Chapter 15: The Doctor Always Has A Plan
I don't own Doctor Who or Torchwood whatsoever, BBC does, and I'm just a fan with an idea.
RECAP:
"Then give me your gun." He gave the Doctor his gun. "I'm about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous. When I do…" He jumped in place "Jump." The Doctor told us all
"Jump where?" Father Octavian asked.
"Just jump, high as you can. Come on, leap of faith, Bishop. On my signal." The Doctor answered
"What signal?" Father Octavian asked again.
"You won't miss it." The Doctor answered as he aimed the gun at the roof.
"Sorry, can I ask again? You mentioned a mistake?" Angel Bob asked over the radio.
"Oh, big mistake. Huge. There's one thing you never put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap." The Doctor answered into the radio.
"And what would that be, sir?" Angel Bob asked over the radio.
"Me!" The Doctor answered, before firing at the gravity globe which exploded.
And I jumped as high as I could.
Avery's POV
I was next to my sister, sitting on the ground. Everyone was recovering from the jump. The Doctor stood and said "Up! Look up!"
"You Ok?" River asked Amy, ignoring me completely. I got up and moved over to the Doctor and looked up as he said. The sight was a surprising one. We had managed to change gravity. What was once up was now down and vice versa. I smirked at the Doctor.
"What happened?" Amy asked
"We jumped." River replied
"Jumped where?" Amy asked again
"Up, up, look up!" The Doctor insisted.
"Where are we?" Amy questioned
"Exactly where we were." River answered
"No we're not." I replied, just as Amy was about to reply with the same thing, just I beat her to it.
"Move your feet!" The Doctor ordered as he began to sonic an indentation on the floor.
"Doctor, what am I looking at? Explain." Amy asked looking around
"Oh, come on, Amy, think! The ship crashed with the power still on, yeah? So what else is still on?" The Doctor pointed out. They were slow, it wasn't hard to figure out. "The artificial gravity. One good jump," he jumped to demonstrate what he was saying "and up we fell. Shot out the grav-globe to give us an updraft, and here we are!" He returned to sonic the indentation.
"Doctor. The statues, they look more like Angels now." Father Octavian noted.
"They're feeding on the radiation from the wreckage, draining all the power from the ship, restoring themselves. Within an hour, they'll be an army!" The Doctor replied. The indentation that he had been sonicking opened up into the ship just as the lights started going out. That wasn't good. They were beginning to take out the lights so they could get to us without us looking at them. I took no instruction and climbed into the hole, I wasn't going to be Angel food.
"They're taking out the lights. Look at them, look at the Angels. Into the ship, now, quickly all of you!" The Doctor ordered as he slipped into the hole after me.
"Well hurry up now. Don't need to be Angel chow." I encouraged.
"But how? Doctor! Avery!" Amy said to us before peering into the hole to see us standing upright.
"It's just a corridor. The gravity orientates to the floor. Now, in here, all of you., don't take your eyes off the Angels. Move, move, move!" The Doctor said again as he used the screwdriver on a keypad.
"OK, men, go, go, go!" Father Octavian ordered before joining us. "The Angels, presumably they can jump up too?" He asked the Doctor. The door closed when everyone was inside.
"They're here. Now. In the dark, we're finished. Run!" The Doctor said. The large door behind us closed, blocking our only way out. We were definite Angel chow if the Doctor didn't find a way out, but I had faith in him.
"This whole place is a death trap." Father Octavian noted.
"No, it's a time bomb. Well, it's a death trap and a time bomb. And now it's a dead end. Nobody panic." The Doctor corrected. I took a few breaths and looked at my surroundings for a way out, even a nice sized vent would be helpful. The Angels tried to come in the exterior door.
"Oh, just me then. What's through here?" The Doctor said. Before amending looking at me, noticing that I wasn't panicking and I was giving him a sharp look. "Ok, us."
"Secondary flight deck." River replied.
"OK. so we've basically run up the inside of a chimney, yeah? So what if the gravity fails?" Amy asked. River began to work on bypassing the power.
"I've thought about that." The Doctor answered.
"And?" Amy prodded for more answers.
"And we'll all plunge to our deaths. See. I've thought about it. The security protocols are still live. There's no way to override them, it's impossible." He replied.
