Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [048] - The Planet of the Spiders by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426106555
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1983-05-14T22:00:00+00:00

7

Prisoner of the Spiders

The Doctor gave Sarah an encouraging smile, and said cheerfully, ‘Hullo, Sarah Jane!’ He walked straight towards the sedan chair on which sat the Spider. One of the guards touched him on the arm with his jewelled staff. The Doctor felt a sudden sharp pang, like a moderate electric shock. He jumped back, and said reprovingly, ‘Do be careful, old chap. That hurts!’

The guard was taken aback. ‘Kneel to the most noble Queen,’ he growled.

‘By all means,’ said the Doctor obligingly. He made a courtly bow, in an elaborate style he’d learned at the court of good Queen Bess, and fell on one knee. ‘Greetings, O Queen. May I ask what you’re going to do with this young lady? You see, she’s a friend of mine, and…’

The Queen interrupted him, ‘Where do you come from?’

‘Both Sarah and I come from Earth.’

‘Bring him too,’ ordered the Queen Spider. ‘He must be questioned.’

One of the guards tried to shove the Doctor towards Sarah and Sabor. When the Doctor didn’t move, the guard jabbed him with the staff. This time the pain was sharper and the Doctor didn’t care for it at all. ‘I did ask you not to do that,’ he said mildly, then picked the guard up and threw him across the square. The astonished man cartwheeled away in a whirl of arms and legs, and landed against one of the huts with a thump. Two more guards made for the Doctor, and he threw them after the first one, who was just getting up. All three went down again.

Suddenly Sarah yelled, ‘Doctor, look out!’ The Doctor whirled round to sec the guard Captain raise his staff in a pointing gesture. The Doctor dodged, and the blast of energy whizzed past him. By now the guards were on him again and there followed a short, confused struggle, which the Doctor enjoyed enormously. So, too, did the people of the village, who crowded to their doorsteps to enjoy the spectacle of the Spider Queen’s guards being knocked about like skittles! When it was over, only the Doctor was still on his feet.

He was reaching out a hand to Sarah, when again she screamed, ‘Doctor!’ But this time the warning came too late. The Queen Spider was quivering with rage on her cushion. A crackling finger of flame lanced from her body and caught the Doctor squarely in the back. The force of it blasted him clean across the square and on to the TARDIS. He crashed against its door then slid down it, apparently dead. The Queen’s voice rang out across the square: ‘So perish all who dare to question our power.’

The villagers muttered angrily at the defeat of their champion. They began to press closer round the sedan, and the guards had a hard time holding them back. In the jostling of the crowd Sarah was pushed away from her guard, whose attention was taken up with the angry villagers. She felt a hand tugging at her own. A rough shawl was thrown over her head.

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