Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:11:23 EDT
From: J
Subject: DOCTOR WHO, JESSE AND JEREMY 24

"HOLD ON!"  Jeremy was pressed by the crowds.  Policemen chased he, middle
aged Rob, and Latino teen Harn through scores of  people. "Which one?"
"Oh no!"  Harn yelled. Machine devices were  scooping up people into them
and "eating"  them. "Gathering time isn't over!"   Crowds were panicking as
they were  trying to escape. People, inside the device, saw the world for the
last time, as  the scoop door shut down on them, mincing them into meat!
"That way!"   Rob yelled and pointed to a  terminal. The crowd was slowing
down the police but also the trio. Jeremy  reached the terminal and turned but
as he did, he spilled over the side. People  spilled with him. Rob and Harn
followed. All the people over the side, were  swept up by a wind and floated to
the ground under the terminal.
Jeremy dusted himself off  as best he could as more and more people landed
around him in a grimy, gray  stone concrete underground. "What the hell? What
kinda terminal is  this?"
Rob landed and pulled  Jeremy's arm, "Over that way."  They  headed toward a
platform with tracks on it and two monorails lay on the tracks.  There was
also some kind of  passage  center that each monorail  lay  partially through.
It was made of a dark, reddish purple glass or plastic,  Jeremy could not tell.
Police landed too just as the trio made their way to the  train's open doors.
One pulled a gun but a black man in an overcoat and holding  a cigarette in
one hand and newspaper in the other spoke while putting his  newspaper down
hard on the policeman's arm, "Buddy, spare a smoke?"   Behind the policemen,
other men  beat on them and kicked them. People soon walked over two of the three
policemen  and happily smiled. The other one ran from them and ran at
Jeremy.
A mundane voice sounded,  "Please stand clear of the doors."  It did this
over and over.
"Get in, mio!"  Harn yelled from inside the nearly  packed monorail. Rob was
next to him. Jeremy, who had lead, made sure Rob and  Harn were inside first
but the throng of people separated him from them in  seconds. He reached the
doors and as he stepped to get into them, the third  policeman grabbed him
around the waist but Jeremy grabbed the sides of the  doorway and kicked back. The
cop fell to his legs but as the monorail alarms  rang out and the voice
continued to sound warnings, the futuristic train took  off!
Jeremy clung to the side,  "Hold the doors open!"
Rob and Harn held the doors  from both sides. A few people fell out, past
Jeremy and the cop, who clung onto  Jeremy's legs now. The cop began to slide
down. "Hang on!"  Rob yelled, "Hang  on!"
Jeremy thought he'd answer  that with something smart but decided against it.
Soon, the monorail took out of  the underground and swung up past buildings.
Jeremy yelled as he saw buildings  that were impossible to imagine the height
of. He felt his body swing, "Hang on,  cop. I'll try to get us both up!"
"Both up?! I'm gonna bring  you down with me!"  The cop punched  Jeremy in
the back. "Let go, you foul homosexual  deviant!"
Jeremy thought if it didn't  hurt so much, it would be funny. He looked to
one side and saw the view as the  monorail raced up and up and sideways now.
Building tops were seen as well as  sides, some were obviously taller than
others. The monorail sped past them and  toward a tunnel. "OH NO!"  Jeremy  pulled
himself up and Harn and Rob reached for him from both sides of the doors.  "
Just hold those doors!"  The tunnel  came at them, illuminated ever so more by a
droplet of sunshine that sprang  through one of the thick gray clouds
overhead. The cop fell off Jeremy and  yelling, smashed into the top of  what seemed
to be the old Empire State  Building. He was impaled on  the point antenna.
Dangling as he was, the policeman would have been hit by the  side of the
tunnel. Jeremy pulled in as the tunnel was entered. "Okay, here  goes!"   He pulled
his legs up  and as the monorail exited the tunnel into full daylight, nearly
seeming to  touch the sun, Jeremy thrust himself up and rolled into the
doorway. He almost  fell back but Harn and Rob, together, let go of the doors, the
two sides of the  doors sliding shut fast and grabbed Jeremy's back to prevent
him from falling  into them. After the tunnel was exited, the next was a
monorail station, where  the tracks would have killed Jeremy but he was already in
the train. Which sped  past the station and kept going on out  the other
side.
Jeremy caught his  breath.  "Gymnastics really paid  off, huh?"  He smiled
at them. Rob  hugged him and Harn laughed and hugged the two of them. Jeremy
gasped out loud  and looked at the ragged, wide eyed and yet slovenly people. "
This place really  does suck doesn't it? And I don't mean that in a good  way."

"This should take us to  DC,"  Rob  said.
Jeremy nodded, "Tell me  about it there. Are people still allowed to stand on
soap  boxes?"
The Doctor was told many  things by the Earth President Shrub as Space Force
Two headed for and landed on  Mars. "Quite a nice set up you have here,"
The Doctor looked around Space  Force Two.
