Senor 105 and the Secret Santa by Stuart Douglas

Author:Stuart Douglas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, doctor who, masked wrestler

The jungle was hot and wet. The path Pitch had indicated was narrow and lightly overgrown in places, even though it was obviously used on a regular basis by someone. It was just that the jungle was so fiercely alive, 105 thought. It could not be held back if even a single day of effort was missed.

The humidity quickly made 105’s suit as damp as the surrounding greenery, and his mask, usually a source of reassurance and strength, had never felt so constricting. To take his mind off the discomfort, he repeated his earlier question to Pitch, keen to know what had changed. He was aware that he should be asking questions about Nick, but before he moved onto that, he needed to know just what kind of being he was dealing with.

Pitch seemed happy to talk. ‘I am exactly what I was before,’ he said, over his shoulder. ‘But here, way back in time and a smidgen across in space, I am more as I once was. More… refined, shall we say?’ He stopped suddenly and turned. Where 105 had sweated through the material of his suit, Pitch appeared untouched, his own suit as crisp as ever. ‘Doesn’t everyone feel more human when they come home?’ he asked with a smile, then resumed his march through the forest. 105 followed in his wake, more confused than ever. Home? How can this be Pitch’s home? he wondered as he struggled to keep up with the rapidly moving red man. And what was any of this to do with getting Nick back safely?

He reviewed what he knew of Pitch, most of it gleaned from Nick, either directly or via the other Defenders. Pitch was an alien, possibly, though they all referred to him as a demon or a devil. Whatever he was, he had suddenly appeared in the world many thousands of years previously and had immediately set out to destroy everything decent he came across. According to Nick he was the embodiment of evil, what he had once called malevolence personified. He came and went largely as he pleased for centuries, until Nick and the other Defenders had confronted him and banished him to…well, somewhere really difficult to escape from. The details had been confusing, and 105 had never really understood if the prison they spoke of was a real place or some sort of conceptual space. Either way, he had not been seen in person for many, many years. And now he was back.

A small voice which had been nagging away at the back of his mind suddenly itself heard. If Pitch had escaped, it made sense for him to come after Nick, the man who had imprisoned him in the first place. But why kidnap him? Why not simply kill him and leave, with nobody any the wiser that he was back at all? Could the near-beast he had encountered at the Pole even have come up with a plan as subtle as kidnap? He doubted it. But this new Pitch? Yes, definitely.

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