Biopolis

Episode One

Strange New World

by Trivial Keithy

Barbara shifted from one foot to the other as she looked closely at the TARDIS external display screen. They had just landed on what could well be Earth. She was tingling with excitement. She would miss the Doctor and Susan of course but she just wanted to be back home sitting in her favourite chair reading the book she had just started the night before that fateful day.

Is it Earth Doctor?

The readings are inconclusive Barbara. It is a close match but it doesnt feel right. The Doctor shook his head slightly as he finished double checking the sensor readings.

But look at the screen Doctor, rolling hills, forests and oh it just has that familiarity of home.

Yes, well well have a look around to be sure. Ive learned not to dismiss your intuition Barbara. It took a small amount of courage to pay his friend such a high compliment. After he was a scientist, but what scientist argues with the facts? Perhaps you can tell Susan and Chesterton the news hmm?

Barbara went next door into the recreation area. Ian was teaching Susan about horse racing. When your student is far more advanced in your own subject what else can a general science teacher do?

Primitive Earth culture is so fascinating Ian. Although their concern for the animals welfare leaves a lot to be desired. Has anyone asked the horses if they want to run a mile and a half?

Oh Susan, horses are just...well horses. Theyre well looked after and treated fairly. Sometimes we should pay more attention to the homeless and starving in my book.

Come on you two, the Doctor could have just done it this time. Barbara smiled and picked up her cardigan from the coatstand.

I just hope were not going to find another group of cavemen. Ian joked.

Yes, or the Bastille. Barbara replied. Ian put his hand around her shoulder and escorted her to the main door.

Come along Susan. Honestly child you should be more prepared. The impatient tone in the Doctors voice belied the tender affection he had for his grandchild.

Ferhans Fiu planted a small seed in the ground. He covered it with soil and fertilizer before liberally soaking the dirt with a specially prepared water solution. I now declare that the city of Biopolis is planted. May fortune and happiness smile upon all those who live in it. He recieved a thunderous applause from the seventy or so bio-engineers who were ready to cater for any necessary adjustments.

As we all know Biopolis is the first city in a new age of structural design. From tiny seeds will communities come. The evergreen cities will provide a cheap and natural habitation on countless colony worlds. Overpopulation and crowding will be a thing of the past."

Grandfather look, theres some people over there.

The others strained to see what Susan had glimpsed. Theres nothing there Susan, you must be imagining things. Ian patted Susans shoulder.

Dont dismiss Susan out of hand Chestamint, if my granddaughter says she saw something then I think we should investigate.

Ignore Ian, Susan, I believe you as well.

I think its starting. Fiu stood back as a long branch emerged from the soil. It grew at a massivly accellerated rate and expanded at a fantastic rate. Soon it grew past the astonished crowd until it was ten thousand square kilometeres in size.

Ian ducked as something shot over his head at speed. He was knocked to his feet by a blast of wind. When he recovered his sensors he was shocked to discover he was standing on the outskirts of a city. A city that was made entirely from trees and other plants.

Well Doctor, if this is Earth its not nineteen sixty three. Ian turned around but there was no sign of the others. He shouted out once more but there was no reply...

Susan woke up, she had been knocked unconcious by something. There was blood on the side of her head and a large lump that throbbed painfully. Grandfather? She saw her elderly relative nearby, he was also unconsious. Barbara was lying next to him. Carefully Susan checked the others for cuts and fractures but she was worrying unnecessarily as they were both fine. Then she noticed Ian was missing. She called out his name but all this did was wake the others up.

Oh, what happened? My arm hurt. Barbara pulled herself up and dusted herself down. Are you alright Susan? Hows the Doctor and wheres Ian?

Grandfather seems to be fine but theres no sign of Ian.

The Doctor sat up. Who are you and what have you done to me? His voice was cold and angry.

Grandfather its me Susan.

I dont know you, Ive never seen you before in my life.

Barbara put her arms around Susans shoulders to comfort her. Hes got amnaesia Susan, whatever happened to us has caused him to lose his memory.

Nonsense Im perfectly fine I tell you. Now why have you detained me here hmm? He looked at the two women with suspicion.

Ian continued to search the new city. It was a marvel of engineering skill, all organic looking and fluidic even. Each building was unoccupied but fitted with all the essentials, tables, chairs, beds and even a stove.

Look Doctor, dont you recognise us at all. Susan is your granddaughter look how upset you are making her.

I tell you I have no idea who either of you two are. Now kindly let me about my business.

Perhaps if he looks around the TARDIS, it might jog his memory. Susan tried desperately to think of a remedy.

A TARDIS? Im not qualified to pilot a TT Capsule yet. My learners permit was revoked last week by Borusa, again. A smile crossed the Doctors lips.

Hes reverted to his childhood Barbara, this is very bad.

Ian heard voices ahead. A conversation? No, a party. He had walked miles but finally this was the first sound of human habitation he had heard. He left the cover of the last building and walked over the exposed plaza. Several security people saw him and drew guns. Media cameras floated over towards him looking for a story.

Hello, Im a bit lost here. I got seperated from my friends can you help me?

An edgy security guard got too nervous and accidentally pushed the control stun on his gun. Ian felt his body go numb as he hit the ground and blacked out.

