Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space - Book One

V1 E6 - 'Dalekmania' (I)

Synopsis: The Daleks begin their latest invasion of Earth - one is enough to kill billions, and this squadron is large in numbers. The Bannerman Road gang must combine with the Doctor, Diana and David in order to defeat an existential threat to humanity.

Second part of two part story along with 'Fear of the Daleks'
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Volume I, Episode VI - 'Dalekmania'
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David and Clyde attempt to hold in their breath and control it so the Dalek cannot detect either one of them. The creature continues its advance into the cafe which the pair were detected to be present, stopping when it finds itself very close to spotting the faces of the two frightened men.
"Exterminate," it calmly states.
David and Clyde nod at each other, and execute their plan. Two very physical people can use this to their own advantage.

They jump out from around the corner and grab the Dalek's eye stalk, pulling it downwards fiercely.
"Remove your hands from me!" the Dalek demands.
David and Clyde grunt and struggle as they continue to try and snap of the eye stalk. As the Dalek attempts to rotate its head to shake off David and Clyde, it begins to randomly shoot its extermination ray in desperation to kill its assaulters. It would be to no avail, as after a few moments of trying desperately, the pair finally snap its eye stalk off, causing the Dalek to spin around completely like a headless chicken.
"Exterminate, exterminate, exterminate!" the Dalek screams repeatedly, continuing on in order to reload its ray. With the extermination ray continuing to fire at an exponential rate, David pushes Clyde - with the Dalek's eye stalk in hand - down to the ground so the rays cannot hit them.

In the moments where the Dalek is facing away, David and Clyde get closer to the café door to get out. Eventually, they finally get out of the café and start sprinting at their top speed, with Clyde carrying the Dalek eye stalk still.
"Why the hell have you still got that eye stalk?!" David shouts, as they continue running just away.
"It might be handy! I don't know! And if it isn't, it'll be a cool decoration!" Clyde screams back. "Don't argue with the logic Dave!"
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Sky panics as the Daleks prepare to exterminate her and the Doctor. Yet, the Doctor stands perfectly still and unfazed, which confuses the Supreme Dalek and slightly frightens it.
"Maximum extermination!" the Supreme Dalek screams.
All it gets as a reply is a chuckle from the confident Doctor. "God, you really are thick you lot."
The Supreme Dalek flusters its extermination ray in discomfort. To augment this, the Doctor continues to laugh at the Daleks for their ineptitude.
"What is the meaning of this?" one Dalek demands.
"Well, as I say, a simple misdirection. This time, no senses. Just comedy," the Doctor memes. "Come on, you know me! We've been running around the universe for millennia fighting each other, you gotta know that when I talk talk talk, you're doing something wrong. Everything going to plan... going to shoot me for the hundredth time... you're not because I'm laughing and then let me get talking..."

Diana begins to listen in to what the Doctor is saying properly.
"It's almost like we could get out of here with a green, triangular button," the Doctor oddly raises his voice. "Big green triangular button, like I don't know, third from left. Second panel."
Diana knows the Doctor is trying to communicate to her which button to press which might bring the TARDIS directly to them. She correctly identifies which button it is and presses it, but the TARDIS doesn't dematerialise from Bannerman Road. The Doctor continues rambling but isn't giving any more hints as to what to do next.
A flustered Diana panics as the Doctor is clearly relying on her to get the TARDIS to him.

It's been months since she and David had started travelling in the TARDIS. Along the way, she had been picking up here and there on little things that the Doctor had been doing whilst piloting the TARDIS - one of them might just do it. Diana runs over to the silver lever that she assumes is the dematerialisation lever, and pulls it, before trying to remember what the Doctor would do next. Jump around, ramble on to her and David about where they're going next... and then he uses the zigzag plotter, or whatever he called it, and eagerly hits another great button above it.