Doctor Who: Paradise Towers by Stephen Wyatt

Author:Stephen Wyatt
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426203308
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1989-02-15T10:00:00+00:00

The alarm kept ringing. The Doctor had to raise his voice to be heard above it. ‘Please,’ he pleaded. Then the alarm ended its piercing warning and there was quiet for a moment. And in the quiet, another sound became audible. The distant sound of a powerful drill. The Caretakers must be drilling into the door.

They would soon be down in the Brainquarters.

The Kangs stood momentarily paralysed, unable to decide what to do. ‘You must have a secret escape route,’ the Doctor urged. ‘It’s not like Kangs to allow themselves to be caught like rats in a trap.’

‘Red Kangs have an unseen outway,’ Bin Liner acknowledged. ‘But –’

‘But what?’

‘The Caretakers will be in our Brainquarters too soon for the Kangs to use it.’ She glanced regretfully towards the concealed outway which a couple of the Kangs had started to uncover.

‘I see,’ the Doctor said, ‘you need time?’

Bin Liner nodded. And at that moment, the Doctor made his decision. ‘I will buy you the time,’ he announced. ‘I’m the reason why the Caretakers are here. Go on. Make your escape while you can.’

The Kangs still stared. ‘It’s not like Kangs to be so slow, is it?

Go on.’

And then almost as if they were parts of one being, the Kangs started to move. Within seconds they were gathered at the concealed outway in an orderly file. And in not much more time they were through the hole and out of sight. Bin Liner, the last, pulled the covering back over the hole.

The Doctor was alone in the Kang Brainquarters. The drilling sounds were getting louder. The Caretakers would be there in a few minutes. The Doctor had made his choice and he had to live with it. He sat down to wait.

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