106 - Doctor Who by Vengeance on Varos

Author:Vengeance on Varos [Varos, Vengeance on]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-04T10:00:00+00:00

'Reflex.'

'This long after? No.'

They both stared at the screen with renewed interest as Oza and Az prepared to lift the Doctor towards his final obliteration by immersion in the sizzling acid-bath.

In the mortuary Az and Oza were conscious that the eyes of Varos were upon them. In careful unison they timed their approach, Oza to the head and shoulders, Az to the feet of the Doctor.

'Lift...' Oza whispered and bent over the Doctor's face. Suddenly a steel blue eye opened with a mischievous twinkle.

'I've had the most peculiar dream,' the Doctor said conversationally and yawned up into Oza's face, sending the mortuary attendant reeling back towards the acid-bath under the shock of the Doctor's sudden return from the ranks of the dead.

'Well, can't stay,' said the Doctor cheerfully and swung his legs down from the mortuary slab. 'Ooh, bit chilly in here...'Then rubbing his hands, he stepped adroitly out of the way of the concerted rush of Az and Oza from either side of him.

The attendants bellowed as they collided with each other then turned towards the Doctor who now innocently loitered near the streaming, hissing acid-bath.

'Quite corrosive, I would have thought,' the Doctor said conversationally.

'Yeh. An' you're about to find out just how much!' Az yelled and launched himself at the Doctor who, hoping for just this wild rush, stepped nimbly aside causing the attendant to crash into the side of the bath, teeter for a moment then overbalance with the force of his assault.

'Aaaahh!' The yell stopped abruptly then resumed as the frantic attendant flailed desperately to obtain a footing so as to clamber clear of the burning, scalding acid-bath.

'Help me!' he yelled, panic-stricken.

'Hold on!' his companion dashed to his partner's rescue extending a helping hand that was grabbed with urgent haste exerting such force through blind panic that the unfortunate rescuer toppled on top of Az. Both submerged under the surface of the very acid-bath into which they had lowered thousands of victims of the Punishment Dome.

'Dear... dear...' The Doctor shook his head sadly as he contemplated the effects of the painful immersion that the attendants had callously planned for him. An arm thrashed around.

A head surfaced but soon the acid had done its work and the Doctor, realising that nothing could have been done to save the unfortunate Oza and Az let himself out into the corridor, determined to place some distance between himself and the mortuary where he was certain the cameras must have monitored his miraculous return to life.

'Boo... rubbish!'

Arak pointed at the screen where the white bones of the unfortunate guards could just be seen in the seething disposal vat.

'It's a fix!'

That's real acid,' Etta said, her eyes never wavering from the process of dissolution now in close-up on the screen.

'Never,' said Arak but his voice faltered uncertainly as he failed to figure out how the rulers of Varos had staged their latest piece of trickery.

'Renegade escaped,' Etta wrote neatly on her report then looked up at her husband. 'That rebel in the patchwork coat has now equalled the survival record.

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