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Disclaimor: The TARDIS and her current occupants do not belong to me. I think she'd object if I tried to take them from her :P
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Spidey slowly began to inch himself backwards towards the door, his expression unchanging, before suddenly ducking out, and crawling all around the outside of the TARDIS, even perching momentarily on the light on top, before jumping back down into the doorway.
"Yup, bigger on the inside," he said in shock. "Cool," he then decided, before slowly pushing the doors shut behind him (without turning around), and hesitantly creeping towards the stairs leading to the console.
"I swear I had some communication ear pieces in here somewhere," the Doctor was saying, head buried in a trunk full of strange alien objects that had been hidden somewhere beneath the TARDIS floor.
"How is it possible for a Dalek to even be here?" Rory asked.
"Well that's robotic, hateful aliens for you (or non-aliens if you consider the Cybermen) - always seem to turn up everywhere, and simply refuse to die," the Doctor's voice replied, sounding a bit on edge.
"Ok, what do we need ear pieces for? What's the plan?" Amy asked, crossing her arms, trying to put some order and sense into things.
The Doctor's voice seemed to perk up at this. "Well, I was thinking we should all put ear pieces on so we can communicate with each other, and split up. Maybe one of you stays here and monitors the building's surveillance system, keeping an eye on things, while the rest of us go and activate that teleport to force the Dalek back where it came from, before it causes any more trouble, while the spider distracts it," the Doctor explained.
"Hmm, well, that could work," Amy said, agreeing.
"Nice, simple, and easy," the Doctor said, seeming to be content with his plan.
"What about Spider-Man though? You sure it's safe to send him out as a diversion like that?" Rory asked, his concern for the wall crawler showing through once again.
"Yes Rory, don't worry it's fine. He can handle himself," the Doctor said. "Ah yes, gotcha!" he then announced, as he pulled out a set of bulky ear pieces from the trunk. "Now, I want you to each put one of these on and...," the Doctor trailed off when the TARDIS made an odd noise, and he looked wildly around in confusion.
"Oi, hey, hey, hey, hey, no, no touching," he complained, as he tore up the stairs to the console, running over and snatching Spidey's curious hands away from the console.
Amy and Rory were shocked to see Spider-Man standing there at the console behind them, as they hadn't even heard him approach. "Dang spider powers," Rory thought, as he watched the sneaky spider curiously, to see what would happen next.
"Is that a toaster? And, are they...taps? What is this, kitchen junkyard? Looks like it's been put together from bits of garbage," Spidey joked, babbling while trying to reach for the extremely odd and out of place looking objects set around the time rotor, in the middle of the room.
"No, don't touch," the Doctor yelped, as Spidey pulled a lever and fiddled with some odd buttons, making the TARDIS whine and whinge in an awfully painful way.
"How does this work?" Spidey asked thoughtfully, before the Doctor managed to snatch his itchy hands away from the controls again, quickly fixing things. The TARDIS stopped groaning, and settled down.
"Now, keep your hands off the controls, unless of course you want to blow up the entire universe," the Doctor said grumpily, but the request was un-needed, as he suddenly paused to observe Spidey's odd change in behaviour.
He was standing there, still as a statue, next to the Doctor. An eerie silence seemed to have enveloped him, his head tilting from side to side sharply every now and then, as if listening to something that they could not hear.
"Ah, Spider guy?" the Doctor asked cautiously, before starting, as Spidey suddenly jumped up to perch with his hands and feet sticking to the time rotor, clinging there still and quiet, his head continuing to move in an insect-like way. They then watched as he hesitantly pressed his forehead against the clear glass, and the TARDIS hummed.
"Is this... alive?" Spidey's sudden question startled them out of their trance-like state, watching him in the dimly lit, orangey blue glow of the room.
"I can sense her," he then added before they could answer, turning his head to the side to look at them while still keeping contact with the glass.
"Ah yes, you can sense that?" the Doctor confirmed with great interest, while taking a small step forward.
"Yeah," Spidey replied, before surprising them by rubbing his nose into the rotor.
The response was instant, as the TARDIS erupted with a noise that sounded awfully much like a happy giggle.
The Doctor smiled widely in astonishment, as he'd felt the response from his ship. "Well, I was right about the psychic ability then. She likes you," he said, still not quite believing it.
"She's tickling my spider sense, probing at my mind," Spidey explained, "and I sensed her pain when I mucked with the controls earlier," he enlightened.
"Well... that's, a first," the Doctor said, out of words. "But can you get off before you put foot prints all over the glass?" he then complained.
