The Sontarans (audio story): Difference between revisions

The TARDIS lands on an [[asteroid]] whose soil is completely covered in flowers for miles. The Doctor, Steven, and Sara come out from the TARDIS and wonder at the view. Steven asks how it is possible that they can breathe and flowers can grow on an asteroid whose mass is insufficient to develop an [[atmosphere]]; the Doctor dismisses the question, but Sara suggests the air might be created artificially. She also recognises the asteroid as part of the [[Sulgrave Asteroid Belt]], an asteroid loop of eight circles going around two giant [[gas planet|gas planets]]. Excited at the discovery, she runs away to climb a nearby ridge, to see if she can have a better look at the two planets.

As the Doctor and Steven comment on how much Sara has changed from when they first met her, seven men dressed in black uniform (which the Doctor and Steven recognise as the ones from [[Space Security Service]], the same one as Sara) surround them, and their leader, [[Daphne Papas|Captain Daphne Papas]], orders one of them, [[Gage|Corporal Gage]], to shoot them. Gage, however, questions the order, objecting they should at least ask them who they are. Papas orders another soldier, [[Ellis (The Sontarans)|Ellis]], to shoot them, but the Doctor points out to Papas that, if they do so, they won't be able to interrogate them, and the secret mission they are involved with (as the Doctor deduced by observing the way they act and talk) could be compromised as a result. On the contrary, if they keep them alive, the Doctor and Steven could help. Papas agrees to spare their life for the moment, as she is about to tell them about their mission, the group is attacked by a hostile alien force: the [[Sontaran|Sontarans]].

As a fight ensues between the agents and the Sontarans, Steven and the Doctor crawl away undetected. Steven tells the Doctor about the Sontarans and their reputation of remorselessness and cruelty. The Doctor suggests they go back to the TARDIS and find a way to help Papas and her men; Steven points out that Sara is still out there, but the Doctor says there is nothing they can do about it. They then keep going towards the ship.