"How impossible?" River asked
"Two minutes." The Doctor answered. The hum of the engines powered down and our way in had reopened and the cavern could be seen outside. We were Angel chow if he didn't get it.
"The hull is breached and the power's failing." Father Octavian reported just before the lights went out. I saw the arm of an Angel through the opening. Now was the time to panic. There had to be a way to bypass the stupid door that was in our way of safety. I was far too young to be Angel chow.
"Sir! Incoming!" A cleric reported.
"Doctor! Lights." I said. The Doctor began to use the sonic to help River. The light came on briefly and we saw an Angel making its way inside. The lights went out again and came back brighter to show four Angels inside the corridor with us.
"Clerics, keep watching them." Father Octavian ordered.
"And don't look at their eyes. Anywhere else. Not the eyes. I've isolated the lighting grid. They can't drain the power now." The Doctor added
"Good work, Doctor." Father Octavian complimented.
"Yes. good. Good in many ways, good you like it so far..." The Doctor responded
"So far?" I asked
"Well, there's only one way to open this door. I guess I'll need to route all the power in this section through the door control." The Doctor answered.
"Good, fine, do it." Father Octavian accepted
"Including the lights. All of them. I'll need to turn out the lights." The Doctor said
"How long for?" Father Octavian questioned
"Fraction of a second, maybe longer. Maybe quite a bit longer." He answered
"Maybe?" Father Octavian asked
"I'm guessing. We're being attacked by statues in a crashed ship, there isn't a manual for this!" The Doctor admitted
"Doctor, we lost the torches. We'll be in total darkness." I told him.
"No other way. Bishop?" The Doctor said
"Dr Song, I've lost good Clerics today. You trust this man?" Father Octavian asked
"I absolutely trust him." River answered.
"He's not some kind of madman then?" Father Octavian added
"I absolutely trust him" River repeated, not answering the question. I stifled my laughter. The Doctor could be trust, but he was 100% a madman in a blue box.
"Excuse me." The Doctor said going back to the door, not listening to the conversation between Father Octavian and Dr Song.
"I 'm taking your word, because you're the only one who can manage this guy. But that only works so long as he doesn't know who you are. You cost me any more men, and I might just tell him. Understood?" Father Octavian said sternly to River.
"Understood." She responded.
"Ok. Doctor, we've got your back." Father Octavian reported.
"Bless you, Bishop." The Doctor responded.
"Combat distance, ten feet. As soon as the lights go down, continuous fire. Full spread over the hostiles. Do not stop firing while the lights are out. Shot gun protocol, we don't have bullets to waste." Father Octavian ordered his Clerics.
"Amy, when the lights go down, the wheel should release. Spin it clockwise, four turns." The Doctor told her.
"Ten." Amy said. I looked at her strangely, something wasn't right with her. I had that niggling feeling.
"No, four, four turns." The Doctor corrected
"Yeah, four, I heard you." Amy said taking her position at the door.
"Ready!" The Doctor said as he placed his sonic into the circuit.
"On my count then. God be with us all. Three... two...one." Father Octavian said. And then ordered as the lights went out "Fire!" And the clerics opened fire on the Angels. We, being The Doctor, Amy, River and I, tried to get the door open.
"Turn!" The Doctor said.
"Doctor, quickly!" River added
"It's opening, it's working." I reported. Amy and River slipped through. I stood by The Doctor.
"Fall back!" Father Octavian ordered as the Clerics moved through the doorway followed by Father Octavian, The Doctor and me. We moved down a similar corridor to another door. The Doctor held the door open with the sonic as the others went through. I tried to stay by him but he pushed me through the door. "Doctor, quickly!" River and I both said, I held my hand out to him
"Doctor!" Amy added. The Doctor ran to join us as the door quickly closed behind him. He took my hand as he passed by me, dragging me along with him to one of the controls. I examined our surroundings, the flight deck was in major disrepair with exposed wires all over the console.
"Doctor!" Amy said, the hatch lock spins shut and Father Octavian placed a device on the door. "What are you doing?" Amy asked Father Octavian
"Magnetized the door. Nothing could turn that wheel now." Father Octavian answered.
"Yeah?" The Doctor retorted like he knew. I scoffed. The Angels were nothing ordinary, they could get through those doors, there was enough radiation on this ship to give them the energy they needed. And just to prove us right, the wheel behind the Father began to turn.
