Lieutenant Adventures Series 13 Premiere Chapter 1 12 August 2019. Aria.
Previously: Now that all was calm again, Penelope could think straight again. She briefly wondered if she had arrived in her future or in her past.
Lieutenant Adventures 2019.
The Lieutenant's body lay in a freezing cold room on a planet somewhere so as to preserve it. It was lying on a very flat metal table in what appeared to be a big fridge made of silver metal. In one of the walls there was a concealed window through which a young man watched his body as if he expected him to come back to life any moment.
There was a loud banging along the metal floor and a cyberman came up to his side and stopped.
The man looked at the cyberman. "Is he definitely dead or is he faking, Xhisiss?" he asked.
"He's definitely dead," said the cyberman, Xhisiss, "but this version of him was the evil one, this one was on our side and we really need a Time Lord on our side," he said.
They both stared at the body for a few moments. Then the young man spoke. "So what are we going to do?" he asked.
Xhisiss turned to face him, making an almighty racket with his feet. "We're going to try and bring him back," he said.
"The female will exit the TARDIS," said a familiar voice.
Penelope stood in the TARDIS not knowing what to do. She'd had a few false starts with the TARDIS since her telepathic incident.
"Exit the TARDIS or the TARDIS will be destroyed," they said.
Penelope made her decision to leave the TARDIS. She was going to be killed either way.
The TARDIS Cloister Bell chimed.
Penelope opened the door and gasped and slammed it shut again.
"Exterminate," they said. It was a Dalek. It has a go at exterminating the TARDIS but all that happened was that the TARDIS Cloister Bell rang and the TARDIS extended her defences.
Penelope opened the door again.
"Exterminate," said the Dalek and tried to exterminate Penelope but the TARDIS prevented it.
"What are you?" asked Penelope, accidentally out loud.
"We are the Daleks, all hail the Daleks," it said.
"You wouldn't want to shoot me even if you could," said Penelope.
"Why would I spare you?" asked the Dalek.
"The Lieutenant, ever heard of him?" asked Penelope.
"The most corrupt, evil Time Lord in the Universe, the most feared. Yes, we know him," said the Dalek.
"He's dead," said Penelope, "and I killed him and now his TARDIS is mine. I have the gateway to all Time and Space and if you kill me, you don't get it," said Penelope.
"What if we agree to your terms?" asked the Dalek.
"Then I'll take you with me in Time and Space. You wouldn't want to mess with a murderer, now, would you?" asked Penelope.
"You killed the Lieutenant who was finally doing what we wanted him to do, taking lives, why?" asked the Dalek.
Penelope leant forward boldly. "He tried to kill me and failed and anyone who fails to kill me ends up dead," she said. She stood back up straight.
"I agree to your terms," it said.
Penelope nodded and stepped back allowing the Dalek to board the TARDIS and closed the door behind it.
The TARDIS Cloister Bell chimed.
"Exterminate the female," said the Dalek but the TARDIS prevented it again. "Who are you?" it asked.
"I'm Penelope Pratt and don't mess with me, sunshine," she said. "Do you have a name?" she asked.
The Dalek hesitated. "Zalra Grun," it said.
"Zal for short?" asked Penelope.
"If you must," said Zal.
"Now then, Zal," said Penelope, "I don't know how to fly a TARDIS. Here's the deal. Telepathically, you're going to hack into the TARDIS and bring us to Palacios in the Bhavani System. It has a thick hydrogen atmosphere and orbits very close to it's parent star. There is a girl waiting there for us. Her name is Carolyn Simpson, a human living on the planet Palacios who specialises in all things TARDIS. She's going to teach me how to fly the TARDIS," she said.
"What if I refuse?" asked Zal.
"Then I will exterminate you," said Penelope.
Zal hesitated, then he hacked into the TARDIS systems and did as Penelope said.
The TARDIS Cloiser Bell chimed as it dematerialised.
The Oracle rushed into Flavia's office.
Flavia looked up. "Err, excuse me, Oracle, you can't just barge into the Lady President's Office!" she exclaimed.
"The Lieutenant," said the Oracle, breathless.
"What about him?" asked Flavia.
"He's dead," said the Oracle.
"Have you found his body and his TARDIS?" asked Flavia. "Where are they now?"
"No, can't find either of them," said the Oracle.
