Doctor Who by Susie Day

Author:Susie Day [Day, Susie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781405939522
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published: 2021-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

‘Hello! Sorry about the wait. Had to rig this thing to go deep enough. Stop now, Tomiko!’ she called up.

The platform jolted to a stop a few feet above my head.

‘You’ll need a wash after that soaking, Graham. You might be a bit itchy. And your hair might fall out, sorry. I’ll have to get you out one at a time. This platform can’t carry more than two – Oh.’

The Doctor’s breeziness vanished and her face went stiff. She reached for her sonic. It buzzed alarmingly as she scanned the rock underneath us.

When she looked at the read-out, her face darkened.

‘What is it?’ said Yaz.

‘Just – don’t move, either of you. And don’t panic.’

‘Thanks, Doc. Can we have a clue what we’re not panicking about?’ I asked.

The Doctor smiled unconvincingly. ‘Right. So, when you fell, you didn’t land on rock, or earth, or compacted oil, or anything that you might expect to find at the bottom of an oil well. What you’re actually lying on right now is the hull of a massive Katz animator ship.’

‘Massive cats?’ said Yaz.

‘You’d think they’d be softer,’ I said.

The Doctor grinned. ‘Massive cats would be brilliant! I love cats. But this is Katz. K-A-T-Z. They’re a bioengineering syndicate from Pangamma Seven. Geniuses. They invented something called the animator virus. It’s like a chameleon, turned up to eleven. It rearranges the molecular structure of matter to reconstruct whatever it’s been programmed to. Amazing, really. It’s got loads of uses: growing new limbs, rebuilding cities after wars or natural disasters …’

‘Sounds brilliant,’ said Yaz. ‘What’s it doing down here?’

‘No idea.’ The Doctor shook her head. ‘It doesn’t make sense. Even if the ship had crashed on Earth, it would’ve rebuilt itself and gone home. What are the chances of it being right here, directly below the detector? Along with my old mate Tomiko, who shouldn’t be here either. And a mysterious underground base – the kind I just love to nose around.’

‘Do you think it was put here for you to find?’ said Yaz, puzzled. ‘You didn’t even know you were coming here till this morning.’

The Doctor frowned. ‘I didn’t even know I was coming here while I was coming here. All this: it’s like it was waiting for us to find it. Like it was put here for us … for me.’

I’d had a knock on the head, so I couldn’t be sure, but I could’ve sworn a butterfly flew past my face. Remember the butterfly from that business with the Producers on Boda?

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