02 - The Monsters Inside

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The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a destination in

deep space – Justicia, a prison camp stretched over six

planets, where Earth colonies deal with their criminals.

While Rose ﬁnds herself locked up in a teenage borstal, the

Doctor is trapped in a scientiﬁc labour camp. Each is determined

to ﬁnd the other, and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking

life and limb to escape in their distinctive styles.

But their dangerous plans are complicated by some old enemies. Are

these creatures fellow prisoners as they claim, or staging a takeover for

their own sinister purposes?

Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Ecclestone and Billie

Piper in the hit series from BBC Television.

The Monsters Inside

Stephen Cole

Contents

Prologue 4

One 8

Two 11

Three 17

Four 24

Five 29

Six 35

Seven 41

Eight 49

Nine 57

Ten 63

Eleven 71

Twelve 81

Thirteen 88

Fourteen 96

Fifteen 103

Sixteen 111

CONTENTS 2

Seventeen 119

Eighteen 126

Nineteen 135

Twenty 146

Twenty-One 155

Twenty-Two 162

Twenty-Three 168

Acknowledgements 173

About the author 174

For Jason Loborik,

who just smiled when I couldn’t tell him a thing

Wherever it was, it wasn’t Earth.

Rose Tyler threw open the TARDIS doors and stood looking out, a mas-

sive grin on her face. The sky was a shimmering green. Three suns shone

through the haze, their heat prickling her skin. The muddy ground was

the colour of olives and sloped up sharply, while beyond it a range of pale

mountains, perfect pyramids, stood like pitched tents on the far horizon.

It wasn’t Earth. She was, ofﬁcially, Somewhere Else.

‘Another world. . . ’ Rose closed her eyes, opened her arms and leaned

out a little. She felt giddy for a moment as a gentle breeze blew up and

rufﬂed her long blonde hair about her shoulders.

‘You did it, then,’ she called to the man who’d brought her here.

‘Huh?’ He sounded preoccupied. ‘Oh, yeah, right. The alien planet

thing.’

‘And about time. We’ve done space stations. . . space-ships. . . ’

‘We’ve done your planet so often we should get T-shirts made up.’

Rose heard him crossing to join her and smiled to herself.

‘What, you mean, like, I saved the Earth and all I got was –’

‘Aggro?’

He gave Rose a gentle shove in the small of her back and she stumbled

outside. The alien soil squidged beneath her white trainers. ‘Oi! Doctor, I

was building up to that!’

The Doctor grinned at her. He was a tall, imposing man with heavy

features and dark, close-cropped hair. His leather jacket, jeans and T-shirt

lent him a casual, unassuming air. If you passed him on the street you

wouldn’t look twice. But up close, there was an intensity about him that

crackled through every movement, each lingering look.

‘What were you gonna do?’ he said. ‘Plant a ﬂag? Make a speech?’ He

stepped out after her, looking all about. ‘Nah. Take a giant leap for hu-

mankind, and nine times out of ten you squash whatever’s beneath you.

The best things are always just stumbled upon.’

PROLOGUE 5

‘The way you stumbled on me, you mean?’ she asked cheekily. That

had been back on Earth, in the middle of an alien invasion. They’d beaten

it together; he’d shown her she could make a difference to things. Now

she travelled with him, and felt a sense of belonging she’d never dreamed

possible.

‘Look,’ he said softly, pointing to something just the other side of the

TARDIS. A single ﬂower.

Rose went over to see. It was a scraggly specimen, but smelled sweet,

and its red petals were the only splats of colour in the muddy desert.

‘There you go,’ the Doctor murmured. ‘Your ﬁrst contact with alien life

on its own turf.’

‘Literally.’ Rose picked up a fallen petal. It felt velvety between her

ﬁngertips, made them tingle.

‘This could be the rarest ﬂower in the universe, the last of its kind.’ The

Doctor’s eyes ﬁxed on hers suddenly, clear and unnervingly blue. ‘Or it

could be one of billions. Common as daisies. Just the ﬁrst to poke its head

through the soil to greet the three-sunned springtime.’

She smiled. ‘Doesn’t matter, does it? It’s here, and so are we!’ He

grinned back.

‘But where are we?’

