Chapter 5
"Oh, I have been expecting you," gleamed the Racnoss.
"Well look at you, you little, or should I say giant, spider," mocked the Doctor.
The Racnoss didn't reply to that and looked behind him and saw the two terrified humans standing behind the Doctor. The third human, a female, didn't seem scared, but looked more like the Doctor, fierce determination in her eyes. She was going to be dangerous, as for the other two, not so much. The metal dog at the Doctor's feet, well, she wasn't really sure what that thing was.
The Doctor continued to stare at the Racnoss, unyielding. Alex turned to see Harper and Justin, both of them scared, "What's wrong? Are you scared?"
"What do you think!?" snapped Justin in a high voice, "That thing is a giant spider."
The Doctor turned around and looked at Justin, "Seriously, didn't you two see the hologram?"
"Well yeah, but we thought it was larger because it was a hologram," said Harper.
The Doctor rolled his eyes and looked back in the direction of the Racnoss, "Next time, if K-9 shows you a hologram, it is probably to scale and not enlarged."
"Are you done?" hissed the spider.
"K-9, go do your part of our plan," ordered the Doctor.
"Yes, Master," said K-9 as he rolled away.
The Racnoss had no idea what the dog was doing, but she didn't see it as a threat to her. She turned her full attention to the four humanoids standing in the room with her. Webbing ropes popped out of the floor and wrapped around Harper's arms and legs, pulling her to the floor. Others took Justin and pulled him against a wall. Alex pulled our her wand and shot down the webbing that was after her. The Doctor pulled his sonic screwdriver and did the same.
"Alex! Hold the webs off!" yelled the Doctor.
"What are you going to do!?" asked Alex, frantically shooting down more and more ropes.
The Doctor dug through his jacket pocket and took out a box of Christmas ornaments. He had kept three and given the rest to K-9. He took the three out of the box and through it on the ground. He put his other hand in his opposite jacket pocket and took out the controller.
"Isn't it a little early for Christmas and this isn't the right time to play video games!" snapped Alex.
"These aren't just Christmas ornaments," said the Doctor, his expression was now cold and hollow, "There bombs."
"Bombs," the Racnoss whispered to herself.
"Death like the mother," said the Doctor.
"What do you mean?" asked Alex, still battling the webbing.
The Doctor ignored her and tossed the three ornaments in the air and used the controller to keep them in flight. The Doctor stood with no expression on his face and told the Racnoss Princess, "I am the one who killed your mother, the Empress of the Racnoss and all her children at this planet's core."
The Racnoss's eight eyes widened and squinted with hate, "YOU! You're the Doctor!"
"That's me. The one and the only," the Doctor said as he sent the three bombs careening towards the Racnoss. Two struck her in the back and greenish-yellow blood was sent into the air. The third was a dud and bounced off of the spider's red skin. She howled in pain as the blood seeped out of her wounds. The Doctor was worried. He had wounded her, but he had also pissed her off.
"AAAAHHHHH!" the Racnoss screamed as she was transported to the control room.
The webbing around Justin and Harper left and they were released. The Doctor put the controller back in his pocket and looked down. The lights started to flicker and the ship shook. Massive explosions could be heard from outside the ship.
"What's going on?" asked Harper.
"The Racnoss is blasting the city!" said the Doctor taking off for the control room.
"She could destroy the whole city," said Justin.
"No she can't," said the Doctor as he turned around and ran backwards, "The weapons, shields and the stases chamber are all draining energy from the Huon particles in the ship's engines. She's running low. That doesn't matter anyway because K-9 is using the rest of the ornaments to blow the ship's engine.
"I'm no expert on alien ships," said Justin, "But if your dog blows up the engines, won't the ship crash."
The Doctor tripped and fell down. He popped right back up, eyes wide, "Yes! How could I have not thought of that earlier!"
K-9 rolled to the engines. He opened his side panel and the other nine ornaments rolled out next to the engine. The tin dog rolled to a safe place and shot the group of ornaments with his nose laser. The bombs went off and the entire ship shook. K-9 teleported back down to the sub station. From the outside, the bottom spire of the ship exploded off the main portion of the ship and crashed down onto the street below.
The Doctor, Justin, Alex and Harper were thrown around as the explosion rocked the ship. The Doctor jumped up and horror was all over his face, "We're too late!" He bolted towards the control room with Alex right on his heels. The other two ran to catch up, but were left behind.
The Princess Racnoss felt her ship shake and she cursed under her breath as the bottom spire was blown off. The engines were gone and there was an hour before the ship was going to crash. The spider got up and walked outside to the corridor and was making her way towards the killer of her mother, the Doctor. To her elation, the Doctor wasn't too far away.
The Doctor stopped dead as he saw the wounded Princess Racnoss staring at him, pure rage in her eyes, all eight of them. The Doctor stood weaponless and powerless. Alex had ran into the Doctor and she fell to the ground, her wand falling out of her hand. It rolled next to the Princess Spider and she crushed it with her massive foot. Alex saw her wand shatter into hundreds of pieces. She stood up next to the Doctor just as powerless as he was.
"Was that your only wand?" asked the Doctor.
"Yeah it was," said Alex.
"Well that's just great," mumbled the Doctor.
"This should be excellent," smiled the spider, "To feast on the killer of my people."
The Doctor stood there before spazzing out, "Oh yes, but there is something that I have that you don't!" The Doctor rummaged through his pocket and pulled out a banana peel. "I have this deadly banana peel and I'm not afraid to use it!"
Alex slowly turned and looked at the Doctor disbelieving what she heard him say that about the banana peel. She asked him, "You seriously have a banana peel in your pocket."
"Yeah why not?" asked the Doctor.
