The smart child
Mortis walked down the corridor of the work house. Her feet covered in blood from the rat bites, her clothes ripped like rags. She went under her blanket, lying on the floor with holes in the blanket with no pillow. Mortis wished for a miracle person to appear and save her.
As she dreamed that night even though she was 10 years old she was smarter than Frankenstein. In her dream she saw fire a creature worse than a nightmare.
Gedjeat the worker at the work house rang the bell for the children to wake up. Mortis took the blanket off her and stood up and saw that her feet were in even more of a state. Mortis hobbled to hall for breakfast. She was given a rotten apple. "Now go sit down" said the cook, as he smacked Mortis in the direction she was walking.
She sat down and waited for grace. Mortis looked around and saw hundreds of children older and younger than her sitting down. She didn't know how they were still alive. They said grace and ate whatever they had in front of them. Mortis dropped the apple on the floor. "You need all the strength you can get today" said the boy opposite Mortis. "I think I would like to die fast than suffer a food poisoning" Mortis said.
"I heard one of us is getting out of here today an adult wants a child to accompany him" said a girl. "I hear that it's the same adult that dropped one of us here in the first place" said another boy.
"Right to the examination room on the double come on you lazy kids!" shouted Gadjeat. Mortis felt the bags under her eyes getting heavier. She hobbled to the examination room. Mortis sat on the floor waiting to see who the adult was. Gadjeat walked in saying "Here you are Mr Smith". Walked in was a tall but skinny man in a pinned stripped suit with untidy brown hair he was also wearing a long light brown coat.
"Which child are you collecting sir?" asked Gadjeat. "I'm looking for a girl I dropped off 10 maybe more years ago by the name of Mortis" answered Mr Smith. Mortis's heart started racing of the excitement of getting out of the work house. "Mortis stand up and come here" hissed Gadjeat. Mortis stood up slowly from the pain in her feet and stomach. She hobbled to the front and stood in front of Mr Smith.
Mr Smith looked shocked from the state Mortis was in. "What's happened to you?" whispered Mr Smith under his breath. He looked at Gadjeat and said "What sort of state do you call this may I ask madam because I told you to look after her that I would be coming to pick her up, and look at her! Skinny because of what looks like little food, feet bleeding, and horrible old clothes" shouted Mr Smith.
Gadjeat answered "she is lucky enough to have had food from us let alone clothes". "Look at her she is clearly cold and I tell you this missy you better pray that this doesn't happen to you" said Mr Smith after putting his coat on Mortis.
"Come on Mortis we're going" said Mr Smith helping Mortis walk out of the work house. "Who are you?" Mortis asked once they were out on the snow. "My name is the doctor, and I'm sorry I'm the one who brought you here when you were born" said the doctor. "Where are we going?" asked Mortis hoping for somewhere warm.
"We are going in here" answered the doctor. Mortis was confused. "It's a blue police box sir, why are we going in there?" asked Mortis. "Because it's my home, come on" said the doctor walking inside. Mortis decided she had no choice she stepped in and closed the door behind her and froze. She looked around in shock. "It's bigger on the inside" said Mortis.
"Really I haven't noticed" said the doctor taking his coat off Mortis. "Right let's get you some food and sort your feet out" said the doctor. "Please tell me you have something different than rotten apples" said Mortis. "Rotten apples?" asked the doctor. "Yeah, that's all we had to eat at the work house or worse" said Mortis. "I can't believe I left you there" said the doctor.
"Come on sit down and we'll get you nice and in shape for a great life ahead of you" smiled the doctor. Mortis sat down and the doctor gave her a boll with brown circles in it. Mortis looked confused. "What is this?" asked Mortis. "It's chocolate you'll like it trust me" said the doctor walking out of the room. Mortis gulped and took one and ate it. She thought about it and liked it. She ate a few more before she decided not to eat any more. She put the bowl down beside the chair looking around the room.
She was amazed of how it was possible. There was a control panel in the centre of the room. "Right, here we go" said the doctor running back into the room with a glass bottle and a cloth. He kneeled down poured some liquid onto the cloth. "Now this may hurt a little" warned the doctor. He put the cloth on Mortis's foot. Mortis felt like it was on fire. Then her feet glowed blue and in two seconds all the marks had gone.
"That's not possible" said the doctor. "What's not possible please tell me who you are and what do you want with me?" Mortis asked. The doctor stood up and said "My name's the doctor I'm a time lord from Gallifrey, and I saved your life when you were just a baby, but the problem is the Tardis just landed in a lab on a planet unidentified so I have no idea what species you are".
