Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy by David A. McIntee

Author:David A. McIntee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563405801
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Americas
Published: 1998-02-14T10:00:00+00:00

were exploding into powder as the helicopter’s miniguns were turned in his direction.

The lift doors remained infuriatingly closed and the Master began to wonder if some damned human had called the lift to another floor. Then the doors opened and he flung himself on to the the warm heap of bodies, just as a rapid spray of rounds rattled into the lift’s metal wall above him. Heated shrapnel bounced around the lift but then passed on and the doors mercifully closed.

It momentarily occurred to the Master to simply go down to ground level and escape on foot. He dismissed the idea, though. Presumably whoever had sent the helicopters would have stationed men outside, and even if not, this was a matter of principle. He had to show that he controlled his own fate and that attempts to interfere with it would be severely punished.

The Master glanced about for a weapon – despite what humans tended to depict in their entertainments, it was not particularly likely that one could shoot down a helicopter with a pistol. He regretted not bringing something a little more sophisticated to the meeting; a projected energy weapon of any kind would be very useful right now. He wasn’t really worried though; the thought that any mere human could actually kill him was so far removed from reality that he didn’t even consider it.

The dead thugs in the lift had also been armed with Uzis. He snatched up one and took the magazines from the others. If he could lure the helicopters close enough, a spray of bullets might have a chance of doing some damage.

Not from a shooting point above it, though. Small-arms fire probably wouldn’t be able to damage the rotors and would bounce off them without getting through to the fuselage or cockpit.

If he could get down to a lower floor, without the pilots realising, and shoot up at them from close range while they blasted the penthouse, he might be able to destroy one or both. These fools must think they were dealing with someone like the Doctor, who would run away rather than stand up for himself. The Master chuckled at the thought; he had learned his lesson in life.

The doors opened at the next floor on to an empty corridor. Keeping an image of the penthouse office’s layout in his mind, the Master hurried through the rooms, finally kicking open a locked door to a darkened office which he calculated should be directly below the penthouse suite.

He had no trouble smashing one of the windows with a chair. From upstairs, he heard a slow series of gunshots as his hypnotised stooge fired uselessly at the helicopters. From below, there were screeching sirens and screams. The music of the big city, he told himself. As he had hoped, the two helicopters were swinging around for another run at their intended victims in the penthouse.

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