"Because its a banana peel," said Alex.
"I really don't have anything else," said the Doctor, "I wasn't planning that ornament to be a dud."
"Are you two done?" hissed the Racnoss Princess. The spider jumped on the side of the corridor and walked to the ceiling and was walking above Alex and the Doctor. The spider jumps down on the other side of the Doctor and Alex. The two turned around to face the snarling spider. The corridor behind Alex and the Doctor, going towards the control room, was sealed off with a wall of webbing. The spider smiled and slowly walked towards the two humanoids standing in front of him. Alex back into the Doctor and the two backed into the wall.
"Oh my God," freaked the Doctor, "I've faced armies of Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, the Third Reich, and the Master. I've even held the Key to Time and I fought off the last of the Vampires. This is how I'm going to die. I'm going to be eaten and that is one the ways that I don't ever want to go out. How humiliating is this? Being eaten alive!"
Alex turned around and slapped him in the face, "Snap out of it!"
"Thank you," said the Doctor.
"What about your deadly banana peel?" mocked the Racnoss Princess as she got closer to them and was soon within twelve feet of them.
"Oh yeah!" said the Doctor. He threw the banana peel hoping for a miracle, but he knew it was a long shot at that. No it wasn't a long shot. All it was going to do was piss the giant Racnoss off even more.
The banana peel landed on the Racnoss's face. She stopped as the banana peel fell off her face which had the expression of "You seriously just did that to me." She started move closer before she stopped and felt uneasy. An orange light shined behind the spider and a few seconds later the giant twenty foot tall and forty foot long spider exploded.
The saw the explosion in slow motion. He closed his eyes and the spider gut heading towards him and Alex slowed down a little. Everything around the Doctor was slower than he was. He ran and got in front of Alex and shielded her from the flying spider guts. Time went back to normal and the Doctor's back was pounded by the remains of the Princess of the Racnoss.
The Doctor moved, his back covered with the remains of the spider, some falling off of his back. Alex was almost spared. There was some greenish-yellow blood in her hair. The Doctor looked down at Alex's face. She smiled at him and had the face of innocence. The Doctor smiled back.
"Thanks Justin," said the Doctor, not turning around.
Justin and Harper were standing on the other side of the spider mush. "How did you know it was me?"
"You're the only other one who could have done that," said the Doctor, "Harper's not a receptor and Alex was with me. K-9's teleported down to the sub station again. That left you."
"Oh."
The ship shook violently and the four were thrown to the ground. The ship started to fall. The Doctor got to his feet as the ship stabilized. "Justin blast this barrier down! NOW!" the Doctor's eyes full intensity.
Justin blasted the barrier down and the Doctor took off with incredible speed. The three other followed, doing their best to catch up with him. They lost him as he turned a corner rapidly. They followed the blood trail left by the Racnoss guts falling on the floor off the Doctor's back. The Doctor ran into the control room and saw there were four control consoles. He needed the others to help him steer the ship away from the building and people.
Justin, Alex and Harper ran into the control room and the Doctor started barking orders at them. "Justin, over there. Alex, get that on to you right. Harper, behind you. I've got this one. We are going to land this ship in Central Park. They all go one direction. I'll order which way to go when I can access the correct codes to get into the webs mainframe. Ah! That'll take too long though. Wait, no it won't."
The Doctor took out a radio and said, "K-9?"
"Yes, Master," said K-9, on the other end.
"I need you back up here, now!" barked the Doctor, "I need you to break through a lock so I can access the mainframe for the Racnoss ship. I would, but I don't have that much time."
"I'll be there shortly," K-9 said. Seconds later the metal dog appeared on the ship. He rolled up next to the Doctor. A one inch satellite dish started to extend itself from above K-9's red eye. It touched the computer console and a couple minutes passed by.
"Any day now, K-9," said the Doctor.
"Now, Master, now," said K-9, rolling away and beaming back off of the ship.
The Doctor put his hand on the orb controller as the ship jarred downwards. "Towards yourselves!"
The other three complied and the spider's ship started to slowly move towards Central Park. The ship was catching fire as it lumbered its way out of the area of the buildings. It's two spires closest to the ground cut into the buildings and damaged them before the ship started taking out the trees. The ship descended even more and finally came to a sudden stop in the Central Park Lake. It was half submerged. UNIT was already in the Park and had shut it down as well as evacuated it as much as possible. This had been the Doctor's plan all along.
Onboard the ship, the Doctor and the three teens were thrown to the ground. The Doctor, as always, was the first one up and looked at the control console he was working at. "Dead. So are all the Racnoss in this ship without the life support systems. Oh they're going to suffocate, but hopefully UNIT will take care of them first, he muttered to himself. He saw Alex on the ground ran over to her and helped her up. She had a gash on her forehead where she hit it on the console before falling down. The Doctor took a towel out of his pocket and pressed it on her cut. She put her hand over the Doctor's and smiled with her eyes closed.
Justin helped Harper up as the two of them stared at the dead control room. They didn't even notice the other two. "No more going with the Doctor before we know how bad it's going to be. Does that sound good?"
"Yes, Justin, it does sound good," replied Harper, "Oh and one other thing, I hate spiders. Justin looked at her and started laughing and she joined.
"Hey! Are you two done yet? UNIT's going to take down this ship and I'd rather not be here when that happens. Paperwork and all that. So come on," said the Doctor.
They walked over to the Doctor as he got his transporter watch out of his pocket. Everyone knew the drill by now and they all grabbed the watch as the Doctor pushed the button. They were all engulfed with the blue light and they vanished.
Outside, UNIT was already starting to board the Racnoss ship. They were going to have a terrible time trying to cover this one up.