The Heist (short story)

The Heist

Main character(s):

Agrakos, Kiz, Vertebrae Rax

Featuring:

Handles

Main enemy:

Ood

Main setting:

The Maldovarium, 52nd century

Key crew

Writer:

Dave Rudden

Read by:

Dave Rudden

Release details

Part of:

Twelve Angels Weeping

Release date:

11 October 2018

*Twelve Angels Weeping*
← Previous	Next →
The Red-Eyed League	The King in Glass

The Heist was the ninth short story published in Twelve Angels Weeping.

Plot[]

to be added

Characters[]

Agrakos the Krillitane
Kiz the Head-Taker
Vertebrae Rax the "Sea Devil"
Handles the Cyberman
Auton Dorium Maldovar
Ood

Worldbuilding[]

Kiz's sword is made from Gallifreyan zinc, which he once stole.
Other patrons at the bar where the thieves first meet include a Sontaran and a band of Bessan raiders.
Kiz has killed Judoon, Axons, and a Draconian.

Notes[]

to be added

Continuity[]

Lesser bars of legend include the Cheem bar Lux, (TV: The End of the World) the Kiasmos, carved into the shell of a living star whale, (TV: The Beast Below) and the Sun Deck on Midnight. (TV: Midnight)
The thieves are robbing the Maldovarium now because Dorium Maldovar has recently disappeared after he left the Maldovarium in a hurry. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
The Maldovarium sells micro-explosives. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
The Cyber Legions would be angry to learn that Maldovar has a personal squad of Cyberman shells as security. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
One of Maldovar's Cybermen is beheaded by Kiz, with the head getting the nickname "Handles". (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The aquatic Silurians once called "Sea Devils" now live in harmony with humanity. (AUDIO: The Poison Seas)
Maldovar has had an Auton duplicate of himself as a trophy "since the Pandorica opened". (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

v • e BBC New Series Adventures anthologies

Summer Falls and Other Stories	About the Authors • Summer Falls: Introduction • Summer Falls • The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery • Devil in the Smoke: An Adventure for the Great Detective

Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand	Tales of Trenzalore • Let it Snow • An Apple a Day... • Strangers in the Outland • The Dreaming

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who	Sunset Over Venus • The Lost Generation • The Room with All the Doors • The Hungry Night • All the Empty Towers • Rewriting History • Silver Mosquitoes • In Search of Lost Time • Natural Regression • Potential Energy • The Arboreals • The Piper • The Girl Who Stole the Stars • The Mercy Seats • The Constant Doctor

Time Lord Fairy Tales	The Garden of Statues • Frozen Beauty • Cinderella and the Magic Box • The Twins in the Wood • The Three Little Sontarans • Jak and the Wormhole • Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday • Little Rose Riding Hood • The Gingerbread Trap • The Scruffy Piper • Helana and the Beast • Andiba and the Four Slitheen • The Grief Collector • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sirgwain and the Green Knight • The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes

The Legends of Ashildr	The Arabian Knightmare • The Fortunate Isles • The Triple Knife • The Ghosts of Branscombe Wood

The Legends of River Song	Picnic at Asgard • Suspicious Minds • A Gamble with Time • Death in New Venice • River of Time

Twelve Doctors of Christmas	All I Want for Christmas • A Comedy of Terrors • The Christmas Inversion • Three Wise Men • Sontar's Little Helpers • Fairy Tale of New New York • The Grotto • Ghost of Christmas Past • The Red Bicycle • Loose Wire • The Gift • The Persistence of Memory

Tales of Terror	Murder in the Dark • Something at the Door • The Monster in the Woods • Toil and Trouble • Mark of the Medusa • Trick or Treat • The Living Image • Organism 96 • The Patchwork Pierrot • Blood Will Out • The Mist of Sorrow • Baby Sleepy Face

The Missy Chronicles	Dismemberment • Lords and Masters • Teddy Sparkles Must Die! • The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone • Girl Power! • Alit in Underland

The Day She Saved the Doctor	Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes • Rose and the Snow Window • Clara and the Maze of Cui Palta • Bill and the Three Jackets

Twelve Angels Weeping	Halfway Into the Dark • Grey Matter • Red Planet • Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir • Ghost in the Machine • Student Bodies • A Soldier's Education • The Red-Eyed League • The Heist • The King in Glass • The Third Wise Man • The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street • Anything You Can Do

