Who'll be the winner?
- Publication: The Times
- Date: 2010-04-23
- Author:
- Page: Mind Games, p. 4
- Language: English
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You knew you shouldn't have wandered away from your school party. The gas refinery is huge, cavernous and con-fusing. And now you, and your new friends Amy and the Doctor, are trapped inside a chamber. It's like a prison cell. The only source of light is a bare bulb in a recess in the ceiling. It's cold and damp and you start shivering.
"Look," you shout, pointing at the water. It's starting to slosh about as if disturbed from underneath. "What's that all about?" The Doctor and Amy move closer to the foaming water. Suddenly a seething mass of legs and claws erupt from the depths as hundreds of crabs scramble up the slope, surging towards you.
"Incredible!" gasps the Doctor. "Something I thought I'd never see!" "What? Crabs?" "Not just crabs - infant Macra!" The Doctor claps his hands, eyes gleaming with excitement. "Crustaceous alien life form from another galaxy," he ex-plains. "They can come in many forms, but seeing them in their infant state is very rare!" You eye the Macra suspiciously as they crawl out of the water. There must be hundreds of them, snipping and snapping with their little claws. They look terrifying.
"Are they dangerous?" "Very!" Amy yelps as a Macra snaps at her feet. She scurries back towards the door and the Doctor hurriedly sonics the lock.
"Hurry!" you yell.
"Ten more seconds!" yells the Doctor.
"They'll be on us in five!" The crabs advance up the slope in a wild, clattering horde...
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