Doctor Who - The 8th Doctor - 61 - The Infinity Race by Simon Messingham

Author:Simon Messingham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Regattas, Comics & Graphic Novels, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), General, Science Fiction, Adventure, English, Fiction
ISBN: 9780563538639
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Published: 2002-10-31T07:00:00+00:00

Shocked, the Doctor stared up into the inanimate behemoth that had swallowed the soldier.

Only when he looked at his own arm and saw the hazy reflections of it Chapter Eight

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swimming along with him, felt the shadow in his mind split him did he realise he was not free of the effects himself.

Desperately, the Doctor turned and kicked out. He hacked his way through the weightless water, all thoughts gone but to remain whole and to reach the light once more.

They pulled him from the water half an hour later. Kallison was going frantic.

Not only could they not get the comm-link working but nothing was working.

Compass, pre-ignition, the clocks, all gone dead. The pilot was perched on the nose of the helijet, its front panels folded out. He was swearing profusely as he sweated and tried to beg the engine into life. The engines were fine, just as the Doctor had said. The problem was getting them started.

She found herself increasingly staring out at the iceberg in the distance.

Yes, it definitely looked forbidding. A big blank white idiot’s face. A face that seemed to be growing.

Bloch was all suited up and raring to get down after Warner and the Doctor.

Between them they’d managed to convince themselves that both were in serious trouble. And she wanted the Doctor, wanted them both, intact.

She was on the verge of ordering Bloch in when the Doctor surfaced. He was in a bad way, shaking and hyperventilating. ‘I couldn’t stop him!’ he babbled as they pulled the suit off him. ‘He wouldn’t. . . wouldn’t. . . ’

Bloch hauled the Doctor in and threw him to the helijet deck. ‘I’m going in,’ he snapped. ‘We don’t leave our men behind.’

‘Don’t be an idiot,’ Kallison retorted. ‘No one goes anywhere until we know what we’re dealing with.’

The Doctor crawled across the cabin, clutching his clothes; eyes wide with shock. ‘I tried to pull him back. He wouldn’t listen. Wouldn’t listen.’

‘All right, Doctor,’ said Kallison. She tried to lift him up. ‘Just tell us. What happened? Did you find the sub?’

‘What about Warner?’ asked Bloch, angry and trembling.

‘He’s gone. . . ’

‘I’m going in.’

‘He’s gone!’ screamed the Doctor. He threw Kallison off. Striding up to Bloch he jabbed a finger at his face. ‘Don’t you understand? He’s gone and there’s nothing you can do. You’ll become part of it yourself.’ He caught his own temper and breathed deeply to calm himself. ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry. He’s Chapter Eight

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gone. The crystal formation, it just swallowed him up. He’s caught in the chronometric matrix.’

‘The what?’ asked Kallison.

‘We have to warn the Governor.’

‘After dealing with De Vries, you mean.’

He looked at her strangely. ‘No. Even if he escapes, we have to get everyone off Selonart before leaving becomes impossible.’

It took another hour and a half before the Doctor managed to rig up a manual bypass for the helijet engines. And all the time the mountain grew towards them.

Kallison spent the time brooding over the Doctor’s last imperative. Without a comm-link she couldn’t do anything but wait and stare at him.

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