Doctor Who: Last Man Running by Chris Boucher

Author:Chris Boucher
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563405948
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Americas
Published: 1998-10-14T10:00:00+00:00

Rinandor yawned, lay down and curled up. ‘I hate it when people I don’t like are right,’ she muttered as she went to sleep.

‘Rinandor?’ Kley said. ‘Rinandor? Is she sick?’

‘She will be, the Doctor said. ‘When she sobers up.’

Pertanor took the canteen from Leela and poured the contents away. He took his fatigue jacket off, folded it and put it under Rinandor’s head. ‘Why is this happening to us?’ he asked looking at the Doctor. ‘Why is this place so weird. And why is it so different from what we were told to expect?’

Why indeed? the Doctor thought, and it occurred to him that this was a team of people drawn from the ranks of what was apparently an elite law-enforcement organisation. And yet they appeared to be poorly briefed, poorly trained and poorly equipped, and they seemed to lack any basic resourcefulness. It was almost as though they were administrative personnel who had suddenly found themselves transferred to operations.

‘Why are there so few of you?’ Leela asked.

‘We’re chasing one man,’ Kley said. She had eaten some of the concentrate as Leela had suggested, and was already looking better. ‘It’s the sort of job where you send in a small fast group to grab him before he knows you’re there; or you send in an army. There’s no middle ground.’

‘It looks as though an army might have been a better choice,’ Leela said.

‘What’s wrong with your team?’ the Doctor asked.

‘Nothing’s wrong with it.’ Kley glared at him.

‘Two dead, one drunk, no communications, no functioning weapons, no ship. A well-oiled machine is not the metaphor that leaps immediately to mind,’ the Doctor said, hoping to provoke her into openness.

‘Whereas you have no ship, no communications and a functioning knife,’ she said. ‘Or have I missed your point?’

‘The point is we are not chasing anybody,’ Leela said.

‘You shouldn’t be here at all,’ Fermindor commented.

‘Why have you been given such poor weapons and equipment?’ the Doctor asked. ‘I thought OIG was an elite force.’

‘It’s all I could afford,’ Kley said. ‘It took me a long time to get this chance and I needed to score here. Are you satisfied?’

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