Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [014] - The Cybermen by Gerry Davis

Author:Gerry Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426114635
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1983-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

8

The Battle with the Cybermen

In the Weather Control Room, Benoit and Sam were anxiously conferring. ‘Still no word from the surface party,’ Sam anxiously remarked. ‘I think I’d better go out and have a look.’

‘Let’s try once more,’ said Benoit. He picked up the mike, pressed the switch and spoke again. ‘Surface party, surface party, come in. We are not receiving you. Over.’

All that could be heard from the loudspeaker, even when Benoit turned it up to full, was a loud jarring static.

Benoit switched off the set and turned to Sam. ‘Can we see the control antenna from here?’

‘No, not fully, it’s away on the far side of the moat outside the main port.’

Benoit nodded. ‘Right. Then you’ll have to go out, Sam. Get ready to…’

At that moment, the door burst open and Hobson, the Doctor and a technician were thrust in by the two giant Cybermen. As the Cybermen appeared in the gloom of the door opening, everyone rose to their feet in complete amazement. Benoit moved forward. ‘Chief, what’s happened?’

Hobson made an urgent gesture. ‘Get back, get back – these things are lethal.’

The second Cyberman moved forward, raising his Cyberweapon. ‘No one will move. You will remain still. If you move, you will be killed.’

Everyone remained still except Nils. ‘Who are they?’ he said to Benoit. ‘How did they get…’

The second Cyberman’s voice cut in again. ‘Silence, we are Cybermen. You will listen to us.’

Benoit sat down on the edge of the console, his cool self again. ‘But the history books say you were all killed when your planet, MONDAS, exploded in 1986.’

The first Cyberman had moved to a position where he could watch the activity in the Gravitron room. He now turned round to answer Benoit. ‘We were the first space travellers from MONDAS. We left before it was destroyed. We have come from the other Cyberman planet, TELOS.’

The Doctor broke in, ‘Then you know how MONDAS was destroyed?’

The first Cyberman looked at him. ‘Yes, and we know what part you played in that. We have returned to take the power you used to destroy MONDAS.’

Hobson looked from one to the other, confused. ‘But that was back in 1986,’ he said. He scratched his head. ‘I don’t understand all this. What are you doing on the moon?’

‘We are going to take over the Gravitron and use it to destroy the surface of the Earth by changing the weather,’ replied the first Cyberman.

‘But that will kill everyone on Earth!’ A shade of Hobson’s old aggressive self returned as he vainly tried to understand this sudden change in events.

‘That is possible.’ The first Cyberman turned back to the Gravitron, indifferent to the conversation. Benoit broke in again.

‘You people, who are supposed to be so advanced, here you are taking your revenge like children!’

The Cyberman turned and looked at the second Cyberman, then back to Benoit. ‘Revenge? What is that?’

‘It is a feeling people have when…’

The first Cyberman broke in, ‘Feeling? Yes, we know of this weakness of yours. We are fortunate.

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