Doctor Who, Death Riders Heart of Stone by Justin Richards & Trevor Baxendale

Author:Justin Richards & Trevor Baxendale
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

A HOLE IN THE WALL

The Doctor was sitting at the kitchen table, examining the lump of grey rock with his sonic screwdriver.

Amy and Rory were holding mugs of hot tea, while Jess opened a packet of chocolate biscuits and put them on the table.

‘Got any Jammie Dodgers?’ asked the Doctor without looking up. ‘Always liked a Jammie Dodger.’

‘Sorry, just these,’ smiled Jess.

‘These are fine,’ said Rory, delving into the packet.

‘You’d best take them away,’ Amy told Jess, ‘before the Cookie Monster here eats them all.’

The Doctor looked up sharply. ‘Did someone say monster?’

‘Not that kind of monster, silly,’ laughed Amy.

‘Anyway – it’s breakfast,’ Rory protested, munching on another biscuit.

‘Breakfast?’ queried Jess. She was peering into the oven, where a large pot was simmering. ‘It’s nearly time for dinner.’

‘It’s hard to keep track of time where we come from,’ explained Amy. ‘That smells good, though. What’s cooking?’

‘Lamb stew,’ smiled Jess. ‘Don’t worry, there’s enough for everyone.’

‘Oh, no, we’re not staying –’ Amy said, but the Doctor interrupted her with a loud exclamation.

‘Look at this!’ The Doctor shut down his sonic screwdriver with a satisfied click. ‘Definitely moon rock,’ he announced. ‘High concentrations of anorthite, pyroxene, mare basalts and titanium. And lots of armalcolite – a new and unique mineral named after the crew of Apollo 11: Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. So – without a doubt, moon rock.’

‘But how can that be?’ asked Rory, reaching for another chocolate digestive. ‘I mean, all the way here from the moon… ?’

‘Did it come down in a meteorite or something?’ wondered Amy.

‘Meteorite?’ queried Jess.

‘Yeah, you know …’ said the Doctor, sitting back and folding his arms. His gaze never left the moon rock, however. ‘Lumps of iron, rock, bits and pieces and what-have-you, flying through space and falling into Earth’s gravitational pull.’

‘So you mean it could be a chunk of the moon that’s actually fallen to Earth?’

The Doctor pursed his lips. ‘Doubt it. Most meteors burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. Very few reach the ground – and if they do, then they’re big enough to cause a heck of a lot of damage.’

‘There is a lot of damage,’ Jess pointed out.

The Doctor was still staring at the rock. ‘If a meteorite this big had survived the trip through the atmosphere and landed in your front yard, then the whole farm would have been flattened.’

‘Oh. I see.’

‘There has to be another explanation.’

‘Such as?’ asked Amy.

The Doctor didn’t reply. Instead, he simply picked up the moon rock and dashed out of the kitchen.

When the others caught up, he was standing in the middle of the yard holding his sonic screwdriver aloft. The tip glowed green as he waved it about.

‘What is that thing?’ wondered Jess.

‘Sonic screwdriver,’ explained Rory, trying to sound like an expert. ‘But it does a lot more than just … driving screws.’

The Doctor wheeled around the yard with the sonic, pausing occasionally to check the readings. Eventually he shoved it back into his jacket pocket and harrumphed. ‘No sign of any alien spacecraft technology, teleport beam or quantum link.

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