THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH

When Rutan asked me to do a spanking version of 'The Ambassadors of
Death' it was a challenge, and not just because of the difficulty of
integrating a spanking with the Season 7 UNIT professional scenario.
Opportunities are scarce because, for most of the story, Liz is
separated from the Doctor and acts as the leading character in her own
strand of the plot. I don't think it would really work to have, for
example, Reegan spanking her for trying to escape.

As always with difficult ones, I end up creating potential continuity
problems with other stories, so let's take the following on its own
merits and not worry about how it impacts on the rest of the Spanking
Adventures.

When the Doctor was exiled to Earth, the Time Lords blocked out his
memory of time travel theory. There are also other things he knows he
once knew and cannot remember. We see this in 'Ambassadors' when he
knows the alien signal but can't place it. I'm going to assume this is a
side-effect, not a deliberate limitation: the Time Lords want to deny
him his freedom, not his memories. One of the things affected is his
memory of spanking as a means to discipline his female companions. As a
result, in previous stories he has had to use other, 'adult' means to
resolve his disagreements with Liz, even though he knows there is a
better way if only he could recall it.

At the start of the story as seen on TV, the Doctor is working on the
TARDIS console, and there is all the by-play about traveling a few
seconds into the future. In my version, he and Liz are working on the
scanner, which he has likewise brought out into the laboratory. (This
would explain why, in some of the early third Doctor stories, it appears
as just a TV set hanging from the ceiling: the Doctor has not yet gotten
around to putting it back into the wall.) He thinks he has managed to
restore its properties as a time scanner (see the end of 'The
Moonbase'), and asks Liz to look at the screen while he twiddles the
circuitry. When the picture comes through, Liz cannot believe her eyes:
it shows herself being spanked by the Doctor!

There's no doubt that it really is her. Even the purple mini-dress she
wears on the screen is one she has hanging in her closet at home - one
of her consciously sexy outfits which is covering even less than usual
in this case. She doesn't recognize the laboratory where the spanking is
taking place, though. She calls the Doctor over. The image jogs his
memory: a useful way to deal with a recalcitrant assistant. She angrily
switches off the picture as the spanking continues. Rather than
challenge him on the idea of spanking her, Liz questions him about the
practical dimension: is this event really going to happen in the future?
The Doctor is non-committal: his memory of time theory is still vague,
but he has heard something about alternative possible futures. Maybe the
spanking will happen in only one of those. But it will most assuredly
happen here if she should ever deserve it, he concludes sternly. Liz's
instinct to argue with him is stifled by her desire to see the Mars
Probe coverage on the TV. At least she knows she has a chance of
escaping...

On to the end of Part Three, when Liz gets kidnapped. Relations between
her and the Doctor have been prickly because of his stated readiness to
spank her, and matters come to a head over the Brigadier's message
calling her and the Doctor to see the irradiated bodies. The Doctor says
he needs Liz with him to work on the capsule, not gallivanting off after
the Brigadier, and anyway he has a suspicion that the message was a
forgery: the soldier who delivered it committed some trivial error of
military procedure. Liz stubbornly insists on going anyway, and falls
into Reegan's clutches, in the laboratory she recognizes from the time
scanner. What's more, she is wearing the same clothes...

So we move on to the end of Part Six, when the Doctor arrives at the
laboratory and makes his deal with Reegan. Once Reegan has left them,
Liz starts to remonstrate with him, and he irritatedly explains that
it's a decoy. She, however, has caused a great deal of trouble by
getting herself kidnapped. Liz knows what the look in his eye means, but
remembers what the Doctor said about alternative futures: she might
still be able to avoid the inevitable. It's a panic reaction, because
the door is locked: the Doctor chases her around the lab console,
catches her and puts her across his knee. He flips up her skirt to
reveal cream panties worn over dark tan pantyhose. (The contrast of dark
legs and light bottom is very appealing.) As the spanking begins, Liz
reflects that they seem to have disproved the theory of parallel
universes. Little does she know...

She even has cause to regret switching off the scanner so quickly, for
then at least she would know to expect General Carrington to arrive
during the spanking. ('Doing your moral duty, eh, Doctor?') And she
would know too that he won't be there to rescue them as she assumes.