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Episode Two

Fragmentation

by Ultimate_Foe

-----------------------This episode contains some mildly adult material-----------------------

"You stupid fool, that's the second time that's happened! I told you last time that the King wasn't pleased when you knocked him out in the middle of the speech!" said the second guard. "Now put that thing away before you . . ahh!" he yelled, as he fell to the ground having been stunned by the first guard.

"Sorry everybody! I just panicked, he ...he looked at me funny."

Everybody sighed and put their heads in their hands. "The moment the monkeys end their strike, you're fired!" Said a passer-by.

Barbara and Susan were trying to convince the Doctor that they knew him and did not mean him any harm.

"Listen; Susan is your Granddaughter, can't you even remember that?" said Barbara.

"I've got an Idea! Maybe if I use my telepathic powers I could bring his memory back" she exclaimed.

"Well Susan, it's worth a try' Barbara said.

"You'll do nothing of the kind" protested the Doctor. "I'm not having a half wit trying to change my mind! Or is that your plan? Yes! Maybe you are trying to take control of me! Get away from me this instant!" shouted the Doctor. He then sat down on a chair, his arms crossed.

"Please grandfather!" said Susan, begging the Doctor.

"I am not your grandfather, I'm not even a father!"

Susan whispered to Barbara, "Maybe we try it later when he is asleep? I mean what else can we do? We can't knock him out?"

"Of course not but how long can we wait? We must find Ian!"

"Well maybe we could drug him? If we could..."

"Wait Susan. Maybe you won't need to do anything, look!" Barbara pointed at the Doctor who had fallen asleep on his chair with his head tilted back and his mouth wide open. "Now's your chance to read his mind".

Susan slowly walked up to the Doctor and placed her hands on his face.

"I think I can fix this by defragmenting his mind, this may take a few minutes" Susan said as she moved her fingers up and down the Doctors head.

Ian woke up in a medical room of Biopolis.

"I'm sorry about what happened to you. One of my guards stunned you by accident, may I give my deepest apologies. You're in good hands, and are the first to take advantage of our new living city!"

"Thank you, but who are you?" asked Ian as he tried to get his bearings.

"I am Ferhans Fiu - the founder of this living city" the man replied.

"A living city?"

"Yes, called Biopolis"

"Biopolis?"

"Yes, a living city."

"You mean this thing is alive, and your people live in it!"

"Yes indeed. It's a living city."

"And people live here?"

"Yes"

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Really?"

"YES!"

"Oh."

"Actually, I'm not that sure myself now..."

"By the way Ferhans, have you seen an old man with a woman and a girl?"

"No, I never watch porn. OH! Sorry I haven't seen your friends, but I'll find out. Now get to sleep and thats an order!" he says jokingly.

Meanwhile, in an air duct a man dressed from head to toe in black was placing small electronic devices on the inside of Biopolis. He placed them in many important places in the city and then turned on his communicator. "I'm finished, just me to laser vertically." he said as he disappeared.

The devices he put in the building made ticking noises...

"Ahh!" shouted the Doctor. "Why did you wake me Susan? I was having the most wonderful dream."

"You remember who I am Grandfather!" Susan said excitedly.

"I dreamt I was a Dalek and the black Dalek wanted me to go fishing with this tubby red alien with a kind of key stuck in it head." The Doctor raises his eyebrows to the top of his face and says excitedly "Wait! Susan you've got boobies!" The Doctor smiles and points at her breasts. "Oh yes, ..I remember now, you're fifteen." The Doctor shakes his head.

"Um ...OK." Whispers Susan, thinking how much Gallifreyan old-people's homes must cost. Susan laughs to herself at the thought the Doctor in a nut house. "Well, the important this is you've got your memory back!' said Barbara.

Suddenly, the Bio city began to explode. The people around the city ran for their lives as Biopolis started to fall apart. Ian was still inside.

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Episode Three

Compassion

by Steve G Blair

As the explosions rocked the organic structure of Biopolis, Ian struggled to stay on his feet. All around him, the Biopolitans ran, panicking, to whatever safety they could find. After what seemed like an age, the terrifying blasts ceased and an eerie calm descended on the city. Only the painful moans of those unlucky enough to be badly injured broke the silence.

In the TARDIS, Barbara went to the Food Machine and tapped in the code for cold water. A plastic cup dropped from the base of the machine and cool water jetted into it. As Barbara stood watching the automated process, her mind was reeling. Often in their time together, she had doubted the Doctor and his motives. Indeed often she had feared for her and Ians safety in the company of the mysterious old man. But his manner since Susan had tried to heal his amnesia had sickened Barbara to the very core of her being. The Doctor had made wildly offensive remarks to his own grand-daughter that had shocked the school teacher badly. Although she understood that he and Susan were from another planet, where there were bound to be cultural differences to her own experience, she had never, until now, doubted that their world had fundamental values similar to her own. His crass, immature observations were sickening, and Barbara prayed that they were merely an unpleasant side effect of his amnesia.

Ian stumbled through the fallen roots and branches that littered the streets of Biopolis. He was determined to get back to Barbara and the others before his hosts could recover from the bomb attack. He found his determination severely tested as he passed injured people begging for help. He had never once, in all his time travelling with the Doctor, walked past someone who needed his help, and this had often brought him into direct conflict with the old man. But Ian knew that what

Episode One

Strange New World

by Trivial Keithy

Barbara shifted from one foot to the other as she looked closely at the TARDIS external display screen. They had just landed on what could well be Earth. She was tingling with excitement. She would miss the Doctor and Susan of course but she just wanted to be back home sitting in her favourite chair reading the book she had just started the night before that fateful day.