"Dear God!" Father Octavian exclaimed surprised.
"Ah, now you're getting it! You've bought us time though, that's good. I am good with time." The Doctor said, I agreed with him. Enough time for us to get into the section, another deck between us and the Angels. All is hoping.
"Doctor!" Amy pointed out that another door wheel was spinning.
"Seal that door. Seal it now!" Father Octavian ordered a cleric, who placed a magnetic device on the second door.
"We're surrounded!" River reported as a third door began to spin open.
"Seal it, seal that door." Father Octavian ordered another cleric, who placed yet another device on the door. "Doctor, how long have we got?" he asked.
"Five minutes, max." The Doctor answered
"Nine." Amy said. I looked at her, first ten and now nine. Counting down. If she said eight next, I could confirm that she was counting down. But to what?
"Five." The Doctor corrected looking at Amy.
"Five, right yeah." Amy said
"Why d'you say nine?" The Doctor asked
"I didn't." Amy argued
"We need another way out of here." River said before they could get into it.
"There isn't one." Father Octavian pointed out.
"Yeah, there is, course there is. This is a galaxy class ship, goes for years between planet-falls." The Doctor snapped his fingers "what do they need?" He asked
"Of course." River said, getting it. I didn't like it. She got something, I didn't. I wracked my brains for a semblance of an answer before they gave me the answer. He snapped his fingers again.
"Of course, what? What do they need?" Amy asked
"Can we get in there?" Father Octavian asked. Great, he knew what they were talking about too.
"Well, it's a sealed unit, but they must have installed it somehow. This whole wall should slide up." The Doctor said as he pressed against the rear wall, letting go of my hand. "There's clamps. Release the clamps!" He used the sonic on the clamps.
"What's through there? What do they need?" Amy asked.
"They need to breathe." River answered as the door slowly rose. I finally got the answer. A forest, trees, something to create oxygen so they didn't suffocate. The Doctor smiled and squeezed my hand as he retook it. I looked at the small bit of the forest I could see with amazement.
"But that's... That's a..." Amy stuttered awestruck. The door opened fully to reveal lush vegetation and trees.
"It's an oxygen factory." River said
"It's a forest." Amy said
"Yeah, it's a forest, it's an oxygen factory." River corrected.
"And, if we're lucky, an escape route." The Doctor added.
"Eight." Amy said
"What did you say?" River asked
"Nothing." Amy replied.
I was right. She was counting down. But to what? I would bet my life that it was Angel related.
"Is there another exit? Scan the architecture, we don't have time to get lost in there." The Doctor said, breaking my thought track.
"On it!" Father Octavian responded stepping into the forest. "Stay where you are until I've checked the Red levels." He ordered.
"But trees! On a space ship?" Amy said still amazed, like she couldn't get over that simple thing.
"Oh, more than trees, way better than trees. You're going to love this." The Doctor replied, stepping into the forest bringing me with him to show me. "Treeborgs…" He opened a section of peat moss to reveal circuitry. Now that I hadn't expected. I was impressed. "Trees plus technology. Branches become cables, become sensors on the hull. A forest sucking in starlight, breathing out air. It even rains. There's a whole mini-climate. It is an eco-pod running through the heart of the ship. A forest in a bottle, on a space ship, in a maze. Have I impressed you yet, Amy Pond?" He smiled at me, knowing he had impressed me.
"Seven." Amy chuckled
"Seven?" The Doctor asked joining Amy back on the flight deck.
"Sorry, what?" Amy asked confused.
"You said seven." He replied as he studied her face. I copied his moves, maybe I'd figure out what she was counting down. All I knew was that I had six more numbers before that clock hit zero and it was doomsday.
"No. I didn't." Amy retorted.
"Yes, you did." I replied.
"Doctor! There's an exit, far end of the ship, into the Primary Flight Deck." Father Octavian interrupted the moment.
"Good, that's where we need to go." The Doctor replied
"Plotting a safe path." Father Octavian reported.
"Quick as you like!" The Doctor replied still studying Amy. I thought it was time to tell him what I noticed in my twin sister. I was about to tell him when a voice we hadn't heard from for a bit.