Flavia looked deeply disturbed.
The young man looked at the cyberman. "How are you so sure he won't regenerate when he's revived?" he asked.
"We're not sure, we're going to do our best to heal his wounds before we revive him, Pat," he said. "We may have to temporarily convert him into a cyberman to do so," said Xhisiss.
"Are we resurrecting him as a cyberman or a Time Lord?" asked Pat.
"Tempting as it is," said Xhisiss, "as a Time Lord. We'll have to be very careful."
"Yes, we will," said Pat.
The TARDIS materialised in a sort of underground hub on the planet Palacios.
Penelope walked over to the door and opened it. "Come on, Zal, let's go," said Penelope. "There is a human here so no killing or else no Time and Space." She left the TARDIS followed by Zal but as soon Zal was outside the door he powered down. "What? What happened there? Do you need new batteries?" asked Penelope. Then she shrugged and walked off without him. "Hello?" she called out. "Carolyn?"
"Penelope?" called out a voice.
"Yes! Where are you?" Penelope replied.
"Follow the passage to the left, I'm in there," said Carolyn.
Penelope did so and arrived in a small room made of stone. At a desk by the wall, a young lady stood pouring over loads of paperwork she had prepared for Penelope. She glanced around as Penelope came in. "Ah, Penelope, good to see you again, come in, come on over, I'll read you all of this as many times as you need, then we'll do a few practice runs and I'll watch over you, how does that sound?" asked Carolyn.
"Great, thank you very much," said Penelope.
Xhisiss fumbled around with wires which were connected to metal patches, sort of like those you would see when having an EEG scan. He poked them through a sort of letter box in the door of the accompanying room. Only thing he was afraid of was that the body might jump when the patches were applied because they had a small electrical discharge. He knew one stronger than that, however, would be required to revive the Time Lord. He then banged through the door and Pat followed him. "We're going to attach these to his chest and head, carefully, or else the monitor won't pick up anything, is that understood?" he asked.
Pat nodded and took three of the patches off him and placed them carefully on the Lieutenant's chest at three separate spots.
Xhisiss brought the other three round to the Lieutenant's head and placed them carefully on the Lieutenant's head and placed them at three separate spots.
The Lieutenant's body jumped and in turn Pat jumped. Xhisiss didn't because cybermen don't have emotions.
Xhisiss stepped back from the Lieutenant. "Pat, go inside and check that the monitor is working. There should be no signs of life at this time," he said.
Pat went back inside and checked the monitor was working and told Xhisiss as much.
"Satisfactory," said Xhisiss. "Now we have to prepare to make our first attempt to revive him," he said. He banged out of the room altogether, leaving Pat in the room by himself with the Lieutenant's body.
Carolyn smiled to Penelope. "Well done, that was really good," she said. "We're back on Palacios. Your robot thing is outside."
"Oh, yeah, thanks, could you just help me shove it back on board, please?" she asked. Her and Carolyn went out to Zal and shoved him back onto the TARDIS and immediately he powered up again.
"Oh, cool," said Carolyn, "the TARDIS drains his systems when he's outside of her."
Penelope admired how much Carolyn knew about the TARDIS and hope to one day be the same. "I could do with someone like you on board with me in case I forget how to do anything," said Penelope.
"OK, let me grab a few things, I've been waiting for an excuse to leave this place for ages!" exclaimed Carolyn and she ran from the TARDIS.
Penelope looked at Zal. "It's going to be fun having her on board, isn't it? A Dalek and a TARDIS expert, what could possibly go right?"
Carolyn hurried back into the TARDIS with a big bag. "Ready!" she exclaimed and she dematerialised the TARDIS herself.
NEXT TIME:
Penelope lounged in the armchair that was in the console room.
Zal was secretly hacking into the TARDIS.
Penelope looked up.
He must report this.
The Lieutenant
Thomas Stevens
Penelope Pratt
Gemma Arterton
Pat Pittman
Robert Brentnall
Carolyn Simpson
Kim Kardashian
Xhisiss and Zalra Grun
Nicholas Briggs
The Oracle
Alex Rodriguez
Flavia
Oprah Winfrey
With special thanks to the BBC, FanFiction and YouTube.
Director and Writer
Liam Hickey
Producer
Maureen Farr
Fflat 2019.