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The BBC Doctor Who Christmas Advent Calendar

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« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2011, 10:53:06 am »

Day Twenty One

Attack of the Snowmen: Part Two

By Mark B. Oliver

Rachael heard her daughter scream in the distance and instinctively turned to run towards her. Immediately, the electric cable shot out, lashing towards her, but Louie dived at his aunt and brought her crashing to the ground with his best rugby tackle. The lethal-looking cable sliced through the space where she had stood less than a second before...

The Doctor was reaching into his pocket bringing out his sonic screwdriver. Turning at the same time, he aimed it at the live wire and a high pitched screech filled the air. The cable moved towards him at lightning speed, before suddenly stalling, as though fighting some unseen force. Seconds seemed to stretch to minutes as the battle raged. Louie and Rachael looked up in horror as the Doctor stood his ground. The slightest wisp of acrid smoke drifted upward from the end of the cable, but still it tried to reach him. Without warning the cable suddenly exploded, dropping to the ground, lifeless.

Louie and Rachael scrambled to their feet but didn't have time to worry about their near demise.

'Millie, I'm coming!' shouted Rachael as they ran back the way they had come. Unnoticed, the suited man continued on his way.
***

Louie spotted Millie's footprints and they made their way through the thick snow as quickly as they could. The tracks came to an abrupt halt, and there was large indentation in the snow where she had clearly fallen.

'Millie! Millie!' shouted her mother, whose voice echoed around the deserted field. As she looked down at the Doctor who was crouched in the snow, she saw him move ever so slightly as though trying to hide something from her. 'What is it?'

'It's blood, but not much,' said the Doctor as he stood.

Rachael blanched. 'I think I'm going to be sick... My baby girl...'

'We'll find her aunty,' Louie said, placing his arm around her. 'She can't be far.'

'But where is she?' she asked, panic-stricken. 'What was I thinking? I should never have insisted we come with you Doctor. It's all my fault...'

'None of this is your fault, Rachael, and Rachael, look at me. Look at me.' She raised her eyes to meet the Doctor's. 'We will find Millie, I promise you.' She held his gaze, and knew he meant it.

'Where do we start, Doctor? There are only Millie's footprints and ours. Where did she go?' asked Louie.

'I'm not sure, Louie, but we stick to the original plan. In the TARDIS we can track both Millie and the phosidium.'
***

They were greeted by the reassuring hum of the TARDIS as they entered, the Doctor moving quickly up the ramp to the console, pulling levers and studying the monitor closely.

'There are fresh, dry clothes for you through there,' waved the Doctor absent-mindedly as he concentrated on the readings.

'I'm fine,' protested Rachael. The Doctor was racing around the console now, and didn't look up.

'You're both wet through. Wet and cold. You'll be of no help to Millie if you catch pneumonia. So clothes, now, through there.'

'Come on, aunty, the Doctor's right. I'm freezing; we need warm dry clothes.' Reluctantly, Rachael allowed Louie to lead her away in the direction the Doctor had gestured. Running his hands through his hair, the Doctor murmured under his breath,

'Where are you Millie? Where?'
***

Millie slowly opened her eyes. She had a splitting headache and could taste blood in her mouth. 'I must have hit my head,' she murmured to herself. The last thing she could remember was stumbling away from the hellish snowman.

She was laying on a flat bed-like contraption that was raised off the ground at a forty-five degree angle. Her wrists and ankles were secured by strong semicircular metal cuffs. As her eyes adjusted to the gloom she raised her head and looked around. Next to her was a similar device to the one she was on, and a man about her mum's age was secured onto it. Even in the poor light she could see he was deathly pale.

'Hello, hello? Can you hear me? My name's Millie. Millie Peterson!' But he didn't reply. He was unconscious or worse. She tried to see if he was breathing, looking for the slightest movement in his chest but it was too dark. She looked around the rest of the room. Old brickwork, and she could hear a steady drip of water not too far away. Some kind of abandoned building? Rather incongruously, a console stood just off to her left. She hadn't seen anything like it before. The cuffs weren't too tight, and she had small hands, maybe she could free herself...

After a few minutes her wrists were red and sore from the effort, she could nearly slip them through but not quite. A door creaked open that she hadn't noticed before. Silhouetted in the doorway was a tall, thin man, wearing a bowler hat. Millie instinctively knew he wasn't there to help her.
***

As Louie and Rachael reentered the console room in their change of clothes, the Doctor had his back to them, leaning over the console.

'Come and look at this,' he said not glancing around. On the screen was a street map, and a building on the outskirts of town was highlighted. 'What's that?' he asked.

'It's an old manufacturing plant,' Rachael told him. 'It closed in the eighties, there was some talk of it being developed into luxury apartments a year or two back, but nothing ever came of it.'

'Well that's where Millie is,' the Doctor told them.

'How do you know, Doctor?' asked Louie 'And that's the far side of town on the other side of woods. How could she have gotten there so quickly?'

'Anyone who travels in the TARDIS is left with trace elements of chronon energy in their system, and there's an chronon energy signature in that building.'

'Millie?'

'It seems very likely, and there's plenty of phosidium in the immediate area too.'

'So what are we waiting for?' said Rachael making for the doors.

'Aunty, we don't have to go anywhere, we can go in the TARDIS can't we, Doctor?' The Doctor didn't immediately respond.

'Louie you made a good point. How was Millie transported several miles in this heavy snow so quickly? And why have they taken one girl out of millions? What's so special about her?'