Is it Earth Doctor?

The readings are inconclusive Barbara. It is a close match but it doesnt feel right. The Doctor shook his head slightly as he finished double checking the sensor readings.

But look at the screen Doctor, rolling hills, forests and oh it just has that familiarity of home.

Yes, well well have a look around to be sure. Ive learned not to dismiss your intuition Barbara. It took a small amount of courage to pay his friend such a high compliment. After he was a scientist, but what scientist argues with the facts? Perhaps you can tell Susan and Chesterton the news hmm?

Barbara went next door into the recreation area. Ian was teaching Susan about horse racing. When your student is far more advanced in your own subject what else can a general science teacher do?

Primitive Earth culture is so fascinating Ian. Although their concern for the animals welfare leaves a lot to be desired. Has anyone asked the horses if they want to run a mile and a half?

Oh Susan, horses are just...well horses. Theyre well looked after and treated fairly. Sometimes we should pay more attention to the homeless and starving in my book.

Come on you two, the Doctor could have just done it this time. Barbara smiled and picked up her cardigan from the coatstand.

I just hope were not going to find another group of cavemen. Ian joked.

Yes, or the Bastille. Barbara replied. Ian put his hand around her shoulder and escorted her to the main door.

Come along Susan. Honestly child you should be more prepared. The impatient tone in the Doctors voice belied the tender affection he had for his grandchild.

Ferhans Fiu planted a small seed in the ground. He covered it with soil and fertilizer before liberally soaking the dirt with a specially prepared water solution. I now declare that the city of Biopolis is planted. May fortune and happiness smile upon all those who live in it. He recieved a thunderous applause from the seventy or so bio-engineers who were ready to cater for any necessary adjustments.

As we all know Biopolis is the first city in a new age of structural design. From tiny seeds will communities come. The evergreen cities will provide a cheap and natural habitation on countless colony worlds. Overpopulation and crowding will be a thing of the past."

Grandfather look, theres some people over there.

The others strained to see what Susan had glimpsed. Theres nothing there Susan, you must be imagining things. Ian patted Susans shoulder.

Dont dismiss Susan out of hand Chestamint, if my granddaughter says she saw something then I think we should investigate.

Ignore Ian, Susan, I believe you as well.

I think its starting. Fiu stood back as a long branch emerged from the soil. It grew at a massivly accellerated rate and expanded at a fantastic rate. Soon it grew past the astonished crowd until it was ten thousand square kilometeres in size.

Ian ducked as something shot over his head at speed. He was knocked to his feet by a blast of wind. When he recovered his sensors he was shocked to discover he was standing on the outskirts of a city. A city that was made entirely from trees and other plants.

Well Doctor, if this is Earth its not nineteen sixty three. Ian turned around but there was no sign of the others. He shouted out once more but there was no reply...

Susan woke up, she had been knocked unconcious by something. There was blood on the side of her head and a large lump that throbbed painfully. Grandfather? She saw her elderly relative nearby, he was also unconsious. Barbara was lying next to him. Carefully Susan checked the others for cuts and fractures but she was worrying unnecessarily as they were both fine. Then she noticed Ian was missing. She called out his name but all this did was wake the others up.

Oh, what happened? My arm hurt. Barbara pulled herself up and dusted herself down. Are you alright Susan? Hows the Doctor and wheres Ian?

Grandfather seems to be fine but theres no sign of Ian.

The Doctor sat up. Who are you and what have you done to me? His voice was cold and angry.

Grandfather its me Susan.

I dont know you, Ive never seen you before in my life.

Barbara put her arms around Susans shoulders to comfort her. Hes got amnaesia Susan, whatever happened to us has caused him to lose his memory.

Nonsense Im perfectly fine I tell you. Now why have you detained me here hmm? He looked at the two women with suspicion.

Ian continued to search the new city. It was a marvel of engineering skill, all organic looking and fluidic even. Each building was unoccupied but fitted with all the essentials, tables, chairs, beds and even a stove.

Look Doctor, dont you recognise us at all. Susan is your granddaughter look how upset you are making her.

I tell you I have no idea who either of you two are. Now kindly let me about my business.

Perhaps if he looks around the TARDIS, it might jog his memory. Susan tried desperately to think of a remedy.

A TARDIS? Im not qualified to pilot a TT Capsule yet. My learners permit was revoked last week by Borusa, again. A smile crossed the Doctors lips.

Hes reverted to his childhood Barbara, this is very bad.

Ian heard voices ahead. A conversation? No, a party. He had walked miles but finally this was the first sound of human habitation he had heard. He left the cover of the last building and walked over the exposed plaza. Several security people saw him and drew guns. Media cameras floated over towards him looking for a story.

Hello, Im a bit lost here. I got seperated from my friends can you help me?

An edgy security guard got too nervous and accidentally pushed the control stun on his gun. Ian felt his body go numb as he hit the ground and blacked out.

