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Doctor Who the Eight Doctors DOCTOR WHO The Eight Doctors An Eighth Doctor Ebook By Terrence Dicks Contents Prologue Chapter 1 . Totters Lane Chapter 2 . .Information Recieved Chapter 3 . .Reunion Chapter 4 . .Lost Legion Chapter 5 . Decision Chapter 6 . .Escape Chapter 7 . Devil's End Chapter 8 . Old Friends Chapter 9 . Interludes Chapter 10 . .Vampires Chapter 11 . The Vampire Mutation Chapter 12 . .The Blood of a Time Lord Chapter 13 . Timescoop Chapter 14 . .Harmony Chapter 15 . Buridan's Ass Chapter 16 . .Battleground Chapter 17 . Death Sentence Chapter 18 . .Flavia Chapter 19 . Inquiry Chapter 20 . The Master Chapter 21 . .The Return Chapter 22 . Holiday With Danger Chapter 23 . Rassilon's Game Epilogue Appendix . Extract from the Secret Scrolls of Gallifrey Prologue The Doctor closed The Time Machine with a sigh. 'Dear old H.G.,' he murmured. 'Such an optimist. Such an enthusiast... especially for the ladies.' The Doctor smiled briefly, as if at some pleasant memory, but then he frowned, as the recent - well, subjectively recent - events at the millennium celebrations in San Francisco flashed through his mind in a jumble of outrageous images. It had been a weird, fantastic adventure, full of improbable, illogical events. He scowled at the memory of the Master, treating his precious TARDIS as if it were his own. How had he got in in the first place? Where had he acquired those mysterious morphotic powers he had made use of so freely? Useless to speculate, decided the Doctor. He would probably never know the answers now. He looked round the vastness of the reconfigured TARDIS control room, with its redwood panelled walls and complicated console. He had been so pleased with it once - now it seemed to carry the lingering taint of the Master's presence. The Doctor stood up abruptly, suddenly troubled. Better make one final check - just to make sure that none of the Master's malignant influence remained. Leaving the TARDIS control room, the Doctor made his way to the cloister room. He paced slowly along the pillared walkways and crossed the stone-flagged square, entering the massive central structure that held the Eye of Harmony. He stood gazing down at the flat granite sculpture in the shape of a great closed Eye. It wasn't the Eye of Harmony at all of course, not really. Just a symbolic manifestation, an aspect, of the Great Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey. Created by Omega, stabilised by Rassilon, the Eye held a trapped Black Hole. Its inexhaustible energy powered the whole of Gallifrey - including all the TARDISes with which the Time Lords voyaged through space and time. Even an antiquated Type Forty, like this one, was directly linked to it. The Doctor studied the Eye for a moment longer. It was closed, as it should be. Everything was in order. Except... In the stone corner of the closed Eye, something gleamed like a tear. The Doctor leaned forward to study it more closely. It was solid, like a tiny gleaming diamond. Surely it must irritate the Eye, thought the Doctor. Like those gritty fragments children call 'sleep' that they sometimes find in their eyes upon awakening. He leaned closer still. The little diamond started to blaze even more brightly. It glowed and burned and spun itself into a bolt of pure energy that lashed out and upwards and flashed into the Doctor's eyes, searing across his brain. The Doctor staggered back, his hands to his eyes and crashed to the ground. As he fell he heard a mocking voice. 'Always one last trap, Doctor. All's ill that ends ill...' Master's mocking laughter ringing in his ears... *** Some time later - he had no idea how long - the Doctor awoke. He got to his feet and stood swaying for a moment, rubbing his eyes. He looked down uncomprehendingly at the flat stone sculpture of a closed eye, relieved when its blurred outlines focused into sudden clarity. At least he could still see. But what was he seeing? With a sudden shock of horror and fear, he realised that his surroundings were weird, exotic and completely strange to him. He turned and staggered away, out of the cathedral-like building, across the stone-flagged square. He had a destination, he knew that if nothing else. Something was drawing him. There was somewhere he needed to be. His stumbling footsteps took him along a different route through the labyrinthine interior of the TARDIS ending up in a room with white-roundelled walls and a many-sided central console. This, although he didn't realise it, was the old, traditional TARDIS control room, in all its classic simplicity. A few