White Darkness by David A. Mcintee

Author:David A. Mcintee [Mcintee, David A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Doctor Who (Television Program), Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), World War; 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780426203957
Google: 3ZOhAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 042620395X
Publisher: London Bridge
Published: 1993-08-14T07:00:00+00:00

Richmann glared back down the road at the settling dust, and seethed that two men with only a double-barrelled shotgun could get away from him. He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured. Unable to restrain the anger that welled up within him, Richmann swung his cut-down Winchester round and, with an animal roar, blew the man’s head open like a dropped melon. For a few seconds, as the body crumpled into the dirt, Richmann stood quaking with fury, veins throbbing with hatred. Gritting his teeth, he fought it down. ‘Damned idiot!’ he spat at the sticky patch in the dusty road.

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101

Evening turned into night with considerable speed in the tropics, and by the time Howard’s smouldering car crawled back into the university grounds, it was almost fully dark. They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians, but fortunately, they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them, sending the mobs scurrying out of their way. The car, however, had picked up a few more dents, and none of the windows existed any longer.

A number of dark figures ducked into the surrounding bushes as the car screeched to a halt outside the hospital’s front door. Almost immediately, there was a brief burst of machine-gun fire, which destroyed the three remaining wheels. ‘One group or the other must have taken over already, Doctor,’ Howard said.

‘I very much doubt it.’ Cautiously, the Doctor poked his head out of the door. ‘Ace!’ he called.

‘Doctor? Is that you? Hang on a mo.’

‘I thought as much,’ the Doctor muttered darkly. ‘I think it’s about time I had a talk with her.’ He and Howard climbed out of the car, which reacted with a series of creaking sounds and the hiss of escaping steam, and hurried over to the door. Ace opened the door just wide enough for the pair to enter, and slammed it shut just as a brick arced over from the darkened bushes. ‘All right Ace, what’s going on here?’ the Doctor said.

‘Well,’ Ace flinched a bit at his severe tone, ‘we got into the palace, persuaded Etienne to tell us where the TARDIS was, and flew it back here. Just like you said.’ She smiled innocently.

‘And where did the machine gun come from?’

‘That arsehole Etienne had stored the TARDIS in his armoury, and I thought it would be best not to waste the time we had in there. It’s just as well I did,

’cos by the time we got back, this place was virtually surrounded.’

‘Who by?’

‘Rebels out front, militia out back. I think that they each think this dump’s occupied by the other.’

‘And now we’re stuck in the middle. I presume you took more than one gun?’

‘I’ve got four old Vickers guns set up in strategic positions, so neither group should be able to get in. Petion and a few of the hospital staff have rifles and handguns as well, and all the patients have been brought into the middle rooms for safety.

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