Spiders, Time Lords, And Timey Wimey Mischief

Chapter 10

Spidey slowly began to inch himself backwards towards the door, his expression unchanging, before suddenly ducking out, and crawling all around the outside of the TARDIS, even perching momentarily on the light on top, before jumping back down into the doorway.

"Yup, bigger on the inside," he said in shock. "Cool," he then decided, before slowly pushing the doors shut behind him (without turning around), and hesitantly creeping towards the stairs leading to the console.

"I swear I had some communication ear pieces in here somewhere," the Doctor was saying, head buried in a trunk full of strange alien objects that had been hidden somewhere beneath the TARDIS floor.

"How is it possible for a Dalek to even be here?" Rory asked.

"Well that's robotic, hateful aliens for you (or non-aliens if you consider the Cybermen) - always seem to turn up everywhere, and simply refuse to die," the Doctor's voice replied, sounding a bit on edge.

"Ok, what do we need ear pieces for? What's the plan?" Amy asked, crossing her arms, trying to put some order and sense into things.

The Doctor's voice seemed to perk up at this. "Well, I was thinking we should all put ear pieces on so we can communicate with each other, and split up. Maybe one of you stays here and monitors the building's surveillance system, keeping an eye on things, while the rest of us go and activate that teleport to force the Dalek back where it came from, before it causes any more trouble, while the spider distracts it," the Doctor explained.

"Hmm, well, that could work," Amy said, agreeing.

"Nice, simple, and easy," the Doctor said, seeming to be content with his plan.

"What about Spider-Man though? You sure it's safe to send him out as a diversion like that?" Rory asked, his concern for the wall crawler showing through once again.

"Yes Rory, don't worry it's fine. He can handle himself," the Doctor said. "Ah yes, gotcha!" he then announced, as he pulled out a set of bulky ear pieces from the trunk. "Now, I want you to each put one of these on and...," the Doctor trailed off when the TARDIS made an odd noise, and he looked wildly around in confusion.

"Oi, hey, hey, hey, hey, no, no touching," he complained, as he tore up the stairs to the console, running over and snatching Spidey's curious hands away from the console.

Amy and Rory were shocked to see Spider-Man standing there at the console behind them, as they hadn't even heard him approach. "Dang spider powers," Rory thought, as he watched the sneaky spider curiously, to see what would happen next.

"Is that a toaster? And, are they...taps? What is this, kitchen junkyard? Looks like it's been put together from bits of garbage," Spidey joked, babbling while trying to reach for the extremely odd and out of place looking objects set around the time rotor, in the middle of the room.

"No, don't touch," the Doctor yelped, as Spidey pulled a lever and fiddled with some odd buttons, making the TARDIS whine and whinge in an awfully painful way.

"How does this work?" Spidey asked thoughtfully, before the Doctor managed to snatch his itchy hands away from the controls again, quickly fixing things. The TARDIS stopped groaning, and settled down.

"Now, keep your hands off the controls, unless of course you want to blow up the entire universe," the Doctor said grumpily, but the request was un-needed, as he suddenly paused to observe Spidey's odd change in behaviour.

He was standing there, still as a statue, next to the Doctor. An eerie silence seemed to have enveloped him, his head tilting from side to side sharply every now and then, as if listening to something that they could not hear.