TKO and Then onto Metebelis Three...

All but Betty blink and gasp in shock when the Doctor nods and then, after taking the Blue Crystal.....smashed it under his foot!

"It's called denial of resources to the opponent." the Doctor explains, "I'll explain......more.....later."

That's just about the time Lupton and his cronies decide it's time to crash the party. The door gets psionically blasted off it's hinges and nearly flattens the Doctor, actually, when they come rushing through. They then pull up in shocked dismay when they see the crushed crystal at the Doctor's feet!

This kind of leaves everyone a bit flatfooted for a second or three....

"What have you done!?" a high and squeaky scream comes from somewhere behind Lupton (his back, really).

There had been a sudden flare from the thing hat the head spider had been able to home in on, but she'd not expected....this insanity!

That's about the time where Tommy, taking advantage of the situation. He'd not liked Lupton and his cronies before, and doubted that he'd like them now. Being beneath their notice before as he'd been, it wasn't surprising that they'd overlooked him in this stressful moment.

Bonk!

Betty actually blinks when she hears that noise as Tommy sends them all off to sleep....with his fists. As the human villains go unconscious, the spiders also give off a high, wavering cry and then also go silent. The Abbot pronounces the still invisible spiders also unconscious due to the shock of their hosts being knocked out.

"Okay....apparently shock is what causes that...." Betty mutters softly, glad for that.

"I can keep them unconscious," the Abbot adds as his young assistant, drawn to the noise, comes in and gapes at the crowd, "But I'll need some help...."

He gives his younger seeming Regenerated self to be a meaningful glance when he says the last.

Tommy had had to hit the villains rather hard to knock them out (much more so than normal....even without the elevation human beings are actually hard to knock completely out with just one blow). Apparently the spiders had increased the pain tolerance and such for such reasons now apparent.

That said, the Time Lord wonders what will happen if and when that anti-psionic version of the blue crystal was placed into that crystal matrix.....

"Dare say that his future self and himself should be able to keep the villain napped out," Betty says softly, nodding.

Yates looks at her strangely, but the Doctor and Betty are rushing out the door back to the Whomobile. While the villains nap (and the Abbot keeps them out), the Doctor contacts the Brigadier by what Betty calls a cell phone (she has to wave off the others who ask what a "cell phone" is exactly). Soon enough (sooner than what Betty would expect), some of Unit arrives and takes charges.

Seeing things well in hand, finally, the Doctor climbs back into the flying Whomobile and switches on the newly installed reserve tanks. He begins to make preparations to fly back to the TARDIS, and then to the Spider's home world to foment rebellion amongst the humans there (and then to finish up this business once and for all).

He's not too surprised to see Betty insisting on coming along, overriding his and Yate's protests that it was too dangerous.

The Doctor then nods and accepts.

Betty straps herself in as the Doctor taxies down the driveway and chats it up while the Doctor lifts off.

"'Denial of resources to the opponent' seems like an entirely reasonable idea to me." she says, smiling, "Reminds me a bit of what I saw done to a super code breaking chip at the end of a movie named Sneakers. The heroes threw it into the Bay at the end, you see....."

"Really?" the Doctor says, surprised, "In the movie I saw on my Earth, Bishop kept the chip for himself and bankrupted the Republican party!"

"He did?" Betty asks, smiling at what that must have been like.

1. "He did," the Doctor affirms, "That aside, I have a few idea on how to at least set in motion the forging of freedom of the humans back on Metebelis Three..."

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