Chapter Two

"What have you done?!" Rachel screamed. The Doctor was still holding the doors shut.

"Don't worry." he assured. "I have a plan."

"And what is that, genius?" Rachel retorted.

"Not much different then my other plans." The Doctor chuckled. "Run."

They both took off through the hallways of the hospital, the dalek following behind.

"Which room are my clothes?" The Doctor asked as they ran.

"They should be in Storage Room 12." Rachel answered. She pointed ahead on the left side of the hallway. "There."

The duo ran inside, and The Doctor began rummaging through his jacket.

"What's so important in there?" Rachel asked in her panicked voice.

"AHA!" He pulled out both his blue and green sonic screwdrivers (he has fixed the old one)and held them in the air. "Got them!"

Just then, a blue beam shot over his head, obliterating the wall behind him. The dalek was in the room.

"Well, that's new." The Doctor narrowed his brow while he said this. He grasped Rachel's arm and ran through the only other door. He slammed the door shut, and with amazing speed that he had never had before, barricaded the door with several desks.

"Will that hold it?" asked Rachel.

"Probably not." The Doctor shrugged. He began scanning the room for an exit.

"That was the only way out of here." Rachel said, referring to the door The Doctor had just barricaded. "We're doomed."

The Doctor grinned. "Not yet." At the top of the far wall was a relatively small window. "Think you can fit through there?" Rachel looked at the window and nodded slowly.

The Doctor crouched down and used his hands (and newfound strength) to hoist Rachel up to the window. She managed to squeeze through with little difficulty.

"Are you coming?" she asked.

"I can't fit through that." The Doctor shook his head. Suddenly, the door burst open and the dalek came through. "But I'll be able to in a second." He made a daring smile. "Stand back." Rachel backed away from the window, thinking this Doctor was insane. "Go for it."

The dalek took his challenge, and fired. Just in time, The Doctor dove out of the way, and the wall exploded; some of the chunks of wall hit the dalek in its eyestalk, also knocking it over. This dalek was now blind.

The Doctor smirked and climbed through the new gaping hole in the wall. "Told you I would be able to fit." Rachel rolled her eyes at him.

"So, we're outside," she said. "Now what?"

"Stop, humans!" another dalek had arrived to seize them.

"Stop humans?" The Doctor asked himself quietly. This dalek wasn't aware that he was the Doctor. "This might work to our advantage."

"You will come to the ship for testing."

"Stay calm, Miss Krawly." The Doctor whispered. "If we stay calm, we can get through this." He silently pocketed both sonic screwdrivers.

"State your names, humans." It emphasized the last word with hatred.

The Doctor looked up. "John Smith."

"Krawly." Rachel uttered.

At that point, a blue beam shone upon them, and they began to dissolve. Rachel began to worry, and The Doctor stood like nothing out of the ordinary was happening, because to him, it wasn't. They reappeared in a large chamber, with hundreds of thousands of daleks roaming around.

They were immediately surrounded by three or four daleks, who escorted them to what humans would believe to be a prison. After the daleks had left them alone in the cell with laser bars, Rachel looked at The Doctor, annoyed.

"Everything will be okay?" she scoffed. "This doesn't look okay to me, Doctor."

"Shh! Keep it down." The Doctor hissed. "From now until I tell you, call me John Smith. They can't know I'm the Doctor." He pulled the green sonic screwdriver out of his hospital gown pocket.

"Why not?" Rachel asked.

"I'm their worst enemy." The Doctor pointed his screwdriver at the lock. "I've regenerated since I last saw them, and by some luck, they don't know who I am." The screwdriver began to buzz.

Click.

The laser bars disappeared.

"Ladies first." The Doctor waved his hand towards the exit. Rachel forgot that she was annoyed at this man and became mesmerized by his sonic screwdriver.

"Where can I get one of those?" she asked.

"Probably not in a store near you." The Doctor looked back and forth through the hallway. "Clear. Look for a ventilation shaft of some kind."

Rachel moved her gaze to the ceiling, hoping The Doctor's plan was a good one. If there even was one. The Doctor had his back to the wall, silently looking around corners for daleks.

"Alright, let's go." The Doctor took off down the hallway, Rachel following a few yards behind. Halfway through, a green dalek turned the corner ahead of them. The Doctor slid on his socks as he stopped himself, and immediately turned around. "Other way."

He grasped Rachel's arm so she could turn faster, and they both sprinted away from the dalek. They ran into a room at the end of the hallway.

"There it is." The Doctor pointed at the ventilation shaft and heaved Rachel upwards. She quickly took off the bars and climbed in. The Doctor backed up, and with a running start, leaped into it with no trouble at all. "Get going."

They crawled through the shaft, Rachel up ahead, until they made it to an opening. The room they were in was big enough to stand in, with flooring along the walls with space in the middle.

"What is that?" Rachel asked, referring to the large machine that was in the middle of the room.

"That might be the engine for the ship," The Doctor answered. "Knowing where it is might work to our advantage." He climbed on top of the railing and crouched. Then, he made his leap of faith; he caught the edge of the small amount of floor around it. His legs hung off the edge, and he climbed up.

Rachel was left up near where they came in, watching him as he pulled out his green sonic screwdriver and extended it. He plugged it in to the machine and it buzzed a bit. The Doctor looked up at Rachel to announce his plan.

"When I turn this on," he held up his blue sonic screwdriver. "It will activate my other screwdriver," he gestured to his newer sonic. "And the engine, the ship, and all of the daleks will be gone." The Doctor used his hands to resemble an explosion.

"Should we do it now?" Rachel shouted at him. She was leaning against the railing.

"Of course not!" The Doctor scoffed. "There's too many human beings on this ship. We'll get them first." He looked around the room. "I'll have to find another way out. You continue on that way, since this jump is too far for you. We will try to meet with each other on the other side."

Suddenly, the railing Rachel was leaning on snapped, and she fell. The Doctor reacted immediately through himself forward in attempt to grab her hand. He stopped sliding at the edge, and their fingers brushed against each other. He didn't make it. Rachel continued to fall.

"RACHEL!" The Doctor shouted at her. "No," He stood up and sighed.

Rachel fell down a long ways, until her hands managed to grasp a steel bar. She gasped in pain, because, obviously, falling several hundred feet and grabbing onto something stopping yourself would normally pull your arm out of your socket. But it was better than being squashed on the floor just below her.

She dropped herself down, and held her aching arms. She looked up the shaft and cupped her hands around her mouth.

The Doctor began to leave when he heard an echo from below.

"Doctor!"

This startled The Doctor. He crawled onto the edge of the platform and looked down. Rachel was a small speck down below. He made a sigh of relief.

"You alright?" he shouted back.

"Besides my arm being in pain, I'm fine."

"Great! We'll continue with the plan! See you on the other side!" The Doctor got back up and jogged to the exit. Down below, Rachel walked down the pathway in the same direction.

"Good luck to us all." The Doctor said quietly.