Doctor Who: BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures [048] - Dark Progeny by Steve Emmerson

Author:Steve Emmerson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563538370
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2001-08-14T22:00:00+00:00

Another window suddenly contained a qwerty keyboard and he used it to input the letters ‘G… o…’

A shout went up nearby. There was the sudden clamour of voices and Fitz saw dark shapes shifting in the swirling weather. Lights danced about in the gloom, some of them falling directly on him.

‘… l… d… f…’

‘Get him,’ somebody yelled.

‘… i… n…’

With a burst of air exploding from his lungs, Fitz was sent sideways off the bug and hit the ground with a crash of shoulders. Somebody heavy landed directly on top of him with a grunt and the stench of sweat. There were more voices and lights flailing about in the winds. A long moment of confusion before Fitz got an intense light straight in his face. He brought up his arms to shield his eyes. As far as he could see there were two dark blobs moving about in the fierce illumination, plus the roughneck-who’d landed with him.

He felt himself being dragged to his feet and manhandled past the bug. Then he was held tight while the lights explored him and the surrounding area. He saw one of the black blobs yank the keys out of the bug and hurl them in a long wide arc through the air. Fitz watched the keys get swallowed up by the storm, and saw his hope of freedom go swiftly with them.

Perón’s hands were shaking as her fingers manipulated controls on the desktop, first renewing her passcode, then calling up the scenes she’d recorded last night when Pryce had attacked the creature. The image was fuzzy, a grey ball of static with barely definable areas of light that she could only just make out to be Pryce. She rechecked the readings, as she had already done last night, to trace the fault. Nothing.

She’d assumed when her machine broke down that yesterday’s bad reception had been a warning glitch in her system. Now the repairs had been carried out by Comp Maintenance, the system should be clear.

Scanning the sec log, she found the point at which she’d entered the hold with the creature. There were three multipic lenses in the corridor outside the cells, and that should allow her to obtain excellent images from various angles.

What she found, though, was another grey ball of fuzz. The sound was also nothing more than an annoying hiss through which she could only just make out the clanging of the cell doors.

She watched herself enter the hold, listening to the bang and clatter, the trepidation evident in her face. She watched as she dangled the creature by the neck in front of her. The crackle was now louder than ever, too noisy for her to make out her words. The picture failed and almost instantaneously resurrected itself. She watched as she threw the creature across the bay and it slammed into the far wall, a crumpled ball of arms and legs. It lay there looking, stunned.

The picture blacked out completely, and the volume of sound became abruptly unbearable. A deafening hiss of noise.

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