Doctor Who - Missing Adventures - 17 - Lords of the Storm by David A. Mcintee

Author:David A. Mcintee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Mystery & Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 9780426204602
Publisher: Virgin Books Limited
Published: 1995-07-18T07:00:00+00:00

This was obviously some kind of service shaft for the five main lift shafts round the hub, with the laddered sixth wall providing an entrance on every level for maintenance teams.

‘Come on, hurry,’ she called back through the hatch.

Loxx had ordered a cease-fire. The major wanted them alive, so the major would get them alive. The troopers should have caught up with them by now. ‘Squad two, report.’

‘The intruders have ascended into some sort of service shaft. Shall we follow?’

‘Of course, you fool! Use your initiative!’

When the communications circuit beeped, Major Karne leant on the railing that separated the supervisor’s raised gallery from the control deck.

‘The humanoids have entered a service shaft rising through the hub of the operational block,’ Loxx’s voice reported.

‘They must be heading for the osmic projector in the observation dome at the top of the hub. Two of my men are in pursuit, and the rest of us are preparing to go in after them.’

‘Where does the access door at the bottom of the shaft emerge?’

‘According to our scans, an emergency lifeboat launch bay on the hangar level.’

Karne smiled, as any good Sontaran officer should when about to dispatch an opponent. ‘They want to get out? I have no objections to that. Don’t pursue them. Just use the emergency override to open the inner and outer hatches of the lifeboat bay.’

‘They are no longer wanted alive?’

‘Their inventiveness shows how dangerous they are.

Depressurize the shaft.’

Red lights dotted along the length of the hexagonal shaft began pulsing ominously, and a wailing howl started to sound.

This was quickly drowned out by the hollow whoosh of air rushing past. All five climbers halted briefly, looking around at the lights.

An unfixed chair from the dome above suddenly tumbled past, bouncing from the metal walls. A cloud of papers, pads, pens and other bric-a-brac swept by the climbers like a surreal snowstorm, and the three fugitives huddled against the wall as a variety of sharp objects assailed them.

The Sontarans continued to ascend, their armour protecting them from the flying debris. ‘What the hell?’ the still-sluggish Sharma shouted.

Nur looked down at the others, a wild-eyed look of fear on her face. ‘That’s a depressurization alert. The bastards are spacing the shaft!’

The Doctor’s stick of celery parted company with his lapel, and was stolen away by the buffeting rush of air. He ignored it, grimacing as he pulled himself up on to the next rung.

Above him, Nur was scaling the ladder with a surprising turn of speed born of desperate terror, while Sharma, weakened by lack of food and rest while under Sontaran control, was gasping for what breath he could snatch from the airstream, his legs trailing away from the rungs.

A burst of fire from the Sontaran’s rheon carbine flickered up through the red-lit shaft. Sparks exploded from the rungs by Sharma’s head, and the exhausted captain jerked backward, losing his grip with a yell.

Eyes slitted against the buffeting, the Doctor snaked out an arm around Sharma’s chest as he dropped past. The

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