Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [087] - Warriors of the Deep by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426195610
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1984-09-14T22:00:00+00:00

7

The Breakthrough

Turlough picked himself up, the blaster-rifle still in his hand. He levelled it at Bulic’s head. ‘Open that bulkhead door!’

‘I can’t,’ said Bulic calmly. ‘Not even if I wanted to. The controls are locked now. It can only be opened from the Bridge.’

Turlough glared wildly at him, not sure if Bulic was lying or not, and almost angry enough to shoot him down anyway. Then he whirled round, and ran off down the corridor.

A guard made to follow him, but Bulic held the man back. ‘Let him go,’ he said, not unsympathetically.

‘Sergeant, stay here on guard, I must see the Commander. The rest of you, follow me.’

The Myrka advanced.

Instinctively the Doctor stepped back, half stumbling over something on the ground. He looked down. It was a blaster-rifle dropped by one of the dead guards. The Doctor picked it up, and examined it thoughtfully.

‘That won’t do you much good,’ said Tegan.

The Doctor’s hands were busy with the rifle, extracting a gleaming black cylinder from the butt. ‘Get ready, Tegan!’ he said.

The Myrka was very close now. It was poised, coiled as if to spring.

‘Cover your eyes!’ shouted the Doctor.

Obediently Tegan threw her arm over her face.

The Doctor bowled the cylinder like a cricket ball, striking the monster right between the eyes. He closed his own eyes tightly, and sensed rather than saw the blinding flash that followed.

The Myrka reeled back, roaring and crashing against the steel wall of the corridor.

Tegan opened her eyes. ‘What did you do to it?’

‘Simple enough,’ said the Doctor opening his eyes. ‘The Myrka’s body carries a charge of electricity. It exploded the blaster’s power-pack.’

‘So it’s blinded?’

The Myrka was swinging its great head to and fro, as if trying to locate them. Once the effect of the flash faded…

‘Temporarily,’ said the Doctor.

Turlough hared along corridors, up staircases and through the now-open door to the Bridge. Guards and technicians alike were distracted by the drama of the attack, and before anyone realised what was happening, Turlough was at Nilson’s side.

‘The master control to bulkhead one – where is it?’

Nilson stared at him in astonishment. ‘Right here. But the Commander’s orders are to keep that bulkhead closed.’

Turlough covered him with his blaster-rifle. ‘I know what the Commander’s orders are. Now I’m giving you mine: open that bulkhead, or I’ll kill you.’

Nilson stared at him for a moment.

Wild-eyed and panting, Turlough looked quite capable of carrying out his threat.

Nilson had no wish to die in defence of the Base he was working to destroy. ‘Very well.’

He operated the controls.

The Myrka, recovered by now, had resumed its advance on Tegan and the Doctor. They retreated till there was nowhere else to go, until their backs were pressed against the bulkhead door. There was a sudden hiss of hydraulic power and the door began to open…

The moment the gap was wide enough, the Doctor shoved Tegan through, squeezing himself through after her. They pushed past Bulic’s astonished sergeant, still waiting on guard. At the sight of the Myrka looming in the widening gap, the sergeant sprang forwards, raising his blaster.

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