Eclipse
A Doctor Who Story
By Unleash The Bad Wolf
Chapter 1- Trap
"Top banana!" Martha laughed at The Doctor as he ran around the TARDIS console pressing various buttons enthusiastically. The Time Lord moved rapidly across the console room, eyes welling up with tears of laughter.
"You're in a good mood." Martha observed as he finished setting the coordinates for their next journey.
"Well wouldn't you be? We just managed to save an entire race of Furtons from a Slitheen attack, formed a new subspecies, then got back and ate some chips before teatime!" Martha laughed, it had certainly been an eventful few days. She was still getting used to travelling with The Doctor, even though she had been in the TARDIS for near enough a year now.
At once the TARDIS shook violently. Martha was thrown across the room and hit the panels of the wall with a terrible thump.
"What's happening?" She shouted above the sound of alarms and various alerts as mauve lights flashed rapidly.
"Somethings thrown the TARDIS off course!" He cried out to her, eyes widening as he tried desperately to take control off his precious ship.
Then it all stopped. There was silence. Martha stood and crossed over to The Doctor, who simply stood with a blank dark expression on his face.
"Where are we?" She asked timidly, there was something in The Doctor's eyes that made her shiver.
"In the dark space. An empty space. Nothing exists here. Not any more." The Time Lord sat and crossed his legs, not even looking at Martha. Martha sat opposite him and avoided making any eye contact, her intuition told her there was something very wrong.
The Doctor hadn't moved. He hadn't even made any sort of gesture for the past six hours. Something had invaded his ship, thrown it off course. Nothing crossed the threshold of his TARDIS without his permission. Now someone had managed to pilot it straight into an empty spot in space. As soon as he had looked into the scanner he had known. The spot had been empty for so long, yet it was still the same. Whoever it was had piloted his gorgeous little ship straight to the coordinates of Gallifrey, his home world. Dead for so many years. Obliterated like his people. Now it was all coming back, and he wouldn't let it. For the second time since his regeneration he felt a real darkness in his soul. The first time he had felt so powerful was when Rose had been taken, now someone was torturing him with memories of the Time War. Well they had messed with the wrong man, he would personally ensure they knew that. Standing up abruptly he stared out into the emptiness, and the emptiness stared back. It was oddly like staring into a mirror.
Captain Jack Harkness watched as the Torchwood team excavated the site. Staring at the body frozen in the ice he felt a shiver descend down his spine like a slippery snake sliding downwards. Why was he here? Of course there were the legends that he had survived, but who had believed them? The mutated face stared at Jack making him feel uneasy. Even though he was frozen, the face seemed to be alive. Those cold sinister eyes saw into Jack's soul; corrupting his new found pureness. The rift had truly thrown them a prisoner, something from the darkest of futures.
"He's alive." Owen informed his superior as they began to unfreeze the creature, Jack made to stop them but it was too late. His warning went unheeded and it awoke. There was a moment of absolute silence, then Jack stepped forward.
"Do you know who you are?" The former time agent hoped vainly that being frozen had affected its memory, or else the entire planet could be in danger.
"My name is Davros." The creature cried out loudly, and Jack felt his heart sink. They were in trouble.
Sprinting as fast as humanly possible Rose Tyler hurtled through streets and alleyways. How had she not seen it coming? It was a parallel universe after all, even after travelling with The Doctor for so long she had failed to recognise the signs. Now her world was falling apart. Daleks roamed the sky, exterminating all. They had survived in this universe, they had survived and The Doctor had perished. Now the great exterminators had made their way to her home, determined to purify the Earth the only way they knew how. Torchwood was gone, the Daleks had destroyed that first. Now the entire planet was under attack, millions and millions of Daleks flooding throughout the Earth and killing everything and everyone. She had to make sure Mum and the twins were OK, had to make sure they were safe. She reached the house and dropped to the ground. It was burning. The Daleks had got here first. Tears streamed down her pretty face, Mum, Dad, Mickey, and the twins, all of them exterminated. Jasmine and Alannah would never lead real lives, the master thief had stolen their existences. The angel of death had descended upon their household, dark wings causing Rose to feel grief on a level she had only been confronted with once before. Only when The Doctor had been taken from her had she felt so alone, so sad, and now it was happening again. Except now there was no Doctor to save them.
Martha was scared. Never had she known The Doctor to be so... inactive. He was always bubbling with energy, nearly bouncing at times when adventure appeared to be around the corner. Shifting slightly she lay back on her polka dot bed. The Doctor was busy in the cellar, she had decided not to disturb him; not when he seemed so dangerous. Suddenly the ship shook violently once more. Martha raced no time and raced down to The Doctor, who was running up the spiral stairway. The two of them darted into the console room, just in time to see a massive schism appear in the area of space shown by the scanner. Spinning rapidly the TARDIS was sucked into the hole in time and space before it sealed itself once more.
Shadows consumed the TARDIS. The precious ship had been captured in the holding bay of a battle cruiser. Creeping out cautiously The Doctor and Martha looked around. Recognition dawned on The Doctor's face and he made to head back into the TARDIS.
"Halt." The voice made The Doctor freeze, no matter how many times he defeated them it always shook his soul to face them again. He turned to face a lone Dalek.
"You are The Doctor! You are an enemy of the Daleks! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The trap was sprung, The Doctor was in the jaws of the beast.