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Episode Two

Fragmentation

by Ultimate_Foe

-----------------------This episode contains some mildly adult material-----------------------

"You stupid fool, that's the second time that's happened! I told you last time that the King wasn't pleased when you knocked him out in the middle of the speech!" said the second guard. "Now put that thing away before you . . ahh!" he yelled, as he fell to the ground having been stunned by the first guard.

"Sorry everybody! I just panicked, he ...he looked at me funny."

Everybody sighed and put their heads in their hands. "The moment the monkeys end their strike, you're fired!" Said a passer-by.

Barbara and Susan were trying to convince the Doctor that they knew him and did not mean him any harm.

"Listen; Susan is your Granddaughter, can't you even remember that?" said Barbara.

"I've got an Idea! Maybe if I use my telepathic powers I could bring his memory back" she exclaimed.

"Well Susan, it's worth a try' Barbara said.

"You'll do nothing of the kind" protested the Doctor. "I'm not having a half wit trying to change my mind! Or is that your plan? Yes! Maybe you are trying to take control of me! Get away from me this instant!" shouted the Doctor. He then sat down on a chair, his arms crossed.

"Please grandfather!" said Susan, begging the Doctor.

"I am not your grandfather, I'm not even a father!"

Susan whispered to Barbara, "Maybe we try it later when he is asleep? I mean what else can we do? We can't knock him out?"

"Of course not but how long can we wait? We must find Ian!"

"Well maybe we could drug him? If we could..."

"Wait Susan. Maybe you won't need to do anything, look!" Barbara pointed at the Doctor who had fallen asleep on his chair with his head tilted back and his mouth wide open. "Now's your chance to read his mind".

Susan slowly walked up to the Doctor and placed her hands on his face.

"I think I can fix this by defragmenting his mind, this may take a few minutes" Susan said as she moved her fingers up and down the Doctors head.

Ian woke up in a medical room of Biopolis.

"I'm sorry about what happened to you. One of my guards stunned you by accident, may I give my deepest apologies. You're in good hands, and are the first to take advantage of our new living city!"

"Thank you, but who are you?" asked Ian as he tried to get his bearings.

"I am Ferhans Fiu - the founder of this living city" the man replied.

"A living city?"

"Yes, called Biopolis"

"Biopolis?"

"Yes, a living city."

"You mean this thing is alive, and your people live in it!"

"Yes indeed. It's a living city."

"And people live here?"

"Yes"

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Really?"

"YES!"

"Oh."

"Actually, I'm not that sure myself now..."

"By the way Ferhans, have you seen an old man with a woman and a girl?"

"No, I never watch porn. OH! Sorry I haven't seen your friends, but I'll find out. Now get to sleep and thats an order!" he says jokingly.

Meanwhile, in an air duct a man dressed from head to toe in black was placing small electronic devices on the inside of Biopolis. He placed them in many important places in the city and then turned on his communicator. "I'm finished, just me to laser vertically." he said as he disappeared.

The devices he put in the building made ticking noises...

"Ahh!" shouted the Doctor. "Why did you wake me Susan? I was having the most wonderful dream."

"You remember who I am Grandfather!" Susan said excitedly.

"I dreamt I was a Dalek and the black Dalek wanted me to go fishing with this tubby red alien with a kind of key stuck in it head." The Doctor raises his eyebrows to the top of his face and says excitedly "Wait! Susan you've got boobies!" The Doctor smiles and points at her breasts. "Oh yes, ..I remember now, you're fifteen." The Doctor shakes his head.

"Um ...OK." Whispers Susan, thinking how much Gallifreyan old-people's homes must cost. Susan laughs to herself at the thought the Doctor in a nut house. "Well, the important this is you've got your memory back!' said Barbara.

Suddenly, the Bio city began to explode. The people around the city ran for their lives as Biopolis started to fall apart. Ian was still inside.

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Episode Three

Compassion

by Steve G Blair

As the explosions rocked the organic structure of Biopolis, Ian struggled to stay on his feet. All around him, the Biopolitans ran, panicking, to whatever safety they could find. After what seemed like an age, the terrifying blasts ceased and an eerie calm descended on the city. Only the painful moans of those unlucky enough to be badly injured broke the silence.

In the TARDIS, Barbara went to the Food Machine and tapped in the code for cold water. A plastic cup dropped from the base of the machine and cool water jetted into it. As Barbara stood watching the automated process, her mind was reeling. Often in their time together, she had doubted the Doctor and his motives. Indeed often she had feared for her and Ians safety in the company of the mysterious old man. But his manner since Susan had tried to heal his amnesia had sickened Barbara to the very core of her being. The Doctor had made wildly offensive remarks to his own grand-daughter that had shocked the school teacher badly. Although she understood that he and Susan were from another planet, where there were bound to be cultural differences to her own experience, she had never, until now, doubted that their world had fundamental values similar to her own. His crass, immature observations were sickening, and Barbara prayed that they were merely an unpleasant side effect of his amnesia.

Ian stumbled through the fallen roots and branches that littered the streets of Biopolis. He was determined to get back to Barbara and the others before his hosts could recover from the bomb attack. He found his determination severely tested as he passed injured people begging for help. He had never once, in all his time travelling with the Doctor, walked past someone who needed his help, and this had often brought him into direct conflict with the old man. But Ian knew that what he did was right, and that maybe his compassion would one day rub off on the Doctor, to the benefit of all. As these thoughts passed through his mind, his determination dissolved, and he stopped and turned back to a Biopolitan woman who was crawling through wreckage, screaming for her husband to answer her.

