Author's note: Okay so this is not my first time writing fanfiction, but it is my first time in a while. The first 3 chapters of this story, while long, are kind of a prologue that mostly plays on certain episodes of season 7, but with a twist. I just needed to set the background for how I actually want the story to go. It gets a little weird and some of the characters get a little OOC at times, but I think it will be good. The first chapter is set in the very first episode of season 7, The Asylum of the Daleks. Also special note, thanks to my friend Haley for helping me get some of the details of the story worked out. You're basically the reason this story has the life it does. So thank you. 3
Amy Pond was super busy; her modeling career was taking off. In fact, she was in the middle of a photo shoot when her assistant interrupted, waving at her to catch her attention.
"I'll just be a minute." The Scottish girl stated to the camera crew and slid down the staircase banister
"Um… Your husband is here." Her assistant stuttered out rather sheepishly
"Hm, I don't have a husband" Amy said as she started down the hallway
"Uh, well, apparently you still do." Her assistant replied
Amy finished the walk down the hall into the dressing room where she found Rory Williams sitting in a seat in front of one of the many mirrors.
"You have to sign these." Rory stated matter of factly
Amy strode over to him and quickly ripped the papers and envelope from his hand "And then we're not married?"
"Just like magic." Rory countered, obviously annoyed
Amy quickly signed the papers "Can't chat, working." She handed Rory back the papers
"Really?" Rory rolled his eyes as he took his feet off the counter and stood up "Thought you were just pouting at a camera." And he whirls to exit the room. Amy looks slightly distraught.
"Rory…" She starts, but doesn't finish as the make-up artist walks into the room and nearly into Rory. He spins around to avoid hitting her, and then continues out the door.
"Sorry love, was I interrupting?" the make-up artist asks Amy
"No." Amy shakes her head, still notably upset
The make-up artist reaches her hand out to Amy's cheek "Gosh, look at you. You've gone so pale. Come on. Take a seat. We'll soon sort that out."
As soon as Amy sits the make-up artist's head hangs and Amy grows obviously nervous. She begins to turn around as the head cranks back up and a familiar Dalek eye stalk begins to pop out of the make-up artist's forehead. A sudden look of realization comes across Amy's face as a laser shoots out, blasting her, and the familiar Dalek voice is heard "Amelia Pond is acquired."
Next thing Amy knows she is waking up in a room with white washed walls and floor. She stands up, taking in her surroundings and doing her own analyzation of the situation. Out the one barred window she sees many of what she immediately recognizes a large fleet of spaceships. She realized the Doctor would have something to do with this and began to wait for his arrival.
A few moments later there was a whirring behind her and she spun around to see the door opening. A Dalek wheeled itself in, followed by the Doctor, and then another Dalek. "How much trouble are we in, raggedy man?" Amy asked, curiously
"How much trouble are we in, Pond?" the Doctor used his usual name for Amy "Out of ten… Eleven."
Amy no more had time to register what the Doctor had said before the ceiling hatch began opening. Amy and the doctor looked up as the floor below them began moving upwards. The floor came to rest in the middle of a very large, dome shaped room; where the TARDIS sat beside them. They were completely surrounded by Daleks.
Meanwhile
Rory walked out of the building where he had just left Amy. As he was heading for the bus something shiny caught his eye on the ground. It was a key. A small gold key. Rory bent down to pick it up and as he stood back up he felt a strange sensation, much like an electric shock running through his body, but as soon as the shock started it was done. Rory simply shrugged and put the key in his pocket, intending to take it home and add it to his collection of keys. Then he got on the bus and it started for home.
Back on the Dalek ship
"Where are we? Spaceship, right?" Amy asked
"Not just any spaceship…" The doctor began "The parliament of the Daleks… Be brave."
"What do we do?"
"Make them remember you." The doctor said sternly "Well come on then…" He turned to face the Daleks "You've got me! What are you waiting for? At long last, it's Christmas! Here I am!" and the Doctor closed his eyes, waiting for the assault of the Daleks
"Save us." The prime minister said. The doctor opened his eyes, stunned. "You will save us."
"I'll what?" The Doctor asked, very confused
"You will save the Daleks."
Suddenly the entire room of Daleks began lighting up and chanting 'Save the Daleks' over and over again. Both the Doctor and Amy looked around at all the Daleks, puzzled.
"Well…" The Doctor started as the chanting continued "This is new." He began analyzing the situation. He calculated where the TARDIS was, where Amy was, where and how many Daleks were in the room, and how they would get to the phone box. He knew it was an unlikely situation to survive if they were to attempt to escape.
