Doctor Who: BBC Past Doctor Adventures [032] - Heart of TARDIS by Dave Stone

Author:Dave Stone
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563555964
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2001-04-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Making Different Plans

‘Well, I have to admit,’ said the Doctor. ‘it hasn’t been much of a day for stopping the unstoppable forces of Evil. I have to admit I’m a bit stumped.’

They were back in the car again, driving on what, Victoria gathered, was a freeway. A number of people in other cars had fired pistols at them, but they seemed to have been aiming to miss.

‘Do we really have to stop it?’ said Victoria, carefully, as if trying on a new idea for size.

‘Why, Victoria.’ The Doctor looked at her. ‘Whatever can you mean?’

‘It’s just that, well, this monster, or whatever it is, is preying on the people here in some way and that’s very sad and so forth, but it hasn’t really done anything to us, has it? You said that this wasn’t our world and doesn’t work by the same rules – so what if this state of affairs is perfectly natural for this world? What if there is no way to stop it, and all we’d achieve by trying is to be killed?’

Victoria hoped she didn’t sound like a coward, because she really didn’t mean it in that way. The monster here, if such existed, seemed to kill in more intangible and distinctly more nastily messy ways than she had thus far encountered on her adventures with the Doctor, it was true… but, more than that, she had the feeling of being caught up in something complicated and vast. Something too big for her to comprehend in anything other than the most peripheral of ways; something with which she could simply not imagine herself, Jamie and even the Doctor being able to cope.

‘In your own world,’ said the Doctor, ‘on the Earth, it’s the natural order of things for the strong to crush the weak, for predators to eat prey, for time itself to bring nothing but misery, death and decay. And in certain senses, in the long term, that’s perfectly right. But in human terms, what is right is fighting such things even to the death. If we didn’t, we might as well kill ourselves the moment we’re old enough to be aware of the world. Riding out the shocks the flesh is heir to, kicking against the pricks, that’s what being human is basically all about.’ He thought for a moment. ‘Or so I’m told. Besides,’ he continued, in slightly less inflated tones, ‘if our chap hasn’t come for us yet, that’s just because he, or indeed she or it, hasn’t quite worked out what to do with us. It’ll come for us, sooner or later. These things always do. And I, for one, would like to deal with it before it does. We have to find it before it finds us.’

‘And how do you propose to do that?’ Jamie asked. ‘From what you say, this thing is a…’

‘An Entity, I suppose you’d call it,’ said the Doctor.

‘Piezoelectromagnetically-based autonomic macroconstructs not really being my style at all.’

‘… an Entity without a body to call its own.

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