At the request of dear friend BewareMyFrozenHeart, Eccleston's Doctor's adventures between "Day of the Doctor" and "Rose". I've decided to dedicate my writing this summer to it, and may make a series of 13 stories, fitting a series of the show itself, if this is received well. Enjoy.
Scavengers
Prologue: Run
The Last Great Time War; the final battle between the two most powerful races the universe had ever known. It had ended with the homeworld of the Time Lords, Gallifrey, burning to nothing, taking the last members of both species with it.
The humans were always the most ambitious species, and with rumours of a wealth of Dalek technology hidden on their homeworld, none could say they were surprised when humanity took to the cosmos with intent to land on Skaro.
It had turned out to be true that the Dalek world had not been completely annihilated, but there was precious little useful salvage. Elsa had already questioned the wisdom of going there many times, but never so greatly as the day she first met the man with no name.
Clinging desperately to a small, dishevelled relic of Dalek weaponry, she ran through the halls, following the instructions of her comrades through her earpiece.
"You need a left here and that should get you to the extraction point. Why are you breathing so hard? Have you been running the whole way?"
"Yes!" she grunted through gritted teeth. "Can't you hear that? That… buzzing? It's following me and has been catching up!"
"There's no buzzing; the sensors aren't picking up anything else down there with you."
She flew around the corner, taking the left as instructed. The path extended for ten metres before turning right again and she followed it, the buzzing getting louder all the while, slowly cohering into the low, flat whirr of an engine.
She ran face-first into a pair of sliding plate metal doors, shut fast. "Agh! Who the hell shut the doors!?" she yelled into the earpiece, holding her now wounded nose. There was no response from her commanding officers. "Guys! Open the doors!" She began to slam her fists into the metal sheets. "Let me out!" she shouted, no longer trying to contain her rising panic.
Her earpiece crackled violently, causing her to spin around and throw it to the floor. The buzzing increased, but was now accompanied by a voice.
"EEEEEEEEX… TEEERMIIINAAAkkkssssshhh…"
Apparently, humans weren't the only intelligent beings still left on Skaro.
Should be uploading the entire thing over this August and September, but I'll let you guys know if that prospect changes. First Chapter hopefully within a week.
Hope you're enjoying it so far.
Have a nice day,
ThyRandomNinja