3. Back at the Match.
Alyssa glances around before sitting down. No other aliens are in sight. She reaches into her handbag, specially chosen to hold a powder for her return to the cricket ground. She retrieves a large pinch of flour. She scatters it on the seat behind her where the alien giant woodlouse had been earlier ...
There's just a seat. .
A moment later a ball is hit, almost straight at her! Quickly she turns to see it disappear into an invisible mouth in the next seat to the one behind her. .
People in the seats near her get up to look for the ball but fail to find it.
Another ball is produced to continue play, but those people sitting nearby now decide to move away. Far too many balls have been heading their way for comfort! .
Alyssa now feels much more exposed to view. .
She scatters flour over several seats behind her. Vague outlines of more giant woodlice appear. The flour soon blows off them leaving the seats looking empty. .
Alyssa messages the Doctor. At least six more.
The Doctor messages back, You know the plan. .
She feels more alone now that she has the plan to enact. It feels like it's purely up to her to complete the task. .
She clasps her hands together and feels much better about it, doubtless the Ring of Confidence is affecting her. .
A pinch of flour, duly sprinkled, reveals the first alien giant woodlouse. She feels she'll never get used to the Doctor's name for it - pholyngitis, no ... phangle ... no, never mind, she thinks. .
She gently picks up the first one and cradles it, then drops it into her other 'bag'.
The 'bag' has a hoop around the rim to keep it open, and a small, round portal just below the hoop leading to a place with an adequately long drop to a leisure park near where they're from. A well-placed slide will greet them, from there they won't be able to climb back up and out! .
Each one in turn is duly cradled and dropped in.
There's one more to go when she suddenly realises that everyone's looking at her. Her antics must be hilarious to anyone who doesn't know what she's doing! And they don't! .
Suddenly, it starts raining and then rain stops play. Her increasing attempts to put more flour on the creature to see it better prove fruitless, and the seats she's already covered are looking sticky! .
Quickly, she grabs what she hopes is the last creature and drops it into the bag. Instantly, another row of these creatures appears before her. Their perception filters dropped when one of their number became alarmed! .
She must check the bag - did the last one drop in completely? She now recognises that she hadn't cradled it! .
She looks down at the bag dangling off her shoulder. A giant woodlouse is crawling out of it! Right near her waist! .
She feels repulsion! She suddenly longs to be further away from that bag! .
Quickly, she pushes the creature down, through the round portal, but somewhere it's clinging on! She starts to panic!
What had the Doctor said about - if things go wrong? What had he said for her to do?
An illuminated switch beckons to her to turn the round portal off. Quickly she pushes the creature down, ensures that her hand is up, out of the portal, before switching off the portal.
A claw goes limp and clatters onto the closed portal surface. She is so relieved! .
Briefly, she turns on the portal again to get rid of the claw. She sees it fall away through the portal before she powers it off again! .
The crowd have run for cover to the refreshments tent or the pavilion! .
But now, she's left still standing in the heavy rain. .
There are still more Pholoxate to deal with.
But now those remaining aren't going to be so easy to deal with! They're agitated that one of them wasn't treated right, and it was obviously Alyssa who had 'done the deed'! .
Their eyes become red, a sure indication of their anger towards her, and they produce a stinging part out of their abdomen. Then they start to advance towards her. .
Alyssa is so scared she can't recall what the Doctor had told her! She retrieves her messaging device and takes a picture. Within a few moments she hears the Doctor's voice.
"Okay, so what happened?"
"I think I dropped one of them!" She can hardly recall - just not dropped cleanly into the bag, maybe? .
"Alright, I'll be right there!" The Doctor can tell that she's panicking and can't think straight.
He sets the co-ordinates from the earlier visit, but finds his landing is blocked! .
"Sorry, I can't land!" .
Alyssa goes to pieces. She feels she'll die, die soon, and it's all her fault!
It was more the way she grabbed it quickly and rushed any cradling before dropping it into the bag!
Maybe someone is standing where the Tardis was before?