Terror From The Deep

Featuring The Seventh Doctor and Ace

Adapted From A Proposed Doctor Who Newspaper Strip By Lee Sullivan, John Freeman And Mike Collins

Inside the TARDIS.

Ace looked at the Doctor curiously. He had been monitoring the controls for almost five minutes, which was odd for the Doctor, as he usually talked to her.
"What's up, Professor?" Ace asked the Doctor, who looked at her almost immediately after she had asked the question.
"Doctor, please, Ace!" The Doctor replied.
"Yeah, sure Professor. What's the problem?"
"The TARDIS has detected some strange energy readings from Earth - alien energy readings."
"You mean there shouldn't be any aliens around?"
"Obviously, Ace. Hang on, we're about to land close to where the readings are coming from."

In the dark corridor of the Channel Tunnel, a blue police box began to fade into view.
Once it had fully materialised, the Doctor stepped out, carrying his trademark umbrella. In his seventh incarnation, he wore a beige bowler hat, a brown jacket, and a stripey yellow jumper, littered with red question marks.
Ace, his companion, soon followed him, with her backpack, filled with her nitro-nine explosives.
"Where are we then? Belgium, Mozambique, Dubai?" Ace asked the Doctor.
"I think, Ace, we're between England and France."
Ace looked around her, and immediately noticed a skeleton, lying near a wall, filled with cobwebs.
"Doctor!"
Ace wondered over to the body, soon followed by the Doctor.
"It seems to me that this body has been here for some time." he deduced, sniffing.
He frowned.
"What is it, professor?"
"Ace, I think I've seen something very similar to this before."

Suddenly, soldiers surround the Doctor and Ace, guns pointing at them.
"Don't move! You have been arrested by GAIT." came a voice behind the soldiers.
A man, with a bushy, brown moustache, emerged from the soldiers, and walked straight towards the Doctor and Ace.
The Doctor turned round.
"Who are you? And what is GAIT?" The Doctor demanded.
The man answered immediately.
"GAIT stands for Global Alien Intelligence Taskforce, and I am Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart."
"Brigadier, how nice to see you." The Doctor said, smiling.
"Well, I am glad to know that I have a fan, but who are you, and what are you doing here?"

While the confrontation was taking place, a golden ball, with a blue electronic eye, recorded everything.
It sent the recording to a control room, near to where the Doctor had parked his TARDIS.
The control room belonged to the Daleks, who were watching the recording as it was transmitted.
"THE DOCTOR MAY KNOW OF OUR PLAN. WE MUST ACTIVATE THE SECOND PHASE: RELEASE THE GAS!" A Dalek blared.

As Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart marched onwards, the Doctor and Ace followed behind him, in front of soldiers pointing guns at them.
"So, let me get this straight, Professor: the Brigadier's now our enemy, and the Daleks have unleashed some sort of virus thing as a test?" Ace asked the Doctor, looking confused.
"Exactly, Ace. I've seen this virus before, you know. But, the strange thing is, I can't remember the exact details. I know it had something to do with "The Human Factor" and "The Dalek Factor", but apart from that, I can't remember anything to do with it." The Doctor replied.
The Brigadier turned round.
"Did you just say something about Daleks?" he asked the Doctor, the expression on his face reflecting the mood he was in: an angry one.
"Yes, I did. Now, I won't tell you a thing about the Daleks unless you tell me what GAIT is, and who you are."
"Well, I could ask you the same question."
"Indeed. I am the Doctor, a time traveller, from the planet Gallifrey. I am about 455 years old, and this is Ace, my friend."
The Brigadier frowned.
"What, Brigadier? What's the problem?"
"I remember you. From the Inferno disaster."
"Oh," The Doctor said, realising who the Brigadier was," I see. May I just tell my friend Ace something?"
The Doctor walked over to Ace.
"Professor, who is he then?" Ace asked.
"When I was exiled on Earth, a long time ago, I attempted to fix my broken TARDIS. But, it went wrong."
"How?"
"I was catapulted into another universe where everyone I knew was different. I attempted to stop a disaster in that universe, and failed. What I presume happened was that UNIT was destroyed, and a new organisation was created to prevent a repeat of that disaster."
"And that organisation was GAIT."
"Exactly."

And at that moment, green gas started to fill the tunnel, choking GAIT men to death.
"Quick, Ace! Back to the TARDIS!" The Doctor shouted, before running off, towards the TARDIS.

Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor held a Dalek probe that he had picked up as he ran.
He sat on a chair, and "repaired" it.
"Professor, what are you doing?" she wondered.
"Ace, I'm "repairing" this probe, so then it can be used as a weapon against the Daleks. Because they shouldn't be in this universe."
"Hang on, if we're in another universe, how come there was no big crash as we entered it?"
"Later, Ace, later."
The Doctor eventually stopped reordering wires and removing parts of the probe, and landed the TARDIS in the Dalek base.
"Ace, wait here."
The Doctor then stepped out, holding the probe.

Inside the Dalek base, the Doctor emerged from the TARDIS, and was surrounded by Daleks.
"DOCTOR, YOU WILL SURRENDER OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" A Dalek blared.
"Oh really? Surrender? Is that all you have?"
"YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"
"I wouldn't do that if I were you."
And with that, he rolled the probe along the floor, until it reached a control console, where it exploded into flames.
"Now, I must be off, as it may get very toasty in here. Goodbye!" The Doctor shouted, waving his hat, and entering the TARDIS.
The TARDIS then left, before the Dalek base exploded.

Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor stood at the console, fiddling with the controls.
"Doctor, can I make a request?" Ace wondered.
"Are you sure? Be careful what you wish for." he warned, not looking up at her.
"Can we go to Gallifrey? To see your home?"
He frowned at her, gloom in his eyes.
"On one condition."
"What's that condition?"
"You stick with me at all times."
"Definitely."
He smiled and set the co-ordinates for Gallifrey.

THE END