Doctor Who - Target Novelisations - 016 - The Daleks by David Whitaker

Author:David Whitaker [Whitaker, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Life on Other Planets, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character)
ISBN: 9780426106128
Publisher: Universal-Tandem
Published: 1973-07-14T07:00:00+00:00

point at the leader. As if realizing his danger he made one last attempt to exert his personality.

‘Daleks! We come in peace!’

The moment he had finished speaking thirty blue streaks of flame sped out from the machines and hit him simultaneously. For one single second his body was illuminated with a pale glow so that he shimmered as the lines of a ship do on the horizon. Then he crumpled and fell into the boxes and cartons beneath him.

‘Run!’ I screamed. The Thals started to race past me out into the city. I turned and fell and a Thal’s hand lifted me up.

‘Don’t wait,’ I said savagely. The Daleks were beginning to sweep after us, fortunately delayed by the crates they had scattered about.

The Thal still held on to me until I was safely on my feet again. We ran out of the building together. Ahead of us I saw one of the Thals suddenly crumple up and crash to the metal roadway. A small group of Daleks appeared out of another building and the Thals scattered, taking one of the turnings to the left. The Thal I was with pulled me into a safe place behind an upright metal pole about six feet thick.

‘Haven’t you any guns?’ I asked him. ‘Didn’t you bring any protection with you at all?’ He just looked at me, rather pityingly, I thought. Then he searched the buildings behind us.

‘This way seems to be clear.’

‘Back to the forest?’

He nodded.

‘We’ll be out of range there, I think.’

I saw one of the Thals being chased along a little alley between two short, square buildings by a pair of Daleks.

They caught up with him and pinned him to one of the walls with their suckers. I could see his face quite plainly, his mouth opening and closing and his eyes wide apart with fear. They fired into him and I turned my head away in disgust. The Thal beside me pulled at my arm.

‘We must go. It is senseless to stay here watching.’

‘It was senseless to come here at all without taking any precautions,’ I shouted at him. He frowned and shook his head at me, as if I were talking gibberish. Over his shoulder I watched a Dalek machine swing round slowly, obviously attracted by the sound of my voice. I decided it was time to get as far away as I could.

We managed to get out of the city without any further incident and joined up with what was left of the main group, who were resting in the desert strip between the city and the forest. I suppose there were about twenty of them and they looked in the last stages of exhaustion. None of them spoke much and they all seemed dispirited and downcast, although they were considerably relieved when the Thal I was with joined them.

‘This is the man who tried to warn us,’ he told them.

‘My name is Alydon,’ he went on, as we sat down with the others.

‘Oh, you’re the one who met Susan in the forest and gave her the drugs.

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