"Doctor, I am so glad you  are."
"You sound as though you  expected me."
"Doctor, of course, I read  the UNIT files. I know of your encounters."
"What's that to do with you  and this time and place?"
"If you will look at my  head carefully, Doctor..."
"I've seen some nice ones  but your's is..."
"Closer, Doctor..."   The Earth President nodded and  something about his
smugness made the Doctor stand up out of his seat, put his  drink down, and go to
the President's head. Looking closely, the Doctor thought  he saw something.
He reached into his pocket. "Careful,  Doctor..."
A body guard, Thro, reached  for a pistol, inside his jacket.
The Doctor took out an  eyeglass, "Just an eyeglass. I only need the one now."
   He smiled and looked through it at  the President's head. "6...6...6. 666. A
nice round number...not really."  The Doctor dropped his joviality and put
his eyeglass back into his pocket. "What do you think you're playing  at?"
"I...I am the Anti  Christ."
"Well,"  the Doctor nodded his head, "I've met  some who would make you
look like Mary Poppins. Mind you, the real Mary  Poppins..."
"Doctor, why, you might  ask."
"Ahh, yes,  why."
"Why. The world is an open  place, Doctor. All open and free now. But it was
dying under its own freedoms.  It's own wars, it's many religions. It's far
too many  economies..."
"I see. So this is about  money? Why'd I not think of that before."
"Not just money, Doctor.  Religion. Power. Order. I want order in our world.
We are already expanding out  into the solar system, the galaxy and soon the
universe beyond and maybe even  past that."
The Doctor circled the  President's chair. "So you want to put your own home
in order before you begin  to put those others in order, is that it? Hmmmm?"
"Yes, you hit it right on  the head, Doctor."
"I have? Mmm, knock six  times on the head if  you want  me?"  The Doctor
looked at the head  again, circling, "Nice. You must have put it there
purposely. I mean it's far  too early for the end of the world...as you see it."
"I don't want the  end."
"Well, then, why do it is  still the question. I mean have you seen the Omen
Trilogy? The Fourth Film? The  TV pilot? Shame really. It would have told you
that in the end,"  he leaned closer to the President, "...  you lose."   Thro
moved in but  stepped back when the Doctor and Shrub waved him  off.
"Yes, Doctor, but not after  a very long time of it. And in that time, look
at what he is supposed to  achieve, even according to those flawed movies."
"One world bank, world  domination, a one world religion, total peace, end to
wars. It can't happen. Not  now."
"Doctor, I can make it  happen. I have stumbled upon information...that will
make me the anti  Christ...thousands of billions of years too early."
"With whatever it is you  have, you want to make everyone bend to your will..."

"For order, Doctor. It's  nature's way. They bend or they do not. Nature
makes it so. Change to one leader  or leave the tribe, or be destroyed."
"Well, President, I've much  more traveled than you are, you're much less
traveled than I and I can tell you  that that is not always nature's way. Time
will find a way to stop  you."
"Ahh, not unless I have a  way to stop time, Doctor."
Once they landed on Mars, a  huge gangplank came down and the conversation,
never having stopped, continued  on. The Doctor, Shrub, Thro, and a few guards
walked past a minor sand storm,  red dust everywhere. They wore space suits.
They moved to a huge dusty red cave,  the top of which was hundreds of miles
overhead.  "Blimey!"  Ice Warriors were on either side of the  cavern. The
Doctor strode up to one and looked at him, "Have we met? No? No. I  don't know you
... "   He raced to  the other, "...or you."
"They are my allies,  Doctor. A faction..."
The Doctor laughed, "The  Ice Warriors are strong, yes but you will need
something much more powerful if  you wish to hold back time and nature's way, sir."

"Do not underessssstimate  ussss, Doctor... I am Itayar, leader of the faction.
"
The Doctor pointed to the  other one, "And who's he? Just a guard?"
"Do not mock  ussss."
"I wouldn't dream of it.  Some of my best friends are Ice Warriorssssss,"
the Doctor mocked. "But I must say,  throwing in with Earth politics is not your
...wait a minute, maybe it is. You all  seemed to have a dip in Peladon
politics some time ago or was that some time in  the future. I think I got my tenses
mixed up, old chap. Hang on a min... Peladon,  Peladon... "
"It does not matter,  Doctor,"  Shrub said, "This is not  my ace in the hole
so to speak."
"I could use an Ace in this  hole right a bout now."
A radio beeped and the  President opened a small container on his space suit
and  took out a radio and attached it to  his head, "What? A survivor? Find
him  and kill him. I don't want any witnesses to that. It has to be made to look
like  the gay terrorists were all that were involved."  He shut the radio the
radio and put it  away.
"Trouble in middle  Earth?"