The Wintertime Paradox	He's Behind You • Father of the Daleks • Inflicting Christmas • For the Girl Who Has Everything • Visiting Hours • We Will Feed You to the Trees • Christmas with the Plasmavores • A Girl Called Doubt • A Perfect Christmas • Missing Habitas Frond • A Day to Yourselves • The Paradox Moon • Canaries

I Am The Master	Anger Management • The Dead Travel Fast • Missy's Magical Mystery Mission • A Master of Disguise • The Night Harvest • The Master and Margarita

Adventures in Lockdown	A Message from the Doctor • Things She Thought While Falling • The Terror of the Umpty Ums • Doctor Who and the Time War • Revenge of the Nestene • Rory's Story • One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes • The Simple Things • The Tourist • Press Play • The Shadow Passes • Shadow of a Doubt • The Shadow in the Mirror • Fellow Traveller • Listen • The Secret of Novice Hame

Origin Stories	Chemistry • My Daddy Fights Monsters • The Myriapod Mutiny • The Last of the Dals • Murmuration • The Big Sleep • Doctor Jones • The Girl Who Tore Through the Universe • Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest • Velvet Hugs • Tempered

The Adventures Before	The Boy and the Dalek • The Roots of Evil • Little Did She Know • The Four Faces of Immortality • Becky's Impossible Day • Smiley's Mirror Effect • The Fall of Apalapucia • The Morning of the Day of the Doctor

Cyberman stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Cyberman story" is one in which one living, authentic Cyberman plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as Dalek are absent due to only featuring deceased Cybermen on display. Stories like Carnival of Monsters, A Good Man Goes to War and The Vanquishers are also not included due to the Cybermen's appearance being of little consequence to the plot of the story.

Television

The Tenth Planet • The Moonbase • The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Wheel in Space • The Invasion • Revenge of the Cybermen • Earthshock • The Five Doctors • Attack of the Cybermen • Silver Nemesis • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday • Cyberwoman • The Next Doctor • The Pandorica Opens • Closing Time • Nightmare in Silver • The Time of the Doctor • Dark Water / Death in Heaven • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls • The Haunting of Villa Diodati • Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children • Flux: Once, Upon Time - Bel's Story • The Power of the Doctor

Webcast

TARDIS Cam No.1 - The Moonscape • Real Time • Tardisode 6 • Tardisode 13 • Monster File: Cybermen

Audio

Sword of Orion • Spare Parts • Real Time • The Harvest • Silver Lining • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus • The Reaping • The Gathering • The Blue Tooth • Human Resources • The Girl Who Never Was • The Ultimate Adventure • Kingdom of Silver • Legend of the Cybermen • The Silver Turk • Last of the Cybermen • Return to Telos • The Isos Network • The Tyrants of Logic • Code Silver / Master of Worlds • Hour of the Cybermen • Conversion • Return of the Cybermen • The Gates of Hell • Scourge of the Cybermen • Altered Status • Monsters in Metropolis • Secrets of Telos • Way of the Burryman / The Forth Generation • Bad Day in Tinseltown • Willkommen • Wulf • Übermensch • Auf Wiedersehen • The Great Cyber-War • Sins of the Flesh • The Trials of a Time Lord • The Quintessence • Genesis of the Cybermen

Cyberman

Scorpius • Fear • Conversion • Telos • Outsiders • Terror • Machines • Extinction

Prose

Birth of a Renegade • Heliotrope Bouquet • Iceberg • Killing Ground • Illegal Alien • Scientific Adviser • Vrs • Going Off the Rails • Made of Steel • Plague of the Cybermen • Status Update • The Piper • The Mondas Touch • Dr. First • The Patchwork Pierrot • Consultation Exercise • Alit in Underland • Ghost in the Machine • A Girl Called Doubt • The Self-Made Man

Comics

The Coming of the Cybermen • Flower Power • Cyber-Mole • The Cyber Empire • Eskimo Joe • Masquerade • The Time Museum • Test Flight • Junk-Yard Demon • Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman • Deathworld • Black Legacy • Revelation! • Genesis! • The World Shapers • The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic • The Good Soldier • Dreadnought • The Flood • The Power of the Cybermen / Drones of Doom / Enemy Mine / Time of the Cybermen • Assimilation² • Doctor Who and the Last Stand • The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who • Conversion • Untitled • Cyber Crisis • Supremacy of the Cybermen • The Bidding War • The Lost Dimension • High Noon in Hollywood • Everyone Must Go!

