Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [141] - The Daleks' Master Plan Part I - Mission to the Unknown by John Peel

Author:John Peel
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 2011-02-03T23:00:00+00:00

10

The Sacrifice

Kirksen had not – as Bors had believed – returned to the cave when he slipped into the darkness. Instead, he had been hiding out close by his two companions. He had heard Garge call, and ignored it, and then watched them move on to attack the ship.

Kirksen giggled to himself in the darkness; he had it all figured out. Bors and Garge would attack the ship. The crew would fight back. Even if his companions won the fight, they would both be tired, and perhaps one might be dead. If they lost the fight, then the surviving crew would be tired. Either way, Kirksen could jump the survivors, fresh for the fight. He’d make his escape from this hell-hole of a planet, but he’d do it alone.

Then he had seen Bors and Garge electrified. Kirksen fought down his panic, watching as the strangers in the ship recovered their trap. When all was clear, he had started edging towards the ship. The sudden descent of the screamers to feast off his former allies sent him scuttling quickly for the only hiding-place left him – the open airlock of the ship. He had tumbled inside, quivering, seconds before Bret had sealed it for the take-off.

Once the ship had left Desperus’s atmosphere, Kirksen knew that he had almost made it to safety. He peeked through the glass panel set in the inner airlock, and studied the crew in the control room. There was an old man, and two younger ones, working the controls. One of them had a gun, but it was holstered. He could be a problem. Then there was a young girl, standing with her back to him, watching the control screens. It was perfect… exactly what he needed.

Quietly, he opened the airlock door a crack, just far enough to allow him to slip out silently. No one suspected that he was there until he grabbed Katarina’s hair roughly, jerking back her head and laying his stone knife across her jugular vein.

At her startled scream, the three men whipped around.

Steven started to move, but Kirksen shook his head. ‘Back,’ he warned. ‘Stay back.’ He giggled softly, his face contorting as he did so. ‘Any of you come near me, and I’ll kill her. You understand?’

Katarina struggled, trying to get free, but Kirksen kept his grip on her long hair, which he twisted cruelly. The knife constantly threatened to break her skin. Furious at this, Steven made a bid to step forward, but the Doctor restrained his headstrong friend.

‘Careful, my boy!’ he warned. ‘I do believe he means what he says!’

‘Oh, yeah,’ Kirksen agreed, grinning. ‘Yeah, I sure do mean it.’ He pulled on Katarina’s hair again, and giggled when she gasped in pain. ‘Now – which of you is piloting this ship?’

‘I am.’ Bret’s voice was cold and emotionless.

‘Good, good. Now, you’ll do exactly what I tell you to do.’ He giggled happily to himself. ‘You may be the pilot, but from here on, I’m the captain. Now, where are we headed?’

‘New Washington, Earth.

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