The Sons of Grekk (short story): Difference between revisions

Suddenly, he notices a black-clad figure in the gallery aiming a gun at one of the diners. He disarms the would-be assassin with his stick, and the man flees. The diners send a robot to bring him down forcibly, and accuse him of being a spy for the Crustians.Describing themselves as the Sons of Grekk, they disbelieve his assurances that he is an offworld traveller, and mock the TARDIS when he claims it is his vessel. The eldest, Swarf, urges caution, believeing it potentially dangerous and tells his brother Morag to take the Doctor to the Pit, while the robots, called Mechanislaves, are set to guarding the TARDIS.

The Pit proves to be a smooth-sided volcanic crater, in which members of various snetient species are imprisoned. Morag pushes the Doctor in, but his fall is broken by webbing spun by large, spider-like prisoners. Other prisoners resemble cockroaches, butterflies (their wings clipped by the Sons of Grekk and turtles. These last are the Crustians: one of these explains that the black-clad assassin is an evil genius named Deemon, left on the planet by Grekk to provoke his sons to endless hostility towards its other inhabitants. He has also smuggled a sustenance unit into the Pit, which is keeping the surviving prisoners fed.

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