Doctor Who: Business Unusual by Gary Russell

Author:Gary Russell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563405757
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 1998-06-14T10:00:00+00:00

The managing director stared out again at the gardens –

to him, a sea of different greys. Twenty years or so before, he had willingly allowed himself to become an experiment, placing himself inside an artificially constructed body, prepared from Cyber-technology prior to their abortive invasion of Earth, launched from London’s sewers. Back then his new body had been magnificent, giving him limitless energy, the strength of ten men, and building his confidence and personality into the man he was now However, over the last few years he had begun to realise that it was beginning to slow down, because whatever Cybermen used to keep themselves alive came from whatever planet or space station or ship they existed within, and there was no one on Earth with the right technology to replace the decaying pieces of his body. First, he noticed that his skin tones were paling, that he was thinning and starting to weaken. Then he began to lose the sight in his artificial eyes. Once he had boasted that he could see colours beyond the range available to normal men, but now he could see less than a dog and there was nothing he could do about it.

He needed a replacement body, and that was just what he was building. But the technology he was planning to use was different – sentient and inert. It needed a vast amount of extrasensory input, which hopefully this American boy would provide. And if not, well, if it really was the Doctor wandering around Brighton, then maybe his mental power would be enough to awaken his new hosts.

He wandered out of his office, down the stairs, past Roberta on reception and to the tiny concealed door that went under the stairs. He removed his glasses and a tiny beam of light shot out from what to anyone else would look like a knot in the wood. Recognising the artificial retinal pattern, the door swung open as six carefully concealed locks were released simultaneously.

‘Light,’ he muttered, and the stairs going down towards the old cellar were bathed in a bright blue light. ‘Close,’ was his next command, and the door slid shut, followed by six individual clicks as the locks operated, sealing him in.

One step at a time he went down, his body ignoring the fact that the air was cold and somehow thick, like in the freezer store in an abattoir. He reached the ground and again asked fir light. One by one blue ceiling lights snapped on, illuminating a cellar that went on further than it should have if restricted to the boundaries of the Manor.

Despite the size of the room, it was remarkably Spartan.

One wall was lined with deep shelves but the other walls were either the dull brickwork of the Manor or the reinforced concrete of the interminable extension.

Taking pride of place in the middle of the open area was a huge glass casket, about twelve foot square. Various tubes and cables led from it to wall attachments, supplying electrical power and other essential sources to the casket.

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