Mortis was getting even more confused by the second. "Ok let's see if I've got this straight, you're the last of the time lords, you saved me from a fire in a laboratory" said Mortis. The doctor was stunned. "Um Mortis, I never said about being the last of the time lords or a fire in a laboratory" said the doctor. Mortis froze and waited.
"Mortis do you have a belly button?" asked the doctor. "What's a belly button?" Mortis asked. "A tiny hole on your belly" answered the doctor. "Then no" answered Mortis. "Right I think it's clear now, you must be a experiment from the planet I saved you from, they must have grown you like when you put a seed in the mud it always grows, I think you have different types of special skills" explained the doctor.
Mortis thought for a minute. She was a experiment in a blazing fire saved by this alien stranger and after ten years has come back for her, but why?. "Why have you just decided to come back for me after 10 years?" asked Mortis. "Because I can't raise a child with the life I live, to be completely honest with you Mortis I only dropped you off half an hour ago" said the doctor.
"Come on doctor that's impossible" Mortis said. "O come on Mortis use the data file's you have in that head of yours" said the doctor. Mortis looked at the doctor and walked around the controls of the Tardis and looked back at the doctor. "Time travel" whispered Mortis. "Right you are, now let's get you some clean clothes you get what you want out of the trunk in your room I made for you second door on the right" said the doctor.
Mortis walked down the corridor and found the door she was looking for, she opened it and found a single bed and a trunk. Mortis walked to the trunk and opened it to find many weird styles. "That man calls this style" said Mortis. Then she found the perfect outfit. She pulled out dark blue coloured jeans with black trainers and t-shirt and a black coat. "Fantastic" smiled Mortis.
While Mortis was getting changed the doctor was trying to work out what had just happened. He walked around the controls fifty times before Mortis came back in. The doctor looked at her, smiled and said "Nice I see you have chosen Earth early 21st century style".
"Well living in ripped trousers and mud for a t-shirt in the year 1910 you really need a new style than just mud and ripped rags, plus I've never worn these before" said Mortis holding up shoes and socks. "That's socks and shoe's you put them on your feet put the socks on first" said the doctor. Mortis looked at the both of them. "Which is which?" asked Mortis. "Soft first then hard" said the doctor.
Mortis didn't understand a word of that so she took a guess of the small bag sort of thing on her feet. Then the harder baggy thing. "What are we doing now?" asked Mortis. "How about a treat, a gift to say I'm sorry?" suggested the doctor. "Yeah that's sound cool, but you don't haft to apologies doctor, I understand" said Mortis not really understanding.
"Right then! Ok where do you want to go?" asked the doctor. "Manchester 21st century" answered Mortis. "Your choice" smiled the doctor. Then the journey was a very bumpy ride. When they landed the doctor landed on the chair and Mortis fell to the floor. "Is it always that bumpy?" asked Mortis. "Yep I suggest you get used to it" suggested the doctor.
"Go on have a look" said the doctor pointing to the door. Mortis turned to him and smiled. "Really?" asked Mortis. "Go on we haven't got a century" moaned the doctor. Mortis walked to the door opened it and was shocked at the future that was held for the Earth. "Amazing isn't it?" smiled the doctor. Mortis turned around shocked at what he just said. "Doctor, it's just dust and rubble" said Mortis pointing out side.
The doctor's smile turned to a confused face. "What do you mean dust and rubble?" asked the doctor stepping outside. When he was outside he was surprised at the sight too. There wasn't one building without a missing part in it, the sky was dark and covered in black clouds, everywhere was brick and wood polls. "What has happened?" whispered the doctor.
"What do you mean what has happened?" asked Mortis. "This isn't what the 21st century should look like Mortis, for starters it was brighter than this, I need to have a look around, you stay inside the Tardis you don't know what's out there" said the doctor walking off.
"But I want to explore too you know" shouted Mortis. "Go back to the Tardis!" shouted back the doctor. Mortis turned around and tried to open the door. "Damn I don't have the key" said Mortis. She turned around and looked at the view thinking of which direction the doctor went.
Mortis walked forward. As she walked on each brick wood or poll the noise made her hesitate. "Doctor" whispered Mortis. "Doctor!" Mortis decided to shout. Then coming from behind her came a bang. Mortis turned around and saw a blue dotted light from the black background.
Mortis starred at the blue dot while kneeling down to get a pole. "Spe-cies un-known, you will come with me". The blue dot suddenly looked like a golden pot covered in balls. "Come with me" said the pot. "I'd rather not thanks" said Mortis feeling like she had been in a situation like this before. "You will come or be exterminated" threatened the pot. Mortis raised her eyebrows when the data base in her head found out what it was. "Darlek" said Mortis.
Two more darleks move to one side of the first darlek. Mortis started to walk back slowly. "You are an enemy to the darleks exterminate!" said the one on the left. Mortis started to run back into the distance while trying to dodge the shots being taken at her.
