4. A Big Wet Planet.

"Just where are we?" Crystelle asks anxiously. "And how did we get here?" She finds herself lying flat on her back, unable to get up. Gungy dampness oozes from the ground beneath her, adding to the indignity of unwillingly lying sprawled out.
"Sorry, I just thought about being on the ground," Chloe says. Also unable to get up, she glances over towards her mum who is just out of reach. "My wristwatch Tardis uses my thoughts to direct where I will go to. Sorry, mum."

"I suppose this is one of those heavy moments people used to rave about," Crystelle says. "Someone would say something, and the reply was heavy man!" .

"No, mum, it's just that the gravity here is more, wherever this is."
"Can we leave?"
"I'll try to reach you," Chloe says. She tries wriggling like a worm to make some headway towards Crystelle, but it just seems so difficult.
"Mum, it feels like it's uphill going towards you. Can you come towards me?"
"The very thought of having to move seems horrendous," Crystelle complains.

Can they reach across the short distance between them so they can both depart?

The Doctor's Escape.

We rejoin the Doctor after Chloe has left him in the plane hurtling downwards.

In no time at all he has his plan; actually one of many to escape, but this plan has advantages over some other plans which might leave him needing to regenerate.
The Doctor swiftly slides the cockpit canopy open and simply jumps out. He reaches for the parachute control handle and soon his parachute opens leaving him little time to admire the view of the local green fields and hedges before needing to roll over on impact with the ground.

He tidies his parachute away into a large ball shape and walks the short distance to a crumpled and scattered mess that had been his plane.

The Doctor examines the cockpit and is surprised to find Crystelle's Tardis summoner. "Why would Chloe have brought that with her?" the Doctor muses.
Just now, it's handy. The Doctor summons Crystelle's Tardis. He hears the zizz, but can't see her Tardis.
"Bother," he says. He looks around and shortly sees a small spherical door handle among the grass.
"Very funny!" he chides the Tardis. He knows that the Tardis must try to disguise itself as a door on a wall, but when there's no wall, it must choose a floor, but here it has chosen the ground to blend in with, grass and all. The Doctor pulls on the door handle, raising a small area of grass and enters Crystelle's Tardis. .
Knowing that Crystelle always has Voice Control enabled, he decides to try it out. It will save having to tap in so much information about exactly where he wants to go.
"Can we go to my Tardis, please?" He listens expectantly and isn't disappointed. A quiet zizz is all that he needs to hear to tell him this Tardis has moved!

The Doctor steps out of Crystelle's Tardis directly into his own Tardis Control room as it has thoughtfully materialised inside his own Tardis, disguising itself as another identical exit door in the wall.
"Easy," he says. "Too easy!" he says a little more contemptuously.

"Now to find Chloe," he says. He purely expects to have to go to Chloe's home. Then he can catch up and ask how Chloe found the experience.

But this wasn't destined to be so easy!

Where has Chloe gone?

The Doctor arriving at Chloe's home reveals the absence of both Chloe and her mum, Crystelle, downstairs. The Doctor looks out of the window to see two people heading away from the house. Could they hold a clue as to where both Chloe and Crystelle have gone to? He considers racing after them to ask, but deduces that this seems unlikely to yield a result - they are not likely to know anything about the subsequent whereabouts of Chloe and Crystelle as they are just strolling slowly away.

The Doctor deliberates for a few minutes.
A noise from Chloe's room sends the Doctor running to investigate, but when he enters Chloe's room, there's no-one there.

Extensive use of his sonic screwdriver fails to detect any trace or trail of even some of the more exotic travel equipment in the universe.
"No trace to follow! That's a big issue! She's made her wristwatch Tardis too well! It's too different! I must ask Chloe to introduce a fault that leaves a trail, even if it's optional!"

The Doctor goes back down to the lounge where his Tardis is and considers what plan he might follow. As he has Crystelle's Tardis he knows there's no rush.

Hurry up or Fry!

"Just how much gravity is there here?" Crystelle complains as she tries to move over the squidgy, wet planet surface.
"There must be at least four G," Chloe says. "And there's another danger."
"What's that?"
"It appears to be morning here. That bright object in the sky which has been illuminating us isn't the local star here, it's just a moon. Hurry up, mum!"

The very top of a bright burning meniscus starts to appear over the horizon. The heat from the star is terrific even just from that small visible area.

The urgency is very apparent. Hurry up or fry!

A mist starts to rise from the damp squidgy surface, blurring the intensity of the star's heat. Soon a light rain starts to descend on them.
Initially the rain is cool and refreshing, but as the star rises further the rain becomes hot, like a hot shower but getting hotter by the minute.

Both Chloe and Crystelle struggle towards each other. They manage to touch fingers. By the time Chloe touches the trigger button on her wristwatch Tardis the hot shower is becoming too much...

But what was Chloe thinking about when she touched the button?

Then, just as the absence of the huge star's heat seemed most welcome another sensation becomes apparent.

The intense cold of deep snow!

Crystelle groans. "What were you thinking of?" she complains. Her wet summer dress is giving her little protection from the icy cold.
"Sorry mum," Chloe apologises. Quickly she ensures she is thinking of home before pressing the trigger button on her wristwatch again!

Crystelle groans. "I'll have to get a new lounge carpet at this rate."
They have arrived, dripping wet and dripping gunge all over the lounge carpet.
To make matters worse, they have a visitor - the Doctor no less!

The Doctor can fully see their bedraggled state. Wet through and gunged while they struggled against gravity, then a little melted snow.
"You'd better shower and change into some nice warm dry things, then you can tell me your adventures; I'm longing to hear them," the Doctor says cheerfully.

THE END

The previous episode in this series is called "The Wristwatch Tardis" (ref. 29).

The next episode in this series is called "Peace at Last."

I hope to add further episodes soon.

Sparse References.

Reference 12 Episode Crystelle Growth in this series,
where Crystelle acquired her Tardis in a storeroom rescue.

Reference 13 Episode Crystelle Lattice in this series,
where Crystelle used her borrowed Tardis to escape from a space transporter that exploded (atomised).

Reference 29 Episode The Wristwatch Tardis in this series,
where Chloe built her wristwatch Tardis!

The Doctor's Deduction.

Two people walking slowly away from the house implies they were guests; they were seen to the door at which moment Crystelle would have been there. Knowledge of Crystelle's subsequent whereabouts would cease the moment the front door closed, so the Doctor deduces he need not accost the two people to discover anything.

At points in the story where there is humour, an additional full stop is added.

ANOTHER END