A/N: I made some changes to chapters three and four. I took out the character of Sirrus and combined both chapters into one chapter. So this is the new chapter four.

Chapter Four

Before they got to work, the brothers quickly let down the ship's defenses, dematerialized and landed over the spare TARDIS, putting her back in the storage room. Once that was done, they powered down and walked off to work on the next phase of their plan.

Twenty minutes after they did that, Rain and Jenny began to speak again and move. The others were relieved to see that they were recovering with no adverse side effects. They helped them to sit upright in the bed and Mingxia went to make them some tea while they talked.

On the way there, Mingxia contacted her brothers and told them the news.

Brilliant, the Doctor thought to her. I'm glad it's wearing off. In another half hour or so, they should be fully recovered.

I hope so. Where are you guys? She thought back.

We're in the lab working on a little project together.

What kind of project?

Well, it's…a shrink ray of sorts.

Mingxia frowned while she filled the kettle up.

Shrink ray?

Yes. It's a variation on the Master's tissue compression eliminator that he used to shrink his victims into doll-sized people and kill them. Same concept except this won't kill, merely shrink. We're working on a couple of things now so we can fight the spiders.

She finished putting the kettle on the burner and went to see for herself what this shrink ray looked like. She went down a couple of corridors until she got to the lab. She walked inside and saw the brothers sitting at a large metal table. Alan was working on what looked like a sonic screwdriver. The Doctor was assembling a metal sphere. The Doctor smiled at her when she walked up.

"Hello, my curious little sister," he said.

Mingxia pointed to the sphere.

"This is what you're talking about? That tissue compression thing?"

"Well…this…is a tissue compression eliminator but it works like a bomb. You press a button on top, throw it and run and the beam bursts out and shrinks everything within a thirty foot radius. This will be used deep in the cave at the heart of the lair. What my brother is working on is something like the Master used. It's like a screwdriver but it works on a single person or thing shrinking them down. That'll be used on individual spiders along the way. At the very least, we want to get the queen and then as many of her followers as possible and shrink them permanently so they aren't a threat to anyone. That's why I'm making these bombs to throw inside the cave."

"And then the princess can't feed people to them, right?"

"Yes, but we're dealing with her as well," Alan said. "One will take care of the princess, the other will take care of the spiders and together we're hoping to stop her once and for all."

"Too bad you don't know where her parents went to, you could give them a call and tell them to come back and give their kid a spanking."

The brothers chuckled.

"I don't know if that'll do any good, Te'lesu," Alan said."I have a feeling this has been going on for quite some time and if it has, then the parents probably either don't know or don't care. At any rate, they've let her run rampant and do whatever she wants and people have suffered for it, my sister and niece included."

She glanced up when the TARDIS amplified the sound of the kettle whistling.

"See you later, I gotta go get that. Making tea for Rain and Jenny."

They nodded and Mingxia kissed their cheeks before leaving them to their work.

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What do you want? Kida thought when she finally reached the queen's den.

Sarina came forward and looked down at her with her huge ruby eyes. Kida looked back, completely unafraid.

I repeat, spider queen, what do you want? She thought angrily.

Where are they?

Where are who?

The females. The male has taken them. Where are they?

Kida cursed under her breath.

"I was afraid of this," she muttered to herself.

Well? Where are they? They belong to us.

The male has them, just as you thought.

They are ours.

Yes, yes, I know! I'll get them back! Just quit bothering me about it. I'll find him and make him give them back to you! He must be in his little box thing. I'll go there at once and you'll soon have your food back.

We better because we had a deal, princess, Sarina thought. You would do well to remember not to cross me and my subjects because you could be the one my children feed on next.

Kida glared at her for a moment in an angry silence before she turned and stomped away towards the front of the cave.

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The brothers, having finished their work, went and sat with Rain and Jenny for a moment. By the time they were through, both women were completely cured and they hugged them both tightly. The Doctor sighed contentedly as he stroked his wife's back.

"Please be careful," she whispered to him.

"I will, I promise," he replied.

Jenny finished hugging Alan. The Doctor held open an arm and he embraced her along with his wife.

"So, this tissue compression thing," Rose said while she stood behind her husband. "If this is what the Master uses, is that what he used to shrink you down to elf size?"

The Doctor shook his head.

"No, that time he suspended my capacity to regenerate and aged me to 900 years using Lazarus's technology. If it had been the tissue compression eliminator, I would have looked the same, only doll sized."

"And more than likely it would have killed you," Alan said, "since that's what it did to the majority of the people he used it on."

The Doctor nodded.

"Yes and as old as I was at the time, I know I wouldn't have survived if he had decided to use his favorite toy. But this one won't kill; only shrink the spiders down to a small enough size that the only things they would threaten would be insects."

"And that's what these bomb things are?" Donna said, pointing to a tiny tote bag at his feet.

"Yes, these have a much wider range than the screwdriver. Hopefully that'll be enough to take care of the whole brood."

"And the princess," Awinita said. "Are you gonna shrink her down too?"

The brothers grinned at each other.

"Hey, it might cure her brattiness if everyone else was 50 times bigger than she was and could possibly step on her," Alan said.

"We'll think about it," the Doctor said, winking. "But for now, we better get out there and put our plan into action. In the meantime, you lot stay in here, safe and sound, and wait for us. We won't be too long, I hope."

He gave his wife and daughter one more tight hug and kissed their cheeks. They let go and did the same to Alan.

"Wish us luck," he said.

"Good luck," everyone said.