He shrugged. ‘Dunno. Edge of the galaxy somewhere.’

She got up. ‘TARDIS not telling?’ TARDIS stood for ‘Time And Rel-

ative Dimension In Space’. This was supposed to explain how come you

could disguise a massive control room inside a poky police box and travel

anywhere and any time in the universe, but it left Rose little the wiser.

‘Might be on the blink. We landed quicker than normal, like something

in the area drew us down. . . ’ The Doctor looked bothered for a moment.

Then he started glancing all about again. ‘What do you think?’

‘You’re the 900-year-old alien, you tell me!’

‘I mean, what do you think of all this? Strange air in your lungs. New

suns in the sky.’

‘That’s a point – three suns up there, we’ll burn really quickly.’ Rose

was wearing jeans, a red T-shirt and a white jacket, but her face was still

exposed. ‘Maybe we should get some cream.’

The Doctor considered. ‘Let’s have a poke about before we crack open

the Ambre Solaire.’ He set off up the muddy rise. ‘See if it’s worth sticking

around.’

‘Speaking of sticking,’ she said, ‘how come the ground’s so soggy when

it’s so hot?’

He shot her a sideways glance. ‘This isn’t Earth. Earth rules don’t

apply.’

PROLOGUE 6

‘That’s true. I feel lighter,’ Rose said, taking a balletic leap after him.

‘Less gravity,’ he agreed.

‘So I weigh about half a stone less, and I’ll tan three times as fast.’ She

smiled as she fell into step beside him, bouncing along. ‘We have to stay

here for ever, you know that, right?’

‘Tell you what. If we like the view from this hilltop, I’ll dig out the deck

chairs.’ He offered her his hand. ‘Deal?’

‘Deal,’ she said, taking it.

They were still hand in hand when they reached the lip of the rise. Rose

found they were far higher up than she had realised. And whatever view

she had been expecting, it couldn’t have been more gobsmacking than this.

‘No more ﬂowers, then.’ She felt she was overlooking the set of some

incredible Hollywood epic. ‘I thought those things in the distance were

mountains shaped like pyramids –’

‘But they’re the real thing,’ said the Doctor.

‘And are those real Egyptians?’

In the valley far below, tiny ﬁgures were building a pyramid right now.

The ground area had to be twice the size of Trafalgar Square, though Nel-

son’s column would barely peep over the second of the ﬁve steep steps

cut cleanly into the pyramid’s sides. These baked-mud plateaux were a

seething, sweating mass of activity as workers toiled to disguise the steps

and create a true pyramid. Overseers watched, massive arms folded across

their well-oiled chests, as scores of sweating men in loincloths heaved

huge bricks up ramps of rubble to add to the massive construction. A

hundred more were struggling with ropes and pulleys to lower the ﬁnish-

ing blocks into position.

‘Built the same as your pyramids on Earth,’ the Doctor informed her.

‘Buttress walls built up around a central core. Fourth dynasty, maybe.’

‘And not what you’d expect to ﬁnd the other side of the galaxy.’ Rose

watched as a man stumbled and fell while struggling to push a sledge

full of rubble down one of the many ramps. An overseer strode forwards

at once with a vicious-looking whip, started laying into him. The man

screamed as the leather lashed him.

‘There’s no need for that,’ Rose said ﬁercely. ‘What’s going on? I mean,

space-travelling ancient-Egyptian chain gangs?’

‘Doubt it.’

‘They look human.’

The Doctor stared on as a further whipcrack scored through the air.

‘Yeah. They act human, too.’

The man, his back burned now with four thick red stripes, was dragged

to his feet by two more workers and shoved back towards the sledge.

PROLOGUE 7

Weakly, he struggled with it once more.

‘This is horrible,’ said Rose. ‘Can’t we do something?’

‘No.’

She looked at him sharply. ‘Oh, yeah? More of your posh alien moral-

ity?’

‘Oh, no, I’m well up for it.’ He was looking back the way they’d come.

‘But I don’t reckon they’re keen.’

Rose turned back from the lip of the precipice. Four of the overseers

had crept up behind them, swarthy, bare-chested, massive and mean-

looking. Each held a heavy whip in one hand.

And a futuristic space gun in the other.

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