The Cybermen	The Dead Heart • The Flesh Unbound • The Black Sky • The Hungry Sea • The Dark Flame • The Future Perfect • The Ugly Underneath • The Prodigal Returns

Supremacy of the Cybermen prologues	The First Doctor • The Second Doctor • The Third Doctor • The Fourth Doctor • The Fifth Doctor • The Sixth Doctor • The Seventh Doctor • The Eighth Doctor • The War Doctor

Video
games

Destiny of the Doctors • Airships • Cyber Assault • Ghostwatch • Eye of the TARDIS • Return to Earth • The Mazes of Time • Blood of the Cybermen • Dalek Supremacy • The Eternity Clock • The Doctor and the Dalek • Lost in Time • Hidden Mysteries

Complete list of appearances

v • e Krillitane stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Krillitane story" is one in which one living, authentic Krillitane plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as Tardisode 3 are not included due to the Krillitanes' cameos being of no consequence to the plot of the story.

Television	School Reunion

Audio	The Krillitane Feint • The Krillitane Relic

Prose	The Krillitane Storm • Code of the Krillitanes • The Gingerbread Trap • The Heist • Father of the Daleks

Complete list of appearances

Homo Reptilia stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Homo Reptilian story" is one in which one living, authentic Silurian or Sea Devil plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. Stories like Frontier in Space, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song are also not included due to Homo Reptilians' cameos being of little consequence to the plot of the story. Stories featuring Madam Vastra of the Paternoster Gang are only included on the Paternoster Gang story template.

Silurians

Television	Doctor Who and the Silurians • Warriors of the Deep • The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship • Joy to the World

Prose	Blood Heat • The Scales of Injustice • Cold War • The Little Planet • The Silurian Gift • Dr. Eighth • The Red-Eyed League • The Master and Margarita

Comics	Final Genesis • Twilight of the Silurians • City of Devils • As Time Goes By • Faster Than Light • Surfshock • Supremacy of the Cybermen • Untitled • The Lost Dimension

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors • Evacuation Earth • The Mazes of Time • Dalek Supremacy • The Eternity Clock • Lost in Time

Audio	Bloodtide • The Coup • Call to Arms • Retrieval • United • The Silurian Candidate

Complete list of appearances

Sea Devils

Television	The Sea Devils • Warriors of the Deep • Legend of the Sea Devils

Webcasts	Defenders of Earth

Comics	Devil of the Deep • The Bit After the Last Bit • Under Pressure • City of Devils • Clara Oswald and the School of Death • Surfshock • Alternating Current

Prose	Blood Heat • Dr. Eighth • The Heist • A brief lowdown on the Sea Devils

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors • Lost in Time

Audio	The Poison Seas • Tidal Wave • The Seas of Titan • Storm of the Sea Devils

Complete list of appearances

Mondasian Silurians
and Sea Devils

Comics

The Dead Heart • The Flesh Unbound • The Black Sky • The Hungry Sea • The Dark Flame • The Future Perfect • The Ugly Underneath • The Prodigal Returns

v • e Ood stories

For the purposes of this list, an "Ood story" is one in which one living, authentic Ood plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as The Waters of Mars are not counted due to the Oods' appearance being defined by their importance to following stories. Stories like Face the Raven, Hell Bent and Revolution of the Daleks are also not included due to the Oods' cameos being of no consequence to the plot of the story.

Television	The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit • Planet of the Ood • The End of Time • The Doctor's Wife • Death Is the Only Answer • Flux: Survivors of the Flux / The Vanquishers

Webcast	Tardisode 8 • Tardisode 9 • Pond Life

Audio	Prisoner of the Ood • Call for the Dead • The Glittering Prize • The Persistence of Dreams • Sins of the Father • Odyssey • Oodunnit • Oracle

Prose	Disappearing Act • Special Features • The Heist

Comics	Doctor Who and the Last Stand • An Ood Thing to Say • Time of the Ood

Games	Ood Escape • Escape the Silence • Lost in Time • Deadly Diamond

Complete list of appearances