The Final Experiment

CHAPTER 2

The Rani walked into her laboratory. This was the Rani's third incarnation she had shoulder length curly black hair and wore a red knee length dress with a pair of red high heels. The Doctor was shocked weren't he and River the only Timelords in the universe now? Why hadn't either of them detected her before? Could she really be the Rani? The Doctor kept his thoughts to himself he knew what she was like he couldn't give her the upper hand.

"So how did you survive the Time War?" asked the Doctor.

"Simple I created a pocket universe to stay in whilst the war was going on so I could come out safe and sound when either the Daleks or Timelords had won." she explained her method of escape.

River now realised that whoever this woman was she was another Timelord. It was no longer just her and the Doctor there was this other Timelord. River couldn't believe it.

"OK Rani next question. Why is your lab in this asteroid why aren't you using your Tardis?"

"Two questions in a row Doctor? Feeling greedy are we? I am using my Tardis this asteroid is my Tardis. You forget I still have a working Chameleon Circuit."

The Doctor pondered this information allowed. "Ahh so that explains why could breathe on its surface, why it was humming with power, why we found the trap door and what Martha saw in the Time Vortex during Lester Collins."

"My turn for a question Doctor. Who is this woman with you? My scanner is having trouble working out if she's human or Timelord."

River decided this was her turn to talk and give the Rani the simplified version of her life story. "I'm Doctor River Song archaeologist, I'm a Human with Timelord DNA, I'm a weapon created by the Silence to kill the Doctor and I'm the Doctors wife." River could tell by the Doctor's expression that she'd said too much.

The Rani gave a small smile thinking how the Doctors wife could fit nicely into her final experiment. She needed to convince River she didn't have a secret agenda and so decided to respond to her statement.

"Interesting. I am the Rani the most gifted and brilliant scientist to that Galifrey had ever produced."

The Rani could tell River was impressed with her. Excellent she's just fallen into her little trap."

The Doctor knew the Rani and knew she was taking too much interest in River. He needed to deflect the attention back on to him instead of River. "I still have some more questions Rani." said the Doctor in mock impatience. "What happened to the Vashta Nerada after I sent them into the Time Vortex?"

"Simple I recaptured them and they are now being stored in one of the tanks in this very laboratory." The Doctor and River both flinched at the mention of Vashta Nerada in the same room as them. The Rani noticed this and then said "Don't worry there perfectly secure in their fenito glass tanks they can't get you."

The Doctor needed to keep the Rani talking whilst he figured out her plan so he could keep River safe. "So what where the experiments for?"

"To get results of course." she would have just left it at that but she needed River for the final experiment and that meant she had to be nice to the Doctor.

"Lester Collins was to see how large Vashta Nerada concentrations adapt to low concentration planets I would have got results if you hadn't interfered. You've already read about Krynos and the Dalek factor. The Scard was to learn about there biology and if it could be adapted and applied to other beings. Chosan was to see how restraint Marine Earth Reptile biology is."

River had another question "By Marine Earth Reptile you mean the Sea Devils don't you?"

"Well that's one name for them but yes they are what I mean." replied the Rani still manipulating River.

"And final question what were all the results from the experiments for?" asked the Doctor getting more and more worried at how she was treating River.

"They were all for the final experiment. My greatest experiment yet!" said the Rani with a lot of pride.

"And what is the final experiment?" asked the Doctor needed to know what this was and what Rivers part in it was.

"The rebirth of the Timelords!"

Thank you to everyone who has read this so far. I hope you enjoyed it and please leave a review. If you were hoping for a more action based chapter then I appologies the next chapter shall be more actiony. But in this chapter I wanted to deal with all the dangling questions. Once again I hope you enjoyed it and please leave a review.