then opened and the Doctor stuck his head out followed by Lexi Clara, Lucas, Angie and Artie.

"Well, here we are." The Doctor announced, stepping out of the TARDIS with his arms spread out as the others followed him. "Hedgewick's World - the biggest and best amusement park there will ever be. And we've got a golden ticket!" He exclaimed excitedly as he stepped onto a rock while holding a shiny golden ticket above his head. "Eh, eh? Fun!"

"Seems a bit deserted." Lexi noted as she walked a few paces ahead, gazing around at the environment.

"Yeah." Clara agreed as she walked past Lexi. "And really? This is fun?"

"Your stupid box can't even get us to the right place." Angie spoke up, glancing over at the Doctor. "This is, like, a moon base or something."

"It's not the moon." The Doctor informed as he stepped down from the rock as Clara sat down on a different one.

"To be fair," Lucas chimed in as he took a seat next to Clara. "it does kind of look like the moon."

"Just dirtier." Artie added as he hopped up onto another rock.

"Hey, guys it's not the moon, okay?" The Doctor sighed. "It's a Spacey Zoomer ride, or it was."

Just then, a door opened in one of the larger rocks nearby before a man peered out.

"Psst! 'Scuse I." He whispered. "I don't suppose you happen to be my lift off planet?" He questioned. "Dave's Discount Interstellar Removals?"

"'Fraid not." Clara told him, crossing her arms.

"They were meant to be here six months ago." The man informed, frowning slightly before shrugging. "That's Dave for you, see, unreliable."

"Stay where you are!" A female voice suddenly shouted from a distance away.

"Oops." The man muttered with wide eyes before quickly ducking back inside the rock.

"Throw down your weapons and identify yourselves." The same female voice commanded before a group of soldiers entered the ride area, being lead by a female soldier.

Lucas and Clara quickly stood in front of the children as the Doctor and Lexi put their hands up.

"No. No weapons!" The Doctor shouted, holding up the golden ticket. "See? Golden ticket! Spacey Zoomer? Free ice cream?" He asked, lightly bouncing up and down, Lexi paying that no mind since it was... well, a Doctor thing to do.

"Who are you?" The female soldier squinted at him. "This planet is closed, by Imperial order."

"How's this?" The Doctor responded, quickly handing Lexi the gold ticket before pulling out the psychic paper and holding it out for the female soldier to see.

"Oh. Welcome, Proconsul." She said in surprise, lowering her gun. "I wish they'd told us you were coming. Any news of the Emperor?"

"Oh, the Emperor..." The Doctor trailed off. "No, no, none that you'd, er..."

"We pray for his return." She told him. "If there is anything you need, my platoon is at your service."

"Time to move it along, dear." Lexi whispered to him before taking a step back.

"Right!" The Doctor clapped his hands together. "Righty-oh, then. Well, carry on, Captain."

He then saluted before she returned it.

"Right then, Platoon, let's move out." She commanded. "On the double. Two, three, four! Two, three, four! Two, three, four!"

As the soldiers jogged away, the door to inside the rock opened again and the man from before stuck his head out. "Have they gone?"

"Yes." Lexi gave him a small smile, raising an eyebrow. "Mind telling us why you hid?"

"Uniforms give me the heebie-jeebies." The man answered, shuddering slightly. "Come on. They can't stop me being here, but they don't like it."

Everyone then followed the man to the doorway of the ride and paused when they saw what was before them.

"Ha, ha! You see?" The Doctor grinned. "I told you it was amazing. Well, it used to be. Still, an interesting sight to behold. Not a bad suggestion to come here, Lex."

Lexi pursed her lips in thought, just nodding at her husband's statement as they looked out onto what was once a large amusement park, now in the condition of being rundown and abandoned.

"It closed down." The man explained. "Wish I'd known that before I landed here." He muttered before shrugging. "Even still, let me show you my collection. Come along, follow me, this way. This way in, come on."

Lucas gestured for Angie and Artie to go ahead before he, Clara and the Couple of Time followed after them.

Inside, Webley's, Main room...

The room was dark and slightly eerie with steps leading down from the entrance into the room that was lined with many wax replicas of different alien races, chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. In the center there were also two worn couches that actually looked to be like they were once highly fashionable.

"Welcome to my show, Webley's World of Wonders." The man gestured around at the many wax figures. "Miracles, marvels and more await you. I am Impresario Webley." He introduced himself as Angie and Artie followed him down the steps, looking around at the room in wonder. "You see before you waxwork representations of the famous and the infamous." He stated as the Doctor, Lexi, Lucas and Clara followed them into the room. "Anybody play chess?" He enquired, the Doctor raising his hand. Webley's back was to the Doctor, so he didn't see. "Perhaps you, young man?"

Artie nodded. "Actually, I'm in my school chess club."

"Ah, follow me." Webley gestured, the Doctor sighing as he lowered his hand.

