Post by Dalek Supreme on Feb 20, 2008 5:44:32 GMT -5
Dark World
Chapter 1 - Dream World
Mike sat at his console, blissfully staring out at the vastness of space. The year was 2750, and Earth was a long distant memory of polluted air and water, with much of the life forms now extinct or dying from toxic diseases created by the worlds arch enemy...... otherwise known as MAN.
It had been decided that mankind should abandon his home planet, and search out a new home which hopefully he would not defile and spoil like he'd done to poor old Mother Earth. And so it was that a fleet of space cruisers had left with a total of 700,000 of the best selected humans, chosen for their abilities and skills.
Mike was a good pilot, but out here was completely uncharted territory for him, as the ship was now almost 3 billion miles away from Earth; and it had taken them the best part of 4 light years to reach here, yet still they hadn't found a suitable planet to call 'New Earth', and there were 11 other ships behind him in the fleet.
The last ship was called "Noah's Ark" as it did carry a few animals, but these were brought along more for necessity rather than conservation, as some were pets, while others were potentially to be used as food.
Sally Howes was Mike's co-pilot, and she suddenly beamed that attractive little smile of hers at him. "What's up?" he asked.
"I've finally located a suitable home planet just an hour away from us" Sally replied.
"Buckle up guys and gals" he said over the intercom to the 50 thousand passengers and crew of the Warrior, the lead ship of the fleet under his command. "We're going down real soon now!"
"Initiating thrusters to half impulse" Sally said, more to herself than to Mike.
The huge bulk that was the Warrior gently glided down towards a beautiful sight of a planet which was very much like old Earth, except this one had more land mass than water; and was 3 times larger than their home planet, plus it was warmed by twin suns.
The team sent out to check things over returned with excellent news. Air was perfect, water perfect; and no pollution of any kind anywhere. The perfect planet for their 'New Earth'. "Welcome home Sally" Mike said with a grin, "Now will you marry me?"
"Get me a nice home first and I'll think about it" Sally beamed back at him, "and it's taken you all of 4 years to ask me."
"Well I wanted to ask you before we started out, but thought it best to wait until we'd found our new home. Which it looks like we have now" Mike retorted. "This sure is a lovely place to start afresh and maybe raise a few kids." "Children" she corrected him, "kids are baby goats. Let's get this show on the road then."
They called this new home planet of theirs Dream World, but little did these new founding colonists know at the time, their dream would very quickly become a Nightmare.
Chapter 2 - No place like home
Nightmares are nasty things, but these only occur during sleep. Or do they Mike thought to himself. Lately he had been hearing stories about the Ogla, a peaceful race of beings who had inhabited Dream World, but had mysteriously died out about 3,000 years ago. Why?
All plant and animal life on this planet was none hostile, and the human colonists were thriving; but why were some of them having these hallucinations, bad day dreams, call them what you like..... Mike didn't enjoy them and neither did the others who experienced them. Sally was lucky, as she didn't have the visions of thousands of humans lying in pools of their own blood, or charred beyond recognition by some hideous burning weapon or whatever.
Deep in the bowels of the planet, inside the Macros caverns, a creature of darkness and horror moved one of its tentacles. It had been a prisoner inside this tomb for far too long now, and it knew that although it was considered to be the last of its kind, it was not entirely alone in the Universe, as there were others like it; but they too were held in a state of captivity.
Soon now, it would find a way to free itself; but in the meantime, its thought waves emanated from the depths of the cave and brought visions of horror to some of the new settlers of this planet. For this had once been the home planet of the 'Ogrons' many centuries past, but the Ogla had destroyed them for crimes against them.
Mike and others like him felt more and more uneasy about their new home, as the hallucinations became steadily worse and more disturbing in nature from day to day.
"I've signalled the 2nd fleet not to land here for the time being" he told the council members, "as I don't feel it is such a good place after all."
"I admit that you and some others are having bad thoughts and visions" said Professor Hayward, "but this is no reason to defer their arrival date, as we do need more settlers now that we've colonized the planet."
"On your head be it" said Mike, "though I still think you're making a bad mistake, even if you are the council leader."
Fleet number 2 contained nearly 1 million people, many of whom were heading for their final few weeks of life; although they as yet had no idea of this, and smiled contentedly as they headed for a new home on Dream World.
The creature in the Macros caverns felt the presence of the Earthlings, long before they had even landed on the planet's surface.
Chapter 3 - The Nightmare Begins
The Doctor had enjoyed his little holiday to Rigel 4, and his latest companion was a fun person to have around. Her name was Kate Wood, a 27 year old nurse from Brecon in Wales back on Earth. He had met her quite by accident while buying a cake in a shop, and she almost fell on him as he rushed out of the doorway.
The year was 1977 when they met, and she appeared much younger than her age, as he had thought she had just left school, as she looked more like 17 at the time.
