Doctor Who, Battlefield by Marc Platt

Author:Marc Platt [Platt, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Doctor Who (Fictitious character), Doctor Who (Television program), Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989)
ISBN: 9780426203506
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1991-08-15T07:14:34.758423+00:00

He shook his head. ‘Much too complicated.’

‘Then how are we going to get inside?’

He turned, smiled knowingly and tapped the side of his nose. Then he straightened up, cleared his throat as if he was about to begin a recital, and said, ‘It’s me. Open up!’

With a grating clash, the steel teeth separated and slid up and downwards into the fish’s jaws.

‘I refuse to ask how you did that,’ she said, staring into the dark throat beyond. ‘How did you do that?’

He looked rather self-satisfied. ‘It occurred to me that this tunnel was built to Merlin’s designs.’

‘But everyone thinks you’re Merlin.’

‘Exactly. The portal’s keyed to my voice pattern. Just the sort of thing I’d do.’ He stepped through the jaws into the darkness.

‘Are you Merlin?’ she called.

He reappeared and said, ‘No,’ and then added mysteriously, ‘But I could be, in the future. My personal future, that is. Which could be the past.’

He vanished again.

Ace stood for a moment, grabbing at the loose ends he always left dangling for her to pick up. ‘Right,’ she said doubtfully and clambered through after him.

The darkness she had seen through the gate was a deep ocean half-light: green and cool. The place hummed gently and rythmically like something asleep.

The Doctor was silhouetted against a softer watery glow from the far end of a passage. He was running his hand across the glistening walls. The ribbed contours were solid and covered in organic patterns. Patches of light emanated at random along the walls and floor like the glow of deep-sea fish.

‘Is this a submarine?’ she said as she reached him. ‘Or a spaceship?’

‘More than that, this is a craft for travelling between dimensions.’

‘It’s more like being inside some huge animal,’ she said.

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