"Just let it go, dearie." Lexi giggled slightly, patting her husband on the shoulder as she walked past him to go and follow after Webley, the children, Lucas and Clara. "And besides, you've taught me to be better at chess than you."

"No I haven't!" He called after her, rushing to follow.

"Or have you?" She retorted as she turned to face him, making the Doctor stop in his tracks.

"Have I?" He raised an eyebrow.

"You tell me." She smirked at him before turning back around and continuing on her way, leaving the Doctor to follow after her.

Inside, Webley's, Chess room...

"You know, you might be too sassy for your own good." The Doctor huffed at his wife as they entered another room.

"Maybe I want to be bad." Lexi winked at him before going and walking up behind Clara and Lucas, missing the flush of red that came over her husband's face before he quickly composed himself and walked up next to where she now stood.

"Now," Webley began, rubbing his hands together as they stood before a chess table with an empty chair on one side and a draped figure on the other. "let me demonstrate to you all the wonder of this age, the miracle of modernity. We defeated them all a thousand years ago. But now, he's back to destroy you. Behold, the enemy!"

"Cyberman!" Lexi gasped slightly when Webley pulled the drape off to reveal the oh-so familiar silver-colored robot as it raised its head.

"Get down!" The Doctor shouted as he yanked Clara down, who managed to get the kids down as Lexi and Lucas ducked as well.

"No need to panic, my young friends." Webley chuckled. "We all know there are no more living Cyberman." He said as Lucas cautiously stood back up, followed by Clara and the children while Lexi immediately whipped out her sonic and activated it before beginning to move around the Cyberman as she examined it, the Doctor doing the same. The two of them almost seemed to be in a choreographed dance as they examined the Cyberman while Webley continued to speak. "What you are seeing is a miracle. The six hundred and ninety-ninth wonder of the universe, as displayed before the Imperial court, and only here to destroy you - at chess." He frowned slightly when he saw the Doctor and Lexi still investigating. "Careful now. An empty shell, and yet it moves. How?"

Angie rolled her eyes. "Magic."

Lexi scoffed, standing up straight as she put her sonic back in her long emerald green coat. "Believe me, definitely not."

"Then what is it, oh glorious one?" Angie crossed her arms.

"What did I tell you on the ride to here." Lexi sighed. "It's just a title, it's not actually... You know what? Forget it."

"A single penny wins you five imperial shillings if you can beat this empty shell at chess." Webley told them, seemingly ignoring the exchange.

"I haven't got a penny, but I've got a sandwich." Artie offered, holding up a sandwich he pulled from his jacket pocket.

Webley nodded. "Alright, take a seat." He instructed, taking the sandwich as Artie sat down in front of the Cyberman. "It is free of all devices, and yet it has never been beaten." He stated as he opened a panel underneath to show there was nothing there. "Would you like to make the first move, young man?"

Artie moved his King's Bishop's pawn one space, the Cyberman then countering by moving its King's pawn two spaces. Artie then looked around the board for a moment before reaching for his King's Knight's pawn as Lucas raised a finger to warn him.

"Oh, no, Artie. No, don't do that, it–" Lucas didn't get a chance to finish before Artie moved the pawn two spaces, the Cyberman then moving the Black Queen, therefore checkmating Artie. "That's a fool's mate..." Lucas sighed as the Cyberman knocked over the White King. "Come on, I've taught you how to play chess, Artie."

"Obviously not very well." The Doctor commented as he put his sonic back into his jacket again.

"Oi." Lexi slapped the Doctor on the arm. "I sass my companion. You sass yours."

"Sorry, dear." He said quickly, rubbing the place where Lexi had slapped his arm.

"If you can tell me how it works, I'll give you a silver penny." Webley said as he ate the sandwich Artie had given him.

"I think... you do it with mirrors." Angie guessed.

"Hmm." The Doctor considered. "Mirrors... Clever girl. Well, let's see, hey? Low tech. It's a puppet. Monofilament strings, which means the brains are in..." He trailed off as he popped open a door in the Cyberman's chair to reveal a little man was sitting inside with a control box while he looked up at them. "Hello."

"Hello." He nodded. "I'm the brains."

"Hello." The Doctor nodded back.

"Give us a hand?" The Doctor helped pull him out. "They call me Porridge. Oh, it's good to be out of that box."

"For you, Miss, an Imperial penny." Webley smiled, producing the coin from behind Angie's ear. The girl blinked and took it with a slight smile.

As Webley headed back for the main room, Lexi tapped the Doctor's shoulder and pointed to the other side of the room, both of them watching as a swarm of tiny metal bugs slithered along on the floor. The Doctor quickly glanced at Lexi.

"Checkmate. I win." She said, smirking at him before tapping him once on the nose, then turning and following after everyone else.

"Oh, you bad bad girl." The Doctor thought to himself before quickly running from the room to join everyone.

Inside, Webley's, Main room...

"I have not one, but three Cybermen in my collection." Webley informed as they all walked into the main room, Webley removing a drape from over another Cyberman, Lexi scanning it with her sonic to see if it was truly inactive.