Barbara returned to the main control area with the cup of water. She saw the Doctor slumped in a high backed chair, muttering away to himself, whilst Susan stood by the console studying readouts.
Barbara walked over to where Susan stood.
How is he? she asked the young girl.
Oh hes fine. The defragmentation seemed to have worked, althouh I did get some feedback which made me feel a little odd.
Barbara looked concerned. Odd? In what way, Susan?
I cant explain. I just had strange thoughts that Im sure didnt come from Grandfather.
Barbara shifted uncomfortably. She felt herself blush as she spoke.
Like those vile things that he said to you when he came round?
Susan looked at Barbara, apologetically
Yes. Im sorry if it embarrassed you. Its not the kind of thing that Grandfather would say, or think for that matter. 
Barbara sighed with relief.
Thank goodness. I couldnt bear it if that kind of talk were to become part of life in the TARDIS.
Susan smiled at her. I know. Grandfather would never approve of that.
Barbara looked over at the Doctor, who seemed to be sleeping peacefully now.
Perhaps its time we went looking for Ian. He cant have gone far.
Susan agreed. Yes. Ive set the Ships sensors to map out the city for us so we can find our way about.
Barbara operated the door controls and the double doors swung open.
Well then. Lets get going. Hopefully he hasnt ended up in any trouble.

It took Ian and the Biopolitan woman an hour to pull away the debris until they found the womans husband. His body had been totally crushed. As the woman wailed in grief, Ian tried to reassure her that he would have died instantly, and not suffered any lasting pain.
He stayed with her for what seemed like an eternity, until he began thinking again about returning to the Ship. He stood up and backed slowly away from the grieving widow, and backed straight into a troop of Biopolitan Guards.
Oh sorry, he said, Shes upset. Best to leave her alone for a while.
One of the guards grabbed him forcibly, hurting his arm.
Hey! 
The guard growled at him. Silence, murderer!
Another of the guards punched him square in the gut, winding him. Ian doubled over in pain.
You are under arrest for terrorism against Biopolis. 
The guard who spoke nodded to one of the lower-ranked guards.
Take him away, and prepare him for his execution

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Episode Four

Accusation

by esherrouse

Ian made a slight attempt to break free of the guard's grip, but was too weak to succeed. He looked back and noticed the woman still in tears over her dead husband.

The Doctor opened one eye just as Susan and Barbara exited the ship. His eye jolted about as if scouting the entire room. Then after notifying his other eye, it opened. He stood up and walked over to the monitor and watched Barbara and Susan re-enter the remains of the city. "Try and tap into my mind will you! Hmmph!" He then activated the monitor controls and the
screen faded. The Doctor then began to marvel at the controls of the TARDIS. "I have always been meaning to get one of these for myself. Perhaps I will have to borrow one someday." He smiled. "I wonder where everyone has gone too. Those two are certainly not up to any good. I should report that girl for interferring in these primitive's lives. That's it! I shall bring her back to Gallifrey and turn her over to the Castellan. Stealing a TT capsule indeed." With that the Doctor exited the TARDIS in pursuit of Susan.

Susan and Barbara were making their way through the remains of the city as they called out for Ian.
"It's no use. He is not here. Or worse, he may be injured."
"Try not to think about it, Susan. I am sure he will turn up."
"But he disappeared when the city took shape. He has to be in here somewhere." Susan protested.

Ian hung limply from two vine straps that seemed to grow from the wall. In front of him stood two guards. They were exchanging punches on his open stomach.
"Now tell us who the culprits are!" shouted one.
"Who helped you plant those bombs?" The other continued.
Ian squinted his eyes open and attempted to respond, "I have no idea what you are talking about."
The first guard then released another fist into his gut. Ian jerked back from the force and then fell limp again. Behind the guards, the door had opened unnoticed by them.
"That will be enough!" came a voice of command.
The two soldiers turned and faced Ferhans Fiu. Guilt crossed their faces. "We are just trying to get a confession out of the dog."
"Is that what it is called these days? And I thought torture was the correct phrase. Ahh the times, they are a changing." He then looked at the door and said , "Leave us!" They both exited with heads down mumbling to each other.

Fiu walked over to a bowl of water that was on a table and wet a cloth. He then apporached Ian, who jumped out of fear of another punch. "It is alright, friend. It is I, Fiu. I will not harm you. They are cretins and know not what they do. And if they did, their is a good chance they would run for office, but that is another story. I am sorry. Let me release you."
He then produced something similar to a cigarette lighter in size and held it next to the viney braces. They shrivelled away and Ian fell to the floor. Fiu knelt by his side and tried to speak to him again. "I am telling you that you have been witness to some of the most obnoxious representatives our Kingdom has to offer."
"What makes you say that?" Ian remarked sarcastically as he sat up against the wall.
"Ah, you have a sense of humour. Excellent. Now can you tell me who these villians are that destroyed our glorious living city?"
"Living city" stammered Ian.
"Oh, please let's not go through that again."
"I told your guards I do not know what you are talking about. I had nothing to do with those explosions."
"You were seen leaving an area near one of the first blasts."
"So were you then. You had just left me resting."
"Are you accusing me of treason?"
"Not at all, but I am saying that you just as likely as I could have planted those bombs."
"So you admit that they were bombs!"
"What? Well obviously they were bombs, unless you developed your city to self destruct in some sort of bizarre germination idea."
"Now there is a thought. A city that expands with each burst of it's seeds. We could market that and sell pod cars that would
take the drivers to the new cities as they are developed. You are a genius man." With that Fiu exited mumbling in excitement.