"The Prime Minister will speak with you now." One of the Daleks' human conversions said to the Doctor. He turned and walked over to where the Dalek Prime Minister was encased in a glass tube
"Well?" the Doctor said, seemingly unafraid
"What do you know of the Dalek asylum?" the Prime minister asked in its trademark Dalek voice
The Doctor started, as if he was reciting from a book "According to legend, you have a dumping ground. A planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can't control. Which never made any sense to me."
"Why not?" the Dalek probed
"Because you'd just kill them." The Doctor said before the Prime Minister cut him off
"It is offensive to us to extinguish such divine hatred."
"Offensive?" The Doctor said, obviously offended himself
"Does it surprise you to know that Daleks have a concept of beauty?" The Dalek asked back
"I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick." The Doctor spat "But hello again. You think hatred is beautiful?" he spun around on his heels and began to walk away
"Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you."
The Doctor looked up, thinking of his next response, when suddenly the floor began to open right by Amy. He walked over to Amy as the human conversion explained about the planet of the asylum. The Doctor and Amy both asked questions. 'How many Daleks? Were they alive?' The conversion explained that it was to be assumed that they were and that the planet was fully automated.
"Armed?" Amy asked
"The Daleks are always armed." The conversion stated and, when a beeping started, went on to explain about the signal that had been continuously coming from the planet for a while now. Next thing anyone knew Bizet's symphony 'Carmen' began to play.
"What is the noise?! Explain! Explain!" A Dalek prodded
"Carmen, lovely show." The Doctor started as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver to sonic the signal. He looked at the screwdriver when he was done "Someone's transmitting this. Have you considered tracking back the signal and talking to them?" the Doctor then realized he had asked a stupid question and began doing just as he had suggested, tracking back the signal "Hello? Hello, Carmen? Hello! Come in, come in. Come in, Carmen."
"Hello! Hello, yes, sorry! Do you read me?" A female voice asked from the other side of the signal
"Yes, reading you loud and clear!" the Doctor replied "Identify yourself and report your status."
The voice on the other end identified herself as Oswin Oswald, junior entertainment manager on Starship Alaska and said that her status was shipwrecked, somewhere not nice and that her crew was missing and she had been there a year.
"A year… Are you okay? Are you under attack?" the Doctor asked
"Local life forms. Been keeping them out." Oswin replied
"Do you know what those life forms are?"
"I know a Dalek when I hear one, yeah." Oswin responded, annoyed
After asking a few more questions a Dalek interrupted the Doctor "This conversation is irrelevant."
"No it isn't! Because a Starline has crashed into your asylum and someone's got in. And if someone's got in, then everything can get out. A tsunami of insane Daleks. Even you don't want that." the Doctor stated matter of factly
"The asylum must be cleansed." The Dalek replied
"Then why is it still here? You've got enough firepower on this ship to blast it out of the sky."
"The asylum's force field is impenetrable." The human conversion stated
"Turn it off."
"It can only be turned off from within the asylum."
"A small task force could sneak through a force field. Send in a couple of Daleks." And that's when the Doctor had a realization "Oh!" He began to clap toward all the Daleks in the room "Oh! Ah, that's good, that's brilliant. You're all too scared to go down there. Not one of you will go, so tell me. What do the Daleks do when they're too scared?"
"The predator of the Daleks will be deployed." The Dalek he was currently facing replied
"You don't have a predator." The Doctor stated matter of factly "And even if you did, why would they turn off the force field for you?"
"Because you will have no other means of escape." The Dalek Prime Minister cut in
"Me? Me?" the Doctor asked
The conversions began to put something on the Doctor and Amy's wrists "You will need this. It will protect you from the nanocloud."
"The what? The nano what?" the Doctor asked, puzzled
"The gravity beam will convey you close to the source of the transmission." Then a bluish white beam shot up through the hole in the floor "You must find a way to deactivate the force field from there."
"You're going to fire me at a planet? That's your plan? I get fired at a planet and expected to fix it?" the Doctor asked in a sort of mocking tone. Then he looked at Amy and began whispering "We'll get through this, I promise. Don't be scared."
"Scared? Who's scared? Geronimo." Amy repeated the Doctor's favorite catch phrase
The Doctor giggled before he and Amy were pushed into the beam and began to fall toward the asylum below. When the Doctor woke up they were underground.
"Amy!" the Doctor gasped as he awoke first and found his fiery red-headed best friend lying next to him, apparently still unconscious. He scrambled over to her and began to shake her.
She grumbled as she slowly began to regain consciousness. "Where are we?" she asked as she sat up, grasping her head.
The Doctor and Amy finally looked at their surroundings and were horrified to see a large number of Daleks surrounding them. They froze until they realized that the Daleks around them were not moving and appeared to be broken.
