CHAPTER 24

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Donna kept kicking the console of her TARDIS over and over again as the TARDIS went flying over the cliff and into freefall. She knew that she didn't have much time left before she and K'anpo had their necks broken when they hit the bottom.

"Work, you heap of rubbish!" Donna said as she kept kicking the console.

"Maybe if you stopped kicking and insulting her, it would help?" K'anpo said.

"Oi! Who asked for your opinion, Wise Man?" Donna said in a really bad mood.

Donna started to get more and more worked up the more time went past, and she finally just kicked the console with every bit of strength that she could muster. She didn't know what else to do, and it made her feel a little better. Not much but a little.

She wondered if she might regenerate once they hit the bottom. If so, she thought that she might want to be a blonde this time. It looked good on Rose after all. She'd still like to keep her basic personality and attitude though. She just wouldn't be her without it. Maybe if she concentrated really hard during the regeneration, she could keep herself more or less intact?

She finally decided that maybe K'anpo was right, and that it wouldn't hurt to try it his way. She patted the console affectionately as if it were a child and felt like a fool as she did so. She had seen the Doctor do it though, and it seemed to have worked for him.

"Please, TARDIS, start up and save me and the nice old man here from being dashed against the rocks below. Pretty please!" Donna said in a gentle almost pleading tone.

Donna felt like she was going to throw up. She hated being this nice. It so wasn't her at all.

Suddenly the TARDIS sprang to life, and Donna swiftly punched in coordinates. She dematerialized the TARDIS just seconds before it would have hit the bottom. She sighed in relief and said to the TARDIS, "Thank you! Maybe I won't melt you down after all."

"You see? If you send love and friendship out into the universe, it gets returned back to you tenfold," K'anpo said.

"Stuff it, Wise Man! We don't have time for philosophy lessons. We need to land the TARDIS somewhere hopefully far, far away from any spiders and get back to work on the psychic disruptor that we need," Donna said.

As Donna looked for a safe place to land her TARDIS, the other Bad Wolves were busy just trying to stay alive long enough to give them the time that they needed to complete their work. Michelle was sending the spider possessed people to the mirror verse as quickly as she could, but more of them just kept teleporting into the house or onto the lawn all of the time and replacing them just as quickly as they were sent away.

There seemed to be an inexhaustible supply of them, and Dorothy wondered if they had stepped up their game and taken the entire village by now. It certainly felt like it. They just wouldn't stop coming!

The spiders just kept doing their best to kill Michelle, but Dorothy's force field was more than capable of withstanding everything that they could throw at it. She wasn't letting anything get through to touch her.

They tried to cut Dorothy down after realizing that she was protecting Michelle, but they found out very quickly how big a mistake that that was. Dorothy began taking whole rows of them down at a time with a single gesture every time that they approached her by knocking their hosts out with a massive blast of Vortex energy.

The spiders then quickly took out their frustrations on the next convenient targets other than Dorothy and Michelle as they attacked Ileana, Abraham, Victoria, and Katherine. This proved to be another huge mistake as the spiders had to deal with Abraham quickly defeating the ordinary unskilled in combat townspeople with his phenomenal fighting prowess. The man had been fighting vampires for over a century after all so some possessed townspeople were no match for him. Victoria had control of her werewolf self for the moment, and she too proved to be more than a match for them. In fact the spiders seemed to be the most terrified of her out of any of the others due to her feral savagery, and they tried their best to avoid her. The two vampires, Ileana and Katherine, soon had many of the people fighting them either knocked unconscious or had hypnotized both humans and spiders and put them under their direct control. It was unfortunate for all of them that they couldn't put more of them under their control quicker. There were limits to what even a vampire could do though.

As she saw her vampire friends controlling the possessed humans, Michelle had a feeling of dread come over her. She hadn't been watching Alina! She had been so busy trying to put the spider possessed humans into the mirror verse that she had forgotten to watch what was happening to them once they got there. She didn't even want to think about Alina being in control of any of those spider people! She could only hope that the Shadow Cheetahs had kept her from being able to do too much.

She peered into the mirror verse and saw to her relief that the spider possessed humans were too busy fighting with the Shadow Cheetahs for Alina to have done anything to them. She saw Alina alone with the possessed Sabalom Glitz still trying to avoid his attacks. Michelle breathed a sigh of relief. She was going to make sure to keep an eye on Alina from now on and make sure that she wasn't up to anything in the future.

Alina smiled as she kept battling with Glitz. She knew that Michelle would think that she had been unsuccessful in hypnotizing Glitz because she was still fighting with him. That's what she wanted her to think. She had actually gotten him and his spider under her control some time ago but had ordered them to keep fighting with her so that if Michelle were watching she wouldn't think that anything was wrong.

She had plans for Mr. Glitz and his spider. Oh, yes indeed. Soon she would use him to carry them out, and then Michelle and her friends would all be sorry that they had left her in here. They should have just let her join her sisters in oblivion. They would soon realize that trying to redeem her had been a huge mistake.

Meanwhile back in the bedroom that Mel, Elisabeta, Anna, Kara, and Amanda had locked themselves into everything was going fine so far. They hadn't been attacked yet, but they were all still extremely nervous as they heard all of the fighting going on in the front of the house.

"This is just so unreal. It's all like some kind of nightmare. A really bizarre nightmare," Anna said.