Kate could not believe it when the Doctor told her the year was now 2750A.D., "Where are we then" she asked? "Well, we're not where we should be" the Doctor replied. "The TARDIS has actually brought us to the planet called 'Dream World' by its Earth colonists. It was once the home of the Ogrons, who were used as slave allies by a race of beings known as Daleks. If my memory serves me right, both the Ogrons and the other race of beings that existed here, the Ogla, are now all dead; but the planet was colonized by people from Earth who had to leave because they'd made much of it uninhabitable due to too much pollution" he said with a look of dismay.
"That's terrible" Kate replied looking horrified.
"Let's go and check out the scenery then" the Doctor retorted, and they left the TARDIS and went to find Hope City, the home of the Earth colonists.
Inside the caves, the creature moaned as it studied a monitor in front of it. "So Doctor, you are here at last. This time there will be no escape for you, your companion or those inferior Earthlings on the surface of this planet. My vengeance will be swift and merciless."
The creature shuffled toward something hidden in the corner of the cavern. It was the outer casing of a Dalek Emperor.
Chapter 4 - New Hope
Mike and Sally were walking hand in hand, as people in love often do; and were suddenly surprised to find themselves confronted by two strangers. After recovering from the initial shock, the male stranger introduced himself simply as 'The Doctor', and his pretty female friend as Kate.
"Where have you come from?" asked Mike looking slightly bemused.
"I am originally from Gallifrey, but Kate is from Earth" said the Doctor. "What part of Earth" asked Sally?
"Wales, from 1977 Earth to be exact" Kate replied. "How can that be possible" said Mike. "Time travel is my specialty" the Doctor replied with a look that gave nothing away.
"Welcome to Dream World, let us take you to our city of New Hope" Mike told them.
Professor Hayward related his concerns to the Doctor about the increasing number of colonists having dreadful hallucinations. "Just what do they see" asked the Doctor? "Death and destruction on a vast scale of horrendous proportions" was the Professors reply.
"Has anyone found any evidence of alien invasion, or died from unusual circumstances" Doctor Who asked?
"Nothing yet, although I have these visions, but Sally and some others have never had any" Mike interjected.
"Strange, very strange indeed" was all the Doctor could say.
Deep in its hiding place, the creature hauled itself into the machine and activated the controls. Power surged through the machine, and it slowly began to glide along a tunnel taking it up to the surface.
Many others of its kind had been imprisoned, but this one had found a way to free itself. During the time wars, many had died; and the Emperor of all the Daleks had been destroyed by the Doctor.
Now one of his clones was finding a way to take his rightful place once more, as the leader and supreme being of the Universe.
There would be time to locate any others of its kind, and the process to create an army was already being activated back inside the Macros caverns.
The time to conquer and the utter destruction of all inferior beings was at hand.
Chapter 1 - Dream World
Mike sat at his console, blissfully staring out at the vastness of space. The year was 2750, and Earth was a long distant memory of polluted air and water, with much of the life forms now extinct or dying from toxic diseases created by the worlds arch enemy...... otherwise known as MAN.
It had been decided that mankind should abandon his home planet, and search out a new home which hopefully he would not defile and spoil like he'd done to poor old Mother Earth. And so it was that a fleet of space cruisers had left with a total of 700,000 of the best selected humans, chosen for their abilities and skills.
Mike was a good pilot, but out here was completely uncharted territory for him, as the ship was now almost 3 billion miles away from Earth; and it had taken them the best part of 4 light years to reach here, yet still they hadn't found a suitable planet to call 'New Earth', and there were 11 other ships behind him in the fleet.
The last ship was called "Noah's Ark" as it did carry a few animals, but these were brought along more for necessity rather than conservation, as some were pets, while others were potentially to be used as food.
Sally Howes was Mike's co-pilot, and she suddenly beamed that attractive little smile of hers at him. "What's up?" he asked.
"I've finally located a suitable home planet just an hour away from us" Sally replied.
"Buckle up guys and gals" he said over the intercom to the 50 thousand passengers and crew of the Warrior, the lead ship of the fleet under his command. "We're going down real soon now!"
"Initiating thrusters to half impulse" Sally said, more to herself than to Mike.
The huge bulk that was the Warrior gently glided down towards a beautiful sight of a planet which was very much like old Earth, except this one had more land mass than water; and was 3 times larger than their home planet, plus it was warmed by twin suns.
The team sent out to check things over returned with excellent news. Air was perfect, water perfect; and no pollution of any kind anywhere. The perfect planet for their 'New Earth'. "Welcome home Sally" Mike said with a grin, "Now will you marry me?"
"Get me a nice home first and I'll think about it" Sally beamed back at him, "and it's taken you all of 4 years to ask me."
"Well I wanted to ask you before we started out, but thought it best to wait until we'd found our new home. Which it looks like we have now" Mike retorted. "This sure is a lovely place to start afresh and maybe raise a few kids." "Children" she corrected him, "kids are baby goats. Let's get this show on the road then."
They called this new home planet of theirs Dream World, but little did these new founding colonists know at the time, their dream would very quickly become a Nightmare.
Chapter 2 - No place like home
Nightmares are nasty things, but these only occur during sleep. Or do they Mike thought to himself. Lately he had been hearing stories about the Ogla, a peaceful race of beings who had inhabited Dream World, but had mysteriously died out about 3,000 years ago. Why?
