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Through Time and Space Chapter 10: Daemons Part 3
"Greyhound Two to Trap Two. Is that you, Yates? Now, what going on there?" We heard Brigadier ask.
"Quite a bit, but I don't think you'd believe me, even if I told you." Yates said.
"The thing is we can't get past this wretched heat barrier. It incinerates anything that tries. Over."
"Can you go around it, Brigadier? Over." I looked at the Doctor confused. He just shrugged.
"The thought had occurred to me, Captain. I sent out patrols but as far as I can see-" There was a pause. "Well, that settle it. The perimeter of this thing is an unbroken circle ten miles in diameter, it's centre being the village church. Over." I sighed. The Doctor grabbed the walkie talkie. "Give me that. Hello, Lethbridge Stewart? The Doctor here. What about going over the top of it." I did not think of that.
"The RAF are are just coming through now. Hang on a minute." There was silence for a little bit. "You hear that, Doctor? We're locked out. Over." Brigadier said.
"Or we're locked in. All right, Brigadier, we'll keep in touch." The Doctor said giving the walkie talkie back to Yates. He grabbed a big piece of paper and started drawing something.
"Doctor what are you doing?" I asked.
"Hold on. I'll explain." He said continuing to draw. After a while, he finally stopped. "Right, that's it. Now, as you can see, we're smack in the middle of a sort of lethal mushroom, about ten miles across and a mile high."
"I can understand that part of it all right, but can't you explain the wider issues, Doctor?" Yates asked.
"Yes, all right. Jo, Captain Yates, would you mind drawing the curtains?" The Doctor put the paper on a projector as Jo and Yates closed the curtains. "Come on, Kate, stir your stumps. Now then. All right? Now then, tell me. Who's that?" He showed a picture of something that looked maybe Egyptian.
"Is it an Egyptian god?" I asked.
"Top of the class, Kate, that's why I married you. That's right, that's the Egyptian god Khnum, with horns. There's another one, a Hindu demon." I was slightly taken back with the mention of our marriage. I hadn't married the Doctor yet. Oh time travel, how you can be so confusing.
"With horns." All of us said.
"Oh. Thank you very much, and our old friend the horned beast."
"I don't get it." Yates said.
"Probably because I haven't finished, Captain Yates."
"Oh sorry, Doctor."
"Oh, you could go on all day and all night showing us pretty pictures. I mean, horns have been a symbol of power ever since-" Hawthorne started saying, but the Doctor cut her off.
"Ever since man began? Exactly. But why? All right, Captain Yates, the curtains. Now creatures like those have been seen over and over again throughout the history of man, and man has turned them into myths, gods or devils, but they're neither. They are, in fact, creatures from another world." The Doctor said.
"Do you mean like the Axons and the Cybermen?" I shuttered a little bit. I'm still not over my first encounter with the Cybermen.
"Precisely, only far, far older and immeasurably more dangerous."
"And they came here in spaceships like that tiny one up at the barrow?" Jo asked.
"That's right. They're Daemons form the planet Daemos, which is?"
"Sixty thousand light years away on the other side of the galaxy." Jo said.
"And they first came to Earth nearly one hundred thousand years ago." That got me confused. I thought the Silurians were the first to be on Earth. Now we have another race to take care of? How did the Doctor not notice the Silurians when this happened? The Doctor went on to talk about what we needed to look for.
"So a spaceship, fifteen inches long?" Jo asked.
"That's right. Mind you, when it landed it was two hundred feet long and thirty feet across, but they diminished it, just at they diminished themselves, which accounts for the heat wave and the freeze-up." The Doctor said.
"Hmm. Sorry, could you say that again? I didn't quite follow you." Jo said obviously having zoned out.
"Oh, come on, Jo. E=MC squared." The Doctor said a little frustrated.
"You're the Doctor."
"Look, when you lose mass the energy has to go somewhere." I think that also may be conservation of mass in Chemistry, but I could very well be wrong. I didn't like Chemistry.
"I see, so all we've got to deal with is something which is either too small to see or thirty feet tall, can incinerate you or freeze you to death, turns stone images into homicidal monsters and looks like the very devil." Well that makes me scared of all statues. Thanks.
"Exactly."
"Well, I still don't get it. I mean, what's the creature doing here? I mean, why did they ever come?" Benton asked.
"To help Homosapiens kick out Neanderthal man. They've been coming and going ever since. The Greek civilization, the Renaissance, the industrial revolution. They were all inspired by the Daemons." The Doctor said.
"But this thing the Professor let loose is evil, you said so yourself, and now you're trying to say they've been helping mankind for a hundred thousand years." Ms. Hawthorne said.
