Chapter 9

The Doctor went back to the console room to try to figure out the problem. Carrissa continued to explore the T.A.R.D.I.S.

But the next room was different. Lights hung down from a sort of mechanical tree. The lights were orb shaped. In the corner of the room was a giant lever. One end said ON and the other OFF. The lever was positioned on OFF.

So he didn't check the lever. It's obviously off. She thought. I'll just turn it on.

When she first touched it, the lever shocked her. It was strange, because the T.A.R.D.I.S. was dead. There was no electricity. She just thought it wasn't the T.A.R.D.I.S., just her imagination. She pushed hard to get the handle to move. After a few tries all the lights came on.

"Carrissa! I fixed it!" The Doctor yelled from down the hall. Carrissa just rolled her eyes. Of course he would just assumed he fixed her. The truth was he couldn't solve the most obvious problem. Also he had lied to her. He said he'd checked the ON/OFF switch. It seemed he hadn't after all.

She stepped out into the hallway to see him running over to her.

"You didn't fix anything. You were to busy looking for a problem to check the lever. I turned it back on."

He put his head down and stared at the floor. She saw his sad eyes and almost felt bad. Then she snapped out of it.

"Well you should have checked the lever, like I told you to. Now come on, we're too busy to cry over who fixed the T.A.R.D.I.S. and didn't."

They strolled back to the console room together.

The Doctor walked over to the controls and clapped his hands together. "Right then. Off to the Mohandy ship."

He pushed some buttons and pulled some levers. The big glass cylinder started to move and make a whooshing noise.

"Lets go." He said starting towards the door.

"That was all? I thought it would take longer." Carrissa just shrugged and followed the Doctor. He stopped at the door and turned to her.

"I think you should stay in here. I've known the Mohandy for a while, and you can never be sure if they'll welcome you tea or guns." When he said guns he got this disgusted look on his face. He went out the door leaving Carrissa all alone in the T.A.R.D.I.S. again.

Carrissa walked over to the monitor.

"There's gotta be some way to see whats going on outside." She pushed a button and the monitor showed the Doctor outside the T.A.R.D.I.S.

"How did I do that?" It was like she knew the right button. "Lucky guess."

At first there was no sound, but Carrissa found a knob that turned on volume.

The picture didn't look so good at first. The Doctor had guns pointed at him by huge half caterpillars half human. They were 8 feet tall with ten sets of hands and green skin. The ten on top were used as hands and the ones on the bottom were used as feet.

The room was just a white dome with some plants in white vases. On the right side of the room was a small white sofa. Directly in front of the Doctor was an opening in the room leading down a white corridor.

"It's okay, I come in peace. I'm the Doctor, this is my ship." He said pointing to the T.A.R.D.I.S. "I would like to speak to Jacobi."

The biggest one turned to one only about 6 feet tall "Go ask Jacobi if he knows this man." The big one's voiced boomed throughout the room.

The little one looked frightened at first, but hastily turned and ran to the corridor through a door on the left. It must not have taken long, because right after he walked in, an even bigger voice came from the room yelling "THE DOCTOR?! SEND HIM IN!"

The small caterpillar came out. "He said to bring the trespasser to him."

The big guard lead the Doctor to the room down the corridor, out of the monitor's view.