Doctor Who - [E005] by The Camel

Author:The Camel
Language: eng
Format: epub

Dyoni sent a single-word answer to the Daleks – ‘No!’ She would prefer to die than to spend the rest of her very short, painful life as a slave. She turned her ship to the attack. With Cathbad’s support, perhaps they could hammer their way through the waiting ships and escape. It wasn’t much of a hope, but it was the best they had.

Tension rose as they closed in. The bridge was a hive of activity, and Dyoni knew it would be matched throughout the ship. Adrenaline was flowing, and she felt gloriously alive. This was what she had be born to do – face the Daleks. Maybe this would be the day she’d die; if so, she’d take plenty of the enemy with her.

The closest Dalek ship opened fire, impacts slamming into their force shields. Dyoni knew that this was only a testing; the Daleks didn’t expect to cause serious damage at this distance. ‘Hold your fire,’ she ordered quietly, as the ship shook under the barrage. A second killcruiser joined in, the combined fire power causing a rolling effect similar to that of being on water. Still too far for her to consider wasting their ammunition. She gripped the edges of her monitor, her knuckles white, as she stared at her displays. Almost within range... The shelling on their shields was increasing in intensity, but that was to be expected.

‘Ready,’ she called to the weapons officer. And a moment later, ‘Fire!’

Her ship’s missiles began to streak out, dots of light against the blackness of space. Several exploded in the Dalek fire power, but most made it through to their target, the closest killcruiser. The Daleks’ shields flared almost white as they strove to absorb the impact, and then Ioki reported: ‘They’ve lost power to their forward shields. It’s down almost fifty per cent.’

‘Again!’ Dyoni ordered, the scent of death heady. This could be their first victory of the day... As her ship shuddered under the continued impacts, they fired again and again. She was dimly aware that Cathbad’s ship had engaged one of the other killcruisers. She focused all of her attention on their own target. The second killcruiser was closing, and the faster they could finish the first, the better.

‘They’ve launched hoverbouts,’ Ioki reported.

‘Order the secondary gunners to target them,’ Dyoni called to the weapons officer. Hoverbouts couldn’t do a great deal of damage, but two or three together might be able to penetrate a shield somewhere, and make them vulnerable to the main batteries.

Space about their ships became a seething cauldron of fire. Lasers, masers, missiles, and anything else either side could throw against the other lit the inkiness almost constantly. The ship shuddered and groaned under the assault.

‘Dalek forward shields are down,’ Ioki reported jubilantly.

Dyoni leaned forward, staring at her monitor. The enemy was vulnerable now... Her gunners targeted the bow of the enemy ship, pouring everything they could into an intense hammer. There was a momentary pause, and then space lit up as the killcruiser came apart at the seams, billowing outward in a mass of flames and debris.

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