"Where's Rory?" The Doctor asked unexpectedly
"Hm?" Amy didn't appear to process what he had said at first "Oh! Rory! I don't know." She stated coldly
"You weren't together when you got beamed up to the ship in the first place?!" The Doctor asked, very confused now
"No." Amy stated "I was working and…" She trailed off "And… And we sort of split up."
"What?!" The Doctor shouted "What do you mean you've split up?!"
Amy didn't have a chance to answer his questions because apparently the Doctor's voice had woken one of the Dalek's up. It began moving its eye stalk slowly.
"Egg…" It started
"Oh no." The Doctor said as it repeated again
"Egg…"
"Run. Amy, run."
"Ex… Ter.. Min… Ate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" The Dalek was coming around and the Doctor and Amy both spun on their heels and took off running. Other Daleks were now beginning to wake up too. Soon the whole room was beginning to chant 'Exterminate' as the Doctor and Amy searched for a way out. Once they found a doorway they both sprinted towards it. Once they were through the Doctor soniced the door shut. Both panting, they suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"Good, you got away." Oswin said over a strange P.A. system
"Oswin? Is that you?" The Doctor called out
"Yep. It's me." She replied
"How are you talking to me?" He asked quizzically
"I've hacked the P.A. system." Oswin replied matter of factly
"How can you hack into anything? It should be impossible. You're in a crashed ship." The Doctor stated
"Long story." She grumbled "Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?"
The Doctor smiled "Doctor. You call me the Doctor."
"See what you did there."Oswin giggled "What are you here for?"
"We're here to disable the force field. As soon as we do that the Daleks will destroy the planet… With all of us still here."
"Wait!" Oswin shouted suddenly "I know where there's a teleport pad. It could beam us back up to the Dalek ship. And by the way, I can disable the Dalek force field from here."
"Wait… Us?" Amy asked
"Yeah… Find the teleport pad and the computer, I'll send you a map so you can come and get me from where I am. Then I'll disable the force field and we can get out of here very quickly." Oswin shrugged to herself
"This place is crawling with Daleks!" Amy yelled
"Yeah, kind of why I'm anxious to leave." Oswin stated
"No, no… We'll find the teleport pad and then you deactivate the force field and come to us." The Doctor stated
"There's enough power in that teleporter for one go. Why would you wait for me?"
"Why wouldn't I?" The Doctor asked
"No idea, never met you." Oswin stated
"Okay Oswin, you've made your point. We'll come get you. Talk to you when we get to the teleport pad."
"Alright. See you then."
"So…" The Doctor began as they were walking "Back to you and Rory."
"Are we going to do this now?" Amy asked, cross
"Well, what happened?!"
"Oh, stuff, you know. We split up. What can you do?"
"What can I do?" The Doctor asked genuinely
"Nothing." Amy stated coldly "It's not one of those things you fix like you fix your bow tie. And don't give me those big, wet eyes, raggedy man. It's life. Just life. That thing that goes on when you're not there."
"Tell me…" The Doctor pleaded
"I don't know… We were arguing about bills and things all the time. We never stopped fighting. Day in and day out and he got sick of it. He told me he couldn't do it anymore…" Amy's eyes began to fill with tears "I don't know if he left after that or if I kicked him out." She was sobbing now "It can't be fixed though." She sniffled "He was leaving my work to go file the final divorce papers I just signed just moments before I ended up on the spaceship."
"Oh…" The Doctor looked down at his feet. He knew they couldn't go back in time and stop Rory from leaving. That would cross Amy's own timeline.
"Is that the teleport pad?" Amy asked as she dried her tears and pointed forward
"Yes!" The Doctor shouted, seemingly forgetting the conversation that had just transpired "Okay we're looking for a computer. Computer… Ah! Computer!" he began working on the computer and suddenly Oswin's voice appeared again.
"Ah good, you found the computer. Here's the map to me." She sent him the map and he studied it "Okay! Come along Pond! Oswin, we'll be there in a few moments." And he strode off to where the map was telling him to go.
Less than a minute later the Doctor and Amy entered a long corridor. In the distance there was plenty of Dalek screaming. The Doctor moved forward slowly with Amy trailing close behind.
"Oswin, I think we're close." He said
"You are!" She said semi excitedly "Less than twenty feet away. Which is the good news." She turned suddenly somber
"Okay. And the bad, which I suddenly feel is coming?" The Doctor asked nervously
"You're about to pass through intensive care."
The Doctor opened the door which was blocking their way and tentatively stepped into the intensive care wing. "What's so special about this lot, then?"
