Doctor Who - Past Doctor Adventures - 04 - Business Unusual (6th Doctor) by Gary Russell

Author:Gary Russell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Doctor Who (Television Program), General, International Business Enterprises, Science Fiction, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), Fiction, Media Tie-In
ISBN: 9780563405757
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 1997-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Over the next hour, Janine, Joe Hambidge, and another teenager, also smartly dressed, all three wearing stereo earphones and listening to white noise, delivered thirty boxes, each containing a Maxx, complete with four games based on the Nessie Burger characters and a full set of plastic figurines. And every time they returned to a nice olive-green G-registered Ford Sierra driven by the silent but immaculately dressed Ryuichi Futayomoto.

The first stage of SenéNet’s programme was over and done with.

Ashdown Forest, Sussex Weald

25 July 1989, 15.00

The Doctor and Mel had been traipsing through the woods for about an hour now. The bus had deposited them in Nutley and they had headed straight for the edge of Ashdown Forest, hoping to make their way towards SenéNet’s headquarters.

‘What exactly are you hoping to find there, Doctor?’

‘The Brigadier.’

‘Who’s he?’

The Doctor suddenly smiled. ‘A friend, Mel.’ He took her by the shoulders, looking earnestly at her. ‘If he wasn’t involved in all this, I’d be tempted to get back into my TARDIS, take off and leave it to Detective Inspector Lines to sort out.’

Mel was horrified. ‘You can’t do that! There have been murders, Trey’s power, Luke’s changes... Bob Lines can’t possibly deal with all those, put everything back as it should be, can he?’

‘Oh, Mel, you must understand that, in the great scheme of things, what has happened here is of no relevance to the universe at large. And I must look at the bigger picture now and again, and remember my place in it.’ He wagged a finger at her. ‘And so should you.’

Mel was indignant and shook his other hand away. ‘Well, I think that’s a horrible attitude. If that’s what people from your planet think, I should hate to go there.’ She pushed past him and headed further into the woods.

The Doctor shook his head a little sadly, but it had to be done. Mel had to be convinced not to travel with him, not to become part of that awful future he so desperately wanted to avoid. If that meant disillusioning her, then so be it.

Mel had stopped. ‘Anyway, putting aside my surprise that you care about one human that much, you still haven’t told me who this Brigadier is?’

Never one to give up, our Melanie. The Doctor sighed. ‘He was a very dear friend to me some years back, relatively speaking. He saved this planet from destruction on more than one occasion, and he often looked after me far more than I ever gave him credit for at the time. I had a tendency to be a bit arrogant and thoughtless back then, and he got the brunt of it.’

Mel gave him a look which the Doctor could not, or maybe chose not to, decipher.

‘He’s probably getting on a bit by now, a bit delicate and old.’ The Doctor suddenly stopped and threw his arms wide.

‘But like the trooper that he is, he will have embraced the adventure with open arms. I just hope it hasn’t got the silly old fossil killed.

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