'She's very special, Doctor,' shouted Rachael with more force than she intended.

'I know, Rachael, I know, that's not what I'm saying.' He placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. 'Millie is remarkable young lady, but what makes her special to the aliens?'

'She knows you,' suggested Louie.

'Right!' declared the Doctor, 'and that's what worries me. If they took Millie because of her connection to me, then they are willing to take on a Time Lord, and everything that entails. So we leave the TARDIS here. Besides,' said the Doctor as he patted the console affectionately, 'she doesn't exactly make a quiet entrance.'

'So how do we get there, Doctor? We need to rescue my daughter, it will take hours to walk in this snow, and it will be getting dark soon.' But the Doctor had an idea.
***

Finally, the silhouette in the doorway spoke. 'A simple human female. Intriguing.'

'Who are you, and what do you want with me? I have friends. They'll be coming for me.'

'Oh, I don't doubt that,' replied the figure as he advanced into the room. He tilted his head to one side as he studied her. 'You're not the innocent schoolgirl you appear to be are you?'

'I don't know what you're talking about.'

'You're imbued with chronon energy, that's why the sentry brought you here. You're an associate of the Doctor.'

'What doctor? Doctor Lamb? The GP?'

'Act a fool by all means, girl, but don't treat me as one.' He was now standing over her, a cruel evil smile on his lips. The Doctor is sentimental, weak. He'll soon come for you.' He removed his hat revealing horns on either side of his head, as he traced one of his fingers down her right cheek. Millie flinched, but managed not to scream. 'Your bravery is misplaced child, soon we will have the Doctor and you will be dead.' Silently the alien left the room.

Desperately, Millie tried to reach inside her coat pocket.
***

'Hoverboards!' exclaimed Louie excitedly as the threesome sped towards Millie. 'Woo hoo!'

'Amy picked them up for Rory, boys do like their toys,' shouted the Doctor - the air whistling passed made it hard to hear. The boards were hovering several inches above the snow, instantly correcting their height for an upcoming obstacle.

'I can't even roller-skate; how am I staying on?' asked a rather fearful Rachael, convinced she was going to tumble off any second.

'Oh, don't worry, they self correct any imbalance. At this speed we'll be there in a few minutes. We'd best go around the woods though, I don't like the idea of trying to navigate through the trees,' said the Doctor.
***

Millie's fingertips grasped the object in her pocket and gingerly she pulled out her chapstick. Very gently, she pulled off the cap that tumbled to the floor and started to rub the lubricant on her left wrist.

'If I can just get enough onto my hand...' After several minutes of carefully applying the greasy substance without dropping the tube, she rolled her thumb and little finger towards each other, and very gently slid her hand out of its restraint. 'Yes!' she proclaimed triumphantly, quickly freeing her second hand now she could move more easily. Reaching down she untied her shoelaces and kicked off her boots. She was now able to wiggle her feet free. Jumping down she scooped up the boots and went over to the man laying next to her. His breathing was shallow, but he was alive.

'I'll be back, I promise,' Millie whispered to the man, who stirred at the sound of her voice.

'Geoff,' he said weakly.

'Hang on, Geoff, I'll bring help.' Putting her boots back on, she tiptoed to the door. Seeing the coast was clear she glanced back at Geoff and hurried away.
***

'Doctor, will the boards be OK going over a frozen river?' asked Louie, as they raced towards a local steam.

'River? River's here? Where?' The Doctor furiously started to glance around, almost immediately losing his balance. Despite his earlier prediction he tipped off the board, hitting the ground. Hard.
***

The alien reentered the room where Millie had been moments earlier. Noticing she was gone, he slammed his fist on the console in anger. She was the bait - he needed her! He activated a communication device disguised as watch on his wrist. 'Colleagues, we can wait no longer, activate the sentries.'
***

All across Europe the eyes on snowmen, in every village, town and city, glowed red. Slowly they levitated and started to glide silently down roads and streets.
***

'Aunty Rachael, we have to go back for the Doctor.'

'I know, but how do we turn these things let alone stop them?' Louie tried to jump off but the board just automatically corrected itself.

'I don't know, maybe we could guide them into those snowmen up ahead?' Rachael saw the group of snowmen and nodding her approval, they maneuvered in their direction.

Without warning two of the snowmen rose into the air, their eyes ablaze. Immediately Louie and his aunt felt searing heat wash over their bodies, causing them to cry out in pain.
***

Millie had found her way outside. She recognized the building, and was making her way slowly along the edge of the factory towards the nearby wood, reasoning the trees would afford her better protection than the open road. Just as she was going to dart across the last few metres, into the relative safety of the foliage, a sentry snowman glided into view. She pressed her back against the wall not daring to breathe.
***

The Doctor was laying on his back, momentarily winded. He propped himself up on his elbows, scanning the horizon for his friends. To his horror, he saw they were under attack. He scrambled to his feet, reaching for his hoverboard, but he was too late. The red light intensified around them and they were gone.

DON'T MISS THE THIRD AND FINAL PART OF ATTACK OF THE SNOWMEN... COMING SOON!
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2011, 10:55:09 am »

Day Twenty Two

Two episodes of Doctor Who that had been missing for years were recently discovered so today we're celebrating their return with a brand new Chumblies page and four jigsaws that use images taken from the rediscovered action!

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« Reply #22 on: December 24, 2011, 10:59:42 am »

Day Twenty Three

For day 23 the BBC have uploaded three videos from a Q&A featuring Moff and MS talking about the Christmas special which you can watch HERE
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