All plant and animal life on this planet was none hostile, and the human colonists were thriving; but why were some of them having these hallucinations, bad day dreams, call them what you like..... Mike didn't enjoy them and neither did the others who experienced them. Sally was lucky, as she didn't have the visions of thousands of humans lying in pools of their own blood, or charred beyond recognition by some hideous burning weapon or whatever.
Deep in the bowels of the planet, inside the Macros caverns, a creature of darkness and horror moved one of its tentacles. It had been a prisoner inside this tomb for far too long now, and it knew that although it was considered to be the last of its kind, it was not entirely alone in the Universe, as there were others like it; but they too were held in a state of captivity.
Soon now, it would find a way to free itself; but in the meantime, its thought waves emanated from the depths of the cave and brought visions of horror to some of the new settlers of this planet. For this had once been the home planet of the 'Ogrons' many centuries past, but the Ogla had destroyed them for crimes against them.
Mike and others like him felt more and more uneasy about their new home, as the hallucinations became steadily worse and more disturbing in nature from day to day.
"I've signalled the 2nd fleet not to land here for the time being" he told the council members, "as I don't feel it is such a good place after all."
"I admit that you and some others are having bad thoughts and visions" said Professor Hayward, "but this is no reason to defer their arrival date, as we do need more settlers now that we've colonized the planet."
"On your head be it" said Mike, "though I still think you're making a bad mistake, even if you are the council leader."
Fleet number 2 contained nearly 1 million people, many of whom were heading for their final few weeks of life; although they as yet had no idea of this, and smiled contentedly as they headed for a new home on Dream World.
The creature in the Macros caverns felt the presence of the Earthlings, long before they had even landed on the planet's surface.
Chapter 3 - The Nightmare Begins
The Doctor had enjoyed his little holiday to Rigel 4, and his latest companion was a fun person to have around. Her name was Kate Wood, a 27 year old nurse from Brecon in Wales back on Earth. He had met her quite by accident while buying a cake in a shop, and she almost fell on him as he rushed out of the doorway.
The year was 1977 when they met, and she appeared much younger than her age, as he had thought she had just left school, as she looked more like 17 at the time.
Kate could not believe it when the Doctor told her the year was now 2750A.D., "Where are we then" she asked? "Well, we're not where we should be" the Doctor replied. "The TARDIS has actually brought us to the planet called 'Dream World' by its Earth colonists. It was once the home of the Ogrons, who were used as slave allies by a race of beings known as Daleks. If my memory serves me right, both the Ogrons and the other race of beings that existed here, the Ogla, are now all dead; but the planet was colonized by people from Earth who had to leave because they'd made much of it uninhabitable due to too much pollution" he said with a look of dismay.
"That's terrible" Kate replied looking horrified.
"Let's go and check out the scenery then" the Doctor retorted, and they left the TARDIS and went to find Hope City, the home of the Earth colonists.
Inside the caves, the creature moaned as it studied a monitor in front of it. "So Doctor, you are here at last. This time there will be no escape for you, your companion or those inferior Earthlings on the surface of this planet. My vengeance will be swift and merciless."
The creature shuffled toward something hidden in the corner of the cavern. It was the outer casing of a Dalek Emperor.
Chapter 4 - New Hope
Mike and Sally were walking hand in hand, as people in love often do; and were suddenly surprised to find themselves confronted by two strangers. After recovering from the initial shock, the male stranger introduced himself simply as 'The Doctor', and his pretty female friend as Kate.
"Where have you come from?" asked Mike looking slightly bemused.
"I am originally from Gallifrey, but Kate is from Earth" said the Doctor. "What part of Earth" asked Sally?
"Wales, from 1977 Earth to be exact" Kate replied. "How can that be possible" said Mike. "Time travel is my specialty" the Doctor replied with a look that gave nothing away.
"Welcome to Dream World, let us take you to our city of New Hope" Mike told them.
Professor Hayward related his concerns to the Doctor about the increasing number of colonists having dreadful hallucinations. "Just what do they see" asked the Doctor? "Death and destruction on a vast scale of horrendous proportions" was the Professors reply.
"Has anyone found any evidence of alien invasion, or died from unusual circumstances" Doctor Who asked?
"Nothing yet, although I have these visions, but Sally and some others have never had any" Mike interjected.
"Strange, very strange indeed" was all the Doctor could say.
Deep in its hiding place, the creature hauled itself into the machine and activated the controls. Power surged through the machine, and it slowly began to glide along a tunnel taking it up to the surface.
Many others of its kind had been imprisoned, but this one had found a way to free itself. During the time wars, many had died; and the Emperor of all the Daleks had been destroyed by the Doctor.
Now one of his clones was finding a way to take his rightful place once more, as the leader and supreme being of the Universe.
There would be time to locate any others of its kind, and the process to create an army was already being activated back inside the Macros caverns.
The time to conquer and the utter destruction of all inferior beings was at hand.