Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [117] - The Space Museum by Glyn Jones

Author:Glyn Jones
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426202899
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1987-06-13T22:00:00+00:00

5

Rescue

Barbara dozed fitfully, slumped behind the door. But suddenly she woke with a start and sat bolt upright. There was someone outside. She listened. There wasn’t a sound but she just knew someone was standing outside the door.

On hands and knees she crawled back towards the storage container behind which she had hidden earlier and let out a little gasp as her fingers made painful contact. She crawled around the corner just as the door opened and a shadow stretched across the floor.

It moved further into the room, slowly looking around.

A pair of legs came into view, moved passed her. It was then she noticed the metal bar on the edge of the strip of light. And that strip was growing narrower – the door was closing. Barbara wondered if she should try to make a dash for it before it shut or whether she should reach out for the bar and defend herself with that. In that moment of indecision the door closed. Cautiously she started to feel across the floor for the metal bar. Her hand closed around it. She got to her feet and lifted the weapon above her head, ready for anything except the whisper that broke through the darkness.

‘Barbara? Barbara, are you in here?’

A small panel in the ceiling slid open and the room was flooded with light. Dako, his hand still on the control, turned away from the wall and smiled at her. She held the bar where it was and looked at him over her elbow.

‘Who are you? How do you know my name?’ she asked.

‘I am Dako the Xeron.’ Once again there was that hint of self-confidence in his voice. ‘I am your friend.’

‘Yes?’

‘Yes. Come’ He stalked towards the door, ignoring the iron bar which, at any moment, could have descended on his head. Barbara watched him go and stopped him just inside the door. ‘How do I know I can trust you?’ she asked.

‘We have Vicki. She will tell you.’

Barbara thought quickly. If he knew their names, and only Vicki could have told him, then it couldn’t be a trap.

And she had the distinct feeling she already knew Dako the Xeron. Then she remembered – the massacre beneath The Robert E. Lee. This was the youth who came to warn the others, the one who was taken away. How could she have forgotten those pale grey eyes that now regarded her steadily?

‘What has happened to Ian?’

‘Ian?’ asked Dako quizzically. ‘Oh, you mean the other one. The Moroks have him.’

Barbara lowered the bar and nodded slowly. ‘The ones in the white uniforms,’ she said.

‘Yes,’ he replied. ‘They are our masters. It was they who turned our planet into a museum, a record of their wars. But soon we will rise against them and make Xeros our own again, a place of peace. Scientific knowledge and the wisdom of our Elders made us free from want. Then the Moroks invaded us. There was no warning.’

‘Didn’t you fight back?’

Dako looked down at the metal bar in her hand and raised an eyebrow.

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