Silver Nemesis by Kevin Clarke

Author:Kevin Clarke [Clarke, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426203407
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1993-11-14T23:00:00+00:00

6

The Doctor and Ace had crept away from the vicinity of the crypt and were peering cautiously through the undergrowth at the Cyber spaceship. The two men with silver headphones were still guarding it. The Doctor had been wrestling with a mental problem, though he now seemed to have solved it. He turned to Ace decisively. ‘I don’t suppose you’ve completely disobeyed my instructions and secretly prepared any nitro-nine have you?’ he asked with a seemingly casual air.

Ace knew him too well to be deceived. ‘What if I had?’ she countered defensively.

‘You naturally wouldn’t do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it round with you, would you?’

‘Of course not, Professor. I’m a good girl and do what I’m told.’

‘Excellent,’ concluded the Doctor with satisfaction.

‘Blow up that vehicle.’

The Cybermen were suffering badly from Lady Peinforte’s gold-tipped arrows fired by Richard, despite responding with their laser beams. The Cyberman with an arrow lodged in his chest panel was beginning to die, writhing on the ground, and there was an almost desperate note in the Cyber Leader’s voice as his commands barked through the trees. ‘Destroy them. Destroy them,’ he ordered.

The Lieutenant moved nearer to him and spoke. ‘We cannot sustain these losses, Leader,’ he said. ‘We must withdraw.’

The Cyber Leader turned on him quickly. ‘No,’ he said.

He was emphatic. ‘We must hold the statue and take the arrow from them.’

An arrow hissed through the air and embedded itself in a tree a few feet away from them.

‘If we are overcome,’ the Lieutenant argued, ‘our entire strategy will fail. The Cyber race will cease to exist.’

There was a deathly silence. The Leader’s circuits checked and double-checked the rationale of the Lieutenant’s statement. Finally he was forced to speak.

‘Your logic is correct,’ he replied heavily. ‘Their supply of gold is limited.’ He turned to the remaining Cybermen, who were firing laser beams at the crypt, and called:

‘Retreat.’

They began making their way back through the forest towards the spaceship.

The two men were still standing on guard, large, silent and immovable, one at either end of the craft when to their surprise the Doctor suddenly appeared from the bushes in front of them and politely raised his hat. ‘Good afternoon,’ he called. ‘I’m the Doctor. You wanted to kill me.’

Before they could recover themselves he was gone, bolting into the forest. The guards looked at each other, drew their guns, and ran after him.

No sooner had they disappeared into the trees than Ace appeared, darted to the spaceship and threw a can of nitro-nine under it. She ran quickly back into the forest and dived behind a large tree.

As she did so, the out-of-breath guards came into sight of the returning Cybermen: of the Doctor there was no sign. The Cybermen stopped in surprise. The two men stopped too, realizing the Doctor had gone to ground somewhere nearby. Before they could alert the Cybermen, however, there was a loud explosion from behind them.

Their jaws dropped and they turned to see what was left of the Cyber spaceship engulfed in flames.

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