Doctor Who by Malorie Blackman

Author:Malorie Blackman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781405924122
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-05-04T23:00:00+00:00

2

The Doctor was still circling around the console fruitlessly trying to work out what was happening, when the TARDIS started making the familiar whooshing, screeching noise again.

‘Great!’ said Ace, relieved. ‘You fixed it.’

‘No, Ace, I did not,’ replied the Doctor.

‘But that noise means that we’re materialising and landing, doesn’t it?’

‘Well, yes. The TARDIS is performing an auto-land.’

‘Sorry?’

‘The supernova hurled us across space and time. Now the TARDIS has locked on to some solid-looking planet and it’s going to land.’

‘OK,’ said Ace. ‘So where and when are we?’

‘Haven’t a clue! That’s why we’re landing – we need repairs. These instruments are misbehaving so badly that I can’t –’

There was a colossal bump as the TARDIS completed its automatic landing, then a brief silence before the familiar electronic burbling noise of the door-opening mechanism started up.

‘Professor, don’t you think you should work out where and when we are before you open the doors? Just to be on the safe side?’ suggested Ace.

The Doctor was already lunging for a switch on the console, but too late. The doors swung open. The Doctor and Ace exchanged a look, then turned tentatively towards the wide-open doorway. Sunlight, intense and bright, streamed into the TARDIS and the sounds of children’s laughter and singing came from outside.

‘Doesn’t sound too scary,’ said Ace hopefully. No matter how often they did this, and how many new places they visited, this part always made Ace’s heart beat just that little bit faster.

The Doctor seemed less reassured.

‘Hmm! The way the TARDIS is behaving is deeply disturbing,’ he said. ‘It’s almost as if we were pulled here. I wonder …’ The Doctor returned to the console and bent to examine one of the instruments, so he didn’t see it.

But Ace did.

A Dalek.

It glided swiftly through the open doors and into the TARDIS.

Ace froze. She remembered her last encounter with these death-dealing robots with evil mutated monsters inside – and not with fondness. The thing was only a couple of metres away and temporarily distracted by the hat stand near the door. But now that it saw no threat from the Doctor’s Panama hat and umbrella, its Cyclops eye swivelled towards Ace. She was defenceless, caught in the open, halfway between the console and the door. No bombs … no baseball bat … nothing! The iris on the eye-stick widened, adjusting to the relative dark of the TARDIS after the bright sunlight. It started gliding towards her.

‘DOCTOR!’ Ace shouted.

The Doctor looked up and froze, but only momentarily.

The Dalek hadn’t seen him yet, so the Doctor seized his opportunity. He grabbed the quantum stabiliser out of his pocket, flicked it to the ‘High’ setting and pointed it at the intruder. The Dalek must have seen him in its peripheral vision, but just as it started to turn the Doctor activated the stabiliser. There was a high-pitched whine and a beam of light shot out of the end, bathing the Dalek in a violet glow. The Dalek’s eye and arms drooped immediately and its momentum left it coasting across the floor until it bumped gently into the console and stayed still.

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