Doctor Who: The Silurian Gift
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With the ice sheet fractured, the weight of the base was too much to support. Half the buildings vanished through the ice into the lake below in a cloud of billowing smoke and steam. More and more of the ice started to collapse, spreading out in an ever-widening circle. The convoy of tractors, loaded with barrels of Fire Ice vanished into the lake. Myrkas roared as the ground collapsed beneath them and they were swallowed up by the freezing water.
It was a vision of hell.
As the last remnant of the PelCorp base vanished from view, a plume of steam and embers was thrown, hissing, into the Antarctic sky. When the cloud cleared, there was no sign that the base had ever existed.
The Doctor gazed sadly down at the vast expanse of grey water that had not seen the light of the Sun for millions of years. In time, the ice would reform, sealing off the Silurian base again. The Myrkas and the Sea Devils could only survive if they returned to their hibernation chambers. To sleep once more.
And the Fire Ice…
The Doctor glanced across at the man who claimed that he had discovered it. Somehow the Doctor doubted that he would ever come looking for it again.
Lizzie squeezed the Doctor’s arm. ‘Is he going to be OK?’
‘He’ll be fine. In fact you might even think about recruiting him to your cause.’
‘You’re kidding, right?’ she said.
‘He’s got lots of money,’ the Doctor told her. ‘Lots of expertise. You could do much worse.’
Lizzie stared at him with a mixture of surprise and admiration. ‘You’re always going to give people a second chance, aren’t you, Doctor?’
The Doctor just smiled, and let the bomb control drop from his fingers. He watched as it was swallowed up by the cold, grey waters below.
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