Doctor Who: The Blue Angel by Paul Magrs; Jeremy Hoad

Author:Paul Magrs; Jeremy Hoad
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563555810
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Americas
Published: 1999-11-15T10:00:00+00:00

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The Nepotist, it turned out, had actually used most of its power reserves in the demolition job it had unleashed on the City of Glass. So when it came to dealing with the Sahmbekarts the best it could do was muster a force‐shield and sit waiting for the worst.

Tai‐Nur, the ship’s engineer, shouted out through the intercom, above the horrendous noise of the engines, that he was giving the best power he could. He couldn’t give the captain any better.

Blandish threw himself back into his command chair and rapidly weighed up his options. He glared irritably at Garrett, who seemed fairly unperturbed, as ever, by their predicament. But this was worse than anything they had faced in any of their missions. Five years exploring the furthermost reaches of the galaxy and several subsequent years policing the dangerous barriers between empires – none of it compared to this.

The Nepotist was a sitting duck and there was little they could do to defend themselves.

Where was the Federation backup? They hadn’t even made contact yet. They couldn’t be that far away, could they?

But this was a strange and unknown space.

The presence of these Corridors, etched in mesmerising blue on the viewscreen, shifted the usual perceptions of time and space into unforeseen dimensions. Really, none of them knew what they were dealing with yet.

But the Federation should have been in contact by now.

‘Garrett?’ In desperation Blandish turned to his second‐in‐command. ‘What can we do?’

The other members of the bridge crew looked askance. Never had they seen their Captain without a plan or a scheme up his sleeve.

On the viewscreen, the vast and demoniac Sahmbekart mother ship loomed up.

Then it fired off its opening salvo.

Impact was virtually instantaneous and, even with the toughest, least penetrable shields up, the Nepotist rocked in its orbit, sending everyone aboard flying across the room.

Blandish leapt to his feet. ‘Garrett!’ he shouted at the impassive science officer.

There was a second blast then from the Sahmbekarts and the Nepotist lurched again, more violently.

Tai‐Nur’s voice crackled over the comm. ‘The shields are going, Captain… we…’

Garrett marched straight up to the command chair.

‘It’s quite easy. We use the Nepotist itself. We take ourselves out of the firing line and we do the most damage we can.’

‘How?’ Blandish whispered. ‘How do we do that?’

Garrett was inhumanly cool. ‘We switch off our shields. And then, quite simply, we crash through the Corridors. We take the whole lot with us. And then, finally, we crash‐land on Valcea.’

The bridge crew were silent at his words, until the ship was hit again, and the last tatters of their force‐shield were stripped off them like tin foil and the Sahmbekart moved in easily, so easily, for the kill.

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