Doctor Who - Short Trips (Big Finish) - 18 - Time Signiture by Simon Guerrier

Author:Simon Guerrier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Collections & Anthologies, ibm, Media Tie-In, Fiction
ISBN: 9781844352357
Publisher: Big Finish
Published: 2007-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

'I'm doing my best!' Xhixa shouted, and stalled the engine.

'Well, I'm reassured,' said the Doctor as the car roared back to life and the rear windscreen exploded in a shower of glass. 'Aren't you reassured?'

He looked over his shoulder for the owner of the vehicle, only to find the back seat empty.

'Good grief!' he cried. 'Hello? Are you all right?'

'Don't mind me,' came a voice from the football behind the Doctor.

'I' m just going to stay down here for a bit, if that's all right with you.'

'Probably sensible,' the Doctor agreed as the car swept around a comer.

'Could you adjust the wing mirror, please, Doctor?' asked Xhixa.

The wing mirror shattered as the Doctor reached for it. He turned back to Xhixa. `No,' he said.

The whistling around the car and the occasional impact were

diminishing as the Directorate guards made for their own vehicles, allowing Xhixa valuable time to shake them off.

'So,' he said, 'where are we heading?'

`We do have one item of information that Black Rose doesn't,' said the Doctor. `We know of at least one other substantial nullfield. If Professor Hu keeps his generators running and the orchestra keep playing, that might be enough.'

'Enough for what?'

But the Doctor wasn't saying.

The car's owner took to the hills as soon as they stopped. 'Thanks again!'

the Doctor called after the diminishing figure scrabbling up the hillside.

The man turned and shouted something the Doctor didn't quite catch but Xhixa heard perfectly.

Whatever the nullfield had to be enough for, Xhixa thought, this one probably was. He'd only caught a brief glimpse of the one in Hu's laboratory before but, even at night, this seemed far more impressive.

Unbounded by a metal frame, it stretched right across a small meadow by the path, the stars beyond dancing in some sort of synchronised display, the moonlight pooling in the air like a reflection in a darkened mirror.

The Doctor caught his gaze and looked at him reproachfidly. 'Yes,' he said. 'Lovely. But I've got work to do.'

'Like what?'

thought these quantum fluctuations were nullfields,' the Doctor explained. 'And they are. Except that nothing can exist inside a nullfield.

That's the point. It's not just the emptiest thing in the universe. A nullfield is what you get before you get a universe.'

'But you saw that man come out of it.'

'Yes. And if he can come out... maybe I can go in.'

'What? You can't be serious!'

'Yes,' said the Doctor. am.'

He approached the field, humming at first, then singing. As he got 110

closer, the dancing stars began to whirl and swing in time with his voice, faster and faster. And then, Xhixa saw, something tore...

The Doctor looked over his shoulder.

` Watch my back,' he said and stepped forward.

Xhixa was alone on the hillside.

At first, there was nothing. No light, no space, no time, no mind. No thing.

Then, distantly, quivering on the edge of perception, there was music. A strange, beguiling melody so faint you would have been forgiven for thinking it was not there at all. With it came awareness and clarity.

I am the Doctor.

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