Doctor Who - New Series Adventures - 029 - The Eyeless by Lance Parkin

Author:Lance Parkin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), Fiction
ISBN: 9781846075629
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2008-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Before anyone could stop him, the Doctor took the last

step back through the doorway. As he passed through, in

one movement and without looking back, he turned,

brought the sonic screwdriver up level with the nearest

control panel, operated it, and made the heavy black metal

door slam down.

The Doctor didn’t stick around to see what happened

next.

The Eyeless who’d been closest to him managed to

lurch forward and catch the underside of the door, quickly

twisted to hold it about halfway open. The door was

inching down, and the Eyeless wasn’t going to be able to

hold it for long.

‘Go!’ Alsa was shouting to the others.

The Doctor was already a hundred paces away. He

could hear Alsa swearing and yelling, but it was already

getting faint and after a moment the sound cut off

completely. It felt wrong to abandon her, somehow. That

said, there was no indication the Eyeless would harm her

– rather the opposite – and she was far safer stuck back

there than in the depths of this place.

Alsa’s comm was in the Doctor’s hand, set to display

all the internal defences of the Fortress. Within fifteen

seconds it had saved his life by spotting a row of nozzles

in the floor. They were designed to blast up jets of poison

gas, and he’d have completely missed them. The simple

motion sensor that would have triggered the trap was

easily tricked by the Doctor using a sweet wrapper he

found in his pocket.

There were dull clangs of solid glass against metal

floor. Footfalls behind him. One Eyeless had got through,

but only the one. The Doctor had to slow down a little to

neutralise every trap. Unless there was another door he

could close behind himself soon – and he couldn’t see

anything obvious on the plan – it would catch up with

him.

The corridor curved down. There were a number of

locked doors to either side, but he couldn’t slow down, so

didn’t try them.

He avoided a trap designed to fire plastic straps to

snare his chest like a boa constrictor. He left it live, and

hurried away. Ten seconds later, the Doctor was gratified

to hear it triggered, but also alarmed the Eyeless had been

that close behind him. The glass man didn’t breathe, so the

trap wouldn’t suffocate it, and it’d be free soon enough.

The Eyeless fascinated him. Did they know specifically

about the weapon at the heart of this Fortress, or had they

simply marked out Arcopolis as a potential source of

advanced technology?

He scolded himself. They must know. It was a long

way to come on a whim.

He had to get to the weapon before the Eyeless did. No:

faster than that. He needed to get to the weapon before

they even tried, because when they tried… well, that

would set the Fortress going and make his life difficult.

The Doctor picked up his pace.

If the Eyeless knew about the weapon, he wondered,

did that mean they knew all his secrets?

Whatever the Doctor had done to the door, the Eyeless

couldn’t undo. There had been no way to brace it open, so

there was only time for one Eyeless to get through. This

frustrated Alsa, who kicked and punched at the metal, but

all it did was clang and hurt her fists and feet.

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