"Don't know. Survivors of particular wars. Spiridon, Kembel, Aridius, Vulcan, Exxilon. Ringing any bells?" Oswin answered
"One of them." He replied
"Yeah? How?"
"These are the Daleks who survived me." The Doctor stated
Suddenly a nearby Dalek began to stir, saying 'Doctor'. As soon as that Dalek said it many other Daleks began to chant it as well. The Doctor looked around scrambling as Amy had a look of extreme nervousness on her face.
"That's weird." Oswin cut in "Those ones don't usually wake up for anything."
"Yeah, well, special visitor." Then the Doctor spotted the door at the end of the hall "It won't open. They can't be far away now." He tried sonicing the door
Oswin chimed in "Hang on. Not quite sure but there's a release code. Let me just… Anything happening out there?"
"No." both the Doctor and Amy said
"Hang on I'm trying to think." Oswin sounded flustered
Suddenly the Daleks began to move, breaking free of their chains, and chanting 'Doctor' over and over again. The Doctor put Amy in between him and the door, placing himself in front of the Daleks.
"Oswin, get this door open." He sounded really nervous now "Oswin, open this door!"
"I can't!" She screamed
"Oswin! Please get this door open! Oswin! Oswin, Please get this door open! Help us! Help!" Amy was just screaming behind the Doctor. Just as the first Dalek was about to reach the Doctor they all stopped and fell silent. Then, much to the Doctor and Amy's surprise, they all turned around started going the other direction.
"Oh, that is cool." Oswin giggled
"What did you do?" The Doctor asked still shaking
"Hang on; I think I found the door thingy." Oswin didn't answer his question
"No, tell me what you did." The Doctor sounded somewhat angry now
"The Daleks, they have a hive mind. Well, they don't but they have a sort of telepathic web."
"The path web, yes." The Doctor said to show he understood
"I hacked into it, did a master delete on all the information connected with the Doctor."
"But you made them forget me."
"Good, huh? And here comes the door."
The Doctor hadn't even realized he'd been sitting. Nearly on top of Amy at that. They both stood up as the door began to open, turning around to face it.
"I've tried hacking into the path web, even I couldn't do it." The Doctor stated, shell shocked
"Come and meet the girl who can."
The door finally opened and Amy stumbled in. The Doctor had a grip on the wall so he looked up before taking a step. Surprise fell across both his and Amy's faces, their eyes widening.
"Hey. You're right outside, come on in." Oswin said
"Doctor what's going on?" Amy chimed in
"Oswin, we have a problem." The Doctor had gone somber again
"No we don't." Oswin said nervously "Don't even say that."
"Does it look real to you?" He asked
"Does what look real?" Oswin was very confused
"Where you are right now. Does it seem real?"
"It is real."
"It's a dream, Oswin. You dreamed it for yourself because the truth was too terrible."
"Where am I?" Oswin asked, very scared now
"Because you are a Dalek." The Doctor stated
"I am not a Dalek." Oswin stated, the Dalek voice overpowering her own "I'm human."
"You were human when you crashed here."
"I'm human." She cried, willing it to be true
"Not anymore. Because you're right. You're a genius. And the Daleks need genius. Oswin, I am so sorry. But you are a Dalek."
"Run."
"What?" Amy asked this time
"I've taken down the force field. The Daleks above have begun their attack. Run!"
"Thank you."
"Run!"
Suddenly things started exploding around Amy and the Doctor. They both looked around frightened before their eyes finally landed on each other. And off they ran. All the way back through intensive care and down the hallway as things were exploding all around them. Finally they reached the teleport pad and together they hit the button. The Doctor however was able to control the teleport and they landed safely in the TARDIS, still with the Dalek Parliament above.
"Are we safe now?" Amy gasped for breath
"Yes." The Doctor said as he started running around the console and hitting all the necessary buttons that would get them safely out of there. With one final pull of a lever the TARDIS dematerialized into the time vortex. "Thank you Oswin." The Doctor mumbled to himself
"So..." Amy pulled the Doctor back to reality "Can you not take me home?"
"What?" The Doctor asked confused
"Well…. With Rory gone… I don't want to be in that house all by myself. I don't particularly want to go around saving the universe right now but I don't want to go home. Can't we just stay in the TARDIS?" She pleaded
"After all that, you're not going to try to go make things right with him?"
"There is no way to make things right, Doctor!" Amy yelled "Him and I are done. And he's filed the divorce papers. There's no use now."
The Doctor looked at Amy very sad. He didn't think it was right for his best friends to end their marriage like that, but he wasn't one to tell Amy how to live her life away from him and the TARDIS, so he set it to visit his friends Vashtra and Jenny. In London. In the year 1888.