CHAOS (short story)


 * You may be looking for the titular organisation.

CHAOS was the fourth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Past Tense. It was written by Eric Saward. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

Summary
The Doctor wakes up to find himself trapped in a deep hole, apparently encased in a web of a substance called CHAOS, and very near death. He recalls being in the TARDIS with Tegan, when the ship was caught in a time corridor and then exploded.

Confused, the Doctor then remembers the same events only this time he and Tegan followed the corridor to the tinclavic mines on the planet Raaga, where the prisoners of a Terileptil penal colony had managed to construct a rudimentary time travel device to enable them to escape.

After the Doctor helped them perfect the device they tried to escape, only to by pursued and shot by Terileptil guards, while a panicking Doctor inadvertently killed a tramp. The Doctor then comes to, finding himself lying by a cash machine in New York watched over by a concerned Peri.

When she tells him that he was mugged, the Doctor attributes his bad dreams to concussion; however, he is unaware that a CHAOS nanobot is inside his brain, seeding his unconscious thoughts with strange nightmares.

Characters

 * Sixth Doctor
 * Peri

Continuity
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