X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.arts.drwho: 5754 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 13.10.90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!dimacs.rutgers.edu!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ndc.UUCP!mak Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Doctor and the Tardis - part V Message-ID: <9103212016.AA02344@ndc.com> From: mak@ndc.UUCP (Mike Klaus) Date: 21 Mar 91 20:16:32 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 148 (continued) She tosses the rock up into the air, and watches it tumble end over end. The stillness is shattered and someone shouts, " There she is! ". Then, when she catches the rock, there is stillness again and the train station is empty. She walks off down the tracks, tossing the rock up into the air and catching it. She sees glipses of the people on the platform who are trying to keep track of her. She walks a long way, then turns around and walks back. The rock seems to be gaining mass, and she wants the event to happen nearby to where Doctor #4 disappeared. It does. The rock is tossed and caught, as before; The populous train station appears and disappears as before. When she catches the rock this time, all that she can see in a blinding white light. She drops the rock. It falls to the Tardis floor. Doctor #4 is sobbing against the console. Sarah asks him what is wrong? He replies that the rock is gone, all that effort for nothing, he will never be free of it's influence and rues the day that he started the experiment. It's all so plain to him now, he should have figured out what would happen beforehand and not actually performed the experiment.... Sarah says that she thinks that she has brought it back. Doc #4 looks down on the floor and sure enough, there it is. The cinders and ties are gone. Sarah picks up the rock, almost flinging it since it doesn't seem to be infinitely heavy anymore. She places in into the Stasis Box. It Disappears. Sarah can finally remember the events of two weeks previous. She tells the doctor about his reflection being more real than he himself was two weeks later on the subway platform. She tells him that she could touch the 'image' the last time that she had interacted with the stasis box. It's genius day for Sarah Jane. She asks the Doctor for a mirror, which he finds after rummaging around for awhile. When she holds the mirror in the stasis box, she can see an image of the rock. The Doctor sees it, too. But. He notices that it should look like a mirror image of itself, since it is being viewed in a mirror. Sarah flips the mirror over, and on the other side of the box ( in the mirror ) is the mirror image. There seem to be two rocks in the Stasis Box. Sarah reasons that they need a partially reflective mirror, in order to see both rocks. The Doctor counters that there is only one rock. Ah - what if they were to try a piece of glass? He finds one and places in in the box. Two rocks appear, one on each side of the glass, which is held vertically. The glass soon melts. Doc #4 explains that the glass is actually a supercooled liquid which runs very slowly. "Eons must be passing in there", he says. Sarah touches the glass and indeed, it is cool. She says that it will make a neat-o ice sculpture when it drips out. "Drips out?!!", the doctor exclaims as he catches his hat which has flown off of his head. "We can't allow that. We will need a sheet of sapphire, or diamond!" - - - act III missing - for now - - - Tardis is miniaturized inside of a tent. Doc & sj step into it. Standing at the threshold... SJ: " Doctor. Your shoe, next to this Tardis, was huge..." D4: (pauses, turns) "Yes..." SJ: " But now, we're standing in the doorway. And, it doesn't look strange to me at all. The tent, outside, inside - it all looks normal from here." D4: " God only knows what this looks like to those other people." SJ: ( turns pale, swallows, nods...) D4: " Come on, let's get inside before anyone sees us." they go. (watchers) : " Now, you go in there, too!" D6: " What? In there?" watcher: " Just stick your toe in, like that other chap. You'll shrink down to fit inside." watcher 2: " No, he didn't shrink. That blue box thing was larger.. for a moment." watcher: " Larger?" watcher #2: " But then it shrunk down again, so it would fit into the tent." watcher #3: "No, no. The TENT was larger for a moment." watchers: "What?" ( meanwhile, D6 has nudged the blue box with his toe. He bends down to examine it more closely ) D6: " Please don't argue. You are all correct" Watcher #3: " But, we all saw different things!" D6 (stands, proffers the 5 cm. tall tardis in an open palm) " All that I can see is a ceramic paperweight that only looks like a Tardis." ( close up of the paperweight in his palm as one of the watchers examines it ) " Doesn't show very good Craftmanship, does it?" watcher #1: " but..." watcher #2: " er... if..." (scratches head) watcher #3: "Well, how are we to get rid of you then?" D6: " How are you going to be rid of me? Or, of us?" watcher #1:"Rid of all of you! So that we can return to normal life." D6: "There are some things that I can do. Provided that my companion and I are allowed to travel outside of this tent." watcher #2: " Otherwise?" Peri: "We wait." watcher #2: "For how long?" Peri: " Forever. Which in this case is less than thirty-six hours." watcher #1: " And then what?" Peri ( voice cracking ): " The melting! You've all seen it. You don't want to remember, so you've blocked it out. It's horrible!" watcher #3: " Do you mean, when I talked to my old dead mother yesterday?" Peri: " Yes. But, that wasn't your mother! That was your wife." watcher #3: " My wife is dead." Peri: "No, she isn't. At least she shouldn't be." D6 ( who has been examining the small Tardis through a loupe) " But, she will be if we cannot complete the pattern within the day!" (puts Tardis in vest pocket) ( pats vest pocket ) Peri ( glassy eyed ) " complete the pattern" watchers #1, #2: "Complete the pattern." watcher #3: "But, what about them, then. ( indicating vest pocket ) "Aren't they in any danger?" D6: " They are in no more danger than I am. Come on, Peri, we've got to get out to the rock quarry." watcher #1 ( breaking out of the trance) "But, what shall we do there? D6: "We've got to grind up the biggest rock that we can find!" - - - - - - - - - More to come. -mak