"Doctor? Excuse me. Hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir." Angel Bob spoke over the radio stopping me from what I was about to tell the Doctor.
"Ah. there you are, Angel Bob. How's life? Sorry, bad subject." The Doctor spoke into the radio, letting go of my hand as he swung into the command chair.
"The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve." Angel Bob responded
"Achieve? We're not achieving anything. We're just hanging. It's nice in here, consoles, comfy chairs, a forest. How's things with you?" The Doctor said casually as though he wasn't speaking with the entities that were after us.
"The Angels are feasting, sir. Soon we will be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world, and all the stars and worlds beyond." Angel Bob reported
"Well, we've got comfy chairs, did I mention?" The Doctor replied
"We have no need of comfy chairs." Angel Bob answered,
"I made him say comfy chairs!" The Doctor said with a grin to us off the radio. I laughed
"Six." Amy laughed. Five more numbers, and the time increment between the numbers was getting shorter the closer she got to zero.
"Okay, well, enough chat. Here's what I want to know: what have you done to Amy?" The Doctor standing up quickly asking into the radio.
"There is something in her eye." Angel Bob answered
"What's in her eye?" The Doctor asked again.
"We are." Angel Bob answered ominously. Shit! The answer to her countdown hit me, it was the countdown until she was either possessed by an angel or became one. Yeah, she wasn't the greatest sister, but she was family. Ohana. Like that Disney film I had watched a few years back. Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten, or I would amend, turned into an energy sucking Angel.
"What's he talking about? Doctor, I'm five." Amy argued, everyone stared at her. "I mean, five. Fine! I'm fine."
"You're counting." I said
"Counting?" Amy asked
"You're counting down. From ten. You have been for a couple of minutes." The Doctor answered, clearly he noticed without me having to tell him.
"Why?" Amy asked
"I don't know." The Doctor replied. HA! I figured it out before he did.
"Well, counting down to what?" Amy asked
"I don't know." The Doctor replied again.
"Doctor, it clearly has to do with Angels." I told him, hoping he got the hint.
"We shall take her. We shall take all of you. We shall have dominion over all time and space." Angel Bob said over the radio sounding a lot like a dark lord.
The Doctor sat back in his chair and replied "Get a life, Bob. Oops, sorry again. There's power on this ship, but nowhere near that much."
"With respect, sir, there is more power on this ship than you yet understand." Angel Bob replied before there was a loud, horrible screeching.
"Dear God, what is it?" River asked
"They're back." Father Octavian reported.
"It's hard to put in your terms, Dr Song, but as best I understand it, the Angels are laughing." Angel Bob answered over the radio.
"Laughing?" The Doctor asked into the radio.
"Because you haven't noticed yet. The Doctor in the TARDIS hasn't noticed." Angel Bob answered
"Doctor!" Father Octavian said as the Doctor stood up from the chair.
"No, wait, there's something...I've..." He slowly turned to see a glowing crack high in the wall that somehow all of us had missed. "missed." He said before running back to the wall.
"That's... That's like the crack from my bedroom wall from when I was a little girl." Amy pointed out. I nodded.
"Yes." The Doctor said.
I thought back to what he had said what the crack was back fourteen years ago. "Two parts of space and time that should never have touched."
"Ok, enough, we're moving out!" Father Octavian ordered, breaking my flashback.
"Agreed. Doctor?" River confirmed
"Yeah. Fine!" The Doctor said before using the sonic on the crack.
"What are you doing?" I asked
"Right with you." The Doctor answered, not really paying attention to my question.
"We're not leaving without you!" I argued indignantly.
"Oh, yes you are. Bishop?" The Doctor said
"Miss Pond, Dr Song, now!" Father Octavian ordered. River grabbed Amy and pulled her to the forest. Father Octavian moved forward and grabbed my arm pulling me along after them.
"Doctor, come on!" I said moving along with the Bishop.
Third POV
"So, what are you?" The Doctor asked as he looked at the readings from the screwdriver. "Oh, that's bad. Ah, that's extremely very not good." He responded to the readings he got before pressing his ear against the wall and when he turned back, he was surrounded by Angels. "Do not blink." He said as he climbed over the console to get past them and was grabbed by his jacket collar.
