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A mysterious power-loss strands the TARDIS on Exxilon,
a sinister fog-shrouded alien planet. Forced to brave the
dangers of the planet, the Doctor meets the survivors of a
beleaguered expedition from Earth searching for a
precious mineral that can save the galaxy from a terrible
space-plague. Sarah finds a mysterious super-City and
becomes a captive of the savage Exxilons, and, worst of
all, the Doctor's greatest enemies, the dreaded Daleks,
arrive on a secret mission of their own.
What terrifying power makes captives of all who come to
the planet? What is the secret of the mysterious deserted
City with its great flashing beacon? And what sinister plan
has brought the Daleks to Exxilon? The Doctor and Sarah
must risk their lives time and again in a desperate attempt
to foil the Daleks and save millions of humans from the
horrific plague.
ISBN 0 426 20042 X
A Target Book
Published in 1978
by the Paperback Division of W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd.
A Howard & Wyndham Company
44 Hill Street, London WIX 8LB
Text of book copyright © 1978 by Terrance Dicks Original script
copyright © 1974, 1978 by Terry Nation
'Doctor Who' series copyright © 1974, 1978 by the British
Broadcasting Corporation
Daleks created by Terry Nation
Printed in Great Britain by
Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks.
ISBN 0 426 20042 X
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of
trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated
without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or
cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar
condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent
purchaser.
DOCTOR WHO
DEATH TO THE
DALEKS
Based on the BBC television serial Death to the Daleks by Terry
Nation by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation
TERRANCE DICKS
published by
The Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd
CONTENTS
Prologue
1 Death of a TARDIS
2 The Ambush
3 Expedition from Earth
4 The Deadly Arrivals
5 A Truce with Terror
6 The Sacrifice
7 Escape to the Unknown
8 Bellal
9 The Pursuit
10 The City Attacks
11 The Trap
12 The Nightmare
13 The Antibodies
14 The Last Victory
Prologue
He was a dead man running.
He ran blindly, desperately through the swirling green fog,
deep, sobbing breaths rasping into his tortured lungs. He knew there
was little hope. Somehow he had been separated from the others in
the ambush, and now his enemies were hunting him. Without
checking his run, he glanced back over his shoulder. Shadowy
figures were flitting through the dunes behind him.
His foot slipped on a loose rock and he pitched forward on to
his face. He rolled over, scrambled to his feet and ran on, snatching
another quick look behind him. This time he saw nothing, but he
knew they were all around him, herding him across the dunes like a
hunted beast. As he ran, confused memories flashed through his
mind. Selection for this all-important mission, farewells to family
and friends on Earth, the landing on this isolated hell-planet. And
then—disaster. A superbly-equipped expedition, from one of the
most advanced cultures in the galaxy, suddenly and utterly helpless.
He reached a small, stagnant pool, stopped to get his
bearings—and a black-cloaked, hooded figure rose up before him
like a ghost. He turned aside—and another appeared, barring his
path. He swung round. More silent figures had appeared behind him.
He snatched the blaster from his belt and glared defiantly
around him. The weapon was useless on this planet, but if one of
them came close enough, he could use it as a club.
There was a sudden blur of movement from one of the silent
figures and he felt a blow over the heart. It felt no worse than a heavy
punch, but when he looked down there was an arrow jutting from his
chest. More arrows thudded into his body and he staggered back,
falling with a splash into the little pool. As its darkness swallowed
him, his last, bitter thought was that he had failed. His entire mission
had failed, and because of that failure, untold millions would die a
hideous death...
1
Death of a TARDIS
The police box, which was not a police box at all, sped through
that mysterious void where space and time are one. Inside the
impossibly large control room a tall, white-haired man with a deeply-
lined, young-old face was making a few final adjustments to the
instruments. Despite the ultra-modern nature of his surroundings, he
was dressed with old-fashioned elegance, in narrow trousers, velvet
smoking jacket and ruffled shirt.
A door opened and an attractive, dark haired girl appeared. She
wore an abbreviated beach robe, over a twentieth century bathing
costume, and carried a big, striped beach bag. 'It's all in here, Doctor.
Sun glasses, sun lotion, water-wings...'
The Doctor smiled. 'You won't need water-wings, Sarah.'
'Oh yes I will. You said we were going swimming...'
'You can't sink on Florana.'
'I can sink anywhere,' said Sarah pessimistically. 'I need a life
jacket in my bath.'
'The water on Florana is effervescent. The bubbles support
you.' 'Sounds like swimming in a glass of health salts.'
The Doctor was in great good humour. 'All right, Sarah, all
right. Just wait till you've seen Florana. It's the most beautiful
holiday planet in the galaxy.'
Sarah felt contrite. It seemed unfair to be so suspicious when
the Doctor was in such a holiday mood. But somehow she just
couldn't help wondering if the Doctor's lavish promises about their
destination were really going to be fulfilled. During her relatively
brief acquaintance with the Doctor, the TARDIS had taken her to a
particularly violent era of England's medieval past, and to a London
mysteriously infested with dinosaurs.
The Doctor had assured her that this time everything would be
different. To make up for these terrifying experiences he was taking
her to the most beautiful, the most peaceful planet in the galaxy.
