Doctor Who - New Series Adventures - 032 - The Slitheen Excursion by Simon Guerrier

Author:Simon Guerrier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Science Fiction, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), Extraterrestial Beings, Fiction, Radio and Television Novels
ISBN: 9781846076404
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2009-05-06T07:00:00+00:00

The Doctor stepped out of the transmat and looked all

around him. 'That was very smooth,' he told Mamps and

Cosmo, who had materialised beside him. The Doctor ran

his tongue round his teeth. Journeys by localised transmat

always left a taste in his mouth like liquorice. It tasted like

he'd been moved about seventy miles due north. A small

part of his brain thought this might be important, that it

should connect to some other loose bit of memory he'd

picked up some time in the last 900 years. He decided it

would come back to him if it was important. There were

more pressing concerns.

They had arrived in a wide room cut smoothly through

bare rock. He'd seen something like it in a palace of giant

termites. Or it reminded him of the Jubilee line on 24 June

2006, when he'd had that ice cream. In fact, the Jubilee

line could be a lot like a palace of termites, depending on

what time you were there. His mind whirring, the Doctor

began to nose round, inspecting the controls and readouts

in the wall. And ignoring the two huge Slitheen. They

might be planning to sneakily kill him but he wasn't going

to make it easy.

'Atmospheric controls look fine,' he told them. 'Air's a

little muggy, but we should be OK. It'll get the creases out

of my suit. Um... Is this a hard-hat area? Been ages since I

wore a hard hat.'

'Indeed,' said Mamps, not listening. 'The temporal

drives are up this way.'

He followed them up the passageway. They didn't seem

that worried about keeping an eye on him, which he felt

was a little rude. He knew they wanted to kill him out

here. They knew that he knew. He knew that they knew

that he knew... It was all about the optimum moment to

actually do the deed. With a start, he realised that they

thought it was a game. They were like cats teasing a

mouse. Well, he'd have to see about that.

They continued up the passageway. The Doctor's

trainers squeaked on the smooth floor. He found he could

make them squeak even more if he dragged his feet. The

noise annoyed Mamps, who gritted her teeth. But the

Doctor glanced at Cosmo, who looked like he wanted to

laugh. Divide and conquer: simple.

The passageway opened out onto a wide viewing

gantry, overlooking vast machines. His eyes danced over

them, quickly identifying the different systems and the

ways they'd been modified. The gantry led off to a series

of control panels and the open space where tourists from

the future would materialise. He liked that you got to see

the workings of the temporal drive as the first step on the

tour.

Eager to distract the Slitheen, the Doctor cooed at the

awesome sight of the huge machines, though he'd already

appraised them in a glance. He went right up to the

railing, holding the bar tightly as the two Slitheen came to

join him, in case they tried to throw him over the edge

right away. How easy, to go back to their tourists and

badly act their sorrow at some terrible accident. Perhaps

that was why they were playing this out; they didn't want

to go back too soon.

'It's a very clever system,' he enthused.

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