Doctor Who: The Sontaran Games

by Jacqueline Rayner

  ‘I give you a death you do not deserve!’ cried Stenx. ‘You will die in battle, with honour!’

  ‘It is you who will die!’ the Rutan replied.

  Major Stenx pointed his wand-like gun at the Rutan and fired. Beam after beam of red light hit the crackling green Rutan blob.

  Power snaked from the Rutan. A line of energy hit the broken piece of metal that had stuck in the Sontaran’s neck. All of BASE’s energy was poured into Stenx’s weak spot.

  Green blood began to bubble from the major’s mouth. ‘I . . . die . . . in . . . battle!’ he gasped, as he fell to his knees. A second later, he lay on the floor. Dead.

  But it wasn’t over yet.

  Sparks began to shoot from Stenx’s body. The Doctor turned to the Rutan. ‘You have to contain the power!’

  There was no answer. The Doctor looked closer. Stenx’s laser beams had hit their target too many times. The Rutan – he couldn’t help still thinking of it as ‘Emma’ – was dead too. But, somehow, it was still sucking power from BASE, and pouring it into the Sontaran.

  The Doctor needed to get out of there, and fast. He clicked his fingers and the TARDIS doors swung open.

  ‘Who needs a key?’ he said.

  It was the work of a moment to take off. He looked at the scanner as he did so, just in time to see a massive flash of white light. The whole building had exploded. Well, at least that would tie up any loose ends. No alien bodies to be found.

  The Doctor thought back to that last body, the green blob slowly folding in on itself.

  ‘I wish I knew what you’d decided, Emma,’ he whispered. ‘I don’t offer second chances very often. I think . . . I think we might have given each other another chance.’

  He turned away from the scanner, and began to set the controls. He had other places to visit. Other lives to save.

  With a sad smile, he corrected himself. Other lives to try to save.

  All he could do was his best.

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