"I know. It was like watching someone else when that spider had control over me. I was an outside observer watching my own body. I'm so sorry about the way I treated you earlier, Anna. I didn't mean any of it. It wasn't me doing all of that," Kara said.

"I know. Don't worry about it," Anna said.

"What about me? Don't I get an apology? You almost killed me!" Mel said with a grin so that they knew that she wasn't serious. She was trying to relieve some of the anxiety in the room.

"Of course you do. I'm sorry about that too. I've never done anything like that in my life," Kara said upset.

"I was just joking," Mel said smiling.

"I'm not. I don't like what that thing made me do. I just want this all to be over with so that I can go back to my life again. A nice normal life where all that a spider can do to me is bite me, and I can easily get rid of it by smashing it with my shoe," Kara said.

"I'll second that. I just want things here to go back to normal again. I used to wish something exciting would happen because this place is just so boring. Right now though I'd love a little bit of boring," Anna agreed.

"I've done normal. Normal's overrated. I used to live in a small village a lot like this one. That was back in the days before television, the internet, and all of the modern conveniences that you all have now. You think that your lives are boring? How about having no electricity or electric lights? We just worked from sunup to sunset, and then we slept the entire night. There was nothing else to do, and you couldn't stay up at night except with candles which weren't powerful enough to even read by much less do anything else. Life in the late 1800s was dull beyond belief. You all have it made compared to us," Elisabeta said.

"Oh, you're not going to give the old 'in my day I walked ten miles in the snow' speech, are you? That's for old people to give," Amanda said with a frown.

"I am old! I'm over a hundred," Elisabeta said in protest.

"Yeah but you don't look it. You look like you're only about eighteen. You should act how you look, Beta," Amanda said.

"What are you two talking about? How could you be over a hundred years old? Did you find the Fountain of Youth or something?" Anna asked Elisabeta in amazement.

"No, more like it found me in a manner of speaking. Let's just say that a good witch helped me," Elisabeta said with a smile.

"I'm not sure Rose would like being called a witch," Amanda said grinning.

"I'm sure she's fine with it. Dorothy calls her Glenda all of the time," Elisabeta said.

"That's mostly behind her back though," Amanda said.

"Who is Rose?" Mel asked curious.

"She's a Time Lady who has these incredible powers that she received from the space-time Vortex. She's also the Doctor's wife," Elisabeta explained.

"The Doctor got married?! I have to meet this woman. She must be the most patient and understanding person on the planet," Mel said laughing.

"She probably is," Elisabeta agreed with a smile.

"I can't believe you people! You're all just acting like this is just another ordinary day. We have giant spiders out there wanting to kill us all!" Anna said.

"This is just another ordinary day for us, Anna. We do this kind of thing all of that time. I least I do anyway, and I'm sure that Elisabeta and Amanda do as well," Mel said.

"I don't. I just recently started doing this kind of thing a few weeks ago. I used to be just an ordinary child back in the late 1800s. My life hasn't been the same ever since a vampire killed my parents though," Amanda said sadly.

Elisabeta put an arm around her in comfort. They hadn't known each other for very long, but she already felt like a second mother to Amanda. She had been taking care of her every time that the Wolves went on a mission somewhere and keeping her safe. She had grown very fond of the little girl in that time, and she didn't like to see her unhappy for any reason.

Amanda smiled at Elisabeta to reassure her that she was okay. She had grown fond of Elisabeta as well and didn't want to unnecessarily worry her. She was fine really. She just felt sad sometimes when she thought of the person that she used to be and about how that life was now gone forever. Even now she often missed her old life, and she always missed her parents.

It was then that one of the spider possessed humans finally teleported into the bedroom and started to attack them. Elisabeta immediately shielded Amanda with her own body while Mel pulled out a staser and blasted the spider possessed person with it. He fell stunned to the floor while Anna and Kara just stood there shaking in terror and looking at Mel in disbelief.

"Yeah, I used to be a lot like you two. When I traveled with the Doctor, I screamed a lot and ran from danger like a scared rabbit. Now I've learned a little about how to defend myself. I got sick of the screaming. It was ruining my vocal cords!" Mel said with a snort.

"You're all crazy!" Anna said bluntly.

"Probably. I wouldn't have it any other way though," Mel said smiling.

A few more spider possessed humans would teleport in from time to time during the battle, but they were always quickly taken care of by either Mel or Elisabeta. Those two could take care of anything it seemed from what Anna and Kara had observed about them.

After several hours, the spider people had finally stopped coming; and the Wolves began to wonder if they had finally won or not. Maybe the spiders were now all finally banished to the mirror verse.

Just as they began to start relaxing and felt as if maybe it was finally over at long last, a new enemy teleported in to confront them. It was a huge spider much larger than the other ones. This one filled up almost the entire living room, and it looked at the Wolves in there as though they were its dinner.

"You may have defeated my subjects, but you still haven't stopped me yet. I am the Spider Queen, and I will not be defeated so easily. I will easily use my mental powers to crush all of you, and then I will make all of humanity my new servants soon afterward. The reign of the Two Legs had ended. Let the reign of the Eight Legs begin!" the Spider Queen said with evil laughter.

Next: The Spider Queen vs. the Bad Wolves. Plus just what is Alina up to anyway?