Doctor Who: Virgin Missing Adventures [002] - Evolution by John Peel

Author:John Peel
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426204220
Publisher: Doctor Who Books
Published: 1995-01-13T23:00:00+00:00

6

Swimming with the Sharks

Sarah gazed in shock and revulsion at the remains of the – the whatever on the table. ‘I know some kids are ugly,’ she said weakly, ‘but that’s a bit extreme, don’t you think?’

‘Extreme and extremely immoral,’ agreed the Doctor. ‘It’s perversion of the natural order on a scale I’ve seen only once before.’

‘But… there’s no way that thing could be a ten-year-old child,’ objected Sarah.

‘It isn’t. At least, it isn’t any more.’ The Doctor was very grim and she could detect the undercurrent of moral outrage below his surface. ‘But that’s how the poor creature began.’

Doyle, wiping his hands after having washed them thoroughly, walked over to join them. ‘Even I don’t understand how it has been accomplished,’ he admitted. ‘But there’s no doubting the Doctor’s core theory. That is not some animal.’

Sarah shook her head. ‘Look, I know I’m not really up on the science stuff, but I’m no dummy either. It’s impossible to create hybrids of humans and animals, isn’t it?’

‘Generally speaking, yes,’ agreed the Doctor. ‘But this isn’t general. It’s very specific. Without access to much more sophisticated analysis techniques, I can’t be too sure what’s happened, but the basics are fairly clear. The body structure of that creature is that of a normal human child. Somehow, though, his genetic material has been melded with that of a canine – possibly a wolf, most likely a dog of some kind.’

Sarah frowned. ‘Come off it,’ she said. ‘Are you telling me that thing’s an honest-to-God werewolf?’

‘It’s not honest to anything, Sarah Jane,’ the Doctor said hollowly. ‘Its as dishonest as they come. And it’s not a werewolf in the sense you imagine. This is a deliberately engineered monstrosity.’

‘Somebody made a kid into that?’ Sarah was appalled beyond any words.

‘Yes.’ The Doctor spoke quietly but firmly. ‘The genetic match isn’t too good, and the poor creature must have been in pain constantly, and probably more than half insane.’

‘But that’s not possible in this time period, is it, Doctor?’ she insisted.

‘Time period?’ Doyle’s eyes went wide. ‘What the deuce are you talking about?’

‘Later!’ the Doctor snapped at him. To Sarah, he said, ‘No, it isn’t. Which means that we’re dealing with something intrusive. That kind of genetic manipulation won’t be possible on this planet for at least two hundred years.’

‘Then what is happening here?’ demanded Sarah.

‘One possibility is that we have an intruder from the future.’

That sparked something in Sarah’s mind. ‘Wait a minute – I just met someone who seems to be a bit too aware of what the future might bring.’ She told the Doctor and Doyle about her visit to the factory. ‘Is it possible that Breckinridge is from the future, and that he’s come back to this time to alter the course of history? That he aims to get rich when the communications boom comes in a couple of years?’

‘It’s possible,’ agreed the Doctor. ‘I don’t know how likely it is, though. Aside from his ideas – which a shrewd businessman of

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