Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain by Justin Richards

Author:Justin Richards
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563486374
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2005-09-08T08:32:02.284988+00:00

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NINE

Alex Minin was looking bewildered. ‘I never knew that door was there,’ he said.

‘Hidden,’ the Doctor replied. ‘Someone deliberately stacked all these boxes in front of it.’

‘And what’s this about a spaceship?’ Minin laughed nervously, as if to show he knew they were joking really.

‘Yeah. Spaceship,’ the Doctor told him. ‘You know.’ He demonstrated by flattening his hand into a spaceship shape and flying it through the air between them. He made spaceship noises.

‘I don’t think I do actually,’ Minin said weakly.

‘Sure you do. You must get some version of Star Trek, even out here.’

‘The one with Mr Spocksky,’ Rose added helpfully.

‘A spaceship?’ Minin said.

‘A spaceship,’ Jack confirmed. ‘And a homicidal mad policewoman killer‐zombie as well. No extra charge.’

‘Make that knife‐wielding homicidal mad policewoman killer‐zombie,’ Rose reminded him.

‘Barinska?’ Minin was looking at each of them in turn, evidently convinced they were all mad.

‘That’d explain a lot,’ the Doctor said. ‘Right, let’s get going.’

‘Good move,’ Jack agreed. ‘I suggest a three‐pronged initiative. The objectives, not in any order of priority, are the ship, the deadly glowing blobby creatures and the stone circle.’

‘Hold on,’ Minin said. He took a deep breath. ‘What deadly glowing blobby creatures?’

‘They’ll be the remotes,’ the Doctor said, as if this was obvious.

‘Remotes?’ Rose echoed.

The Doctor nodded. ‘Shouldn’t be a problem.’

‘They’re killing people,’ she pointed out.

‘So, shouldn’t be a problem, but they are.’ The Doctor sucked in his cheeks and folded his arms. ‘Someone’s been messing about.’ He turned to look at Minin. ‘Monkey business,’ he said quietly.

‘Oh yeah, that’s something else,’ Rose put in. ‘You see, there’s these bodies.’

The Doctor stopped her, pressing his finger to her lips. ‘First things first. Alex – go and find the colonel. Tell him his missing men have probably been blobbed by now and he’s to forget them. Then bring him down to the ship.’

‘He’ll never believe there’s a spaceship down there,’ Minin said. ‘I don’t believe there’s a spaceship down there.’

‘He will when he sees it,’ Jack told him.

‘It crashed here centuries ago. Maybe millennia,’ the Doctor said. ‘Crew’s probably dead.’

‘Yep,’ Jack said.

‘And it landed at the base of the cliff. Maybe even in the sea. Then over time the land has moved, and now it’s buried under the cliff, close to this institute. Through that door.’

‘But hang on…’ Minin pointed to the open door. ‘Why would anyone build a secret door leading down to a buried spaceship no one knows is there?’

‘That’s a really good question,’ the Doctor agreed. ‘You get Colonel Levin and we’ll try to get some answers.’

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