Ian rubbed his wrists and made his way over to the door only to notice that outside stood one of the two guards that had abused him
earlier. "This is a mad house." he said to himself.

The Doctor walked along the remnants of the street and observed the crumpled plant life covering the bodies. He noticed a little box on the ground that seemed to be ticking. "Marvellous technology. A clock that still works after suck a blast. Incredible!" He got closer to the object and then began to frown. He picked it up and red the read-out. 23 seconds and counting. As he stood back up a weapon was placed against his back.
"My dear friend, if you do not want us both to explode in matter of seconds, then I suggest you dispose of this." The Doctor then handed the device to the guard who paniced and tossed it into the remains of a nearby building. The two of them then fell to the ground as it exploded. When it was over, the guard grabbed the Doctor's arm and said,"All right. I just caught you red handed
with that bomb. Now you and that other villian can rot together."
"I beg your pardon" The Doctor began to protest as he was escorted off to the make shift prison area.

The explosion in the distance shook Barbara and Susan who turned to see where it had come from. As they did a man in all black fell out of a tube that seemed to run along the side of the street. He scrambled to his feet and noticed the two women watching him.
He then ran over and grabbed Susan by the arm and placed a gun to her head.

"You will both come with me or I shall kill you now!"

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Episode Five

Duplication

by Ultimate Foe

-----------------------This episode contains some mildly adult material-----------------------

Barbara tries to grab the gun out of the mans hand, but he steps back and fires. To their surprise the gun fails to fire, giving Susan the chance to kick him in the bollocks and escape. The man collapses to the ground as Susan and Barbara run off into the distance.

Meanwhile, the Doctor is forced back to the guards headquarters where he is put into a prison cell.
In the cell the Doctor and the Chief of the Biopolis Guards, who was holding a strange device, are talking.
Let me out I say! I saved you all from the bomb shouts the Doctor.
No you didnt! We know you are the one who planted the bomb. I am Riknow and my duty is to interrogate you, now tells us where you accomplices are says the Chief, putting a cattle prod against his head, pulling the trigger and shocking him with it.
aaahh . . . bit to the left! The Doctor yells. Then the interrogator gives him anther bust
Ohh thats the good stuff baby! Says the Doctor.
A few minutes later the interrogator is trying to grab the cattle prod back to stop the Doctor from giving himself shocks.
Oh, youre no fun anymore. Let me go The Doctor shouts
I will not let you go
Let me go
I will not let you go.
Let me go.
Now stop that, it seems that we will have to use a new method to find you friends
Riknow leaves the cell and presses a button on the wall.
Bio section D please prepare for a cloning and processing

Susan and Barbara wonder the streets avoiding guards as the try to find the Doctor
Weve got to find the Doctor if were going to have a chance of escaping says Barbara
Well if we can make our way to near where biopolis stood
But thats very near the Guards headquarters
Well its a risk we will have to take
But what if Grandfathers been captured? And what about Ian we cant forget him!
I havent forgottenum,.Ian. Its just that we have to do one thing at a time. We have just got to see what we can do

The Doctor wakes up in a lab, he is strapped to a table next a tank. In the tank is a robotic framework with flesh starting to form on it. From the tank a cable connects from the tank to a machine behind the Doctor. From the machine the are pipes which go into the Doctors arms.
Ah youre conscious. Your are currently being copied into this Cyborg which we are going to use to capture, or if necessary, kill your friends.
The Doctor tries to reply but is too weak and faints.
A few hours later the Doctor wakes up again only to be greeted by himself.
I am to infiltrate and kill! said the copy of the Doctor.
The Doctor thinks to himself that this sounds familiar, but puts it down to future echoes or some such thing. His main worry is this: What is the purpose of this copy and how is he to escape?
Also, and more importantly come to think of it; how is he going to get another go with that cattle prod he was no so fond of.
That moment, a woman stands next to the doppelganger, giving it more instructions.
You must try to gain their trust. If you are discovered then you must kill immediately. Do you understand? kill immediately!
I understand says the Doctor.
The Woman, a little confused, looks at his notes and then tries some last minute tests on the voice control.
Forwards. One step.
The copy of the Doctor does so.
Lift your hand up 45 degrees . . .no no, forwards.
A ringing noise emanates from a room next door and she leaves the Doctor and his copy by themselves.
The Doctor turns his head to face his copy.
You dont even look like me! Youve got a pen -
the Doctor stops, and thinks. He may have an idea 
Turn right, move forward says the Doctor and the copy obeys.
Mmmmm the Doctor says to himself.