30 seconds after the shots had stopped Mortis kept on running, she wanted to get as far away as possible. Mortis couldn't see a thing as she was running, she felt like she could run forever.
She stopped to catch her breath then looked around at the sight. "Why did I just not listen to the doctor" she asked herself. Then movement came from behind Mortis. She froze and listened to the sounds. Then she got grabbed from behind and pulled away. She bit the hand that was covering her mouth. She was let go and turned around to find the doctor. "I thought I told you to stay in the Tardis" said the doctor waving his hand about. "It was locked out so I was trying to find you" said Mortis relieved that it was only the doctor.
"Well I couldn't find anything to what may have coursed this have you?" asked the doctor. "Yes my data files found the identity of something called a darlek" said Mortis. The doctor froze. "They always win while I always suffer" whispered the doctor. Mortis had closed her eyes and searched through her data files to find the history of the time lords and darlek.
"The time war" said Mortis. "You're getting the hang of your data files now" said the doctor. "Life forms de-tected" said a robotic voice from the distance. "Come on" said the doctor. Mortis and the doctor ran off trying to find the Tardis. "We are never going to find it with it this dark and misty" Mortis said. "Your right I have an idea" said the doctor getting his sonic screwdriver out and pointing up in the air.
"What are you doing you'll give us away" said Mortis. "Exactly we're not going to get anywhere on our own so we need to get caught" explained the doctor. "Two life forms over there" said a darlek. The next thing Mortis and the doctor knew they were surrounded by darleks. "Es-cort them to the cru-ciple" said one of the darleks.
Then they had four darleks on each side of them. "What now?" Mortis whispered. "Ummm" said the doctor looking at the sky. "You're just making this up as you go along aren't you?" Mortis asked. "Yep, but I do it brilliantly" smirked the doctor. They walked into the ship and put into separate cells.
Mortis leaned back on the wall feeling so scared. She felt the cold chill creeping up her back onto her neck. "Concentrate" said the doctor from the opposite cell. Mortis looked at him confused. "Concentrate on the door lock I can't open it because it is dead locked" whispered the doctor.
Mortis finally understood what the doctor was saying. She looked at the door lock and concentrated of a sound and image of the door being unlocked. Three seconds later the door opened. Mortis stood up and did the same thing for the doctor's door lock. "You're learning how to use your powers pretty soon you won't need my help" said the doctor walking out of his cell.
Then the lights turned red and an alarm was heard. "They know" said Mortis. The doctor and Mortis started running down corridors trying to find the control room, unfortunately they had no luck. Mortis stopped running and just starred at the doctor.
The doctor stopped running and looked at Mortis. "What's wrong?" asked the doctor. "There isn't a control room" said Mortis. "You're getting the hang of it" said the doctor. "This isn't a ship, it's just a old abandoned old darlek hideout" said Mortis. "It is yes, well done" said the doctor. "We need to get back to the Tardis and find the real ship" said the doctor. "Wait a moment" Mortis said, turning around opening her arm and concentrating.
The Tardis very slowly appeared. "Oh Mortis you are brilliant" said the doctor, slapping my shoulder. When the Tardis was in full view the doctor ran and unlocked the door, and ran inside. Before I went inside I looked at the wall, punched it and brought out a piece of a machinery, then the alarm went off again.
I ran into the Tardis, and gave the doctor the machinery. "What's this for?" asked the doctor. "I thought you could trace the real signal with it, and find the real darlek ship" said Mortis. The doctor hooked it up and looked at the screen. "Mortis you haven't just picked up some machinery, you've taken the darleks computer data banks" said the doctor.
"What is the plan for this planet?" Mortis asked the doctor, while quickly closing the door. "Well think about it Mortis, the darleks want to be the only creature in existence, so extermination" said the doctor, tracing the signal. Mortis had another look at the controls. She went through her data banks and saw how to steady the Tardis, and mortis did that.
When the Tardis wasn't shaking the doctor saw Mortis, steading the Tardis. "How did you do that?" asked the doctor. "Blue stabilizer, you left them off" said Mortis, walking around the controls. "Whereas the fun in that!" asked the doctor, turning them off. "No don't" said Mortis. Too late, the doctor turned them off and everything went crazy. Mortis lunged for the blue stabilizers, turned it on and everything was still.
Mortis took a couple of deep breaths and looked at the doctor. "Sorry" said the doctor, trying to smile. "We've landed, now you can turn them off" said Mortis, turning them off.
The doctor went outside, followed quickly by Mortis to find darleks outside. "Oops" said the doctor. "it is the doctor exterminate" said a darlek.. "Run" said the doctor. While they were running, both of them realized that they were running in the darlek's ship.
