Doctor Who - Target Novelisations - 006 - The Auton Invasion by Terrance Dicks & Robert Holmes

Author:Terrance Dicks & Robert Holmes [Dicks, Terrance & Holmes, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction; English, Children's Stories
ISBN: 9780426103134
Publisher: Tandem Books
Published: 1974-07-14T07:00:00+00:00

bore down on him, he took a faltering step backward.

The other General Scobie stepped after him. Channing appeared behind the second Scobie. ‘Good evening, General,’ he said. ‘As I promised, I have brought your replica to see you.’

Channing and the second Scobie stepped into the flat, pushing the General before them. The door closed.

There was a muffled, gurgling scream, and then silence.

Scobie fell back in horrified disbelief. Another General Scobie stood there looking at him impassively.

9

The Creatures in the Waxworks

Full of his plans for the coming attack, the Brigadier burst into the laboratory.

‘Well, I’ve fixed it all up—’ he began cheerfully.

‘We’re moving in—’

‘Ssh!’ said Liz, waving him into silence.

Rather hurt, the Brigadier subsided. He stood watching as Liz and the Doctor surrounded the meteorite, or whatever the thing was, with a variety of complicated looking apparatus.

‘All right, my dear, is the oscillator connected?’ said the Doctor.

Liz was fitting two complex pieces of circuitry together. ‘Hang on... yes, okay now.’

‘Right. Switch on. I’ll watch the graph.’

Liz flicked a switch and then turned a control knob. The apparatus began to give out a low hum.

The Brigadier looked at Liz and the Doctor as they bent over their instruments. He sighed, recognising that he hadn’t a hope of understanding what they were up to. No doubt they’d tell him when it suited them. And he was supposed to be the one in command! Not for the first time the Brigadier considered applying for a transfer back to normal regimental duties. Life had been so simple then. Parades, inspections, manoeuvres, more parades... He’d been offered the UNIT job not long after that Yeti business in the Underground.

Presumably because he was the only senior British officer with experience in dealing with alien life-forms.

At the time it had seemed like a rather cushy number, carrying as it did the welcome promotion from Colonel to Brigadier. If only he’d known! First that nasty affair with the Cybermen, and now this. The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

Then he brightened. For all their scientific mumbo-jumbo it was direct military action that was going to solve the problem. The Brigadier’s eyes sparkled with anticipation at the thought of tomorrow’s attack on the plastics factory.

Encouraged by this thought, he cleared his throat loudly and said: ‘Perhaps you wouldn’t mind telling me what you’re actually trying to do, Doctor?’

The Doctor looked up. He gestured towards the green globe on its stand. The thing was now beginning to pulse angrily. ‘Well, it appears that in there we have what one might loosely call a brain...’ The Doctor took a quick look at the quivering needle that was drawing spidery lines on a recording graph. ‘Fifty megacycles.’

Liz repeated: ‘Fifty megacycles.’ She turned the control knob a little further. ‘Anything?’ she asked.

The Doctor shook his head. ‘No. Up another fifty, Liz.’ As Liz adjusted her controls again, the Doctor resumed his explanation.

‘You see, Brigadier, we know it’s emitting a signal of some kind.

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