A few minutes later the Woman comes back into the room to discover that the real Doctor has gone and the copy is standing there with the straps from the table in his hands.
You fool! Go and get the Doctor AND his companions. Log on name: Mazner, you will only obey me! she shouts
The copy of the Doctor turns towards her and its eyes turn red and smoke pours out of its head
Must kill, must KILL!
What are you doing get away from me She steps back in fear as the malfunctioning robot comes closer. She turns and runs out of the door.

Ian was still in the cell having been beaten again
Who really did it doesnt matter, cant you see? Nothing really matters as long as it was not me Ian says in pain
It was you. It was you because was say so
And Its doesnt matter that your innocent because Ive just got orders that you are to be executed at sun rise.
So what now? Asks Ian
 You had to ask. Now let me see
They start to give him more punches, untie him and drag him to a nearby shower room

Inside the Science block where Doctor had been copied, Susan and Barbara have made there way in. They come up behind a pair of guards and hit them with a club they have picked up earlier for protection.
Put these on Susan, we will be safe in these says Barbara, gesturing to the guards clothes.
Armour? With this bra!
Just do it!
OK bitch.
They start to get undressed.
Susan, umhave I ever told you how nice you smell?
Susan blushes.
I think Ive wet myself. Hang on
About ninety minutes later, Susan and Barbara are in chainmail, and enjoying a cigarette. Then they overhear the woman scientist talking.
Damn! I really wish the real Doctor hadnt gone missing after we built a copy of him in order the find and destroy his companions!
Oh no! Screams Susan.
Sshh! Says Barbara!
The scientist looks round.
Whos there?!
Run! Shouts Barbara, and they flee from the building, Susan limping slightly for some inexplicable reason.

Much later, Susan and Barbara are sitting together on a log, by and open fire, some miles from the city.
If only it were lit. Says Susan.
Suddenly, Barbara sees something in the distance.
Look Susan!
Itits the Doctor!
I wouldnt be so sure, the copy is an identical one
But it looks just like him!
Exactly, hes far to identical to himself to be real!
Ahgood thinking
Barbara picks up the club and curls her lips in between he teeth as she slowly tip toes up behind him.
I wonder where Susan and Barbara are Said the Doctor to himself
That clinches it! thinks Barbara. She then hits the Doctor with a club knocking him to the ground as Susan comes in to join in whacking him. After five minutes Barbara waves her club in the air to psyche her self up for another round of clubbing to the ribs when Susan makes the mistake of asking her a question.
What if this is the real . . .
Barbara gives Susan a dirty look.
WHAT! shouts Barbara still holding her club up in the air as if she were about to hit Susan.
Oh nothing, nothing.
Barbara and Susan then turn and continue to hit the Doctor. After another five minutes Barbara stops
There, youre not going anywhere impostor

Then two guards come in with the real copy of the Doctor in cuffs.
Oh my, then he must have been the real Doctor says Susan
REALLY? Barbara says in mock surprise, dropping the club half serupticiously, just behind her back.

Later, in the medical bay of the prison building Susan is sitting next to the Doctor who is in bed with a heart monitor next to him. Susan thought to herself about the last time the Doctor nearly died. She remembers it was when the Doctor was learning how to driver a car in Paris 1997. When he almost hit a car coming in the other direction through a tunnel travelling at high speed.
Susans reminiscing is interrupted by the sound of the Doctors heart monitor flat lining.
Oh NO! Grandfather! Susan yells in panic.
She hits the emergency button to sound the alarm and two medics run into the room as just the the Doctor leaps upright and shouts
Fooled You! as he laughs to himself in hysterics.
Oh Grandfather how could you! Shouts Susan.
The Doctor continues to laugh but then grabs his chest in pain as he collapse back into his bed and flat lines properly.
It wasnt funny the first time! Now wake up you bastard!
Barbara starts hitting him.
Uh I think hes really dying! The Medics and Susan shout.

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Episode Six

A Dark Twist

by Lord Soldeed

"Uh, I think he's really dying!" the medics and Susan shouted.

"Who cares?" said Barbara. "He deserved it. The old dirty bastard."

"What did you say?" asked Susan in shock.

"He deserves to die. Won't even get me home. Probably because he wants to have sex with me. The son of a bitch."

"Barbara, how can you say things like that?" asked Susan. Barbara's behavior had been rather strange lately. In fact, now that she thought about it, her own behavior had been rather strange lately. What was going on here?

"How can I say things like that? Like *this*!" She grabbed a blaster from one of the medics' hands and shot all the medics. She moved in for Susan. But Susan karate-chopped her on the back of her neck, and Barbara fell to the ground, unconscious. It was a good thing that the Doctor had taught her a small amount of Venusian aikido.

She entered Barbara's mind. In her previous meld with the Doctor, Susan had noticed a strange quality to his thoughts, as if they were being stimulated by an outside force. Now she noticed the same quality in Barbara's thoughts.
Susan then entered the Doctor's mind. At first she could feel nothing. Could Grandfather really be dead? she wondered. Will she die like this, put to death on this horrible planet?

But then, she could feel something in his mind... a struggle. A battle was being fought between two parts of the Doctor's mind. One part was definetly him. Another part seemed alien, and had a similar sort of feel to the power that had been influencing their thoughts. She examined the Doctor's mind. It seemed fragmented, distant, broken.

