Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [072] - The Web of Fear by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426110842
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1994-02-14T23:00:00+00:00

8

Return of the Yeti

Victoria put down the little Yeti with a shudder. The last time she’d seen such a model it had been in the hands of the old monk, Padmasambvha. Controlled by the great Intelligence, he was using the model to summon the Yeti for their attack on Det-Sen Monastery. The Doctor glanced up from his work. ‘My word, that looks familiar. Doesn’t work, does it?’

Anne Travers shook her head. ‘It’s dead, so are the others, all four of them.’

Victoria looked at the bench. ‘Four? There’s only one here.’

Travers spoke abstractedly. ‘Others must be about somewhere. Have a look, will you?’

The Doctor and Travers returned to their work, while Victoria started hunting through the jumble of electronic parts and Yeti relics on the bench. But she didn’t find the missing model Yeti. Unseen hands had already placed one of them in a dark corner just outside the Explosives Store. The Yeti model was giving out a faint, almost inaudible, electronic bleep.

In the tunnel near the Fortress, a Yeti stood motionless, waiting. As the signal from the model reached it, it jerked into life and began lumbering slowly towards the Fortress.

Professor Travers made a few last-minute adjustments to his detonator. ‘There you are, Doctor, that what you wanted?’

‘Splendid, old chap. I’ll just wire it into my timing mechanism…’

The Doctor began attaching Travers’s detonator to an intricate device of his own construction. Suddenly he noticed that Victoria was on the point of tears. ‘What on earth is the matter, my dear?’

‘Don’t you see, Doctor? You’ve forgotten all about Jamie. If this plan of yours works, he’ll be cut off from us too!’

The Doctor stopped and put his arm round her shoulders. ‘I haven’t forgotten Jamie, my dear, not for one moment. But I have to think of the lives of every single person in this Fortress. And we can’t defeat the Intelligence or help Jamie, unless we manage to survive ourselves.’ Patting her on the back, the Doctor returned to his work.

The Fortress door slid smoothly open, revealing the towering figure of a Yeti. It held a Web-gun in its giant hands. The Yeti paused for a moment, then swung round as it picked up a signal. Moving with astonishing quietness, it progressed along the corridor to a door marked ‘DANGER – HIGH EXPLOSIVES’. An enormous metal padlock secured the door. The Yeti reached out a huge claw and twisted off the padlock as if it was made of plasticine. It tossed the padlock into the corner beside the model Yeti, then lumbered into the Explosive Store.

In the Operations Room, the Doctor was showing the linked device to Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. ‘This set to explode sixty seconds after you switch it on. You can vary the timing with this control here. If you roll the trolley from the top of a gradient you should have ample time to get dear.’

‘Suppose the Yeti get to it first?’

‘If anyone interferes with the device, it will switch off immediately,’ said the Doctor with simple pride. Lethbridge-Stewart nodded approvingly.

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