Doctor Who_ The Forgotten Army - Brian Minchin [40]
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laughing again. 'Suitable for light labour only - that is so funny. Even the Vykoids think you're a wimp.'
The Doctor looked hurt. 'You don't have to go to the gym three times a day and be all muscle and cropped hair to be a force to be reckoned with.’ he protested.
Amy couldn't help but laugh. 'Little hint: my kind of action hero doesn't straighten his bow tie when he's trying to explain how good he is in a fight.'
They walked on in silence for a minute, both looking around them all the time for signs they were being watched, until Amy decided the Doctor had suffered enough.
'How did this work, then?' Amy waved the psychic paper at him. 'And couldn't you have been a bit clearer?'
'It's clever stuff, psychic paper. I set up an active conscious connection, very dangerous for some people, shows them what they're thinking. Plus side, it's a brilliant way to get a message to someone. If the Atraxi can send a message from their prison to Leadworth, then I can send one through a few metres of soil. Well, mainly concrete, this is New York. You were never that far away, just twenty metres up.' The Doctor was smiling and pointing upwards.
'What happened to you?' Amy asked.
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had some kind of sedative drops put into my eye. Handily, I managed to rinse most of it out, before I got knocked out properly. I just had a quick doze...’
Amy was intrigued. 'Rinse it out? You mean you cried?
The Doctor with his TARDIS and 900 years of facing beasties, actually had a good old cry when the ant soldiers got you!'
The Doctor was flustered. 'I didn't cry because I was scared... It was the only way to get rid of the tranquilliser.'
But Amy was enjoying this, and wasn't about to give up.
'Go on, tell me! What did you think about to make you sad?
Was it me all alone out there, I bet it was!'
'I was being dragged by my hair through the New York Subway.’ he told her. 'I didn't need to think of anything.
Also, how come no one helped me?'
'New York on a Saturday night,' Amy said sagely. I suppose they'd already seen a man dressed like a geography teacher riding a mammoth through the streets.'
'What is it with you and the bow tie, Amy? Bow ties are cool!'
Amy shook her head. 'It is definitely a cry for help.'
Something was glowing in her pocket. She reached in and took out the psychic paper. 'What's this?'
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The Doctor kept on walking. 'Ah, sorry, I've still got the link in place. I'll break it off now.'
But Amy had already opened the paper, and saw a message in bold letters:
SOMETHING IS COMING.
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'Doctor!' Amy screamed.
Through the dark of the Subway tunnel, she could hear a runaway train hurtling straight towards them.
She looked desperately around her, but they were in one of the narrower parts of the tunnel, and they had nowhere to go.
'Run!' the Doctor yelled.
Amy turned to flee, but felt the Doctor's hand on her shoulder.
'Not that way.’ he shouted. 'The Vykoids are there.'
'What?' Amy screamed. 'You want me to run towards the train?'
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train, now on the final stretch, and then straight into Amy's eyes. 'Trust me!'
Amy nodded. If she knew one thing, it was that she was always going to follow this man, wherever he wanted her to go.
The front of the train suddenly looked enormous. It was gathering pace as if the track tilted downhill. Amy was sure she could hear high-pitched cackles of laughter.
Just as it seemed the train would hit them, Amy felt the Doctor grab her and throw her into a shallow cubbyhole. She pressed up tight to the wall, as the Doctor shouted, 'Breathe in!'
With a giant clanging of machinery and metal, the runaway train came ever nearer.
The back of Amy's head was pushed against the wall.
She could feel