She searched her mind. In her previous meld with the Doctor, during the Sensorite incident, maybe her mind had picked up some of the Doctor's strong memories. In her subconcious, she found a strong memory that wasn't hers. It was a memory of being on Gallifrey, alone, in K'anpo's cave.. who was K'anpo?...thinking about destiny, and choosing a name...

She communicated the memory to the Doctor's mind. The alien element invading his mind seemed to have won out. Suddenly, once the memory had been communicated, the Doctor's mind burst throught with renewed strength. "I am...the Doctor!" he cried out. He melded with Susan's mind. Susan suddenly felt clearer, as if that power had been in her and drained out. He got up and did the same to Barbara.

She came to. "Oh...what happened? I remember that man attacking us, and now I'm here...what did I do?"

"You don't want to know," said Susan.

"We have to escape," said the Doctor. "I know now who planted the bombs. The fate of Humanity is at stake!"

Ian was not feeling good. He had been pushed around by guards, had been through some of the most bizzarre experiences in his life, and was now about to be put to death! Please God, thought Ian, don't let me die here. I could at least die somewhere decent.

But as the guards dragged Ian to his fate, someone jumped out of the shadows. He blasted the guards and grabbed Ian. It was the same man who had attacked Susan and Barbara, although Ian didn't know that. "Come with me," he said, and he didn't seem to be the sort that you could argue with.

They reached a large building. "Don't call for help," said the man, "or you'll be dead!" Ian watched helplessly as he placed the bomb on the ground... and was surprised by the arrival of guards. With them were the Doctor and his companians.

"Barbara! You're safe!" said Ian, surprised.

"Now, when you remove his mask, you'll find out that it's exactly who I said it would be." The guards took off his mask, revealing the face of...

"Fehrans Fiu!" said the guards in shock.

"It figures," said Ian.

"I congratulate you on a job well done," said Fehrans Fiu's second in command Azur. "How on Earth did you figure out that it was him?"

"Fehrans is a telepath, isn't he?" said the Doctor.

"Yes...come to think of it, he is. He needs to be to control the living city. So when this aberrant behavior started, you figured this out and realized that he was influencing you, right?"

The Doctor neither approved nor disapproved.

"Why did he do it," asked Ian.

"Fehrans had become imbalanced. The abberrant behavior that you and your friends experienced--and it wasn't just you, it was all over the city--was caused by Fehrans's projecting his negative emotions on everybody.

"No!" Fehrans cried out as they took him away. "It was the city! The city is evil!"

"I'm glad to see him taken away. He's a madman," said Barbara.

"No." said the Doctor. "He's right."

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Episode Seven

Biopolis Falls

by Trivial Keithy

"No!" Fehrans cried out as they took him away. "It was the city! The city is evil!"

"I'm glad to see him taken away. He's a madman," said Barbara.

"No." said the Doctor. "He's right."

"What do you mean Doctor?" Ian asked. He stood up and looked around at the organic city. "How can a city be evil?"

Azur mopped his sweated brow and blew a puff of air through his teeth. "Something must have gone wrong in the design stage. Every link in the DNA chain of the seed was cnaged to some degree or other. It must have been then, a G instead of a C and the next thing you know the city's alive and it's trying to kill you."

"Exactly my boy, exactly." The Doctor stood up. It tried to get inside my head, turn you against me because it knew I was onto it. I'm sorry Barbara for anything I did while under the city's influence."

"Yes well perhaps I was too quick to judge? I felt there was something different about you but I thought I was just being silly."

"Hmph, not a bit of it Miss Wright, not a bit of it. Once again your intuition has proved correct when science and logic have failed." The Doctor sat back down again.

"So what do we do?" Susan asked. "I mean it's not as if we can just chop it all up into little pieces is it?" She started to laugh but stopped when she saw the gleam in her grandfather's eyes. "But it's a whole city grandfather. It will take all of us a hundred years to clear it all away."

"Quite so, my child, quite so. You must look for outside help Mr. Azur, yes you must ask your neighbours and allies. This great evil can only be defeated by a combined force that brings together all the individual skills and equipment into, into one concerted effort all at the same time."

"I'll see what I can do." Azur left and headed towards the small communications pod that was inside a skimmer car.

"I think it's time we leave, don't you?" The Doctor announced suddenly.

"But you don't know where the ship is Doctor." Ian replied.

"Don't I hmmm? Don't I? This way, yes, come along." The Doctor led the way through twisting streets, alleys and terraces until they came upon the familiar blue police box shape of the TARDIS.

"Oh safe at last." Barbara announced to everyone once they were safely inside the time machine."

"Yes Miss Wright, I'm inclined to agree with you." Carefully the Doctor pressed buttons, turned dials and flicked switches.

Later on the four time travellers were seated inside the console room each reading a different book when suddenly the central column stopped moving. Then they were shaken about as the TARDIS slammed them from side to side.

The image faded to black and a caption flashed up promising DOCTOR WHO RETURNS NEXT WEEK IN AN EXCITING NEW ADVENTURE.

William turned the sound down on the television set while his younger brother and sister avidly watched the credits roll up the screen.

"I hope it's Daleks next week." Amy, the youngest piped up.

"You always hide behind the sofa when they come on." Henry teased his sister.

"Do not." Amy shouted.

"Do too." Henry responded.

"Do not." Amy stuck her bottom lip out at her beastly brother.

- The End -