The brothers looked at each other, grabbed the tote and they headed towards the front door. Once they reached it, they glanced out and when no one was around, they wished each other luck and hurried off to put their plan in motion.

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Kida was fuming. She walked through the woods wanting nothing more than to find the Doctor and throttle him.

"I shoulda known he'd take his precious wife and daughter out of the caves. Now I gotta go force him to give them back so the queen can leave me alone," she muttered.

She saw the TARDIS and stomped up to it. She pounded on the door as hard as she could.

"OPEN UP, DOCTOR! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!" she bellowed. "OPEN THE DOOR UP NOW OR I'LL GET MY GUARDS TO KICK THE DOOR IN AND THEN YOU'LL BE SORRY!"

"I'm over here."

Kida turned her head and saw her future consort leaning against a nearby tree.

"Where are they?" Kida growled as she stomped towards him.

"Safe in my TARDIS where you can't get to them," he said.

"Give them to me!"

"No, they are my wife and daughter and I want to give them a proper funeral," he said, moving towards her. "I will do whatever you want. I will give myself to you but you give me them in return."

That gave Kida pause.

"You'll do whatever I want?" she said.

"I will give myself to you willingly. All I ask is for my wife and daughter's bodies in return."

Kida considered that. She and Sarina had a deal but she was just a stupid spider and as long as she found her two victims to feed on, what did it matter who they were. The thought of the Doctor being her willing consort filled her with glee and she nodded.

"Alright, you may have them. In return, you stay with me forever and be my consort."

"Done."

Kida could hardly contain her excitement. This was just too good to be true. One of the handsomest men she had ever seen in her life and he was all hers. She held out her hand.

"Then come, my consort. Come with me to my bedroom," she said as demurely as she could.

He took her hand and she turned. While she led him to the castle, she failed to see the evil grin on his face.

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Meanwhile, his brother was nearing the cave, tote bag strap slung across his chest and the tissue compressor screwdriver at the ready. His eyes darted left and right while his ears listened for the slightest hint of movement. He paused when he heard something off to his left and saw a spider moving towards him through the trees. He could tell it wasn't the queen by its size but he turned and faced it.

"Time for a little test," he muttered.

He waited till the spider was almost to him before he raised the screwdriver and turned it on. There was a terrified scream in his mind while the spider slowly shrank. He kept the screwdriver on, shrinking it down until it was only a couple of inches long. He turned off the screwdriver and smirked while he watched the spider scurrying about in confusion before it finally turned and went up over a log back into the forest. Whistling, he turned and headed towards the entrance to the cave.

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Kida led her consort up the stairs to her room, getting more and more excited with each step she took. She couldn't believe her luck. All she had to do was allow him the corpses of his family and he would let her be with him. She wondered why she had put up such a fuss in the first place. She looked back at him and noticed he was looking down at the steps while he walked up with her. She turned her head and snorted softly figuring he was probably still thinking of them and wishing they were alive. Well, she'd soon make him forget all about them.

They reached her bedroom door and she opened it up. She looked back at him and noticed he had a defeated look on his face.

"Don't worry, Doctor, I'll be just as good a lover as your wife."

His expression didn't change and Kida shrugged. She led him inside and shut the door quietly behind him.

"Now, my consort, lie there on the bed and…"

She grunted when he grabbed her roughly and jerked her around.

"I got a better idea, babe! Let's just get naked and do it right here against the door!" he said in a deep, throaty voice.

Kida stared at him, shocked at the sudden change in his demeanor. The defeated look he had a moment before had been replaced by smoldering bedroom eyes.

"Um…here?" she said hesitantly.

"Yeah, right here! I don't want to wait to get to the bed, not when I have a tasty little dish like you in front of me. So let's just strip and get right to the boinking!"

Kida was speechless.

"Well, what's wrong, babe? I thought you wanted to shag this gorgeous hunk of man meat. You suddenly getting' cold feet or somethin'?"

"I'm just kinda surprised that you're suddenly so eager to do this," she said, staring at him in confusion.

"Well, you know, my wife and daughter are dead and that's a shame. But hey, whatcha gonna do, gotta get on with life, right? So we gonna stand here and chat all night or are we gonna get to it? Cause you know, the door behind me ain't the only massively hard piece of wood in this room now."

Kida stared at him, suddenly uneasy about all this.

"Is…this the way you and your wife had sex?"

"Are you kidding? My wife was a complete sexual maniac! I mean, tie me up, tie me down, tie me sideways, she just couldn't get enough of ropes and handcuffs and belts. The moment she saw anything that could restrain her, the old lady was hornier than the 76 trombone parade in the Music Man movie. And whips…oh-ho-ho-ho, she had a special fondness for a whipping. She just loved to lay sprawled out on her stomach, tied to the bed while I straddled her and beat her like a rented mule. So I'll tell you right now, that's the kind of kinkiness I expect outta ya because if you're not bleeding profusely from every part of your body, I won't be a satisfied man! Nope, can't have an orgasm 'til my consort is half dead from blood loss. So, let's get to it! You got any rope handy?"

Kida stared at him with wide eyes when he saw the maniacal look on his face.

"Um, no…I, I don't," she stammered.

"Bollocks, woman, you shoulda said something while we were coming up here! You mean I gotta try to keep my hard-on goin' while I go find some rope in this drafty stone fortress you call home? What kind of consort are ya? You should know that I'm a total sex freak and I like my women stripped and whipped! But ya know what, I'll stay here and wank off while you go look for that rope, kay?"

Kida nodded slowly. She reached behind her, flung open the door and ran out while Alan giggled hysterically.