Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures 54 by Anachrophobia

Author:Anachrophobia
Format: epub

CHAPTER SIX 118 throbbed away. ‘What the hell was that?’ Fitz yelped. ‘The opening barrage,’ said Shaw. ‘We’re under attack.’ ^What?’ ‘Come on.’ Shaw pulled Fitz back down the passage towards the stairwell. ‘We’ve got to get as deep as possible. It’s our only chance.’ The laboratory seemed somehow dead without Paterson. Just a mess of hissing monitors and dust-encrusted cables. It looked as if it had lain undisturbed for years. The Doctor swiped a finger over a desk and glanced up at the Absolute Time. It solemnly chimed out the hour. Four o’clock. Then the silence returned. The Capsule Time clocks read zero hours, zero days and zero years. ‘What now?’ said Anji. She absently picked up and examined a small brass chronometer. The clock had multiple dials, indicating the second, the minute, the hour and the day, allowing its alarm to be set to a specific minute of a specific day. ‘Back to the medical bay?’ The Doctor activated the lab intercom. ‘Laboratory calling medical bay. Fitz. Fitz?’ The speaker crackled and spat, but no reply came. The Doctor gave it a few more seconds, then turned it off. ‘Well, we can’t go back the way we came.’ The Doctor walked over to the lab door and activated the unlock mechanism. The door clanged open. The corridor outside was empty. Anji made her way down the passage after the Doctor. In the illumination cast from the lab, she could make out a few metres’ worth of wall, floor and cobwebbed ceiling pipes and nothing else. ‘Stay close to me,’ said the Doctor. He patted her hand, and led her into the blackness. Thunder rumbled in the distance. The floor clattered. ‘What was th-’ said Anji. The bulkhead door slammed down behind them, sealing off the lab and plunging them into utter blackness. Not even the vague hints of shadow. Complete nothingness, in every direction. Anji gave a startled scream and turned back down the corridor - where an antique brass timepiece stared back at her, shining like the moon. The body beneath it wore a grey military uniform. Bragg. He loomed out of the darkness, reaching for her with incongruously human hands.

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