The Princess Spider

Medusa Cascade

A star shaped ship floated out in space. It was searching, searching for more of its kind. Piloting the ship was a giant red creature. She was one of the last, if not the last, of her species. She was following in her mother's footsteps in a crusade to resurrect her people. So far all attempts had failed. The ship at the center of the planet called Earth was destroyed along with all of her people on board. Her mother went to free them, but lost her life at the hands of the one called the Doctor.

A noise went off in her ship.

"What is this?" she asked, "A new tear in time is it? Good. Huon particles will be abundant near the eye of the tear."

She pushed several buttons with her eight or so arms. "To Earth once again. The Racnoss will live once more."

The ship turned and streaked off towards Earth.

One Month Later

Waverly Sub Station

It had been a month since the Doctor had crashed the TARDIS at the Waverly Sub Station. The Russos welcomed him in with open arms and since then he was at home and in no hurry to fix the TARDIS. Nothing had come through the Rift and that was a good sign. A month of no battles, no stress, no death. The Doctor was loving it. He knew that when the TARDIS was repaired, he could go back and fix things in the universe if things went out of hand. He was a Time Lord after.

He still remembered the reactions of the family when he told them about the war and him being the last of his kind. Each member took it differently. The daughter, Alex Russo, was told first, a few days before the rest of the family. He smiled as he thought of Alex. The two had grown close in the last month and were nearly inseparable. She spent most of her free time in the TARDIS with the Doctor. The Doctor had taken over as teacher to Alex's wizard training and studies. Since then she excelled at everything he taught. The Doctor knew that she could wield magic easier than her brothers. But the Doctor knew it wasn't true magic. It was just a certain kind of time energy. True magic hadn't existed since the Dark Times of the Universe, but he didn't care to explain that to them. It had been magic there whole lives, so the Doctor called it magic.

The Doctor also helped in the Waverly Sub Station when he wanted to. He didn't ask to be paid. He just did it out of selflessness. K-9, the Doctor's robot dog, helped with whatever he could. He had become somewhat of a source of stories on Waverly Place. People weren't used to seeing a robot dog that could talk. The Doctor trusted people not to steal K-9 because if anyone did, he felt sorry for them after K-9 got finished with them.

The Doctor walked into the sub station during the Saturday lunch rush. The rush wasn't as big as the weekdays, but it was still busy. The Doctor sat at his usual barstool and started to draw blueprints for repairs on the TARDIS Zero Room, which was destroyed when the Eye of Harmony blew way back in the Time War. He hadn't gotten around to fix it. He thought of no better time to fix it when the rest of the TARDIS practically needed fixed.

"What's that?" asked Alex as she walked up to him.

"This is the TARDIS's Zero Room," answered the Doctor. The Doctor put his finger on her lips before she could ask it, "The Zero Room helps with my regenerations and other healing processes. Let's just say I've been to busy to fix it for the last 1000 years."

"You couldn't find any time to fix it in 1000 years?" asked Alex.

"Well I was busy, you know," said the Doctor.

"Sure you were," smirked Alex before she hugged him and left to go somewhere with her friend Harper.

Harper. Now that was a strange one. She reminded him of himself. She bottled up her emotions only to have them explode onto someone else. The Doctor tried to tear down that wall so she won't bottle up her emotions. It has been slow and arduous, but he could tell it was working. Harper could say she was creeped out by the Doctor, but the Doctor knew she liked him.

The Doctor was sitting in his barstool when K-9 rolled up next to him. "Master."
"Yes K-9," said the Doctor.

"I am picking up spikes in Huon energy," replied K-9.

The Doctor put everything down and jumped up out of his chair. He knelt beside K-9 and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Affirmative," replied K-9, "There are spikes in Huon energy."

"That's just great. Now the TARDIS is leaking Huon energy. That's another problem I can add to the list." The Doctor stood up and started walking to the TARDIS.

"The TARDIS is not leaking Huon energy," said K-9.

The Doctor stopped and turned to his dog, "Are you sure?"

"Most certainly, Master," replied K-9.