"Is that the King?" Angie asked when she saw a replica of a tall man dressed in robes and ermine.

"Emperor." Porridge corrected. "Ludens Nimrod Kendrick, etc., etc., the forty-first - Defender of humanity, Imperator of known space."

"He looks a bit full of himself." Clara remarked.

Porridge glanced at Clara, raising an eyebrow. "Don't say things like that about the Imperial family." He warned. "You can end up on the run for the rest of your life."

Artie tilted his head slightly. "They don't sound very nice."

Porridge just beckoned. "Go on. If the kids want to ride the Spacey Zoomer, then I can operate the gravity console."

Artie nodded in excitement which made Clara giggle slightly before the two of them walked out, Lucas following them with a shake of his head as Porridge, the Doctor and Lexi followed after them.

Curious, Angie looked from the coin in her hand to the statue until she heard her younger brother's voice.

"Angie!" Artie came rushing back before pulling her along towards the exit.

Outside, Spacey Zoomer ride...

"Whoa!" Artie exclaimed while he and Angie floated in the air as Porridge, the Doctor, Lexi and Lucas looked on.

"Smile!" Clara grinned, taking out her camera phone before aiming it at Artie and Angie. "Say Spacey Zoomer!"

Artie laughed. "We're flying!"

"Having a good time?" Lucas chuckled, watching as the children laughed while they had fun in the air.

The Doctor and Lexi smiled at the sight, Lexi nodding for Porridge to turn off the antigravity, which then made the children fall gently back to the ground.

"I think that was the most fun I've had in my whole life." Artie nodded as Clara, Lucas, the Doctor and Lexi walked over.

"It was..." Angie began with a smile before she quickly changed it into a bored expression. "okay."

"Keep telling yourself that." Lucas said, putting his hands on the girl's shoulders as he came to stand behind her.

Lexi giggled as she shook her head at Lucas's comment before she pulled her sonic out again and began scanning the area, the Doctor watching her as she did so.

"Clara, Lucas, I think outer space is actually really interesting." Artie said to them.

"Right." Clara nodded as she, Lucas and the children began heading for the TARDIS. "Wonderful day out, but time to get the kids home."

"Yeah." Lexi muttered before standing up straight from scanning. "Well, actually, no."

"Not ready to leave, are we?" The Doctor questioned her as she walked over to him.

"What do you think?" She retorted.

"Okay, I don't like those looks." Lucas commented, walking back over to the couple. "You're talking to each other without actually saying anything. It's weird. What's going on?"

"Well, we are a bit strange." The Doctor replied, glancing at Lucas. "Is this news to you, Lucas?"

"No." Lucas shook his head. "Just thought I'd make an enquiry."

"Great." Lexi grinned, patting Lucas's shoulder before walking to address everyone else. "Alright, everyone, we're not going anywhere. For now."

Clara raised an eyebrow. "Why not?"

"Dunno." Lexi shrugged before walking back to the Doctor. "Reasons."

"And what reasons would those be?" Lucas asked, crossing his arms.

"Insects." Is all Lexi replied with, not looking up as she scanned the ground with her sonic.

"Insects." Lucas deadpanned.

"Insects." The Doctor nodded, clapping Lucas on the shoulder before going over to peer over Lexi's shoulder. "You know, dear, we should add these insects to our funny insect collection."

"We don't have one of those. Although, I want to start one. In fact, I want to start one right now." Lexi muttered back before shrugging. "And you and I both know I get what I want."

"You definitely do." The Doctor agreed as he gave both her shoulders a squeeze before the two of them headed off back towards Webley's room, the others following after them.

Inside, Webley's, Main room...

"How long do we have to stay here?" Angie asked as she and Artie settled on the couches.

"Not long." The Doctor shook his head. "I'll wake you when we're ready to leave."

"Comfy?" Porridge asked.

"Sleep well." Clara smiled.

"Goodnight." Lexi called back to them as she left the room, followed by Lucas, Clara and Porridge, the Doctor following after them all and turning off the lights as he passed the switch.

It was only a couple of moments before the Doctor suddenly re-entered while holding his sonic under his face, the green light casting an eerie glow.

"Don't wander off." He warned. "I'm not just saying 'Don't wander off.' - I mean it. Otherwise, you'll wander off."

"And the next thing you know," Lexi began as she suddenly popped into view behind Angie and Artie, making them jump and glance back to see her knelt on the floor while holding her sonic under her face, the pink light casting an eerie glow. "somebody's going to have to start rescuing somebody."

"From what?" Angie asked, slightly frightened of the wild look in the woman's eyes.

"Nothing." Lexi grinned before getting to her feet and going to join the the Doctor by the door. "Nobody needs rescuing from anything."

"Remember, don't wander off." The Doctor warned again, pointing a finger at them.

"Sweet dreams." Lexi smiled before grabbing her husband's hand and dragging him out of the room.

Artie swallowed nervously, he and his sister sharing a look before they slowly settled onto the couches.