Doctor Who: The Pit by Neil Penswick

Author:Neil Penswick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426203780
Publisher: London Bridge
Published: 1993-02-15T10:00:00+00:00

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The space station had plummeted from the sky thousands of years before, scattering debris over many kilometres. The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet. Hundreds of kilometres of forest and vegetation had been scorched. Now nothing grew on the plain. The huge, metallic object was basically intact. It was about five miles round and must have resembled a spinning top, floating above this anonymous planet. The symbol of a lost civilization which had walked this way when the cosmos was still young.

The khthons showed no interest in the ancient relic. Swarf shouted for them to speed up. Time was catching up with them.

Chopra had not told the shapechanger that his brother was dead. The shapechanger’s body had been enveloped by the force suffocating the planet. Chopra felt it happen. There was no pain. It was the beginning of the end.

Chopra stared at the space station, trying to pick up the memories of a past age.

And then It sensed him. It knew he was there.

Chopra staggered, and slumped on to the floor.

He had looked into the other world, and he had been caught peering through. He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him. A yellow face, bloodshot eyes, and the feeling of incredible age.

It was close but far. It had waited. And now It knew him.

‘No, no,’ he whispered.

As he cowered on the ground, a small insect ran from the space station. Chopra saw it out of the corner of his eye. He watched it head towards him. It was the size of a beetle, but mechanical. Apart from its legs it resembled an old fashioned typewriter with a carriage and Qwerty keyboard. There was a piece of paper sticking up from its back. He bent closer to read it.

‘Whom Gods destroy they first send Mad.’

The typewriter made a clicking sound and then ran towards the space station. Chopra watched it disappear.

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