"Yes, and you say they come from another planet. Well then, what's all this jazz about witchcraft and covens and so on?" Jo said. The Doctor looked to me exasperated. I shrugged my shoulders letting him know I knew nothing about this.
"Look, don't you see? All this magical traditions are just remnants of their advanced science, and that is what the Master is using." The Doctor said.
"Then these creatures are linked with the black arts. They are evil." Ms. Hawthorne said.
"Amoral, perhaps." I had to hold in a laugh. I've only heard that word once and that was in Hamilton. "They help Earth, but on their own terms. It's a scientific experiment to them. Just another laboratory rat." The Doctor said.
"Then what's the Master up to?" Yates asked.
"He's established a link with the Daemon. What worries me is the choice. Domination by the Master or total annihilation." The Doctor said.
"Doesn't that mean the same thing? The Master wants humankind gone." I said.
"He's smart. He would kill lots of people but enslave many as well.
"Wait, this Daemon could destroy the world?" Jo asked.
"What does any scientist do with an experiment that fails? He chucks it in the rubbish bin." The Doctor said. I didn't like that analogy.
"The end of the world." Jo said sadly.
"Now the Daemon will appear three times, and the third time he'll probably tell us what our fate is to be. Now he'll be in the cavern somewhere awaiting the Master's second call." The Doctor said.
"Then if we know where he is, why don't we go and find him?" Benton asked.
"You'd be wasting your time, Sergeant. At the moment he's so small he's practically invisible." The Doctor said.
"But Doctor-" Jo started.
"Jo, would you get me a piece of paper and a pencil, please." The Doctor asked. Just then Bert enters.
"I wondered if you'd all care for a bite to eat?" He asked.
"Yes, please." Benton said.
"No, thanks, not just now. The Doctor's a bit busy." Jo said.
"I would like something please." I said. I hadn't eaten in a while, and I'm pretty hungry.
"Does my other regenerations not feed you?" The Doctor said while writing something on the paper.
"We tend to forget. We get so caught up in our adventure."
"Still you need to eat." He said.
"Ah. Well, is it all right if I get on with a bit of clearing up?" Bert asked after giving me what looks to be some kind of pasta. It didn't look too bad. I took a bite and it was actually pretty good for bar food.
"Yes, fine, if you could do it quietly though." Jo said.
"You won't know I'm here."
"Thank you." Jo said. Just then Yates' walkie talkie started beeping.
"Greyhound two. Come in, please. Over." Yates said.
"Is that you, Yates? Now look, we're going to blast our way in. I'm calling up the artillery and RAF strike command. You lot had better evacuate to the cellars." I heard Brigadier say. The Doctor got up and went over to Yates and grabbed the walkie talkie. He then started talking about his plan. I kind of zoned out when he started talking about technical terms.
"Of all the idiotic plans, as if blowing thing up solves anything." Jo said.
"Jo, the Brigadier is doing his best to cope with an almost impossible situation, and since he is your superior officer, you might at least show him a little respect. Coming?" The Doctor told Jo. I was a little surprised by his outburst and so was Jo. She only nodded her head. We headed out to the heat barrier in Bessie, but then something flew over us.
"Look!" Jo exclaimed. It was a helicopter.
"What's happening? I told Yates and Benton to stay in the pub." The helicopter flew over us again. "Who's flying that thing? That's not Benton!" The Doctor exclaimed.
"Well it's certainly not Mike. Look!" Just then Yates come up on his motorcycle. "Well, however it is, he's trying to kill us."
"Hang on, Kate, Jo. We're in for a bumpy ride." We started driving off again, and Yates pulls up next to us.
"He's handling it like an expert!" Yates exclaimed.
"Like a man possessed, you mean. Look out, he's coming back!" Demon possessed? Man, I should've brushed up on my exorcism ritual. I haven't watched Supernatural since I was back in my old world. Do they have that here?
"I'll try and draw him off!" Yates said.
"No, you keep away. It's me and Kate he's after, not you." The Doctor said. Yates went away just as the helicopter flew right over us again. I could see Brigadier from a distance now. Just then there was gunshots going off.
"What's he trying to do?" Jo said covering her head.
"He's trying to drive us into the heat barrier." The Doctor said.
"The heat barrier! We're heading straight for it!" I exclaimed clutching onto the Doctor.
"Hang tight, Kate, Jo. Hang on tight. Now!" The Doctor suddenly threw Bessie into reverse. I was thrown out of the car and hit the pavement hard. I must have blacked out because I didn't remember anything till we got back to the bar.
To Be Continued…
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