This text provides excerpts from the novelization, "Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep" by Victor Pemberton, detailing a terrifying confrontation with an alien lifeform. The narrative follows the Second Doctor, along with his companions Jamie and Victoria, as they encounter a monstrous, pulsating seaweed creature and its accompanying toxic foam near a Euro-Gas natural gas refinery on the English coast. The creature, which communicates through a distinct thumping, heartbeat sound, possesses the ability to take control of human minds, affecting refinery staff like Mr. Robson and Maggie Harris. The excerpt culminates with the Doctor and his allies realizing that the creature's core weakness is a sonic sound wave, specifically Victoria's scream, which they transmit through the refinery's pipeline to destroy the colony’s nerve center on a distant gas rig, leading to Victoria’s decision to leave the Doctor’s company.

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