"Yes sir," Spidey said, before jumping off the rotor and landing on one of the black pipes stretching across the ceiling, descending upside down on a web.
"Oh, no, I meant 'off entirely', not hanging from the ceiling," the Doctor whined, flapping his hands around in annoyance.
"Naww but I'm a spider, it's what I do," Spidey said, wiggling around on his web as if trying to get comfortable. "Besides, she likes me," he then added.
The Doctor growled loudly. "Fine, whatever," he grumbled, waving his hands in Spidey's direction in defeat, before walking over to the screen and typing away.
"Now, let's see if we can hack into the camera service. Yes!" the Doctor said, as he pulled up the surveillance of the building. "Oh of course," he deflated, "the cameras upstairs have been disabled. How typical! And look, so have the ones in this room. Probably got shot at," the Doctor babbled, pointing at the screen, while Amy and Rory watched from behind him.
He caught sight of movement in the corner of his eye and looked up. "Ohhhh what are you doing now? What did I say before about footprints?" he whinged as he caught sight of Spidey. He had been crawling around the orange and golden ceiling, investigating everything, before coming over to look at the screen from up above.
"Ah, sorry...?" Spidey offered, just causing the Doctor to sigh, before looking away.
"Ok, Rory and I will sneak back to that storage room where I'll try and get that teleport to work. Amy you stay here in the TARDIS and watch the cameras. Give us a heads up if anything happens..."
"But wait, why me, why do I have to stay here?" Amy asked crossly, in a drawn out moan.
"Because you're the pretty one," the Doctor teased, causing Amy to pout.
"And Spidey, errr..." the Doctor started, only to find he was gone again from his previous position, and had to sweep his eyes around the room, turning on the spot for a second, before he finally found him.
"What's with the orange circles? I mean, what are they for, do they do anything? Or are they just for decoration?" Spidey asked from across the wall, off in his own world, examining one of the TARDIS's traditional round circles.
"Spider-Man!" the Doctor yelled.
"Yes, yes, what is it?" Spidey responded, practically jumping to alert and turning to look at the Doctor.
The Doctor sighed. "You'll go and distract that Dalek while we put the rest of the plan into action (assuming you were listening to the plan), and then, when I call you, you'll lure that Dalek into the storage room where I'll teleport it away. Oh, and don't let it take any more stuff," the Doctor explained.
"Yes sir," Spidey said, mocking him again with a salute.
"Right," the Doctor said, turning back. "Put these ear pieces on so we can communicate with each other," he said, while putting ear pieces on both Amy and Rory, fitting them snugly round their ears before activating them with his sonic, causing a white light to start flashing on them.
Rory fiddled with his to make it more comfortable. "Right, how do they work?" he asked.
"Oh it's relatively simple, you just press down on the button and talk into it, and anything anyone else says will automatically come through," he said, while fitting his own.
"Ok, sounds simple enough," Rory replied.
"Spidey? Oh that's it, get over here!" the Doctor yelled, as he'd just caught Spidey sneaking up the stairs towards the interior of the TARDIS.
Spidey instantly stopped and turned around, like a deer caught in headlights, before shooting a web and landing in front of the Doctor with a spectacular array of flips and twirls. "Yes?" he asked.
"Show off," Rory muttered.
The Doctor reached forward towards his face before pausing. "Ah, how do I put this on you?" he observed, as Spidey was wearing a mask over his head and the device was rather bulky. "Wait, I have an idea," he said, before taking off below the floor.
They watched him fumble around for a second through the glass floor, bathed in a bluish light, before he emerged again with what looked like a strange, metal band-like thing, with various technology built into it, which was designed to go around someone's head.
"This used to be a part of some sort of, mind reading machine I think," he said, causing Spidey to look alarmed, "but it'll do," he continued cheerfully. He attached the ear piece to the side of it, before walking forward and slipping it over Spidey's head, tucking it under his chin to keep it in place, the ear piece lining up perfectly with Spidey's ear. "Ah, perfect," he said, admiring his work.
"Ohhhh, now I look ridiculous," Spidey moaned, motioning to himself.
"Oh come on web head, quit complaining," Amy said.
"Web head, how did she know to call me "web head"?" Spidey mumbled to himself, crossing his arms grumpily and looking down at the floor, before following after the Doctor and Rory who were already heading towards the door.
The Doctor bounded down the steps, calling out as he went, "You know what to do Amy?" he asked.
"Yes Doctor, just... be careful," she yelled out after them.
"Stay in touch," he said, pointing enthusiastically towards his ear piece, before turning around to face the door. "Let's go catch a Dalek," he said, looking gleefully at Spider-Man and Rory, before peeking outside.
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