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'''''The Very Dark Thing''''' was the third story in ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'' box set ''[[The Unbound Universe (audio anthology)|The Unbound Universe]]''. | '''''The Very Dark Thing''''' was the third story in ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'' box set ''[[The Unbound Universe (audio anthology)|The Unbound Universe]]''. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
With the [[Empire of Tramatz]] burning, [[Idratz|Captain Idratz]] and [[Aramatz]] activate a device that they never thought they would have to. [[Effenish|Fleet Admiral Effenish]] of [[Combined Ninth Fleet]] arrives above Tramatz, a world of singing [[river]]s, talking [[sky|skies]] and [[unicorn]]s, | With the [[Empire of Tramatz]] burning, [[Idratz|Captain Idratz]] and [[Aramatz]] activate a device that they never thought they would have to. Five years later, [[Effenish|Fleet Admiral Effenish]] of [[Combined Ninth Fleet]] arrives above Tramatz, a world of singing [[river]]s, talking [[sky|skies]] and [[unicorn]]s, and asks the people below to surrender. She receives no response and begins bombarding the planet. | ||
[[Unbound Doctor|The Doctor]] is camping out near a [[village]] on Tramatz and speaks with [[Megatz]], who is aware that the rivers, skies and unicorns are strange and does not understand why nobody talks about them. [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] tracks him down several weeks after he came to save the planet from the very dark thing and is brought up to speed, but she cannot understand why she is the only one able to hear Effenish's demands for surrender and threats to drop [[reaper bomb]]s. Similarly, only Benny and the Doctor are able to see the very big, very dark thing, which has always been here, until they point it out to Magatz. | [[Unbound Doctor|The Doctor]] is camping out near a [[village]] on Tramatz and speaks with [[Megatz]], who is aware that the rivers, skies and unicorns are strange and does not understand why nobody talks about them. [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] tracks him down several weeks after he came to save the planet from the very dark thing and is brought up to speed, but she cannot understand why she is the only one able to hear Effenish's demands for surrender and threats to drop [[reaper bomb]]s. Similarly, only Benny and the Doctor are able to see the very big, very dark thing, which has always been here, until they point it out to Magatz. | ||
As the very dark thing is in the corner of one's eye, Benny and the Doctor do not know how to reach it. Benny hears Effenish making planetfall and, when a unicorn approaches, the Doctor asks her to talk to it and believes that it is a representation of a war machine. Benny and Magatz follow the unicorn whilst the Doctor goes to find and reason with Effenish, whose entire attack squad is humming along with the river. | As the very dark thing is in the corner of one's eye, Benny and the Doctor do not know how to reach it. Benny hears Effenish making planetfall and, when a unicorn approaches, the Doctor asks her to talk to it and believes that it is a representation of a war machine. Benny and Magatz follow the unicorn whilst the Doctor goes to find and reason with Effenish, whose entire attack squad is humming along with the river. The Doctor finds her after she has primed the reaper bombs and saves her from a unicorn; she does not accept that the Tramatzians could not hear her and, after bringing her squad to their senses by firing her [[gun]], she returns to her ship. | ||
Benny explains to Magatz how there was a [[Great War (Unbound Universe)|Great War]] which disrupted [[Unbound Universe|the universe]] and admits that the [[Tramatzian]]s were the "bad guys". The unicorn leads them to | Benny explains to Magatz how there was a [[Great War (Unbound Universe)|Great War]] which disrupted [[Unbound Universe|the universe]] and admits that the [[Tramatzian]]s were the "bad guys". The unicorn leads them to an underground research facility where the Tramatzians built weapons which wiped planets from history during the war as well as one that they used to disrupt reality on Tramatz when the war got closer. They see echoes of Idratz and Aramatz, Magatz's parents, launch the [[bomb]] which caused the disruption. | ||
Although [[Neave|Colonel Neave]] is eager to activate the bombs, Effenish wants to give the Tramatzians one last chance. Magatz switches the weapon off rather than using it on the fleet and contacts Effenish, explaining that they could not hear her and apologising. Effenish accepts the apology and orders that the Combined Ninth Fleet returns home, although Neave does not agree and has to be hit by [[Gallario|Sergeant Gallario]]. With the weapon deactivated, the Tramatzians are able to understand what they did during the war. The [[gravity]] is still intermittent and unicorns still exist because, the Doctor says, the universe can be strange. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||