Paradise Towers by Stephen Wyatt

Author:Stephen Wyatt [Wyatt, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780426203308
Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
Published: 1989-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

Fire Escape confided, ‘because of your high fabshion clothes.’

‘Thank you,’ the Doctor returned, amiably. ‘But let us not lose sight of what we have to do. We must find Mel, my friend, and solve the mystery of Paradise Towers because I have learnt enough to know that its very existence is at stake.’

‘Icehot, Doctor, icehot,’ Bin Liner agreed. The Kangs were always pleased when there was a scent of adventure in the air. And now they had heard what the Doctor had to say and seen his prodigious conjuring act with the talkiphone, they were beginning to understand that they had to take action or else. If even Caretakers were being made unalive, something very odd indeed was going on.

The Kangs raised their cans to celebrate their new-found understanding once more and the Doctor returned the toast for the umpteenth time, wondering once again where the phrase ‘Build High for Happiness’ came from.

Another little mystery to add to the others.

Then a warning alarm went off. Its strident ringing shattered the hilarity in an instant. The Kangs were alert again, discarded crossbows back in their hands. Bin Liner ran to a periscope-like peephole to see what was going on at floor level above.

When she removed her eye from the peephole, her face was stern. ‘I can see Caretakers.’ She turned grimly to the Doctor. ‘Ware Doctor!’

The mood was ugly now. The Doctor was no longer the Kangs’ friend. ‘He brings them here,’ said Fire Escape, pointing accusingly. ‘Because, like Caretakers, he wants all Wallscrawlers unalive.’

‘Not at all. You don’t understand,’ protested the Doctor.

‘I mean, the last people I want to meet are the Caretakers.

I’d be in as much danger as you are. More, probably.’ He looked round the circle of suspicious young faces. ‘You’ve got to believe me. We’ve got to work together. The Chief Caretaker is off his head. If we don’t stop the wipeouts, who will?’

The alarm kept ringing. The Doctor had to raise his voice to be heard above it. ‘Please,’ he pleaded. Then the alarm ended its piercing warning and there was quiet for a moment. And in the quiet, another sound became audible.

The distant sound of a powerful drill. The Caretakers must be drilling into the door. They would soon be down in the Brainquarters.

The Kangs stood momentarily paralysed, unable to decide what to do. ‘You must have a secret escape route,’

the Doctor urged. ‘It’s not like Kangs to allow themselves to be caught like rats in a trap.’

‘Red Kangs have an unseen outway,’ Bin Liner acknowledged. ‘But –’

‘But what?’

‘The Caretakers will be in our Brainquarters too soon for the Kangs to use it.’ She glanced regretfully towards the concealed outway which a couple of the Kangs had started to uncover.

‘I see,’ the Doctor said, ‘you need time?’

Bin Liner nodded. And at that moment, the Doctor made his decision. ‘I will buy you the time,’ he announced.

‘I’m the reason why the Caretakers are here. Go on. Make your escape while you can.’

The Kangs still stared. ‘It’s not like Kangs to be so slow, is it? Go on.

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