Avery's POV
I walked next to Amy and River in the centre of a patrol of clerics. I wasn't happy about leaving the Doctor behind, if it wasn't for the fact there were clerics behind me I would of snuck back to help him. Then I noticed Amy began to walk slower and have a strange, almost sickly look on her face. I nudged River to get her attention to the fact there was something wrong.
"Amy?" River asked walking over and gripping Amy's arms. "Amy, what's wrong?"
Third POV
The Doctor was still in the grip of the Angels. "Why am I not dead then?" He turned nervously and saw that the Angels had their hands up to the crack as if worshipping it. "Good, and not so good. Oh, this isn't even a little bit good. I mean, is that it? Is that the power that brought you here? That's pure time energy, you can't feed on that. That's the power, that's the fire at the end of the universe. I'll tell you something else..." He said, going on a bit of a mini rant. There was a loud rumbling. "Never let me talk!" He ran into the forest leaving behind his jacket in the hands of the Angels.
Avery's POV
"Amy, what's wrong?" River repeated to Amy.
"Four." Amy said before curling up on a moss-covered rock. I sat next to her concerned.
"Med-scanner, now!" River ordered before one of the clerics gave it to her.
"Dr Song, we can't stay here, we've got to keep moving." Father Octavian argued.
"We wait for the Doctor" River said pointedly as she used the scanner on Amy. For once, I agreed with her.
"Our mission is to make this wreckage safe and neutralise the Angels. Until that is achieved..." Father Octavian started to rant before River interrupted him and argued "Father Octavian, when the Doctor is in the room, your only mission is to keep him alive long enough to get everyone else home. And trust me. It's not easy. Now, if he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself, and if he's alive, I'll never forgive him. And, Doctor, you're standing right behind me, aren't you?"
"Oh, yeah." The Doctor replied. I smiled, that was one problem off my shoulders.
River turned to face the Doctor "I hate you!" She said jokingly
"You don't. Bishop, the Angels are in the forest" The Doctor said going to Amy's side that I wasn't occupying.
"We need visual contact on every line of approach." Father Octavian ordered
"How did you get past them?" I asked
"Found a crack in the wall and told them it was the end of the universe." The Doctor told us
"What was it?" Amy asked
"The end of the universe. Let's have a look then." The Doctor answered checking the med-scanner.
"So. what's wrong with me?" Amy asked
"Nothing, you're fine." River answered.
"Everything, you're dying." The Doctor corrected.
"Doctor!" River argued
"Yes, you're right, if we lie to her, she'll get all better! Right. Amy! Amy. what's the matter with Amelia? Something's in her eye. What does that mean? Doesn't mean anything." The Doctor said
"Doctor." Amy said
"Busy." He replied
"Scared!" She retorted. I rubbed her side how I always imagined our mother would of if she was around.
"Course, you're dying, shut up!" The Doctor said rudely as he stood up, I kicked him hard in the leg where I could reach. He glared at me and I gave him a hard look.
"OK, let him think." River soothed Amy.
"What happened? She stared at the Angel, she looked into the eyes of an angel for too long..." The Doctor thought out loud.
"Sir! Angel, incoming!" A cleric reported to where an Angel is watching from the trees.
"And here." A second cleric reported
"Keep visual contact, do not let it move!" Father Octavian ordered
The Doctor began to pace and slapped the sides of his head "Come on, come on, wakey, wakey! She watched an Angel climb out of the screen. She stared at the Angel and…and..."
"The image of an Angel is an Angel." Amy and I said at the same time.
"A living image in a human mind. We stare at them to stop them getting closer, we don't even blink and that's exactly what they want, cos as long as our eyes are open, they can climb inside. There's an Angel in her mind." The Doctor figured out, he put his hand over his mouth.
"Three. Doctor, it's coming. I can feel it. I'm going to die!" Amy cried
"No you're not." I soothed Amy.
"Please just shut up, I'm thinking. Now counting, what's that about?" The Doctor said rudely, and I rolled my eyes not bothering to hit him when he was so close to getting it. He asked Angel Bob into radio "Bob, why are they making her count?"
"To make her afraid, sir." Angel Bob answered over the radio
"OK. But why. What for?" He replied
"For fun, sir." Angel Bob answered. The Doctor growled in frustration and threw away the radio. One of the clerics watched the Doctor and turned back to look at the Angel when he hears a branch crack.
