The Nightmare of Black Island 04 by The Nightmare of Black Island (html)

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The Doctor lay flat on his back, peering into the guts of the alien machine, his sonic screwdriver acting as a torch. The pale green glow cast by the machinery crackled around him, sending sparks of energy across the fibres of his jacket like St Elmo’s fire. The Doctor glanced down at his glittering jacket warily. There was an enormous amount of power being generated by this machine, a lot of it that he still didn’t understand. The readings he had taken indicated that it was safe, at least for a short time, but he didn’t want to be exposed to it any longer than was absolutely necessary. Bronwyn was perched on the stairs just outside the doorway of the lamp room. She’d refused to stay at the base of the lighthouse, and the Doctor couldn’t really say that he blamed her – the noise of the monsters’ claws scraping along the steel plating was enough to give anyone nightmares – but he was concerned about exposing her to the unquantifiable radiation of the lamp room.There was another reason too. The machine was operating on a psychic level in some way. The Doctor could feel a persistent tickling at the back of his mind. Its effect on the children of the village was now obvious; its effect on him was merely an irritation – his own 87

mental discipline was more than enough to keep the intrusion of the machine at bay – but Bronwyn was another story. Her mental state was in a very delicate balance already and the Doctor couldn’t say what effect the machine might have on her.

‘Assuming it hasn’t had an effect on you already,’ the Doctor muttered.

‘What was that?’ Bronwyn frowned at him. ‘You’ll have to speak up.’

‘Nothing. I’m still trying to formulate some kind of plan, that’s all.’

‘Well, we can’t stay in the lighthouse for ever.’

‘We’re hardly likely to make it back to the shore in one piece either!’

The Doctor could imagine what aquatic horrors lurked in the waters around Black Island.

‘What are we going to do, then?’ Bronwyn asked, wincing as the lighthouse reverberated with another attack from the creatures outside.

‘I think our best bet at the moment is to try and get to the cave and its mysterious spacecraft. There’s a possibility that I can open the main hatch and we can shelter in there. I doubt that even these creations of nightmare could break into a duralinium hull.’

Bronwyn snorted. ‘How are you going to get into an alien spacecraft?’

‘I’m quite good with locks.’ The Doctor gave her an apologetic smile.

‘Look, Bronwyn, I’m trying to concentrate. Please?’

He stretched his neck with a view to squeezing himself further underneath the machine. He was determined to get a closer look at the mechanisms. It wasn’t easy, though. The machine was huge and heavy, bolted to the floor of the lamp room with massive, blind-headed nuts. The base was only thirty centimetres or so off the floor and pipes wound through every available space. The Doctor peered through the tangle.

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