"Terrorists protesting the  conditions on the Moonbase, crashed a ship there...
oh and yes, I believe your  companion, the one called Jesse, was on that ship.
"
The Doctor gulped. "Is  he?"
"Alive. But I've just  ordered him not to be."
The Doctor looked, "Earth  President Shrub, I assure you that he cannot hurt
your little  plan."
"Plans to have all Earth  one religion, one economy, one..."
"And two  sexes."
"Yes."  Shrub said, "The Bible said Adam and  Eve, not Adam and Steve."
"Oh?"  The Doctor said, "Did it, really?  Translated? You read the original?
I have. In fact, I was  there."
As they moved through the  caves, the President said, "I'm not about to
debate with you,  Doctor."
"Put this in your pipe and  smoke it...please as the smoke might clear your
brain. God took Eve from Adam's  rib. So therefore, they are the same. One...one
means homo. Therefore, male and  female are one, homo."
"Nice twisting of words,  Doctor. But we've arrived. I shall join with  that
and you shall keep me in  check."
The Doctor's eyes widened.  "Blimey. It's like THIS IS YOUR LIFE. Ice
Warriors, demonic Earth Presidents,  and this..."
"I told you I read of the  UNIT files. A Fendaleen."
"If you read of my  encounters with these things..."   The Doctor motioned up
to a huge Fendeleen, one of the largest worm like  creatures he'd ever seen
and it was embedded in ice, frozen into the cave, stuck  to a huge female like
form, "...then you know that these things are beyond  control. They are death
itself."
"I know. You encountered  just one in the late or mid 1970s or was it the
80s, time is hard to read around  your exploits Doctor, especially when it comes
to the UNIT ear, however, you  stopped it..."
"With help from the Time  Lords and most of them, if not all of them are
either dead or out of this time  and universe..."
"...and I also know of your  encounter at the Hospital. A most unfortunate and
horrid  affair."
"Good, then, you  won't..."
"As you can see. If I  commune with  this one...I shall have  you here to keep
me and it in check. It was always planned that you would arrive  here,
somehow, some way Doctor."
The Doctor looked,  "What?"
"It's apparent that  whenever Earth is in trouble, your TARDIS steers you to
it. In fact, when and  wherever a Fendeleen appears, there you are."
"Listen to me. You can't  control this thing. You can't keep it in check. It'
s too unstable,  unpredictable. It has no morality... well, in that, it's a
bit like  yourself but the point is...it is  death."
"I know and using that  bit...that power, we shall make sure that any time
change I make or any deviation  from the established course of time will be in my
favor...by eating time  itself."
"How did it get here?"  The Doctor went up to the leader Ice  Warrior.
"Frozen into the mountain?  It came on a comet and the comet never unfroze.
This cave is mostly comet.  "
A voice suddenly sounded  out in the Doctor's head, "Doctor, help me. I am a
Fendleen. I can help  you..."
The Doctor grew  agitated.  The voice stabbed at his  temple and seemed  to
go into it,  beyond that.  "No! No, he's insane!  You can't."
"Help you. I will help  you."
The pain seemed to feel as  though his brain were rocking from side to side
inside his skull.   "NO!  NO! You're getting into my brain! My  head! Get out
of my head! You're destroying me!"  The Doctor grabbed his head and held it
on both sides and landed on his knees!
On the Moon, Jesse walked.  He found after a time, he was not as upset as he
was and found even more ways to  get further along in his walk toward where he
hoped the base was.  He found if he walked, jumped a bit, and  flew, he could
cover more ground. He wondered when his air would run out.  Occasionally
during the long walk, he would have panic attacks about such a  thing happening.
He had to calm himself and not worry about it. He wondered if  his life meant
anything to anyone. Then the Doctor's face appeared in his mind's  eye. And
Jeremy's. He thought of them and knew they were thinking of him. He  also was
careful not to jump too high, for he didn't want to go shooting off  into space
from the Moon's surface. Yet he did enjoy the feeling of flying  weightless.
"Look, I see him,  Poul."
"Amazing that we found him.  He must know where he's heading to be staying
on such a course. Right for  Malapert Crater."
"Let's pull on board and  take him to his new lifelong home."
"Let's have a little fun  with him first."   Issa smiled  at Poul.
"Whatta  mean?"
Instead of answering, Issa  shot the Moon Bug, a small metallic bus like
vehicle, not unlike the Moon Bus  from 2001 A Space Odyssey, right at Jesse. Poul
reacted. "Slow it down!  This isn't having a bit of fun with him,  you'll
kill him!"
On the surface, Jesse saw  the Moon Bug and waved. He smiled as he saw it
slow, then fire rockets. It came  at him. Issa spotted Jesse in his viewport and
shot the vehicle right at him.  Jesse rose  up at the window as the  two
prepared to collide. At the last moment, Jesse realized what was happening  but it
was too late for him to get out of the way....
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