This story references events from my 2 previous stories The House Of The Shadows and Krynos Rising so you may want to read them first for this to make complete sense.

The Final Experiment

CHAPTER 1

The lab was dark. Of course it was dark Ushas kept it dark to not interfere with any of her experiments and specimens that she kept in the lab. However she always careful in the dark around her Vashta Nerada tank. At the moment she was stood over one of many monitors watching the latest information being transmitted from her Chronosteen. Chronosteen, what a perfect way to record her experiments unlike the Time Transmitters which the Doctor's rickety old type 40 Tardis kept detecting. The update had finished this one seemed to be going well so far. Soon she'd have all the data she needed to begin her big experiment. Her greatest experiment yet. However for now she still needed to do some more research experiments. Ushas walked over to her six sided console her shoulder length curly black hair swishing. She input her co-ordinates and activated her Tardis.

STORMCAGE CONTAINMENT FACILITY

For now Doctor River Song was in cell in Stormcage with the rain beating down outside. For now. However she would be leaving shortly as her husband was coming to pick her up for another evening escapade. She lay on her bed looking through her Tardis blue diary at some of their previous adventures whilst she waited for the Tardis to arrive a smile playing on her lips. The Tardis Vworp-Vworped into existence in front of her cell. River sighed when was he going to learn to take the breaks off. The police box doors flung open and their stood the Doctor in his usual tweed jacket and bow-tie.

"Hello sweetie!" River Song smiled at her husband happy to see him again.

River walked into the Tardis followed by the Doctor. River was egar for the night ahead.

"So what's the plan for tonight sweetie?" asked River as she walked up to the Tardis console.

"I thought we'd try grav boarding on Alpha Centuri. Apparently the 43rd century is particularly good." answered The Doctor getting excited about his plan for the evening.

"Well let me get the co-ordinates and I'll land us there in time zone and the right place." The Doctor had long since given up fighting River on flying the Tardis she was after all the child of the Tardis so he might as well let her. River input the information to the Tardis an started to fly.

The Tardis made an even more unhealthy sound than usual as it lurched about in the Vortex. "I thought you could fly the Tardis! I thought you'd had lessons from the best!" said the Doctor empathetically.

"I can and I have. But I'm not flying her she's taken control of herself. I'm not flying the Tardis she is." shouted River in response.

"Well hold on this can't go on too much longer." the Doctor tried to reassure River. It didn't work.

"I am holding on!"

The Tardis eventually managed to regain normal flight and landed on an asteroid. The asteroid hummed with energy. The same kind of energy the Doctor's Tardis hummed with. The Doctor and River stepped out of the Police Box.

"Ok River any idea where we've landed?" asked the Doctor as he locked the Tardis door.

River got a physic message from the Tardis. She sensed a Victorian looking girl telling her they'd landed here on purpose. "I'm not sure but the Tardis just sent me physic message she never normally does that so. She said we've landed here on purpose."

"So where ever we are we need to be here and it's boosted your mental connection to the Tardis." the Doctor summarised.

River received another message from the Tardis and proceeded to tell the Doctor it. "She's just told me she can't tell me why we need to be here because we have to find that for ourselves. But it's important that we are here." River decided to scan the asteroid for hostile life forms and other dangers. "I'm picking up large traces of temporal energy and not from the Tardis."

The Doctor and River walked around the asteroid trying to find why they needed to be here. After a while River found a hatch the Doctor soniced it and they walked through into the heart of the asteroid. To their surprise the inside of the asteroid was a darkened high tech lab. The lab had many tanks and monitors around it. The Doctor walked over to one of the monitors and turned it on. He saw Rivers glare.

"What it might have clues about where we are and why." he said defensively.

The monitors screen flared into life saying EXPERIMENT RECORDS. This intrigued the Doctor and River and they leant forward to read what the monitor was saying.

EXPERIMENT ALPHA 789: VASHTA NERADA STUDY - HOUSE (DESIGNATED LESTER COLLINS) BUILT OF WOOD FROM VASHTA NERADA FOREST. PLACED ON EARTH AND LEFT WITH TIME TRANSMITTER TO RECORD EVENTS.

RESULTS- HUMAN FEMALE NAMED ELISABETH GAIL KILLED. TIME LORD KNOWN AS THE DOCTOR INTERFERENCE STOPPED EXPERIMENT.

DESIGNATION- FAILURE

NOTES- THE DOCTOR AND HUMAN ASSOCIATE PREVENTED COMPLETION OF EXPERIMENT . TO AVOID FUTURE INTERFERENCE FROM DOCTOR CHANGE RECORDING TECHNIQUES AS HIS TYPE 40 DETECTED THE TIME TRANSMITTER.

River looked at the Doctor. The Doctor knew exactly what she wanted to know from that look. "This is someone's lab and they've been conducting experiments. This is the record of them." The Doctor tried to explain

"Thats not what I wanted to know Doctor I wanted to know which human associate was it"

"Erm Martha. The medical student travelled with my 10th incarnation." said the Doctor fondly remembering his friend. He'd have to pay her a visit some time. "Right lets see if the Krynos incident was connected to this."

