Chapter 10

##Chapter 10: Doctor Disaster

#165
[Info]: Cover page is styled as a dramatic movie poster
[Text]: Doctor Disaster versus the Creepy Space Aliens from Outer Space
[Text]: Featuring the Gunnerkrigg Spacemonauts

#166
[Info]: Students are in a boring class
Teacher: When water freezes, it expands by nine percent.
Teacher: If water enters a crack in a stone and freezes, the pressure exerted by the ice is enough to widen the crack.
Teacher: Once melted, more water enters the larger crack, and the cycle is repeated.
Teacher: In areas of frequent temperature change, erosion wears away at rocks relatively quickly.
[Door]: KA-SLAM!
Randy: *Spacemonauts!*
Randy: The *Earth* is *in peril!*

#167
Students: *Yaay!*
[Info]: Students run happily out the door
[Info]: Teacher stands dumbfounded after his classroom has emptied
[WhiteBoard]: Erosion
Teacher: Well that clears *my* next 40 minutes.
[Info]: Students exit dressing rooms wearing Spacemonaut gear

#168
Annie: I must admit I question the educational value of Dr. Disaster's classes.
Kat: Aw come on, Annie, just think of it as a drama lesson.
[Sign]: LAUNCH PAD
[Text]: SKREE!
[Info]: Doctor Disaster is riding a motor scooter, screeching around a corner and past the students
[Text]: WHRRRRR
Randy: Hurry along now, Spacemonauts!
Randy: The rocket *awaits!*

#169
[Sign]: Imaging Chamber
[Info]: Visuals inside imaging chamber are in gray-scale
[Annie]: Looks at glove
Annie: How does all this work, Kat, Is it like that room with the cherry tree?
[Info]: Students board rocket
Kat: Nah, everything in that room except the sky was real.
Kat: In here everything we see is made with holograms.
Kat: I bet we're able to feel stuff because of some kinda haptic feedback in our suits.
Kat: But that's not the point. You're supposed to enjoy it!
[Rocket]: RRRMBLE

#170
[Info]: Randy is displayed on a screen
[Label]: COM1
Randy: *Spacemonauts!* The evil *Enigmarons* are threatening the Earth from their moon base *on the moon!*
Randy: They have a *death ray* of epic proportions trained on the capital cities of every country *this very second!*
[Info]: Rocket blasts off
[Rocket]: ROCKET!
Annie: Isn't there *always* a death ray?

#171
Crew: Doctor! We are approaching the moon!
Randy: Excellent!
Randy: I will be sending down an elite team to deal with the *Enigmaron menace!*
[Info]: Students jump out of the rocket

#172
[Text]: BWOIMF!
Enigmaron: Horf!
Winsbury: They must be the *bad guys!*
Annie: *Those* are the terrible Enigmarons? They don't even have arms.
[Info]: Students go into battle with Enigmarons

#173
[Text]: BOUND! BYOO! BYOO!
[Info]: Kat and all the other students are having fun
Kat: Hurry!
Kat: The others are going on ahead!
Annie: You can join them if you wish. I'm sure I'll catch up eventually.
[Info]: Annie is being boring and taking her time
Kat: Grr!
[Text]: STOMP

#174
Kat: Come on, Annie, we only get to do this like, once a month.
Kat: Everyone is having a good time but you.
Kat: Why can't you just enjoy it?
Annie: I find it all... a little silly.
Kat: That's kinda the point! It's a chance for us to dress up and run around like crazies.
Kat: It's a nice change from the classroom.
[Info]: Annie thinks
Annie: I suppose you are right, Kat.
Annie: I'm sorry I...
[Info]: Kat has disappeared
Annie: ... Kat?

#175
[Info]: Annie's watch is a comm unit, Randy starts speaking through it to Annie
Randy: In their haste, the Spacemonauts were *captured* by the Enigmarons and taken to their *evil lair!*
Randy: It is up to *you,* Spacemonaut Carver, to rescue them and *complete the mission!*
[Info]: Annie thinks
Annie: Well...
Annie: Kat said I should try and have fun.
[Info]: Annie jumps off towards evil lair, a large castle in the distance

#176
[Info]: Randy is connected to a screen inside the evil lair
Randy: *You fiends!*
Randy: You'll never get away with this!
[Info]: Students are tied up and guarded by Enigmarons, in the same room as a death ray
[Info]: Annie has snuck into the lair and is peering in through a vent
Annie: I know I shouldn't, but...
Annie: I can't help but wonder how creatures without arms could make such a device. And tie my friends up.

#177
Annie: Oh well, here I go.
[Info]: Annie kicks in the vent and swings into the room on a cable
[Text]: SWRANG!
[Text]: WOOOOOSH!
[Info]: Annie drops in, surprising everyone, and lands feet-down on the death ray
[Text]: BADOOF!
[Info]: Death ray explodes, Enigmarons fly, Annie is fine
[Info]: Other students are now smiling
Winsbury: Go on, Carver!
Kat: Yaaaay!

#178
Kat: Now say something witty to the Enigmarons and finish the mission!
Annie: Do I have to?
Students: *Yes!*
Annie: Um...
Annie: I hope you like your... smashed... death ray!
Students: Hahahaha! Excellent! Splendid!
Annie: It would appear witty phrases are not my forte.
[Info]: Other students are being untied
Winsbury: Nice one, Carver. Let's get back to the ship.
[Info]: Annie is untying Kat
Kat: So, did you have a good time?
Annie: Yes, I did.

#179
[Info]: Rocket landed on surface, students climbing in
John: Hey! We got into a *space battle!*
Winsbury: Awesome!
[Text]: HI-5
[Info]: Annie and everyone else are smiling
Annie: I suppose some things *are* better learned away from a text book.
[Narraration]: Meanwhile...
[Info]: Randy looking into a screen, watching the rocket take off from the moon
Randy: Good good.
Randy: The Earth is safe...
Randy: Until next time...
[Text]: THE END?
[Info]: End of Chapter

#180
[Info]: Bonus Page: Pressing Matters
Mulder: Katerina...
Kat: Special Agent Fox Mulder!
Mulder: Kat, I need your help!
Kat: But I have homework to do!
Mulder: This is more important than homework. Only you can discover the link between the alien-human hybrids and the international government conspiracy.
Kat: What about Agent Scully?
Mulder: She can come too.
Kat: Yaay!
[Info]: Kat is asleep, dreaming. Annie is in the chair next to her, reading a book
[Book]: Tannhauser Gate
[Text]: ZZZZZZ
Kat: Will Skinner have his shirt off?
Kat: Yaay!