old-fashioned chairs, a comfortable chaise-longue, an antique table, a hat-stand, a tall column with the statue of a bird on top... There was something comforting, reassuringly familiar about this room. He leaned on the control console, hands spread out flat. The console seemed to tingle with warmth. Life and strength flooded into his body. He had found an old friend. After a moment he straightened up and looked uncomprehendingly around him. What was this place? Clearly it was some kind of control room. But what was it supposed to control? He wandered about the room. There were chairs, a table, a teapot with an unwashed mug beside it. He touched the wall and a locker door swung open wide, revealing a rack of clothes. A man stood beside the locker, watching him. A tall, blue-eyed man with longish hair. He wore a long velvet coat, a wing-collar and a cravat. They stared at each other for a moment. The Doctor raised a defensive hand and the figure did the same. Suddenly he realised that he was looking at himself in a full-length mirror set into the locker door. He stared curiously into the face in the mirror. It was the face of a stranger. A word formed itself in his mind: amnesia. He didn't know what he looked like. He didn't know who he was. He felt a girl's warm lips on his own and heard a voice shout exultantly, 'I am the Doctor!' The voice was his own. 'Well, that's something,' he murmured. A name - or at least, a title. But it wasn't enough. Doctor of what? Which Doctor? Doctor who? He heard another voice, but this time it wasn't his own. It was a deep, booming voice, rumbling and husky at the same time. It called up a shadowy picture of a great vaulted chamber in which a shaft of light picked out a massive stone bier. On the top of the bier lay a motionless form, dressed in ancient ceremonial robes. A frieze of Time Lord images ran around the sides of the bier, but the eyes in the stone faces were furiously alive. The voice said, 'Trust theTARDIS, Doctor!' Immediately, the Doctor knew that the TARDIS was where he was. The many-sided control console beneath his hands. The infinity of rooms and corridors and chambers that lay beyond it. A mini-universe - and a sentient entity. An old friend. The voice in his head spoke again. 'Trust theTARDIS. Let it take you back to the beginning.' The Doctor's hands began fumbling over the controls. Chapter 1 Totters Lane A girl skidded round the corner into Totters Lane and sped along the rutted pavement. A thin, wiry girl with blue eyes and close-cropped fair hair, wearing black jeans, white T-shirt and trainers. Samantha Jones was on the run. Still running, she glanced over her shoulder and saw a little knot of panting figures turn the corner behind her. A hoarse voice shouted, 'Sam, wait up! We only wanna talk!' Sure you do. She increased her pace, lengthening the gap between her and her already-flagging pursuers. She grinned. Smokers, boozers, bar-room cowboys. The only exercise they ever got was pulling the ring-pull on a can of lager. Sam Jones was a runner, three miles every morning without fail. She could leave this lot standing. She was nearing the other end of Totters Lane when a tall, redhaired skinny young man in black jeans, black T-shirt and a black padded jacket stepped out in front of her. 'Hello there, Sam! Going somewhere?' Sam spun on her heel and ran back the other way. Baz was alone. But even alone, Baz was a lot more scary than those moronic thugs he called his gang. Unfortunately, she was now running back towards those same thugs. They had strung out across the road to block her escape. Three of them: Little Mikey, Pete and Mo. Mo was short for 'monster.' He was as big as a gorilla, but considerably nastier. Sam took a quick look over her shoulder and saw Baz strolling along behind her. Baz never ran - he would have considered it uncool. Sam glanced quickly around. She was running along the side of a high wooden fence, no turn-offs in sight. But there was a gate, midway between her two sets of pursuers. She sprinted up to it. The gate was locked. But it wasn't all that high... She took a few paces back, sprang forward, and swung herself over the top. Sam Jones was a gymnast as well. As she dropped to the ground she heard the first of her pursuers crash against the locked gate. She looked around her. She was in a junkyard - an abandoned junkyard if such a thing was possible. There was an incredible collection of odds and ends. Broken furniture, old bikes and rusty lawnmowers, faded pictures in shattered frames, shop-window dummies looking eerily human.
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