EXPERIMENT ALPHA 790: KRYNOID TEST- KRYNOIDS PLACED ON KRYNOS 500 YEARS BEFORE THEY EVOLVE TO SEE IF THEY SURVIVE. USING CHRONOSTEEN TO MONITOR RESULTS.

RESULTS- KRYNOIDS WEAKENED PUT MANAGED TO ADAPT. ELAND EXPEDITION ARRIVE ON KRYNOS. KRYNOIDS ABLE TO KILL MAJORITY OF EXPIATION. ONE ELAND FOUND CHRONOSTEEN AND USED IT.

++++++DATA CORRUPTED UNKNOWN SOURCE+++++++

NOTES- ENSURE LIFE FORMS CANNOT INTERFERE WITH CHRONOSTEEN FOR FUTURE EXPERIMENTS.

"I was right!" said the Doctor triumphantly "I said the events on Krynos where connected to Lester Collins."

River smiled at him realising who was responsible for the data being corrupted."So tell us the rest sweetie?"

"Magenta and I arrived got attacked by the Krynoids then used the Chronosteen to remove the Krynoids from that time zone so it never happened." said the Doctor summing up the adventure quickly. "Right lets look at another experiment."

EXPERIMENT ALPHA 791: DALEK FACTOR EXPERIMENT- DALEK FACTOR PLACED INTO A GROUP OF SCHOOL BOYS WHO CRASH ON A DESERTED ISLAND. RESULTS RECORDED TO SEE HOW FAST THE DALEK FACTOR CAN TAKE HOLD.

RESULTS- BOYS DESCENDED INTO SAVAGERY VERY QUICKLY AFTER A FAILED ATTEMPT AT AN ORDERED SOCIETY. SEVERAL OF THEN KILLED. HUMAN NAVY INTERFERED AND RESCUED THE BOYS. HUMAN SPECIALISTS INTERFERE AND REMOVE DALEK FACTOR.

DESIGNATION- LARGELY SUCCESSFUL

NOTES- TRY TO AVOID CATCHING ATTENTION OF HUMAN SPECIALIST NONE AS UNIT. OTHERWISE VERY SUCCESSFUL IF LEFT DALEK FACTOR WOULD HAVE TOOK OTHER FULLY.

"Where you there for that one?" asked River.

"No I dont think so. But I told UNIT how to stop the Dalek Factor after the Master attempted to use the Daleks to take other Earth." explained the Doctor. Remembering stopping the Master and the Daleks with Jo and the Brig.

"Was it just me or did you think that sounded like a book?" River was fairly sure she'd read it but just couldn't place it.

"Hmm The Lord Of The Flies. I hated that book. Anyway lets see what's next."

EXPERIMENT ALPHA 792: OBSERVING THE SCARD- CHRONOSTEEN PLACED ON ONE OF THE GATEWAYS TO OUR UNIVERSE USED BY THE PAN-DIMENSIONAL SCARD.

RESULTS- LEARNT ABOUT THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SCARD AND THEIR METHODS OF TRAVELLING BETWEEN THE DIMENSIONS.

DESIGNATION- SUCCESS

RESULTS- DUE TO THE IMMENSELY POWERFUL NATURE OF THE SCARD UNABLE TO INTERACT WITH THEM. RECORDED ALL ESSENTIAL DATA ON THE SCARD.

"Well that one was boring!" exclaimed the Doctor.

"Why because it didn't have you in it? Have you met the Scard?" teased River

"Exactly! And yes met them once they're a very strange species."

EXPERIMENT ALPHA 793: BACTERIA ON CHOSAN- BACTERIA DEADLY TO MARINE EARTH REPTILES RELEASED NEAR COLONY ON THE PLANET CHOSAN.

RESULTS- HUMAN ARCHAEOLOGIST BERNICE SUMERFEILD INTERFERENCE SAVED THE REPTILES FROM THE BACTERIA.

DESIGNATION- FAILURE

RESULTS- BERNICE PUT A HOLT TO THE EXPERIMENT BEFORE IT HAD BEEN COMPLETED PROPERLY

"Benny!" the Doctor and River simultaneously exclaimed.

"You know Benny?" asked the Doctor.

"Of course I do she's one of my best friends. There's not many time travelling archaeologists you know!" said River thinking that she definitely needed to visit Benny again at some point soon. Just then the Doctor and River heard a pear of high heels clipping on floor as someone walked towards them. They could see the silhouette of a person in front of the door.

"Hello again Doctor. Long time no see." she said with a venomous tone in her voice.

"NO! You can't be! Is it really you?" said the Doctor not believing what was going on.

"Yes I am. I am the Rani. she said.

Thank you for reading please leave a review and come back for the next chapter!

If anyone wants to know a bit more about the experiments mentioned then here's my little guide to them! The Vashta Nerada are in my previous Fan Fiction The House Of The Shadows, the Krynoids are in my previous Fan Fiction Krynos Rising, the Dalek Factor is a joke about book The Lord Of The Flies (We had to read it and I hated it. I thought it would be so much better if it had Daleks in!), the Scard are going to be the monsters in my next fan fiction and the Chosan experiment is from the CD Bernice Sumerfeild And The Poisson Seas.

Once again I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for reading!