"Then where's it coming from?" asked the Doctor.

"My reading indicate Huon energy in orbit," said K-9.

"In orbit," said the Doctor, "That's impossible. Only the TARDIS still has Huon energy. Huon is old. Dark Times old, but all of the Dark Time civilizations are gone. My people were the last to go. What could be causing Huon energy to be in orbit? Especially in this planet's orbit. Earth wasn't even around in the Dark Times. K-9, is the energy high enough where humans would detect it as a massive energy spike?"

"Negative," said K-9, "What's ever there does not want to be found out. If I had not been here, you would have not found out until maybe a little too late, but even then you could have found it."

"So you're saying that you and the TARDIS are the only things that can detect Huon energy?"

"Affirmative," said K-9.

"That's a good thing," replied the Doctor, "Okay K-9, monitor the readings. If anything about them change, come get me immediately."

"I will Master," said K-9. K-9 rolled away to the subway car portion of the sub station.

Jerry walked in as K-9 was rolling away. He looked at the Doctor and knew something was wrong. "Doctor? What was that all about?"

"Well, Jerry, it looks like the honeymoon's over," the Doctor replied, "There is a reading of Huon energy in orbit around Earth. That is a very strange thing."

"Why is it strange? And what's Huon energy?" asked Jerry.

"Huon energy was one of the first power sources of space travel way back in the Dark Times of the Universe. My TARDIS has some in it, but it's only a small amount. To answer why this is strange, my people got rid of Huon energy a long time ago. That kind of energy hasn't been around for a couple billion years. The only source of Huon energy left is the TARDIS herself, but, according to K-9, there is another source up in orbit."

"That's not a good thing?" asked Jerry.

"No, the last time Huon energy was around outside the TARDIS, it didn't go so well," said the Doctor, "I'm going to find out why there Huon energy out there."

Earth Orbit

The Racnoss slammed her hand on her controls, "There are no Huon particles around the tear! HOW!? There is only one explanation, the tear is artificial and not natural."
A beep went off on the other side of the controls. The Racnoss looked at the readings and she smiled baring her sharp teeth, "There is a trace of Huon particles, but not from the tear. It's faint, but I can use it."

She pushed couple buttons before she swore under her breath, "What ever that source is, it's shielded."

The Racnoss pushed a few more buttons on the controls. She pushed the intercom and said, "Go my brother. Go to the coordinates I will send you. Find the source of the Huon particles and bring it here."
"I will," was the reply.

"Good," she replied. She pushed another button and her 'brother' was beamed down to the planet down below, "I shall revive my people and take my throne as Empress of the Racnoss."

Waverly Place

A blue light appeared on Waverly Place and a big, white orb appeared. Something shot out of the both sides of the orb. Six more popped out and the orb started to fall off. What was underneath was a seven foot tall cross between a spider and a human. It was like a centaur, but it was a spider instead. The body was a spider's, but where the eyes would have been, a human torso was instead. The entire creature was red. It head had two main eye and six smaller ones that all blinked at the same time. His mouth was full of needle like teeth. The creature walked towards the Waverly Sub Station. People saw it and ran away screaming.

Inside the sub station, the Doctor and Jerry heard the screaming and ran outside only to come face to face with the monster itself. The creature stopped when it saw the two men. It smelled the air and noticed the taller one smelled different. He wasn't human, which meant he must know about the Huon particles.

"What is that?" asked Jerry.

"Racnoss," said the Doctor, "But that's impossible."

Before Jerry could reply, the Racnoss charged. The Doctor didn't know what hit him and he was thrown to the ground and knocked out. Jerry was slammed back into the sub station. The Racnoss ignored him and picked up the Doctor. Before anyone knew what happened, the Racnoss was gone.

Theresa ran to Jerry panicked, "What happened?"

Jerry sat up a little bit and grabbed his left shoulder, "I don't know but the Doctor's been kidnapped."

"By who?" asked Theresa.

"By a race of creatures called the Racnoss," said K-9 as he rolled next to the two, "The Racnoss must have detected the TARDIS's Huon signature."