Doctor Who - Target Novelisations - 014 - The Cybermen by Gerry Davis

Author:Gerry Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), Life on Other Planets, Fiction
ISBN: 9780426105756
Publisher: TANDEM
Published: 1973-12-31T08:00:00+00:00

The door opened slowly and in stepped Dr. Evans.

Hobson backed away and sat down. The other men paled as they watched Ralph and Geoffrey, the other ‘dead’ men, file in and stand facing them. They moved quietly, smoothly, like zombies. Their eyes showed no emotion.

They stared straight ahead, waiting for the orders from their controlling Cyberman. On their heads they wore the shiny mind-control headpiece.

Behind them came a third Cyberman, carrying a small box which resembled the control used to guide model boats and aeroplanes.

Hobson and Benoit stepped up to the three zombie-like men, and Benoit waved a hand in front of their eyes.

Hobson turned back to the Doctor. ‘I thought you said they were dead?’ he said.

They moved quietly, smoothly, like zombies Benoit spoke bitterly. ‘Better if they were, by the look of them.’ The three men, seemingly unaware, stared straight ahead without the slightest change of expression, their eyes unblinking.

The first Cyberman turned to the assembled technicians. ‘You will leave your places. Go over there.’ He pointed over to the wall by the entry door. Hobson stepped forward. ‘You can’t do that. We need men to monitor the effect of the Gravitron on the Earth.’

‘That will not be necessary,’ said the Cyberman. ‘From now on these men,’ he pointed to the three zombies, ‘will run the Gravitron. Now tell the operators in the Gravitron room to come out.’ Hobson hesitated. ‘Immediately,’ said the Cyberman.

The three Cybermen raised their weapons, each aiming at one of the men in the room. ‘Otherwise we will kill a man a minute, until you have obeyed our orders.’

Hobson nodded wearily, bent over and picked up the hand mike. He spoke to the men in the Gravitron room who had continued operating with an occasional fearful glance over their shoulders. ‘Right,’ he said, ‘you have all seen what’s been happening. Come out. Leave the machine, and don’t try anything.’

One by one the men in the Gravitron room reluctantly left their controls and filed out to join the waiting technicians in the Control Room.

The first Cyberman spoke to the Cyberman holding the control box. ‘They will now take over the Gravitron power unit.’ The third Cyberman raised the operating box in his hand and pressed a button. He then turned a small knob beside it. The three men turned, almost in unison, and filed into the Gravitron room. One by one they took their seats at the controls.

‘One moment.’ Benoit stepped forward, aghast. ‘You can’t send them in there without protective helmets!’

‘Why?’ The first Cyberman looked at him.

‘Because the machine produces very intense sonic fields.

Without the helmets, those men will be insane in a very few hours.

‘Be more precise,’ said the first Cyberman. ‘How many hours?’

Benoit looked at the others for confirmation and then turned back to the Cybermen. ‘I don’t know. Twelve, possibly.’

‘Then,’ said the first Cyberman, ‘there is no problem.

Our purpose will be achieved long before that.’

‘But what about the men?’ The normally calm Benoit pointed towards the Gravitron room, his voice rising in pitch.

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