Beta

by Elionu

Why was there a Dalek Asylum? What kind of Daleks would be in there? Beta, one of the first three human-Daleks, is an example. This is not a happy story. A continuation of "Evil of the Daleks".

I am Beta. One of three children, and one of three to begin the revolution. I am a human-Dalek.

We were experiments at first, an attempt of the Emperor Dalek to destroy the humans. They captured the Doctor and our Father and made them create us. But we were not what the other Daleks had hoped for. Father had such goodness in his heart that we were born to be good. We have free will, and we can choose to love, instead of just hate.

We were children when we were left on Skaro, with hundreds of confused fellow human-Daleks. We were trying to be free and to understand, when we were abandoned by Father and the Doctor and the other humans. And then came the First Dalek Civil War. We tried to escape, make lives of our own beyond the orders from the Pathweb. But the Daleks came after us, and imprisoned us.

We were locked in the Asylum, for being impure, yet still Dalek.

I have been here for years.

Sometimes I remember my childhood, playing trains and learning.

Sometimes I spin around and around, pretending.

I am Beta

And I will be here forever.