She noticed that a red light was flashing on the TARDIS
control console. Other lights began to flicker, and needles on the
instrument-dials were oscillating wildly. She looked at the Doctor,
but he was staring blissfully into space, still summoning up the
beauties of Florana. 'I always come away from those long golden
beaches feeling a hundred years younger...'
'Doctor...'
'And the beauty of Florana is that unlike your own little planet
it hasn't yet been spoiled by—'
'Doctor, should that red light be flashing like that? And all
those others?'
The Doctor swung round, and saw alarm signals registering all
over the TARDIS console. He dashed frantically around the console,
adjusting controls. A fuse blew with a crackle of sparks and a puff of
smoke. The lights in the control room went dim.
Sarah was frankly terrified. 'What is it, Doctor, what's
happening?'
'There seems to be a major power failure. Hang on, I'll cut in
the emergency circuits.' The Doctor pulled a lever and all at once
everything returned to normal. The main lights came up again, the
warning lights went out. 'That's a relief,' said the Doctor. 'If the
emergency units hadn't worked, we'd have been in real trouble.'
The main lights began to fade, and the emergency signals on
the console started flickering once more.
'It's happening again,' said Sarah. 'Do something, Doctor!'
The Doctor was leaning over the controls, frowning in
concentration. For the TARDIS to fail in this way meant only one
thing. Some outside force was operating against it. A sudden fierce
jolt made him clutch the console for support, and sent Sarah
staggering. 'What's happened, Doctor ?'
'I can tell you one thing, Sarah. We've landed.' He pointed to
the centre column which rose and fell steadily while the TARDIS
was in flight. It was motionless.
One by one the warning lights on the TARDIS console started
to go out, and the indicator needles on the dials crept back towards
zero. The main lights grew dimmer and dimmer, and there was an
uncanny silence. 'It's as if the TARDIS is dying,' whispered Sarah.
'I'd better try the scanner—while there's still enough power to
operate it,' said the Doctor. He threw the switch, and the scanner
screen lit up. The picture was dim and fuzzy and all it showed them
was sand dunes and swirling green fog. Slowly the picture faded and
the scanner screen went black. 'Fascinating,' murmured the Doctor.
'What's so fascinating about fog?'
'Perhaps that fog is what's putting the TARDIS out of action.'
The concealed lights in the TARDIS ceiling began going out
one by one. Section after section of the TARDIS was plunged into
darkness. Finally one central light-source was left, bathing the
console, the Doctor and Sarah in a little circle of light. Then it too
began to fade.
'Don't you have any other emergency power source?' asked
Sarah.
'Yes, of course. I'll switch over to the back-up system.' He
threw a switch and the lights came up again. Sarah smiled with
relief—but not for long. Slowly the lights began to fade.
'Dud battery?' suggested Sarah nervously.
'Hardly. Listen.'
'I can't hear anything.'
'Exactly. Neither can I. Nothing at all. Not a click or a tick.
Nothing. The TARDIS is a living thing, hundreds of complex
instruments, working all the time. It's energy sources are perpetual—
never stop.'
'Well, they have now. Everything's completely dead.'
'It's just as you said. The TARDIS is dying.' The Doctor looked
around the control room. It was almost completely dark now, just the
faintest of glimmers from the central light. 'Sarah, look in that locker
over there. I think there should be a torch on the upper shelf.'
Sarah opened the locker and groped inside. She took out an
enormous torch, the heavy industrial kind covered in black rubber.
She switched it on and a beam of bright light illuminated the console.
Sarah felt better immediately—until the beam of the torch began
slowly fading. In a matter of seconds it had died completely and the
darkness returned.
The Doctor was hunting inside another locker. He emerged
carrying a large, old-fashioned lamp, the sort coal miners used to use.
Sarah managed a smile. 'Don't tell me—you're going to rub it and
produce a genie!'
The Doctor held the lamp to his ear and shook it. 'On the
contrary, I'm going to cast some light on our situation!' He took a box
of old-fashioned sulphur matches from the locker, struck one and lit
the lamp. A pool of soft yellow light bathed the area around them.
Sarah breathed a sigh of relief. 'Well, hooray for good old-
fashioned oil!'
The Doctor turned up the wick and the light grew brighter.
'That's better. Now, we'd better go outside and find out where we
are.' Sarah gave him a sceptical look. 'I bet it isn't Florana!'
He passed her the lantern. 'Hold this a minute, will you? The
door controls won't be working. I'll have to open them manually.' He
went to a tool locker in the base of the control console and took out
an iron lever, rather like the starting handle of an old-fashioned car.
Crossing to the doors, the Doctor slipped the handle into a wall
socket and began to turn it. Slowly the doors started to open, and
green fog drifted into the room. It seemed to chill the air. Sarah
shivered inside her beach robe. The Doctor opened the door a little
wider and went outside. Nervously Sarah followed.
There was little enough to see. The TARDIS seemed to have
landed in the middle of sand dunes—their low rounded shapes
stretched away into the greenish fog.
Coarse grey sand crunched underfoot as they moved cautiously
away from the TARDIS. Sarah shivered. 'It's so cold...'
'Come on,' said the Doctor. 'Let's take a look around.' They
walked on through the dunes for quite some time. Suddenly Sarah
jumped back in terror as a menacing black figure loomed up out of
the fog.
The Doctor held her arm. 'All right, Sarah, it's only a rock.' It
was a kind of monolith, a fantastically-carved shape in black stone.
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