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By Will

The queue of people stretched all the way down the slope, to the log houses. Snow fell in flakes past the crystal trees, frozen by the unforgiving, deadly and silent ice. The Mountainous Krepps on the Planet Cziak rose up to an unimaginable height, while the trees stretched out across the sparkling landscape as far as the eye could see. The planet’s two sun’s rays reflected off the snow, producing a deathly glow that emanated all around them.

Beth wrapped her coat increasingly tighter around her. She felt the cold wind biting her face, and her nose was red raw. She and the Doctor, along with the three aliens they’d met at the log houses had braved the Krepps to experience the thrill of whizzing down the slopes at an incalculable speed, with the help of the strained gravity the pulled the seas on the planet Cziak up to the stars.

“Bit freezing,” Beth muttered “I wish this queue would hurry up.”
“Tell me about it!” Frankie, her pink skinned friend shivered “oh but wait! There are 25 people ahead of us- we won’t get on the next cable car!”

Just as Frankie spoke her words, a new cable car trundled forwards, creaking on the ancient ropes. Everyone slowly waddled forward, unable to walk properly in their thick coats.

“At least we’ll be at the front of the queue,” Lenny, the many tentacled Drivios pointed out.

To Lenny’s surprise, he and his five friends did get onto the cable car. It was slightly cramped, but they would be able to start their skiing experience quicker!

A short while later, the Doctor and the others were observing the view as the cable car glided over a snowy hill. They were about 5,000 feet in the air when the cable car shook. Everyone who was stood up fell to one side. A woman screamed and a young Haribothian began to cry.

“What the hell-?” Lucky, the walking Poodle, and Beth’s third new alien friend asked.
“I think we’ve broken down,” Beth replied.

Immediately everyone began to panic. All races snatched up their various types of mobile phones and began calling anyone who would listen to their terrified screams. Outside, the cable car’s ropes began to unwind; the people moving about inside unsteadying them.

Everyone fell suddenly silent as the Doctor activated the Sonic Screwdriver.

“Thank you,” the Doctor smiled, appreciating the silence “is anybody hurt?”

Everyone shook their heads.

“Ok everyone, now we need to get rid of any excess weight!” the Doctor cried, Sonicking the door to the cable car open.
“Oxygen membrane holding,” the cable car informed, reminding the Doctor of the computers on the Titanic.

The Doctor dropped his skis out of the door. Beth, Frankie, Lenny and Lucky followed suit. Before long, people were throwing out everything they owned in an attempt to save themselves. Suddenly several people were knocked out of the way by a rather overweight Human. Slightly reluctantly, he dropped all of his possessions out of the open door. All of the things thrown out were slowly pulled up into the sky by the gravity, where they were pulled apart by the conflicting suns, creating a sort of light show.

“We still need to lose more!” Frankie cried as the car shook again.
“Throw that fat man out!” a posh alien named John cried.
“I say! Kill the fatty!” his equally posh, equally blue skinned wife Andrea shouted.
“No!” Beth sobbed “leave him alone!”

Beth was winded as she was knocked aside by John. His arms outstretched, John connected with the overweight man, who was sweating. The fat man tumbled out of the car and gracefully flew up into the sky and was ripped to pieces by the vicious gravity that soon saw the man lost amongst the snow.

“Oh my God,” Beth breathed, feeling sick.
“That was murder,” the Doctor spat.

John stepped towards him. Beth recoiled in fear of being next. The fear wasn’t irrational, as John now had a look in his eyes- he wasn’t scared- he was savage.

“Who’s next?” John roared.
“There won’t be a next!” one man cried, stepping forwards.

The man was brown haired and about 35. A woman had her hand on his arm, begging him not to challenge John.

“Steve! Leave it alone! The man’s crazy!” Hannah, the terrified wife cried.

Steve shook his head and grabbed John. They grappled, before both falling out of the swaying cable car and up into the sky. Hannah burst into shocked tears, while Andrea looked on in disbelief, her emotions failing to overcome her stony heart.

“You and your stupid husband!” Hannah cried, leaning forward and slapping Andrea’s blue skinned face with all her might.

Andrea looked shocked. She pushed Hannah in return. Hannah stumbled, and tripped over Beth’s foot. With a scream, she fell out of the cable car, into the darkness above.

Lucky leant forwards and shoved Andrea out of the car after Hannah. The last they saw of Andrea was an expression of shock on her posh alien face.

“That felt good,” Lucky smiled.

Everyone nodded in numb agreement with the Poodle.

“There are only 25 people now!” Lenny cried “we should be alright now.”
“Let’s just wait to be rescued,” Frankie suggested.

Beth just smiled and looked at the Doctor. He was already pulling out the Sonic Screwdriver. She looked at Frankie, Lucky and Lenny and reassured them everything would be alright.

“Everything’s gonna be alright,” Beth smiled “after all…”

Everyone waited in anticipation.

“…We’ve got a Doctor.”