# X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.arts.drwho: 5754 I 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 8 		      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.  A 		      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 9 		      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   	-	-	-  8 	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."B 	D4: " God only knows what this looks like to those other people."% 	SJ: ( turns pale, swallows, nods...) B 	D4: " Come on, let's get inside before anyone sees us."  they go.  + 	(watchers) : " Now, you go in there, too!"  	D6: " What?  In there?"A 	watcher: " Just stick your toe in, like that other chap.  You'll " 	  	   shrink down to fit inside."E 	watcher 2: " No, he didn't shrink.  That blue box thing was larger..  		     for a moment."  	watcher:   " Larger?"F 	watcher #2: " But then it shrunk down again, so it would fit into the 	   	      tent." 9 	watcher #3: "No, no.  The TENT was larger for a moment."  	watchers: "What?"  E 	( meanwhile, D6 has nudged the blue box with his toe.  He bends down  	  to examine it more closely ) 0 	D6: " Please don't argue.  You are all correct"2  	Watcher #3: " But, we all saw different things!"< 	D6 (stands, proffers the 5 cm. tall tardis in an open palm)A 	   " All that I can see is a ceramic paperweight that only looks B 	     like a Tardis." ( close up of the paperweight in his palm asA 	     one of the watchers examines it ) " Doesn't show very good   	     Craftmanship, does it?"  	watcher #1: " but...", 	watcher #2: " er... if..." (scratches head)7 	watcher #3: "Well, how are we to get rid of you then?" 6 	D6: " How are you going to be rid of me?  Or, of us?"G 	watcher #1:"Rid of all of you!  So that we can return to normal life." F 	D6: "There are some things that I can do.  Provided that my companion8 	     and I are allowed to travel outside of this tent." 	watcher #2: " Otherwise?" 	Peri: "We wait."  	watcher #2: "For how long?"E 	Peri: " Forever.  Which in this case is less than thirty-six hours."  	watcher #1: " And then what?"H 	Peri ( voice cracking ): " The melting!  You've all seen it.  You don'tJ               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?"B 	Peri: " Yes.  But, that wasn't your mother!  That was your wife."  	watcher #3: " My wife is dead."3 	Peri: "No, she isn't.  At least she shouldn't be." > 	D6 ( who has been examining the small Tardis through a loupe)B 	     " But, she will be if we cannot complete the pattern within D 	       the day!"  (puts Tardis in vest pocket) ( pats vest pocket )- 	Peri ( glassy eyed ) " complete the pattern" ) 	watchers #1, #2: "Complete the pattern." D 	watcher #3: "But, what about them, then. ( indicating vest pocket )) 	            "Aren't they in any danger?" B 	D6: " They are in no more danger than I am.  Come on, Peri, we've* 	      got to get out to the rock quarry."G 	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    	 