"Stop stop stop stop stop stop, we need to surrender it's the only way to find the leader of the darleks and find out how they did this to earth" said the doctor. Suddenly darleks surrounded the doctor and Mortis. "You will come with us doctor" said the darlek.
They were taken to a large room filled with darleks. "You always try and run doctor, but you always come back to earth to find its doom, this time you were not there to save it" said a voice, different from the darlek, it sound like a man with a sore throat. "You died, how can you be here you died, I saw the crucible explode, you refused to be saved" said the doctor.
"Who is you knew companion doctor? I never knew you take children now" said Davros. "My name is Mortis, who are you?" asked Mortis. "I'm Davros, lord and creature of the Darlek race" he answered. "What have you done to the earth?" asked the doctor. "We came and took the earth, as it's a level 5 planet it was perfect for creating clones of darleks to get more worlds" said Davros.
"Davros I give you one warning, I will find a nice big planet for you and the darleks, you can take back emotion and live a nice life, or I will stop you for the last and final time" warned the doctor. "Why do that doctor, when we can take the universe?" asked Davros. "When you've wipped out all life, then what's the point in you existing, a darleks job is to destroy all life, what happens when you succeed?" asked the doctor.
"This is what happens doctor when you ask too many questions, take them!" shouted Davros. The doctor and Mortis turned around to find humans coming towards them. Two humans grabbed Mortis, two humans grabbed the doctor. "These are humans what have you done to them?" asked Mortis. The darleks can do some much handless, these specific humans have been killed and reborn as darleks in a human body" said Davros.
The doctor couldn't believe what Davros has done to the human race. He looked at the humans holding Mortis. Brown veins going up their faced, no pupil in their eyes, skin completely pale. Then the doctor looked at Mortis. He watched Mortis struggle, trying to get free.
"You are no leader Davros, you not even a god to these darleks, do you know what you are, you're a coward!" shouted the doctor. "Grab him and bring him here" Davros ordered the humans holding the doctor. One human let go and the other one held the doctor by the neck, lift him up. Mortis noticed what the human was doing to the doctor. "Put him down" shouted Mortis. The doctor was frown to Davros. He hit the bottom of Davros's darlek pot, then landed on the floor. Davros moved backwards to get a good sight of the doctor.
"Look at you doctor, the last child of Gallifrey is weak can't even stand up" smiled Davros. "It's time you joined us doctor, you and your companion, Mortis I suggested you watch this" suggested Davros. Davros pointed his finger at the doctor and lighting came out and went into the doctor. Mortis watched the doctor struggle, watched him in pain.
Davros laughed as the doctor shouted in pain. The doctor turned his head and opened his eyes to Mortis. All Mortis saw was lightning going through his eyes. Mortis lifted up one humans and landed it on top of the other, setting Mortis free. She ran to Davros and went in front of the lighting. The doctor fell to the floor, as Mortis was up in the air.
He twitched every time a small lightning bolt went through him. He looked up to see Mortis in what was his place. Mortis felt every single bolt go through her. She suddenly remembered she had special skill. Mortis tried as hard as she could to put her hand in front of her. When she had it in front of her all she had to do what concentrate.
She closed her eyes ignore the lightning bolts going through her, opened her eyes, and the lighting was stopping at the palm of her hand. Davros saw her eyes were glowing light blue, and stopped using lightning bolts. Mortis stayed in the air, bolts was going all around her. She turned to face all darleks. The doctor saw her and what she turned into.
"Darleks are the biggest threat in the universe, you have done nothing to this universe but destroy it, so I have no choice but to whip your existence from the universe" said Mortis, making hands glow red. The doctor saw all the darleks turn to dust. Then he looked at Davros, who was slowly turning to dust. When all the darleks where gone Mortis eyes went back to normal, and fell to the floor unconscious next to the doctor.
He crawled to her. The doctor saw nothing broken, just a tear going down Mortis's left cheek. He held Mortis's head under his chin and hugged her, even though she was unconscious. When he finished he picked up Mortis. Walked back to the tardis. On his was he found the darlek ship fading away. When he arrived he laid Mortis on the floor, went back outside to find humans everywhere, earth was back to normal.
The doctor closed the door, walked to the Tardis chair, and waited. Half an hour later, Mortis started to scream. The doctor ran to her. "You're ok you're in the Tardis" said the doctor, hugging Mortis. Mortis stopped screaming, and took a couple of deep breathes. "I can remember what I did, I've committed genocide" said Mortis, as the doctor helped Mortis stand up on her feet. "you did what you had to do, but we need to find out if you are safe, you still have that amount of power inside you, I'm going to find out what's going on with you and help you, I'm taking you to torchwood" said the doctor.