Cold Fusion - Lance Parkin [128]
‘That was true all three times, yes, but it doesn’t apply here,’ the other Doctor noted from underneath the console.
‘Yes, yes, I know that. Now, Zodin erased our brains with mind rubbers.’
‘I remember it well.’
‘But that hasn’t happened this time. The crashed TARDIS might have had misphased Relativity Displacers.’
‘It might,’ the seventh Doctor conceded, ‘but it didn’t.
‘Tachyon Backflush?’ the fifth Doctor suggested.
Chris sniggered. ‘Sorry – it’s just that it sounds rude.’
Forrester shook her head disbelievingly. Her Doctor stood, brushing himself off and taking his umbrella back from his past self
The fifth Doctor straightened. ‘There is another possibility.’
‘Go on.’
‘You do remember. You’ve remembered all along.’
The Doctor smiled enigmatically and tapped the side of his nose.
At the prearranged signal, Forrester knocked out the fifth Doctor with a swift blow to the back of the head.
The seventh Doctor bent over his past self, but rubbed his own skull. ‘A palpable hit,’ he said. Cwej was looking bewildered.
‘Sorry,’ Roz said, biting her lip, ‘I wasn’t sure whether you still wanted me to –’
‘Not at all,’ the Doctor replied quickly. ‘I don’t remember feeling a thing.’ He looked down at his prone former self. ‘I think we’d better leave, though.’ He was at the transmat console, twisting dials and pulling levers.
‘The transmat network is fixed now, is it?’
‘Oh yes. It should beam us straight over to the apartment we rented.’ The Doctor tapped in a final command and joined Cwej and Forrester on the transmat platform. ‘We’ll tie up the loose ends, then get back to the TARDIS. Wolsey will be wondering where we’ve got to.’
The transmat activated and all three disappeared from view
Document Outline
Front cover
Rear cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Part One - Distant Music 1 Ghostwatch
2 On the Rocks
3 Off the Rails
Part Two - Scientifica 4 Take Me to Your Leader
5 Behind Closed Doors
6 The Patient
Part Three - Patience 7 Changing Faces
8 Angels and/or Devils
9 Escape to Danger
Part Four - A Bit of the Other 10 Snowfall
11 Fusion
12 Staring into the Abyss
Part Five Breakthrough 13 Crossing the Line
14 Convergence
15 Downtime
Part Six Deus Ex Machina 16 The Empire Strikes Back
17 The Face of the Enemy
18 The Day After Yesterday
Table of Contents
ISBN 0 426 20489 1
LANCE PERKIN
CONTENTS
Part One
Ghostwatch
On the Rocks
Off the Rails
Part Two
Take Me to Your Leader
Behind Closed Doors
The Patient
Part Three
Changing Faces
8
Escape to Danger
Part Four
Snowfall
Fusion
Staring into the Abyss
Part Five
Crossing the Line
Convergence
Downtime
Part Six
The Empire Strikes Back
The Face of the Enemy
The Day After Yesterday