028 - Doctor Who and the Giant Robot

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‘Look, Brigadier! It’s growing!’ screamed Sarah.

The Brigadier stared in amazement as the Robot began to

grow... and grow... swelling to the size of a giant!

Slowly the metal colossus, casting its enormous shadow

upon the surrounding trees and buildings, began to stride

towards the Brigadier. A giant metal hand reached down

to grasp him... Can DOCTOR WHO defeat the evil forces

controlling the Robot before they execute their plans to

blackmail—or destroy—the world?

ISBN 0 426 11279 2

DOCTOR WHO

AND THE

GIANT ROBOT

Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who—Robot by

arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation

TERRANCE DICKS

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Target Book

Published in 1975

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd.

A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

Corporation 1974,1975

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex

ISBN 0 426 11279 2

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.

CONTENTS

1 Killer in the Night

2 Something More than Human

3 Trouble at Thinktank

4 Robot!

5 The Killer Strikes Again

6 Trapped by the Robot

7 The World in Danger

8 In the Hands of the Enemy

9 The Battle at the Bunker

10 The Countdown Begins

11 The Kidnapping of Sarah

12 The Giant Terror

Killer in the Night

It moved through the darkness, swift and silent despite

its enormous bulk. Sensors fed a constant flow of information

to the controlling brain: terrain underfoot uneven... irregular

consistency... adjust balance mechanisms to compensate.

Vegetable and organic matter impeding progress... resistance

negligible... ignore. Objective in sight... one human guard

armed with primitive weapon... prepare to neutralise...

The notice over the massively burred gate read,

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE WEAPONRY

RESEARCH CENTRE

NO ADMITTANCE WITHOUT PASS

The sentry was bored and tired. How come he always got

the night duty? Ruddy sergeant had it in for him, that’s why.

He sneaked a look at his watch. Another hour till the guard

changed. Another hour stuck out here in the cold, windy

darkness guarding a gate so strong that a tank couldn’t get

through it. So why guard it? He marched up and down

glumly. Suddenly, he stopped. Something was moving, out

there in the darkness. He strained his eyes. The area round

the gate was brightly lit by an overhead lamp, but this only

made the surrounding darkness all the blacker. But there was

something... Something huge, metallic... He raised his rifle,

about to call out a challenge, when it stepped out of the

darkness and fear dried the words in his throat.

He stood frozen to the spot, unable to believe his eyes.

The thing closed the distance between them in two swift

strides. The sentry sucked in air to scream an alarm, but he

was too late. A metal hand shot out and snapped his neck.

It caught the sentry as he fell and laid the body almost

tenderly to one side. Then it moved forward to the gate.

Having studied it for a moment, it reached out, and snapped

the cable of the alarm system. Blue sparks flickered for a

moment around the pincer-like fingers. It broke the heavy

steel chains, smashed the lock from the gate, and pushed it

open.

Gravel crunched beneath its feet as it moved up the

drive towards the front door. It paused for a moment as the

sensors detected movement. Some form of animal life was

approaching...

An enormous black Doberman raced across the

grounds, growling low in its throat. It was a particularly large

and savage specimen of one of the fiercest breeds of guard

dog in existence, and would have tackled anything from an

armed man to a mountain lion without a second’s hesitation.

Yet, as it came up to its quarry it skidded to a halt, claws

raking the gravel, scrabbling desperately to check its run. The

dog backed away whimpering, then turned and fled in panic.

The giant metal intruder smashed open the front door with a

single massive blow and entered the building.

It moved along the corridors, infra-red vision taking it

unerringly through the darkness. Soon it stood in an empty

office, with a huge steel safe in the corner. The safe was the

latest Government Security Model, guaranteed to resist

thermic lances and high explosives. Metal hands ripped the

door from its hinges and reached inside. The shelves of the

safe were stacked with buff-coloured folders, all bearing a red

TOP SECRET stamp. Skilfully it sorted through the pile,

extracted just one folder, and left the office. It moved out of

the building, down the path, past the shattered gate and the

dead sentry, and disappeared into the darkness.

The whole operation had taken place in a little under

three minutes.

Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, head of the

British Section of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce

(UNIT for short), stood in the empty laboratory and stared at

a particular spot on the floor. On that spot he had seen

something absolutely unbelievable happen. Now, several days

later, he was reliving the scene, trying to convince himself that

he could trust his own eyes.

It was after the peculiar business down at the meditation

centre1 Yates had called in that journalist girl, Sarah Jane

Smith, and she of course had involved the Doctor. The

Brigadier still wasn’t sure what had really happened. It

seemed to be mixed up with a blue crystal from an alien

planet, and some giant spiders who wanted the thing back.

The Doctor had managed to clear things up, but he’d gone

missing himself in the process. Just as they’d given him up for

lost he’d reappeared again, but in a really shocking state,

looking as if he was about to die on them.

And then... (The Brigadier frowned ferociously—he’d

seen this last bit himself, and still didn’t believe it) a little chap

called Cho-Je, one of the monks from the Meditation Centre,

had turned up, claiming to be a Time Lord like the Doctor

himself. Floating in mid air as cool you please, he’d told them

1 Told in DOCTOR WHO AND THE PLANET OF THE SPIDERS

that the Doctor’s old body was out by his exertions, and he’d

have to trade it in for a new one...

The Brigadier had already adjusted to one change of

appearance by the Doctor. It had taken him a long time to

accept that the dark-haired, rather comical little chap who’d

helped him against the Yeti and the Cybermen, and the tall

white-haired man who’d turned up just in time to join the

struggle against the Autons, were one and the same. Now he’d

had to face another change. And this one had taken place

under his very nose.

The Brigadier twitched that nose, and stared even

harder at the piece of floor. In his mind’s eye he could see the

Doctor writhing and twisting in agony. He could see those

familiar features begin to blur and change...

Suddenly it had been all over. A new man with a new

face was lying on the laboratory floor. Like, and yet unlike.

Still tall and thin, still with the same rather beaky nose. But a

younger man, the face far less lined, a tangle of curly brown

hair replacing the flowing white locks.

With Sarah Jane Smith kneeling beside him, the new

Doctor had struggled to sit up. He was muttering some-thing

confused about ‘Sontarans’, and ‘perverting the course of

human history’. Benton had come in. Fixing him with an

unnerving stare, the new Doctor had said distinctly, ‘The

Brontosaurus is large, placid and stupid,’ and promptly

collapsed. They’d rushed him off to the sick bay, and there

he’d been ever since, lying in a kind of death-like coma.

Young Dr. Sullivan, the new Medical Officer, was desperately

worried about him. And so indeed was the Brigadier...

The opening of the laboratory door interrupted the

Brigadier’s musings. He turned and saw Sarah Jane Smith.

Although she wasn’t a member of UNIT, Sarah’s friendship

with the Doctor made her a kind of unofficial agent. The

Brigadier harrumphed, somewhat embarrassed to be caught

mooning about the empty laboratory. Gruffly he answered

Sarah’s unspoken question. ‘Sorry, Miss Smith. No change.

No change at all.’

Sarah sighed. For a moment there was an awkward

silence. To break it the Brigadier said, ‘Expect you’re

wondering what I’m doing here. Between you and me, I had

a fit of absent-mindedness.’ He tapped the Top Secret file

tucked under his arm. ‘Very unusual case here. Lots of

baffling features. Soon as I read the reports I picked up the

file and...’

Sarah smiled understandingly. ‘Came here to talk to the

Doctor about it?’

The Brigadier nodded. ‘Silly really. Poor old boy’s in no

state to talk about anything.’

‘He’ll be all right,’ said Sarah. ‘You remember Cho-Je

said the change would shake him up a bit. He’s bound to

wake up soon.’

‘Yes, of course,’ said the Brigadier hastily. ‘Only a

matter of time.’ Both spoke with a confidence they didn’t feel.

Both had heard ghastly stories about people who’d stayed in

comas for years and years...

A living death, thought Sarah, and shuddered. Just to

change the subject, she asked, ‘This case of yours, what was it

all about?’

‘Some plans were stolen from a Ministry of Defence

Establishment.’

‘Plans for what?’

‘Something called a Disintegrator Gun. Miss Smith, this

is all very top secret.’

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