"Doctor, what's happening to me? Explain!" Amy cried
"Inside your head, in the vision centres of your brain, there's an Angel." He explained as he retook the spot he had taken previously. "It's like there's a screen, a virtual screen inside your mind, and the Angel is climbing out of it, and it's coming to shut you off."
"Then what do I do?" Amy asked
"If it was a real screen, what would we do, we'd pull the plug. but we can't just knock her out, the Angel would take over!" The Doctor thinking aloud as he stood up once again
"Then what? Quickly!" River said
"We've got to shut down the vision centers of her brain. We've got to pull the plug, starve the Angel." The Doctor answered
River looked at the scanner "Doctor, she's got seconds."
"How would you starve your lungs?" He asked me.
"I'd stop breathing." I replied
"Amy, close your eyes!" He ordered Amy
"No, no, I don't want to." Amy replied
"Good, because that's not you, that's the Angel inside you, it's afraid! Do it! Close your eyes!" The Doctor replied. Amy hesitated but closed her eyes when the Doctor nodded his head. The scanner beeped and the readings that had previously been red returned to green.
"She's normalising." River reported before sighing "You did it! You did it!"
"Sir? Two more incoming." The cleric reported.
"Three more over here." The second one reported
"Still weak, dangerous to move her." River reported putting away the scanner
"So, can I open my eyes now?" Amy asked sitting up
The Doctor bent down in front of Amy and said " Amy, listen to me. If you open your eyes now for more than a second, you will die. The Angel is still inside you. We haven't stopped it, we've just sort of...paused it. You've used up your countdown. You cannot open your eyes."
"Doctor, we're too exposed here. We have to move on." Father Octavian said
The Doctor straightened up "We're exposed everywhere, and Amy can't move, and anyway, that's not the plan." He replied as he took my hand and helped me off the rock to stand by him.
"There's a plan?" River asked, sitting in my recently vacated spot next to Amy comforting her.
"I don't know yet, I haven't finished talking. Right! Father, you and your Clerics will stay here, look after Amy. If anything happens to her, I'll hold each of you personally responsible, twice. River, you and me, we're going to find the Primary Flight Deck which is..." The Doctor said before licking his finger and held it up to test the air. "A quarter mile straight ahead. We'll stabilise the wreckage, stop the Angels, and cure Amy."
"How?" River asked
"I'll do a thing." He replied
"What thing?" She asked
"I don't know, it's a thing in progress. Respect the thing. Moving out!" He answered.
"Doctor, I'm coming with you. My Clerics can look after Miss Pond. These are my best men, they'd lay down their lives in her protection." Father Octavian added.
"I don't need you." The Doctor argued.
"I don't care. Where Dr Song goes, I go." Father Octavian states as River came over to join us.
"What?" The Doctor asked looking at River and then back at Father Octavian "You two engaged or something?"
"Yes, in a manner of speaking. Marco, you're in charge till I get back." Father Octavian ordered and started off with River.
"Sir!" Marco argued
"Doctor... Please, can't I come with you?" Amy questioned
"You'd slow us down, Miss Pond." Father Octavian said
"I don't want to sound selfish, but you'd really speed me up." Amy retorted
The Doctor sat next to Amy, letting go of my hand "You'll be safer here. We can't protect you on the move. I'll be back for you soon as I can. I promise." The Doctor told her.
"You always say that." Amy argued
"I always come back" He replied before standing. "Good luck everyone. Behave. Do not let that girl open her eyes. And keep watching the forest. Stop those Angels advancing. Amy, later!" He tapped her on the head before taking my hand taking me off with him asking "River, going to need your computer."
AN: So so sorry about the lateness of this update. I lost motivation. A lot happened. I moved back in with my dad for the summer, and I got a job. So unlike all the other times, I'm not going to make promises that I'll update any time soon, but I'll make the promise that in the very least I'll finish off this part/episode. Do comment or review if you find any mistakes, been awhile might of forgotten something and also I wrote this at 4:30am because I found inspiration at the worst time ever because I work at 11:30am instead of closing like I have the entire past week. Hope I can fall asleep fast after post. Love those of you who bothered to read this as well those who stuck around. 3
~ incendiarriddle